Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

Sorry to hear about your AF woes, Mrs S - that's very grim. I have a dear friend who also swears by Tranexamic acid as Stropps said, not sure how it works, but it seemed to do the trick. Not sure about the pain though - gin?

Stropps - I have a dress problem too, although it's mainly because I am broad in the shoulder but small in the bust and so I either have a flappy front on the frock, or it is stretched too tight across my back. I got stuck in a dress in Kew once, actually stuck with it halfway over my head because I couldn't get my shoulders out . When I find a dress where the waist is actually at my own waist (am long-bodied as well, so waistbands are rarely where they are meant to be) that helps a lot, so empire line is not a good idea for me. Some of the DottyP dresses that MI linked to earlier in the thread would be nice on someone who is petite and Celtic.

Am currently trying to sort out my iPod prior to holiday so that the 20 mins of time I am likely to spend listening to it will have some new tunes. I'm trying to get some voice memos of it, but that is proving really amazingly difficult.

MrsS hope you are feeling better today. And CV happy hols...
I am severely hung over this morning and necking neurofen and lucozade (my hangover cure of choice....) I blame my best friend and his endless supply of wine. Dp is off to Osaka today and ds comes back home so I need to pull myself together (and do some work!)

I am still mewing a bit in pain, but the codeine is taking the edge off it today, thank you. Dioralyte is magic cure for hangover, but Lucozade has much the same stuff in it, I think, and tastes a whole lot better. I remember when it used to come wrapped in orange cellophane.

Is the cat still giving the 'paw of sympathy'?

I drink the orange Lucozade.....I am currently awash in sugars having also had a hot chocolate and three biscuits .... I feel better (it is all relative after all). Friend watched Harry Potter after I left and said it is all a bit different after a couple of bottles :) Dp was not impressed by the Chicken Tikka Masala takeaway I got him (only thing that came to mind!)

Large paw of sympathy currently patting at laptop keys!

Mrs S, was thinking earlier I should have told you my "cure" -- hot shower, followed by hot bath with a VERY generous quantity of Epsom salts in the water. The magnesium is v anti-cramp and the effect will last for a good few hours afterward.

The eagle has landed . . . er, AF has arrived. Good thing too as I ate a large chocolate bar last night. The Chinese herbs are doing the trick and I am fine, only a few cramps (much as when I was still in my 30s).

Oooh will pick up some epsom salts when I am back in UK next week.

Yay, I am on holiday! Dh is packing the car, ready for a 4.30am start. Will wave to you in Paris Mrs S as we pass on our way to Aubenas. See you in 2 week, crepeys!

Where is Kerry these days?

And Swedes. And BIWI. Have they forgotten to post?

I was wondering about Kerry and BIWI too! Haven't "seen" them around much lately.

Everyone is going on holiday and I have already been. Ah well, I have my 5 days at my mother's to look forward to with the children, and then the Parasites arrive for a week...

Thought Swedes had left? Read something on another thread somewhere. Who are the parasites??

Why did she leave? She was ace.

And yes, Mrs S. I want to hear all about the parasites.

DS's general anaesthetic tomorrow, and I'm dreading it. Especially the fact he can't eat between 7 and noon, when his procedure is.

Actually, looking back at earlier hagsnet threads, we've lost LOADS of people. Any Fucker, Fellatio Nelson, hully gully, pagwatch, ooh and many more.

Come back hags!

Fellatio is probably tied up with her impending move Abroad. No idea about the others.

The parasites are house guests who ask as soon as I come in from work what we are eating and contribute nothing while they are staying (not even loading the dishwasher).

Herbs hope all goes well today.

How did it go, Herbs?

Re-surfacing briefly! Hope things went OK with your ds, Herbs.

Ruby, thank you for the Dotty P dress hints. I have had a look, but I think I would need to go and try some dresses on, so will need to journey far, far away to a town with actual, proper shops. I have never found a dress that didn't make me look like a sofa. I am not tall, or particularly stout, but I have huuuuge shoulders and a very broad back which mean that petite sizes often don't work for me, but other sizes usually also don't. Also, I have teeny-weeny facial features which mean that patterns often cause me to "disappear". I'm making myself sound like Frankenstein's monster on here, aren't I?

Saw my mother today who commented on my hair: "Darling, you are looking like that ghastly what's her name... Rebakah Brooks." Yo, thanks, Ma.

Oh and we had our first ever family bike ride at the w/e - cycled all the way to the next excuse for a town. Most of the route was along a rather rough cycle track. We broke off for a picnic by the side of the track and then a farmer pitched up on his quad bike and took about 100 cows down the stretch of cycle track between us and the next farm. ds then makes extra sure to cycle through all the cowpats that he can find. We then come to a hill, still on the rough cycle track, and ds throws caution to the winds and goes down said hill at a bazillion miles an hour shouting "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". Which then turns into "Aaaaaaaiiiieeeeeeeee" as he falls off head first, having ignored his mother's and sister's shouts to slow down. ds is then covered in cowpats, blood and oil (chain fell off). He is sporting a fantastic black eye, skinned cheek and bruising down to his jaw and cuts to his knee and arm. He is strangely proud of all of this and I am rather mortified. He got back on his bike, though, and made it to the ice cream shop

ps: Yes, he was wearing a helmet.

Hoping that all crepeys in and around London have been keeping safe these past few days.

Bloody hell - I keep typing messages and they keep disappearing.

Re riots - all safe. My area was in fact a hot spot on Sunday night, but I have yet to go into the centre to inspect the damage. BHS was looted apparently, which smacks of desperation! I in fact need to go to a computer shop, and the nearest big one is PC World at Tottenham Hale. I think not.

DS's anaesthetic was fine. I went in with him while he was put under, which was horrible, as he went totally floppy in my arms. And he was crazed with hunger and disorientated when he woke up, until I forced some ice cream into his mouth. But as it's a specialist children's hospital, it's full of toys and lovely staff, so he actually rather enjoys it.

Glad he's fine, Herbs! DD1 had a tumour removed from her wrist when she was 6 (thankfully not cancerous) and came round cross and starving!