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The Crepe Papers

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motherinferior · 05/10/2013 18:40

Did it!

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bigTillyMint · 17/10/2013 14:38

Hatty, are diplomats that intellectual?! Anyway, I thought book clubs were all about the wineWink

addle · 17/10/2013 14:57

Hatty, I did a lot of weeping when I was perimenopausal - the copy on album covers set me off particularly badly, god knows why. and there was/is the rage too.

herbaceous · 17/10/2013 15:07

I seem to get The Rage more than would seem reasonable, even for one I possession of a four-year-old. It's really not fair on him that his lighthearted japery at bend time should elicit such shouting in me. But HRT seems a bit much ATM. Any herbal solutions?

bigTillyMint · 17/10/2013 15:13

Yes, I had the weeping and the rage, both not nearly so bad now I'm on HRT.

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motherinferior · 17/10/2013 15:17

Gin has herbs in it, innit. Juniper berries. I know this stuff because I am a health journalist.

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Cremolafoam · 17/10/2013 15:49

Evening primrose is supposed to be good if you want expensive pee

Dunno herbs: it's your oestrogen running out , so the logical thing seems to be to replace it for a while.

Blackduck · 17/10/2013 16:48

I have found the Rage has decreased actually - like my hormones
are much better balanced. Weeping - hmm sometimes, like CV I had one (maybe two) floods and that's it. I have stopped drinking and that definitely makes a big difference to the flushes (damn!!) my Dr is resistant to HRT because I have had migraines in the past.

On a separate note - is it really only Thursday Confused don't think I can do another day....

bigTillyMint · 17/10/2013 18:18

BD, I know what you mean re only Thursday! Still, another week and then I get a week offSmile

DS returned home with Puma Suedes and his mates who had also bought trainers (one 3 pairs of Vans!) DD is at a friends. Hope there's no homework to be done!

hattymattie · 17/10/2013 18:56

Grr - alternately feeling weepy and angry now as DD1 has just reminded me that I agreed to pick her up from a party tomorrow. No alcohol for me Friday night Angry.

BTM - you are so right - book clubs are supposed to be about wine. I think mine is definitely getting too serious.

herbaceous · 17/10/2013 19:02

Back from day of multiple parks, including Valentine's Mansion in Ilford where, super-excitingly, I saw the celeb Bake Off tent. Sadly, no celebs or judges in evidence.

Unlike last year, where I saw the celebs, went into the camera end of the marquee, right into the judging 'gazebo', and took home a tea towel I found on the ground with a bit of cake mixture on, possibly touched by Saint Mary of Berry herself. It's now framed in the kitchen, and I charge admission to come and genuflect before it.

Cremolafoam · 17/10/2013 19:43

Herbs was it you who saw Paul Holywood out having a fag?

herbaceous · 17/10/2013 19:44

Don't think so. I did see his tan glowing from half a mile away, though.

Cremolafoam · 17/10/2013 19:50
Grin Gone right off him this year. Still enjoy Mary B saying " scrummie" Smile
lalsy · 17/10/2013 20:13

I love GBBO and all who sail in her, apart from Paul H whom I suspect of being quite unpleasant. Herbs, I have tea towel envy.Smile

bigTillyMint · 17/10/2013 20:15

Hatty, is your book club in French or English?

Herbs, tan glowingGrin Reminds me of when David Cameron rocked up at DD's school and her friend said his tan had come off on her hand when they shook!

herbaceous · 17/10/2013 20:18

Do you know, it WAS me who saw PH fagging it up? Christ. I've got dementia.

I've always thought PH is a tool, and inserts cake into his mouth with his hand at a weird angle, but St M of B has sometimes lowered herself to his level this series, which is frankly shocking.

alto1 · 17/10/2013 21:41

She's not St Anything of Anywhere to me since she said feminism was a dirty word ( or wtte).

Crem, no wonder you were homicidal, they made you wait weeks for HRT. And BD, my migraine didn't become unmanageable till I stopped HRT. I actually went back on it for 3 more years, in sheer desperation. Nothing else worked.

Cremolafoam · 17/10/2013 22:26

Alto I actually had no idea that my hormones would crash so dramatically so quickly. Somehow thought there would be more of a tailing off . A nurse did say to me not to delay making a gp appointment to get the HRT and yesterday was the first I could get( it's day 20 today) which I made the day I left hospital.
At no point was HRT or aftermath discussed at any stage by any doctor.
They basically sent me home with 24 paracetamol tablets.Shock No follow up with consultant either.

PH is a w@-/;£r IMHO. All that flirty business with Ruby is gross.
Agree lady st Mary berry obe needs her own televisual vehicle away from the Scouse Baker.Grin
Lol herbs- you crepey you!Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 18/10/2013 00:19

Hatty - British diplomats are not remotely intellectual and they love a bottle glass of wine. Trufact.

MrsSchadenfreude · 18/10/2013 00:22

It's not called the dipsomatic service for nothing.

Sorry am a bit pissed. Grin

bigTillyMint · 18/10/2013 07:10

I'm afraid I have to agree about PH, despite the fact that he is from my homeland.

And that is what I had heard too, MrsS!

Cremo, fingers crossed the hormones kick in quick.

wilbur · 18/10/2013 08:43

Morning ladies. Had a crazy busy week which included a flying visit to Manchester to see a play (starting at 11am) and still get back in time to do class drinks for ds2's class that I have been roped into organising. Doing PTA rep stuff this year may have been mistake as a rep in one of the other classes is some I have found tedious for a couple of years and she has now elevated herself to full PITA status and I want to punch her. Usually I am pretty laid back about other people's weirdness, but this woman is a piece of work and has already accused one of the other reps (a very lovely person, very gentle) of being underhand in trying to organise a parents' night out without asking the whole year Shock.

Anyhoo - on the trip to Manchester I very excitingly met the woman who co-directed the Paralympics Opening Ceremony, and she was telling me about some of her work in Bangladesh and the life of the disabled there, which pretty much put my annoyance at my train being delayed into perspective...

Crem - sorry to hear about bad follow-up from your op, that's v poor. Hope it improves soon.

BD - what's the new job opportunity? Sounds like it's worth considering given how fed up you have been about work stuff recently.

alto1 · 18/10/2013 09:48

Crem, same thing happened to me, then GP refused HRT because of my Hughes syndrome (not good reason). I had to phone consultant etc. then pharmacist said they didn't have it in stock. I looked him in the eye. He decided to break into a packet of something else to get what I needed. I swear if he hadn't done that he'd have needed to call the Tactical Support Group. I think he knew Grin

And I felt better within hours. You?

hattymattie · 18/10/2013 09:55

BTM - book club is in English and at risk of outing myself diplomat is Canadian so probably better behaved than British - let me know what you think Mrs S.

I have appointment with gynae in November - hoping she'll just bung me a packet of someting to adjust mood swings, irrational fear of diplomats and binging on McVities Chocolate Digestives which they are now selling round the corner - a very bad move for my waistline.

Cremolafoam · 18/10/2013 12:57

Hatty- what if this waistline of which you speakWink?
Feel like a Graf Zeppelin ...

Alto - I am definitely an improved version of myself today. Feeling much less wibbly and woolly headed.
Can it really work that fast ?