The Creped Crusaders - new thread!

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New thread for chatting. Oh and swapping S&B tips.

Having a manic day here - INSET day at school and I have 7 kids (inc my 3) over for lunch. While also trying to "work from home" and talk to removal people.

MI, that is so, so sad. I can't imagine losing either of mine, or any of my close friends/family losing theirs.

MI so sorry to hear that.

It's just...shite. Just awful.

That is so sad, MI. There does seem to be a lot of sadness around at the moment (two people known to me, one about my age, one younger, both diagnosed with terminal lung cancer). But I had some cheery news tonight. My cousin and his partner are having a baby. They had been booked in for their second round of IVF and she conceived naturally. The baby will be a good ethnic mix - he is half Hungarian, a quarter German and a bit British, she is half Croatian and half French and they live in Australia!

That is nice news

Now tell me, fellow Crepeys. A point of marital delicacy (well, we're not married but it sounds better that way). How, how do I tell Mr Inferior, when he makes us a lovely treat of Scrambled Eggs For Breakfast, that his scrambled eggs are ahem a bit well tasteless (he disapproves of salt. Today he tried Worcester sauce in them. Not a success) and frequently dry (not least because he also disapproves of butter) and overcooked in the microwave and also SOME OF US WOULD LIKE TO BUTTER OUR BAGELS WITHOUT BEING LOOKED AT IN COLD MANNER, EH???

You get scrambled eggs for breakfast on a weekday? Lucky to get a cup of tea round here....

Is he on Mr Schadenfreude's diet? Would he prefer a slice of wholemeal toast liberally scattered with flax seeds, with his tasteless eggs really? How about Tabasco eggs or Madhur's recipe for Indian scrambled eggs?

DP usually gets the Inferiorettes' breakfast; he quite often does them pancakes (nice pancakes) too...

MrsS, the thing is that I think those might count too much as cooking - whereas sloshing a few eggs into a bowl, whizzing them up with the blender and bunging them in a microwave isn't, really. And I don't particularly want to be rude. But our shining little faces are not perhaps as beamy as they should be, on scrambled egg days

How about a nice poached egg on toast? He could shove a slice of Naice Ham between toast and egg too.

Strangled egg and beans?

Strangled egg with bacon bits in it?

He does over boiled eggs too. I may purchase some smoked salmon and suggest disingenuously this becomes an omega-packed addition to his scramblies...

He takes breakfast seriously, Mr Inferior. So do I, but my fellow inmates are yet to be convinced by toast with lime pickle and peanut or almond butter.

Got an AIBU for you

Hey ruby, how's your job going?

Yes, clearing away would have been a good one. DS will lay the table without batting an eyelid, and also pointed out to her that she was coming across as a bit ungrateful. It didn't go down well as he is only in Y6 (she's full of Y8 attitude)

I think I might make a menu of choice of favours and she can pick one..... any other good ideas?

Get them to cook tea tomorrow.

I didn't get home till 9.15 tonight and have to be in by7.30 tomorrow morning. And I have an all day meeting on 8 June, so pretty sure I won't be allowed leave to come to London.

I am pooped.

Oh MrsS They are working you like a dawg.

Wine?

Oh blimey, I am so much not on t'internet at the moment that I cannot keep up.
Very sad about your friend's daughter, MI.
MrsS, a 7.30 start? They are Not Very Nice. Are you sure about wanting to stay a year longer in Paris?
BTM, yy to the favours menu. Don't let dd think that she can get your for an hour and a half's taxiing without doing something in return. Are you going full-time at work in September?

Dd here has carefully forgotten all about her performance the week before she went to France and also about all the faffing about I have had to do to sort out her various messes. And she has just sprung something on me which means that a taxi service is required tonight and I am supposed to be going to circuits but then dh will have to get ds out of bed to go and collect her. Grrrrrr.

All day every day at job B this week. Get to come back for early lunch (as we live only a few mins walk from school), but back in at 12.30. Speaking of which...

In work at 0720, home at 2135. Came very close to losing my temper and he knew just how close I was. Then IT failed, so I went for several glasses of champagne a walk to calm down before finally getting hold of the help desk.

MrsS you definitely have earned that sick day

MrsS I agrre - throw a sickie (or two....)

I am loving the weather, but hating work! and my grass is eight foot high - cue gardener!

Dp off for his annual 'sit in a field' week (thank god cos he is a miserable snappy short tempered bastard at the moment), I still have ds and dog but intend to have a couple of days off and chill.....