Gunpowder, Treason and Crepes

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Here we are again.....

Like what, BTM?

(Do you use the word "mardy"?)

Yep, DD can be a right mardy-arse!

Jarring, for one - it so sums up exactly how you feel when someone is jarring!

Good morning Crepeys! I guess language is a living breathing entity , evolving and changing over time. It's fascinating…my favourite is how the tag question has disappeared in favour if the intonation rise at the end of a statement. Seems to be a result of the popularity of the Australian soaps back when we were all watching Neighbours! And still sounds weird to me as a habitual user of the intonation fall, even when asking a question.
OK, I am off to meet ConS. I am going to give him permission to get up off the floor and perhaps we'll get some work done

Enjoy your day, Rose.

What does "jarring" mean, BTM? Ignorant emoticon. I have never heard that, but then I don't have teenagers.

Another lovely day so we are off to Beamish with the GC. I see Newcastle was the sunniest place in the UK yesterday (proud). We managed our bike ride and I wore my winter weight lycra for the first time.

I am off to be shot full of cholera and typhoid.

Am also really fed up about the state of our house. DD2's room is a pit. DP's half of our bedroom is much the same. His tactic is to go round every six months or so grumbling about the whole house and chucking my stuff out. I do low-level stuff (and hoover the kitchen floor a lot, whereas DP runs the hoover round the whole flea-ridden house once a week).

I know I'm going away but it's going to be like this when I get back. Feels like being on a Manila rubbish tip.

Jarring means what it says. Used about people who are annoying by the way they act/go on - DD is jarring when she moans!

Good luck with jabs, MI.

I just had the best nights sleep for about two weeks (at my dsis house) my back is shot to pieces from the stupid untrained dog and I'm full of Nurofen but very bright eyed

MI, take before you go and after you get back and compare?
We have a Manilla rubbish tip on our sitting room table (DC's school books, etc)
Hope the jabs are OK. I can never remember what we have had and when and every time we go away it's a performance.

Oh god getting malaria medication down ds was a nightmare....
I too can never remember what I've had and end up having it all again!

How did the jabs go, MI. I know just what you mean about rubbish tips. The bedroom where Dd's bed was (which we gave to her sometime at the beginning of October, if my memory is right) has turned into a dumping ground for just about everything - we now have to clear it for the new carpet on Friday.

BTM, I assumed there was an entirely new

Fortunately I am going to a non-malarial area - less fortunately the practice nurse is CROSS because they should have booked me in earlier for the vacs to be more effective. Also they don't do rabies - I'd have had to go to a travel clinic and today has been frenzied (partly my f*ckup, partly CDiff - publisher otoh has been amazingly splendid, I heart her). I did get a free flu jab after explaining my mum was on chemo.

DD2 is in good spirits and has taken constructive suggestions about her room to heart. I cleared her sweets into a little bag and bunged various bits of debris in the bin and she has cleared her clothes, mostly into the washing basket.

.... entirely new meaning for the word which was probably very unpleasant, so glad it's quite innocuous!

The cat jumped on my lap, hence the break in posting.

We're completely knackered - I knew there was a reason women didn't have babies in their sixties.

The sweets were Halloween sweets, btw. She doesn't usually have sweets strewed across her floor! They were the last straw, as far as I was concerned, though.

NU, I'm just writing about grandparents - and great-grandparents - who take on full-time care of the kids. Can you imagine...

But this shows it's all for your own good!

I thought most grandparents were either out at work themselves or galavanting these days! I don't know how I would have managed without DM when I was a single parent with DS1 and working full-time!

Rispeck to all of you who have travelled to exotic places needing jabs. I never seem to….but it has reminded me that I should have got my flu one by now… MI you're trip is close…exciting!!

*Beachy I hope your back is easing?

NU I didn't do so well in my 40s let alone 60s. Your GDC are very lucky to have a lovely granny like you

I am home alone getting ready for choir..it's most pleasant.(being alone..) Kids at rehearsals, DH same place at a meeting and bring them home later. Am fighting the little bubble of annoyance which keeps threatening to explode into a bigger one. Having just sent out a costume menu for choir's end of term presentation. I then get the usual few messages asking to vary it a bit…"No near misses" I said. I mean surely EVERYONE has a pair of black trousers? GRRRRRrrrrrr

In other musical news, my kids have set me a singing challenge…to learn and perform "No Good Deed" from Wicked on account of it being semi operatic and in need of a very powerful mezzo. I think I might tell them they're on. I quite fancy a bit of teeth gnashing and hair tearing vocally. Have any of you Crepey singers attempted it?

Good session with ConS this morning. I think he'd better offend me more often. I could get used to the resulting schmooz… HerrD swept by and said "It wasn't all my fault you know…" I guess that's as near as some males get to apologising…

Feeling very crepey tonight - have just spent nearly half an hour wrestling with the new clockradioMP3 player I got for DS in the hopes of him getting up in the morning. Despite being able to program the clock and alarm, I couldn't get the radio to come on/program. DH discovered we had the mains lead into the wrong socket

Agree with Rose, NU you are an inspiration

Me too, NU

Feeling very crepey too, crepeys.

Any particular reason Lalsy?

Nah, I'm fine really just a bit snotty and all over the place.

Hot bath Lalsy? I'm still v rattly after my chest infection & steam really helps.

Frustrating evening. Long work day involving hours on trains. Big fight to stay awake on way home. Had to drive DH to choir, then pick up DD from her Phantom rehearsal on the other side of town. Got there to find they were 1.5 hrs behind schedule. Tried to phone & text DH to say couldn't pick him up - no response. DD found herself a lift home, so I went to pick up DH. He had left coat & phone in rehearsal room - retrieved them and noticed that yes, he did get my texts...

Family life .

Must say, when I was at Charing X late last night after choir, watching all the couples saying goodbye to each other, I was overwhelmed with relief that those days are long gone for me. Glad to be on way home to my beloved every night. Can't imagine now how I ever coped with a long-distance relationship.

Auriga, do you never yearn for the thrill of the new, and snogging saying goodnight at the station?

I am very envious of all of you crepey singers. I honk away on about three notes, and at least one of those is flat.

We are just back from an evening in the arse end of Surrey, watching DD1 perform The Merchant of Venice in a Shakespeare Festival. We must love her very much - a schlep out beyond the M25 after work, a walk in the rain and a long wait for a train home. There were three schools performing various Shakespeare plays: Mumbling Yanks (DD1's school), Shouty Chubsters (I have never seen so many fat teens) and Posh Totty (lots of naice girls with swishy hair, enunciating clearly in RP). The Shouty Chubsters were best.

Shouty Chubsters!

Oh yes, the thrill of a new relationship. And snogging

Alarm woke me with Back to Life - Soul II Soul - it's got to be a good day!

Thrills and snogging

Dear God, MrsS, that is beyond the call of parental duty. DD2 was miffed that I didn't take her all the way to school for a school trip and she had to struggle 100metres with her wheelie case and sleeping bag - I have nightmare day ahead and the traffic was appalling.

Mrs S - I think there's potential material for a Garath Malone style TV programme there - schools competing to do Shakespeare with your great descriptions .