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CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 08:18:18

I've woken up today with a huge spot on my nose AT MY AGE!
Haven't had a spot for about fifty five years at least so I'm aghast.
It's about the size of Mount Vesuvius and bright red. I have a funeral to go to this afternoon and will now look even worse than usual.
I've got used to waking up with a face like a creased paper bag that lasts most of the day, but this is awful.
What a pity funeral clothes don't still include veils like they did when I was a child!

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 19:56:34

Maremia they're all funny as long as it isn't your own smile

Maremia Fri 23-Aug-19 19:31:28

How can a post about a funeral be so funny?

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 18:51:57

GrandetanteJE65 Blooming heck can't you lot use shorter usernames (confused) don't know where you get glycerine from, is it some kind of anti freeze?

Nobody looked at my nose at the funeral, the congregation were too busy planning their route to the hotel. I'm sure I saw at least one person looking at Google maps inside their mass book.

Someone suggested tea tree oil and I have a little bottle of that I use on Gt Dane's fungal infected toenails so I'm going to use that. Just hope the lip hasn't made contact with his diseased epidermis.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Pity it's not nearer Christmas as I could have been an extra in a nativity play. Hopefully it might be less colourful tomorrow.

Lessismore Fri 23-Aug-19 18:49:19

Tilly, laughing at the thought of a trophy for the underneath department......sort of like the Oscars/a military event....

Caro, go a deux.....it's all the rage in these parts.

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 18:24:38

Lessismore Kim Bodnia is one of the most gorgeous men in the world. If I'd met him before Gt Dane.... Well..
smile

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 17:55:41

Anyone else got a hideous picture at the bottom of their screen with a caption MY LAUNDRY SMELLS MUSTY?

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 17:52:18

Yes Gt Dane got his suit and the funeral went off OK though they seem to be getting shorter and shorter these days. Think it depends on whether the priest is a fan of Countdown or not.

Lessismore caused me a problem ( nothing new there) but I think people thought I was crying into my hanky with grief.

On the buffet front 2 out of 10, not quick enough to beat off the opposition to get the cheese and onion quiche but made up for it by drinking as much wine as I could as fast as I could. Plus Gt Dane can't drink because of his pills and night wees, so I drank his as well.

Overall Gt Dane behaved well, one small slip when he passed wind in the middle of Abide With Me but I don't think anyone noticed. Plus it was an SBD (Silent but Deadly) and the smell of mothballs off my black mac neutralised most of it.

Scousegirl you know it's in the Merseyside DNA to laugh in the face of misfortune and greet adversity with a two fingered salute regardless of how old we are and/or physical condition. Long may it continue grin

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 17:35:49

Lessismore is she the cousin of Clem Iddea?

Tillybelle Fri 23-Aug-19 17:30:26

Lessismore

My comment "of at least you've still got yours" (or whatever I said!) was about your previous disclosure which I read as you having "A Trophy". A Trophy for your vagina, no less!
I now feel so inferior, humbled, out of your league..... I shall crawl to the corner....

Tillybelle Fri 23-Aug-19 17:24:44

Scousegirl

Don't despair, you've got it in you girl! Just go for it!

Scousegirl Fri 23-Aug-19 17:13:20

CaroDane, I'm an expat too and suspected that it was Scouse humour! You can't beat it! Sad, as where I live there isn't a lot of humour about and I don't 'arf miss it! Keep up the posts, they are hilairious and have made my day. Just wish I could come up with a clever bit of Scouse...I'm out of practice!!???

lemongrove Fri 23-Aug-19 16:55:40

How was the funeral CaroDane did you manage to keep a straight face??
Don’t allow the fish paste sarnie to go off in your pocket.
You could take the shears to Gt Dane’s Einstein like hair when he is asleep, what a fine revenge that would be!

Tillybelle Fri 23-Aug-19 16:55:20

Lessismore. Ahh well! At least you are still acquainted with yours! I'm not sure if I've still got one.

Lessismore Fri 23-Aug-19 16:49:19

Do you know Kim Bodnia ( asking for a friend)

Tillybelle Fri 23-Aug-19 16:49:07

I worked at the FE College and some of my lectures were at an annexe a few miles away from main campus. I had a desk there but I wasn't there every day.

I went in after several days away and the other ladies who worked there all the time were looking very green round the gills. There was a very bad smell in the staff room.

Said smell increased over the weeks.

End of term we were clearing out as we were to be moved onto main campus next term.

Blokes came and heaved out my old wooden desk. The drawer fell out.

My prawn sandwich, black with green powder on it, aged approx. 8 weeks, plunged to the ground.

What is worse, this was the second time I had left a prawn sandwich in a desk and forgotten........

grandtanteJE65 Fri 23-Aug-19 16:44:40

Apply a little glycerin than lashings of face powder. The glycerin is supposed to stop make up from getting into the spot and making things worse.

It is an old trick from the theatre - the show must go on, spots or not.

hulahoop Fri 23-Aug-19 16:36:10

Did hubby get suit caroDane ?

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 16:23:51

lemongrove guilty as charged, albeit an expat nowadays. Is it that obvious due to my hideous Gt Dane?
Are you a believer in reincarnation?
SirChenjin oh that's harsh! And me only just in with a meat paste sandwich in my pocket and the beginnings of a hangover grin

SirChenjin Fri 23-Aug-19 15:56:58

It's the badness coming out in you Caro

lemongrove Fri 23-Aug-19 15:17:48

CaroDane are you a Scouser by any chance? ?
Keep them coming....??

Cagsy Fri 23-Aug-19 14:48:10

Lessimore I've got that badge too, although to be fair the treatment is very effective - don't think you'd want to poke a pessary up your nose though Caro!

gillyknits Fri 23-Aug-19 14:46:05

My 90 year old Auntie said that a spot at anytime over sixty meant that there was still life in the body! ?

minxie Fri 23-Aug-19 14:24:23

Hopefully it’s not on the end of your nose !!

CaroDane Fri 23-Aug-19 14:00:52

Lessismore We are literally standing outside the church now. And thanks to you I'm going to have to bite my lip to stop sniggering all through the service!

By the way, is that what you get for winning a Gold in one of those new sports at the next Commonwealth Games smile

Hetty58 Fri 23-Aug-19 13:53:20

Oh, please God NO!