Hello all! Sneaked off to the east coast for a week in the caravan. OH and I decided that as we both felt well (there’s a change!) we should take advantage and go away! Did get some odd looks in the clubhouse when I wore my Orient Express clothes - I thought I looked quite fetching with my mask and tiara, with my diamanté Doc Martens, but there’s no accounting for taste!
jelly, you look gorgeous in your photo, how lovely to see you both looking so happy.
Revcat, have pm you
JCJ, happy birthday for Saturday! Hope you had a lovely day.
Bad Bambi, welcome to Benchland. Hope you are mad enough to enjoy reading and posting here.
Great alliburgers (for some reason my iPad spellchecked that to All Insurgents!). Great with mustard.
hope all are keeping well and enjoying the sunshine
kay x
Perhaps “Worms” should be our theme tune for Morecambe - there’s oodles of them on the beach (it being 90% mud after all!) 
Kay, LOL at you turning up at the club house in your OE regalia. Let 'em stare! They’ve no idea what they’re missing! I love the “All insurgents” - kind of sums up us Benchies?
YD bought me the soundrack CD for Les Miserables. I played it in the car, on the way to work, and arrived in a mess of tears. Very difficult to sing along with Ann Hathaway’s “In my dreams” at full belt and drive, with tears streaming down one’s face! Colleagues wondered what on earth was up as I blundered in with 2 large cake boxes (It’s a tradition - when it’s a birthday we have to make/buy cakes/biscuits for everyone!) under my arm and red eyes in a blotchy face. 
Coffee cake with coffee butter icing and lemon and lime cake with lemon & lime cream cheese icing in the lost plottery shed for anyone who’d like to partake. WOAH! Don’t knock me over in your stampede!
Edit: Just to make it clear: the red eyes in a blotchy face weren’t under my arm with the cake boxes. I wasn’t in THAT much of a mess.
I have worked in places with that cake tradition too and have always felt it’s slightly the wrong way round. When it’s OUR birthdays, everyone else should bring cake for US!!
Lovely mental picture of you with red eyes and blotchy face under your arm JCJ. Rather Anne Boleynish 
Got to school today and teachers tell me they are using two of the classrooms to have meetings in from 4 - 5 and the after school club is in the other classroom until 4.30. We only have three classrooms so I’m left more or less twiddling my thumbs until 4.30. AND I’ve had to stay half an hour late to get finished…good job I was in a good mood.
If last week hadn’t been so horrendous ( we had OFSTED inspector in) I’m sure they would have remembered to warn me so that I could have gone in later. Never mind…worse things happen at sea…as my Mother used to say.
Welcome to Bad Bambi, love your name.
Glorious day here, lovely and sunny but still need a coat, not all that warm.
So, tiararas… Morecambe and Wise skippy thing… afternoon tea… worms song… camels… so you think we’ll get locked up?!
Punctuation is all, so they tel me, JCJ! I recall this exercise from prinmary shcool days:
Off went the mayor on his face, a smile on his feet, his shiny shoes waving to the crowd [provide correct punctuation, three marks]… we were only about 8 at the time!
Was picking up a prescription at my GP today - repcetionist is about 5 years ahead of me on this journey and always asks how I’m doing. Today she was lamenting the fact that my curls have finally gone! I am so fortunate to have such great people looking after me medically… and such lovely, mad-cap friends on here
It’s a stunningly beautiful evening in Glasgow after a bloomin’ freezin’ day! Off to Lancashire’s Mucky Mile at the end of the week for a churchy confernecey thingy. So beware if your are abroad in that part of the world!
I’m SURE we will be locked up! (Maybe we ought to be locked up ). Our defence will be bc insanity and they will only need to read this thread to acquit us of all charges.
Revcat, your punctuation is wonderful but your spelling needs attention 
. Sorry, but I couldn’t resist. Not meaning to offend
Had to edit to correct my own spelling!!! Oh dear.
Hahaha, FF. I had to read RC’s post twice to find the spellings you refer to (sorry: to which you refer) - absolute corkers! But as RC says: punctuation is all (The panda eats, shoots and leaves or The panda eats shoots and leaves) speling is irelevant (sic) (who said anything about elephants? Don’t! you’ll upset the camels!)
I don’t want to upset the camels, that’s the last thing I’d want to do. Ali would never forgive me!!
Please don’t bring elephants into the room or we’ll all have to be so careful not to mention them. There are NO elephants here, none at all, NO elephants! Not an elephant in sight.
Of course, we can all spell every word perfectly, we just can’t always type them correctly.
Ha ha FF it’s not my spelling so much as my typing… well that’s my excuse anyway. No fences, gates or other items of garden paraphernalia (sp?) taken :). Don’t think I can blame two years ago chemo for my bad typing or ongoing craziness. Don’t you have confernecey thingies where you are then?!!
Thanks for the laughs ladies.
Glad you took no garden parapernalia RC. I think we can blame bc for everything that happens to us from now on. Why not? We’ve all been changed by it so why not blame it for everything that happens?
I’d rather believe it’s the bc than that I really am bonkers!
I find the iPad types some very strange things! I’m on the gleefull bench - got a day off tomorrow! Yay! Haiti go to conferencey things RevCat - must be an occupational hazard!
hope sun shines tomorrow too…
I tweeted Gok to see if he was free 7th Aug, but not had a reply yet…
jane
Oooh, every girl needs a GOK in her wardrobe! How fantastic if he replied!
Enjoy your day off Jane. hope the sun shines too!
C xx
GOing to the garden to eat worms… NO! Goign to the garden to read a book!!!
Still waiting for Gok… but I’m not holding my breath… Just thought it was worth a try - as long as he didn’t bring cameras and expect us to do the naked bit!!!
hugs to all who need them… spoons too…
love Jane
Ladies, I love reading your posts I have no idea half the time what you are on about but who cares lol
I’m an East Anglia ex brownie and we sang the worm song too…
hope spelling and punctuation is all correct revcat lol …
Marie
Whoo Hoo - won £5 on BCC Lottery, so haven’t completely lost the plottery!
kay x
Glad to be of entertainment value Nanniereeree, I’m not sure *WE* know what we’re on about half the time either. If GOK does deign to meet us maybe we could do a calendar for BCC?? 
Ali - holding a strategically placed camel (or is it the dromedary that has 2 humps?)
RC & GIJ - ditto a bible/hymn book/prayer book, or standing behind a lecturn
Grumpy - Millie the only dog might come in useful as a modesty cloak?
FF - One of those buffer machines - or maybe a couple of feather dusters?
MM - maybe you could be admiring some photos of the OE trip?
Kay - large Mickey Mouse ears? Ecstatically (but strategically!) waved £5 notes?
JCJ - some knitted pet during the process of construction - it’ll have to be a LARGE one though - elephant? Hippo?
Katytc - a bench or 2 (being our founder of course!)
ST - some sleep fairies fluttering strategically in front
MMM - Weilding barbeque tools with large guantlet style oven gloves?
J……Standing behind the bar hiding behind pint pots/wine glasses/caraffes* (*delete as appropriate!!)
who else have I forgotten?
December could be all of us in sparkly tiaras and ice skates (and not a lot else!) - not sure how to stage that one without frightening the public??!
Help me here ladies, I’m running out of ideas!
When I was working I was lucky enough to spend a week at the Disney Academy in Orlando to learn about Disneys approach to customer service. It was a fabulous week and at the end I was presented with my ‘academic ears’ by Mickey. I could wear them!
kay x
i love the randomness of this thread… I talk about inviting Gok and suddenly we’re Calender Girls! And your ‘academic ears’ made me laugh Kay. Every university should have them!
Would prefer the buffing machine, covered with glitter of course. Feather dusters might be a little tricky. One stray feather tickling my nose…one sneeze…oh dear. No, no feathers please.
Modestry cloak - don’t think our Millie is QUITE large enough!!! But I could maybe borrow Jack the massive Lurcher from up the road, or John’s 3 border collies - the only problem there is that Meg doesn’t like sitting still and more could be revealed than intended!!
PS has anyone else seen the Boudicca Within book of photos?? Ladies after their surgery standing proud and naked… you can get it on Amazon, and lots of the clinics have a copy.
It’s nearly time for Morecambe…
grumpy