Mardy Crepeys

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Done it...

I will produce a silver satchel and some sparkly jewellery tonight.

Sorry MI :(

I went looking for a shiny/metallic scarf this morning - no joy - but did resist a top and another scarf (polishes halo) Have been google street viewing QQs place and have serious house envy already.....

Oh, MI , poor man and poor family. I hope that the treatment works or at least helps.

Miserable day here and all I have to look forward to is some housework. This is a problem because when I am bored I eat - anything. And I have already eaten too much this week. We're going out tomorrow lunchtime with DC and DGC, plus Dil's parents, to our favourite Italian restaurant.

Still wishing I was on the train going south to meet you all ....

I have seen QQ's square in the actual flesh, and you are right to have house envy BD - it is Gawgus. One of those lovely squares with a residents' garden in the middle.

MI - that is truly awful. Fucking cancer - it's an utter utter bastard.

I have a hangover, after necking the red wine with DP last night. He was the one arranging the funeral yesterday, but I was the one who drank the most. Then at bedtime, DS was randomly sick, which I had to deal with in a drunken stupor. No doubt I'll find bits I failed to clean up around the house today...

I am going to bash the keys and contemplate Seizing the Day. Though if my parents are anything to go by I'll still be alive at 80 so should Earn For Old Age. Hmmm....

Don't get me started on seizing the day MI......

MI - that is terrible. I'm so sorry. The prognosis for my cousin is not good (my mother was telling me, with relish, the other day, during one of her very infrequent midnight phone calls). Will ring him and his lovely wife this weekend. They have transferred his care from the Royal Marsden to North Mid, where my uncle (mother's brother) is being treated for leukaemia... it doesn't bloody stop. Does anyone have any cheery news at the moment? A nice new baby or something?

I am off to the hospital shortly - please don't clap me on the back tonight as it will be a bit sore. I have nothing sparkly at all, apart from a pair of silver Birkenstocks and it is too cold for them. So I will be defiantly letting the side down with Blackduck. Am going to see if I can get my hair cut this afternoon as it is looking like spaniel's ears at the moment.

Dreadful news MI - seize the day seems about right.

Good luck with the hospital, MrsS. Sorry to hear the prognosis for your DCousin isn't good. Don't forget that I have a new GC arriving at the beginning of August, in fact two more friends have GC arriving in July as well. There are good things happening, it's just the particular time of your life, I am afraid.

DH has just announced that he is not going cycling, but will stay at home and help me with the housework as I have such a lot to do. This has nothing to do with the fact that it's raining cats and dogs, oh no.

Now that I have read of QQ's preparations of tonight's sparkly Crepey Summit, I am even more that I won't be there. Please oh please just one little piccy-wiccy shared somehow (obvs not here) with those of us who can't be there..

MI and MrsS, so horrible to have more ghastly cancer news. MrsS, hope today goes OK for you. I am horribly jittery about dh's next checkup, for which he's just had his bloods taken. Not least because he has the same cancer that Herb's FIL was originally treated for and I keep remembering that back when dh was diagnosed that Herbs mentioned her FIL and said he was fine. It's the unpredictability of it all that does my head in. It's all just such a lottery. I've been seizing the day all over the shop since dh's diagnosis in 2012, but am now trying to develop a slightly more balanced attitude My exh was an obsessive pension-builder and yet didn't even get close to ever collecting his. I think there may be a happy medium somewhere between full-on "eat-drink-and-be-merry..." and obsessive pension-contributing and I aim to find it.

Still wish I could be there for tonight's merry-making, though.

Crem, am of your evening class with Alain de B.

And now back to work (a not very interesting company newsletter. Yawn.).

MrsS - good luck today - hope it goes well.

Stropps :( really am going to miss you! Know what you mean re the unpredictability. It's rubbish isn't it......

Piano went fine (although dp said ds's scales could have been a cat walking up the piano keys :)

He also had some woman say 'My daughter is a bit of tomboy. She's doing grade x trumpet. I hope she doesn't grow up to be a lesbian' Ds was a bit and !

Bd how did she get from trumpet-playing to the sapphic arts as it were. ??
Bit of a stretch.
I am off to noodle about in London
Aah the freedom..

Fuck cancer btw. No words for the random cruelty of the thing.

MI and MrsS, so sorry about horrible news. Cancer is indeed a bastard.

I can't offer very cheering news but things do seem to have calmed down a bit for my dm. And yesterday I generated three huge bags of waste paper from within my bedroom, thus topping bra joy with recycling joy. So all good.

I have just heard my little Y6 playing her trumpet . Is it because it's not a gurly instrument like, er flute?

DD2 plays sax too

I may seize day in minor manner with lace pants.

Like these

Maybe 'play the furry trumpet' is a euphemism with which we are not familiar?

I seized the day in a minor fashion by going to my yoga class, but I can't recommend shoulder stands with a hangover.

I already have a pair of these racy little numbers (a freebie), which do tend to raise Inappropriate Optimism levels.

Gorgeous Herbs but are they cotton? I'm sniggering at "play the furry trumpet". I do seem to remember hearing that boys tend to go for brass more because it's noisier!

Popping in to wish you all a merry meeting tonight; hope it provides some distraction and solace for all in need of it, especially herbs, Rudy, MI, MrsS...

Haven't got any good news exactly but I enjoyed DD's performance in her school concert this week, so much so that I still get a warm glow just thinking about it. Trying to pay as much attention to the things that are going right as to those that are going wrong.

We have been distracting ourselves by re-casting Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Want to play? How about Benedict Cumberbatch for Mr Darcy, Matt Smith for Mr Bingley?

They aren't cotton, but are airy enough for that to not seem to matter. IYKWIM.

I did say to dp he should have responded with 'My sister got to Grade 8 distinction with the trumpet. and BTW she's happily married with two children....'
It was, as ds is wont to say, random.....

Quick new thread someone!