Beware the Crepes of March!

[QueenQueenie]

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

I have sent everyone out so that I can clean and tidy, the "public areas" (fnarr) anyway. I have shut the doors on the DDs' rooms so that I don't have to look at them. Changed the cat litter with emergency bag, and as soon as I had done so, the doorbell rang and CatLitterIsUs delivered vast quantities of the stuff.

Nowt wrong with a button phobia, BTM.

Glad the cake went down well, NU.

I don't think I said Hello yesterday, EmilyAlice, which was very remiss of me. I am v envious of your living in Normandy. I want to retire tomorrow to the Cotentin peninsula.

MI, hope you are there at last, without too much effing and blinding and changing of trains. Make sure you have a nice drink on the return journey. If it looks like getting back is going to be difficult, I have, in the past, found that tears produced a taxi all the way home, courtesy of the rail company...

I know MrsS But seriously, you need to get a cleaner. Life is too bloody short if you are the only one who does it.

I should be sorting the skiing stuff which has now been washed, but instead I am in the cafe!

Anyone up for a BP meet up soon?

Always up for a BP meet up, BTM.

Also if anyone needs a companion to see Penelope Wilton in that play about Hans Litten, I am up for that, too. I saw a series of documentaries about Hans Litten which moved me very deeply indeed.

I'm on kit bag duty today. Funny that, when I worked Monday and Tuesday, drove Wednesday and Thursday and somehow the concept of kit bags containing very stinky stuff passed the rest of the family by....Still, I'm on homework duty still so I need 'bodding around the kitchen jobs'.

It's strange as dd1 was the most anxious child, right the way up to about year 10 or 11. She couldn't use any form of bus or train without freaking out, couldn't go upstairs on her own until about Year 9, still has a 'blankie'.....But because the move to sixth form was so successful and the friendship thing and the subject thing went well, she has become this confident child who doesn't really give a monkeys about what other people think. I also think moving from a school where she was struggling academically and coming pretty much bottom in everything to going somewhere where she is doing well in what she does and where the college has a much broader spectrum of abilities has boosted her self esteem and confidence. It's really behind my decision to move ds' school next term so he doesn't have that constant needling ALL the time.

I'm not sure of the schedule of Borneo yet - I don't think it will be much trekking and remoteness as dd2 is only 9, but I think where we are going there are smaller reserves that we can go to. I need to do more homework, but I have quite a lot of jobs on my list at the moment. I want to snorkel!

I cannot see Litten play as had pointless and shaming crush on bloke who wrote it, culminating in major humiliation when I confessed myself .

Am on the train home from Cambridge. Parents maddening. Mother hideously underweight so getting lower chemo dose than optimal. Father has not even read DSis's painstaking instructions ("I don't need instructions for every element of my life"). Both vague. To avoid killing them I scrambled eggs ("yes, it really was very easy") and departed when mum went off for afternoon nap.

Beachy, you give me a lot of hope
And it sounds like a sensible move for your DS.

I have never heard of Litten

But if anyone fancies the Carole King musical, I'd be up for that

Great Molly! Anyone else for BP?

MI, sorry to hear that.

I just might be able to score a CK couple of freebies - will investigate

Borneo sounds amazing!
Cotentin is lovely Mrs. S, but does tend to get more rain than we do. Have you looked at the coast around the D-day landing beaches? We love the little towns and the beaches that never get crowded.
The Cheerleading comp was - um very noisy. I like the team spirit and co-operation and trust involved in the tumbling and the lifts, but could do without the bouffant hair and the bows.

MI

Cheerleading doesn't sound very French, EA!

DS would kill me if I said he still has a blankie, so I won't

People laugh about button phobia but apparently it's well known. In the course of my teaching there is an activity which I sometimes do involving buttons. I remember from my training that we were advised to double check if anyone had a button phobia in advance. I have been amazed by how often someone has flagged it up!

Well done MI for surviving and making eggs. I do hope your DM manages to gain a little weight and eat a bit more. I am going to PM you some words an old and very dear friend sent me when I was going bonkers over my parents care..and getting furious with them. still am
It helps me....

Journey took an hour longer than normal. Can't flop. We are shortly going to see the emerging writers festival that my play is not in. How grown up am I being, Crepeys?

Cheerleading was up the Crystal Palace! I don't think the French would go for it; apart from anything else you would need a seven year course before you could teach it
Well done MI, must be hard.

Oh EA, I had forgotten you were here! Close to me by the sounds of it.

DS had Cloffy and Sniffy until his voice broke, 2 weeks after his 12th birthday

Rose, DD would die sooner than do a button activity!

EA - I live right next to c palace. Is it your children who are here? You are in Normandy, non?

I was in BP only today, would love a walk with the crepeys from the beautiful South. Let me know when.

MI, glad you are home. Hope you have a in the go.

DD and family in Kent, DS and family in Spain. Us in Normandy.

C Palace is near my native heath though. My Granny saw it burn down....

I'm only just home. There were added delights to going Sarf.

DP has suggested I go on a Friday last time in manner radiating guilt for suggesting today in the first place.

ds has MrS and Duck (and a blankie) - they are eggy now, but het ho.

I try not to do comparison, more of an example if that makes sense....

Can we sort a meet up for Easter???

Eggy? Raggy....!

I think I would be a bit concerned Rudy, only because being elevated to 'bf' status without meeting them is a bit weird for a crepey like me! When dd1 'met' someone on line, who was very close, I urged her to meet him ASAP so she could do the talking in person.

On a very slovenly note, I saw yesterday that I hadn't got rid of the nuts from Christmas but I thought I'd put them out for the squirrels but Dylan ate them (who knew dogs would like cracking nuts with their teeth and eating them). He's been sick four times tonight and is wandering around listlessly.... Apparently hazelnuts are ok, Brazil nuts not so much!

Does MrsS know your ds has MrS?

Ha ha re nuts Beachy...

I am sure MrsS's MrS is in much better shape than ds's MrS ...... (Only on mumsnet....)

Meet up potentials. Our term starts April 20th so Friday 24th or May 8th? May 1st is the bank holiday Friday so may be harder. Happy with Saturday's too, actually may be easier. Is that too far in advance?

Dd's hamster is working his way through the Christmas nuts, though with the way he likes to tunnel to the bottom of the nutbowl, he is probably eating nuts from about Christmas 2012.