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The Crepe Escape

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Cremolafoam · 16/05/2013 22:48

We were getting to the end.Smile

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MrsSchadenfreude · 19/05/2013 10:55

Well having just peered into a well-lit mirror, my hair looks more yellow than blonde this morning, so grey probably a classier option. Will wash it, and part it differently and see if that helps. It seems blonder at the roots than at the ends, bizarrely.

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Cremolafoam · 19/05/2013 11:03

As a whitish blonde mrs s , can I recommend a blue shampoo for cancelling out yellow in hair.
I went white( all colour vanished)very shortly after dbro died and have been Scandi blonde since. I might have let it stay white except mum was still dying hers dark at the time and she didn't want me to show her upSmile
Bleu Shampooing

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bigTillyMint · 19/05/2013 12:51

Glad everyone enjoyed to EurovisionWink

I missed it as I was at my friend's 50th - she had very generously booked 25+ of us in for afternoon tea at Browns. Yummmm! And then on for cocktails. I have to say stuffing ourselves with sandwiches, scones and cakes before drinking was a great plan - no hangover despite crawling into bed at 1!

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Cremolafoam · 19/05/2013 13:09

going grey research

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MrsSchadenfreude · 19/05/2013 13:11

They all look great, Crem, but it is the in-between stage that would bother me. I am not going neatly grey all over. I have random patches of greyness.

MrsSchadenfreude · 19/05/2013 13:14

I have just remembered (triggered by the "poisonous food at Sainsbo's" thread that a colleague gave me a load of rhubarb on Friday, which I stuffed into my laptop bag - it is still there... must do something with it...

bigTillyMint · 19/05/2013 13:15

Mmmm, I love rhubarb. Nice crumble?

Love the grey-hairstyle inspirations - they all look fabSmile

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Cremolafoam · 19/05/2013 13:16

Hmm agree mrs s.
Difficult one...

Doesn't Helen Mirren look spectacular ShockthoughGrin

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motherinferior · 19/05/2013 13:16

I just bought roasting trays that are too big for the oven. Then I made a salsa verde without the essential anchovies (now rectified). Sought solace in glass of prosecco and knocked it over.

Either PMT or menopause or early onset Alzheimer's. or of course a triple whammy.

MrsSchadenfreude · 19/05/2013 13:19

Why can't they make ovens standard sized? Or at least "normal" and "huge." I also have trays that won't fit in my oven.

I am making progress with the cleaning/tidying.

bigTillyMint · 19/05/2013 13:25

Right MrsS, off to try out your Australian crunchie and flapjack recipes.... will report backWink

I agree, I had an IKEA tray that was huuuge - too big for my new oven so I had to chuck itSad

bigTillyMint · 19/05/2013 14:15

Just phoned my DM. Was telling her about friend's 50th (not that she wanted to know anything about it) and she asked me if it is mine this year. She can't remember what year I was born. I am her only child FGS. Am I so unimportant to herSad

Don't think it's Altzheimers, though it may be... She just turns any conversation back to herself - understandable I guess, old lady on her own, but my birth year???

Will see next week when we go upSad

QueenQueenie · 19/05/2013 15:25

Bloody hell BTM. If its any consolation my mum doesn't know how old I am or how old my children are. I think she does it on purpose... It does upset me but then I remember that she is a complete and utter old bag and can't expect any less from her. Chin up. X

bigTillyMint · 19/05/2013 15:34

Thanks QQ.

She is not an old bag, I just do not figure in her memory. When the DC do something, she jumps straight to "I remember when I was a girl...." No memories of my childhood. MIL is always repeating telling stories of when DH and his bros were small. So this is to be expected, I guess. Still it made me Shock and Sad

And now worried that maybe she is developing some kind of dementia.

MrsSchadenfreude · 19/05/2013 16:18

DD2 has her entrance exam and overnight stay at the new school tomorrow. DH has taken her back as AB wouldn't let me have leave. It would only have been for one day as well. Feel a bit sad that I can't be there for her, but part of me feels glad that DH is doing something useful for a change given that he has shown zero interest in anything to do with schools apart from vetoing most of my shortlist.

MrsSchadenfreude · 19/05/2013 16:19

And he is now having second thoughts about this school... Angry

Blackduck · 19/05/2013 16:47

MrsS why is he having second thoughts? DD wants to go right? If so, and she gets in, he needs a ruddy good reason for her not to go...
And bloody hell AB is more like FAB (and no I don't mean fabulous...)

Sheesh......

motherinferior · 19/05/2013 17:15

If he is having second thoughts he can sodding well find a workable alternative, get DD2 in, and hand over the first tranche of fees, innit.

I have forced my own DD2 to do music practice. She has two instrumental exams this term. I really ought to do some myself but feel utterly zonked and homicidal at same time...

beachyhead · 19/05/2013 17:16

On the basis that he didn't have first thoughts about this school, he is clearly not allowed second thoughts Grin

hattymattie · 19/05/2013 17:46

Why do men always do this. They are totally unhelpful at this sort of thing and then come in at the end and create havoc. I hope he doesn't communicate his réservations to your daughter Mrs S.

Good luck to her in her test. It should her choice now.

On the hair front - I'm going to colour. I think I will go grey at 55 ie. in six years - this seems suitably far away.

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Cremolafoam · 19/05/2013 18:26

Likewise MI dd has a music exam this Thursday at some daft time like 2.12pm or something. Don't hear any noise ( singing or violin) coming out of her room at allAngry
And I'm going to have to take 2 hours leave to take her to the sodding examiner as its in a mystery church hall in an area if the city I've never heard of( WHY?)

I have pulled weeds this afternoon in the damp. I am cold shivery and overwhelmed. AIBU to light the fire in May?

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motherinferior · 19/05/2013 19:33

I can FINALLY hear a minimum of tootling from downstairs...fire, deffo!

herbaceous · 19/05/2013 19:44

What ho Crepeys.

Cakegate had a happy ending - the builder managed to find a pattissiere who did an invisible mend with some identical sponge and cream filling, and perfect icing. So all was well.

My book went down a storm. She even squeezed my hand while reading the gushing emotional bit I'd written, which is about as close to an admission of fondness as I'm going to get. We stayed overnight, which wasn't very restful as DS threw up at 11.30, then wouldn't go back to sleep until 2. And up at 7. I'm bushed.

My family is all insane. Other than my sister. I have a distant cousin who I can barely bear to be around. He's so opinionated, and lives on his own so is short of conversation, thus he shoehorns his boring opinions on Europe (he's joined UKIP), or whatever, into the slightest chink of a gap in whatever else anyone's talking about. I find him so irritating I can hardly look at him. I know I too am opinionated, but I'm right!

Re grey, mine now act as highlights under the Nice n Easy, and I can see myself doing the platinum blonde thingo when it really strikes.

CointreauVersial · 19/05/2013 19:53

Twas beautifully sunny here in Surrey; we met up with two of my oldest friends (who conveniently married each other) for a long pub lunch.

No music exams to revise for in this house, but DS's Year 8 exams start on Tuesday, so I shall soon be dragging him away from zombie-killing and stapling him to the dining room table to do a bit of study. It won't be a popular move.

herbaceous · 19/05/2013 19:58

In S&B news, I wore a Sainsbury's dress to mum's 80th, and bought a lightweight cotton parka from there, despite advice on others on a thread I started!

I doubt the jacket is going to be at all waterproof, so was wondering if I could use Scotchguard type stuff on it? Would that be foolhardy?