What is all this crepes stuff about?

[LeoandBoosmum]

Could some one please enlighten me!?

What crepes stuff?

Eg thread further up this board just now:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/2216737-Gunpowder-Treason-and-Crepes

I've also seen stuff like Seasons of mists and mellow crepes or some such...

Um - stating the bleeding obvious here - but if you want to know, why don't you read them?

I wondered this, I have read but don't get it

What Edith said, but to save you the time it is a long-running style and beauty chat thread. I think they've been going about two or three years. When it started it was a thread about being menopausal and having crepey skin. The participants became known as crepeys and I guess it must have stuck. I posted on the first thread a few times. It's probably been longer than two years tbh.

Edith... As it's a long-established thing (as Mintyy now tells me), even reading the threads here is not helpful. It's been going so long, I guess, that the messages don't go explaining themselves (it's for those in the know, the initiated etc!) I have read a few threads and drawn a blank, just like MiketheShite. I could have read twenty threads and still had no idea what was going on! Thanks for telling me Mintyy... I'm out of my misery now! :)

It's what's known as a Mumsnet Quiche. Do you know what a quiche is? It's the Crepeys Quiche. When they fill up a thread they start a new one, always with Crepe in the title, so people know where to find them.

ie., women of a certain age bonding over moaning about their turkey necks and thread veins and the impending doom of hot flushes.

Reading the threads won't really give you much of a clue as to the 'crepe' references because the threads are just chit chat and have no specific topic as such.

I've also always wondered this! I have had a wee read but didn't really get it apart from the S&B stuff obviously.

I thought it was about British expat women living in France hence the "crepes" ,

Thanks for clearing that, always wanted to know what it was about,

I once posted on a crepe thread as I thought it was a 'lighter' fashion thread. i got a warm welcome but after a bit one of them actually said to me if I wanted to be all fashioney I should try one of the other threads.

OOh santamarian Shall we start one? (gets excited)! We're not expat but we spend 6 months in Fr. and the other 6 in forrin lands.!

Hi there. I'm a long standing Crepey regular....

Mintyy has explained us well to you I think... we're a bunch of women, of a certain age, chatting / moaning a bit / encouraging each other... with a side order of s and b stuff now and again (but probably more about teenagers, dogs, career triumphs and disasters, ladyjogging, food, personal dramas, family crap, health stuff, pretty much anything that occurs to us really.

We're very friendly. New crepeys always welcome to drop in and / or join us!

I now feel enlightened too and like Santa thought it had French connotations due to crepes good question Leo

I'm another crepey. Heaven knows why we are in S&B; it's just chat really - about life, teenagers, aging parents, horrible bosses, the odd clothing purchase......But we all know each other quite well now.

As QQ says, anyone is welcome; a couple of the crepeys are recent additions and have been welcomed with bingo wings flapping open arms. I'm sure if someone told you to join a more "fashiony" thread it wouldn't have been meant nastily.

I'd always wondered if it was for fans of polyester :o

Oh no . If it was that sort of crepe it would definitely be wool... we are quite tasteful you know...

That's lovely. I hope it's still going when I hit the menopause. I'd like to be a crepe.

I always wondered this so thanks for asking the question.

What were the Avid and Wise (I think) lot about? And why do they seem to have disappeared?

Ahh! So that's what it's all about. Sure it won't be long until I need your advice, pleased to be too young to join something at 43!

Shit! I'm 44! Hahaha!

Did you also want to say thank you for answering the question?
Us crepeys are sticklers for good manners - we have teenagers to train up you know...

I've often wondered as well, it never made sense to me perhaps I am too young

I'm a crepey and I'm only 47 (and I'm not the youngest).