School's out for crepeys

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Ooops, sorry, I didn't mean to finish the thread.

Rose, it is a tricky one, but I am sure your friend wont be expecting you to turn up. Go and enjoy your spa day.

Went to bed/sleep at 9 last night as we have to leave to climb this volcano in half an hour (it is 5.45am!!!) Feeling a bit nervous about all the mud!

BTM - you'll come back from the holiday with "buns of steel" after all that activity.

QQ - how ridiculous. I get unbelievably cross in cases like that. What if you really had none of those items? I have no passport myself at the moment.

Rose - send a card, or flowers, and your best wishes to your friend. She'll be in your thoughts even if you can't make it to the funeral. DH missed his childhood best friend's funeral (suicide) because we were in Italy, and funerals are fairly prompt in Ireland; there was no practical way he could have made it there and back.

MrsS - glad you enjoyed your break. It sounds lovely.

BD - yay for bathroom delivery! When is it going in?

I was just reading that thread BTM referred to: the OP enjoying a bit of "recreation" with her DH mid-afternoon, while she was minding the grandchild, and the DIL returns early, and doesn't take it too well.... cringe...can you imagine? Did you see it, NU?

Was that you with a name change NU?

I wondered that too

Passport update...no news. Nudie neighbour update...one sighting, as he put the dog out again.

Grrr at people who are well-known enough for agents to keep asking them for books.

I am actually unable to leave the sodding house during daylight hours now in case this effing blinding passport arrives and has to be signed for.

Think of it this way:

Option one - sitting in your house waiting for a passport; or
Option two - doing tai' chi

My passport was supposed to be signed for with DHL, MI, but they just shoved it through the door... Is Mr Inferior still calling them?

He is. MP on case again.

Beachy, you are so right. And I can eat all the things they don't like while they are out. Not that I'm getting on with enough work this afternoon; have been pointing out on another thread that I cannot work the Respectable Older Laydee look, a view with which I am sure those of you have met me will concur.

Who the heck wants to be a Respectable Older Laydee?? Stuff that.

MI you will be in the loo when it arrives - guaranteed...

I definitely don't want to be a respectable old lady - I was eying up metallic bistro crops in the Boden catalogue....

Bathroom commences Monday (wibble)

And as promised
The horror that is the current bathroom (yes that is cork you see - and the corner of one of the two non-working showers)

And the new bathroom (eventually)

Did you say that is two (2, II) non working showers BD?

Due to the weather forecast of 'shite' for our Tenby holiday, I have once again been googling 'lightweight waterproof parkas'. Amusingly, the third search result is my mumsnet thread from last year asking for exactly the same thing!

Herbs,

So you caught me out with my name change .... Anyone remember the song containing the line "afternoon delight"?

MI, and so the saga goes on.

QQ, that's rubbish. I remember a little old lady of my acquaintance who had a similar problem when she wanted to open a new savings account. No passport (she didn't go abroad any more), no driving licence, no utility bills (all in her husband's name, and so it went on.

Rose, I am sure your friend won't mind. We got back from my aunt's funeral a little while ago. Nice service and at least it didn't rain whilst we were at the graveside. Very sad, though, as it was the funeral of the mother of my 55 yo cousin who had the stroke 18 months ago and he can't speak apart from saying yes and no. He was sobbing, bless him - great big gulping sobs that tore at the heart.

BTM, I hope you enjoyed your walk?

Thank you, crepeys, for the supportive words. Can't do flowers etc CV as not allowed in the faith. Our funerals are very basic and unadorned. But I've sent lots of messages which friend has answered. And we have seven days of the initial mourning period when the bereaved are visited at home by friends and family, which i can do after Saturday. Plus the cooking. (the bereaved are not supposed to cook for themselves. ) I feel so much for this friend. She has many, many challenges in her life but is a lovely warm person, and very successful career wise ( very senior in the judiciary ) .

Spa was wonderful and hot weather so outdoor pool was used!!
BD good luck with the bathroom work

Cross post NU. How vary sad re loss of aunt and your poor cousin.

Yes - you can't see the other one....

Walk NU??? WALK??? It was a fucking 9 1/2 hour hike 2000m up a bloody volcano, scrambling over rocks and tree roots in mud. Plus monsoon rain on the down. I think probably the physically hardest thing I can ever remember doing, way harder than climbing Kilimanjaro or the full Moonwalk. I cant even move my legs at all now.
The DC were brilliant but are now baying for food. I just want to lay here.

MI cant believe the pp still hasnt come. Well I can. Beachy re tai chi!

BD we had cork tiles under the laminate in our kitchen. Very seventies/eighties!

Herbs I can recommend the cheap Decathlon ones.

Respect, BTM!

I recommend a large glass of something alcoholic and an early night.

A cold beer is going down very nicely thanks as I have only had an energy bar and about 2 litres of water all day - we set off at 6.30am and its now 5.30 Hopefully a plate of chips is about to appear.

DH has tried his best to wash the mud out of our clothes!

Back from weekend in the Latin quarter in Paris, head still full of Monty Python:

• Est-ce que Jean-Paul Sartre est chez lui?
• Non
• Oh, merde

DD and friend kept saying 'of course I am French, why do you think I have this outrrrrrrrrageous accent?' every time they spoke French. DH and I are easily amused

BD sorry about the job, hope you got something worthwhile out of the process;
QQ, sounds infuriating, glad the school is helping;
MI, enjoy your T'ai Chi-free days & hope you end up with the passport. Ours were left in the porch for any passing dishcloth salesman to pick up [Hmm].
Rosebag and NUFC, sorry for your losses. And sorry if that sounds perfunctory, I do mean it. It's just that these threads move so fast, I'm often limping way behind. Hope you can comfort your friend, Rosebag, and your cousin, NUFC.

German visitors have arrived, I have some days off, the weather's going to be gorgeous (sorry Herbs, but it is) and I'm breathing sighs of relief.

BTM, well done for climbing volcano. Your DC will always remember that you did that with them.

MrsS, can I (we) read your novel? And yours MI?

Pedant alert: there's a thread in Active Conv. with correct use of subjunctive and misplaced apostrophe. Does not compute. Is wrong the new right, where apostrophes are concerned?

Auriga, Im afraid I will remain a figure of fun/derision where anything sporty is concerned - I am leagues behind the rest of the family. There were some interesting convos en route though - inspirational speeches (with DC reeling off MLK and Churchill) and feminist issues, with DS very strongly against men who disrespect women

BTM respect!
Here we spent the afternoon with two of dp's conference colleagues and it was noted that a Y5 had written in ds's Y6 book 'he doesn't play football like the other y6 boys'. When questioned on this ds announce ' it's 22 men chasing a spherical piece of leather and being paid vast sums of money - why?' So a. That puts paid to me being kept in the style to which I could become accustomed b. A life as an (penniless) intellectual beckons....

BTM, what are you going to do today to follow up your little walk? My DC refer to me as the "mountain goat", so you can probably guess what my level of agility is like!

The painter didn't finish yesterday because of the weather so the house is still a mess and not likely to get any better soon and we have a full diary for the next few days. I do not envy anyone having "proper" work done.

That would be me NU!
Burly men are delivering my new kitchen to the building site that is my basement as I type... much teeth sucking and head scratching about the "tight access"
I keep reminding myself it will be lovely when it's all finished...

Much respect from me too BTM. I think that little jaunt may well have killed me - and I can imagine my dss flying to the moon more readily than I can picture them hiking / clambering for a whole day up a volcano. We all walked to the top of Vesuvius a couple of years ago and that nearly did for me - although that was before my reinvention as a ladyjogger.

Paris sounds lovely Auriga.

Your ds made me laugh BD. That would be the view of dh and ds1 here while ds2 is rather partial to a football game.