Sour Crepes

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it....

i'll bring the shoes to next meet up anyway. would be v pleased if anyone could use them.

happy birthday beachy's dd and bd's ds (for tomorrow).

rudy - are you always undertaking strenuous activities? cycle rides/13.5 miles walks etc - you have always so groomed and elegant when i've seen you at meetups

have a lovely bank holiday everyone. i shall mostly be working but it's good to see the sunshine outside.

That would work well, BD. I do suspect, like Addle, that my style usually leans towards the clunky and the stompy

Right, must write feature on flu.

BD and MI - The Tiny Trottered Two!

My shoes appear to be disappearing at a rate of knots to DD's school. Hmm. At last count, my DMs, a pair of clunky lace up boots and two pairs of Camper shoes.

Went to see my mother yesterday, and she was not too awful, although more tears of woe about who isn't speaking to whom on the Asda bus.

Oh good, I was just about to put out a callout for you on the basis that you might be in custody for matricide.

I am lurking in my office splodging copy about. DP may have taken one or both Inferiorettes to get new shoes. Or possibly not. Last time I emerged he snarled at me so I may simply stay here for life.

I am about to engage in gardening. DP bought a 'funky veg' kit for DS for Xmas. This involves growing purple carrots, yellow courgettes, etc from seed, which it turns out is a right royal pita. Various requirements for potting on, pricking out, etc.

What I need is that stack of old plastic plant pots I threw away last month.

And, natch, DS is not showing the tiniest shred of interest.

Then, rearranging the sitting room. Then, may fair in local park. It includes a dog show, with one category's of who looks the most like William Morris'.

DH spent his usual inordinate amount of time in the shower. Went to investigate, as I heard loud mewling. Kitten couldn't get into bathroom to get to her box, so did the world's biggest pee on my bag, which had been left on the floor. Fortunately it was an oldish bag, and the zip had broken, but I liked it, and used it for holidays as it was a cross body bag and a reasonable size. Am not sure why she chose this bag to pee on, as she usually likes to sleep on it. Bag now in bin. Cat very contrite. DH saying to send her to Battersea.

Oh mrs s. Rip nice useful bag.
They do know how to wind you up.

Today I'll mostly be sewing cushions, frayed hems and ironing . Joy.
Weather here is like January, so essentially Not Going Out. Of sunny gardening type day.
I have 3 ( three III) 12( twelve XII) hour shifts this week.
It's all go.

my sympathies are with the kitten who must have been panicking and thought it was v good idea

I think the Kitten (who is no longer a kitten, but the name has just stuck as all of my other cats have been second hand/preloved) was panicking and didn't want to pee on the carpet. I would rather she had picked a magazine or laptop cover though!

We had a lovely birthday dinner with friends last night - Turkish - yum... But three of us in a bed is really not doable these days.
Have just cooked two curries for tomorrow night and am slumped on the bed with the dog. Talking ds out for his birthday tea later.

I too tend towards the stompy MI...

Couldn't the bathroom door be left ajar for such toilet emergencies? As one would with a child?

I'm with the kitten on this one. DH goes to Battersea.

I am with the kitten too. The rest of us leave the door ajar slightly in case the pussies need to use their box. DH won't. Shame it didn't piss on his bag

Team kitten - rah rah rah. Team kitten - rah rah rah.

It's not her fault, it's his.

Hooray, no tube strike tomorrow....I will venture to the capital . We are supposed to be going on a bike ride later, but as dd2 is such a moaner, I may have to stay back with her. Otherwise, we just end up pushing our bikes a mile behind everyone else.....

Is bag irretrievable? If quality, could it stand soaking in a few changes of dilute vinegar/bleach, slow drying then leather soap? (or has kitten merely brought forward bag-buying opportunities?).

Still in bed, but starting to synapse again after 72 hrs of real misery. Cheered up this morning by the discovery that some public-spirited soul has been putting Emma Thompson's old TV series on YouTube . Enjoying the Witchfinder General, home from a hard days' burning, whose wife asks him if he'd like tea (henbane, mugwort, or tansy?) before his DMIL arrives (on a broomstick).

DD popped in this morning, not to check my pulse but to see if she could borrow a jacket. None would do but she had to try them all on to make sure. She spent an hour on her make-up to take the dog for a walk with a school friend (suspect this is the level of dedication you need to get really good at it). She obviously doesn't feel too hard-pressed by revision.

Hope everyone's enjoying the extra day off (or, if working, not feeling too hard-done-by).

Our cats pee on the bathmat.

An hour? How can it take an hour?

I had a glass of rose with lunch. Smallish glass, only 11 per cent, but feel v reluctant to continue to bodge words onto the page.

I think it takes an hour when you take it all off and start again (and again) if not completely satisfied?

I'm relaxing with a mug of Earl Grey and a Jaffa Cake - isn't the weather perfect? I was up at 7am for the monster Bank Holiday Car Boot sale at the other side of Epsom, but it wasn't really a chore getting up early on such a lovely day.

The DDs came along, but DD1 decided she was bored after half an hour, and went to sit in the car. She declared with a sniff that she wasn't really interested in "second hand" stuff (I'm not quite sure what she hoped to find, really), leaving DD2 and I hunt down the bargains. I have to say, my youngest is shaping up nicely - she bartered for all sorts of goodies. I came home with a sweatshirt, an immaculate pair of Top Shop jeans, some glasses, a butter dish, posh nail varnish, a woolly scarf, several herb plants and a really pretty framed Gustav Klimt print.

I'm very pleased with my haul, but oh my goodness, there was so much stuff. Fields and fields of it. Shocking really how many perfectly serviceable items are flogged off in an endless cycle so we can buy something "new". I mean, I'm as guilty as the next person when it comes to mindless purchasing, but I can't imagine a sale of that scale in, say, my grandparent's day. You used something until it fell apart, then you mended it, and used it some more. It made me come over all....philosophical.

Work tomorrow - waaah!

DD can take an hour on her make-up too, and she's young and beautiful She is out again - at friends family BBQ now - haven't really seen her since Friday evening! She had left revision books out on the table - hope they weren't just for show

DH, DS and I went on our bike ride along the Thames (maybe 22 miles?) and fortified ourselves with burgers and cheesecakes, so all calories burned are negated big-time!

CV, your DD2 sounds like she did particularly well. And bartering too - I still haven't mastered that, despite numerous holidays in bartering-type places

Waah indeed!

I am with the kitten, too. Nucat was seen weeing in DH's vegetable bed this morning, but at least it's our cat and our garden, if you see what I mean.

Bike ride sounds lovely, BTM. DH would far sooner have done that than work in the garden. I am knackered after having done a small portion of the patio. More tomorrow, weather permitting.

Auriga, an hour for her make up? Even when I was young and beautiful it never took more than ten minutes.

Dh had panic stricken call from DS from the airport; DDIL had forgotten her medical notes re her pregnancy. Cue quick drive to get DS to take him home to collect them.

Dinner is calling so must go ....

We have futzed about a bit, to be honest. No great achievements - Dd1 went out with friends, both DP and I did a bit of work, bit of reading (me) and hoovering (him) and he's cooked supper. We did go out to get a new coffee maker, a low tech filter thing that'll make his wimpy coffee while I stick to my stovetop espresso maker

Gearing up to my first choir rehearsal for what seems like aaaaages. Rather looking forward!

But feel so sleepy. I think it's spending the afternoon in the fresh air, mainly queueing for ice creams or bouncy slides. Bumped into lots of friends, and felt very 'community'.

Managed to leave my reading glasses in the Westfield branch of Giraffe on Saturday, so will have to go and retrieve them tomorrow. And possibly have a leeeetle browse in the shops...