Crepeys in the Long Grass of Life

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Thanks Beachy for the frisky title suggestion.

Well, here we all are!

I can compete in the festival face off.... we're going to Latitude the week after next!

No sport watching menfolk here - ds2 is the only one who occassionally watches football.

No competition - our festival is a very local affair, but great fun, I have just crawled home and am crashed on the bed. Dp still there finishing the bar stint. I am knackered and need a good nights sleep.

Please, please, please don't change the arrangements on 25th just for me!! I didn't mean that at all. I may be able to get somewhere but would need to be back by 2.30- 3. DD has a doctors appointment and then a session at YT. Please arrange it it suit the majority. Day time meets up in next couple of weeks may also be possible for me mrsS .

QQ evenings can be difficult as most of my work tends to be evenings and I'm often out 3 plus evenings a week although it calms down in holiday time. Fri nights are a bit if a no no for religious reasons although I am a compete hypocrite and if it's for the theatre, I do make exceptions...I'm rambling, sorry.

DD has had a great time today as fb friends will have seen, but has just thrown a tornado of a wobbly because she wanted to continue watching Frozen which was paused from earlier. DH was watching tennis and completely ducked dealing with it. Just slunk away. He increasingly does this...leaves it all to me. Bad cop. [pissed off]

I am spending the evening in a field clutching a warm beer at the First School's 20th birthday party. Have refused to camp as am too knackered. There is a big photo display of pupils down the years, with several of dd in reception and y2. Dd's old reception teacher (now head of another school) is here and was surrounded by a whole throng of her last class at the school (Dd's lot) and had to try and name them all
Bit tricky as they are all now Y11. Dd appears to be having a blast.

Well jell of anyone going to festivals .

I've spent the evening at home treating my septic toe. The whole house reeks of TCP now .

Oh dear, OPM, that sounds nasty - I hope you have managed to do the trick.

It's a blister that's gorn funny .

Got home at 12.30am. A cracking evening with excellent bands and dd danced with me and dh (!!!!) in front of a big audience. However, ds did get up in front of said audience and tell a rather dodgy joke. You can't have everything. Still glad I'm not camping.

Stropps that sounds great. And BD.

We got back about midnight. There were a lot of sausage rolls, quiches and 50's, 60's and 70's music plus dad dancing, although one couple were amazing. No rows or punch-ups AFAIK!
DS said DD was snapchatting him at midnight from MaccyDs so I hope they all got back to her mates safely.

It sounds great, Stropps, how nice that the family can do something together.

It's a bit grey here; I have a huge pile of ironing to do, we'd like to go to see the new baby again and I have to make a dessert to go in the freezer for a family reunion in August. (About ten years ago, when we realised that the only time we saw extended family was at funerals, we set up an annual MU).

Oh and for those of you with non-sport-watching other halves, DH is watching last nights match on the ipad

NU annual MU sounds good. DH seemed to enjoy catching up with his rellies last night, some of whom he hadn't seen for 20 years. Which reminds me that I haven't seen my lovely aunty and uncle for at least 2 or 3...

Glad you enjoyed yourselves, BTM. What time are you expecting Dd back? I think there will be lots of tired people around - I hope you can have a quiet day.

Good parties, festivals had by all. We were incredibly lucky with the weather for our party. Blazing sunshine and just started to rain at 2.30 when they were all leaving. That hurried them along! We got 15 massive pizza's from Dominos for less than £100. Frankly I couldn't have made 40 lunch boxes for that, I don't think, and there was masses for the parents who did choose to stay....

I burnt mine off with a six mile walk with dog, on an unknown route, just following my nose! Perfect. It's always such a relief when you see something you recognise.

MU works well, I have a cousin in Scotland and DSis in the Midlands so we go to another cousin's house in Yorkshire. We used to go out for a meal, but soon found that everyone taking a contribution was the way forward. It's quite sad too as the youngest cousin had a stroke 18 months ago and is now confined to a wheelchair with little or no speech. He is only early 50s too.

Good to hear of so much fun being had. We've had lovely dog walks but otherwise quiet. DSis and BIL came to collect DM and take her to niece's graduation. Poor Mum v apprehensive about seeing other sister (with good reason).

DD seems happy with everything just now & really looking forward to the summer.

Gah, horrible night with nasty anxiety symptoms. I kept having horrible dreams all with the same theme of everything going disastrously wrong and it all being my fault and then I wake up with my heart pounding, drenched in sweat and feel like the world is about to end. I am "feeling the fear and doing it any way" but it is no fun at all and makes me extremely bad-tempered. CBT doesn't help with this at all as I have no control about what goes on in my head when I'm asleep.

Oops, sorry for downer post

Stropps, you are not alone. I get these too especially at times of great stress. And DHs heavy breathing/heat doesn't help. It often takes me a while to calm and cool again after which adds to the frustration. I don't think our crepiness helps either.

Feeling fat after big breakfast, but on our way home!

Stropps, I was waking regularly at 2am with huge worries about India trip till v recently and confidently expect it all to start up again soon.

Massive trek round town with DD2 yesterday to get proper visa pics and replace her birthday presents. Also picked up a Gap black maxi on sale for £8.99

Courage, Stropps. Do you write the dreams down? That sometimes helps me to disentangle the anxieties & get things in proportion.

I've finally calculated that I can take a week off at the end of August. Does anyone have recommendations for northern (or not too distant) France? Longing for some peace and quiet but dread the thought of doing lots of driving. Was incapacitated by phobic symptoms when trying to drive in Italy a couple of years ago. Can't let it ruin holidays for ever more, though.

Auriga, how do you go about writing them down? Doesn't that involve waking up properly very quickly, turning the light on and grabbing a pen and paper? I don't think I could manage that and DH would go mad if I turned the light on in the middle of the night!

We did loads of holidays in Normandy/Brittany when the DC were small. Mostly camping, but Gites de France have some lovely places. What do you fancy? Sea or countryside?

Sorry for bad night stropps. Try and keep an open mind about tonight and Monday night: you never know...

Eggshells here. Girls decided they wanted each others beds so DH doing IKEA based unassemble/reassemble x2. He is doing brilliantly with the spurious help of both girls while I clean house around them offering drinks/help moving hoover. He has to go out soon and there is possibility that dd2wont be rebuilt which would add to her always dd1 first world view and her general snarlingness this weekend. School fair and sadly rainy start to brill local arts fest. My mums area street party today. We are taking much crap bric-a-brac. Much of this is actually dds toys from bed move clear out. Can't bear to look. Too sad. One bag made a little jingle of mnostalgia when I moved it from some long forgotten plaything.

Strength and revitalisation to all festival goers.

I went down to help clear up at 8.00 this morning - nothing like the smell of stale beer -wasn't too bad, just some mega lazy arses who just left all their crap in a massive pile when they were 3feet from the bins

Came back and cleaned here but the Hoover is making a horrid noise and giving off a rather nasty over heating motor smell so had to abandon that (suspect new Hoover is required).

I very rarely remember my dreams...

Hello crepeys, what a lot of adventures this weekend. I am just back from lovely cycling and overnight jaunt with dh...our first for a decade we think. Quite a lot of wet fields.