The Crepe Escape

[Cremolafoam]

We were getting to the end.

So is ours, MI! Having done stuff to it when we moved in 14 years ago, it is looking a little crepey itself

I will be home alone next Saturday, so why not come after lunch and we can chill/I can show you our lovely corner of London!

Beachy you are welcome.
I have been remiss this week in my mnetting. Been one of those weeks where there have not been enough hours In the day.
Trying to catchup now at bedtime...
Just finished work and back in at 8 tomorrow .

Where is everyone?

Just had a lovely long facial - so relaxing

Bah.

You know when you think "I'll just do this quickly" and it bites you on the arse....I was digging the laundry out of the basket earlier, and found a pair of very sand-encrusted socks, courtesy of DS (jumping into a river....don't ask). So I thought I'd give them a quick rinse in the bathroom sink, instead of taking them down to the futility room sink as I normally would. The sand sank to the bottom of the basin and has completely seized the flip-top plug, grrrr..... Despite our best efforts with a plunger, WD40 (me), a hammer and my best tweezers (DH ) the buggering thing can't be shifted. I've ordered a new sink drain, and will have to spend Monday evening with my head up a U-bend (I'm not letting DH near it). I should have just chucked the sandy socks straight in the machine.

BTM, your day sounds considerably more relaxing.

I didn't even make it into the garden today, despite my best intentions (although it's Derby Day, so we are being buzzed by helicopters every five minutes). But at least DH is cooking the dinner - roast beef.....mmmmmm....

Yikes, CV!

That reminds me - did anyone hear Eddie Mair on PM on Thurs, interviewing the Very Important Man who reads all the secret papers for the government so he can tell them if the terror laws are working?

Unexpectedly hilarious. Liked the bit where EM pointed out "this would be the bit where you could tell us all the secrets". The main message from VIM was that they're more or less what you'd expect. So Eddie put his investigative probing hat on and asked "have you ever seen anything that made you go 'yikes?'

Herbs, hows the hangover?

So bored - at gym comp. DDs team have done their round but we have to sit thru the next one for the presentation.

I am having an eBay frenzy sale.
Ironing and wrapping at the moment.
Dull day here so playing catchup with the washing weeding and cleanings .
Yawn

Just got back from lunch in deepest Hampshire with an old friend and his family. In fact, he's an ex-colleague and was the first person to work out that DH and I were more than "just colleagues", back when we were still keeping things quiet (all those years ago....).

Back to normality/school tomorrow; no doubt there will be a last minute discovery of some incomplete half-term homework just as we are getting the DCs to bed.

My lovely Indian cousin is staying

OTOH DP is being, frankly, an @rse. I think he is tired and overworked and fed up but as the person who shouldered half term and then worked for half of Saturday I don't care. He is being sulky and bad tempered. I may kill him.

Love that story Alto..!

Yippee, half term over, only 2 more GCSE's to go and the sun has been shining!

On the downside, I'm going back to work tomorrow and I've realised that my dd1 will be at home now until mid September, so no more peaceful days on my own at home.

MI

CV - awww!

Beachy, what will your DD do with her time? Am thinking about mine in 2years time!

We have had a very productive weekend involving much clearing of overgrown shrubs and random saplings, clearing a couple of flowerbeds of brambles and chickweed, and knocking down a wall. All very satisfying, plus I found a few nice things under the brambles which I have attempted to rescue. I have also tried to plant out lavender plants, but I think they are a bit small still, so it might not work.

Have also got stuff to Ebay, but am waiting until they have one of their free listing weekends.

CV - sympathy re the sandy sink, that's he kind of thing I do. I broke our kettle's switch because I was trying to turn it on without putting down a load of stuff I had in my arms and hit it too hard with my one free thumb. We now have to turn it on by jamming a spoon handle into the slot at the back, which can't be a good idea.

We've had a pleasant w/e . Took DD and friend to see the Rocky Horror Show: they were saucer-eyed to begin with but soon threw themselves in to it, doing the Time Warp and joining in the semi-organised anarchy. It's wearing well, I must say. A lot better than Les Mis, which we also saw recently.

Had to get up in night to deliver DD to school for residential trip, so had a quiet day today.

Good news is dh is getting stronger and has started driving a little. We've relaxed enough to think about booking a summer holiday. Also, DB has echocardiogram appt this Fri. Even if it's bad news, he'll be better off knowing where he stands.

Best of luck to all the parents of exam-sitters and a good second half of term to everyone

Alto, good to hear your husband is feeling better...

I have no idea what she will do with her time! She has a new camera to master, she has a website to build, she will probably long board a LOT. She will try to get some work in town, either work experience or paid retail work, but I know that there aren't many jobs around, plus we are quite remote, so it's hard for her to get places on her own

Sad day yesterday as dh returned up the garden with burnt out shell of his only ever nice watch. He'd lost it about a week ago in the garden and we had all searched furiously, but to no avail. It had obviously fallen off during one of his many bonfires. He had bought it before we were married and had worn it every day

Beachy, such a long time to fill - I dread to think what DD will do, and DS doesn't even bear thinking about!

Alto, also glad your DH is feeling better!

Hey ladies! I'm back from Germany, with three pounds of flab and a new coat from the German TK Maxx to show for it. German TK Maxxes seem much more orderly than ours, not surprisingly.

I can heartily recommend a coach-based holiday. I didn't have to think about what to eat, where to buy it, where to go, how to get there, or do any tedious domestic duties. Just showed up at the appointed time, got on the coach, looked round various scenic towns, sang what I was told to, and ate delicious buffets. And drank lots, one night not getting to bed until 2am, after polishing off someone's duty-free Armagnac.

Slight fly in the ointment when two of my friends had a spectacular falling out, causing ructions for all. I'm not sure it's mendable.

But the best bit was that I was the youngest there! By a month. Well, our accompaniest is only 25, but he was paid to be there so it doesn't count.

I've thought of a new phenomenon - the MumCrush. The sort of nice young man you'd love your son to become. Our accompaniest fits the bill - extraodinarily talented pianist, modest, yet funny and very normal.

My mum loves coach hols too - with Brian the coach driver. Causes lots of mirth with the DC when she mentions him!

Am loving the idea of mum-crushes. Keeping the musical theme, mine would be Gareth Malone

Welcome back, Herbs! Alto and Beachy, congrats and sympathies respectively on the husbands.

I have not killed DP yet though this morning's row about whether or not poor old DD2 can have packed lunches or not nearly drove me to the violent brink.

Ooh yes, the lovely Gareth Malone. Oddly, he was first one who came up in a discussion re MumCrushes yesterday afternoon. During which time six of us got through six bottles of cava. No drinking for the rest of the week. Promise!

Yeah right

mind you I have get out jail card free re booze this week on account of Birthday. And indeed must Prime Self for party by building up alco-resistance

What's the prob with packed lunches? Mine have had them for about 5years now, off and on. Mostly on

Herbs, am most impressed with your drinking tally!
And that sounds like a good move, MI.

Isn't it lovely to have sun

Welcome back, Herbs. I love German food. Your fresh-faced young accompanist sounds like a brave chap indeed!

Shame about the watch, Beachy, but you know what to get him for Christmas now.

MI, I am in perpetual training for heavy-drinking weekends. I never shirk at the chance of a glass of red as soon as the sun goes down (if not before). I like to keep my hand in, as they say.

Anyway, the new basin drain has arrived, so I am about to tackle some amateur plumbing. There may be swearing.