pouring with rain here......

Went to an amazing 50th Birthday party last night. which was great fun...loads of dancing to the live band... But I feel so old, Once it got to 11, my feet ached and I wanted to go home !!!!


I think we have a lazy weekend coming up.........how about the rest of you?

Glad you had a good time

We have a lazy weekend too Just getting my hair done today, then mum's coming to lunch tomorrow (it gets more and more difficult to persuade her to leave her flat.....)

So, may have time to catch some football, or even read a book. The Great Gatsby is on my list today, as it's my next book club read.

Have a good weekend all

Were you getting your groove on Augusta

pleased you had a good time

Good Morning JJat
what a lovely sunny day here,
think i shall go for a nice long walk
need to get, some fresh air and a bit of a work out

Watch the cricket yesterday and Weeeeeee Won
very close match, and very exciting, right to the end
could of gone either way

Have lovely Weekend
sounds like a good one

Liverpool on Monday
already getting the excited nervous feeling

Ooh me too

Have Monday at 8 in my diary!

Meanwhile am halfway through the Great Gatsby, have never read it before and am really enjoying it

Have a good day x

You must be enjoying it
if you're already half way through
or you might just be a quick reader
i suppose

yes liverpool tonight, my son will be asking for his lucky shirt

Morning JJat
Sun is shining, not sure for how long,
the top of my legs and bottom hurts
from that walk yesterday

haven't walked for a while
so didn't realise how unfit i was

going to watch the cricket today
it England and Oz Land again today

hope all have a very good day

Good morning!

I'm not a particularly quick reader - Great Gatsby is very short - only about 200 pages or less ( not sure exactly cos reading on kindle)

Daughter off sick today with a migraine....she just wandered in so I might not be on here long ....

I admire you walking Georgy , can't imagine you're not fit though

Am out to lunch today - again - then back to do a few chores before settling down to watch the match - eek

Back later

Have a good day x

So we have all had busy weekends.......

Ive read The Great Gatsby and re read it , as it was a set novel for my daughter. its a fascinating story isn't it, and I found it much better to reread as a mature adult. Its a very bitter sweet story...and I didn't understand it properly as a teenager!!

We had such a busy day yesterday...going all over the place. We popped into PC world to get printer ink and I came out of there with a new phone......I was only meant to be looking at cameras...but listened to a report on TV news, that said mobile phone cameras were some of the best cameras around. And the salesman saw me coming....

Now I need to settle down and set the new phone up properly.....which requires time and patience...

We also went out to see the film ''Rush'' . which was a brilliant film, about Niki Lauda and James Hunt....in the F1 championship of 1976. And then home to do the ironing at 9....

Next time, I need to organise myself a bit better!!!!!

Sounds like a great day to me Augusta

What kind of phone did you get by the way? I am always wondering whether to upgrade (not difficult in my case )

Two hours to the Liverpool - Swansea match!

I,m glad you are enjoying it
not easy reading a book , thats you are struggling with,
but have to finish, for your book club

hope your daughter feels better soon, migraines are
so nasty, does she get them often, are they diet induced

not sure i am that fit
i can't run
and i hate the gym,
and never go.
But walking i enjoy, the fresh air, and the peace and quiet
i find very relaxing

hope you had a lovely lunch and a good day xxx

Sounds like a lovely weekend
a new phone, the camera's on them are very good these days
and it so much easier to carry around
so i don,t think thats a bad choice
i,m thinking of getting a upgrade to
i've had mine for years ( and i mean years lol )

I haven,t looked at Rush, but will now
but i,m not sure its my thing
not a fan of F1
and certainly not a fan of ironing
so well done

already shaking
and knocking....... knees.........
excited

Good evening everyone, hope you're all well.

Not been around for a while as the 'outlaws' are revolting......in every sense of the word!

Only place to come to preserve my sanity.

So after all the panic at the start of the season, we're top of the Premiership......but I suspect not for long eh Georgy and Lindy.

Very impressed with our big signing on his debut, looked as if he'd always been playing for us. But please Mr Wenger, in the next transfer window could you please buy a couple of great big beefy defenders?
It would save me from having to watch the last ten minutes of every match through my fingers.

I've never read The Great Gatsby although I did go to see the film many years ago with Robert Redford (always had a little bit of a thing for him) and at the end most of the audience looked at each other and said "What the heck was that all about?"
Both this and the remake with Leonard Dicaprio received mixed reviews although it was generally agreed the Redford one stayed true to the book.
Maybe I'd have more success with the book? Actually thinking about it, I was sixteen at the time, maybe it was an age thing? ....or the fact I loath jazz didn't help.

Really looking forward to seeing Rush, the trailers look amazing. I saw an interview with Ron Howard who said he got the same feeling making this film as he did when he made the hugely successful Apollo 13, one of my favourite films of all time.

The relationship between Hunt and Lauda was so interesting, as characters just poles (no pun intended) apart, the charasmatic playboy Hunt and the methodical Lauda, but two of the greatest racing drivers of all time . Such a dangerous time for racing as well.

Niki Lauda is still involved with F1 today, he's in the pits most race weekends. Sadly James Hunt died from a heart attack at just forty five years old.

Footie update, I see Liverpool are 2-1 up, long way to go yet.

Wow Shelvey!! Sturridge!! And now Moses!! Brilliant game to watch

Hope it has the 'right' result!

Well, could have been worse......and we are still top of the table I'm enjoying that while I can

Just finished my crossword - am getting a bit obsessed with doing one every day!

So off to bed for me......goodnight JJAT :yawn:

Sleep tight all :sleep: :sleep:

Lindy x

Good afternoon

Good to see you, Lena, Georgy and Augusta .....and everyone else

I am missing nyannie's morning call so just thought I'd say hello myself! Got lots of phone calls etc to do today, then tonight we're off to the opera to see Turandot

I've got a job interview tomorrow but am beginning to feel that I haven't got time to go to the interview, let alone do the job if I got it Think I might have to withdraw......much as I love my work Was watching a documentary about David Frost yesterday, and couldn't help identifying with the way he lived for two things: work and family. Maybe, for me, just at the moment, family has to take priority over work...........

Wow, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours gardening in glorious sunshine and today it's grey and pouring with rain.

Lindy, you sound very busy. A new job (cough, cough) I thought you were supposed to be slowing down?

I see you're a crossword fiend too. We don't have a daily paper anymore, but I love the Telegraph cryptic so I buy the books. Some of them I find are easier than others, think it depends who the compilers are.

Was it a good game last night (we don't have the sports package)? Two all draw, I see you still need a defender too.

Saw a great trailer for the new series of Downton last night.

"Is this your first experience of jazz Lady Grantham?"

"Oh, is that what it is? Do you think any of them know what the others are playing?"

I know how she feels.

Hi Lena

Well done on doing the cryptic . I do the Telegraph 'quick' one on the iPad most days and that's more than enough for me! I do try to do it all independently but if really stuck. I turn to my Chambers crossword dictionary

Yes, it was a good game, very good actually. Our defence was ( despite the scoreline) better than last season, but a bit out of sync as we played Sakho, who is new to the team. Wisdom replaced the injured Johnson at right back and I don't think that worked out too well! Shelvey was determined to score for both sides and Sturridge was excellent as ever. Moses was good but faded in the second half, as did the whole team...... Ultimately we were undone by Michu for Swansea.......

Anyway best get on, am trying to organise a Christmas reunion for colleagues from a couple of years ago.....dinner and disco in early December

Have a good day x

It was entirely chosen by the camera spec......as I desperately needed a new camera Its a Sony Xperia and its part of the 4 G network, which I have a feeling is going to be wasted on me....!!!

But I can use it just like a camera, always have it with me, and be able to download any pictures I take easily and quickly onto my computer.

I was perfectly happy with my last phone, but beginning to wonder if perhaps it was a bit old fashioned.. And I did kind of want one I could swipe and access things like the town centre maps whilst travelling... As I've liked being able to do this on my Kindle...

lindy I thought you often upgraded.... don't you? I find it hard to keep up.

this phone is the one promoted currently by one of my acting heroes, Kevin Bacon. He is an actor who seems to take such a wide variety of different parts, and even if the film isn't that brilliant, he always holds my attention. I think my favourite film he has ever done is either 'Tremors' or 'Apollo 13'

Sort of good luck for the job interview.... When I was a child, in the 70s, my dad was very keen on the idea of a good work life balance, and thought that we should all have shorter working days and more time to spend on leisure and consumer activities...I think it must have been one of those idealistic theories of the time, and because he worked in Local government, there was a lot of discussion and effort put into providing things like leisure services etc...

This was before the days of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Portillo, and as he worked in North London, .......he did meet both of them......

The joke of this of course, was that my dad was himself a total workaholic.....

I think its such a shame at the moment that we live in such an all or nothing society....if you are lucky enough to have a job, the demands and hours expected of you, seem to be never ending.

And part time work isn't always that well paid or well respected....which seems to me to be such a shame, as it would be an ideal way for some families to balance childcare with professional and interesting work....


I only work part time, and even so find it so hard to find any/enough time just for me. By the time I've been to work and done all the housework, shopping, gardening and dog walking,.........the time just vanishes.... And I just end up stopping sometimes and thinking....is this it? Is this all my life is ever going to be?

If you have a chance to sit back and enjoy life and semi retirement ...why not relax and have some fun...?


I know the money and job satisfaction is important, but there are also other things as well......


which is what I wish my older daughter would realise...as she is so motivated by money and what it can buy her....And I wish she wasn't....

I think the Great Gatsby is an incredibly sad and unhappy book and story. and more a reflection of a mood and a period of time, ie the 1920s, in a east coast setting in the USA. and I've never thought it was an easy book to read, or easy concepts to understand.....it needs a lot of thought..!!


Reading this book and others from the period, Like Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New world' and the English ones like 'Vile bodies' It feels like a very odd period, where one world is ending and a brand new one of industrialisation and new money is beginning.

There is a curious kind of optimism, after the Great War, and some money sloshing around.....but also sadness and a fragility...where people are confused and don't really know what is happening any more.... And there are a lot of people hiding behind masks and pretence....


but then you could almost say that about any period in history..

Hi guys

Some lovely posts yesterday

I too remember the days when it was said that we would all have vast amounts of leisure time....what a joke that seems now! However like your dad Augusta I am a workaholic so shouldn't complain It's just that at some point you do have to slow down......

Anyway after a lot of thought I withdrew from the job interview - they were very understanding - so now I just have my one day a week sessional work. That'll do me for now, I think.

Have started sorting out my wardrobes and cupboards ....that'll take me days in itself !

Have a good day all xxx