Blackbird a gap year is the year between leaving school and university. It can be filled variously with work, volunteering, foreign travel or slobbing about at home depending on your finances.
Congratulations Miss M, pop that cork. If I had a bottle of champagne in the fridge it would be drunk long before the right occasion came along.
If you want to know I always do (Prosecco as I prefer it to Champagne and I AM Italian after all!). My son is too young but I keep there as I never know when lovely friends may show up. Or I drink it when I feel like ... if they don't. But hey, this is grand news, so congratulations and many more Champagnes on her way!
I'm taking a bottle off the rack and putting it into the fridge right now. And I might not even wait for a job offer (no point waiting for a daughter's job offer!) before drinking it!
the replacement bottle in the rack turned out to be the empty Lanson box which was a wake up call. I have now rectified the situation with a bottle of Taitinger and one of prosecco
Julia There used to be a restaurant in Warick where every encounter with the hostess involved her telling one or more amusing tales. Whenever you asked for Sekt she always said "you mean the drink the bohemians drank out of their mistress's belly buttons?" She had to keep cheerful because she suffered badly from ME and her husband was a manic depressive ex Russian wrestler who spent the whole and every evening sitting morosely at the bar !
Oh many many congratulations. I envy you your shopping trip - I rather miss suits.
We had a first this week too - MissP gold a gold star for her homework. She has mastered writing 'curly c' and had drawn a jug of custard and crumble and stuck them in her book.
MasterM at university in South Africa MissM at university closer to home MrM in charge of the TV remote control MrsM still failing to conquer the ironing
if you want to read even more The Magpie Files was the story of our family from June 2007 to July 2009
27 comments:
Oh!
Someone needs to explain these things to me!
Isn't she on gap year? Won't she be going to school?
Why can't our children stay in SCHOOL?!
congratulations! I am hoping it is in the fashion realm, as she is clearly gifted in that area!
congrats to MissM. Is this a career job or just an inbetween job? I thought she was taking a year off before college? How wonderful for her :)
Oooh! Well done, MissM! That certainly is worth celebrating.
I hope the job is precisely what you would want it to be.
Hooray!!
Blackbird a gap year is the year between leaving school and university. It can be filled variously with work, volunteering, foreign travel or slobbing about at home depending on your finances.
Congratulations Miss M, pop that cork. If I had a bottle of champagne in the fridge it would be drunk long before the right occasion came along.
If you want to know I always do (Prosecco as I prefer it to Champagne and I AM Italian after all!). My son is too young but I keep there as I never know when lovely friends may show up.
Or I drink it when I feel like ... if they don't.
But hey, this is grand news, so congratulations and many more Champagnes on her way!
I'm afraid I drink it every day! (Prosecco, actually, like Paola) I find it very sustaining ;-)
You work 'em hard, Mrs Magpie. Wasn't long ago you had your son sweating over chocolates.
congratulations xxx
we had had a first this week - my daughter cooked dinner. not quite a champagne moment, but getting there!
Glad to see it is Lanson champagne even if it isn't made in Dunheved.
word verification : near at !
I'm taking a bottle off the rack and putting it into the fridge right now. And I might not even wait for a job offer (no point waiting for a daughter's job offer!) before drinking it!
How exciting! PS any excuse is a good excuse to drink champagne :-)
Well done! I hope those funds will be used for further adventures before heading off to university.
the replacement bottle in the rack turned out to be the empty Lanson box which was a wake up call. I have now rectified the situation with a bottle of Taitinger and one of prosecco
We usually do - though like some others I prefer Prosecco, too. Well done Miss M.
Congratulations, Miss M! So exciting. But now I want details!
K x
We keep a bottle of Bohemian Sekt in our fridge, it comes in surprisingly handy!
Congrats to Miss M!
Oh how wonderful, clever Miss M. We try to keep a bottle of Veuve in the rack at all times in case of emergency celebration requirements.
Congratulations Miss M!
Congrats!
Julia
There used to be a restaurant in Warick where every encounter with the hostess involved her telling one or more amusing tales. Whenever you asked for Sekt she always said "you mean the drink the bohemians drank out of their mistress's belly buttons?"
She had to keep cheerful because she suffered badly from ME and her husband was a manic depressive ex Russian wrestler who spent the whole and every evening sitting morosely at the bar !
Many congrats to Miss M - there is something really rather exciting about first job offers :)
ScottFest 2010. Made even better by a bottle of pink sparkly fizz.
Many congratulations to Miss. M. Are we allowed to hazard guesses as to the where???? My first guess is NASA.
Oh many many congratulations. I envy you your shopping trip - I rather miss suits.
We had a first this week too - MissP gold a gold star for her homework. She has mastered writing 'curly c' and had drawn a jug of custard and crumble and stuck them in her book.
I'm late reading this but congratulations Miss M. And have lots of fun shopping!
Congratulations to Miss M! A new career opens up all kinds of new fashion opportunities!
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