A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

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It had to be done.
Phew that feels better.
Over here crepeys. All very welcome (but only if you're crepey).

wilbur you are so right about gaslighting - I can never quite believe people are like this. I always assume people are honorable - sort of like Aragorn (read LOTR at a young age) and get disillusioned very quickly. I also find that now- late 40's many people are showing their true colours and lots of friends divorcing etc.

On a lighter note - DH has gone to in-laws in French Alpes and taken DS with him skiing. I am here with DD's and can do cultural things in Paris (although DD2 is insisting on going to see Beautiful Creatures). It's quite nice to have a girly week. We'll join them next week - although the older I get the less keen I get on skiing - I'm convinced I'm going to break a leg.

I am off to a funeral at a natural burial ground and then home to cook curries for dinner. I think dp has overdone the nans and nibbles - hope there is room in the freezer. Have a lovely weekend all.

Rubes, good on your DH. You poor thing. BD, I do hope the funeral goes well. I am making veg stock in manner of domestic goddess.

hattie, I think it's a crepey thing - decline in interest in skiing!

Oh ruby{{{hugs}}}

BD, hope funeral and curries go well. I am not being at all domestic goddess-like this weekend - fish and chips tonight

I'm having to be uber-mom and domestic goddess today, which isn't me AT ALL. DP is at work, so I'm 'parenting'. I have PMT, and DS is all post-nursery annoying. I thought it would be a good idea to go to a child screening of Madagascar 3 this morning. Turns out it was also a four-year-old birthday party. The film is totally frenetic, with no discernible plot, and it just made things worse. Now I have to dust, vacuum and mop the house to get rid of the white dust over EVERYTHING, thanks to the decorators. While entertaining DS.

Saw some lovely lamps for the spanking new hall. The only drawback being they're £100 each, and we need three.

Ruby, you poor thing. Hopefully the medical/dental professionals will get their acts together soon and sort everything out for you.

DS has overshot his phone bill again, spending a whopping £30 texting one single number. He was surprisingly vague about whose number it was.... We have negotiated a settlement figure, and this month's allowance has been docked accordingly.

Linkies to the lamps, Herbs.....?

Lamps for the hall - sounds like you have a lovely wide hall with plenty of space for lamps as opposed to a narrow Victorian passageway And no bikes clogging it up further

CV, this is why I want to get DS a capped contract. However, I have passed over the phone/contract choosing to DH as I am fed up of DS bleating on about which bloody phone he wants!

By 'lamps' I mean ceiling lights! Have bog standard Victorian hall, but thankfully no bikes! The lamps are some fancy Italian make, can't blasted remember the name...

Phone capping is a must laydees. Have been caught out before and thus have capped everybody's phone chez nous in a fit of economising pique. Only had dd use a public ! Telephone once < high novelty value actually putting real coins into a box>
FGS they haven't a clue these youngsters. In my day it was press button A
press button B
insert florin
wait for delay
standing in a queue on the street.
< smooths wrinkles>

Ruby - just dire that your pain continues.
Herbs CV BtM hattie
Domestic goddesses all!
Beans on toast for the Cremolas in front of Spirals. I am at work today and the time is moving v e r y s l o w l y. Yawn

I have been out to lunch and have eaten too much. I have to go out to dinner in just over an hour. I am not sure I can face more food. I had: a poached egg with herring salad in some foamy liquid, then a large piece of cod with little bits of crispy Spanish ham and jerusalem artichokes, followed by Fontainebleau with caramelised nuts, dried fruit and a salty caramel sauce. Washed down with a bottle of Champagne before we went, then had a couple of bottles of Cotes de Rhone (one red, one white) with the meal. I am groaning. I want to suck on a Perrier, not eat more food.

MrsS hydrate !
Caremelised nuts nom!

Gourmet luncheon, MrsS!

It was bacon and egg butties for lunch chez Cointreau, but I'm planning to do something creative with pork for this evening. And maybe force-feed the DCs with a vegetable or two.

The house is gleaming.

Ooh cv shiny house medal.
Dd and I are both just home from work and there is the interior of several computers all over the living room.
I live in a slum. Bedroom is still in a state of flux too as I haven't finished painting in there, the bed is floating in the middle if the room which is discombobulating.
Tacos for tea here as I have a mountain of bean chilli and nipped to the farmers market at lunchtime for a strong bitey Irish farmhouse cheese.
Going to rustle up some dirty rice and throw an avocado at it.
Then sleep.work tomorrow: Big day tomorrow involving many many many parents and singing children and as we all know on here that may be trying.
< collapses>

Well - I have officially finished my challenge by DD's that I won't drink wine for two months - oh yes - I'm back on the bordeaux. (I have had the occasional slip but on the whole I've been really good sticking to my allotted one beer on saturday night.

Oh everyone sounds like they had a busy day!
Ruby so sorry to hear tooth still painful.

Funeral was lovely - he had a humanist service and was buried in a free burial ground - which will be lovely woodland in 20 years. I have decided that will do for me! It was very sad because although he was 84 he was in good health and it was really sudden.
Then home three hours straight cooking and then five adults and four rampaging children for dinner. The blasted kitchen fairies haven't turned up AGAIN - kitchen looks like a bomb had hit it. I made a cup of tea and shut the door on it....

Good thinking, BD

On an S&B matter, advice please!
I am curently perusing H&M, etc, looking for possible holiday-wear for DS who has grown at least 6" in the last few months and the size 12-13 shorts I found in Primarni are too small I am worried that none of last years stuff will fit and we are off to Thailand at Easter... He seems to be 5'5 or 6" and a 29" waist (if I am measuring correctly) and I am not sure if age 13-14 will fit or if we should go for mens small? He is not 12 for 3 weeks!

In other S&B news, I popped into the local M&S enroute to a meeting last week and purchased a pair of these in orange! I picked them seeing the "long" as they are hard to find, and they look more like skinnies on me!

Morning everyone. Just been catching up - hope you're feeling better ruby.

MIL died ten days ago, so we had funeral too. DHs family not close and I don't have happy memories of MIL. She was the last of her generation in that family and she had a sad end, six years in a nursing home with dementia - though she was very well looked after.

DH has hardly seen her in the last couple of years as he's been so ill/injured himself. It's still a big milestone, though.

It was DD's first funeral and she was the youngest person there by over 35 years. She stood up and, with perfect self-possession, played a beautiful violin solo at the church, I was so proud of her.

Hello Alto. I think it's always difficult when someone dies that you have very mixed feelings about - the sad end combined with the fact that you didn't like them very much. Well done to your DD, though. It always makes me a bit weepy when mine do something to make me proud.

BTM - how old is your DS? I gave up with getting children's clothes for DD2 (who is just 12) about a year ago (although when we can get age 16, that seems to work in length, but not necessarily round the waist, but have hoicked in her new Levi's which amazingly had an adjustable waist). I'd go to Gap. He is the same height as DD2, and we have managed to pick up 25" waist 32" leg jeans for her for a fiver at the end of the sale, and her shorts came from there too.

Oh you said... he is same age as DD2. Must read through posts first...

Aww Alto, well done to your DD.

MrsS, I fear he is too "hench" for children's GAP - he is very broad and muscular, including his legs - a family trait as all of us have muscular legs. Well, DH's, DD's and DS's are muscular, sadly mine are rather flabby But I will give them a try if we can get to one to try on. That's the other problem - no time to go shopping before we go, so online (and send back, no doubt) is looking like the only option.

BTM - I meant adult Gap, not children's. The joy of this is that you can get a waist measurement that actually fits, rather than the generic "age 13", whatever that might be. And the legs are bigger.

Aahhh! Good thinking MrsS! Sadly, I think it will be mens stuff wherever I shop - ie more expensive!

I feel I should inform you that I went to Sainsbury's yesterday and saw some rather nice (adult) clothes.

MI, you and Herbs!