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The Crepe Papers

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motherinferior · 05/10/2013 18:40

Did it!

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Cremolafoam · 26/10/2013 17:46

Very well said mi ; and well done getting round the supermarket on a Saturday afternoon . Medal.

Oh the vileness of teenage girls.
I have one here who should have grown out of it by now but is now stomping about demanding food in 10 minutes ( I was dozing on the sofa ) because she wants to be at a gig for 6.30. Wtf
I fell short of telling her to foff.
She is now boiling rice for herself and begging dh to please bring her at 6.30.
Rah!Angry
Loving half term meSad

Spookerella · 26/10/2013 17:48

MI, you making me have to pretend I have something in my eye. Yes, you speak a lot of sense. As do all my Crepey friends.

bigTillyMint · 26/10/2013 17:54

Yes, well said MI.

And yes, I also worry that we will be as poles apart in years to come as my mother and I have been since I left home at 18. At least they have DH who is pretty normalSmile

motherinferior · 26/10/2013 17:58

I should add that DD1 is now playing (!) happily with her sister.

It's now officially prosecco time Grin

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bigTillyMint · 26/10/2013 18:20

Prosecco? I'm coming on the 185Grin

motherinferior · 26/10/2013 18:30
Grin
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originalpiratematerial · 26/10/2013 18:39

One of my best friends is STILL a nightmare if insufficiently fed. At 50. I went on holiday with her to Andalucia once and those tapas plates were just invaluable, as she turned into a total cow if not fed at least every two hours.

I have teens (well, one 14 and one 12) but they are the boy variety which I think is slightly easier. Or at least I think I am less haunted by the ghosts of my own relationship with my mother than I would be if I had dds. Huge sympathy though - and, what mi said so beautifully.

Blackduck · 26/10/2013 19:18

MI you are wise :). I am one of those 'crabby if not fed' :). I need regular meals as dp can attest to.

Stropps big big hugs - hope things improve soon.

hattymattie · 26/10/2013 19:31

My DD's are 17 and 15 and on the whole I think I've got off pretty lightly so far. They are not overly helpful but they are good company and fun to be around. I have had a stream of friends sleeping over this week - and a very charming boy 17 year old boy sleeping on my living room floor last night who got up early, watched Scooby Doo with DS and then played wii with him.

DS is only 11 so I can't comment as he's still sweet and adorable although just starting to be a bit mouthy. Fortunately I've still DD1 at home for one more year to keep him in place with comments like "you can be a real little prat sometimes".

MrsSchadenfreude · 26/10/2013 19:57

Tidying and hoovering was done to conceal the fact that DD1 had smashed one of my decanters. One with sentimental value. Angry

hattymattie · 26/10/2013 20:00

Sad Always suspicious - unasked for tidying.

Cremolafoam · 26/10/2013 20:03

Oh bugger mrs s. Sorry about your decanter. Thought there might be something afootWink

Blackduck · 26/10/2013 20:42

Oh MrsS :( that's not good....

I am feeling the need to meet some Crepeys - are we doing a pre Christmas meet or is that too much.... Post Christmas and we could celebrate a rather significant birthday....

motherinferior · 26/10/2013 20:57

Both? Grin

I am famously dreadful if hungry.

I'm really sorry, MrsS. We have had terrific evening watching Pitch Perfect. A fillum that runs through every cinematic cliche with terrific panache.

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wilbur · 26/10/2013 20:59

I'm home alone tonight (dh is doing one of his extras gigs - a Sky Xmas TV ad), which would be bliss except I'm so knackered and not feeling very well, I'm not really making the most of it. I have cut out the fabric for some curtains though, which is a start on the Sisyphian to do list. Early night, I think. After some chocolate.

wilbur · 26/10/2013 21:05

Stropps - also agree with MI and QQ. You are doing a terrific job as you're still there, still trying to help, still (just about) standing. Hang on on in there and I hope this weekend is ok.

Would love to do Xmas meet up - can't believe it's heading this way so fast.

hattymattie · 26/10/2013 21:06

Went to see The Butler - brilliant. I cried at the beginning and the end.

QueenQueenie · 26/10/2013 21:06

Well I am raising the cultural bar here... We're in suffolk for a long weekend (boys half term was last week) and dh and I are just back from a live screening of a Shostakovitch opera from the Met in Aldeburgh. It was fab! dss passed up on the offer of accompanying us rather suprisingly. The average age of the audience was about 85. We felt very sprightly. We could have a crepey weekend here and feel truly young...

hattymattie · 26/10/2013 21:10

Queenie - I noticed they're going to screen Don Giovanni here next month for the Opera/Cinema thing - I am very tempted - especially as they're going to do champagne and snacks for the interval.

hattymattie · 26/10/2013 21:13

We have now sunk to Die Hard 2 Blush but Bruce Willis was cute when young I will admit.

QueenQueenie · 26/10/2013 21:19

Oh give it a go Hattie, especially if there's alcohol and nibbles! We just got popcorn. It's a very low key and cheap way to enjoy world class opera. The production of The Nose(!) was amazing.

QueenQueenie · 26/10/2013 21:21

Speaking of films have any of you seen Le Weekend? We thought it was shite... but reviews are all raving about it. Perhaps we have no taste.

bigTillyMint · 26/10/2013 21:36

Get you lot! We have just watched a DVD called Blood - chosen because it was filmed where I grew up and where we are off to tomorrow afternoon. The DC are now insisting on Casualty which I can't watch when the bloody bits come onGrin

Haven't seen anything at the cinema since Lovelace (rather gruelling).... Wanted to see Sunshine on Leith, but missed it - will have to get it on DVD.

I would love to do a Christmas Bash - before, after or bothSmile

CointreauVersial · 26/10/2013 21:48

DS (not to be outdone by all your high maintenance teen girls) had his own little drama performance today. He had a row over absolutely nothing with DH at lunchtime, and in a big sulk refused a lift to his mate's house while we took the DDs swimming in the afternoon. So off we went and had a lovely time without him, and just as it was going dark we had a phonecall from him to say that he had taken DH's bike and was en route to said mate's house, via a previously unexplored, near-vertical and very muddy track through the woods. Only five miles or so, but quite treacherous, and he had no lights. There followed an hour and a half of radio silence, where I imagined vivid scenes of him wrapped around a tree, lying under a car, or mugged and murdered in the dark. Anyway, he eventually turned up at his mate's house, caked in mud, with a flat tyre and even flatter phone battery, and we were able to pick him up on our way home. Tomorrow we have to go back for the bike. And all this because he had a sulk.Angry

CointreauVersial · 26/10/2013 21:51

And a pre-Christmas meet sounds good. Is anyone going to the London MN Meetup? I thought about it but haven't got around to booking.

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