Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

[Auriga]

Somebody had to do it

hello all, thank you for the welcomes - particularly nice in the dank grey cold. having problems making own decisions about food instead of heading for a buffet.
btm - just about to pm you
crem - how funny - did you reveal your or rather my identity? glad you sounding better
mi - my 14 year old has cheapy from tk maxx, black one side dark camouflage type patter on the other - wears it all time - v useful going to school as scrumples down small going in to school bag.
herbs - party sounds fab. i have 2 - yes 2 - parties tonight and an aunt arriving tomorrow. and am no good at self restraint.
btw - for all those looking generally for teen suggestions, a friend recommended the i-hat

Herbs, glad your day improved. I am going to pace myself tonight. I am. I am...

Addle, will I bump into you?!

And what is an i-hat?!

Aaaahh, herbs, sounds like it was a good party. I also had a good night. When I got up at 7.30 to let the chickens out, I did not feel at my best. Alkaseltzer failed to work its magic and I was most volcanicly unwell. I thought I had been reasonably discreet, but on emerging from the bathroom I was greeted by a smirking ds with "Did you have too much WINE???" I have to say I was fine within a fairly short time. Fine enough to have yet another cheese fondue for late lunch withe the family. Dh was a star last night as he cleared up at the supper debris and did the washing-up. Even dd congratulated him on this when she found out today.

Uh, that should read "volcanically". Am squinting at phone.

I would like to confess I too had a bit of a hangover today, thanks to the fact that my friends apparently drank rather less prosecco than I did last night.

Oh, and I lost my voice at the party last night, so had to conduct the whole of today in a whisper, which gets a little trying when trying to control a small boy on a scooter in a fairground. And instruct him how to play crazy golf.

Have successfully carb loaded, and now think I may live.

Just had flaming row with DP which started off about the Aldi shop and morphed into my guilt about earning so little (which wouldn't be so bad if I weren't so crap at what I do; if I were struggling but a brilliant novelist, for instance). Yet another school trip has added itself to the financial burden...

MI you are NOT crap!!

Hi all - having trouble catching up on all news. Still no decision on job front - have to make a decision today as need to let people know before I leave the country. I am paralysed with indecision ...

Hangovers - naughty people ;) hope all okay today.
I have fils 80th today - dp's sister will be here too - which is good as apparently we can't see her after Christmas due to having been away.

Will try to post from Mexico - if only annoying beach shots to wind you all up ;)

I'm feeling somewhat "jaded" myself after an excellent 40th birthday party last night. We were quite surprised to have been invited - it was someone who I have seen only intermittently in the last few years, although we have quite a lot of friends in common. Free bar all night, great mix of party people = sore head this morning. I think it was the tumbler-full of Grand Marnier at the end of the evening that did the damage. They had one of those ridiculous photo booths where you dress up in wigs and silly hats and pull drunken faces with your mates (I'm now cringing at the photographic evidence in the cold light of day).

DH dragged himself out of bed, moaning, at 8am to take DS to football, but reappeared unexpectedly some time later. He'd got the time wrong and turned up 2 hours early.

Strops, don't you just love pious children when you've overindulged? "Got a hangover, eh mum?"

Try a pious non-drinking partner too

CV I feel your pain! We were at a fab 50th last night... I stopped drinking about 11 (having started at 7.30) and went onto water, so the hangovers not as bad as it might have been!
Feeling knackered though as when I went to the loo at 2.30am, I discovered DD on her laptop and had to take it.... She is not up yet. thank God!

And LOL at your DH - poetic justice at the criticising your DS last week?

BD get your finger out re decision on job, and definitely post photos of your hol - we can dream!

Best of luck with decision-making, BD, and have a fab holiday.

So is everyone slumped in a drunken/hungover state on the sofa this evening?

I feel remarkably perky and was thinking that maybe we should get a date in the diary for our January meet-up. Is a Friday night best? How about Friday 17th or 24th?

oh god, drinking? not sure I'll have recovered. far too late/far too much. otherwise 17th or 24th Jan sounds great to me. hope everyone has a great, healthy week. was drinking prosecco with aperol - a very nice mixture as I remember

MI you are v clearly not crap

good luck with decision making BD

back to slump on the sofa some more

I am going away one of those weekends - will check later, think it's the second one.

Am really not in brilliant way but hope this will correct itself tomorrow. As DP is away overnight there is in fact a good chance it will. As long as DD2 doesn't kick off if I ask her to do music practice or DD1 just kick off...

I have no idea what a "buff" is.

And am envious at all of you going to Lovely Parties (although I do have two lined up in January, a 40th and a 50th). I have been Shouty Mummy this weekend, and spent a disproportionate amount of it in Tiger and Paperchase. It wasn't sufficient to bung the DDs some money and tell them to come to the cafe when they had finished. Oh no. I had to trail round with them and express an opinion on every single fucking thing they looked at. Then we went to TK Maxx (no more fleecy tights there, MI, sorry) which didn't improve my mood either. Am in chaos at home and have written no Christmas cards.

And what do I get my uncle for Christmas? He is in his late 70s and has dementia. Can't be a book as English is not his first language and he doesn't read it that well.

A photo book with pictures of where he grew up? Or photos that would trigger memories?

A CD? Music often remains with people long after other faculties have gone, apparently.

A pair of memory foam slippers?

Photo book vg idea. MIL treasured hers long after she had forgotten who we were. I captioned all the photos with names and places, so the nurses could remind her every time she looked through them.

Mrs S - there's a thread running on presents for someone with dementia and from the bit I looked at music and photo book both v good ideas

I am about to go and get parcels from sorting office. What is the betting more arrive while I am out?

Update: at least one thing fell out of my package at the delivery office, I reckon. I may just blow £10 and reorder. Gah!

I have just realised my memory foam slippers suggestion may have come across as a really tasteless joke - I didn't mean that just that they are extremely comfortable, and much loved by my sort-of-step-father as they provide a bit of support and are lovely and warm.

I worked that one out, Lalsy