The Crepe Escape

[Cremolafoam]

We were getting to the end.

That sounds really good fun, I by contrast have survived the hell of Bromley Primark though we have bought DD2 the Converse she longed for, plus a cushion with a pug in a pair of sunglasses on it which she will think is the most fabulous thing in the world. Plus various things for ourselves of course (including cake tin liners. The glamour!)

That sounds fantastic, CV... Don't breathe out on the optician! I am freezing today, just spent two hours at a very blowy school fete and am contemplating beef stew and lighting a fire!!! Ridiculous.

I fear the optician may have rumbled me.

At least my vision hasn't deteriorated; DH, on the other hand, was devastated by the news that he now needs varifocals. At least that will curb his habit of peering over his glasses whenever he needs to read anything, which is a seriously aging mannerism. Anyway, we are collectively £470 lighter (2 new pairs of specs each, and new contacts for me).

MI, am liking the cake tin liners!

CV, I spend my life peering over my reading glasses. Infact, there may be a shot of me doing so on our new work website

Well DD did RFL with her mates - only 3hrs of standing around in the wind, rain and a bit of sun for me.

MI, well done on getting out of Bromley Primark in one piece. I try to let dd go on her own now. She proved to be allergic to Converse, much to her disappointment.

Lots of arsing about with computers here. Elderly Mum unable to get on with the iPad my sister got her. Now we've bought her a new laptop but it came with Windows 8, which threw DH (computer professional) into such a fury he couldn't sleep last night.

We customized it for Mum and I've just introduced her to it but she had forgotten how to type . She now has a one-page crib sheet.

She really needs to be able to contact people without going through me and she's too deaf for the phone.

Fingers crossed

Oh alto, DM is now struggling with her crappy laptop.

Meanwhile, I got abused by DD for not being able to take a picture with her BB (trying to use it like a touch screen when it has a keyboard, dontcha know!)

Broken hearted friend is coming round this evening - the one whose BF dumped her a few weeks ago. Crap telly and fizz ahoy. I am very very fond of her - we go back a long way and she's stepped up the plate for me more times than I can count - and at least we can just be there - she lives pretty locally - when she texts and asks if we're about. ...

ruby, how did the dance comp go?

And Stropps how did your day go too?

Just been watching First Dates with DS - hilarious

DD has a gym comp next Sunday, thankfully at home at least!

Oh ruby sorry dance comp didn't go to plan
Cv I live the sound of that party in a field
Alto I feel your techy pain. Dh ( when he's up to it) spends half his life clearing the print queue from my mothers laptop and his extending the memory if his mothers computer to hold her 10 million photos.
My mothers kindle is still in its box from Xmas 2010 :{
Have spent the day reading and sleeping. Dd has finished exams and has gone for pizza and a sleepover.
Fire has been lighted here Beachy .cold and mis weather

I too have varifocals( at huge expense) but they have improved the quality if my life no end. Only thing us they don't work for reading in a horizontal position. Have to revert back to my old readers for ' reclining'

alto I feel your DH's pain. my dad's new notebook came with windows 8 - I nearly had a fit when I saw it (ex IT prof here) and knew I would need to simplify for my dad (cue lots of deleting and rearranging of things...) I do, however, recommend LibreOffice if you don't want to shell out a shed load for MS Office - it's free and looks like office!

Mum is okay (ish) but having bad nights. She has really slowed up and lost her confidence. We took her out on Saturday and she said everything and everyone seems so big and tall (she is 5 foot nothing adn shrinking by the day). It made me :( because she was always so independent and feisty. I am hoping she will bounce back in time.
Dp was a star this weekend, sleepovers and 200 mile round trips so mum could see ds.

I should be in Madrid :(

Oh BD poor you. I'm sure your mum will rally in time. You must all be exhausted. Are you able to rebook Madrid for later date ?

Stropps - you ok ?

BD, hope your mum regains her confidence soon. And that Madrid can be rebooked for later in the summer.
Is now pouring with rain in Vienna, but it was a bit too hot before. Meeting with client was rather riotous and left us nursing hangovers this morning. Am now sitting in a cafe psyching dh up to ring his (other) stepdaughter and arrange meet up. Boo.

Thanks Cremo/Stropps

Madrid was a work thing, so won't get re-booked. Need to get off my arse and sort Barcelona out though....

Stropps I hope you are sending him on his own!

BD, my DM is shrinling too - she told me that she had to take up a dressing gown I had bought her ages ago which used to fit her Well done to you for being such a loving daughter. And to your DP for driving around.

Stropps, sounds like you are managing to sample the local delicacies OK! Fingers crossed the meet-up goes OK too.

This ageing parents thing is pants, isn't it. Must ring my mum who turned 78 today - DD2's birthday too, but that is rather more bouncy an occasion. I have made her a choc raspberry cake of Easy Deliciousness and, in manner of deprived child of middle-class organic-tendency parents, she has requested burger and chips for tea

Oh yes, MI, the choc raspberry cake with choc fudge icing was delish

Burger and chips is DS's favourite. DD won't touch beef-burgers with a barge pole, but snarfs down a saveloy and chips no problem! Classy!

I have compromised with posh organic ocado burgers

My god the cake mix was delicious. I am holding myself back from simply eating the lot.

I'm going to make the MI choc raspberry cake for the grown-up contingent of DS's birthday party. And will get DS an E-number laden Muppet cake.

DP alleged the cake was 'heavy' ie stickily delicious. Shall I kill him?

We have a small amount of fizz left in last night's bottle which I am going to down in half an hour to toast myself for producing DD2 a decade ago to the minute. I may stand in the same spot in our front room

It is quite, erm, dense

Lol MI
I was eyeing up the rasps in our green grocers today wondering whether to make aforementioned cake: but have plumped for a hazelnut meringue layer job with cream and raspberries instead( dms recipe) it has the unctuous quality of toffee ( brown sugar plus cream) and evokes a childhood memory of eating it for breakfast following dinner parties in 1970's. bloody marvellous

Choc Raspberry Cake is now on my To Do list for DD2's birthday sleepover this weekend (having failed to make a cake for her actual birthday).

I am officially having the Longest Period Ever. Day 12 and counting.