MMXV (2015, twenty fifteen) : Here Come The Crepeys!

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More crepey wisdom.....

Auriga - my father said this as well. Will organise.

BTM - she is, in theory, but I don't really have anyone who could meet her, or whom she could stay with. If I went with her, we have access to an apartment for minimal rent. There has been no invitation forthcoming from friend she wants to see, to stay.

That sounds like good advice (as always) Auriga.

MrsS, I was going to say couldn't she stay with the friend! Would the friend come over to see her?

Re the MU, BD suggested the place Cremo organised which was great.
I emailed them and they said upstairs was booked, but they could do a table downstairs and that the buffet option does have a minimum of 15 people but that we could order from the Grazers in advance.
What do you think? Would probably need to book soonish.

Hatty and others, dates for a possible Cambridge MU?!

My dd has had far too much beef this holiday .

HM, that does sound worrying. I was very anaemic after ds was born and the midwife gave me some useful tips on staying safe, so that can be useful if you are prone to it. But of course you want to know the cause first.

I would love to go to the previous place.

(Why have I got myself into another pugilistic online row?)

Wilbur, I too am wiped. I think it's post-viral.

Am in hard negotiations about Cambridge but will possibly be there the weekend of 18th April although nothing is certain yet. That hotel by the way is - ahem - rather expensive - Cambridge hotels in general seem to be rather more than elsewhere.

Interesting about the Cambridge Doubletree, Hatty, we had a fantastic deal at the South Sheffield one: b and b for two nights, dinner one night with a bottle of wine, afternoon tea one day, two tickets for Chatsworth, all for the princely sum of £218 for both of us. 18th April, by the way, is DSis's birthday - not saying I can't do it, but it might be more difficult.

I am cooking dinner for the first time since 23rd December - it feels really odd.

CV surely if the courier van man demolished the wall they should restore it to it's former glory!!!

Hatty it's really good that DD recovered so quickly and twitching, so I understand can occur in a faint and is not necessarily a sign of a seizure. Great plan to give a detailed description to the GP though. I guess they will order full blood count, but may to do further tests unless it happens again.

The Doubletree is definitely on the pricey side…

Had to cancel this evening's plans owing to sudden onset of tummy trouble. I don't feel to bad now…think all the rich food is telling on me. Eating plain boiled pasta for supper. Return to austerity eating starts this week. No arguments, no excuses, no cake. None.

Just realised that I missed the bit about your DD, Hatty. Definitely a gp visit - I have no experience of this with my DD, so can't advise, but if it is iron deficiency it can be remedied.

What ho crepeys. I am returned from my 50th birthday party in Sheffield (at Haggler's Corner, BTM - do you know it?). Something of a flying visit, but worth it. The DJ was the drummer from Pulp, and played loads of music just perfect for the audience - Heaven17, ABC, some old ska, Blondie, etc... I went to bed at 2am! And laid in until 10, partly to avoid the boisterous twins with whom I was staying. All a bit much on a hangover.

Have been looking at your slipper recommendations with interest. Something for next birthday, perhaps. Any expensive hotels rather count me out of Cambridge, I'm afraid. But I'll probably count myself out - I fear I have some hideous assignments around then to fret myself into a froth about.

Hagglers Corner? Never heard of it!
But I googled it and it is just up the road from where I lived in my first year, which was not a particularly upmarket area in the 80's! But it looks really quaint in a hippyish way - I like the look!
The drummer from Pulp (Nick Banks) was on my course originally (well, think he was doing sec CDT!), so I am not surprised by the music choice! Sounds like a great party

Just dropping by to say a big, big thank you to everyone involved in making me an offer that cannot be refused. I am very happy to be on the list for the MU on Feb 6th. It is going to take some fearsome self-discipline to get an assignment done in time, but it will be worth it. Thank you, crepeys. And MrsS is indeed correct in thinking that my significant birthday is the week before hers. And also correct in remembering that I love her slippers.
I have been mainly straining my brain to complete a load of work for the last few days (5 pieces submitted, one lesson plan and resources to go, one assignment not yet started but that doesn't need to be in until the 13th), but today I had to take most of the day off for the visit of aunt and uncle (parents of Difficult Cousin) and dm. They very sweetly took us out to lunch but then we invited them back for coffee and to view our lovely new loft space. And after they had left, dd started her "I've done no work, I've failed all my exams, I hate school, I want to leave" meltdown, which was completely expected. She has done no work over the hols At All and will probably get a major dressing down for not doing at all well in her mocks. There were slight mitigating circs because of her bad reaction to the ABs, but frankly she did bugger-all work for the whole of last term (again, some mitigating circs, but she makes such a meal of everything), so I am wary of making too many excuses for her. Her chemistry teacher, to whom I spoke at the end of last term, said it was just like Y11 re-visited and he hoped she would make like last year and pull her finger out this term. Ho hum. I tried to get her in the right frame of mind tonight by sorting out all her subject notes from last term, which she had not even tried to file and had just dumped in a towering pile on her cluttered desk. No wonder she can't find anything. She did cooperate but then started wailing about how she hadn't done any work. At that point, I had had enough as I should have been doing my work rather than sorting her crap out, so left. With gritted teeth. All the self-indulgent drama bollocks coming after weeks of avoidant activity gets right on my nerves.
Ds, sadly, also does not want to go back to school. Purely because he "hates English", apparently. I told him to think instead about all the other subjects that he likes.
AIBU to want to shriek at both of them: "Oh FGS, it doesn't matter whether you like it or not, just bloody well get on with it, it's not forever"?

Oh Stropps. we have the year younger version here - lots of moaning/screeching, etc about the unfairness of it all, etc. Frankly, she has just not got on with it, which is the case for many, but then she tries to deflect the blame from herself somehow Self-indulgent drama indeed, gets right on my and DH's and DS's nerves!

Can you come round and shout it at her too?

I've shouted at mine. One has physics homework, which apparently she can't do as she has left her textbook at school. The other hates school and doesn't see the point of it. Roll on tomorrow...

IME Stropps the anticipation of returning to school is usually worse than the reality... and I do have considerable sympathy for them I think - I hate that Sunday-evening-haven't-done-my-homework feeling. They'll maybe be much improved by the end of the week .

Very pleased indeed that you've been tempted out to the meetup lovely Stropps!

It's all because we don't check their phones, you know

Quick question, anyone here ever washed a J crew Tippi sweater?
Says dry clean only but am tempted by sale

Stropps, come and shout here too. dd shouts louder than me and did philosophy A level so can prove the sodding clothes-strewn bedroom floor doesn't exist..think she needs to go back to university. Meanwhile, ds is quietly doing revision. Probably not enough and probably not thoroughly but cheerfully and fits in X-box and sport too.

BTM, oh yes re: "deflect the blame from herself". She is currently all "I'm giving up French because it's too hard and there's too much homework, I've actually given up Critical Thinking because it's a stupid waste of time, my Biology teacher is useless, my Chemistry teacher is ill too much and my Maths teacher is too old and looks at me funny" etc etc. Oh and the sandwiches in the school canteen are the wrong sort, which ruins her concentration in the afternoon. Or something.

Ah, QQ, I too very much hate that Sunday-evening-haven't-done-my-homework feeling. Which is why I set a good example by starting to do it on Thursday. I have tried to lead by example and been roundly ignored by dd. I spent far too much time last term being sympathetic and fire-fighting on her behalf, whilst she has just either been being dramatic or loafing about. So I am currently all out of sympathy. Soz for being grumpy.
Ds had no homework, so this isn't his issue. He just doesn't like school being "serious". Well, he is only 9. (But only for another couple of weeks).

Lol, I may need a lot of honey and lemon for all the shouting.

I'm willing and indeed eager to come to Cambridge at any time at all. I have probably in the past stayed at an even more expensive hotel. the Varsity is amazing

Pfb has gorn back to uni (happily, phew) and we are planning road trips oop north to visit unis for dd. Bring. it. on.

Georgina - if it's stuff you'd usually wash, wash it!