Crepe Expectations

[Cremolafoam]

Will this do?

Dh has excelled himself and bought me a gorgeous black lace shrug from monsoon. So pleased as it is actually useful and pretty. and I love it and it will go perfectly over several sleeveless dresses I have.
Clever boy

Away to get a blow dry as apparently we are dining out tonight . Ooh

Whatever was ailing me has passed- with much vomming in the night.
Feeling better tho

Crem... life gives with one hand and takes away with the other.... do the lace shrug and the puking balance each other out . Glad you feel better. That sort of being ill is horible.

Welcome back herbs. You are clearly saintly in your putting up with in laws skills. Have a medal. Lunch with my late mil was more than enough for me and my own dad coming to holiday with us for a few days soon makes me grit my teeth in anticipation...

Am still meant to be working hard to a deadline writing stuff. It's toooo harrrrd. Please kick me up the arse (again).

QQ, writing is the devil's work. I rue the day an over-active nanny state insisted on instilling the rudiments of literacy in me.

I have two extra children here. They are all plinky-plonking away making music downstairs, in a manner that is constructive but secretly drives me up the wall.

Your sympathy is much appreciated MI. Don't know how you can do it as your job. Respect.

Get on with it, QQ.

I had the work w/e from Hell. There were middle-of-the-night mad phonecalls and ambulances. I now have to write a report detailing the bad behaviour of one involved party and see how my invoice pans out.

I have a headache. Although that could be mostly to do with the fact that I forgot to put my glasses on when I sat down in front of the computer 2 hours ago.

I have been charged with organising a company Fun Day in early September, for 100+ adults and children. BBQ, booze, inflatable things......what do you reckon to stocks (50p to chuck a wet sponge at a director, for charity of course...)?

Double the price, CV! make it a quid - easier to find the money, too.

I am in a better mood not least because all four lovely girls ate their lunch appreciatively. I am less and less patient with food fussers. And it was a nice lunch (lentil and tomato soup with lots of garlic and cumin in it, and white bread I'd just pulled out of the breadmaker).

QQ get on with it

Stropps - sounds intriguing - can you reveal more?

Cremo - good old Mr Cremo (just when you have given up they can surprise you - I reckon they do it deliberately...)

RIght, I have wrestled a truly recalcitrant interview (totally off-topic) into the framework I need. Think am on home straight. Probably anyway.

Fun days, articles, blimey..
I just have to be secretary to a committee running the local music festival next year (maybe, in the drunk haze, they will forget I volunteered? )

Meanwhile 'd' p has announced that post next years 'big' conference (that he is organising) he is pissing off around the world for the rest of the summer...... I might implode...

It's all here, Blackduck, vomiting, lace throws, wet sponges, deadlines...

I appear to be growing a moustache to go with the beard now, FFS. I went into the bathroom this morning and had two long, thick, black hairs waving at me from each side of my mouth. At least they were symmetrical, I suppose that's one thing going for them..

I will scream if I get any more papers or forms to fill in from DD1's school. And no, I don't wish to be 9th grade Parent Liaison.

It might be a Liaison Dangereuse, MrsS

BD, he is taking the piss. What does he propose you do for childcare? Can't he take DS (ho ho, that'll cramp his style)?

Today I am going to write some more about osteoarthritis, and cancer. I shall also get my eyebrows threaded (talking of facial hairs). My SIL really is a princess, btw. Literally. She was excommunicated by her family for marrying him. Further information off-board as this is, after all, an open forum.

Mrs S - you're making me think of a French barber - and I'm sure you don't look like that . MI your work at the moment sound quite grim - I think I'd be dragged down by your subject matter. Eyebrow threading a good antidote.

I'm going to content myself with bikini line -which I don't like after the first three days after always get ingrown hairs-.

Very intrigued by princess SIL.

Mrs S. Just get some pomade dahling and twiddle it intimidatingly as required... By the time you return to Blighty you might be able to pass for Poirot.

I am curiously hairless. My arms are bald.

I realised yet again that I am seriously middle aged when I checked that holiday house has an iron. WTF has happened to me? When did I become the sort of person who irons on holiday? When I abandoned T-shirts, I suppose. (That was also when I swapped pilates for singing, thinking about it. Better for the soul and no doubt the lungs, but not so good for the spare tyre.)

I should probably point out the iron is not so I can ponce about in crisp white linen, btw. More to get the worst wrinkles out of a cotton frock.

Checking for irons in holiday houses, eh? The end is nigh. I saw a shirt in Country Casuals shop window that I liked. And then I went into the shop. With an unhappy ds in tow. He then announced in a stage whisper that "This shop is full of old ladies", so I scuttled out again like this =>

BD - WHAT? He thinks he's off on a "gap break" or something?? Has he had a funny turn? "Rest of the summer"??

Like MI, I am not very hairy. I don't even do eyebrow things, because the stray ones are mainly blond anyway and I just, er, don't care enough to bother. That said, I do have now have one crepey hairy problem. A nice, long, random, dark hair that has decided to grow out of my nose. Splendid.

MrsS, you could change your user name to Fu Manchu .

Herbs, next week ds is off to Camp Wild with a friend at one of the places you visited on your hols :)

I have just written five succinct points on how to prevent oneself falling over (and thus smashing one's fragile bones). Am now going to round up DD2 and go for eyebrow threading (it's one of her friend's mums who's doing it).

It's all connected to some project he is doing with a colleague. So aside fromt he conference (which next year is the first full week ds is off school), he is planning to visit a list of places (Australia and US on the list) and to do this over the summer.

Yes, I did point out the childcare issues (grandparents not getting any younger) and that I can't take that amount of time off..... I am liking MIs idea of making him take ds with him. Actually the more I think about this the more I get.....
Arse....

BD, he is taking the piss. He really is. He can damn well do it in term time or take DS with him; and he can also sort out for you to come and join them in some pleasant holiday destination en route (for a holiday, mind, not to hold the coats).

bloody hell BD. Does he have form for this sort of thing? Stay very calm... and very firm. "Yes, wouldn't it be lovely to swan off for the whole summer as if you were young free and single with no responsibilities. It would be fantastic. Unfortunately you are not in a position to do that" repeat as necessary. for you.

I just blithely emailed DP about the 'adorable car mechanic' who came to do things to the car

I'm afraid my standard response is 'That's very unlikely to happen'. ie. I'm not saying you can't, and I'm not saying you can, just that it is highly 'unlikely to happen'.

Also the fantastic Anericanism 'I'm not sure that works for me'.