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New Year is massively overrated I think. I'm married and last year we...had a row! It was great I've had very few great new years, with or without someone special. Sam, San and Cheryl are right, don't sweat Amy, its not that big a deal and there are plenty more in the future . This year is an unusual outing for us as my mate is having a Mighty Boosh themed house party and I appear to be going as Old Gregg.... *gulp*

that's just cracked me and OH up. Bless.

I use Mozilla's Firefox. Its (IMO) much better than IE!

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I found a better definition (can you tell I'm bored?!) that makes sense in the context of your sentence: "the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words, in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense, or makes sense with only one." so your child feels physically hot but feels emotionally sorry for the woman, hence the zeugma. I think I may go and lie down now Cheryl

Zeugma is a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun

RMF: went to GP to see what's up with my hurty knees, to be told its "housemaid's knee" - I don't think that's the terminology he'd use had he ever seen my sty house The good news is he told me to rest, so I have 2 days off (with a frustrated whippet who can't go to the park and doesn't know why I predict whining galore later...)

I came in here to rant about how horrific my morning has been (had to go into work and anything and everything's going wrong and my bad knee is swelling up as we speak etc etc.) Then I saw this and am now Thanks for stopping me exploding Laura

Congratulations Amanda!

I think thats how I understand it: you make the distinction that these hens are potentially food and you care for them until it is their time to go. And the hen has had a happy free-range life then a quick and humane death is a given. The hen should literally be pecking about one minute and dead the next, its not been frightened or taken miles to slaughter, thats much better for her welfare if she's destined for the pot. I think regardless of how people stand on eating meat/animal products, we can all agree that that's a better way to go than most other farming methods I'm a meat eater and I would much rather do that than eat factory-farmed stuff, we only have a teeny-tiny garden though, so the flock of hens will have to wait

Slightly O/T(ish) but I think you can be a veggie/vegan and do that Helen. Surely one of the greatest kindnesses (sp?) you can bestow on an animal is a quick and painless death. If you see what I mean that's not come out quite right...

well if she reacts like that, she's not your friend at all

Liberate it! I'd kill for cheesecake right now, so do it for my sake!

Evenin' all RMRant: I hate TalkTalk. The net is fab at the moment, their phone service is carp. To report a fault (in this case being unable to make/recieve calls) I must give them 3 instances of when this has happened and the numbers thereof. I am expected to give them numbers of people who have tried to call but can't get through?! WTF?! I am now hitting the chianti... Aside from that all is well, if wet and windy. So glad I walked Tyler first thing this morning, I'd literally be dragging him out now..

Helen, I think you'll find that sign means "Give way to the Funk". Its a new and controversial sign from the Department for Transport, encouraging us to "get down" more and "chill out" with a knock-on effect for decreasing road-rage. You really must be bumpkins, we have them all over in Oxford, and the new stop signs:

Today I'm hoping to take OH home fom hospital, he should have been home yesterday but needs an xray and don't do routine xrays on sundays and they didn't get the form in on time for saturday xray Bloody glad I got today off work or we'd have been stuffed. But, no snow here - result

I think the in-laws wanted us to come to theirs this year, which I will do if OH wants, but to be honest, I want to spend Christmas in my own home and not have to travel and make small talk and have to listen to his mum chat all day . In an ideal world we'd spend christmas with my mum and with sister to watch my neice opening her pressies, but as they're in Sydney that's not going to happen and mum doesn't want to "do" christmas this year which I'm fine with. Plus last year I had food-poisoning and quite enjoyed the peace and quiet that gave me....

RMDecision to make: Tyler needs a walk, but it is pizzing down with rain, which I'm fine with but he'll be trying to drag me home or will walk round the park like a condemned man in his equafleece, *BUT* if I don't take him he'll give me the you're-so-mean-and-evil-mummy looks all day. Damned if I do, damned if I don't. Why aren't whippets water-friendly?! He's currently under a blanket on the sofa, snoring away

All the fireworks tonight are probably Diwali celebrations. RMF: I have just had a huge fluffy omlette with my sister's hen's eggs, many thanks dottie, martha and priscilla

i think they need to look at you in your bra to see what adjustments to make to get a better fit. They didn't get a tape measure out at all, they just looked by eye and know how a properly fitting bra should make your boobs look. I'm not on commission, I'm just really really chuffed with my new bras, it makes me look like i've lost weight (which i haven't)!!

Well you can, or they look at you in your own bra, get you a few samples of the size/s you should be (different styles vary, plunges you often go up a cup size for the best fit), then leave you alone to jiggle yourself in and come in and look at the fit of the bra(s). They're really nice the fitters and I have seen ladies of all sizes in there. They don't hurry you either, I spent 30 mins in there trying bras on last week!

I got mine measured last month in Bravissimo, went down a back size and up 1 or 2 cup sizes depending on the style of the bra. That's one of the best things I have done in a long time, my boobs are where they are supposed to be, look much better and I feel much better about myself! I was a bit about getting them out, but they don't want to see your boobs, they look at you in your bra, make a few suggestions then bog off and get a couple of sizes and assess you for the fit once you've put them on. If you see what I mean. They don't stand over you and look at your boobs while you faff on. The only thing is, as they said on the programme a size isn't a size! I ordered some from La Senza in my new size - too small in the back and the cup!! So I have been back to Bravissimo and actually tried on the bras I liked to get the best fit. Cost me a bit more, but I have what I want in the right size, so its worth it.

Didn't see the programme and am really quite pleased about that! That woman Truby-wosserface needs a bloody good slap, and maybe some hormone therapy, she sounds like an android, not a human! I don't have kids, I hope to one day, and am a bit hormonal at the moment so I'm sure it would have set me off big-time

I had a RMQ: supposing you hear Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" on the radio/ipod/whatever, am I the only one who a) thinks of Melp's version and then b) cracks up, not matter how inappropriate the situation? This has been causing me a problem at work you see, people are starting to really believe I'm mental when I start laughing at with my headphones on...

Hello new fred! Hello fugees my not so RMF: my sis what-is-gonna-emigrate-to-Sydney-but-has-been-waiting-to-sell-the-house has pretty much sold the house now and I'm and at the same tine. I know its been awful for her on her own with her little one (her OH has been there since may) but now she's definately going and I'm going to miss them so much. Good luck today Penny