Crepey Corner

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Chat now, innit.

BTM, if you're around the Hinde (sounds curiously rude, innit) around 5.30, come and hear me sing!

I'm not feeling so hot this morning due to drinking more than I should have last night at office do. Lots of fun though and gorgeous food. Am now staring at list of things I have to do before hitting the road early tomorrow to head to in-laws in the hopes that some kind of Mary Poppins magic will take over and they'll get done with minimal input from me.

Tilly - great that your ds is sewing. Ds1 learned to knit this term at a school club, which was very sweet, although I'm not sure it's something he is going to pursue much further than a small square with a number of dropped stitches in it.

Ooh, I will do MI if we are still there. Saw a local school (not one particularly near nor popular with the chattering classes) singing Silent Night on GMTV this morning - was lovely and I had to wipe a tear.....

Wilbur Grandma will be so proud of him and amazed as he is so NOT a sewing kind of boy

Oh ds knitted a bit (well about six inches if a scarf in the most lurid wool he could find). Trouble is I am not a good teacher as. I knit in a very cack handed way.
You all sound like you are having fun, and are way more active than I am my only bit of cloud on the horizon (metaphorically) is my boss has just told he will step down at the end of the academic year - bugger, not really a surprise, but i have a good relationship with him.

Boys sewing. That's great.

I've been having to wipe away a lot of tears at the moment. Took DS along to my choir xmas concert rehearsal, and as we arrived (late) to the lovely church, they were doing In the Bleak Midwinter, cue moist eyes. Then every time a carol mentioned a baby boy, which is quite often, oddly, then every time DS clapped or laughed or sang along. Which also was quite often.

Have unpleasant stomach ache. Was hoping it's just wine-induced, but DP had a similar thing that laid him up for a few days at the beginning of the week. Do hope it's not going to be that - now is not the time to be off my food!

I am losing the will to live. I have Stuff everywhere, waiting to be wrapped, have been to the market, the caviste, and now off to Christmas market with Granny Doom (and kids, who will go skating). Granny Doom has sat at the kitchen table with her nose in a book all morning, peering out occasionally to say "You could die of thirst round here." (Translation = make a cup of tea, I am on holiday and will be waited on hand and foot.)

QL: can you get kids doing wrapping? I am in Denial about wrapping. Perhaps I chould go and do some now...

Several hours later..... Now in the car, off to the cinema to see either Puss in Boots or Arthur Christmas (still arguing about it), followed by dinner out. DH and I feel we jolly well deserve it after spending two hours rodding the drains outside the kitchen which have been blocked for days. I have a new-found respect for my beloved after watching him lying on the path with his entire arm in the drain pulling out god knows what. But it worked, and I no longer have the delights of watching the dishwasher water spew through the plughole every time it drains.

Nice to hear your dear mama has arrived QL, to entertain us infuriate you with her lovely ways.

The DDs are wrapping. I have bought my Dear Mother a necklace. DH asked if it was a choker...

We had macaroni cheese for dinner ("Not very festive, is it?") and are having curry tomorrow night ("That's a funny thing to eat on Christmas Eve...") and full on turkey on the Day Itself.

Tomorrow is planned meticulously. I will go to Posh Caff ON MY OWN to have an hour's peace and breakfast get macaroons, then to Monoprix to get soft drinks and a few last minute bits, then home to make more mince pies and put feet up with a glass of Rudolph the Rehab Reindeer cocktail (a cherry in gin placed in the bottom of a glass of fizzy) in the afternoon and watch another cheesy Christmas fillum. I think the theory is fine, but practice may be very different...

Curry sounds good to me! And the cheesy Christmas movie - just had a family session watching one

Southbank was very festive with German-stylie Christmas market, but I'm afraid we left before seeing and hearing MI sing - hope you dodn't get drenched!

Off out with friends tomorrow for annual Christmas Eve lunch out and show. After collecting the turkey from the butchers at a very ungodly hour.

Happy Christmas eve! I am full of cold 'snot. ( < - feeble joke) fair and am hacking and sniffing... Just seems wrong in 35 degrees.
QL love DHs comment - are you tempted yet?we ate hoping to do midnight mass Goan-stylee and then DS is waiting to see it Santa is able to drop something off of the sleigh/S1 on the way over.....(arthur Christmas is good - QL you need the wrapping elf)

Just checking in to report that it is not going to plan at all. DM's arse is still planted firmly on a kitchen chair with her nose in a book. No interaction with anyone. DD2: "Nanna, would you like to play a game?" DM: "No." (Without looking up from book.)

Now to make another 50 mince pies. DH is doing his usual trick of going out looking for my Christmas present. Have had Huge Row this morning, which did clear the air, and we went out for a couple of beers too.

I have made curry (spotting a theme here?) for tonight. Inferiorettes are wrapping . We are supposed to be going to eat mince pies now chez friends. My attempts to paint my nails a festive gold have turned out rather....decayed-looking.

May I be the first to wish the crepeys a Very Merry Christmas!

We are contemplating going to bed (in DH's words "because the little feckers will be in our room waving stockings in about six hours") but we are having a festive hot whisky first, and watching the Father Ted Christmas Special.

A completely manic day of cooking and cleaning today, culminating in the clandestine assembly of a new bed for DD2 (part of her Christmas present) which we foolishly imagined we could whizz up in secret while the DDs watched a Christmas film. We admitted defeat at about 8pm, with only half the bed up, the DDs square-eyed, and the dinner not even started, but we managed to piece together enough for her to sleep on. And she burst into tears of happiness when she saw it. It has a desk and pull-out sofa-bed thing underneath, something she has been asking for all year.

Anyway, have a lovely day everyone.

By the way, Puss in Boots was so rubbish both DH and I fell asleep in the cinema.

A merry Christmas crepeys! I hope you all have a wonderful day, wherever you are and whoever you are with
Da inordinately pleased with his light sabre ds stylus and sonic underpants...

Should have gone to see Arthur Christmas .....

Merry Crepey Christmas. Hope Santa has emptied his sack to your satisfaction.

I got some saucy but tasteful undies from DP in a very small size. Bought while drunk, I think. Plus other niceness. DS totally obsessed by toy keyboard bought by in-laws. This could drive us to distraction.

Off soon to perform 'light relief' duty at parents' house. Planning to drink my way through it.

QL - hope the Christmas spirit allows Auntie Doom a few more hours reprieve, before you choke her to death with a paper hat.

Wishing you a Crepey Christmas from Gay Paree! I have had a tumbler small glass of Christmas Pudding Vodka, and now on the Champagne. Have MN friends coming over for Christmas dinner, so am expecting a boozy afternoon.

Everything under control in the kitchen, am about to jump in the shower, then will be good to go.

Granny Doom still in kitchen, nose in book. Offered to help with sprouts, did five (complaining about the quality of the sprouts), then gave up "because your knife is not like mine."

Happy Christmas

Had a lovely Christmas Eve - Mamma Mia was fab. Have done church, pub next on list

My mother bought me a top for Christmas. It's a size 24. DD2 and I can wear it together. My mother said "Well I didn't know exactly how fat you were, and I thought if it was a bit loose it wouldn't matter."

Oh my god QL. That just isn't funny, it's downright cruel
hope the rest of you day/presents were up to expectation.

QL - WTF MIL once bought me a dressing gown in too large a size, needless to say it was returned PDQ. We don't do adults presents now

QL, is your mum getting worse? She is absolutely vile.

Return the damn thing. Buy something that fits you. A size smaller than you think you should be buying.

I have negotiated a fairly OK Christmas day and am off to eat goose chez friends later. Then my parents (ofuck) tomorrow. Then DP's aged aunt and uncle the day after that....

DP's youngest brother leaves for work Abroad today. For years. (Am secretly rather envying him. He has no kids. Much as I love my Inferiorettes, the idea of buggering off Alone to Abroad has much appeal today.) He has left us many many useful kitchen implements, also the de rigeur obscure spices everyone palms off when going away (I might just bin these now) and about a decade's supply of....plasters.

No, MI, she is just the same. She said to me very aggressively "Well what size is that top that you are wearing then?" I said it was an 18. "Well it must be a very big size 18 then."

I have popped off to the bedroom "for a nap" now, and she is "finishing her book."