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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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Stropperella · 05/02/2015 21:49

Hurrah, BD! And very well done for seeing it all through. Flowers Wine Enjoy your date night tomorrow, but we'll miss you!

Good luck with the lesson, Herbs, and hope you feel better by tomorrow. Or indeed sooner.

Here, dd is distinctly less vile in her behaviour since finding out she was 2 marks off an A in her biology re-take. I am a bit Hmm that she can go from a U to a high B, but I suppose this indicates that some of her poor performance must indeed have been down to the weird reaction she had to the antibiotics during mocks week. Or, well, who knows? I did, however, receive a letter from her chemistry teacher grumbling about her lack of effort, and she was most miffed about this. Still, she has given the appearance of doing more in the way of studying this week, has smiled at least twice and not been rude to me for 24 hours.

Hoping for a big old lack of travel chaos tomorrow. I have just topped up my Oyster card online and it says that I have to collect the top-up at Waterloo. I am confused. How do I do this? I won't be using the Underground. Can I collect the top-up by getting on the bus? Please can someone enlighten me?

Blackduck · 05/02/2015 21:52

Stropps :).
Will miss everyone tomorrow - have a funnnnnnnn time..... :)

MrsSchadenfreude · 05/02/2015 22:52

Stropps, no, you can only validate it on the underground. Go and see the nice people at the ticket office when you arrive, and see if they can help.

Had fab day today - Champagne on the London Eye, then walked along the South Bank, down the Cut and to Byron for a late lunch and more wine. God, the portions are huge. We should have shared the fries and onion rings and coleslaw. Came home, had a little nap and then went to the theatre to see the Woman in Black, which was fantastic.

MI has been texting and emailing me today asking me what I had to eat last night:

Tandoori cod fillet, which came with a coriander and horseradish sauce (wasabi?)

Pork Sorpotel, which came with pieces of pork and pork "dumplings" and a steamed, white, fluffy dumpling/cake thing, with some red sauce. I had some rice with this, and black lentils and Rajasthani beans.

DH had a lamb fillet to start, which he said was the most delicious thing he had ever eaten, then venison with pickled vegetables.

I feel like Mr Creosote. Grin

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Auriga · 05/02/2015 23:17

Well done on the audit Blackduck. Is it a bit like a CQC inspection for us? Or Ofsted for a school type of thing? Good to have it behind you anyway.

DD has made her A level choices - phew. Not as hard as I thought it'd be.

Sorry can't make it to meet-up. Will miss seeing you all but have to keep working to a couple of big deadlines atm. Pleased to have got loads done this week after several weeks of being ill.

Good news: I've overpaid tax (glitch in self-assessment)
Bad news: my payment, made online on 25 Jan, hasn't registered with HMRC, so I show up as being overdue to pay £2x, instead of being due a refund of £x. I have told them (after an hour and a half on hold) but no joy yet.

Watched Wolf Hall this evening. Just marvellous. But how does it work for people who haven't read the book?

Auriga · 05/02/2015 23:26

Oh Herbs, meant to say, my life has improved hugely since I started taking anti-inflammatories for migraine. I don't suffer from indigestion so I take soluble aspirin x 3 (900mg) and, if I need to, 600mg of ibuprofen as well.

I have buccal prochlorperazine for sickness but nowadays don't need it every time, or you can take domperidone (available over the counter).

Better if you can take aspirin/ibuprofen after food to protect your stomach lining but if I'm too sick, I can get away with taking it on an empty stomach.

I don't take triptans any more, this works so well for me Smile

hattymattie · 06/02/2015 06:59

BD - great news on the audit.

Mrs S - One day I'm going to come to London and blow out at that restaurant. It sounds fabulous. (Wonders about 51st birthday).

Herbs and Auriga - the migraine sound dreadful. I am lucky in that I've never had one I'm bad enough with a headache.

Herbs - the role models would probably have got bullied as goody goodies in my PrimaryHmm .

I think I'm going to duck out of the karaoke party tonight. There are about seventy people so I won't be missed and the last party involved former friends avoiding me because my French DH is still friends with their ex DH's. This goes to prove, even if you try to stay neutral in divorce you are still allocated to one side or the otherSad .

Talking of parties - I saw a preview on Channel 4 for a programme following five year olds and comparing their behaviour to groups of primates with dominant individualsHmm .

Enjoying snobby bookclub thread in Chat except the poor OP has been taken apart for the use of the word "snobby" - does nobody understand flippancy on MN?

bigTillyMint · 06/02/2015 07:06

Stropps, glad to hear DD has pulled through at least a bit. I have no idea about the top-up, but found this:
You must activate Auto top-up as part of a journey on Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground or National Rail services. You can't activate Auto top-up on buses. To activate Auto top-up, touch your Oyster card on a yellow card reader at the start or end of your journey at the station or tram stop you selected
so I guess just tap it on the yellow card reader but don't actually get on the tube, and then go and get the bus?

MrsS, your eat-fest sounds fab, and there's yet more to come tonight!

Auriga, we will miss you.

Here I am so glad it is Friday - stressful week at home. Am trying not to worry about going skiing next weekend and the chains haven't arrived yet.

Blackduck · 06/02/2015 07:19

Auriga it was an accreditation audit (letters after our name kinda thing) so a big deal - we are (still) triple accredited and thus in the top 1% in the world. The OFSTED stylee audit (QAA) is due April and the end of year is my internal audit!!

MrsS that food sounds fab and beats the gaff byriani I ate last night......

Happy Friday all - I'm WFH so :)

Blackduck · 06/02/2015 07:20

Naff.....

bigTillyMint · 06/02/2015 07:22

Or Stropps, ask a ticket barrier person when you arrive?! Unless another crepey knows the answer!

hattymattie · 06/02/2015 07:31

Stropps - forgot to add - great news on DD - at least she knows she is capable but it is down to her now. The rudeness and offhandedness can be so wearing - these girls seem to go in cycles of being delightful or the opposite - probably linked to hormones.

MrsSchadenfreude · 06/02/2015 09:06

Stropps, don't tap on the reader on the tube and not go anywhere, or it will charge you a penalty fare, as it will think you have tapped in but not tapped out. Find a Nice Man and ask him.

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RudyMentary · 06/02/2015 09:53

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beachyhead · 06/02/2015 10:02

Get one Rudy, it's so much cheaper. I have two and when I tried to register them, they are both already registered to someone else Confused

I think you can tap it on the yellow button on the machine but I second 'asking a nice man', Stropps.

dd2 and dh home sick today - I might wait until they are both asleep and leg it to London! Actually, I'll probably give them lunch, administer Calpol, walk dogs and then leg it!

lalsy · 06/02/2015 10:05

Stropps, great news. If dd can do that well, then she must have known how badly the U paper had gone, and perhaps felt dreadful and scared?

And congratulations BD. So pleased your hard work paid off.

Oyster cards are fab. I think you can activate by tapping on one of the readers on a ticket machine but ask - agree with MrsS do not tap in for a journey you won't take. You can also use contactless payment cards now Rudy, if that is easier, same daily and longer caps etc.

Stropperella · 06/02/2015 10:34

MrsS, I've just seen and answered your PM!! (is your mobile no. still the same?)
Thank you all for Oyster advice - I shall endeavour to find a Nice Man. :) I am all excited about my trip to the big city. Less excited about the works on the line turning my journey back into a scenic trip of many modes of transport. Ah well.
Dd actually said "goodbye" nicely this morning. I am hoping against hope that she and dh manage to co-exist without any outbreak of hostilities over the next 24 hours.

bigTillyMint · 06/02/2015 10:42

Glad some others are more on the ball than me re oysters! I just got mine in a newsagents years ago and top it up at the newsagents!

Beachy that sounds like a good plan!

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MontserratCaballe · 06/02/2015 11:40

Well done on the audit, BD. Glad all your hard work paid off.

So sorry not to be able to join you tonight, crepeys. Have one for me Wine

Stropperella · 06/02/2015 12:33

I'm on the train...

MollyAir · 06/02/2015 12:35

Oh, to find a Nice Man...

Good luck to those looking for Oyster help. Ds is similarly stymied when he returns to London, and I never understand. Nor do I understand about the tram/train interface and touching in/out.

Wonderful to hear of people setting out...

wordassociationfootball · 06/02/2015 12:52

Have a great night crepeys

Mrs S I missed the name of the restaurant. Would love to know where your feast was had.

Blackduck · 06/02/2015 12:57

Have a fab time crepeys - sorry not to be there! But on on Birthday Date number two ;)

bigTillyMint · 06/02/2015 14:42

God, I need a drink.

Rosebag · 06/02/2015 14:59

Wishing all MU Crepeys a lovely time. So sorry to miss yet another one. I shall be supervising homework and doing theatre runs…and trying to fit Fri night dinner in between. Cheers lovely ladies Wine Wine Wine Wine
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