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Beware the Crepes of March!

999 replies

QueenQueenie · 16/02/2015 12:36

Well someone had to do it as my last post was number 999...

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motherinferior · 27/02/2015 09:09

Auriga, I would be quite homicidal if that were me.

Good news: DMum's cancer surgeon says it's all gone very well, pointing out that it was a huge major op (essentially three in one) and that they did get all the cancer (contrary to her assuring me that they'd left some 'spots' that the chemo would target). She is querulous and unreasonable, but I suppose under the circumstances that is understandable (is in throes of yet more vile chemo and is still unable to walk, though I do suspect that she is perhaps not doing her physio exercises as assiduously as she thinks - she's never been one for exercise, considering it anti-intellectual and contributing to unseemly muscle. The "long walks" she has convinced the GP she used to do all the time were mainly small jaunts in the country before a nice lunch. Or snack, obviously, in my mother's case). I'm not naïve about cancer of this gravity but it should have given her a good few years and frankly at nearly 80 that's bloody good.

motherinferior · 27/02/2015 09:11

BTM, commiserations on DD. DD2 is clearly not quite the ticket but insisted on going to school. Which is particularly idiotic as her dad is WFH, I'm at home, and she could have dossed around with the cats.

bigTillyMint · 27/02/2015 09:13

That's great news MI!

NUFC69 · 27/02/2015 09:26

That's rough, Auriga.

Glad to hear that DD went more or less happily to school today, BTM. How many weeks until June? Grin

Emily, pleased to hear that you arrived home safely. I don't mind the ferry, although I still remember one journey we made from Portsmouth to Cherbourg when DD was potty training. The voyage was rough and she, bless her, was never sure whether she wanted to "go". We were up and down to the loo on the deck below and I was feeling more and more seasick until I eventually threw up. DD , on the other hand, was fine.

Have a nice time with DD, Lalsy.

DH is going out on his bike for the day, complete with his new helmet which DD and I insisted he bought to replace his slightly damaged one. He didn't believe us when we said if he had had an accident and bumped his head that it needed replacing.

I am doing house work and then going to the gym and swimming pool. DD's birthday on the 5th so I need to go shopping, too, so I have something to give her.

EmilyAlice · 27/02/2015 10:02

Good news MI
NUFC69 we never travel without a cabin. If it looks as if the weather is very dodgy we drive up to the tunnel, but the Caen crossing is really convenient as we are home an hour after docking. OH had a terrible journey to England on Tuesday with five hours of corkscrewing, but coming home yesterday was fine. We take picnic food and never venture out of the cabin!

herbaceous · 27/02/2015 10:06

Doesn't being cooped up in a cabin make seasickness worse? I don't suffer too badly myself, but like the chance for a bracing walk on deck and seeing the horizon...

bigTillyMint · 27/02/2015 10:24

NU, not sure happily would describe it, but she went! 10/11 weeks till they start, so 16? till they finish. Not that I am counting!

Lalsy, how lovely to have your DD home, especially as she is now grown up and not at all teenagerWink

EmilyAlice · 27/02/2015 10:34

We take the tablets, put the earplugs in and lie flat. Haven't felt seasick in years that way. But then I am hopeless if anyone else is sick in the vicinity. The children were always trained to call for Daddy....

Rosebag · 27/02/2015 10:35

Sea sickness is the pits although I'm not too susceptible. DD did the long crossing to Normandy for a school trip in year 8.... Very rough on the way back...all the kids and lots of the staff were honking up. DD is very tough. She said, ' no I had something to eat and then lay down on the benches and had a sleep. " but six hours of angry seas...no thanks!

tilly hope DD is ok ....strength to you.

MI sounds like the best outcome....That's good.

I am sitting in a well known Hampstead venue which has free meeting space waiting for a meeting to start. The others are here but claim I'm early and they are having a meeting about something to which I am not invited. I feel like the tea boy. They are huddled at a table talking and I am sitting on my own. I don't feel very good.

herbaceous · 27/02/2015 10:40

How RUDE, Rose. Go to the shops and keep them waiting for the real meeting.

motherinferior · 27/02/2015 10:41

Rose, leave and come back slightly late for the 'official' kickoff?

I once, many years ago, came into my own office in which colleagues were having a meeting and was expected, with pointed looks, to go away and not bother them. I am still angry about it. (Possibly I need a hobby.)

bigTillyMint · 27/02/2015 11:04

Rose, MN to take your mind off it!

I hate meetings - always seem to take ages and achieve not very much, so I don't mind at all not being invited to themGrin

MollyAir · 27/02/2015 13:58

MI, that does sound good news about your mum! I love the idea of exercise being anti-intellectual and have made a note.

Sadly BTM I think I dare not try a walk in BP on Sunday in my current state, and not because it's anti-intellectual. The flu has gorn to my chest and I feel dreadful. Stupidly I ventured out to dd's Higher Ed evening last night and could barely stand, lost my handbag (much ado to unlock classroom blocks to retrieve it Blush) and was a disgrace.

bigTillyMint · 27/02/2015 14:01

Awww Molly, poor you!

If anyone else fancies it, let me know. And we can set another dateSmile

NUFC69 · 27/02/2015 14:18

MI, I am sorry that I missed your post about seeing DM's consultant. That is good news - I am obviously very non-intellectual as I have just swum for 40 minutes and spent an hour in the gym (polishes halo).

Rose, I hope you ignored the people who were holding their own meeting. Miserable lot!

motherinferior · 27/02/2015 14:19

Molly, go back to bed. NOW.

I have been cheered by unspeakably delicious lunch with DP at local Indian restaurant.

NUFC69 · 27/02/2015 14:19

Sorry to hear that you're not well, Molly, I hope you're better soon.

MollyAir · 27/02/2015 14:29

Thanks...I will go back to bed but I must sort ds' birthday cake...NU, we obviously like to give birth at around the same time of the year. Wink

That lunch sounds brilliant, MI. Was it a loving gesture to cheer you after visit to dmum?

bigTillyMint · 27/02/2015 14:52

Was it my local delicious veggie restaurant, MI?

Rosebag · 27/02/2015 15:21

I'm back. Meeting went ok but you know that feeling when you start in a negative frame of mind and can't seem to pull out of it? Left feeling that I contributed the least (and was the fattest) of everyone. I do however see to have acquired a lot of action notes.....It's incredible how quickly the downward spiral develops into low self worth!

I've just kicked off at Dd who had instructions to start her homework on arrival as I wouldn't be back in time. So I get in, and she's watching Simpsons. Angry I despair.

Poor molly. Bed and antibiotics for you, and no more being stoic. These are the times for which shop bought cakes were invented !

And now to the task of Friday Night Dinner. Just what I need not
Hmm Angry

motherinferior · 27/02/2015 15:22

Nope, it was here; not the cheapest around, but absolutely terrific. I had the stuffed aubergines with peanut sauce.

I do seriously realise my mum has never had to work at anything physical. She's done the odd yoga class but nothing like cultivating a Ladyjogging habit or going swimming. A lot of this is generational, I think.

beachyhead · 27/02/2015 15:44

Good news about your mothers operation MI. I doubt she'll start exercising now, TBH..... Just taken my ddad for a brisk walk on the beach and butternut squash soup for lunch. Yum....

I'm coughing a lot with a constant headache, so I'm watching Countdown and eating chocolate biscuits... Seems to be working Smile

hattymattie · 27/02/2015 15:49

Hurrah - I'm back so happy to be home and away from my mother in law. She wasn't terribly mean but I just like to be in my house doing my stuff and with a comfortable sofa! I fell on day 2 of skiing and bruised or cracked my rib. I felt it move when I fell and it was very sore to touch but today it feels much better so I think it was probably bruising. The problem was, I then had to sit and read whilst the rest went skiing. Anyway, I have consequently read lots of poetry as DD2 bought the Poetry Please Anthology from the BBC - I am so good on The Lady of Shallot. I also read Ian McEwan - Sweet Tooth - most excellent.

I haven't really had to time to catch up but MI - I'm so glad your mother's op went OK and welcome to Emily Alice who I understand is another French crepey.

motherinferior · 27/02/2015 15:57

An impossible client has just told me they liked my work. Given that they could just as easily have said they hated it, I am not so much preening as heaving huge sigh of relief.

EmilyAlice · 27/02/2015 16:37

Bonjour hattiemattie. Living happily in la boue normande here. Are you in Paris?
MI the generational thing is interesting. My mother (born 1910) was obsessive about fresh air, exercise, sea bathing, open windows, babies put out in the garden, the health and beauty movement, brisk walks and lots of dancing. Did it swing back the other way post-war? I don't know.

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