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Sour Crepes

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QueenQueenie · 24/04/2014 22:42

Well someone had to do it....

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Cremolafoam · 01/05/2014 19:27

Thanks MI , CV, Stropps and BTM

Herbs, the course sounds sensible. My DF has done several of theseBlush
( obv before illness) and was delighted to report meeting many people he hadn't seen for years and that the coffee was very good indeed.
< rolls eyes>

Stropperella · 01/05/2014 19:27

That must feel very odd, Crem. But yes, now on to the next phase. Whatever that may bring.

I have to say I'm going to be breathing a great sigh of relief once dd takes off the uniform for the last time in about 6 weeks. Her blazer is hanging in shreds anyway and is now looking like an explosion in a paint factory. Defiantly unsmart.

NU, shame about the weather, still sounds nice though.

bigTillyMint · 01/05/2014 20:52

Cremo, your DF is a cardGrin

DD has just been interviewing us about our views on diversity for citizenship. They were given questions to use - talk about lame and repetitive so we were reduced to trying to outdo each other with inclusive jargon.

Blackduck · 01/05/2014 21:52

Quick post - haven't read all.. But MI GO - I will give you places to eat ...

Auriga · 01/05/2014 22:44

Hmm. Insomniac week; grim problems at work, upsetting phone call about sister and definite symptoms of evolving throat/chest infection (due to sing in concert on Sat).

Got home from work at 7.30 tonight & as I stepped out of car a motorcyclist crashed at the junction. Spent 50 (fifty, L) minutes crouched in the rain with him till ambulance arrived. An off-duty responder came & helped. Traffic kept zooming past inches away, till police turned up (after an age) & directed it. A bystander lit a fag, right next to the puddle of petrol I was kneeling in Hmm. Think casualty will be all right.

Can I rewind the week and start again?

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QueenQueenie · 01/05/2014 22:59

Bloody hell Auriga, that's a hell of a lot going on.
Sorry to hear things are difficult on so many fronts.
You are indeed a Good Samaritan though!

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MmeCholetofTheCommon · 01/05/2014 23:17

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that - I think you were the lady sitting between BlackDuck and QueenQueenie?

I'm Windy.

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 01/05/2014 23:22

Good grief, Auriga. I hope you treated yourself to a nice glass of wine after that.

I would like to meet Crem's DDad, he sounds great. And Stropps' DDog. I am howling at the thought of him wagging his tail to "Dogger." Did he growl at "German Bight"? DCat has just fallen off the sofa. The kitten has given him what I can only describe as a pitying look.

I am fed up. I would like someone to: book a family holiday, so that I don't have to do it, do the week's shop, so that I don't have to do it, change the cat litter, so that I don't have to do it, take the DDs out for a few hours at the weekend, and give me a couple of hours of time on my own. I wanted to take the DDs to Paris for a weekend, so that they could go to an event at their old school, but Eurostar prices are horrendous, and it would cost us just short of £600 for one night away, so I have said we can't go. Sad

I am working with someone I used to work with, and socialise with a bit, around 25+ years ago. Grin We had a meeting this afternoon to discuss a Comms plan, but instead talked about the riotous time we had in our early 20s.

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 01/05/2014 23:33

Dancing on the tables at Le Corbeau in Brussels, getting hammered in La Morte Subite, pub crawls in London, pushing her in a supermarket trolley down the King's Road singing "Spirit in the Sky", staying in the office bar until 4 in the morning, dancing at the Hammersmith Palais. It was bitter-sweet though, as both of our boyfriends from that time died recently, and we talked about other friends who were no longer with us.

I am making my cousin, who is undergoing radio and chemotherapy a box of brownies - should I send his lovely wife a bottle of vodka as well?

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QueenQueenie · 01/05/2014 23:50

Definitely Mrs S. If that were me I'd want brownies AND vodka.
Get you in your heyday though! What larks.

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Blackduck · 02/05/2014 05:53

Auriga blimey what a week!

Here the child whose mother did the 'oh I am not sure x will like that' to one party outing idea is now ill and possibly unable to attend but she'll let me know tonight (the outing is tomorrow - early start, tickets booked and paid for AIBU to think that's really not on and I need to know sooner?)

As I said Venice - yes I'd go back like a shot any time of year! Not cheP, but loved it - the local drink /0- racks brain - looks like ironbru but is nice :)

Chemo great post - long while before I'm there - at the moment ds is dealing with the trials of y6.

NUFC69 · 02/05/2014 06:35

Not on, BD, that's not the right thing to do. I hope you hear soon.

Auriga, I hope you're feeling ok today after your traumatic experience yesterday? People just don't think, do they? Did you say anything about the cigarette?

Regarding Venice, we had lunch in what can only be described as a working man's caff up a little side alley: we really enjoyed it - good cheap food plus atmosphere, what's not to love? Amazed to see they took luncheon vouchers which I thought had disappeared. We met three women who had coffee with cream in St. Mark's Square (orchestra playing) - â?¬53 - yes, fifty three euros! Almost fainted with the shock when I heard.

bigTillyMint · 02/05/2014 07:02

Oh Auriga, what a week. And how kind of you to stay with the motorcyclistFlowers

BD, she sounds like a right one. Is there anyone else you could take?

NU, that has to be the most expensive coffee in the world. Unless anyone else knows better?!

lalsy · 02/05/2014 07:30

Crem, a milestone indeed, and a lovely post.

Auriga, blimey, poor you.

NU, welcome back and sorry to hear about the weather but it does sound interesting.

motherinferior · 02/05/2014 08:13

Auriga Shock I do hope your throat gets better. I once had to walk out of a concert where I was singing right at the start, as I knew otherwise I'd be coughing all the way through. I was at the front and it was undignified but bitter experience told me what would happen otherwise.

Braced for another vile day though also have eyebrow threading (10 mins round corner) and will drop in to see beauty journalist friend tonight who has had a clearout of Stuff Grin. Anyone got any particular requests - think it'll be sparkly nail varnish a gogo?

And anyone in the vague area of Sarfeast Lunnon fancy the pub, as mentioned before, tomorrow?

SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 02/05/2014 08:20

I am up for the pub, MI. GrinWine

Blackduck · 02/05/2014 08:31

I'd love to come to the pub!

BTM I have lined up another child, and sent a text this morning all sympathies, but please could I have a response by lunchtime today as to whether x is coming or not. I wouldn't mind if it was a normal 16 kids in a church hall, but its not, its four kids and an expensive day out...

NU - yes I had a friend who had a coffee and one beer and came of £48 poorer in St Marks Sq......

bigTillyMint · 02/05/2014 08:45

MI, me too if DH will do the teen pickups (if that is what they decide to do...) - where are you thinking?

BD, too right!

herbaceous · 02/05/2014 08:54

Bah. Won't be able to make the SE crepey piss up, as DP will be out. Again.

I should be going to my yoga class this morning, but can't really be arsed. I'm telling myself that it's because I need the time to tidy the house massively before the babysitter comes this evening. But really it's because the class is beginning to annoy me: tiny room, lots of people, and no instruction any more - we just do our 'practice' at our own pace, and she occasionally comes along and repositions a leg.

And yes BD. Precious Mum needs to get her head out of her arse.

motherinferior · 02/05/2014 09:52

I'm thinking the 185 bus route, BTM Grin. I have a few ideas...Lalsy/addle/anyone else on for it?

hattymattie · 02/05/2014 10:23

Cripes Auriga, heroic. Can't believe help took so long coming and nobody else stepped in to help.

lalsy · 02/05/2014 10:30

MI, I'd love to but must/want to try and see dh over the weekend and Saturday night is usually a good bet.....will find out what if anything is afoot here.

BD, I think if a child had been poorly, the decent thing to do is to pull out of an outing like that, because it will spoil it for everyone else if they are still under the weather/flake out part way through. ds gets migraines and had a run of parties and outings in year 5 and 6 that he had to miss, I just felt the birthday child had to come first.

Cremolafoam · 02/05/2014 11:01

Auriga what a star you are, in the face of an appalling situation. Hope you and the motorcyclist are both ok today.

I am hoping for a quiet and un eventful weekend before everything work wise kicks off next week.
Dad is due to get home tomorrow if his blood work is in order. So fingers crossed for that. Dd has her first exam on Tuesday and I'm having a boozy lunch with my dsis on Sunday which I'm really looking forward to. (Her belated birthday pressie)

Poor sick puss has a cut on his tongue ( possibly from a tin can or similar) so we are forcing antibx into him. He has full blood work done yesterday and is borderline diabetic possibly. Now he is limping alarmingly ( I think where they took the blood from) and is very very sad.
Back to the v.e.t. Later.

motherinferior · 02/05/2014 11:16

Have suspicion I'm going to be sacked from this job. If so, soddit.

Blackduck · 02/05/2014 12:57

MI - why? What's happening?