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Forever Autumn Forever Crepey

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cremolafoam · 03/09/2014 14:01

The summer sun is fading as the year grows old,
and darker days are drawing near,
the winter winds will be much colder,
now you're not here.
I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
and one by one they disappear
I wish that I was flying with them,
now you're not here

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bigTillyMint · 03/09/2014 14:11

Quite poignant for those of you with DC going off to uni, sniff.

lalsy · 03/09/2014 14:15

Gulp.

motherinferior · 03/09/2014 14:31

I was going to suggest Season of Crepes and Mellow Fruitfulness...

I am not juggling things particularly well today, it must be said.

Rosebag · 03/09/2014 14:32

Now, now Crepeys! You won't be sniffing ( except in horror ) when uni bound DCs come home for the hols and live in the opposite time zone to you, get up at 3pm, go to bed at 3am having made a fry up and not cleared up the kitchen after....with the smell of frying, burnt toast and the noise of the pots and pans waking you in the middle of the night.... Grin
I had four years of it and will no doubt again as the younger ones get to that stage!

bigTillyMint · 03/09/2014 14:36

Rose, we are at that stage (without the pots and pans since the worktop incident!!!) already and they are only in Y9 and 11Shock Mind you, I got my own back with the party on Saturday!

cremolafoam · 03/09/2014 14:41

sorry that is quite poignant.

oops.
Lol @Rose.

much better title MI Smile, but I panic-posted.Blush

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Rosebag · 03/09/2014 14:43

Grin Tilly. The funny thing is now that Ds1 has moved in to his own place and is properly in the job market, he is very fussy about his place, keeps it in order, washes up, makes his bed,and goes to bed at a normal time....
The five years we had him at home after uni, and the uni years before were challenging to say the least. I did put my foot down in the end and put an absolute ban on cooking at night. I was on my knees with sleep deprivation...

bigTillyMint · 03/09/2014 14:48

I think I will instigate that ban now!

beachyhead · 03/09/2014 14:52

I've got a mental picture of Justin Hayward now. I'm not enjoying it....

motherinferior · 03/09/2014 15:15

I am for some bonkers reason listening to early 1990s Saw Doctors on Spotify. Given that this takes me back to a particularly chaotic and unhappy period of my life I am not entirely sure why I'm doing this; I suppose at least I was relatively young.

MollyAir · 03/09/2014 15:23

Rosebag, that may be the most reassuring MN post I have ever read. Although if there's a way to shorten the learning phase by a matter of 7 years, that would be better.

Blackduck · 03/09/2014 15:25

Marking place.....

hattymattie · 03/09/2014 15:38

Found you - love the intro Crem.

I should probably admit that I bloody loved the War of the Worlds album as a teenager.

Happy Birthday BTMSmile .

cremolafoam · 03/09/2014 15:55

MI I too am having an 80's throwback evening. Tonight our venue is hosting Nik Kershaw and in another hall, Barry McGuigan.
Gonna be rockin'
Grin

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bigTillyMint · 03/09/2014 16:16

Right, I am going to admit that I have not a clue what you're on about with your references to aging musicians and War of the Worlds albums...Blush

I was a strictly seventies soul, disco and funk girl till I discovered Radio Luxembourg and then John Peel and indie musicGrin

CointreauVersial · 03/09/2014 16:35

The War of the Worlds album is for me forever associated with my early 1990s BF. Played on cassette in his left-hand-drive VW Golf.

Well, DD2 survived - enjoyed even - her first day. I had a text from DS midmorning, grumbling about some streaming decision or other, but he has gone to a friend's house so I have no further info.

DH is in Greece, so I'm single-parenting for a couple of days.

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/09/2014 18:33

I am going to see my mother tomorrow.

My uncle survived the night, but is now on morphine "to keep him calm" apparently. Sad

Auriga · 03/09/2014 18:37

I was going to suggest 'warm crêpes will never cease' but thread was full Grin

QueenQueenie · 03/09/2014 19:08

I was going to vote for "Season of Mists and Mellow Crepeness"...
At the rate we natter perhaps that will do for the next one in October?

motherinferior · 03/09/2014 19:58

I love the fact that we are arguing about what bits of Keats to cannibalise.Grin

Inferiorettes appear to have survived school intact.

Stropperella · 03/09/2014 20:11

Sadly, both dcs have come back completely "Meh" about the first day. Y12 did some sort of "team building" exercise, which dd did not rate. She. says her tutor group is "too small and too quiet" and says her tutor is "some random from the SS". I was more perturbed to find out that the new Studio School is already known as SS than anything else.
Am slightly sad that ds was also completely underwhelmed. Oh well. Now I have 2 dcs underwhelmed by school, rather than just the one. Hmm Hmm

motherinferior · 03/09/2014 20:28

Oh bugger, Stropps.

I am so tired. Must not go to bed as that will mean I wake up even earlier...

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Blackduck · 03/09/2014 20:45

Stropps day one - can improve. Ds pretty underwhelmed too, but not turned off - just hmm....

Stropperella · 03/09/2014 21:13

Yes, BD, I'm hoping he just needs to adjust his settings a bit. I suspect the same is true for dd, but she is (of course) all "I should have gone to college" - just because she is getting updates from her old friends about how splendid 6th form college is compared to boring old school. Grin I am a bit Hmm about why she has a tutor who works primarily at the Studio School - which is a new place based at the local agricultural college and teaches a primarily "land-based curriculum". I didn't realise the teachers there would be based in the upper school in town. Bit strange.
Today I have defrosted the freezer. "So what?", I hear you say. Ahh, but I have never before defrosted this freezer and I have had it for many years. I got it secondhand to go in the garage and I thought I would fill it with nutritious foodstuffs and produce home-cooked dinners from it in a trice. Unfortunately, I was, I now realise, a bit bloody unwell when I got it (and for some years afterwards) and what actually happened was it turned into an solid block of ice containing many tupperware boxes full of unidentifiable gloop. Dealing with this object has been on the to-do list for er, several years. In my new, refreshed, post-CBT incarnation, I am up for spending a day running in and out of the garage with steaming kettles. It only took 8 hours. I had enough ice for about 50 ice bucket challenges. Grin
And now to actually fill the bloody thing with food as I planned to about 7 years ago. Blush

Stropperella · 03/09/2014 21:21

Another piece of trivia: dd said there was some "comedian-type man" who did a talk at school. About what, we asked. "Dunno - he was a bit funny but it went on about half an hour too long and I don't know what his point was", came the answer. Anyway, the only bit she appeared to notice was that he explicitly mentioned my old school and made jokes about it being the poshest place he'd ever done his spiel and blahhed on about that at length. Why would he mention that and why was he at dd's school and what was the point of the whole thing? Alas, I will probably never find out. Most frustrating.
Strangely, 2 nights ago I woke up in a sweat worrying that dd was going to my old school and she would end up scarred for life as I did. Phew, no, at least that won't be something she can berate me for later. Or indeed now.

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