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Crepey wattle and daub

997 replies

herbaceous · 13/03/2015 10:30

At last! I get to use my thread title.

Over here, my hags.

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cremolafoam · 13/03/2015 21:00

If CVs dh brings Brian to Ireland over the weekend I'll be most displeasedGrin
We are so far in The Immune Zone

bigTillyMint · 13/03/2015 21:04

No use of Brian here so farSmile

QueenQueenie · 13/03/2015 21:46
CointreauVersial · 13/03/2015 21:58

No Brian here either. Colds and hayfever yes; upchucking, not yet

Oh QQ, those flares. They were so absurd.

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/03/2015 22:06

Metoclopramide is always in the medicine chest in our house. The best thing to drink if you are throwing up is weak, black tea, with a little sugar. It probably doesn't do you any good, but it has the advantage of tasting very similar when it comes back up. I throw up quite regularly (gallstones, gastritis, periods, food allergies) and this is my top tip. As you will have observed, this involuntary bulimia has done nothing for my weight. Grin

DD2 is being foul. Was thinking of taking her away somewhere for the Easter holidays, but now having second thoughts. The job overseas is suddenly more appealling. Waitrose are delivering tomorrow morning, between 6 and 7 - am I mad?

Forgot to include a message with my mother's mothers' day flowers, so will have to tell her they are from me. The conversation will go like this"

"I got your flowers."

"Did you? Were they nice?"

"There's [insert name of innocent flower here] in the bouquet, did you mean to order them?"

"Why, do you not like them?"

"It's not that." [heavy sigh] "They don't look like they'll last. And some of the roses/lilies/lysianthus are fully out too. They should be in bud."

"But they were pink flowers?"

"It's not a very nice pink. More purple/orange/red than pink."

"Is there anything else wrong with them?"

"I didn't say there was anything wrong with them. But they've filled it out with a lot of gyp, and I think the gerbera will droop."

"Have they not wired them?"

"Yes, but I still think they'll droop."

Two days later:

"I phoned Marks/Waitrose/Interflora and told them the flowers weren't lasting, so they sent me another bunch. Now I've got so many flowers, I don't have enough vases to put them in..."

This is exactly, but exactly, like my parents in the 70s. It even looks just like them.

hattymattie · 14/03/2015 06:48

Mrs S - I find regular coke does the trick - although left to go a little flat.

Can't believe your Mum - although would love to sit surrounded by flowers.

I went to see the school production of Edward Scissorhands last night. A bit odd to say the least - although they did it well and with added songs! I 'm just not a Tim Burton fan.

Hope the ill crepeys are rallying - I seem to have survived DD2's mega vomiting sessions last weekend (touch wood).

motherinferior · 14/03/2015 07:54

I am at the desk. (Don't feel too sorry for me, one of the reasons I'm banging the keys is I accepted a Very Well Paid Commission last week. Someone MrsS pointed out it was a better rate than even the classiest hookers get.) Also I just want to get SHOT of this stuff.

I have written a chunk of the new bits of the book, to reassure anyone who thought it was Withering On The Vine. It is quite odd, giving oneself the space to write enough as opposed to chopping it out to meet a word length. It unpacks and expands. Possibly it is then necessary to chop it out, of course.

Blackduck · 14/03/2015 08:35

hatty I thought regular flat coke was the way to avoid a hangover ;)
Stropps hope Ds didn't keep you up all night!

I need to do a bit of work today and then intend to have a fairly lazy weekend.

MrsS sorry to hear DD2 is being a pain.

Rosebag · 14/03/2015 08:51

I am hoping that the sickness bug is weakening as it crosses the Thames. The only person this side of the river I know with it is ConS and the poor bugger is still doing shows, weak as a kitten and green tinged, no doubt. I was enjoying indulging a bit of obsessive alcohol rub usage at GOS yesterday....DS and I have both got sore throats, though. Rats.
Sorry for various confused DMs. It is normal for ageing to produce forgetfulness and confusion, though. It's incredible how dementia and Alzheimer's have slipped into common usage. Where's the dividing line?
MrsS I don't mind a swig of metachlopramide....good stuff. Anything not to be sick, I say. ANYTHING.
I am whacked out...not up yet. Wondering whether this sore throat will go away with a drink. DS had a very good day in Cambridge....impressed but not blinded by the light. Loved the lecturers in the German department...and lunch with students at Downing...seemed to think the food was very good.

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/03/2015 08:57

Waitrose turned up at 0545, before the alarm went off! Shock At least I don't have to waste the day shopping. But what to eat tonight? DD2 is "sick of curry". I have offered toad in the hole with mash and greens, but DH "had sausages earlier in the week". DD2 said "meh." I then offered chicken and mushroom pie, as today is Pie Day, and who doesn't love a pie? But this was greeted with no enthusiasm. So I asked what they did want? And they didn't know, although DD2 unhelpfully said she would like pizza, from Domino's, and only from Domino's. I think I will go out on my own.

hattymattie · 14/03/2015 09:03

05.45? Do they deliver all night then or do they just like catching people out in their pyjamas?

Rose - glad DS had a good day. Downing food obv better than Newnham. Having said that, if he saw three girls eating a particularly unhealthy brunch outside the cafe opposite Kings - one of them was DD - not a vegetable in sight!

Blackduck · 14/03/2015 09:14

MrsS I'd put a sigh I saying the cafe is closed for the day and bugger off out....

Blackduck · 14/03/2015 09:15

Sign!

Rosebag · 14/03/2015 09:17

Grin Hatty sounds like DSs kinda food. He does not eat vegetables ....no, not one. Apparently he had fish and chips at the college....

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/03/2015 09:19

It was scheduled between 6 and 7.

Hatty, surely the only veg permissible at brunch are mushrooms, tomatoes and baked beans? Grin

Crepes, DD2 needs a new laptop, particularly something she can do her digital art on. She is adamant she doesn't want a Mac. Any ideas? this is the sort of thing she does.

motherinferior · 14/03/2015 09:21

MrsS, cook what you want to eat. Possibly a one-person portion. Let the buggers starve. I personally am going out to eat with a friend (this may involve the finest local takeaway, fine by moi).

Tempted to introduce some lesbertarian action - or at least Restrained Yearnings - into my novel, not least in aim of Diversity.

The food at my Oxford college was appalling, at least if you were a vegetarian. You didn't get a lot of vegetarians in 1982. Certainly not greedy buggers like me who were not going to be satisfied with a Branston pickle pancake.

herbaceous · 14/03/2015 09:42

Mrs S - your family are ungrateful wretches. You need to apply the 'three strikes and you're out' rule. With 'out' meaning they make their own sodding dinner.

Or bugger off for 10 weeks.

Choir concert tonight, and rehearsal all afternoon with the orchestra. As is traditional, the rehearsal will go appallingly, and our conductor will blanch. And then we'll pull it out the bag for the evening.

Any crepeys up chingford way who fancy some spiritual uplift, drop me a pm!

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hattymattie · 14/03/2015 09:56

Mrs S - agree - tell them to cook for themselves.

Having studies the FB photo - DD's friend has mushrooms and tomatoes. DD - has never eaten a tomato in her life - and mushrooms could be pushing it. She has egg, sausages, toast and beans on her plate.Smile. She will eat salad (without tomatoes), leeks, broccoli etc - if put in front of her.

bigTillyMint · 14/03/2015 10:05

MrsSShock at Waitrose delivery time. Go out and leave them to it. Maybe for 10 weeksWink

DD will be cooking for the outlaws tonight as we are going over to see friends. Hopefully MIL will oversee that she doesn't give them all food poisoning!

DS doesn't do salad, but will eat certain cooked veg.

MrsS, I have no idea on the laptop front, especially as I have no idea how you do art on a laptop!

herbaceous · 14/03/2015 10:06

PS What is metoclopramide? Does it have an easier name?

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motherinferior · 14/03/2015 10:37

I am quite forceful about salad. And veg in general. OTOH have no idea what my lot will be consuming as am also lunching out with a friend. She is the world's most terrible cook so I was most gratified when she suggested a Vietnamese place in Lewisham, thus replacing a dreaded experience with one I am greatly looking forward to.

MrsS, it's fun to stay in M.A.L.T.A....

Rosebag · 14/03/2015 10:38

herbs Maxalon. It's prescription only though. Good stuff in extremis. Btw I am v near to chingford. ( can't be more than five miles away) Need more notice, though as got plans tonight. I'd love to come and hear your choir in future. Smile I miss mine.

I thought a Mac was THE computer for digital art....no?

DS will only have veg soup if it's sieved Shock otherwise no veg whatsoever. DD eats all veg except for peas and sweet corn ...and Kenyan beans for some reason. dS1 eats all except courgettes.....

Do any Crepeys actually have offspring or other close relatives who are doing or have recently done any MMLs at Cambridge. DS wants to talk to someone about it......

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/03/2015 10:42

Maxolon. I don't know if you can buy it over the counter here, but you can in France.

motherinferior · 14/03/2015 10:52

Also every designer type I know works on a Mac, surely she's got to give in?

bigTillyMint · 14/03/2015 10:54

Rose what are Kenyan beans? Green beans from Kenya?

I'm afraid we don't have any Oxbridge alumni in our extended families. In fact, DH and I are hugely in the minority with a degree!