Season of Mists and Mellow Crepiness...

[QueenQueenie]

Here you go Crepesters...

And did CDiff survive the wrath of MI?

I was exhaustingly polite and accommodating.

God I'm knackered now! And like you, the work is suddenly piling in....

Gosh I miss 24 hours and there seem to have been hundreds of posts.

Firstly Addle - I'm so sorry to hear about your father - my deepest sympathies.

BTM recipe sounds fab - I'm going to delegate it to DS (gets him off the computer).

On commas - I agree with Stropps and everyone else. Herbs - how are you going to persuade pig headed teacher that she's wrong - maddening!

Herbs - so glad bassooning went relatively smoothly.

Weather has broken here and my energy levels have dipped with it. As it's half term we have a week of doctors appointments and hair cuts ahead

Glad the recipe is so popular - it is very delish and hardly calorific at all

Adding my condolences, Addle. Look after yourself.

No cooking for me tonight; DS is doing curry at his DofE cookery course. Hoorah. When he gets back at 7pm we will be sitting around the dining table at Chateau Cointreau, knives and forks held aloft in expectation.

Mmm, just read the recipe BTM, really like the bung in the mixer aspect - I hate rubbing in for some reason and it has always put me off making shortbread type things.

Lalsy, I haven't rubbed in for years - since getting my DAunts old Kenwood when I first moved to London, I have never looked back

CV, post pictures!

"I haven't rubbed in for years" - crepey motto?

Matron!

I'm hungry and reading about SPAG hasn't helped. Off to cook spaghetti. . I love spaghetti. And shells. I have an ongoing battle with my fellow-inmates because they like penne, which I always find disappointing. Though those massive tubes are fine.

I quite possibly need to get out more, it's true.

My 16 year old this is it would be good fun to go to London with two of her classmates and stay in a youth hostel. I think this is not a good idea - I think she is naive. Would I be mad crepeys?

Mmm, I think 16 is a tad young and central London hostels are not the quiet wholesome places they are in the country, necessarily. Think it is tricky for this age group as it is a good idea for them to do something before they are 18, so they have a bit of experience....Are they a mixed group?

Thanks Lalsy - it's DD and two boys who are very nice boys but I just think they have no idea and although they travel extensively in Paris there are always parents to bring them back in an emergency and they are not there late at night.

Hmm, I don't know if I would be all that happy about that for the same reasons as Lalsy. I would be fine with them staying with a family I knew though - is that a possibility? Or youth hostelling in the countryside (as I did with a friend after O'levels!)

Are all YH rooms mixed these days or would they be in single sex rooms?

When dd has been away with friends (once when 16, once when 18), I think I worried less because it was a mixed group. I also think London is a relatively safe city at night and easy to travel around as everywhere is usually packed - but I don't think I'd want to be so far away just in case. what sort of things might they like to do?

Gosh BTM - hadn't even thought about the single sex room aspect which would mean she was separate from her friends. I think DD and I are going to be having words.

Dorms are single sex, BTM, but you can usually book small private rooms too.

I've just had some gnicky gnacky gnocchi. Forgotten how much I like it, and gets around the whole 'wheat' problem.

Exhaustipated after another day of having my head filled with pegadogic theory. Unless pedagogic already means teaching theory. I no longer care. Included terrifying session with the 'academic writing centre', which seemed to be telling us to write in the most arcane and pompous manner possible, concealing our actual meaning behind a load of code words and circumlocution. Pfffft.

Couldnt they go to Reading festival instead?!
Or do they want to go asap?

Sorry to hear about your ddad, Addle.

Is gnocci just potato then? No wheat mixed in?

BTM - I don't think they've heard of the Reading festival. This visit is supposedly to have a little look at the London uni's.

I don't like gnocchi - I feel I'm eating lumps of rubber.

Currently snarfing wholewheat farfalle with watercress and wasabi pesto. I think I must be lacking in some mineral that is in wasabi - I just cannot get enough of the stuff. Yum. Lidl do a particularly fine line in wasabi-coated almonds. Mmmm.
LOL @ your course in arcane and pompous writing, Herbs. Learn to revel in the jargon - it's the only way. I have spent today writing guff and I feel a bit mashed in the brains dept. My fault for leaving it all to the last minute. I ought to be going to bed in about an hour if I have to get up at stupid o'clock, but I'm still not quite done with my hw. I reckon ds has got NU's bug - he's not usually laid so low by a tummy bug, but he has been barfing all day, poor little chap. He's not been sick for about 3 hours now, so may be over the worst. I hope I do not get struck down, partic not when I am driving tomorrow. Maybe I should take a bucket in case. (bleargh)