Crepeyistmas Time, Camel Toe and Whine...

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Pandering to the uncouth...

Thanks for all the good wishes re the piano exam. DD said it went well and thinks she has passed. I hope that her confidence is not misplaced. She did work hard towards the end so I hope she did enough.

Last event of the weekend - party at the Scout Hut. Have a lovely entertainer person coming and he kindly said that I only needed to do food and party bags. Cake finished this morning, party bags done when everyone was ill and just got to pitch up and cook pizza. A large gin beckons at about 6pm.

Stropps, I hope your DD is OK. Sorry to hear about the eczema. We've not had that so I don't know how to cure it but understand it is v painful. Hope this week goes well

I will sort my SS tonight, promise.

Good news about the piano exam, Monty - good luck for the party.

Dd has never had eczema before, so I'm not sure what to do. In fact the GP thought it was folliculitis, but the stuff he's prescribed did nothing. So she needs to go back, as the rash is a) stinging, b) itching and c) looks a right mess that she is desperately covering up with loads of makeup, which probably isn't helping.

BTM, I think I'm going to spend a lot of time playing board games now too. :) Sorry to hear your dd is sweating it out with her CAs. Nearly the end of term...

Monty that's great about your DD's piano exam

Yes, only one more week, but she did say she might stay in school on Friday (they finish before lunch!) to do ICT course-work

New wifi printer/scanner set up and working!
Gingerbread dough made - now needs to cool.
About a quarter of the French learned.

Nah, BTM not at all . I think most games apart from Risk and Monopoly are fun with the right people, because they are just a forum for banter, as the dc would say. That one that sounds offputting is like that thing that used to be on the telly with some old men in it with facial hair [helpful] - they bantered a lot. In big groups, we like charades and that thing where you describe things fast (you can buy it called Articulate I think but it also works by writing things down on bits of paper and putting them in a fruit bowl).

Really good luck to your dd with her CA, BTM, and to yours, Stropps, with mocks. This term is really dragging on isn't it?

Stropps, I missed the rash bit. Maybe ask for a referral to dermatology as it is on her face? - I think these things can be vary hard to diagnose. dd gets rashes on her hands tho which we've never quite got our act together to get to a doc before they go, but the school nurse said she thought was triggered by stress.

Sorry, I haven't had much sleep so have lost power of accurate and concise speech and writing!

Yes, I think DD's excema is probably stress-related. She rarely gets it though and it first appeared when she was about a year old and I don't think she could have been under that much stress then!

GIBBER. Trying to compile resources for a lesson on Tuesday. I have decided to adapt a perfectly serviceable online resource, and am getting tangled up in complications of my own making.

Having to sit on my hands to prevent myself posting on a thread in chat about how often to wash bath towels. Some utter MENTALISTS are saying that washing them anything other than after every use is disgusting, skanky behaviour, and to hell with the planet. These unhinged individuals do two or three laundry loads A DAY.

Step away from towel washing threads, Herbs.

I know, I know. No good can come of it.

Marking the true beginning of Yule, I am off shortly to play my bassoon in a carol concert. It has now been refurbished (at the vast cost of £450), so I have to play it at every opportunity.

Sadly, it's repair hasn't made as much difference to the quality of my tootling as I hoped it would, leading me to the unfortunate conclusion that a lot of the crapness is in fact down to me.

While I'm out, DP is going to introduce DS to Star Wars. The first, proper, non-remastered version. None of your Jah Jah Binks nonsense. Hopefully this will distract him from his latest favourite programme - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Even worse this time round.

Happy Birthday to Crepeys DH's! I trust they were suitably fussed over and celebrated?

Now then Rudy we can't have you with no SS gift, even if it isn't very secret. Won't hear of it!!! Ideas? Crepeys?, or has it already been sorted? There's still time, isn't there.

Monty that's good about the piano exam…if she feels she's passed I'm sure it's true! Hope the party is going well, and a good time had by all. I remember it well….a double gin after, I should think

Stropps doesn't eczema have a habit of flaring up in times of stress, like exams. Deffo back to the doctor/dermatologist.

Towels? Herbs….there was a similar thread on S&B a while ago about washing clothes. Those of us who put clean and non smelly gear back in the wardrobe got flamed as slatternly, stinking domestic failures.

I am still very under the weather…but less of the headache. Throat intermittently sore but less so. I just feel completely washed out and have a most unappealing pallor that even my most florid makeup can't address. Dinner party went really well, though (even if I dragged myself through it and took too many pills) and I do LOVE Jamie Oliver's glazed carrots…they were universally popular and delicious.

A non sort of day, today. DD had a show, DH and I braved Tesco with a £20 off voucher for electrical stuff but I didn't like what I saw. And then he's ruined my birthday by trying to discuss the details of vague plans. These were only brought about because I'm under pressure to go to a PTA bash the next day and had to sound him out subtly about it, incase he had any thing planned for me. He then got frantically busy on emails and texts…clearly hadn't thought about it at all to that point.

ps of all the games peole who use our flat like to play, this is by far the most popular.

And we've all recently discovered this and will be playing this a lot over Xmas, I feel. DD is a real champion!

What Herbs, you don't do your towels twice a day? You skank!

Rose, those games look good - do you have to have an apple product to play? I bought the Logo game ages ago and think I might take it when we go up to the hotel and we could have mixed age teams. Maybe?!
Glad your dinner went well. Shame your DH isn't rising to the challenge of your birthday, but it does seem the norm with most men.

And yes, Rudy should have a pressie too!

Agree re Rudy and pressie!

BD, I would really like to know more about your ds's ambassadorial duties, please.

BTM, I think you can get a physical version/use post it notes for that apple game if I have understood it, if you don't all have appley things? We like poker too. And a game called Resistance, which makes little sense and in which nothing happens, but is good fun with teens.

Not sure Tilly I think so. The kids were playing it on their iPod...

Yes, you can buy it for android from Play store!

Thanks for the game suggestions; I am still having a wibble, though, and don't know if it's the answer.

Sorry to hear about the DC's skin flare ups. DS had eczema once - when we moved up here and that was stress related. DD suffers with psoriasis which she inherited from DH and which is also worse under stress. Fortunately she rarely gets it on her face.

We have had a lovely day: picked up DGC from Dd, complete with scooter and pushchair, and drove down to the Tyne. I thought DGS1 should be introduced to his Geordie heritage so we took him to the bridges - I was impressed as he recognised them from a painting in my sitting room - by the tv, grandma. We ended up in the cafe in the Baltic and then struggled against the wind back along the river.

When we took the GC home to DD's, DDiL turned up and said her oldest now has impetigo - so we're baby sitting tomorrow morning while she takes the baby to something. I don't mind, really, but could do with the time at home. And they still don't know if they are moving on Friday....

Am onto Rudy's presentless state Crepeys.
Rudy have pmed you...

Well done, QQ, it didn't seem right.

Sound like you had a great day, NUFC - always lovely to get out and about at this time of year. Sorry to hear about the impetigo - that will be uncomfortable for a couple of days, poor thing.

Re game recommendations, we still love Pictionary, and it works for all ages because, in fact, the better drawers are worse at getting quickly to the point of their picture. I have to say I'm not sure we will be playing any games this year (maybe on NYE) as I think the TV will be exerting a siren song on Christmas evening. Since every other year I am not allowed Christmas TV at all, from Xmas Eve to the day after Boxing Day, I do get quite excited about Christmas specials on the "off" year, and I can see myself segueing happily from Midwife to Downton with wine and mince pies in hand.

We did Christmas shopping at an actual shopping centre today and it was not terrible at all ! Dcs got what they wanted - ds2 had a list, bless, and got it out in W H Smith, unfolded it carefully, read it, folded it away and said "I need two chocolate bars from here - I I got a bunch more present for neices, SILs, etc. Also bought dd a brilliant pair of gold trainers from H&M which were not on any list but I couldn't resist.

We have always been a Balderdash family. Basically a "Call My Bluff" game.

We used to play Risk, but DB always (and I mean always) won.