Crepey Corner

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Where the cool and the discerning hang out. New one.

Chat now, innit.

Ooh I saw a lovely one on Hush's website. Sadly, my budget is more Peacocks.

Mmm, beetroot. I gave DH hot beetroot once. He was appalled.

I have been rearranging the kitchen cupboards. No doubt the Kitchen Nazi will have something to say about this when he comes home on Friday. I made Nigella's Everyday Brownies tonight and they do not look successful. The mixture did funny things and the tin looks like an unsuccessful chocolate cake.

I am interviewing tomorrow morning. I will be the Hatchet Faced Bitch - you know, the one on the panel where you think, oh god, I hope I don't end up working for her. It was interesting - one of the other interviewers and I drew up our shortlists separately, and out of 40 candidates, we had shortlisted the same four.

The only style and beauty things I have done of late is order DD1 some sports bras and taken my new Camper shoes out of the box (so that DD2 could have the box for some urgent project at school).

Large Cat has shut Small Kitten in the cupboard. He shut the door with a swipe of his enormous paw and smirked as he walked off. I now have frantic squeaking...

Beetroot - yum! I am having week from hell and it is only Wednesday. Meeting, after meeting explaining why our recruitment is down (can't I just explain this ONCE to everyone?) and a meeting on Friday I need to do a load of work for.......ahh.
I want pair of camper boots, but they are silly money.

i love love love beetroot. so does dh but dcs loathe it with a loathesome loathing so not much use save as our guilty pleasure when they don't have to be fed... at risk of turning this into recipe corner (but beetroot must qualify as inherently stylish surely on account of its marvellous colour?) we love a warm salad of sliced new potatoes, flaked smoked trout, red onion, capers, cornichons, rocket and a vinaigerette made with horseradish.... 'tis heaven i tells ya.
so... this jumper dress....

oh, and am meant to be writing impossible essay. so impossible than any job seems preferable... have already removed fluff from tumble dryer filter and washed dogs bedding and it's only 11.30!

How spooky. Here I am, shovelling down a delicious beetroot and goat's cheese salad at my desk; I log in for an update on my crepey chums, and.....beetroot is the subject of the day. Yum (enough said).

We used to have a veg box; that's how I discovered the joy of soup. You can make soup out of anything. Although Jerusalem FArtichokes should carry a government health warning on account of their gas-producing qualities.

Gay genes.......well, I did have a great-uncle, who I never met, who "never married" and "wore a cravat" and (more seriously) "left all of Granny's family money to some chap he'd met a couple of years previously". It wasn't until years after he died that mum put two and two together....

Herbs, you are a numpty trashing your dress! That's the kind of thing DH does - I'll find him creosoting the fence in his best work trousers, then when we go shopping he'll be decked out in a pair of indecent shorts and a skanky teeshirt. Anyway, I'm sure I've recommended them before, but M&S Autograph do some nice jumper dresses, slightly fitted, but still tummy-skimming enough to hide a few sins.

Re: Jerusalem artichokes - when I first moved into the house where I live now, my brother brought a large number of these evil tubers from his own garden (he wanted rid of them, I wonder why?) and planted a long row in my garden. What yummy soup you will be able to make, he said, smirking. You only make that soup once, really, don't you? Especially if you have the gas gene anyway

Beetroot jelly? No. I make chilli jelly (chelly) with scotch bonnets, apple chutney and hedgerow chutney. I also made some chocolate mincemeat last year.

That sounds a good salad, Oldqueenie. Yum.

CV, are you still going to the Christmas bash? I haven't seen you on there recently, so I hope you are! Anyone else (apart from ruby - the badge queen, of course!)? Come on Hags, you know you want to! MrsS, surely you are up for a party
FB discussing what to wear.......

Fuck MrsS is there anything you don't do? Shuffles off feeling inadequate......

Shuffles back - we doing jan birthdays or what

You and me Rubys that's a start!

Yes, my b-day is end of Jan, I shall be up for a jolly.

I'm early February. Count me in. Will attempt not to have a Champagne-fest at the Groucho the night before, and only three hours sleep, so that I can be a bit more jolly. But can't guarantee it.

Blackduck - I don't sew or do much domestic apart from cooking and am crap at sums.

I'm not sure that helped MrsS because who sews these days anyway?
Ruby you can have an early (or late) birthday...is it a goer? I really can't do crowds so Christmas thing is out - brings me out in hives at very thought if it... But jan birthday would be good, think there is a few of us ... No cake, candles would be a positive fire hazard...

Oh. My DD1 sews, as does my mother in law. And they both knit.

Yes I typed that MrsS and then thought 'shit there's a whole craft revival going on out there' :) actually I can knit quite well.

Hmm, genes. Nature or nurture. My mum, and lots of her relatives, sing, as do me and my sis.

My mum knits, but I am totally cack-handed. My dad's v practical, and has built five houses single-handedly. I am of a practical bent, though have yet to extend this to an extension, as it were.

Re S&B and jumper dresses, I've decided to keep buying cheap shit until I have some money. There are some really quite nice things in Asda! I am individualising my supermarket clothes with coats, boots, etc from years ago I keep rediscovering. I must look a right state. Or am I 'mixing high street with vintage'?

Can any crepey remember something for me. A few months ago, in the Observer magazine, its round-up at the front of 'things we want this month' included a dear little tan bag, from a new offshoot of H&M. Does anyone recall any of this?

Cos??

Nah, not cos. Though that does have some lovely things. It may have been a hallucination.

I have an important question. How does one defrost a freezer? Do I turn it off, remove all the stuff to a cool box and just let it drip? (tis a fridge freezer) Put a towel on the floor in front of it? Can I speed up the process with a hairdryer? The door hadn't shut properly and there is a lot of ice.

Ooh, look, you are all here! I didn't know there was a new thread, will have to read it all later and catch up a bit......