Forever Autumn Forever Crepey

[cremolafoam]

The summer sun is fading as the year grows old,
and darker days are drawing near,
the winter winds will be much colder,
now you're not here.
I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
and one by one they disappear
I wish that I was flying with them,
now you're not here

Ooh yes, bake off! And I have been drawn into CBB by DD - Gary Busey is soooooo disgusting

Hatty she'll be fine. I am mostly expecting dd to live on Nutella sandwiches . After we did the sums for rent, food , travel( the boyfriend & dds brother are in Edinburgh)books and phone she'll have precisely £27 per month to blow on partying. She'll have to sheer of some money from travel or food to party. I'm guessing it'll be the food budget. It is Scotland , so obv veg is optional.
Packing the car ATM for departure tomorrow. Sad and happy all at once.

Also waiting for GBBO . Unreasonably excited

Also crossing fingers for the ET.
Am familiar with the two week wait and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy MI. All the best to her.

Oooh, Crem, I hope the journey and settling in goes smoothly. Such a mix of emotions.

Lalsy, I am a headless chicken.
Dd is zen. I am frantically crossing off lists and she is eating yogurt out of a giant pot noodling on her PS3
Grrrr

Oh Cremo....

DD2 is mucking up her geography homework. I think I need to leave her to it and she can start seeing that she's getting it wrong....she's always been like this, since a toddler.

And breathe Crem...... We are still missing a tin opener and a bible......

Cremo, I saw on another thread that they should arrive with a "friend-making cake" and maybe a bottle too! So no watching GBBO - you need to spend the time baking

Hi from Lake Tahoe - sorry I still have no time to read anything, but I am on a timed computer.

MI, I have picked up that things are not good for your mum - so sorry to hear this - am thinking about you.

We hired bikes yesterday and rode round some of the Lake, stopping at almost deserted beaches to take in the view - absolutely stunning. My derriere is not good today, though, as US bikes are not like the ones at home - difficult to describe, but the positioning is not the same so I ache in places I didn't know I had.

Good luck tomorrow, Crem, it will be a long day, but I am sure you will be fine (and also DD, of course).

NU - I always ache on bikes - US or otherwise.

Crem - really good luck for your trip to Scotland with DD - we still have a couple of weeks to go so I am occupying her by making her paint the hall. She also has a pre arrival internet course including three essays. She sent off one already and it came back marked the next day!

Am I the only one who clenched when reading NU's post? (Not Rudy, obviously, who is a sleek Goddess of the Two Wheeler.)

No MI - the saddles these days are definitely too narrow .

Bike saddles play merry hell with my 'area', especially if any leaning forward is required. I need a kind of gel-filled armchair arrangement.

A few minutes ago I there was such a massive noise I thought the world was about to end, and then the Red Arrows flew over our house! Patriotic trails and everything! Must be to do with the Invictus Games at the Olympic Park down the road.

DS is in the bath. He just handed me a stone he'd found in the playground and 'put into his pants to keep safe'. A pocket just wasn't secure enough, appaz.

When I left home I lived on fish fingers, oven chips and Angel Delight for the first three weeks, because I could. Then I went back to cooking proper food again.

good luck tomorrow Crem and dd

I took a bottle of cointreau and a packet of lapsang souchong to university with me. I thought I was SO sophisticated

you were, addle, you were.

Lol Addle! I took a bottle of Fitou and a packet of Rothmans. I was classy, but failed to be understood by anyone , such was my strong Belfast accent first house share was in Crystal palace by the Police stables.
Horses everywhere.

BTM my mother made a giant Guinness fruit cake before fled parting on Reckless Holiday so all is saved

Awww.
Hope their hol goes OK and you don't fret too much - two going's off at once = very stressful.

Addle, LOL at Cointreau and Lapsang Souchong. I would have heard of Cointreau, but not the tea!

I don't remember cooking anything in the first term

So CV your love of Cointreau is of long standing and predates you mn name.

I was soooo sophisticated that I took a bottle of Campari that I'd bought in Italy and promptly spilt it on my hall of residence room's carpet. The stain looked like there'd been a murder and the smell lasted about 2 terms.

I ate a lot of supernoodles. Curry flavour. Why???

Very good luck with your big trip Crem. Be brave. Or pretend to be brave

Yes, hope all goes well on all fronts, Crem.

I seem to remember living off Dairy Milk, vodka and wilted lettuce for at least the first year. I don't remember cooking anything. In fact, I am not sure that I remember cooking anything very much until I was about 30.

BD, I start the course on the 23rd. Am now worrying that I will spend loads on money, time and effort and then won't be able to find any work. Have contacted local schools in an effort to get a bit of voluntary work/observation opps, but can only dedicate a small amount of time to this as there is the thorny issue of still having to carry on in current job as otherwise we will starve. We suddenly have loads of work in for the next 10 days and I still have to do some course prep as well. I can do this, crepeys, can't I?!?

Hope it all goes well Crem.

I arrived in my house share in Streatham, aged 19, with a bottle of Pernod and a Serge Gainsbourg tape.

Stropps, of course you can do it. You are Wonderwoman.

Stropps you will be fine and you can do it .... And you have this Hugh untapped crepey resource :)
We will find a way :)

Huge! (No idea who Hugh is :) )