Crepes, Galettes, Pancakes and Brian the Bucket!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Here you go...

Could you post that recipe on the Lalsy link, MI, as I always have spare eggs and there are limited ways to freeze them?

Your airbnb is lovely, Wilbur giving me ideas for my 'Nigel Farage'

Ooh, Lalsy, I actually use a variant on the coconut sauce for the fish moli - I make it with tomatoes instead of coconut (my mum's recommendation again) and it is divinely spicy. Very easy if you have a blender, and access to curry leaves.

I really must get a bottle of limoncello.

It must be really exhausting MI, worry is, but glad she is stable.

Egg curry recipe - see note3 of the fish mouli one in the cookbook.

I too have abandoned things in IKEA because I can't face the checkouts, and my dc used to love going there.

We have had a very taxing day; DGD2 at 19 mo is developing into a little madam - so unlike her brother who has always been laid back. I would like to hear suggestions, though, for the answer to his question (on seeing a cartoon picture of a pirate with a wooden leg) "what do they do with the leg when they cut it off"?

Another problem today was that the aged cat has started throwing up again (all over the bedroom floor, for one) and I am thinking of return visit to the vet.

MI, we haven't been to Seven Stories, although the DC have. Must look into it.

I loved the look of Wilbur's Airbnb garden room.

MI I very glad the op went well for your mum. I hope you are managing ok as I know it will be hard to put it out of your mind.
Hope your DF can step up a bit at this point.

Lalsy all the Crepey recipes are brilliant - great afternoon reading for me thankenyu.

I have had my hair chopped in layers and with a proper fringe. It has transformed me into the very image of my mother, which is not really A Good Thing. Strange innit. Eek

Dad came and had coffee with me. he is still in a dreadful state about The Accident That Shall Not be Mentioned. very shaken and embarrassed. but my giddy aunt it has been blown out of all proportion. he basically clipped someone's wing mirror. The other car was undamaged but the guy is trying to blame dad for other damage that happened yonks ago. The magistrate is asking for more evidence. It's all a load of bolleaux imho.
Sigh

Just popping in to say glad you've had encouraging news about DM and hope she continues to make good progress MI. Sometimes the second day can be quite tough as the anaesthetic is wearing off properly.

X post, sorry to hear that Crem. Shame for your Dad to end his driving career with such an upsetting incident. Shocking the way some people try to inflate insurance claims as well.

Wail - the Airbandb site has crashed so I can't see your lovely room Wilbur.

I used to love IKEA but now cannot bear to go near the place. Must be Crepiness.

Am very tired and have to go out and collect DD2 from theatre rehersals at 9 pm.

Hats off to you teachers - I've just spent an hour with the little blighters and am exhausted. My little girl who I tutor privately is a dream though.

Feeling downcast once more. I thought I'd made a good fist of creating a lesson from scratch, which had taken me AAAAAAGES to prepare, and the learners seemed to get on with it all fine, but in the feedback afterwards my tutor gave me the 'criticism shit sandwich' but without the sandwich. I was unreasonably upset, and actually thought I was going to cry. Which would have been mortifying. I had to breathe rather heavily for some time to pull myself together.

I think I am probably knackered, so am having an easy evening of not too much work. And some wine. Once I've finished answering DS's 24,759th question about Star Wars. How does Darth Vader go to the toilet? Why has Yoda got sharp teeth?

Oh Herbs - [and Silent Witness are the solutions. Don't think about mean criticisms.

and... how does Darth Vader go to the toilet?

And the storm troopers? All that groin armour's going to take some removing for excretion of either sort.

When DS first saw Star Wars, three weeks ago, he called them Dark Bagel and the Storm Traders. I'm not allowed to mention that any more.

er that should be wineand Silent Witness.

Wilbur that looks a fine place to stay - I have noted it.

Hatty, my little ones were exhausting this morning. Thankfully better this afternoon. Which was just as well as DD then had a fairly major issue with a teacher...

Wilbur, I didn't think it would be so plush inside!

Cremo, sorry to hear that your dad is still going through it. And that your new do makes you look like your mum - my worst mare!

Actually, I have just been catching up on Last Tango, and the scene where the daughter (approaching crepiness) calls her mum for support made me realise that my mum would be the last person I would think of calling if I needed support

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That is what my hair looks like today - and I had to give a presentation to the rest of the course. Luckily the presentation only lasted approx 2 mins, but unluckily I had just looked in the mirror shortly before and seen the horrible truth. I am giving up with short hair and quite possibly never going to another hairdresser again. Ever.

MI, hope the news has been good today.

Crem, very sorry to hear your dad is still so upset.

Herbs, I can only sympathise.

Ds's 10th birthday today. My 50th next week. I am feeling old. And my hair is stupid (did I already mention that?).

I am tired, cat has pissed on the bed, shat on the rug. DH wants to rehome her. We will be back at the vet tomorrow, I think.

Herbs - sorry to hear about your feedback. Was it constructive and helpful or just overly critical?

Sorry about your DDad Crem. I wish my mother would stop driving. She drives too fast and doesn't look where she is going.

Hoping your Mum makes good progress, MI. Sending lots of good vibes your way.

Oh Herbs. And Stropps. Sorry the day has been tough.

BTM, I too am utterly bemused at the idea of asking one's mum for support. Quite. Ahem. Yes.

Asking your mother for support? Bwahahahahaha. Mine would say "Well what you should have done was..." "If I were you, I would have done/said..." And her favourite "Well you were stupid, weren't you?" Followed by "You think you're so clever. But you'll never learn, will you?"

Happy Birthday Stropps ds!
I would have gone to my mum back in the day, but not now.
Here I think I'm coming down with something - very tired despite lots of sleep...
Stropps, Herbs it will all be fine, one day at a time.

Indeed Mrs S , my mum would do similar, having no filter and believing my life to be irrelevant. She would however lift a paintbrush and help do up the living room or make a cushion.
Emotions, heavens no.

Happy birthday mini Stropps.

BT man coming today to pump up the wifi.
I keep singing '
Which is mighty annoying.

Herbs and Stropps, sorry you had crap times yesterday.
And Stropps, that you are feeling old. I feel like that a lot these days. Happy birthday to your DS though!

I think I realised that my DM was no good for proper support when I was about 11. Well probably a long time before that. I had to be self-reliant. And offer her support. Nowadays she just lives in her own little world - has done for about 30 years

Happy birthday, Stropps DS! Ten today. It goes so fast, doesn't it - my DD1 will be ten in April and in my mind she is still about 4 rather than a strapping lass of nearly 5 foot with size 4 feet!

How is your ma doing today, MI? Been thinking of you all.

Herbs, sorry it wasn't a good day yesterday. It probably felt worse than it was. You still on for meeting next Thurs, avec les autres? Would love to see you.

BD, I am sorry you are feeling poorly again. Would it be worth a trip to the doc or do you think you are just generally run down? How is the job going? Thinking of you

Crem, so sorry your dad is so shaken. Hope it is resolved swiftly and he can put it behind him.

Mothers - mine is fab, but still can disapprove vehemently of my behaviour. I went to Mallorca with friends for a weekend last May and didn't tell her as I knew she wouldn't approve of me leaving the children (who were a. at school and b with their father). If I have something v worrying though, I might not tell her in case she gets overwrought, so I just unload on my sister or some of my friends. Or, indeed, you lovely bunch

Right, am about to compose stroppy work email. Wish me luck.

I remember when I had a spell of v nasty depression some years back one of the reasons I didn't just top myself was I seriously couldn't face coming to and being told "oh darling, it makes me feel so terrible that this is happening to you"...

Happy birthday Stroppyboy.

MI that is both funny in an odd way and sad.....
It's the 'its all about me' parents I don't get, but I guess why should being a parent make you any different!

MC - I think it's just all the pre Christmas crap catching up on me and I'm not masking it with gallons of vino!

I believe I am available for meeting next Thursday, yes! No lectures in the afternoon, so can be moderately leisurely.

My mum's always been great for support, though not on the emotional front. Seems common among our mums' generation. She never once told me she loved me, for example, and I don't remember any physical affection as a child. But we've always been very similar in outlook, and she's great for most advice. And I know she does care, very much.

The past year, however, she's got less with-it, saying mad stuff like 'well, I haven't been on a plane in years', two weeks after getting back from a holiday in Croatia. To which she did not walk, drive or get the train.

Happy birthday to mini-stropps!