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La Vie en Crepe

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motherinferior · 12/01/2014 16:41

And a new door opens...Grin

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bigTillyMint · 02/02/2014 17:19

I sadly put back the red extra small dress in Cos - I think I am too old (and tall) for a skater dress nowSad

We are off to Brixton Village en famille when DS and DH get backSmile

RudyMentary · 02/02/2014 17:44

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lalsy · 02/02/2014 17:51

We were there last weekend BTM, is very good for meals en famille I think as long as weather not too icy.

Good luck tomorrow herbs.

ds is making dinner tonight - Sainsburys basics chicken wings marinaded in a sauce involving tomato ketchup. He learned how to make this in FT at school. I am going out....

NUFC69 · 02/02/2014 18:10

I had a lovely morning as it was a bright sunny but cold day so we took advantage and went to Saltwell Park in Gateshead. I think I last went when my DC were pre-teens - today we went with Dd and her two children. It has gone upmarket with lots of great things for children to do. DGS was interested in the white van and wanted to know what it was doing. Dd and I were mean and didn't tell him it was selling ice cream! He will be 3 in two weeks' time - plenty of time to find out about ice cream vans.

I will be thinking about you and Ds, Herbs. Good luck!

Happy birthday to MI's Dd.

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motherinferior · 02/02/2014 20:06

Really hope all goes well tomorrow. Herbs.

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motherinferior · 02/02/2014 20:13

I am refraining from a FB snipe at an ex - not the sadomasochist, the drunken journalist one (I really have a delightful pastGrin). He has remarked he 'wishes someone would cook his tea tonight'. IWBU - or at least unwise - to point out bitterly I cooked his bloody tea every night for several years doing which he never came back from the pub in time to eat it...Angry

...wouldn't I?

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herbaceous · 02/02/2014 20:19

Thanks for all your good wishes crepeys. He's currently valiantly resisting going to bed, which is extra vexing as we've got to be at the hospital at 7.30am. Yes, am.

bigTillyMint · 02/02/2014 20:23

Aww NU, they are so sweet when they are tinySmile

Rudy, it's the old market transformed into loads of little cafes/bars/restaurants - think world cuisine! However, not as many were open at 6pm on Sunday night and those that were, were full (at which point DS was about to implode with hunger), so we went across to the noodle bar and had lovely noodles and stuffSmile

DS's team are through to the Surrey Cup semi-finals, so can you all start praying for warm dry weather as he is insisting I go and watchShock!

bigTillyMint · 02/02/2014 20:24

Herbs, good luckSmile

Auriga · 02/02/2014 20:48

All the best for tomorrow, Herbs.

MI, back to celebrating the birthday, forget drunken ex (but I hope he goes hungry)

Blackduck · 02/02/2014 21:04

Philip Seymour Hoffman? Nooo - a fab actor. Confused

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motherinferior · 02/02/2014 21:05

I should probably add he was the drunken journalist as opposed to his predecessor the drunken historian. Oh, and in between there was the utterly hopeless stoner who kept telling me I was a lovely person but too fat to fancy.

I really do know how to pick 'emGrin

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MrsSchadenfreude · 02/02/2014 21:58

Good luck for tomorrow Herbs.

Brixton has a village? Confused DH went to the market the other week, commented it was full of French people, who seem to be colonising South London, and much less mixed than it used to be. (His experience in Morrisons... he came back saying "Please don't make me go there again. I'll never complain about Tesco ever again." Grin)

My exes nearly all seem to be comparatively nice men, MI. There was Toryboy, who was quite nice for a Tory, the Toyboy, who sadly died just before Christmas, and the commitment phobe, now happily married with two children. I am ignoring The World's Most Arrogant Man and a string of others...

My mother called yesterday and cheerfully announced that she had ordered flowers for the funeral, but hadn't spent much as my uncle "was only an inlaw and not really family." Thereby discounting the fact that he was married to her sister for about 50 years. He also gave my mother a job when my parents were really hard up - that seems to have been conveniently forgotten too. He was an inspirational man, my uncle. He was a political refugee, arrived in the country with no money and without a word of English, built up his own business and became a millionaire. My cousin and I were planning to take him back to the country of his birth for a short holiday in the spring. Sad

CointreauVersial · 03/02/2014 00:14

Sad about your uncle, MrsS. Your mum really has a way with words, doesn't she? When's the funeral?

All the best for tomorrow, Herbs.

And well done, BTM-junior for the football result! We had no football at all this weekend because of the weather; quite a relief, actually.

It has been a Productive Day at Chateau Cointreau, and I'm looking forward to my bed. The house, the hamster cage, and both cars have had a thorough, and much needed, clean. The lawn is clear of tree branches. Homework has been completed. I went for a lovely sunny run (and waved hello to Chussex, QQ!). We discovered our shed roof lying in the public footpath that borders our garden (it has probably been there for a few days), so there was much swearing and teetering on ladders this afternoon as DH and I patched it up.

DS's party last night broke up early after the police were called - a huge fight involving gatecrashers, and a firework being let off in the house. I feel so sorry for the girl who was hosting. Luckily, the mother of one of DS's mates happened to be visiting friends next door, and whisked DS and a few others away.

bigTillyMint · 03/02/2014 06:46

MrsS, where did your DH go shopping? There is no Morrisons in Brixton (big Tesco's on Acre Lane though!) and not much market now as the "Village" is in the old Indoor Market. But there are a lot of French people in South London nowSmile
(I fear he may have ventured into M's East Street or worse, Peckham. Though the Camberwell one is pretty vile tooGrin)

CV Shock at party. That is why I am never hosting a teen party. Glad your DS got away OK.

All bar one or two of my old boyfriends/ex's were highly unsuitable and I am not in touch with any of them!

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/02/2014 07:23

BTM - it was indeed the one opposite East Street! Although I have to say that most of the Morrisons I have been in have been grim - the one in Streatham was vile too. It's interesting to see, driving through saaaarf Landan how you go from Tesco Country to Sainsburys Land - there never seem to be two in the same area.

bigTillyMint · 03/02/2014 07:29

MrS, that one is the best of the three! There is a nice big one by the PIL, but otherwise I avoid them like the plague!

Blackduck · 03/02/2014 08:32

CV - yowser at teenage party!

I am Envy at world food talk..... here an Indian is as far as it gets - and that's nothing out of the ordinary these days!

MrsS :) at Morrisons. (It's Waitrose or Morrisons or Lidl here.....)

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motherinferior · 03/02/2014 08:49

How is it going, Stropps 'n' Herbs?

I have conducted my Ladyjog but then came home to find DP had heated up the pain chocolats we didn't have yesterday (DD1 wanted pancakes). So the virtuous Bircher muesli waiting for me had to, well, wait.

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herbaceous · 03/02/2014 09:12

Howdy crepeys. All well here in the children's ward. But of wailing about not being able to gave breakfast, but DP googled the reason, and DS was remarkably accepting. No idea when we'll be going in, as they seem to put the younger ones in first. And there are a couple of tinies here.

I'm starving, as don't feel it's fair to eat in front of him. Planning a Byron burger as a treat for all of us when we're done!

Right. Back to building the railway set. Very impressive array of bridges, junctions, etc

NUFC69 · 03/02/2014 09:34

Ah, Herbs, I have been wondering how you and DS were getting on. The wait is the worst thing I found. A nice treat afterwards for all of you sounds like a good idea. I don't really know much about DS' s condition so forgive me for asking, but will he be allowed home today? (I am not fishing for info about his problem, by the way so please don't think I am). Positive thoughts and prayers coming your way. Envy

Blackduck · 03/02/2014 09:41

Hope all goes well Herbs.

herbaceous · 03/02/2014 09:48

Don't worry, NU - it's no secret. He was born with one small eye, over which he wears a cosmetic shell. But to get the shell to fit, a moulding has to be taken of his eye and socket. This can be done in the chair, but is obviously horrible, so he has it done under GA. Only takes five minutes, but it takes a whole day of hanging about, nil by mouth, etc.

It's my turn to go in with him while he goes under, which is the worst bit. So vulnerable. And I always cry.

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motherinferior · 03/02/2014 10:02

Oh love. Resign yourself to crying. I am so sorry.

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motherinferior · 03/02/2014 10:08

oh ffs, I have just had some copy back with the notes 'there are lots of apostrophe's [sic] missing'. WTF?

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