Season of Mists and Mellow Crepiness...

[QueenQueenie]

Here you go Crepesters...

Yummmm! You are making me feel peckish, despite having snarfed a Curly Wurly that DD turned her nose up at

MrsS - no, the party girl was from the other secondary in town. And the adult gatecrashers were there for one purpose - to sell drugs.

Anyway, DS has gone rather quiet on the subject now. I suspect that I wasn't the only "mean parent".

Meanwhile, feeling a bit guilty (as I'm clearly ruining DS's life), I popped out for takeaway pizza, but the combination of Friday evening traffic and roadworks turned it into a one hour round trip. And now I feel all bloated having eaten three quarters of a Papa John special. Which was lukewarm. Bleurgh.

Never mind, eh. Gogglebox is on! Leon and June are definitely DH and I in ten twenty year's time.

I keep thinking about you when June tells Leon off, CV

Who are the three clone Bromley boys (actually they are from Reading I think, but that is what that look is known as round here!)?

Menu A looks great. Crem, do we need to order extras now or are they an on the night thing?

We are happily ensconced in our friends house in Cornwall, doing an open day tomorrow. Hey, nothing like 10 hours driving in a weekend to relax. Gogglebox and wine are helping.....

Love Leon and June

Beachy yes, I need to or order it all in advance.
That's great crepeys, and good to have a bit if consensus. I will ask for the veggie things to be plated up seperately.

Rose, sorry I should have asked about kosher, and still can if you wish.
Ok off to bed, with appalling headache. Will reconvene tomorrow to finalise.
Please have a look if you haven't already.

Hi Lovelies,
Agree re Menu A. If we're ordering from the extras too a vote for the chicken and pepper skewer things... I'm not doing carbs still (well will make an exception for some red wine) but happy to pick and choose from that lot. Sounds really good Crem. Thanks for taking on the job of organising us!

I don't suppose the wheat-free stuff could be plated up separately so me and herbs can pig out ? I could produce my allergy test results if staff are sniffy about people making a fuss. They don't want me to go into anaphylactic shock on their premises. (I wouldn't actually, but y'know..I have the zeal of the very newly diagnosed.) Truthfully it doesn't really matter for me if it's not kept separately. I think. Although I haven't had any advice on the matter, so I don't know. Anyway, if it's not separate, I'm still gonna eat it.

I'd love extra orders of Rocket, chicory and carrot salad (n) 3 Fennel, Apple & walnut slaw (n) 3, Sweet potato wedges 4.

Thank you so much for organising all this, Cremo.

Forgot to say - yes please to menu A.

Leon and June I'm not sure he got her vital statistics right though! I can't believe he's nearly 80.

The food sounds lovely.

Feeling better today, thank goodness. DSis and her DH are here and, of course, the weather has changed and it's bucketing down so I don't know what we will do for the day. One possibility this afternoon is a trip into Newcastle city centre (we worked out yesterday that they hadn't been since the DC were small). We think we will delay our trip to the Sunderland Illuminations until tomorrow night.

Oky doke, I have come up with this so far. If anybody is desperate for anything in particular please speak up>

Veggie Grazer Board:£42
Butler’s Cheddar mac n cheese £3 X 3 = £9
Potato Leek and cheddar bites £4 x3 = £12
Fennel apple and walnut slaw £3 X3=£ 9
Sweet potato wedges£4 x3 =£12

Fish & Meat Grazer Board : £45
Deviled whitebait £5 x3 = £15
Crispy Squid £5 x3 = £15
Buttermilk chicken £5 x3= £15

Platter A
X 10 = £100
Triple cooked chips
Mini quiche assortment
London bangers with wholegrain mustard
Garlic bread
Five spice beansprout, pepper and carrot spring rolls
Vegetable Samosas
Mini chicken and pepper skewers
Beetroot and potato wedges
Allotment Salad

Grazer Board: £87
Platter A: £100
Total: £187
Divided by 17 = £11.00 per person

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A* from me Crem . Thank you so much for sorting.

Well, dd has gone off with 11 strangers to somewhere remote with no mobile signal on a camping trip from university and I am feeling fully human for the first time this week. May even doa little light housework.

NU , so glad you are feeling a wee bit better.
BTM I am astonished that Leon will be 80. They are just great.

Big thank you to Crem

NU, they're too little for Seven Stories, aren't they; I love that place.

DP has taken DD2 to dance. DD1 is insistently lying in bed even though I have pointed out she has exams next week and her uncle is coming. I am putting off writing deathless prose and doing music practice.

Thank you very much, Crem. I am v happy with Menu A, btw, in case you needed to know that.
Reporting in from under piles of "stuff". Operation Chimney Removal complete, but we need a plasterer to sort the hole in the ceiling, dh to paint the whole v large room, electrician to sort lights and new carpet (old one has disintegrated in extremely unhealthy fashion). Therefore the contents of our large office are now squished into the rest of the not-large house. Computer network on diningroom table. Dd has a fridge in the middle of her room. Chaos is generally reigning and I have to somehow get my assignments done by the end of the weekend.

Cremo, that sounds delish - you will have to form a human barrier infront of it! Thanks for organising it

Stropps that sounds challenging. But I'm sure you can do it

I went for a coffee with friends this morning after doing a few errands, and couldn't find my keys when I got back. So after picking DD up from coaching (which took 45 mins due to the darn private school open mornings and the fact that she was practising standing flicks for a gym display) I went round the establishments I had been to earlier and my keys had been handed in at the café

DD now has my cold but DS and DH have gone to the match and I am going to bake some

Thanks for the good wishes. DH is recovering really well and we are all pretty grateful for that. Life still seems damn busy though!

Dropping your wallet, losing your keys.....is senility creeping up on you, BTM?

Crem, you are a superstar for organising the grub. It all sounds delish.

A ... What was the question again?

The food sounds amazing. crem thank you !!! i never need anything special! I always manage to find something veggie! no worries.
I'm wiped out. Felt unbearably nauseous this afternoon after taking
Cocodamol for backache on an empty stomach. How stupid was that. Then the day continued to sink further into madness when DM and DDad turned up having tried and failed to open DSis's front door ( the latter was out...) and DDad who can't fast as diabetic, needed food to prevent going into a hypo. Turns out Dsis and DBIL had changed the locks and not given DM the new key.
Glad other crepeys are on the mend.

Sadly yes, CV

Just went to see Pride, finally - it was great and captured that moment in time so well. Bit emotional though!

Rose re the key.

BTM did everyone clap at the end- they did here ! Wasn't Pa ddy Considine amazing. Particularly emotive for me as I was at Pride 85.

Rose , as a fellow diabetic I sympathise with your poor dad. Probably a contributory factor in me being a lapsed Jew tbh.
That's good about the food. Will order up tomorrow with Alex The Mulberry Man.

Yes! And the screen was packed - brilliant atmosphere.
In fact the cinema was mobbed and we had to queue for 20mins to get tickets! He was great and I loved the guy who played Mark Ashton. And all the miners wives... in fact, I loved it all!

crem the extent of my "lapseness" (whatever the noun is…) is a source of growing embarrassment to my family…. Poor DDad….naturally a diabetic mustn't fast but because of his dementia he kept asking us if we were going to join him for lunch. If DM hadn't been there I would have had a bite with him tbh…

Supposed to be going to see Pride tonight.