The Crepe Escape

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We were getting to the end.

Alto, how is your dh doing?

Happy Anniversary, Wilbur. M&S Ready Meal, oooh, you know how to celebrate. And at texting your boobs; I'm not sure DH could pick mine out of a crowd anymore.....

Herbs, trust me, party date clashes don't ever go away. I'm trying to sort out DD1's 12th birthday celebration (taking three friends to Thorpe Park), and I've upset her best mate's mum by picking the date she wanted (the girls are 6 weeks apart, ffs). Anyway, forget all about it and have a lovely not-too-chilly break.

Anyhooo....four day weekend for me, hoorah. DH is also taking tomorrow off, the big two have an Inset, just DD2 off to school. She's not impressed.

Enjoy your long w/e, CV. And MI, have a great w/e in the Channel Islands, whatever the weather.

Happy Anniversary Wilbur - sorry I am late - broadband is kaput at home....

Have a good weekend MI and CV.

Stropps - were we separated at birth? The whole NCT filled me with dread (far too militant where I was) and I'd rather have stuck pins in my eyes than join any mother and toddler group. I could have written your post, or you have written mine :)

I went back to work full time at 4 months anyway so didn't have the time for all that and during pregnancy I think I kind of ignored it and pretended it wasn't happening and wouldn't make a difference (ha...)

Angiogram was okay (as the consultant said, if it hadn't have been mum would have been on the cardio ward still). Will see her Monday when we drop ds off at dp's parents...

Strops, thanks for asking, dh doing well, walking a lot, staying up all day most days, doing light duties (cooking a bit). I removed his clips yesterday so he has no metalwork left on board &says he's more comfortable.

Sadly I forgot to arrange for grass and weeds to stop growing while he recovers so I think my long w/e is spoken for.

Have good break, everyone. BD, glad angio was ok.

Alto, that's excellent news! Hope he is back to mowing strength very soon!

BD, your post cheered me up. It's always good to know one is not alone :)

I feel a right old sheep now. I joined the NCT as a way of meeting people having babies, and to commiserate with me about the trials of each particular age. All my other friends had either had their children, were gay, or not going to have them, and I wanted to fit in somewhere! I know. WEAK.

Good to know various husbands and mothers are on the mend. Hope Wilbur got to show her tits.

Herbs, me too! I just like meeting new people and the thought of being at home all day with my beautiful babies but no adults filled me with dread

TFIF! Kids have gone, Hoorah!!!

So looking forward to seeing my lovely friend (and all the family!) tomorrow

Herbs, it's horses for courses innit. I didn't want to be with other mothers, I didn't want to talk babies all the time, I never saw myself as part of that. Also, like Stropps I am not a joiner really. I get all my info from MN - it was and is a godsend as I could find out what I needed without discussing with other mothers in rl :)

On the other hand, the downside of this is I don't think I really came to terms with being a mum and how much my life had changed until ds was about 6 (but that's a whole other thread)

I didn't madly do baby groups mainly as was working but I LOVE the school gate. Have met many lovely friends there.

It is effing cold in Guernsey! Glad I brought my warm coat

ruby, I had 2 in 19mths, and many friends with

When dd was little I had fairly major domestic ishoos which I had no desire to inflict on anyone, which added to my wish to keep myself to myself. My energies went on coping with said ishoos, looking after dd and setting up my business. There wasn't any spare time or energy for socialising, which I find quite difficult at the best of times anyway and in those particular circs I had to lie all the time and pretend everything was jolly and fine and it wasn't. I got sick of people asking me why I wasn't having another (the truth would not have been socially acceptable) and NCT types telling me if I was having another one, it must be within x time otherwise the sibs would not get on, blah blah blah. So I just avoided all these people, for better or for worse. It may not have been the best option, but it was the only option that I could deal with at the time. With ds, different story, but same outcome.

So, er, don't feel bad, Herbs .

i.e. "it's not you, it's me". :)

It is also me. While not by nature 'a joiner', I didn't trust myself to be able to actually be a mother without a group of people to pester every five minutes about stuff. Mumsnet, however, kept it real, and knocked the edge off the worst of my neuroses!

But yes. I too get v fed up with people asking why I haven't had another. I do sometimes tell them, which shuts them up.

Baaa. Another NCT sheep here, in fact, I even served on the local committee for a while. I loved the whole toddler group thing, and ended up with a huge circle of friends, and being a small town, I still cross paths with many of them 13 years on. And, those of you who have met me probably realise I don't keep much to myself, and will happily over-share given any opportunity, so NCT/toddler groups were my refuge and therapy for a while.

Until I got to DC3, and realised I really couldn't tolerate another conversation about pureed avocado.....

Ooh yes, I must share with you the absolutely cracking charity shop haul I came home with today:

A pure silk purple/grey Gerard Darel top
A superfine merino wool V-neck from Banana Republic (for work)
An immaculate tailored cotton shirt from Austin Reed (ditto)
A yellow and white linen shirt (M&S)
An as-new padded gilet in orange-red with furry hood (nabbed by DD1)

The total paid for this bag of goodies? £26.

CV

Trying to get DD up and moving - why is she up at 7 for school, and 7.30 on a Sat for gym, but when we want to get off early, she refuses to get out of bed?

Off to London again today. Angio apparently shows block in heart, so waiting on cardio from harefield to review case notes (not just for mum, but a raft of cases) as to how to proceed (angioplasty, bubble, drugs). Also can't stop her bleeding from where angio was put in. Dad is not handling this so I've been drafted in.
This means I won't see ds for a week as dp taking thin to his mum on Monday before collecting me. My life seems to consist of trains, bags and snatched meals at the moment.

Alto good to hear about dh - I have a nice small lawn he could practise on

Sorry to hear about your Mum and all your to-ing and fro-ing, BD. But good news re Alton's DH.

I have a mild hangover. We went to pick up DD2 from a party last night and there was an adult party in full throttle upstairs, so we joined the bunch of very pissed Americans, and got home around 1.00 am. Luckily we remembered DD2.

No hangover here, as I was the sober parent who pulled the short straw and had to pick DS up from his party at 10.30pm last night. I had a case of serious house envy - a beautiful converted barn, with detached "party annex".

I so envy you your lilac bush.... one thing I'm missing in my garden...

dd2 had a disastrous sleep over with a friend here last night. The other little girl was lovely, but my dd2 woke up, after about 6 hours sleep and too many Haribo's, with devil horns firmly attached and was utterly foul to us and to her 'guest', so we took the guest home at 10.30am and explained our dd was being a so-and-so!

Anyway, rest of the day went better. dd1 has gone AWOL to a friend for two nights having finished the bulk of her GCSE's which is great...

Took my dad his cucumber plants to put in his greenhouse, which is amazing and so much better than mine! Very galling as he is blind and 84!