Crepeyistmas Time, Camel Toe and Whine...

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Pandering to the uncouth...

Here it's Risk (dp usually wins), carcasson, the atlas game (ds usually wins), backpacker, cadoodle or pictionary.

Crappy news alert - friends ds (same age as mine - y7) has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Crap crap crap.

Stropps re international ambassador - at the moment it seems to consist of wearing a badge I'll tell you more when/if it is divulged (they have a link with Senegal)

Here it's Risk (dp usually wins), carcasson, the atlas game (ds usually wins), backpacker, cadoodle or pictionary.

Crappy news alert - friends ds (same age as mine - y7) has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Crap crap crap.

Stropps re international ambassador - at the moment it seems to consist of wearing a badge I'll tell you more when/if it is divulged (they have a link with Senegal)

Wilbur, how utterly sweet re your ds's list. Made me
We seem to end up playing some or other version of bingo here. I even bought one of the ball tumblers, and whoever does the 'calling' uses all the silly number rhymes 'two fat ladies, 88' to add a level of hilarity that seems to appeal to our lot
We even played a Mexican Loteria version at one stage. Oh yes, we like a theme. This Christmas will be no different, although dsis and fam will be up an Alp and eschewing the delights of Christmas Housie Housie, the fools

Blimey, is it only a week to go?
Dd was tired and emotional on Skyoe yesterday. Can't wait to get her home.i am worried about her tbh.
Its been a long term for her, and I feel a bit guilty about not going to see her halfway through. wibble. She has 3 exams this week, so fingers crossed she can hang on in there for a few more days.
As for me, another day, another panto.

BD, that's very sad news.

Yes, Wilbur, love your DS's list. So organised!

Cremo, hope your DD hangs in there OK for the rest of the week. Hopefully she was just having a moment to her mum and can put on a brave front till she gets home. They are all so tired.

For me, another Christmas Lunch. And practising for the second show tomorrow!

Oh BD, how dreadful. Poor family. Poor child.

BD, sorry to hear about your friend. If it helps at all, three people I know have had it. A friend's 30odd yo, a 40 yo, and my cousin's DH who is early 60s. They have all responded well and although I would hesitate to say that they have beaten it, all seems well. The young one's wife is expecting a baby in the spring. I should be going to a funeral today of a woman I used to know well. She had just turned 60 but had been in a nursing home with dementia for the last few years.

Crem, it's a long time for DD to be away and I can understand why you are anxious. Not long to go now and you can have her back under your wing and spoil her.

I am off (yet again) to the dentist - I am hoping that they won't cancel this appointment because the whatever hasn't come back from the technicians. Then DH are going out for an Italian as we're in town, before meeting friends for coffee.

It's DSoniL's birthday tomorrow so we're baby sitting tonight while they go out for a Chinese with friends.

BD, how awful.

Crem, that must be worrying but as BTM says she may be letting it out to you. dd was tearful on Skype last week, but she got back and was delighted to see us and is fine now. Your poor dd having exams this week - they must all be so worn down. I hope once they are over she perks up a little.

We like Carcassonne too, and consequences, which we play a sort of drawing version of too (bit like Pictionary).

BD, how horrible. And indeed dementia for someone so young, NU.

Another Monday, another Ladyjog. Emerged from ten (10, X) minute shower to find card from Royal Mail alleging attempt to leave parcel. Sorry you weren't in, it claims. Yeah right.

And the cat has peed on the mat beside the litter tray.

Friend wasn't going to tell anyone until post Christmas. They started chemo last week :(

BD I don't like the sound of that but do hope he responds well to treatment. Lymphomas normally do.
Ambassadorial duties sound exciting!

cremo I imagine so many students are now worn out and needing to come home for a bit. It's dark so early, it's been a long term and exams aren't known to lift the mood. She'll get through it. to her and you.

DS2 is home from Poland. I haven't seen him. dH stayed up waiting til 2am. A boy in the group mislaid his passport and the whole bunch had to wait. He is supposed to be in school for period three today...some chance. DH is supposed to be driving him in as I've got to teach a class till 12.

I do feel a bit of these Xmas work do's. I really miss being part of a team. The old crowd used to invite me even though I'd left the dept but no longer it seems .

Have a good Monday crepeys.

BD - a friend of DD1's discovered she had this just before her bac in June. She started chemo immediately and missed her exams. I met her mother a couple of weeks ago and her DD has responded well to the treatment, resat her bac in September and is now at university doing medicine. She has lost her hair and her friends, of course, were fine but she was very demoralised by youths teasing her in the street when it was falling out. It seems incomprehensible that people can be so cruel or ignorant. Anyway the point of this story is that people, especially young ones seem to respond very well to treatment.

Crem -strength to DD to hang in there - the Scottish term seems very long.

Addle - I haven't forgotten the orange parfait recipe - just need to dig it out

I know it has a good survival rate, it's just the crap of going through it......

Thanks crepeys........

It must be so worrying and stressful for them and how thoughtful to even think about delaying telling people.

Hatty I've started combing threads for crepey recipes and found your delicious sounding orange parfait one and sent it to addle.

How awful, BD. I don't know how I'd cope if anything like that happened to DS. It must be all-consuming, and so stressful.

Just schlepped out to Hornchurch to collect an eBay purchase of Playmobil castle. By Christ, the A13 goes through some godawful places. It holds a horrible fascination for me.

Naturally, the castle is missing one vital component - a dragon. Now I'm searching about for that very thing, when I should be planning tomorrow's lesson...

Me neither Herbs - at the minute she says he is coping with it better than they are......

So sorry to hear about your friend's son, BD.

NU, that was very young to have dementia. What a sad occasion the funeral must have been.

We are mad about board games, or at least ds and dh are. Bananagrams is a very good, quick one - like very quick Scrabble. "Boggle" too is similar.

I am insanely chuffed to have taken my SS out of the postie's hot little hands today. Thank you so much. Saving it for Xmas.

oh boggle - yes - love that - but dp ALWAYS wins.....

I LOVE Boggle. I always win.

Trying to think of a good game for Christmas Day, with mainly adults, one teenager and one five-year-old.

Love Bananagrams and Boggle. Herbs, how many people in total?

NU, how sad .

Am fighting urge for a mini mince pie. We have a box of them. I fear if I have one now, we won’t have a box soon. But the urge is strong, very strong…possibly too strong to resist.

DS's bible reading was a triumph. Also a selection of pretty funky nativity songs. And a Korean trainee vicar in a reindeer jumper who didn't half go on, in an impenetrable accent.

Remember the friend who was pregnant, but all miffed because it's a girl? I met her outside the church, and the lovely new baby, and she was complaining about how 'naughty' she is (at one week old) and that she's going to be put in her own room and left to cry tonight, rather than keeping them awake.

Oh Herbs, that's just horrible. Just horrible.

Not at me week old too small to do crying. MIne used to be on the floor in the crib next to me until they were three months old. They were on with me if they so !much as squeaked. I'm feeling outraged for poor little baby.

My sore shoulder has healed but has become a sore neck. I fear I may have overcompensated.

Oh Herbs

Do you think she might be struggling?