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A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

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oldqueencrepey · 30/01/2013 08:43

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

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Blackduck · 17/03/2013 18:48

Ds - he always decides at 6.00 that he'd like to do something (go for a walk etc. when its like, well, too late)

Cremolafoam · 17/03/2013 19:20

Oh bd
I hate the Sunday meltdown . Thank goodness tomorrow is a bank holiday here. Grin
OQc you are well knowledgable mrs.
< impressed>

motherinferior · 17/03/2013 19:26

We FINALLY got DD2 to do her minimal homework and instrument practice. FFS. I am now pointing out, repeatedly, that it's up to her to decide whether she wants to go on with trumpet/sax but if she does, she has to practise. (Admittedly this is also because I know she enjoys playing!)

motherinferior · 17/03/2013 19:28

Mind you I have just realised I have a concert myself in TEN DAYS' TIME...

Stropperella · 17/03/2013 19:47

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Stropperella · 17/03/2013 19:48

sorry about the typos. Sausage fingers today.

Stropperella · 17/03/2013 19:50

Meh, I should probably not broadcast these details on the net. I shall have to report my own post. Y'know, the better I get to know you lot, the harder I find it is not to divulge stuff I really shouldn't blab about in this kind of forum.

Cremolafoam · 17/03/2013 20:05

Strops ThanksWine

motherinferior · 17/03/2013 20:08

I've done it too, StroppsGrin

Easter has sneaked up on me. Am in shock.

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/03/2013 20:15

Easter? When is that then?

Your secrets are safe with us, Strops. Grin You can make a delicious pie, I believe, with cat food and sawdust. Wink

We need to do a will. The DDs' guardians are about to emigrate to Australia and I think we need to find someone nearer home.

I am going to attempt to work from home tomorrow.

Stropperella · 17/03/2013 20:39

I may well be asking you for the pie recipe in a few years, MrsS Grin Of course, I may have turned my fortunes around by then and may even be able to afford a squeeze of lemon on the catfood. For vit c, you understand.

I have a stock of Easter eggs. And a sinking feeling about what's going to happen in the (entirely fluid) work vs child shituation. This is as prepared for Easter as I'm going to get.

One other point on PR and schools: it occurs to me that the reason the schools here are clued up about the PR status is that you have to enter the details of who has PR on the school application forms. Is that not the case in all LEAs?

Blackduck · 17/03/2013 20:45

Stropps I know what you mean - I keep forgetting this is an 'open' forum hence my Shock when that thread was started :)

PR question - I suspect if it is asked (can't recall) I have been, erm, economical with the truth.

motherinferior · 17/03/2013 20:45

No, never been asked here.

Stropperella · 17/03/2013 20:50

Oh well, it's obviously a postcode lottery then. Just like much else.

Blackduck · 17/03/2013 20:56

Actually don't think it is asked here either and I've been in two LEAs (actually filled in forms for three) and I know they ask who parents are and who child lives with etc. and will be points of contact...

Stropps how's DH BTW? Assuming all is well.

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/03/2013 21:07

My mother, who is not Jewish, oh no, has just called me to ask me if I have got my matzot in ready...

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oldqueencrepey · 17/03/2013 21:14

Why Mrs S, just why??

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Stropperella · 17/03/2013 21:16

Hmm. How odd (re: PR thing). I even get asked it on forms for residential school trips.

MrsS, you have reminded me I don't seem to be able to find matzos in the shops here anymore. I used to like seeing exactly how much butter I could load on one. I daresay that's not the proper way to eat them, is it?

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/03/2013 21:25

It is the only way to eat the vile cardboardy things, Stropps. Jam helps too, I find. I was in Israel for Pesach one year and thankfully managed to fill my freezer with bread beforehand. Went to a friend's for Pesach and she had made gefilte fish which are even worse than matzot. She had also made a "layer cake" with matzot, glued together with some kind of chocolate spread. That was pretty vile too. I went home and filled up with toast and hummous.

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/03/2013 21:27

Although I am a big fan of matzo meal as it is excellent for coating fish in before frying it. But I no longer make chicken soup with matzo balls as a matter of principle and because no-one will eat it.

Cremolafoam · 17/03/2013 21:42

Oh matzo balls are my dads favourite - I think dm has to get matzo crackers and whizz them in a blender. That and the revolting lockshen pudding that my grandmother force fed us as kids. {no Jewish grocery here}

motherinferior · 17/03/2013 21:43

Can I make the Marilyn Monroe joke? Can I, can I?

Stropperella · 17/03/2013 21:44

Matzot glued together with choc spread sounds disgusting. They are quite nice when thickly buttered, spread with marmite and then topped with a very big piece of cheese, I find. Grin
What are gefilte fish, exactly? I have heard of them but have no idea what they consist of, aside from, presumably, fish.

Cremolafoam · 17/03/2013 21:45

Fire away MI

Stropperella · 17/03/2013 21:46

Gwan then, MI.

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