Sour Crepes

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it....

I too am afflicted with a partner who refuses point-blank to camp. He cites O-level Geography trips as enough camping experience (those being a mere 32 years ago, which is clearly not enough to get over the trauma).

It's not the camping that DH is worried about, it's the hairy-handed crepeys

Tell him I'm quite nice really and that he can call me Trevor and sit in my truck BTM.

I thought it was just mine who has a canvas phobia. He spent his childhood/yoof on camping or caravanning holidays and now wants fixed walls

Tell him we'll all wax for the occasion BTM

I may need entertaining to get through tonight. At a and e with dd who has suspected appendicitis. It is heaving. 50 minutes and no triage yet.

Oh god, no! You poor things.

Herbs, diluting a Date Night with a communal table sounds perfect to me but then OJ Evening is still fresh in my memory.

Oh windy, fingers crossed you get seen soon...

QQ I heard of people like you ;)

We haven't really had a night out just us for months. And so much has happened of late - dead dads (his), failed attempts at new career (me) - that it would be nice to be able to talk freely, like.

Oh windy
Bloody nightmare . Hope dd is ok.

Anyone want a thirty (30, XXX) per cent discount off Timberland, including online?

Failing that would anyone like DD2 who is being a shouty PITA (this may be SATs related but I frankly don't care)?

Ugh, Windy - fingers crossed you get seen quickly.

Windy, I hope your dd gets triaged very soon. That's miserable having to wait so long.

Oi, Trev, can I sit in your truck too

BTM, but, but, my hands aren't THAT hairy... (well, they may be a little more hirsute during a full moon).

As dh and I spend virtually every waking hour together, a date night seems a bit ... superfluous. But maybe that is missing the point. We need to go out for a few evenings this summer, whilst dd is around to baby-sit ds. Am reasonably confident that this might be something she could now do without there being a major outbreak of hostilities between her and ds.

This evening I made a Persian herb frittata for supper (recipe from last Saturday's Guardian). Ds claimed it was like eating grass pie. Does anyone have a really good, non-grass-pie-like frittata recipe?

Yes Stropps, I did remind him that he had met you and found you very normal!
And that sounds like a good step forward - that DD could babysit.

Have just sat through an hour of DD ranting at me, but this is an improvement on her bottling it all up. I think!

We just have omelettes here as DS doesn't like random veg in with his eggs. How about Spanish omelette?

I suspect my antipathy for Date Nights is not a good thing

In my defence we never really got any pre-children time anyway as I had DD1 about 14 months after our first shag date. And DP is quite fiercely private and rather likes spending most of the evening in a different room - quite often on a different floor of our house. I've got used to this and in some ways appreciate it - it makes it possible for me to have my own social life - but I do also find it a bit hurtful as it implies I'm not really worth spending the evening with.

MI we spend every evening in the same room, but DH is far more interested in his ipad than me!

Stropps, I made a Sicilian herb omelette once, which did not meet with rapturous applause. DD2 said it "tasted like sick" and she did have a point. I'd stick with spuds, onions and peppers.

We are having a sort of date night tomorrow, in that we are going out to see a friend (one of mine; DH doesn't have friends) in a play. DH has asked if we have to go...

Oh Windy, hope she's OK.

MI - we are also in full SATS prep mode. DD2 claimed that she "aced" her Maths test paper today, then was found fast asleep on the sofa about ten minutes later. DS and DD1 both have exams in the next month, so it's going to be an interesting few weeks.

Grass pie. I love it how families are so receptive to new dishes, so balanced in their feedback, after we've slaved away in an attempt to bring them something interesting to eat......

I liked that NY Times piece, Crem.

I can't believe how many canvas phobic dh's there are . I will admit, there are a few people who crrreeeep into the house late on Camp Night and find a small corner, so they don't have to sleep next to a snoring, bonfire smelling dh!

We don't do date nights either - we used to do lunch dates when dh had one weekday off a month and I liked that, but evenings means one person has to be the designated driver, which is never as much fun!

Art AS tomorrow....still undecided on which piece to draw....she's really into etchings and keeps asking me to 'Come and see my etchings' which makes me laugh. Can't remember where the saying comes from

Ds is also in SATS mode - I am trying too downplay it...

Dp sounds like Mr MI - far happier in his own company. It does make you wonder....

It took two hours. Dinner has been served. The diagnosis: stress (GCSE) related dysfunctional bowel. It has calmed her down because she was working herself up to what would happen if she couldn't revise until Monday. We had a chat on the way home about 100% not being essential in exams . And then a chat about it doesn't matter if she even gets A* on a scrape because HE got 99% for four subjects and she can't ever be as good.

Why is parenting so hard?

Poor both of you, Windy.

In all honesty you wouldn't know DD2 had Sats, but I suspect it's playing more on her mind than she admits.

Poor you and dd, Windy. Try some Buscopan or peppermint oil capsules. Might help calm it. My ds suffers stress related IBS and it has such a strong physical effect.

Exactly what the lovely doctor recommended Beachy. She's going to school tomorrow and Friday - study leave next week. Usually I hate working at but I'll get myself organised tomorrow and arrange to work at home as much as I can for the next few weeks. You think they are so grown up.

PS - dd's the only family member who likes camping. DH remembers camping and licking a cornet shared with his sisters as a child and will never go back to "holiday misery". I'm sure he'd like it if his parents had enjoyed themselves.