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).

Ruby, I kind of missed the root canal on wrong tooth . FOUR WEEKS? that is truly crap.

DP has taken his temperature, noted the fact it is Considerably Above Normal, and reiterated his intention to go into work tomorrow. Apparently there is a crucial meeting he can't miss. Two crucial meetings. The fact he will probably be propping himself up and trying not to die appears not to have been factored into his calculations.

I actually like the dress mrs s. but I think other crepeys are probably right about shape:(

Watching master chef - feeling the need to comfort eat now. Dh has phoned from Artic New York .
Says he's cold. Pah! My heart bleeds

It started snowing at 6.00 this morning (I had been up for an hour making marmalade - don't ask) and it is still bloody snowing now. There were no RER trains this morning and I got the last taxi in Paris to take me into the office. Apparently there were almost no trains anywhere in the Ile de France and the radio was telling anyone who didn't have to travel to stay at home. It is like a winter wonderland outside.

Ruby, that is utterly, utterly awful about your tooth.

You are right, no to the dress. I only liked the different coloured hem, really.

MrsS it is good to know it isn't just the UK that grinds to a halt...
Bloody brass monkeys here.

Just out of interest, MrsS, how did you get home?

Slowly, MI. I got to the station and there was an RER due (and if I missed that one, goodness knows when the next one would have been as there was nothing on the indicator board) so I flung myself on it.

Weird snow this time; seems to have confined itself to the far south, Sussex and Kent. We had a couple of cms, but I got to work to find some people 20 miles to the south had virtually been digging themselves out of snowdrifts to get to the office.

DS/DD1's school had a terminal power failure in one of the two buildings, so they sent the 6th form home and crammed the rest of the school into the remaining building. Disappointingly (for them) it remained open.

Ruby you sound very out-of-sorts. Hope you feel better soon.

DH has now spent an unprecedented two days off sick, but he's on the mend. He's getting a lot of hot flushes; is it a phantom menopause?

Bogging dress, MrsS (sorry). The strange swoopy hemline puts me off.

I am sheltering from crazed carb-avoiders on the Gwyneth Paltrow thread.

Omg just saw that .
< pass the Mothers Pride chip butty>
Also El Pape thread and a boil thread. Please
Morning paper dropped in to say wottcha which was naice

I dared not admit that we had pasta for tea. As we frequently do.

tbh, though I've floated around on MN for years, these days I mostly only come on to see the crepeys. Had a peek at that thread now and it just gives me Women's Mag Rage. Just to say: I grew up in a household ruled by food fascism and it was ... perhaps jolly healthy for our bodies, but not so much for our minds.

Actually, I had been deep in gloom for the past few days, worrying yet again about failing my family by keeping them in poverty and now I feel quite cheery again because at least I'm not Gwyneth Thing, eating miserable halo food and then having to live with that whining bloke who sings through his nose all the time.

Lol. MI . Your cooking / recipe provision prowess was mentioned on the Morning paper thread.
< say nothing / act natural>

We have been out to dinner sans enfants. Went to the local Lebanese and stuffed our faces with mezze and kebabs. Now groaning.

AB not improving. We had a meeting to discuss absences over the next few months. I said I may need to go back to UK for a funeral - my Aunt is terminally ill, from a cancer that affects our family and has seen off my gran, an uncle, a cousin, and my mother has had it too, but is still going. He interrupted my flow and said "My aunt died the other month too." Emotional intelligence, nul points. I have also requested a day's leave, and he still hasn't signed it off. It's one day. I am going to have to speak to him about it tomorrow if he doesn't say/do anything, and I will find this hugely stressful. On the plus side, I have stopped throwing up, I only have one boil left. On the negatives, my eczema is getting worse.

Strops - I had a similarly austere upbringing foodwise - think ryvita for breakfast, raisins on cereal, "textured vegetable protein" and wholemeal everything. I don't think I ate a chip until I was an adult.

Are there some heated threads, then? I always miss the good ones.

Stropps are you sure we weren't separated at birth :) I get all cod-like and mutter ' not another bloody baby pasta thread' - they clearly haven't heard about Gwynnie....

MrsS AB was clearly trying (and failing) to empathise ;) re day off - I know this is tres passive-aggressive but so what,if he doesn't sign it off take it anyway - stress related - eczema - HAVE to go to doctors.

I, meanwhile have the most Helios sore throat - think razor blades when you swallow so I totally get how grotty Ruby must be feeling have a constant pain in her mouth/head - cant you kick arse Ruby? Go private?

Helios??? Hideous

CV, I had the opposite experience - comfort-eating and treats galore. Infact all my teeth are rotten and I'm sure it was because I was allowed to drink Ribena practically neat and buy/eat sweets non-stop

I didn't see that thread - I wish we had special alerts to threads that may be of interest to those of us who have been around for quite a while...

MrsS, I agree with AB - stress-related excema needs a day or more off.

And ruby how dreadful. Surely there must be something someone can do?

We all dashed home from school to a 4.15 appointment for the typhoid jab for Thailand, only to be told there is a national shortage (and we don't really need it anyway) - the nurse felt DH's wrath. Hope we are not black-listed.

Just booked tickets to see Richard hawley in July I blame you Herbs!

Ooh, you'll have a lovely time. His gig focused mainly on his latest album, which is a bit rock-ier, and more guitar-y, but check out his first two albums for his crooner ouevre.

I think food is one of the few neuroses my parents didn't pass on. I have absolutely no hang-ups about it, I think!, which seems extremely rare.

Of course it is Red Nose Day tomorrow and the school are demanding a cake/biscuits themed for a 'bake off'. Now I can bake a cake, but the decorating bit is generally beyond me, plus I am up against a stronghold of the WI who will doubtless produce the odd masterpiece or two, so there is a cherry cake in the oven which ds can take in with strict instructions to inform them it is a 'hunt the red nose' cake......
I am hacking still and waking the of up who looks most pissed off at me. Currently drinking lemon and honey and snaffling ibuprofen.

Oh so sorry for everyone who is poorly. Illnesses and levels of depression this winter have been particularly bad this year. Just met a lovely friend in town this morning who says she's barely been out since new year because of illness and impending sense of doom.
Bd red smarties - just cover the thing in red smarties .
Strops - feel the same about that thread. Raaagh. Have blocked it from my vision.
BTM - i grew up with the same- food as reward. Rewards of more food for clearing your plate , rewards of sweeties for being good. I have fillings in 90% of my teeth - recently had all the 1970s mercury removed at great expense for porcelain . My mother recently admitted to giving me Ribena laced with scotch in a my baby bottle. Mother is now obsessed with dd being curvy and 'solid' and doesn't hesitate to tell her so.

Mrs s - am reading an interesting book about office politics ATM - might be worth a glance.www.amazon.com/Office-Politics/dp/0091923956/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_0_0

Attempting wallpapering today. Very sticky business. Lol

Ah now BD, you've set me off rummaging through my emails from ds's school as I've forgotten what I'm supposed to be doing for tomorrow. I think they have opted for something low-key, such as paper red noses stuck on a t-shirt, but can't find the right email to verify. I have, however, come across another email about "ancient history week", which is apparently next week when the entire school will be involved in "moving a one tonne standing stone using rollers, ramps and sweat". That and gardening with an ancient plough and repairing the Viking longhouse (doesn't every school have one?) and doing cave painting. They could just call it "Mud Week", really.

CV, was your mother big into the F-Plan diet as well? :) We had wholewheat everything and bran sprinkled on all sorts. That and low-fat everything. And my mother used to do vile recipes from some Weightwatchers cookbook which did things to cauliflowers that imo you just shouldn't do. And I have a vivid memory of the time I came home from a party having won a Mars bar. This was immediately confiscated and only reappeared a few weeks later after Sunday lunch. We first had to endure a short lecture on the "disgusting" nature of anyone who might be tempted to eat a whole one. And then my ma solemnly cut 2 slices (about pound coin thickness) and handed me and db one each. That was an approved portion. I reckon she'd be completely mortified if I reminded her of this lunacy now. She became significantly less mad post-menopause. (ahem)

I didn't have fish and chips for this first time until I was in my 20s.

MrsS, you need more than one day off.

Crem, good luck with the wallpapering

Mind you, I was never allowed Ribena, and now drink the stuff like it's about to be banned. So maybe I'm a little more affected than I thought!