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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 · 03/11/2012 14:50

MrsS I shall join you on the dodgy knee saga. I cracked mine years a while ago, and it has swollen up again...I think it needs draining. However, this also involves registering at a doctors...

bigTillyMint · 03/11/2012 15:59

Commiserations on the dodgy knees - I have VERY loose tendons around mine (and tore the right cruciate skiing years ago) so have to take lots of care.

Ruby, that is a good s+b reminder - think I feel a purchase coming on! Actually I would like a warm puffa that covers my bum and doesn't make me look even more like the michelin man - does one exist?

herbaceous · 03/11/2012 17:23

Evening hags.

I'm frantically packing up the kitchen, prior to the builders starting on Monday. It seems the kitchen is the repository for 90% of our possessions, most of which verge on the unnecessary. I am festooning the front wall with unwanted crockery, for passing residents to take.

We will be without running water downstairs for four weeks, though for the last week we'll be in North Norfolk, gratefully eating things that haven't been cooked in a microwave in the sitting room. DP is making a bean chilli to freeze in portions, so we can eat that for the next few weeks.

I too am off to a firework do tonight, but just at a friend's house. As always, I have wheeled out my 'I'd love to come and let one off in your garden' joke, which I never fail to find amusing. Tragic, really. It presents S&B challenges, as it's going to be arsing freezing on the way - and during the outside activity - but probably pretty snug in the house itself.

wilbur · 03/11/2012 18:05

Sympathy on the too tall man problem, ruby. When my dad (also 6'5") was selling the house where we grew up and looking for a smaller place for himself, my sister and I kept dragging him round delightful cottages (in a slightly Regan and Goneril kind of way, hoping some nice retired woman might fall in love with the house and man as a package) where he dutifully thumped his head on many beams until he eventually just said he couldn't live in a chocolate box and bought a v nice chalet-style bungalow. Not that I am suggesting a bungalow for your family - I doubt that's the life-chager you're looking for Grin.

We did fireworks last night - a short walk from our house to the excellent local display and such bliss not having to drive and find somewhere to park etc. Bacon butty, mulled wine and a toffee apple for dinner, fabulous.

Can't believe you have bookshelves and decorating plans already, BD. Am now feeling very inadequate.

Have a good time in Vienna, MrsS.

Happy Saturday night everyone.

bigTillyMint · 03/11/2012 18:31

Oooh wilbur was it Broc Pk? We missed it as we were in the midst of a wii/pub fest.

Just back from a very successful day on the Thames/Borough Market (omnom)Greenwich/Pub and now waiting for DH and friend to return with fish and chips!

Blackduck · 03/11/2012 18:35

Hi wilbur bookcase/balustrade was a must do! The attic bedroom had a dodgy low level balustrade that put the willies up dp, I suggested a bookcase (low level) instead. Our cabinet maker suggested full height bookcase and balustrade coming out of it. So necessity meets functional piece of furniture :)
I truly am not that speedy on things, but these needed to be done....

Our local bonfire was only up the road too - I highly recommend!

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/11/2012 20:33

On the Style and Beauty front, I have bought a "casual coat" aka a parka with a furry hood today. The cat growled at it and DD1 looked at it with horrid fascination, before saying "You're not going to wear that out, are you?" I don't care. I needed something casual and warm to go with jeans and this will do.

I am going to ask the doctor for more Dalacin T for my spotty chin on Monday as well as asking him to fix my knee. I will snarl at him, yes, I know it's hormones, it goes with the beard. And he will back away, laughing nervously and write me a prescription to get rid of me. After he has asked me if I was drunk when I did my knee in (as he did when I tripped down some steps and sprained my ankle, bruising and grazing my chin at the same time).

Blackduck · 03/11/2012 21:38

I was drunk when I cracked my knee ... I was running home with ds after a night at our local curry house....I recall thinking 'oh whopping big bruise tomorrow'. Infact nothing happened for months....

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/11/2012 21:49

Oh shitey, Blackduck. I did mine about 4 weeks ago, doing something really stupid (I can never resist a bet/dare) and it has just got progressively worse, instead of clearing up quickly, as I had thought it would. It has got to the stage now where I can't even bear having the duvet on it at night, am in constant pain and hobbling round like a fat old woman. It is better when I am standing or walking, but sitting or lying down, and it is agony. Going from sitting/lying to standing makes me very sweary. And there's a limit to how many ibuprofen I can take. Sad

Blackduck · 03/11/2012 22:36

Oh no, yours sons way more painful! Mine is twice the size of the other one, but doesn't really hurt, I just haven't have the same mobility which is a pain....

Blackduck · 03/11/2012 22:37

Sounds...

CointreauVersial · 03/11/2012 23:21

Well, apathy won the day, and we went for the fireworks-lite option, driving over to the summit of Box Hill with a flask of hot chocolate and a picnic rug, and watching the fireworks from above. Very odd, with an eight second delay between flash and bang, but a nice relaxed atmosphere.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 04/11/2012 13:48

I'm in bed with a chest infection. And dh is still suffering from the virus thing, so dd is taking ds out for hot chocolate this afternoon and I rather think she will have to take him to the fireworks tomorrow. As I'm allergic to penicillin the out-of-hours doc I saw yesterday gave me some foul olden-days antibiotics which are not nice. However, I no longer feel like someone is hammering hot needles into my chest, so they're clearly doing the job.
Needless to say, I had to postpone the photo thing.

bigTillyMint · 04/11/2012 15:47

Oh Stropps, what a pain.

Just waved two of our French guests off - after a sustaining Sunday curry buffetWink The other two go tomorrow morning. The wii has never enjoyed such popularity!

motherinferior · 04/11/2012 21:16

Oh you poor ill/hurty people, I do hope you feel better soon.

I myself have painful and repellently flatulent stomach thing, I do hope it's better for tomorrow...

In S&B news, I have discovered a wonder product for anyone who dyes their hair. I have had a quite record-breaking whole four - possibly five - weeks in between my regular bouts of Nice'n'Easy Perfect 10 and the red is only just starting to fade (in fact it was more ahem roots than fadeage this time round).

MrsSchadenfreude · 05/11/2012 06:57

That looks good, MI. Would it tone down the orangeness brassy tones of my highlights? It looks as if it might, and would be significantly cheaper than going to the hairdresser.

Ugh, Strops, poor you. That sounds horrid. Sad

MrsSchadenfreude · 05/11/2012 06:57

(Must finish packing...)

wilbur · 05/11/2012 16:30

That looks fab, MI, right up my street! I notice that none of the colours is described as Delusional Ginger, which is probably closest to my adopted colour.Grin

herbaceous · 05/11/2012 16:56

Do they do a 'peri-menopausal blonde'?

As of this morning, my kitchen is a wasteland, filled with the dulcet sounds of Polish builders. God knows what they're talking about. The sitting room is full of kitchen.

When DS came home this lunchtime, he said 'has that man finished our kitchen yet'?

oldqueenie · 05/11/2012 18:04

Just popped in for a quick moan..
Can I say how much I HATE FECKING FIREWORKS?!
It seems that round here there has been fireworks every evening between around 5 and 11 SINCE HALLOWEEN. What that means for me is that ddog (neurotic and high maintenance at the best of times) barks almost continuously... races around the house unless confined to one room, which means that I have to share a room with her or she would implode with anxiety.
When I rule the world fireworks shall be permitted only betweenthe hours of 6 and 7 pm on 5th November. Any infringements to be subject to a nasty punishment (like being shut in a room with my dog while she barks at full volume or having a sparkler inserted somewhere intimate... and if you had sense you might choose the latter).

bigTillyMint · 05/11/2012 18:23

Herbs, love your DS's optimism Grin We had our kitchen done when DS was probably 18mths old and he got so obsessed with sweeping up plaster dust and other building crap that we had to buy him his own broom (which then doubled up as a witches broom for Halloween for the next few years)

OQ, the benefits of not having pets...

oldqueenie · 05/11/2012 18:30

well, mostly I adore her. Right now I want to feed her valium (or take some myself). You wouldn't believe how much NOISE one terrier can make.

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Blackduck · 05/11/2012 19:10

Bdog hides under the table during firework displays...
Last night, no scrap that, early hours of this morning, I heard him clumping around and wondered what the hell he was up to. I then realised that the poor bugger probably didn't have any water and the noise I heard was him with his head inside a large glass hurricane lamp/candle thing (it had been on the patio and had a couple of inches of rain water in it). The noise I heard was his collar clinking on the glass! Bad Blackduck and dp, but resourceful dog ;)

Herbs, your kitchen saga is not filling me with hope re having our bathroom done (mind you that looks like happening in a month of Sundays as there a number of more pressing things....)

We are currently wading through the half term homework which was, in my view, a tad excessive......

bigTillyMint · 05/11/2012 19:45

Re a possible meet-up... are we binning it?! If we do one, I would have to go for the weekend of the 23/24 Nov now. Or we could postpone till Jan?

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