Sour Crepes

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it....

Yes, Herbs, it is very strange even though my DM had an automatic Morris Marina back in the 80's The guy we bought it from said we wouldn't need/want to use those paddles!

My diet isn't going too well according to MFP.

It's simples - not designed for burning off though although one can be quite fast because of the automatic braking thingy and not having to get into gear. Only have five seats - on purpose because my darling children are slightly older and DFIL had died when we bought it so five seats were enough .

Evening all. Hope QQ is celebrating her friend's life in style, Stropps is recovering and Windy's back is healing. I did in fact have pleasant afternoon out with girls (cake helped, natch, and they relaxed and started to have a good time); their father, by contrast, is being an absolute @rse. Is poorly (slightly and allegedly) and therefore being Martyred. He's also seeing his BF for breakfast tomorrow "as it's always impossible to see him in the evening" (his work, my singing, his hippy t'ai chi and my inconvenient habit of having a small bit of a social life because he is an antisocial bugger) and DD2 is suddenly a bit nervous about SATs and wants someone around in the morning, so bang goes my Ladyjog and DP is now acting as if I'm forbidding him having any friends at all...which I'm not, ffs, though given this is a man who didn't realise his child had Sats at all till a couple of weeks ago I do feel a bit landed once again with being Good Parent/Bad Cop. DD1 meanwhile has a school trip this week and no wellies (I had asked her if she needed them) and is working herself up about infected ears....

I am fed up and feel as if I have wasted the weekend, due to a dull, wet Saturday in Esher and today, dragging round the West End with DD2 who wanted "a dress" but didn't know what. She got shouty in New Look, as apparently nothing fitted or looked right, so we glared at each other over a cup of tea in M & S. She then decided she wanted her ears pierced, but the piercing place in Selfridges has closed (her day "just got worse and worse" ), she bought an overpriced lip balm that smells vile, declined to look anywhere else for a dress, so we went home, clutching a bag containing spot cream, a T shirt, a skirt and vile lip balm. She then didn't want to go back to school either (it transpired that she hadn't done her homework). I declined to go on the journey to school as this is the only time I get to myself all week. DD1 was at a party last night with boys. DH has suited himself all weekend, as he always does.

(oh and in ToT moment I have foregone purchasing wine )

Mrs S "bastard features's" ex wife now live in Esher . All dd wanted was a maths set, black pens and a pack of pencils for exams.

DS has evidently removed his piercing because of the weeping .

And I can't move - I'm not in much pain unless I move.

But put in perspective with BD's friend, QQ's late friend, and MI's poorly friend, it's nothing a kick up the bum or time for healing or growing up can't resolve.

DH is irritated because I'm incapacitated and DD is stressing in case she has to get up early tomorrow in case she has to walk to the war memorial. FFS.

Windy Molto sympathies about back- I am still limping - dr says he wants an xray. I'm sure standing in the wet dressed as a big pink blancmange didn't help.
Stropps you go girl

QQ I am very moved by your friend's story . I hope the life celebration is heartwarming and cathartic.

Have a jolly week all. I will be back for S&b advice presently as it is boss's wedding on Thursday.

I need new glasses. I have been talking to a folded furry throw and the cat has just walked in.

Pilates DID help me to overcome a bad back but in my case it was just a very bad case of pulled muscles - discs weren't involved.

motherinferior, sympathies, that sucks. He didn't realise that she didn't have SATS until two weeks ago .

SS - you're as bad as my DS2 who thought he saw a wolf at the back of our house - it was a rather odd grey motorbike .

@ mrs s and furry throw. I used to have a black fur handbag I regularly mistook for the cat.

You know what they say, MrsS, "should have gone to Specsavers". Def a G and T.

Windy, sympathies about the back. My bad back has mostly gone, thank goodness, but I know how you're feeling.

MI, well done re the wine. It's Dgd's first birthday on Wednesday so we're going out for a family meal on Saturday, I need to make sure that I don't let it derail me (no willpower here).

I feel virtuous, as I spent a couple of hours today "cleansing" my wardrobe. I have added to the monstrous eBay pile and filled a couple of bin bags for the "Bag to School" charity collection this Thursday. I can now close my wardrobe, and have rediscovered all sorts of forgotten things.

DD2 spent the day reading Maths books and is raring to go for SATS week. They go in to school at 8.15am for croissants and cereal. DH is on drop-off duty tomorrow, and I will be resuming my ladyjog schedule now that my cold has well and truly cleared up.

We will need a new thread title soon Mesdames .

CV, well done with the wardrobe: I did mine, plus the airing cupboard on Friday - it made me feel so good. Good luck to Dd (breakfast sounds lovely, by the way).

It's grey and miserable here so I think Alnwick Gardens will have to wait, a museum seems like a better bet.

Morning Crepeys. QQ, I hope your dear friends celebration was exactly that.

We have spent the weekend moving everything out of the kitchen cupboards as the roof is due to come off this week. Everything is now everywhere, and soon the only sink will be in the downstairs loo! Wow, some of the foods I found. Jam made in 2007 - what do you think?

I have a grumbly back, Windy, but it hasn't gone for a while. I keep contemplating Pilates, in the same way I contemplate Zumba, giving up wine, not eating crisps etc, but it somehow never happens.

Planted beans this weekend though!

No style and beauty news here other than just noticed muddy nails, that really do not go with work outfit.

Yes, GCSE RE here today - DD went off in quite an upbeat mood, very early, to meet her mate to do some last minute panicking revision. Good Luck to all other DC who are doing them - Stropps, how is your DD getting on?

I have tried to stay off the GCSE subject. Fortunately DH took pity on her this morning and is driving her in as I can't and has said he can be flexible most days this week so she isn't restricted to the school bus.

Morning all - QQ the article by your friend was really moving, a very courageous person.

Stropps - I have never been able to do the splits - I remember when they showed you how do do it on Blue Peter and practising. I never managed and think I'd need stitches if that happened now!

DH has gone back to work this week after a week of tiling. I have a great downstairs toilet now but need to clean dust from every corner of the house.

My braces are hurting my teeth - the orthodontist said normally I should have had jaw surgery. This is one thing at age 18, quite another at 50 so I obviously don't want to do it for fear of a lopsided face or something.

Hey ladies - I still need suggestions on reasonably priced areas of London, for the Franco/British friends who are self funding and so absolutely cannot afford Kensington (or even Ealing/Acton which were my suggestions). Don't know east London at all really , so ideas are welcome.

Hope all the GCSE's go OK - we don't really start until June apart from a language oral this week.

Hattie, SarfEast Lunnon gives you a lot of bang for your buck - any good?

Have fed DD2 porridge and sent her to school (where they get a second breakfast, like hobbits) and now am facing huge mound of work I really should have tackled over the weekend. Also feel sluggish as result of new Ladyjog.

Am pondering thread titles. Summertime and the living is Crepey? Summertime and the Crepeys are easy? The darling Crepes of May? And so the year Crepes on?

They're pretty open - any specific districts MI?

Hatty - will they be renting or buying? What is their budget? Do they want a house or a flat? What size/how many people? Brixton and Clapham have become enclaves of La France, due to the French school in Clapham; there is also a full on French supermarket and bakery in Southfields. Streatham might be less scary than south east London - close to Clapham and fellow expats. If not, Forest Hill, Sydenham, West Norwood, Crystal Palace. Dulwich, Greenwich and Blackheath all v expensive.

Hi MI - holding hands - ds off for his SATs this morning (and second breakfast too!) We did a practise Level 6 Maths over the weekend - on the basis of that he wouldn't pass, not that I am overly bothered.

QQ - hope it all went well.