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Shiny Happy Crepeys

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Blackduck · 28/03/2014 12:44

Over here all........

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motherinferior · 12/04/2014 22:22

O god, yes, Rudy, I do hope your mum feels OK.

Sainsbury's really has some terrific stuff. I'm really impressed.

beachyhead · 12/04/2014 22:23

I love that dress Herbs. And thank you all for trouser shopping for me! I love those Me and Em trousers- do they have shops or are they all online? Love the Jaeger ones as well!

I am strangely all on my own at home with terrible Saturday night telly! Dh has been called into work, dd1 has been given a last minute invite to a show and dd's is at a friend... Dd2 is asleep.

Dog with Heart had a lovely long walk today. We are taking the view of 'being sensible but carrying on as normal' for as long as possible. Dh and I watched him like hawks every time he panted slightly heavily, but no drama, and he's curled up beside me.

So sorry to hear of your friend's son, Stropps. I've only been touched by suicide once. A dear friend who had bipolar and died aged 30. Still think of him all the timeSad

CointreauVersial · 12/04/2014 23:38

One of DH's best friends killed himself about 6 years ago. No-one saw it coming. Sad

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Blackduck · 13/04/2014 07:42

Stropps that is so sad. Someone I worked with committed suicide two years ago about now (Easter Sunday) leaving four boys and one on the way.....

Loving that dress Herbs but really mustn't!

Beachy glad DDog is okay (ish). All my mutt does now is sleep!

So crepeys Wed, Thurs or Friday after Easter? Happy to go with majority....

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bigTillyMint · 13/04/2014 08:05

So sad to hear of so many suicides - feel blessed to not know of any personally and hope I never will.

BD, Friday might be better for me but do whatever suits most :)

DH is drawing up plans for today...

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Blackduck · 13/04/2014 09:01

BTM - that sounds ominous Grin

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herbaceous · 13/04/2014 09:10

Not sure which day, if any, I can do next week BD, so make plans and I'll fit in if I can.

We're off to the Olympic Park today, then a first birthday party in an O'Neills. Bizarrely.

Yesterday went to an amazingly newly redone park nearby, with gigantic pirate ship climbing frame, a landscaped 'natural play' area, and all sorts. From high points you could dimly see the Orbit at the Olympic Park. DS then went into a major whinge that he wanted to go to the OP NOW, blah blah. So the compromise was that we'd go this morning.

I haven't, fortunately, had anyone close kill themselves, but it has fluttered around the edges of my life. A teenage friend - seemingly very successful - killed himself with a shotgun, and DP's uncle fell off a building about this time last year, but leaving no note so no-one knows for sure that it was suicide.

motherinferior · 13/04/2014 10:27

I can do Fri.

Today I am mostly doing bog-all though may manage a small Sainsbury's tripGrin I also need lighter weight stuff for Ladyjogging though will no doubt come back festooned with attractive garments...

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 13/04/2014 11:23

So sad about your friend, Stropps. Life is very unfair.

My mother's kitchen curtains have a very similar print to that dress, Herbs...

Have been to Tesco and bought a load of Polish food, so we will be having pierogi at some point over the next week. Also nice Polish ham, which was cheaper than the Tesco cheap stuff, and some sausage. I hate Tesco, but we don't have anything else near us. I yearn for Sainsbury's.

Happy to do a drink whenever. Grin

MI - have you had your thyroid tested? Can you still get "Tonic Wine"? Was it Sanatogen - always used to appear in the ads in Reader's Digest, with an exhausted looking woman in a pinny, from what I remember.

NUFC69 · 13/04/2014 13:00

MrsS, I go to a real variety of shops: Waitrose, Sainsbury, Lidl, Aldi, Costco, but the best place for ethnic food for me is Morrison - fantastic range and really good prices.

I do hope, MI, that you meant it when you said you were going to have an easy day, it certainly sounds as if you need it.

bigTillyMint · 13/04/2014 14:48

MrsS you need a wee 185 trip to my local Sainsbos! Will you be able to do BDs meet up? Then I can give you your paprika presentsSmile

Well after a bad start (DD had meltdown and refused to come out with us) DH, DS and I had a lovely day pottering round Prague - it's so pretty - and partaking of beer, coffee and huge hot dogs! Brought DD a gingerbread bunny back and she has done some revision so not so bad leaving her home alone!

motherinferior · 13/04/2014 17:37

Sainsbury's is sold out of lemon frocks! Grin

I made a modest purchase of some Ladyjogging clothes and returned to sit in the garden all afternoon. I feel almost human again though still knackered.

bigTillyMint · 13/04/2014 17:57

Is it hot and sunny in saarf east Landan then?

Just been down to the pool/jacuzzi/sauna - DC were most peturbed to find it was a swimsuitless sauna. We kept ours on whilst I perved at the buff young tings Grin

Auriga · 13/04/2014 18:13

Glad you've had a break MI.

Very sorry to hear about your friend, Stropps. Hope it will not drag you down. Easy to say, I know. Suicide is endemic in our family and has blighted many lives.

MI, do you think your DGM had post-natal depression or psychosis? My mother's beloved Aunt Sarah drank bleach, leaving a newborn and two under-fives, in the Thirties. Nobody could ever understand how she could leave the children: I'm struck by the way Mum still talks about it as if her aunt made a deliberate choice. It seems much more likely to me that she had an acute psychosis. But the denial of mental illness is still a powerful force even now Sad.

On a happier note, we've had a great week singing in York. An intensive course with a well-balanced choir of 17, beautiful music and good company. It was hard work so, while I was singing, I didn't think about my troubles at all. After the performance yesterday, I was happier than I've been for several years Grin and I've been in a kind of happy dwam ever since.

bigTillyMint · 13/04/2014 18:40

That's great AurigaSmile

NUFC69 · 13/04/2014 18:57

Your week in York sounds lovely, Auriga. Did you manage any shopping whilst you were there (a break from the singing?). DD and I sometimes drive down and park at McArthur Glen and take the "park and ride" into the city centre, have a wander round and then go back to McA and do more shopping; it's a lovely day out from here. York is one of my favourite places and I just love the cathedral.

CointreauVersial · 13/04/2014 20:32

Well, our lunch guests finally pushed off about half an hour ago, and I'm slumped on the sofa with that bloated, headachey, bleurgh feeling you get after a long afternoon scoffing and drinking in the sunshine. I did a giant buffet in the end, and it all went down well, and I have a fridge full of tupperware which should keep us going until Easter.

I wore my charity shop summer dress and half a bottle of Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs and it was very pleasant on the verandah. Smile

LOL at Sanatogen Tonic Wine. My DGM always had a bottle of that on the go (and she lived to be 92).

motherinferior · 13/04/2014 22:00

Auriga, I'm sure you're right. That side of the family seems to have been riddled with mental illness...but it is hard to unpick not least because my mother still feels so angry about it and also because subsequently pretty well everything in my mother's life has had to be All About Her. Which is understandable (given that she feels she didn't matter enough to her own mother) but also very hard to live with from a daughter perspective. I was quite seriously stopped from doing anything life-threatening myself at one very bleak point by the realisation I could v probably come to with my mother at my hospital bedside lamenting how terrible this made her feel.

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NUFC69 · 14/04/2014 07:24

The comments about family MH problems were interesting: in the newspaper this morning there is an article about how trauma can be passed on via sperm down the generations. And I think I have read somewhere else (but it might be my imagination) about the possibility that knowledge of physical events can also be inherited. I haven't explained myself well there, but I mean that you can be frightened of something that you have no experience of.

Your day sounds lovely, CV. I envy the weather - a neighbour called yesterday and reckoned it was cold enough for snow! She is a born and bred Geordie so I usually believe her.

bigTillyMint · 14/04/2014 07:36

NU, that is interesting - as a child I absolutely hated the air-raid siren at the end of Dad's Army. I wonder if that was passed on through trauma (my parents were children during the war)

Auriga · 14/04/2014 08:33

Not sure about that BTM: the noise was chosen because its is so aversive, and you probably picked up some negative reaction from your parents too (even if it was only a slight shudder, and only once). Children have sensitive antennae for that kind of thing.

NUFC, I did spend a couple of hours wandering round the shops and found some decent black trousers half-price in the Whistles sale.

In the choir photos I look as though I've been exhumed for the occasion. Must wear make-up, I really can't get away without it any longer.

QueenQueenie · 14/04/2014 10:45

That article sounds interesting NU, which paper?

Auriga, good to see you and your week singing sounds most restorative.

BTM, went on a jaunt around Vienna, Budapest, Prague a long time ago with dh pre dc. Was fabulous, except the food which was shocking (were worthy veggies in those days). Your trip sounds great.

Dh announced on saturday, the day after we came to Suffolk, that actually he had to work today and Wednesday so he was up at dawn driving back to London. Honestly. Doesn't quite have that holiday feeling if he is bascially commuting to work.... hmmmph.

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Blackduck · 14/04/2014 10:57

I am dragging myself to Thursday when I break up for Easter......

It's hard...

Friday 25th everyone/anyone? Works for me - I got my day wrong - at Brit Museum then so in town and DDad can drag ds home....

We tidied ds's bedroom (got him to 'donate' some books) and dp went and bought a cheap computer table which takes up less room than the hulking great thing he had before... however in screwing it together he put the top and printer shelf on back to front so we can see the lovely compacted ply.... Hmm Knew I should have done it....

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motherinferior · 14/04/2014 10:59

QQ, I would be v tempted to throw massive strop at that.

(Says woman who puts up with regular hippy t'ai chi jaunts Grin.)

DD1 appears to have busy social life over Easter, some of it involving boys Shock though suspect this continues in the vein of Wholesome Friendships.