The Darling Crepes of May

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My turn......

Have just listened to a bit on Radio 4 all about QQ's friend who died recently. What an amazing woman she must have been.

I'm not in Yorkshire yet: just the hairdresser.

We got here. Almost 6 hours to get here and we only stopped for 15mins for a comfort break How can there be a traffic jam on the M6 at 10,30pm? Still there was no moaning at all from the back

DM seems OK, though her volume is stuck on loud! She has even organised to move to the new GPs next door but one which includes a full health check, which must be a good thing.

Rudy was your row about the US? We row quite a bit about minor details - usually due to DHs lackadaisical approach to everything

However, he is very good at humouring DM - currently looking at her coach trips brochures!

I'm here, just doing some admin with my park friends chair hat on. Rather hungover. Had a curry last night, plus much wine - most of it before the curry arrived. I'm paying for the wine with my head, and the curry with my, ahem, lower regions.

We're taking DS to see Rio 2 soon, after lunch at Wagamamas. Mmmm. Love a bit of mamas.

BTM, that sounds grim - good news about your DM, though.

We tend not to row, we niggle. DH is very even tempered, whereas I am more volatile. He does say that I nag him (and I know that I do!). I am currently turning into a very ancient crone and keep on saying things like "this house will be a pit if I die before you". (All true, of course). It's when he does things like empty the washing up bowl, and then not bother to clean the sink out after, so I go into the kitchen and there is this disgusting mess. We have a dishwasher, but he seems to think it's only for special occasions.

I guess thats what we do too, NU! He drives me mad

Ahh I heard that Stropps and didn't connect that it was QQs friend...

Here meals cooked for tonight, two lights fitted (hooray! Although a bit of filling and painting needed - at least no more dangling wires...), two beds made, peeing down...

Took dp 6 hours to get to Kent yesterday - was grim. His mum wanted him to stop over because she had to tell him his brother as something in his jaw and they are not happy (found because he had an abscess). The issue is even if it's not serious he is a trombone player (prof) and so any messing with his mouth is always a bid deal.
Sheesh - doesn't rain but it pours, what with his sister.....

DH cleaned the kitchen this morning, as I don't do it "properly." He hasn't worked out that this is my strategy. I have just had to rearrange all of the cupboards though, as he puts things in size order, so things like the olive oil and salt (used all the time) are now at the back, while things like za'atar and chrain (used infrequently) are at the front. He has taken DD2 to the cinema. I am baking bread, doing a bit of pottering and will go out when the bread is done, and if the rain leaves off. I was planning to have a mooch round Holborn, as I spent a lot of time there as a child, and haven't really been back there since my great gran died.

Aha! Talking of which I haven't been ignoring my critiquing duties, I just failed to come up with any ideas. Mainly as I don't think it needs improving.

BD

MrsS, at your DH tidying properly - sadly my DH adopts ur strategy! at tidying according to size though!

DH is giving DM a lesson on how to use his ipad!

Thank you Herbs - did I send you one, or two? (And if so, which?)

Well, I have five mugs at my side, a huge pile of Sainsbury's bags that I don't feel like unpacking, a laundry basket to sort and fold, a full up linen basket a dd to collect at 12.30 from beyond mine and Mrs S's junction (grrrr). DH has gone up North - hence the squalor - he would be nagging if he were here. I am supposed to be off all week but now have to go in on Tuesday due to a crisis that blew up. I am sorely tempted to jump on a plane on Wednesday but fear it will take dd's mind off revision.

Greetings, crepeys. I don't seem to have been around for the last few days - I can't think what was so pressing in RL, though.

I can't even begin to comment on much of the chat over the last week, except to say, Herbs - bite the drugs bullet and get your smear done, and QQ - that salted caramel tea is the absolute business.

I have come down with another cold, dammit. I tried to go to bed early last night, but as I was lying in bed I managed to knock a full pint-glass of water all over the bed, the bedside table, my books.....hot-footing it to the bathroom to find a cloth I then trod on a bumblebee (we keep finding the buggers in the house - heaven knows where they are getting in. And yes, they sting ).

And because I knew I could have a delicious long lie-in this morning, naturally, my eyes snapped open at around 6.45am. So DH and I lay in bed all morning, eating toasted bagels and jam, and watching Breaking Bad on the laptop. While I snorted into a tissue and moaned a bit.

DS's exams are the week after half term, so we face the mammoth task of getting him to "switch on" for revision over the next week. I don't hold out a lot of hope. I have Wednesday off, but apart from that I will be working, and I have two deadlines looming, so he will mainly be left to his own devices.

Sorry, BD. We'll keep our fingers crossed for him.

DH likes to throw things away, which is not always what I want. He moans incessantly about clutter and my kitchen gadgets, but has garden stuff from his DF who died nearly twenty years ago, and which doesn't work.

Home-made bread, MrsS, lovely.

Windy, sometimes a woman has got to do what a woman has got to do - just sit and look at the clutter. Sorry you have to work on Tuesday.

BD - crossing fingers and holding thumbs here.

Does anyone have any idea how to stop very furry cats shedding fur everywhere? I hoovered yesterday and it is covered in fur again, and looks even more hovel/squalor like than normal.

Bread nearly done, and was all set to go out, but rain looks imminent. Think I will just go anyway.

Dh says " just Hoover the cat" mrsS
Hopeless comment of the week.

Cremolacat 2 is a fluff monster- long haired and totally crap at grooming. There are furry tumbleweeds everywhere in this house. She has a felted tummy too from marching through long wet grass. It is matted into enough felt for a little crafting projet.
Occasionally I try to ambush her with scissors but she generally bolts and runs up a tree.

MrsS I too have not been ignoring critiquing duties, but have been writing applications and feeling wiped out - will get to it this weekend

CV - ouch!

Here it's a tres hairy dog who is the problem!

Ds has swallowed a pound coin . He asked if I could take him for an x ray on his return next week to check he's not still a piggy bank..... Told him to check his poo......

Eeeuuuuwwwww

MI are you en route yet? Skipton is lovely Is the big meal tonight or do you have a few days to ask locals for recommendations?

Taking DM to a local pub for lunch, DHs favourite so I may be driving back

Crem - like this?

We're not going till Weds. Have lunch meeting with CDiff on Tues. DD1 moaning about revision/disrupted social life because of going away; I note she has made quite a few arrangements that cover the latter rather than the former for the next few days.A bunch of them are out this afternoon with the vague idea of going to the flicks but probably just Hanging Around In The Park. DP says grimly Boys will be there.

In S&B news I have had haircut and thoroughly recommend the BIG JUGS ONLY shop in Forest Hill to any other Crepeys of a bosomy nature.

MI is it seriously called Big Jugs Only? :)

Oh no, BD, it has a perfectly tasteful name but also has a sign saying it fits G-K cup bras. DD1 and her friends walk past it on the way back from school marvelling that anyone might be in that category. DD2 is just mortified by its very existence.

DP has taken DD2 to have a passport pic taken as he insists on going to a place where it's done for you, not just a photo booth. Admittedly he's had pics rejected before, probably on basis of looking like dodgy forriner and having Muslim surname.

What about a shop called "Wizened Satsumas in Socks Only"? Well, I know I'd have to go there..

Dh and I spent the morning supporting the children's puppet parade through town for the local arts festival. Ds was in it with a giant puppet made with the Youth Theatre and is pleasingly right in the middle of the pics that the YT have already put up on FB. His class from school was also there with Macbeth-themed puppets and he got in a huff because he said the person carrying his Banquo had ruined it. It was rainy and cold, but ds had a good time anyway. Mainly because it involved having an audience, I think. The Farmer's Market was on as well and I was able to snaffle a scrumptious savoury galette and an enormous choc brownie for my lunch.

Dd sprang out of bed early this morning - utterly unheard of on a Saturday morning - saying "Yay, I can't wait to go swimming. It's just like normal life again". She only has Eng Lang and Maths GCSEs left now, with about a week to revise for each. I'm afraid she may completely lose her focus, but I must say it's nice to see her so bouncy.

I am full of snotters and have a special-issue crepey period, with all the trimmings. Boo.