Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

[Auriga]

Somebody had to do it

Herbs . CV - I remember the raisins - I think I'd kill my doctor for saying that - even if it were the truth.

I can't make the 17th Jan but am optimistic that if I get DD1 into uni somewhere in the UK I'll be able to sweep through London on visits and crepey meet-ups. .

In the meantime, I'm so tired I actually fell asleep for an hour on the sofa - I can never actually do this when I'm in bed! I have also written some Christmas cards

BD, is join the dots this evening's entertainment then?

Welcome back, Hattie. I was wondering where you were.

Ebay has come up trumps with the red coat for Captain Hook. I have just dropped it off at school and ds is v. pleased with it. He now wants red and white stripes tights to go under his breeches. Felt like telling him he could spend this weekend knitting some himself, I do not have any spare time to comb the shops of this side of the county for such an item. Also found out that my his efforts at Christmas hat-making have been rewarded with first prize. I dd got second when she entered a similar competition, so she will be miffed.

Ho hum. Back to work.

ahahahah - strikeout fail. Can I just practise that => my I see, this is what comes of posting in haste when you really should be working.

BD, DD1 has 'mossie cafe' and 'nit Centre Parcs' on her somewhere - she has an amazing mass of gorgeous springy hair into which the bastards crawl with a joyous hurrah, sending postcards to all their friends to come and join the fun.

Herbs. So sorry about that.

I have Diana Krall - Christmas songs cranked up to 11 and am crafting a wreath and stitching dds posh performing frock's hem and making a lasagne.
If dd happens to need to go to England in January with interviews etc there is a slim chance of me getting to meet on 17th. You never know. .... She has applied to SOAS....

Herbs, I have a lump in my throat at that thought.

Stropps, can we see a photo of mini-Stropps in his Hook outfit and one in your his hat?

Cremo, fingers crossed for your DD and you! What is SOAS?

Right, Jan "do" - sounds like 17th is favourite so far?
MI
Stropps
Herbs
Auriga
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MrsS
Beachy
Ruby?
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MI its University of London School of Oriental and African studies.

BTM I mean - doing too many things at once

That's an interesting choice - what sort of job would she be looking to do after?

That's where DP went.

I am stuffing chocolatey goodies brought in by my old boss who came to see the talent show

Herbs....

I have just raided my dad's house for posh Christmas napkins, which are now boil washing as they have been sitting in a cupboard for about 20 years! Might starch them for that Downton effect!

I have raided the pressie drawer already as the weather is miserable, it's the last day of term, so I've cracked out Despicable Me 2 to watch tonight with the kids and I'll get a Chinese . Dh at his work do, so we shall make merry ourselves too! Might write some more Xmas cards too. I'm doing them in a random order this year as one year, only A -> P got them.

I am plodding through editing. Another week to go!

Oh interesting mi -what did he study?

BTM she's had an offer to do politics and Arabic. If she can't be Robert Fisk she fancies the UN.
I'm artsy fartsy as you know so am utterly clueless. It is beyond me how she has arrived at this point tbh. I'm just a vague sort of consultant these days. I make lasagnes , watch masterchef and rarely comment on the state of the nation whereas dd is up on all things current affairs wise.
If her dad was alive today the two of them would be locked horns over the Middle East , by lunchtime. Funny to imagine that actually. She has his bloody mindedness for def.

Jography. I think

Oh give me STRENGTH my mum is here - she is perfectly fine about the fact I need to work BUT OK, this is totally typical, she has brought a (nice) stollen. I cut us both a piece. Oh darling, she said, what a huge slice...it is not huge, ffs, it is a sort of size like you'd get of swiss roll, yes I know you are the Thinnest Person On The Planet...

She's going to be like this over supper, isn't she. Oh darling, how very delicious, just a tiny bit for me oh no I can't possibly finish that....

Arabic! Has she been learning it already or will it be a new thing?

MI, my DM says the same sort of thing. She is a roly-poly

Not learning it at school but at a night class. She's loving it. I know its odd but there you go. She's doing French a level.
Mi my mother is the same. Caters for TheFive Thousand and then eats a roast potato and 3 peas herself. She is tiny . Disappearing tiny though.

And if I hear her call dd " solid" one more time ......

Crem, good on yer dd, sounds like an exciting plan. I would have loved to go to SOAS. I had an offer from one London College (I think it was the now -subsumed-into-QMC Westfield) to do German with Chinese as my subsid and how I wish I had done that rather than German and French joint hons. My blardy parents vetoed the whole Chinese idea despite my having got an offer. My pa said I could get stuffed if I thought he was going to support me through a Chinese degree, French was a much better idea. I always remember this when dd comes up with some of her (imo) more barking further education ideas. I'll add my two pennies' worth, but I'll try not to be as short-sighted and prejudiced as my parents were.

MI, good luck. Mind that steam coming out of your ears, though.

My mother thinks anyone over seven stone is vaaaast.

And I've hit a chunk of this report where the feckers have just flagrantly ignored all style rules...

Cremo, I was always big-boned

My mother started locking the larder when I got to 8.5 stone. Which she regarded as disgustingly overweight. She grew out of all that lunacy eventually, but only when she got into her 70s. She does make frequent comments about dh's weight and portion sizes, though. Not that he cares..

MI, sympathies on the style-rule-ignoring-feckers front. I feel your pain.

Bastards. They've totally ignored the requirement to put references in the references section which I have already gone mad editing (that's what I panicked about yesterday) and just slung them in as URL links, footnoted. So I have to unpick each one, find it, put it in the reference section, and then delete the footnote which is causing its own formatting problems. And this is quite apart from rewriting their turgid bloody style.