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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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Blackduck · 15/02/2015 20:18

Here I sent DDad out with Ds and stayed with dmum - it's hard. She has lost it physically and mentally. It's like I'm losing her inch by inch.
Out for a meal tonight and taxi firm and resturant were all fab and helpful and accommodating.

I did the beds and general stuff, and my dad has stepped up to the plate but years of my mum doing it all has made him resentful. He calls her selfish but really its about him now having to pull his weight. He said something about having done something for the last two years, I pointed out she'd done it for the last 50+ .....

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Blackduck · 15/02/2015 21:01

Rudy no I never thought it... Mainly because my grandparents either died young or died hail and hearty in their 90s - so this is tough. I keep thinking 'take me out and shoot me' if I get that like....

It's like having a child again - food cutting and all that.... Shakespeare seven ages .....

It's the loss of independence - I get why she says she wishes she had died :(

Blackduck · 15/02/2015 21:02

And no I cantkepo up at the back -where is heand how ill is he?

Blackduck · 15/02/2015 21:03

Can't keep up at the back - where is he and how ill is he? (iPad ahhhhhh)

bigTillyMint · 15/02/2015 21:32

BD sorry it's so hard with your DM. Seems to be the Crep fate now.

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lalsy · 15/02/2015 22:07

BD, it is so very sad, and watching it so hard.Flowers

CointreauVersial · 15/02/2015 23:20

BD, I really feel for you.

I'm on the edge of it all, somehow; feeling like I have all this coming. All parents (four, including steps) are currently on good form, but there are little signs here and there that age is starting to tell. Forgetting stuff, being frightened of situations they would have dealt with without a thought.... my indestructible, infallible parents are starting to need more and more support. Sad Not so much DM, who is only 70, but the other three who are ten years older.

MontserratCaballe · 16/02/2015 08:30

BD, I really feel for you. My dad is in a similar way in a home, can't feed himself, doesn't recognise anyone and is either asleep or raging without much in between. He is at least blissfully unaware of his surroundings and as content as possible. I do understand the frustration and sadness you must
feel. Be kind to yourself.

Glad your visit went as well as possible, MI.

Half term starts today. Tesco has already been, and today we have DD1 off to a pal, then my SIL coming for lunch with her 2 kids and the dog. We have discovered through FB that we have a mutual friend so are going to see her in the afternoon. I will be enforcing piano practice etc as usual. Lucky me.

Rosebag · 16/02/2015 09:15

Flowers BD so sorry for you and DM. My DDad is in a better place medically at the moment, but it increasingly child like in demeanour. It's tragic. He was a doctor.

rudy how is DH ? Will be he ok for tomorrow ?

monty I can't enforce piano practice on DS ( he's 17) ...it gets a bit frustrating when he's supposed to be playing scales and grade pieces, and all I can hear is something from Cats, or Wicked...(quite nice to hear though...)

I am off to the spa shortly.

I have lost 2 and a half pounds in my first week. I have a logistical problem....I can't feckin' see the scales properly. Bought analogue ones...I like analogue everything. Can't see standing up with glasses on or off...bending down with glasses on, cursor won't stay still. Oh the crepeydom Angry Grin

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MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2015 09:27

BD - so sorry, that must be really tough. Sad

I have some time off for half term, and we are braving Stratford Westfield today. At some point, when DD2 gets up, and after her moan that "there is nothing to do here..."

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motherinferior · 16/02/2015 09:57

I am ploughing on with work. Started the day with a conference call about a project which is incredibly vague and appears to be up to me to sort. This is going to cost them.

motherinferior · 16/02/2015 09:58

Also have DD2 loafing around doing bugger-all which is fine but I think she is going to get bored. I might surreptitiously text a few of her friends' mothers....

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MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2015 10:01

Chartier, Rudy.

here

We need a new thread title...

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motherinferior · 16/02/2015 10:29

The Crepeys who bloom in the spring (tra la)?

The March of Crepes?

Beware the Crepes of March?

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MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2015 10:30

Ha ha - I was just thinking of Beware the Crepes of March!

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Rosebag · 16/02/2015 10:43

There are kids in the pool Angry Call the Child Catcher someone.....
Apparently they're only allowed in til 11....the outdoor pool has steam coming off it and is empty. Might be brave....
rudy I have an hour long massage before lunch and a facial after lunch booked. With plenty of swimming and lounging in between. I can't pick up the scales....they really are the old fashioned sort that go back to zero the minute you step off. Trying to weight myself earlier would have made a superb comedy sketch.

Love Beware the Crepes of March Grin

wordassociationfootball · 16/02/2015 11:52

Rudy I can second Chartier, and thank Mrs S again for recommending it to us. It's one of the things the DDs mention most. They even liked being patronised by the waiter (although not his refusal to bring ketchup for their chips Grin)

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MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2015 12:31

Rudy, tell them you can't book at Chartier, you just turn up and queue. If they go for an early dinner (around 7) they are unlikely to have to queue for very long, if at all. The alternative is a late lunch. It's a fabulous place, and really cheap (wine can be a bit rough though, if you go for the house red. I don't know if they do it at Chartier, but a lot of Parisian restaurants do a "vin du mois" or "vin du moment" which is often a much better quality for not much more dosh. If they go to Montmartre, I can recommend, somewhere near the bottom of the hill, near the Marche St Pierre, the No Problemo Bar. I lost many afternoons in there (and the food is pretty good too). Grin

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QueenQueenie · 16/02/2015 12:31

Am feeling very out of touch - have had a horrible fluey cold and general exhaustion and inertia - hope I'm over it now but finding it hard to get myself going this morning!

We had half term last week so it's business as usual here... enjoy the break from the usual routine those of you that have a bit of time off - and remember being bored is what teenagers do, you don't have to amuse them, jolly them out of it etc. (or is that just me being a bad mother?).

Apologies in advance - Have read everything but am bound to miss someone's important news if I say -

Very well done to Herbs and Stropps re teaching triumphs, much sympathy to those wrangling ill / aged parents, Happy Birthday to all the Birthday Crepeys, Happy skiing BTM, etc etc.

Another vote for 'Beware the Crepes of March!'

cremolafoam · 16/02/2015 13:55

Beware Crêpes of March excellent.Smile
I love an outdoor swimming pool too, but better still a river or the sea.
Ah so restoring ....

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