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

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More crepey wisdom.....

I am going to do some cleaning this morning, and also some baking. I will measure out the stuff for my Hungarian cheesecake and post the recipe here. I also have a lovely easy recipe for a self saucing caramel pudding, which you may like.

No style and beauty here... unless you count the chin plucking.

Our computer is playing silly buggers so DP is fixing it while I have an online argument with a poster who alleges she couldn't possibly eat lasagne once a week. I shall do some online shopping instead - pants site has a sale.

Have finally bought my bag It is a Marc Jacobs very bright orange which I was drawn to immediately - the Viv Westwood looked so dull and sensible in comparison! And it was in the sale

BD hot air balloon would be good - did that with my DM for her 6th

MrsS your recipes sound delis and not at all good for my Jan resolutions!

I saw that thread MI and restrained myself from saying that all the skinny women that I know deprive themselves big time.

DP now reinstalling Windows. I am failing to remember passwords. And have bought some nice pants in a size befitting a lasagne-lover.

Friend appeared, ladyjog conducted - even managed the hill in Brock Park - and a nice Lido breakfast consumed. Now a quick bath beckons and then off to John Lewis to change MIL's Christmas present.

Could we have pic of the bags please?

BTM / MI - I can't imagine constantly cooking different food for DH and / or eating soup whilst he ate a meal. How miserable would that be for both of us. Skinny would be very ageing after 40, after all.

It was interesting seeing what Parisian women ate for lunch. It was usually a fat free fromage frais, a mineral water and a black coffee. Some might push a few leaves around their plate in a restaurant. All followed by a fag on the way back to the office.

Sorry about your friends Mum CV that's sad.

Congratulations to all you lady joggers. You are a better person than I. Glad your fellow jogger turned up Monty!

Where is this eating thread of which you speak. Is it all about self deprivation? I'm not very good at that.

Packing up to go home now. DH is doing revision with DD. Badly. They always end up shouting and I always feel like it's all on me. Home later to we what tip DSs sleep over with mates last night has left the house in. There's nothing like extra house work to lift the mood now , is there ?

Laters Crepeys x

Ps bag sounds lovely tilly

I do miss the salads in Paris, in the sandwich places. My favourite was quinoa, avocado, rocket, smoked salmon and a poached egg.

Morning crepes. Feeling deadly today. Utterly wiped out, with a banging headache. I'm hoping it's the pre-menstrual oddness, otherwise I'm in for a grim old weekend in Sheffield. As it is I'm in for a grim old afternoon, at a panto in Barking. Sigh.

MI - I looked at that lasagne deprivation thread. Irritating woman. I too like lasagne. Well, apart from the whole 'wheat' issue.

I have just had an early lunch of a large piece of brie with bread and butter, a rocket, spinach and avocado salad and a large bar of chocolate. Well, it was 2 bars, but they came in one packet, so that counts as one bar really, right? We are all go go go here, tidying, cleaning, taking junk to the dump and, er, typing (me). I bloody love January. It means all that Christmas and NY bollocks is over and I am no longer weighed down by historic gloom and everyone else's expectations.

I have bunged various lingering veg (sprouts and mushrooms) into the oven with garlic and soy sauce and olive oil, along with Nice Fishcakes. And made a lentil and tomato sauce (with cumin and red wine and garlic and dried toms and chopped yellow pepper, also lingering) to have with pasta later.

Curious how the back to work day is being ahem derailed. Computer still buggered...

Hello all - have just been cleaning up - lovely visit from DD's godfather and also her boyfriend. Am now washing sheets and rolling up mattresses. It is lovely having people but it is nice to get the space back and also to be able to sneak off and MN without looking rude. Stropps - I know what you mean about January.

Now everybody needs to establish a normal sleep routine ready for a 6 am start on Monday!

thanks for all the understanding everyone. i too am v pleased to have christmas and nye out of the way.

and i'm in for a dry january - most of the time i enjoy my (slightly) excessive drinking but a couple of times recently i've thought it was more directed at oblivion so i think my head needs to be in a better space

and i start a new job on monday having gone for and been given a new post of my new company. am v scared but it was that or regret not giving it a go. in the mean time htink i'll go to cos sale to look for clothes that, as that thread had it, make you look like an architect (not that i'm going to be an architect but you know what i mean). another one up for walks in bp too

Ooh, I fancy looking like an architect!

Where is thread??

Stropps I am loving your positvity

I too am feeling much more positive than yesterday after all my retail therapy and a "healthy" chicken salad in Johnny LouLous! Still want to pop in to Muji for some of those smartphone gloves.

MI I live in dread of computer failure and passwords being needed. And I am the only person in the house with half a clue about technology Must be because I was ICT coordinator in 1988

Addle, do Cos clothes make you look like an architect? I have a jumper/tunic - does that count? DH has a jumper too, but as he rarely wears it, preferring his old tshits, there's no hope for him!

When is good for BP?

I am surrounded by teachers on both sides

architect:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/2154525-I-want-to-look-like-an-architect

actually most Cos clothes look terrible on me as am short and not spare but when they work they are lovely

once term under way sundays good for me as football going on elsewhere in family. any good for anyone else?

Cos makes me look like a garden gnome.

Cos is obviously the way to go. Shame most of it makes me feel like a sack of spuds. I think you need to be willowy for it!

Sundays are good for me too - footy widow here too

Architects don't wear Woolovers fair isle I bet...

Maybe out - of - London architects do?