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The Crepey Cube

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cremolafoam · 04/02/2014 20:26

Wine
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motherinferior · 18/02/2014 18:59

Sad, isn't it, when the not actual presence of rain looks like a 'good forecast', talking of Ladyjogging.

Stropperella · 18/02/2014 19:47

I think punching things is most excellent and I am off to do lots of it in about 15 minutes. Grin

Blackduck · 18/02/2014 20:45

Here I am being subjected to piano playing and singing. I have lovely new living room and dining room lights, but ds is still in darkness. Electrician is perplexed - nowt obvious... He is coming back for a longer look and to put dining room light on normal switch as it is not keen on the dimmer...

addle · 18/02/2014 21:02

Happy birthday CV and NU's DH! there seem to be a lot of crepey bdays around now - anyone else in the autumn like me?

In Devon visiting ILs, in next seaside town along from Dawlish. Some of the damage wreaked by storm is astonishing - steel door on lighthouse torn off hinges and huge concrete slaps on top of wall lifted off and flung about 10 foot across roads. Judging by this morning, v invigorating (short-term) effect, with far more visitors than usual.

Hope everyone has lovely half term/week.

lalsy · 18/02/2014 23:22

What a lot has happened. All I have to report - am having quite a dull half term - is that ds has a monster, and I mean truly monster, thick black scab on his knee. I wanted to photograph it but he wouldn't let me. I think progress through quite dull week will be punctuated with scab alerts and updates. We are both in surprisingly good moods though, under the circumstances.

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cremolafoam · 19/02/2014 00:02

I have been , with dd to see 12 years a slave which was q gruelling. We both did some light weeping at the end. Feel somewhat wrung out.

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bigTillyMint · 19/02/2014 06:22

Cremo, it was very gruelling, wasn't it? It was nothing I didn't know, but very upsetting all the same.

Early start today as DC have an hours snowboarding lesson first thing - think my friend and I will be "watching" from the cafeWink

NUFC69 · 19/02/2014 07:28

I am obviously crepey enough that I am losing days, so now almost half way through the holidays. Italian last night was very good, particularly the pollo risotto - back to the diet today after several days off piste.

I hope the sleepovers went well and the children aren't too exhausted today - shudder at the thought of bad tempered over-tired LOs.

DH off to GP to attempt to get results of the endoscopy of almost 5 weeks ago - yesterday he was offered an appt in March! Really not acceptable. His experience of Health Service is the exact opposite of mine, I have nothing but praise.

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motherinferior · 19/02/2014 08:28

Rudy, how civilised.

I have three (3, III) 10 year olds planning to make cupcakes. They seem in good form. DP made them pancakes. I have dragged my bloated and tired (I suspect PMT but who knows?) form through another Ladyjog so am relatively invigorated for sorting out a feature on public health campaigns and people with learning disabilities. Which is the sort of thing I find interestingWink

Shall I do a bit of work on a parenting book (not an MN one)? Have been approached about it. Pants money but always useful to add books to the CV, in addition to the textbook I co-wrote a couple of years ago...

wilbur · 19/02/2014 10:15

I seem to have overscheduled my week. I took ds1 to visit a friend in Royal London hospital yesterday - hence my visit to Westfield Stratford (Herbs, I hope you survived yours) where I got clothes for dcs and even two (2, II) pairs of jeans from New Look for me in the right length, I was Shock as they never have any 34 legs when I am in need. Today I am making chocolate meringues, a friend is here for lunch, I have to show 4 people round our old flat later and pack me and dcs for MIL's b'day weekend (both smart and stuff for getting muddy on country walks). Tomorrow I am going to Derby for work and then will need to make MIL's cake when I get home. Oh, and I have builders here putting in new windows, which is fab except I currently have 2 mahoosive holes in the side of my house.

MI - def do parenting book, it could lead to all sort of nice commissions from parenting mags in the future.

Re punching things - I love a bit of boxercise, have always quite wanted to throw a punch in real life. Blush

Blackduck · 19/02/2014 10:56

I am at work, dp has dropped ds and niece at parents and is about to pull an all nighter, followed by a veeeerrrry long day tomorrow.
Am Envy at Rudy's lunch, and drinks and partner time.......

herbaceous · 19/02/2014 14:39

Half term is wearing me out. Swimming lesson again this morning, then fifth birthday party - theme '70s disco' - then back to ours, for the 12th viewing of Toy Story, then shortly out to cinema to watch the Lego Movie.

Egads.

Knees a bit knackered after my ladyjog last night, but according to trainer shop lady it's unlikely to be my trainers. More likely weak muscles or tight IT Band. Apparently we need foam rollers to unknot our muscles...

motherinferior · 19/02/2014 15:38

Lying on a tennis ball will unkink them too, Herbs.

Hope Rudy's mother-son bonding has been suitably riotous. Take one for the team!

bigTillyMint · 19/02/2014 16:31

MI I could do with a few tennis balls!
All quiet here as DC have gone tobogganing with other family after snowboarding all dayShock Hope they aren't too late as we're off to our French friends for racletteSmile

Glad to hear everyone elses half terms are going well with slerpovers, birthday bashes, etc!

beachyhead · 19/02/2014 16:35

I've signed my will.... Hooray, finally so thanks to all 'willed' Crepeys who pushed us 'non-willed' Crepeys off to the solicitors!

Am awaiting the arrival of teenagers. I think about 5 girls and 1 brave boy. I need to cook chilli and rice in a vat.

Hope Rudy having a lovely day with ds1. Hope my ds wants to take me out for the day when he's a grown up.

Herbs, chin up and knees straight. Only two more week days to go.

motherinferior · 19/02/2014 17:02

I fancy a slerpover, BTM. And some raclette. Mmmm.....

NUFC69 · 19/02/2014 17:34

I fancy a slerpover, too - never had raclette (or have I in Belgium once, many moons ago ... ponders ...).

Very crepey holiday now booked; we're off on a cruise from Venice round the eastern Med for 14 days. Now all I need are some clothes to wear.

I hope you had a lovely time with your DS, Rudy. I love my DDil and we get on well, but it's also lovely when DS just pops in by himself - somehow special.

I am impressed with Herb's staying power - just wow!

MI, may I ask what it is you actually do; sounds really interesting?

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cremolafoam · 19/02/2014 20:30

What happens at a slerpover?
Slurping suggests frozen margaritas and hangovers?Grin

Dh and and I are being ejected tomorrow night by dd as she has a a couple of mates over for a netflix marathon
We may just cower in a dark
Public house for a few hours. Confused

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motherinferior · 19/02/2014 20:43

I'm a journalist, NUFC; I write a lot about health, and parenting stuff but also do some other things including editing. I changed career about 15 years ago - before that I ran the press and communications for a few different charities, so I still have contacts in that social policy sort of sector.

I was totting up what I've been doing since NY, in fact, and it's pretty hilarious because it's been everything from popular health mags to quite serious journals, plus the charity mag I've taken on, plus this editing job and another short report I edited in Jan, and stuff I write for one of the magazines published by the main UK charity supporting blind people...quite a nice range, reallyGrin

And I am always convinced I'm about to starve in the gutterGrin

Blackduck · 19/02/2014 20:54

Curious - where do you put the tennis ball?

motherinferior · 19/02/2014 20:59

You lie on it to get cricks out of your back/ shoulders. A physio recommended it when I had RSI.

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cremolafoam · 19/02/2014 21:36

The tennis ball thingy is rather good- also recommended to me by a physio, but when I was scan reading this thread I thought it was another thing you put down the bed as suggested by NUFCGrin

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NUFC69 · 19/02/2014 21:37

Thank you, MI, for the explanation - it sounds interesting and varied. I think anyone who is self employed in the creative fields must have nerves of steel.

wilbur · 20/02/2014 08:30

Morning all, MIL's cake (salted caramel layer cake) is in the oven, although it seemed a bit stingy on the batter front, hope it rises a lot. Off to Derby with ds1 later, getting work brownie points and improving his education at the same time with a production of The Odyssey (thankfully much abridged). Found out late last night that one of the largest of the new windows has been manufactured the wrong way round (height and width mixed up), so they will have to do a temp fix and then come back, which means I can't put my living room back together. Still rest of windows look great, so it's good otherwise. Very tired though, am planning to sleep on the train today.