La Vie en Crepe

[motherinferior]

And a new door opens...

Yes sorry to hear about your uncle MrsS and hope today was okay. Just being there must have helped your cousin, I'd think. I remember feeling supported by my cousins when my Dad died.

And NUFC, welcome and congratulations on forthcoming baby. I'm very envious but as DD is only 15 I feel I can't lean on her too hard yet. Maybe when she's 17

Missed appointment this morning because I got on wrong train (preoccupied and post-migrainous). My loss, luckily I wasn't letting anyone down but myself. Felt rubbish though.

Also my spinach tarts were ugly. Think I need to roll the pastry faster so it's still chilled when it goes in to blind bake . They were edible though. All gone.

Off to get Mum tomorrow. Also, have booked weekend in Germany to see DD's exchange partner and family and a singing weekend bit of variety.

CV, shisha pens were all the rage last year round here - DS bought one for £5 in Camden market when he went with his mates. When he got back it had all gone, but I did try it just to see - strawberry flavour IIRC! Pretty harmless, I'd say, not heard them mentioned since

Just back from the gym. Having googled HIIT and seeing it said run at 18kph for 30 secs then jog 1 min, I decided to give it a go. 18kph is FAST! I managed it, but there were a lot of concerned faces looking my way

Gosh - one of us is going to be granny. Congrat's to you NU .

Another four hour mock exam for DD1 - they had to be at school by 8am this morning. Honestly it's relentless.

Do dish the dirt on Simon Cowell behind the bins Crem

Cremo, shame it was Simon Cowell

Crikey Hatty

Etiquette question of the day, Crepeys. What exactly is one supposed to say when an ex slightly drunkenly explains "the reason I chucked you is that I was coming to terms with the fact I am a sadomasochist?" Eh?

NU - congrats!!

Oh Cremo get you and Simon Cowell!!

MI - err, no idea!! BTW I saw those boots today - no way would they have fitted me.....

I love Simon Cowell. He is my dirty fantasy shag. Him and Jeremy Kyle. Not together. Umm... that might be interesting, come to think of it. I suspect both are considerably shorter than me though.

MI - could you take advantage of his claim to be a sado-masochist to give him a good walloping? Might be quite cathartic, no?

My cousin has gone back home today, so I am going to Bromley to see her next week for a drink and a bit of dinner. We had a long chat yesterday, largely about how useless our family are - two people had called, not exactly to say they were sorry, but to say they wouldn't be able to make it to the funeral...

MI I don't think there is any kind of comeback to that kind of revelation.
lucky escape I'd say .

Yes shame it was Simon. Really wanted to get a chat with The Walliams but no dice. SC was erm, very down to earth < shudder>

We have actual snow today. And howling winds. The kind of day that puts me right off the pool. It's that damp feeling and then the cold with wet hair I hate.

Hatty it is indeed relentless. Dd has just completed one more politics module. (40% of mark) she has political ideologies coming out her ears. Marxism anyone?
Now she has a bunch of music modules to look forward to. I'm exhausted ( dear knows how dd still has her eyes open) but determined to look at the student funding thingmajig this weekend. An email informed me that it was time. She hasn't got all her offers yet though.

MI Sounds like you had a lucky escape!

MrsS, eeeuuuwww! I can't say either of those two would do it for me.

And Cremo, what do you exactly mean by down to earth?!

Rudy, not a frugal Jan for you this year then?!

Another tres reduced M&S jumper here...£11 ... And NOT grey :)

Mrs S - not convinced by your fantasy shag either

MI - I think I would have just politely ignored.

Crem - should we be looking at funding then? I have to say I wasn't sure when we should do this - I thought maybe it wasn't till they had the grades and a secure place.

I'm going shopping later to spend my £50 Sweatshop voucher, courtesy of MN. I need a new gym top, as mine makes me look like a sack of spuds. Fortunately, there is a branch in Woking, where DSis lives, and where we are having a family dinner tonight as a joint celebration of DSis's and my birthdays, so I am able to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

It's not my actual birthday for three weeks, but we always have a combined do, DSis and I. We have sustained a long family tradition of birthday dinners, which means we all meet up at least four times a year to exchange gifts. There are 14 of us now, so we need quite a big table.

It's not proper shopping, though, is it? I'm still thinking about that gold skirt....

We're due snow tomorrow; in the meantime the rain and howling wind have arrived.
Whisper - this will be my fourth grandchild - the oldest will be three next month. All of you with teenagers will come through these horrible stressful times into more horrible stressful times when they finish Uni and they're looking for jobs, having unsuitable partners. But then, eventually they settle down and have babies and you're reminded of when they were tiny - the love you feel for the GC is unbelievable. Sorry, getting maudlin now.
I hope everyone has a good weekend.

Me too CV! But I am wavering because although I am a 12 ATM, I just wonder if Topshop sizing is a bit smaller and I should get a 14

Four grandchildren, NU, how lovely. I hope I will have some in the future! If I survive the teens/uni/jobs/unsuitable partners, etc!

Good on ya Rudy! And good on the bargains front! I am going to have an easy afternoon home alone and then to meet the rest of the family at a friends party

NY, congratulations, what lovely news.

Hatty and Crem, we were told we can apply for funding any time, and that it is not too onerous. dd is working fairly hard I would say but is pretty perky. last year she worked silly hard and was not, so on balance this is better I think.

Yes lalsy I think you're right about doing it anytime. Hatty I'm only going to have a browse tbh. I have already done the hard graft of working out what dd might get and coming to an understanding of SFC. There is one solitary fortunate thing about being an orphan in that she will get the full grant as she can declare legal independence . Actually she has been emancipated since she was 16. PR ran out then , and I suppose she could have run off with an unsuitable partner at that point NUFC! Happily she hasn't .

Oh BTM I was being sarcastic about SC. Sleazoid in dark glasses.

Actually the unsuitable partner thing is a can of worms - all you want is for your children to be happy. Yes, it's nice if they're successful, but however old they are, you still want to protect them, even when they're a foot taller than you.

Just sat down after "cutting in" for DH, or, as I prefer to say, painting the edges! Everything from the utility is spread over the kitchen and dining room, goodness only knows what we'll eat tonight. I have just lost 6 of the 8 lbs I put on over Christmas so don't feel like a takeaway.

"Sleazoid in dark glasses"... be still my beating heart!

Is he very little, Crem?