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Crepeys Not Crêpes

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Cremolafoam · 06/09/2012 15:38

Oi over here hags

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Blackduck · 02/10/2012 09:34

I want a trampolining dog! Mine decided to try to chase the pub cat last night - dp thought his pub table might disappear down the hill as a result :)

Day one of the horrid week over, only four more to go....

CointreauVersial · 02/10/2012 13:08

My DM and MIL are perfectly friendly to each other, but have absolutely nothing in common. MIL is very shy, and DM could talk for Britain (wonder where I get it from?), so each encounter has consisted of DM rabbitting away while MIL nods and smiles.

CointreauVersial · 02/10/2012 13:09

BTM - hope all is well at the docs......

Blackduck · 02/10/2012 14:59

Fingers crossed BTM...
DM and MIL get on okay, its DF and FIL who are like chalk and cheese......

bigTillyMint · 02/10/2012 17:54

Am celebrating with a Wine as I got the all-clear!

It was, apparently, some small cysts near my pectoral muscle and that they needed to scan for (after another even more painful mammogram). I must keep an eye (not sure how as I couldn't feel anything in the first place) and go back in 3 years.

Also it is apparently quite normal to get recalled after the first mammogram as they need to bench-mark what is normal for that woman.

DM and DMIL would get on tolerably if together for a weekend, but I think DM would strangle DFIL before a night was out. He is very annoying (though harmless). Think 6yo boy who likes lager.....

Blackduck · 02/10/2012 18:03

Grin Grin BTM!!

bigTillyMint · 02/10/2012 18:24
Grin

I now have the house to myself as DH has taken the DC on a school trip to see Some like it Hip Hop. Sounds good, but I declined on knackeredness grounds.

Heaven!

TheMightyRubester · 02/10/2012 18:29

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beachyhead · 02/10/2012 18:39

Good news BTM.... Rubester, are we imagining huge Tour de France style pile up of kids and bikes....Grin

I have had a better day at work, now realising all my boss wants me to do is all the stuff she finds confrontational. I, on the other hand, don't mind that sort of stuff and generally people don't mind being asked to do stuff they know they should be doing anyway...

I have also started my Christmas stocking shopping so am feeling smug, although in comparison to one MN on the Christmas thread who has already bought and wrapped everything, (and that was some weeks ago!), I am nothing exceptional...

bigTillyMint · 02/10/2012 19:35

Ruby - sounds interesting - do tell!

Beachy, have you any good tips for teenagers stockings then?

beachyhead · 02/10/2012 20:04

Judging by how she looked last Sunday morning when she joined my train, a bottle of Smirnoff and a bucket might be appropriate Hmm No I've started with the little angry one as she is easier for toys...

motherinferior · 02/10/2012 20:37

I too have had a better day, especially as DD1 appears to be doing quite splendidly at secondary and is now doing three languages. Am v proud of her.

bigTillyMint · 02/10/2012 20:49

Oooh well done to MI's DD1! No danger of DS doing 2 languages - one is more than enough for himSmile

No Smirnoff and bucket needed yet here. Well, not for DD!

motherinferior · 02/10/2012 20:51

I am now longing for a vodka. And BTM I am SO pleased for you too.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 02/10/2012 22:13

Great news BTM!

CointreauVersial · 02/10/2012 22:59

Pheeeewww! What a relief, BTM.

It's an odd week this week - amazing how the family dynamics change with the absence of one DC. Today, after school, DS, DD1 and I just chilled on the sofa and chatted - I can't imagine DD2 fitting into that scenario. It makes me wonder how life would be if we stopped at two (but don't worry, I miss her really Grin).

wilbur · 03/10/2012 08:58

Great news, BTM, although they could have put something like that in the recall letter to stop you worrying!

Love the stripey sweater in that link - looks just the kind of thing I would love to wear with skinny jeans. I went out in my fave black polo neck yesterday and tried to pretend I was tres rive gauche all day.

Been busy and Sad week here. A friend's brother (I knew him as a teenager but haven't seen him for years) died of lung cancer at the weekend, he was only 51 Sad Sad. My friend is being very strong for her parents, but she is distraught. She also lives abroad and is worried about going home and leaving her family here. Very difficult.

And on a completely different level, dd's elderly gerbil died on Monday, just as we were going to take her to the vet. Thankfully Toffee had given us some warning as she'd been crouching down, not moving much and panting a bit for a day (which is why I thought we'd go to the vet, not looking for a miracle cure, but more so that dd knew we'd done what we could), so we didn't have the sudden discovery of dead pet thing, but the children are still very sad about it - it feels like one of those childhood moments. Ds1 even wrote a poem for her, which I'm not sure whether to be even more Sad about or a bit Grin.

At last things have calmed down a lot for me at work and I'm going to be able to take a few days off at half term and go away with the kids without havig to check emails in a state of dread every day.

bigTillyMint · 03/10/2012 09:38

Thanks everyone! I agree Wilbur - that's exactly what I was thinking, although at least not saying that prepares women for the worst, I guess.

Good to hear you're getting a break at half-term, DD will be away in France on a gym-squad competition so DH and DS and I could go somewhere but I am dreaming of being at home which I am missing now I'm full-time Plus we will have to get a new cooker and get it installed... Before our lovely French friends arrive for some delicious English grub at the end of half-term!

TheMightyRubester · 03/10/2012 17:29

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MrsSchadenfreude · 04/10/2012 07:12

Page 2, Hags?

Excellent news, BTM!

Sorry about your friend and the gerbil, Wilbur.

bigTillyMint · 04/10/2012 07:35

MrsS give us some dates for a possible meet-up!

wilbur · 04/10/2012 13:25

Yes, I'm determined to make a meet up again next time.

Issy · 04/10/2012 18:15

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bigTillyMint · 04/10/2012 18:18

ThanksSmile Half-marathon? Gulp! I could do the happy phase though!

So when shall we do it??? Is a Friday better if people have to be in London for work anyway? In later November?

CointreauVersial · 04/10/2012 18:25

Wow, good luck for Sunday, Issy. Very impressive.

I'm v. excited because I'm picking up my shiny new car tomorrow (wheeee!!). I can't shake the awful mental picture of me colliding with someone as I drive out of the garage, so I am going to be bumbling along like an old lady for a few weeks. And the DCs have been told not to even think about eating in the car. Or wearing muddy clothes within 10 feet of it. I'm coming over all OCD.

Half term is approaching at a rate of knots, isn't it?