The Shape of Crepes to Come

[hattymattie]

Here we are crepeys - Friday 13th!

Rosebag I have to confess I'm not seeking sponsors for mine - I'm just going to make a donation myself. I did a 10 k for a local hospice in April, and raised over £2k by myself, so I can't in all conscience be tapping my friends and family for more sponsorship just yet.

I have however signed up for a HM at the end of August so I think I will have to raise some cash for that. I've not done one before [scared face].

Opm good on you! This sponsorship thing is hard going. I have asked people I know to do a clearout of books for our second carboot on 5th July. People have been terrifically generous. We are just doing books at the second one- 50p paperback £1 hardback.
Bric abrac for first one is mounting in the back if my car. Dd is being surprisingly ruthless considering her hoarding tendencies ( see previous discussion)
I am wielding bin bags

Bin bag wielding sounds good Crem. I had to get really quite cross and shouty yesterday with ds2 about clearing up his pit of a room - and I don't like to be shouty about that sort of trivia if I can help it. he is a terrible slob if left to his own devices and it had all gone TOO FAR.

I thought of you and your home city yesterday - the fundraising thing I was organised yesterday involved Lord Alderdice from there and he was fantastic. Have you heard him speak ever? He was talking about conflict resolution. It was very interesting (and topical).

Washing out the various cake-conveying vessels for return to their owners at school. Imagine my dismay to find I hadn't totally emptied the tin containing chocolate fudge cookies? Nom nom nom.

Now have to repair DS's new giant paddling pool. Five seconds after getting into it, he dropped a ponty tailed plesiosaur on to the bottom, and made a hole in it.

Then to homebase for some jolly flaaaars to jolly up the garden...

Herbs, you are veritable multi tasking domestic goddess.
The cake stall on fb looked amazing! (And the wig wasn't bad either)

It was a most varied, and knackering, Saturday. The cake stall was sold out, the fair was a roaring success, and my back is very sunburned. Wig party was a top laugh riot. My pal P had a Mr T wig and stick-on chest hair, and another had augmented her eyebrows with alarming bushes. The birthday boy came as Hare Krishna.

Yesterday was spent just pottering, having a roast dinner at the local, swimming at the nearby pool, reconnecting us all.

Gold star Herbs. Lol at left over brownies. Cheeky!

QQ John Alderdice was my mp for a number of years and yes he is a brilliant speaker. sadly missed on this side of the ditch as he is a great negotiator and was, along with Hume and Trimble key to getting things amoving and ashaking in NI.

Anyone watching the Andy Murray game?

OPM I agree..it's difficult to keep hitting the same people for funds. A little while before we did the Race For Life I held an all day fund raising tea party for a related fund….I felt that I would be unlikely to raise any money subsequently but because we were registered as a group for the Race, it felt a little less uncomfortable. In the end the fund did well, and I put in my own donation. Not one member of my family coughed up a penny even though quite a few of my friends (who had also supported the Tea path) did!! The 2k that you raised alone is amazing. And you will be great for the HM I'm sure!

QQ sometimes the bedrooms just get beyond a joke. I do try (and fail) to close the door on it, but hey, a bit of shouting once in a while can be quite effective….

Herbs your weekend sounded amazing….approve of

DD went to school comatose this morning. No let up for them at all…not even a late start. Hope she's going to be ok…came on this morning and has youth theatre rehearsals tonight…I've just about got through all the smelly washing…oh joy

Are we all clearing out stuff then? I am resting as DD's room has generated so much dust I'm sneezing! Also very hot work - not sure whether actually having hot flushes or it's the weather.

Have just eaten (yet another) Snickers ice cream from the freezer - well it was just lurking there saying "eat me".

Sympathies to all those with teen bedrooms.

Herbs, loved the cakes and the wigs on FB!

We have A LOT of dust here - the builders are removing the slate tiles from the floor which is a back-breaking job. Needless to say the teens are not impressed with the noise/kitchen out of bounds

dd just got back from her last exam to find me starting the big clear out (not her room, not just yet, but rest of house which needs a good clear out). It must be some sort of un-nesting urge do you think?

CDiff, having cleared and OKd copy at Word stage, is now looking at the PDFs and saying 'this doesn't make sense' about various things which will be reported as MISTAKES when the reason nobody's done anything about them before is that they do, in fact, make perfect sense...

BTM, I've missed what you are having done, is it a new kitchen?

Yep. New cupboards, worktops and tiles plus new floor. Removing the slate floor ttiles is probably the worst job in the world, but builder insists!

Well DDil is home and supposed to be resting 'though how you do that with a 2 yo I don't know. DSis reckons it's because they are worried about the risk of infection in hospital. It's just a case of waiting for baby to arrive (which it always was anyway). Obviously they are monitoring her closely.

On another note, I now have a working washing machine, oh joy. I do think I probably need a degree in technology to be able to use it.

Congratulations to DC who have now finished their exams. A ceremonial cleaning of bedrooms sounds cathartic.

My kitchen was replaced about seven years ago ' but I could still fancy another new one now.

Nu, glad to hear about your DIL and new washing machine!

My kitchen is 12 years old and still looks good - so good that people keep expressing surprise that I am replacing it. Much to DH's amusement/annoyance as he can't see why I want to replace it either! The main thing is really doing the floor as the old floor was half black slate tiles and half horrible laminate. And one of the cupboards is on it's later legs, so would need to be replaced soonish.

Our kitchen is unspeakable

MI, I don't remember it being unspeakable!

MI - our kitchen is also desperate - I painted the cupboards when we moved in twelve years ago and that's as far as we've got. BTM slate tiles sound gorgeous - I detest the mess when the decorators are in though. Not looking forward to the painters next week.

DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT KITCHENS.

Our kitchen is 18 months old, but installed by the most inept bunch of cowboys in Christendom, as crepeys will remember. The dishwasher has broken free of its moorings, and inteferes with the kickboard. The 'dryer' element of the washer dryer has ceased to work, and the fridge freezer has started making a loud noise the whole time. And I've still got to take the builders to court about the water ingress all round the door.

New kitchen in a few weeks here too... I'm in denial atm - although I'm pretty excited at the prospect of a lovely new kitchen it's the bit between here and then that I can't face!

BTM it looks better if it's filled with people and DP is filling your glass with fizz.

What floor are you having BTM? That's my next project!

Ha, I suspect by the standards of most crepeys, my entire house is unspeakable. However, I think I am still quite amazed to be a homeowner at all, so aside from the occasional bout of gloom about living in a squalid hovel in comparison to many of my friends and relatives, I am not too fussed about it on the whole. Nothing gets replaced around here until the bottom has dropped out. We did get a very, very cheap new kitchen about 4 or 5 years ago, but up until then my brother used to get great enjoyment of being in the old kitchen as he said it always made him feel better about the state of his own house. The house was in an fairly desperate state of disrepair and grime when I bought it, but the kitchen and dining room were particularly, er, special.

I'm still majorly cheesed-off to have missed Beachy's campfest as it must have been the best w/e of the year for camping. The roofing for the chicken coop turned up late on Friday evening, so we then had to spend all day Saturday working on the damn coop. Still, it's more or less finished and the inhabitants are not very grateful. All was not lost on the Saturday entertainment front, as some friends were having a dinner party and when they heard we weren't going away, we got a last minute invite. Yet another opportunity for drunken kitchen dancing. Yay! And I bribed dd with a tenner to look after her brother. And we didn't get in until 2am. Sadly, we then had to work all day yesterday to make up for time lost to coop-making. I can definitely not accuse dh of being lazy any time in the last 10 days. The bin-flattening must have had a positive effect. He has even done the odd bit of clearing up round the house. Hope it lasts as I can't afford to flatten another Brabantia for some time.

I have applied for that job I mentioned last week. But I have no idea whether my application was in any way what they wanted. I am already wondering how to deal with the crushing gloom that will descend on me when I don't hear anything from them (likely). They will apparently get about 200+ applications. Anyway, I must carry on trying to talk to the right people and something will come along sometime, won't it?

Oh Herbs Fingers crossed I don't have a similar experience. My man installed my bosses kitchen and she is a hard task-master, so I am hopeful....

Yes, that could be true, MI

I am planning on a Karndean - aged oak I think, but I need to double check with the worktop....