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Mardy Crepeys

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SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 02/03/2014 13:17

Done it...

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herbaceous · 26/03/2014 16:43

Little Man doesn't believe me. When I was crying this morning, he looked at me quizzically and said 'Grown ups don't cry.' Then handed me a tissue and gave me a hug. He doesn't believe he's dead, though. Nor can anyone.

Mercifully the undertakers seem to have taken over in an efficient and sensitive fashion, so hopefully no more monumental fuckups.

herbaceous · 26/03/2014 16:43

The last of which is a letter this morning from the Macmillan nurses introducing themselves and their palliative care. Great.

bigTillyMint · 26/03/2014 17:03

Oh HerbsSad
What a shock it must be for everyone - so fast. But I guess that was better for your FIL. Fingers crossed the next couple of weeks go more smoothly.

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cremolafoam · 26/03/2014 20:44

Not wishing to sound flippant; herbs you are in my thoughts, Sad

But S&B weather wise
Leather jacket
Or raincoat for London tomorrow?
Please someone choose before my head explodes. ( why ? Why ? Is it SO hard to go away for two days without everyone going into meltdown??)

motherinferior · 26/03/2014 20:55

Raincoat.

bigTillyMint · 26/03/2014 21:00

Hmmm, it was freeeezing this afternoon when it started raining, and it is forecast to rain tomorrow, so I would say raincoat.

QueenQueenie · 26/03/2014 21:11

Oh Herbs, very sorry to hear your sad news. Thinking of you and your poor dh and of course ds too.

Crem, call me crazy... I vote for leather jacket UNDER raincoat... or if it won't fit then thermals under raincoat. It was fecking FREEZING in London today.

motherinferior · 26/03/2014 21:14

Yes. Am back in padded winter coat.

bigTillyMint · 26/03/2014 21:15

Actually, QQ and MI speak sense!

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 26/03/2014 21:16

Raincoat. Weekend is supposed to be warm.

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cremolafoam · 26/03/2014 22:37
Confused Fleece lined raincoat with optional hood and woolly hat? I'll leave the leather at home QQ or I'll look like the Michelin man. Thanking y'all.
addle · 26/03/2014 22:55

crem - my bbc weather says 18 (eighteen/xviii/68ish) at w/e in london ...

cremolafoam · 26/03/2014 23:02

I just saw that Addle. SmileIt'll have to be strippable layers . Can't bring two jackets due to draconian baggage allowance . One day outfit. One crepey with spangles outfit. 1 coat.
gin woolly hat.Grin

CointreauVersial · 27/03/2014 00:13

So sorry to hear about FIL, Herbs - hope you got through the day OK. Sad It seems like only five minutes ago he was diagnosed; everyone must be quite shocked about the speed of things.

At least the Catholics are pretty efficient at the funeral stuff.....

CointreauVersial · 27/03/2014 00:14

Oh yes, and Crem, it actually snowed for about ten minutes here this afternoon. Bring scarves.

NUFC69 · 27/03/2014 07:10

Morning all. Snow on the peaks in the Lake District, though we didn't have the rain that was forecast. Lovely meal in the pub last night. DD and DS have given me a meal in the Marco Pierre White restaurant on our cruise ship for my birthday which will be lovely. (Or is that Pierre Msrco White, can never remember?).

Herbs, I hope you and your family are ok?

lalsy · 27/03/2014 08:07

I am so sorry, Herbs. The speed of it is hard for you all, but perhaps easier for him in some ways.

NU, that sounds lovely!

On a completely trivial note, I am now sorted with looovely new bras, I keep peering down shirt to admire my turquoise spotty number.

Blackduck · 27/03/2014 08:32

Lalsy :) Are you getting odd looks at all that down shirt peering?

Herbs hope all is okay and yes, agree with everyone this will take time to process.

NU - sounds lovely!

Piano exam here so extreme nerves....

motherinferior · 27/03/2014 08:48

It may divert you to know that I - and several other second altos - nearly burst into the Wrong Song yesterday in a concert.

Much love, Herbs.

herbaceous · 27/03/2014 09:24

There's a particularly dim first soprano who regularly sings a couple of pages of the wrong piece of music in rehearsals before someone points it out to her. She also never actually sings during runs, just waggles her head about.

I am a second soprano. A superior breed.

Yes. The speed of FiL's demise has taken everybody by surprise. I think it was less than four weeks between diagnosis and death. He only had a few days at home, thanks to all the buggering about at the hospital. Still, at least he was there, with his family. And yes - for him, the speed was a good thing, just horrible for everyone left behind. So hard to believe he's not just going to walk up the path.

Anyway. Enough. Hoping to make it tomorrow night crepesters. DP has said he'd quite like to go back to the family, so if that's the case I'll have to source a babysitter. Who probably won't be able to come early enough for the early shift, which would make me MAD as I am simply DYING to see QQ's house.

cremolafoam · 27/03/2014 10:12

Hope you can make it herbs .

Dd has got a temperature this morning . Poor sausage. I am wrestling again with bad mother syndrome , swanning off to London blah blah blah.Biscuit

motherinferior · 27/03/2014 10:18

I have a long saga of missed trains, wrong trains, teenage babysitter having to go last night, neighbours with phones on silent, which resulted in Inferiorettes alone in house at 9pm for about an hour last night. Really bad mother syndrome.

I sent out an email to my fellow choristers about the divine Mr McGann and have had responses from Lady Choristers of a Certain Age (including Wilbur's lovely friend) all gnashing their teeth at missing him Grin

wilbur · 27/03/2014 10:33

Aha, MI, I was wondering if you and lovely friend had worked out the mutual connection Smile. Now I really have to come to one of your concerts! I'd also quite like to see if she wishes to meet your elderly primagravida friend as they have quite a bit in common, iykwim.

Hope you can make it tomorrow Herbs and hope the next few days are ok.

herbaceous · 27/03/2014 10:44

I have finally submitted my PGCE application. Got sick of the sight of the bloody thing. Did get some very cockle-warming references in the process, though. Always nice.