The Crepe Escape

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We were getting to the end.

Nooooo there was an ad for Chums at the top of our thread page....Do you think it was deliberate...?

Bd

I am still on the mailing list for the
stripe,size: 50plus catalogue

BD, I've got J Crew at the top of mine!

clearly just me then.... :)

Am in British Library (bliss) so cannot start new thread but suggest it is called the Crepes of Froth

well I was slammimg doors (like the stroppy teenager I never was) after the way DM spoke to me this morning. Pity because I'd been cheered up by delightful birthday (meal in town with dh then dd's brilliant choir concert) but now I'm already semi-homicidal again.

Can recommend the brownies with dried cranberries from Paul H's baking book - went down well at work

MI ha ha - love it....can someone remember that we are nearing 1000.....

I am about the school who were somewhat miffed when I phoned yesterday to say that ds possibly might not be able to go on a trip tomorrow because they were expecting us to collect him from somewhere other than school at 2.50 (clearly don't think parents work). They then pushed me over the edge by sending a text saying 'sports day tomorrow morning. Please deliver to playing fields at 8.45' How am I suppsoed to do this when he is at the childminders......

Great idea MI

Alto, I have never grown out of my teenage relationship with my DM

BD - so glad we are past that stage.
However, teenage is bringing far greater concerns. DD's passing shot as she swanned back up to her room was that she is going to work in her mate's dad's restaurant for the last 2 weeks of the summer hols. When I pointed out that we might want to go away, she said we could leave her home alone. I don't think so.

I revert to sullen 17 year old with both my parents.

Oh hell, now one of my IVF friends has just rung from Marylebone station saying she's bleeding - was totally panicking (she doesn't live in London). I've told her to go to UCLH in a cab.

At least I'd eaten already (oh yes I managed to set the smoke alarm off with the fish fingers)...

Oh MI Are you dashing up there?

Can't - DP's out tonight; otherwise I would.

You're a good friend

DS has finally come in and eaten his dinner - played footy after school then came back and got his racquet and played 2hrs of tennis with his mate!

My mate is fine

Though I could have done without the 2am phone call...

Oh MI good to hear :)

The Head obviously could feel the daggers in her back....she is collecting the children from the childminders this morning and heading them down to the playing fields :)

I had ds in tears yesterday - he is in a mixed y5/6 class and the reality that half the class is leaving hit home yesterday (some went off to their new school for the day). cue 'I'll never see them again'......I did point out that this wasn't the case as most of them live within a stones throw...

Oh and now another friend (my age) announces her breast cancer is back

Oh dear MI you're having a week of it. Not good news, I'm very sorry to hear that.

No, it's the 'back' bit that is so worrying, isn't it. Mind you IVF mate now upset because she had two embryos transferred and only one is still there. I think she has probably reached a total pitch of emotional overload...!

Oh MI :(

The 'back' bit is worrying.

Sorry about your friend MI, that's tough. Hopefully she has been monitored and they have caught it early? I'm glad the IVF friend is ok though, even if only one embryo has taken. My bf is about to embark on IVF using a donor egg (following 7 miscarriages ) and I have so many bits of my body crossed for her I can hardly bear it. It's got the point where I feel like just stealing her a baby from someone in the supermarket. [Disclaimer to Mumsnet - I won't actually do that.]

Alto - I've got that book, will def try the brownies. And ignore your mum, there should be some kind of mantra we could use that would remind us that families are just one big excuse to push each others' buttons...

Oh, and re the advertising at the top of the page, it must be tailored to us individually as I have a floor tile warehouse ad. Sigh. Once upon a time I would have had ads for nice clothes and interesting travel destinations.

Mine has under-eye concealers

Well I have Just Fab now which is a line of unfeasibly high shoes (clearly to be worn with my Chums elasticated back slacks...)

BD

Sorry to hear about all the mates' - it's hard managing everything life throws at us.

Mine has Despicable Me 2.

OMG. I'm utterly shafted. Woke with hideous headache and feeling ill, so of course decided the best cure for that would be to take my pre-schooler to the Natural History Museum, with a friend with similar un-herdable infant, with their scooters,via overground, underground, tourists, platform edges. Then we herd them through the massive museum, full of school parties, to the sodding dinosaurs, which is claustrophobic and hot, and the blue whale, and the insects, with DS whining the whole time that he wants an ice cream. Then we wait blasted ages for said ice cream in the restaurant, go to the shop, and go home, impeded by two balloons on sticks each, and bag of tat from shop.

And now I've got a committee meeting.

Zzzzzz.....

Despicable Me 2 sounds quite appropriate, Herbs!