The Darling Crepes of May

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My turn......

Long shore drift

Ruby, snap re the tiredness - have been awake since 3.30am

TofT = 10 - back to where I started.

Poor you Cremo - it sounds horrid.

Joining the tiredness club with vile case of IBS plus India fretting.

Is your India fretting and ibs connected, MI? I seem to have cracked my digestive issues of heartburn and squitty bot by cutting out bread. Don't know if it's the wheat, the yeast or the gluten that's the problem, but I feel a lot better. Rather annoying, as I'd always given food intolerances short shrift.

I do feel for you crem, with your sciatica. Does it feel that if one little thing would click back into place, all would be well?

I'm feeling remarkably bouncy today, and am even contemplating doing a Davina. Knees still hurt from. Y run on Monday, though, so shall go easy.

Bit depressing about UKIP, innit, though proud to be a Lahndanah, who mainly seemed to reject the hysteria.

ToT - 98 (I have shifted something somewhere....)

I cannot wait for 4.00pm when I can go home. I will walk the dog and collapse into bed .........

Cremo - ouch - my dad has that and has been in agony.

Talking of boobs I have a burnt one as I managed to throw a cup of hot chocolate down myself yesterday (sigh....)

Yes, they are. I have taken a bit of a grip, and looked up flights that would work for both of us (a friend is coming with me for part of it) and aren't too gruesome. So ner to self.

< ToT Klaxon > Minus four pounds! Admittedly it was a fast day yesterday, and I'd just sweated through a 'workout', but I'm rather pleased. Though it's curry and wine tonight, barbeque with very boozy friends on Sunday, and a carb-fest on the choir tour in Harrogate next weekend.

Right. Have to do difficult work. Interviewee for a feature is proving v elusive. Multiple answerphone messages to no avail...

Crem - hope you're a little better today.

I don't know what ToT is so cannot comment.

Today I'm on form, having been swimming through treacle tired yesterday. I actually took a sleeping pill last night as was sooo tired yesterday. This weekend, we have finally finished the mock exams and nobody is going anywhere - I think we're going to dig in and rest and that includes the DC's.

Wibble. dd is leaving school today.

Crem sounds awful, do vent if it helps.

Brilliant, herbs - four pounds is loads!

I went out last night for the first time in a very long time - to a meeting of the Steering Group of our parent forum - and managed to drink enough on an empty stomach to give me a hangover this morning. I am meant to be working at home but am, er, not achieving much.

Motherinferior, you must tell me more about your planned trip to India, so I can live it vicariously.

ToT - minus 600 gr, so down just over a lb this week, and almost 3 lbs in total.

I hope you're feeling a big better today, Crem?

DH has received a letter giving an appointment to see the consultant about his hiatus hernia in two weeks' time, so he's happy that things are moving at last.

I can't connect to Mumsnet on my phone which is a tad irritating; I am wondering whether I should install the app again. Anyone any suggestions, please?

When are you off to India, MI? Do your DDs wish they were going too?

Commiserations, Lalsy. DD will either have floods of tears or be non-committal and blase - but whatever she will be nervous inside. Encourage her to have a lovely summer with her friends before she goes away.

I am interviewing a folk music god today. Apparently (I suspect it was his wife, omg omg that I just spoke to) he's just nipped to the GP surgery to pick up a prescription. I am all star-struck.

I'm going in November, for around 16 days or so, partly just because I've not been for so long and partly to try and get some oomph back in the old book project. South. I shall stay with my lovely bonkers cousin here for a bit; I also need to visit Chennai, I want to go to Pondicherry (v nearby) which was formerly a French colony and I would like to go Tharangbaradi, which used to be a Danish colony. It's those overlapping places that fascinate me.

MI - sounds fab - I'd love to go to India - I spent a year there when I was a baby but can't really remember it! It's lovely to have something like that fixed for later in the year to look forward to - especially in November when it'll be freezing and miserable here.

V exciting MI.

I'm wondering if DP was reading the thread yesterday. When he came in last night I was ipadding at the kitchen table and he looked at me quizzically and said 'Are you alright?' 'Are you sure?'

Would have been a fine opportunity to take the nettle by the horns if I hadn't had to get DS in the bath, do my face and leave for a choir rehearsal within five minutes.

Mr Folk God was amazing and I love him and I'm going to go and besiege his house till he falls in love with me back.

Cremola so sorry you're suffering so. Healing vibes coming your way. Lalsy congratulations to your DD in her moving on to the next phase. Tbh I was relieved when my older DS left school. We trod on eggshells all the way through 6th form..he hated it. I was sure he was going to throw in the towel every day. Mother, I am in awe....of your work and your travel plans. My life feels so flat in comparison, especially at the moment. I am aching like an arthritic old bag after hours at Chelsea Flower Show yesterday. A lovely day but had to stay on for the corporate hospitality do at 7. Well they did pay for our tickets after all. I felt such a boring,fat frump with all those young bankers and successful, corporate women. They were really nice and chatty. I just felt like I would bore them stiff with details of my insignificant little life and sporadic work..And it looks like my aged Pa's birthday party might have to be cancelled tomorrow. He's not good at all. I've been baking like a fiend. He loves cake and scones but I don't think he's going to be well enough. Ah well..

Oh Rosebag I am kicking the furniture childishly at the anticipation of my own dad's birthday. GAWD knows where we're going to eat. DP said surely there was somewhere. If I don't do something it's going to be bloody Pizza Hut. I'm not joking. I can see it happening.

Pondicherry is lovey MI!

MI - there must be a good curry house up north

Rosebag- wish I could have been with you at the flower show gossiping about trivia. I have an old school friend who has a fabulous corporate job with all the trimmings including fabulous hols. Unfortunately though no children so although I am occasionally jealous when she posts photos of the Maldives on FB I wouldn't swap my DC's for anything. Not sure what I'm going to do when they leave home though.

Mother why not post on Mumsnet Local for some ideas and recommendations re. restaurants in the area for your Dad's birthday? Hatty strongly agree..I wouldn't swop my DC's either, although would occasionally hire them out for periods of time I don't fear the empty nest though…there will be compensations, I know it! If I'm brutally honest, I never did well in DH's corporate circles, even when I was working full time, as I was health service/caring professions..it was a kind of conversation stopper, when said what I did

Hatty, my mum is Indian and a superb cook though completely weird about food and bodies and eating - it's got to be Forrin Food like wot you eat in France.

I would be quite stunningly bad as a corporate wife.

DP has a pretty corporate job, and mercifully I don't have to go to many of his dos. The Christmas do at his (then) new boss's Highgate mansion (to which I wore the Viv Westwood) was challenging enough. The invitation said 'the usual gravadlax', as curing an entire side of salmon was what they did every year for this shindig.

It was, of course, full of corporate types, but I just brazened it out, wittering on drunkenly about impoverished life in the East End. Seemed to go OK.

Actually I'm even worse as a t'ai chi non-wife.

And did I tell you that DP's little excursion as a choir non-DH involved finding the only person in a large and crowded room to gossip about t'ai effing blinding chi with????

I bet they bought the gravadlax. Just bet you.