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Crepes, Galettes, Pancakes and Brian the Bucket!

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MrsSchadenfreude · 18/01/2015 14:20

Here you go...

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NUFC69 · 28/01/2015 17:05

It's encouraging, MI, that there is a care package in place for DM - I hope she makes the most of the help and doesn't get weighed down by your DDad.

Stropps, chin up and ignore the hedge fund wives. Were you a little sunbeam? - oh, how I hated that at Sunday school.

MrsS, sorry to hear about your relatives and the Holocaust. Thanks

We have the decorator coming tomorrow to start painting the sitting and dining rooms (the rooms are separated by double doors). I have been helping DH empty the cupboards, move ornaments, etc. It's taking ages and I am fairly minimalist. And what is DH doing tomorrow - stripping the wallpaper from DGS2's new nursery - go figure! I think I will take the opportunity to go to the gym in the afternoon - I have my charity meeting in the morning. Oh and we have heavy snow forecast overnight. Sad

motherinferior · 28/01/2015 17:50

DD1 apparently creating artwork of World’s Biggest Collection of Pants On Floor. Tracey Emin’s got nothing on her.

QueenQueenie · 28/01/2015 19:19

Are we Crepeys who lunch / drink coffee tomorrow??
I'm still on for a quick rendezvous in the vicinity of Russell Square if others are. I shall be wearing a tartan dress and carrying a copy of the Daily Mail. You?

herbaceous · 28/01/2015 20:38

I am! I'm out of one lecture at 1, and have to be in the next one at 2, so it'll be brief. Is the plan to meet in the cafe in Russell Square?

QueenQueenie · 28/01/2015 20:41

Cafe in Russell Square 1pm is good for me... table for two Herbs or are there more... ?

herbaceous · 28/01/2015 20:59

I think Monty and Molly are up for it, if life doesn't get in the way...

MollyAir · 28/01/2015 22:30

I'm still up for it - will definitely be there. Hoping MI might also? Yes, the cafe.

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/01/2015 22:32

MI, your friend sounded fabulous, and so sad she is no longer with us. I hope they manage to sort out your Mum soon. Pies definitely sound like the way to go.

I used to go to a Plymouth Brethren Sunday School in a Gospel Hall. I do not remember singing anything at all, but we did have date and banana sandwiches (quite exotic for the 70s) afterwards. I think that was the high point. Jollity didn't feature much. (In case you are wondering, my school friend's parents offered to take The Heathen Child to church on a Sunday, and my mother agreed readily - we had a morning service, Sunday School in the afternoon and then another service in the evening.) Silence played a large part in it, and it was remarkably dull.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 28/01/2015 22:34

And yes, MI, where do all the pants come from? I have just thrown away a pile from DD2's room, some of which were age 7-8. They cannot have fitted her for years.

The cat is washing my hair. It is quite disturbing.

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RudyMentary · 29/01/2015 07:33

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bigTillyMint · 29/01/2015 07:42

Rudy, did it go OK?

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Rosebag · 29/01/2015 08:30

I wanted to come to the Russell Square MU…but it's too late in the day for me. I'm worried that the tubes will play up and I won't get back in time for something I have to do by 3.30. Sad If anyone ever gets the chance to meet earlier in the day in the future I'd love to join.

Rudy would arnica help?

Blackduck · 29/01/2015 08:45

I am Envy at meet up too, instead I am stuck here dealing with unreasonable individuals.....

In amazing 'whoops' moment I managed to email the Dean instead of someone else yesterday - luck I wasn't too rude....... (expects P45 in the internal mail...)

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motherinferior · 29/01/2015 09:19

Rudy, you always look gorgeous Envy

DM now complaining about hospital food and saying it's "not nutritious" which is understandable but is also expecting my sister to bring her "a little curd rice and some lime pickle" across the country. DSis points out that this is not madly a good idea for all sorts of reasons. If my mum weren't so weird around food and eating - and my dad so weird around cooking - the obvious answer would be can't he microwave a bag of ready-steamed rice (Indian rice obviously, she wouldn't countenance Brit Rice) and take it in with a carton of yogurt and a bit of pickle. But no.

Rosebag · 29/01/2015 09:37

Rudy I do think the cream or gel is worth it, yes… it worked wonders on DS1's really extensive facial bruising years ago when he came off his skate board onto his face. We had a big family function a few weeks later and he still looked like an alien…in desperation, I started using arnica cream and was gobsmacked how quietly it all went down.

Comfort to you MI My DM even contained about the sandwiches when she had her knee revision last spring….x

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motherinferior · 29/01/2015 10:25

Er...inner gorgeousness Grin

Actually thinking about it, I've had arnica gel (one of the less useless freebies of my career) and it was fab. Bruising went down v quickly.

Stropperella · 29/01/2015 10:36

Oh Rudy, I am well-jell. Hope that bruising fades soon.
My whole face needs tightening and resurfacing, and, well, just completely replacing really. I recognise myself less and less every time I look in the mirror at the moment. I am just a frizzy-haired speccy old lady. Even if I had the money and was brave enough, I doubt any surgery would ever be an option because of my very wonky face muscles. My right eye is getting smaller week by week, as the droop on the eyelid is becoming heavier and heavier. It is affecting my peripheral vision (and has been for a while, I got it checked by the optician a few years ago and he said the problem was the eyelid droop, not the actual eye), but there's nothing I can do.
Gawd, I am feeling so run-down and miserable. My course mojo appears to have gone AWOL and I am by turns just cross and rather depressed. And fed up with being reminded of a) my great age (ha!) and b) how I haven't got a proper job. I have had a tension headache since Sunday, feel completely drained and I just couldn't face doing my voluntary bit this morning.
Whinge, whinge, whingey-mcwhinge. Nothing particularly bad is happening, so I should just get on with getting on with things, but I am just ever so slightly fed up with the constant fecking pressure of this course and the creeping suspicion that some of what we are being taught is a pile of old cobblers based on some trendy theory and not a lot of science.
Obvs, these thoughts are not helpful and I should just more or less banish them, because whatever happens I just have to do what I have to do to pass. And I will also have to jump through whatever hoops I need to jump through in order to get some paid work, but I am feeling very, very despondent about my prospects, in all honesty.

Rosebag · 29/01/2015 10:58

stropps Thanks sorry it's a down day. ( me too for not so different reasons actually....don't get me started) BTW a close friend had her eyelids done at Moorfields. She was referred because the drooping was affecting her vision.

Blackduck · 29/01/2015 11:05

Stropps big {{ }} Hope my comment didn't add to point a)......

wordassociationfootball · 29/01/2015 11:10

January nearly over Crepeys....

MI I have been thinking of you and mum weariness. The rehab sounds like it should (curd rice requests notwithstanding) provide a plateau at least for you and dsis.

That looks sore Rudy. Hope for quick healing.

Stropps so sorry re: the cause(s) of the tension headache and hope you're feeling more optimistic soon re: course and future post-course.

I'm feeling rather in midst of family patterns/scripts that I'm not proud of and wishing we could all Do Better. Plus I have a smear in a minute and I am frankly not in the mood. Also, I just want to be on my own and finish my book, which doesn't make me the worlds best anyone to anyone.

Have a laugh them that's meeting up today.

bigTillyMint · 29/01/2015 11:12

I am feeling very old today too. Maybe it's something to do with the weather/time of the year? I really just wanted to go back to bed this morning.

I need a whole body lift - every part of me droops.

Stropps, the course is like that - so pedantic and it is constant pressure to the end. It's not you - it's the course! But it is a means to an end - it is a qualification that you will be able to use. Especially in conjunction with your QTS.
And yes, couldn't you be referred on the NHS if it is that bad?