The CrepeVine

[MrsSchadenfreude]

How did we finish the other thread so fast...? Less than a month.

My contribution to the gynae-fest is also deeply irregular (after clockwork) bloodbath periods...and just after I'd finished one - an unexpected one - yesterday sitting on a station platform I had the most agonising ovulation pains. I usually get pain but this was in another league. Staggered home and into bed: by that point they weren't hurting but I was absolutely knocked out. So presumably I am either dying of something or other or I can expect yet another period in 14 days' time....

Sympathies ruby and MI

I am feeling old and knackered!

Oh Ruby that doesn't sound fun. Whats the problem?

Yes, sometimes I think you end up in the middle of something not of your making....
Panic in BD house today - couldn't find purse - I phoned Waitrose at 7.30 and they answered! and very nicely called back to say they didn't have it and hoped I had found it....was in footwell of car!

Lol ruby!
It's like some kind if crepey posting Service .The old memory can't quite remember if you actually posted it so mumsnet does it for you.
I could do with that in RL

Well done all in sporting adventures and achievements . Vair talented children!

In menstrual news I'm up there with the worst most protracted agonising bleeds every 10 days or so. Still waiting to be called for the hysterectomy . Could have to wait until October according to waiting list lady. ( trying to be stoic)

Oh Ruby I'm 49 and am on my 6th year of Mirena - it's been brilliant. The gynae here said I could leave it in another two years as I would soon be menopausal . I didn't know I could have a new one afterwards. Must make an appointment.

Mrs S that sounds dreadful - anything to avoid sessions like that.

Wilbur - what ever happened about Anglesey?

Hope it's soon sorted, ruby.

DD's footy team are through to the finals of the Outer London Cup (they aren't Outer London, and nor are the teams they've played) YAY! And DH actually made it there to see her play

Where are you all? Do you have lives or something?

Ha ha - they just don't have a bank Holiday today where absolutely every sodding thing is shut so you're confined to barracks.

Mind you this does mean I don't have to traipse round H&M La Def with DD's which I had to do Monday and then Tuesday, taking back all the stuff that didn't fit from Monday .

I'm here, chilling at home after a hectic few days. DS is watching the nauseating Mother Goose Club on YouTube, so I dare say I should 'parent' shortly.

Spent the weekend in Sheffield with my pal with twins. Lordy, that was exhausting. Plus a 350-mile round trip. Then yesterday went to Knole in kent, where DS spent the whole time moaning that he wanted to go home.

I'm making a book for my mums 80th birthday, helping organise a may fair, and rehearsing for our choir tour. Oh and singing at the south bank on Saturday lunchtime, if you're passing!

Blasts school has so far failed to return three phone calls and one email about going to visit. Doesn't inspire confidence.

Re periods, pretty much a regular four-week cycle, but each one gets lighter, but with worse headaches. Is the logical conclusion no periods but a crippling migraine?

Herbs - love the idea of a birthday book for your mother - I may copy that one. W regard to migraine - I have one a month to replace periods but I am on mirena. Seems to be the trade off - for me at least but it's nothing that nurofen can't deal with.

No shops open at all? We are out of loo paper...

Must go out and see if I can find some somewhere...

I have booked Claridges for my mother's 80th. She will need to tidy herself up a bit - she usually wanders around in jeggings and a T shirt.

We did a photo book for MIL at Christmas, using all the kids pictures from the year, which was great... In fact it might be her every year Christmas present!

It's my dads 84th birthday today, so off for a yummy lunch at the local pub, with a collection of his friends, all similar ages... My dsis, my niece and I will huddle up one end. I've bought and filled a hanging basket for him, which is what he asked for. However, the selection of plants and colours were left in the dd's hands on a very stressful visit to the garden centre on Sunday... It is very avant garde

Still he is blind, so as long as no-one says anything, we might get away with it

Snort at the avant garde hanging basket - the mind boggles. I am determined to not spend the whole day at the 'pooter today doing bits that suck my life away from me, am going to finish cutting out squares for dd's sewing party (while watching Dallas ) and maybe even have a quick potter in the garden. And tonight [fanfare] I am going to see Book of Mormon with loads of jazz hands Uni friends, so cannot wait. Babysitter will be late, obv, as she always is, but I have told her an hour early this time...

Crem - I nixed Anglesey, just could not face the drive and also the knowledge that I would have had a nagging sense of "god, we've got to drive home" all weekend. I should add, if I didn't before, that we visit Aberdovey on the mid-Wales coast a lot, and so have explored Snowdonia quite a bit already from the bottom end. We will go to Angelsey one year as part of another trip, I have promised. So we are still going away, MIL is having small kids and ds1 is at Scout camp, but we will go somewhere close to in laws, don't know where. If it is a Travelodge in Wolverhampton, then that will be my comeuppance.

Right, off to live some life.

Well ... we have found a baguette - don't know that it helps your situation though Mrs S.

I also have baguettes and some religieuses (sucks in stomach). But no loo roll. Franprix is shut, as is Monoprix, and the pretentious Franprix. The kosher shops are all open, though, but they only sell food. May try the emergency corner shop later.

Wilbur, go onto hotels.com and find a cheap but lovely hotel near your inlaws - (they will be cheap around Wolverhampton!)

I do a USB loaded with the years photos for DM each Christmas for her digital photograph - even easier than a photobook!

This book thing's been rather fun. I had to make an excuse to get to mum's computer, get all her email contacts, and then send a round robin, asking for pictures, anecdotes, etc. Inevitably some of the addresses were wrong, and some turned out to have died , so the book is anything but comprehensive.

But it's got some cracking stories in. Like when mum and pals went youth hostelling in Norway in about 1950. The pics show them all in tweed skirts.

Or an anecdote from a friend of when she was at school, and ran her finger up a drip of custard on the outside of the jug, and ate it. A teacher spotted her and shouted 'PATRICIA!'. Said friend now shouts the same, every time someone rescues a drip of custard or gravy.

Or the really touching tales from friends old and new about how great she is.

There have also been some pictures of my dad in his partying prime (about 60), which is how I like to remember him. And have made me bawl copiously.

Herbs, Norway must have been the holiday destination in the 50's - DM went with her friends and apparently went swimming in a fjord. She can't actually swim, so I'm wondering what she really did!