Crepey wattle and daub

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At last! I get to use my thread title.

Over here, my hags.

Wot, no pjs? :) I always wear 'em and wouldn't be able to sleep without them. Long trousers and long sleeves most of the year. And there's usually only about 2 days every year when I don't have a hot water bottle on my feet all night. And I need a heavyweight duvet too.

Always have pjs on here. I change into them as soon as I get home from work. So much more comfortable. I am also a cold person so need to be well bundled up. Envious of the Janet Reger pyjamas. I got an LK Bennett cardigan yesterday for a tenner, but it is functional rather than glamorous.

Ran the gauntlet of both sets of mothers over the Easter weekend. Mine was fab, as always, and DH's was just bonkers. She is such hard work. Makes me appreciate mine so much.

Hatty, enjoy your time with DD1. Will she be at home for all the summer? Do Uni students work in the summer holidays or do they want to travel etc? I recall many a happy holiday pulling pints, working in a bookshop and being a tour guide on an open top bus. Good fun

Dh has gone on a long walk so the kids and I are going to have breakfast out. Hurray.

pJ-free here, too. Can't bear anything bundling up round me in bed. But I do like to slip into my 'loungewear' of an evening - an ageing pair of sainsburys trackie Bs, and a holey hoodie.

Another nice day out yesterday. Met friends at a park cum stately home, had greasy spoon type lunch, then sadly DS spotted a poster for a funfair next door. I succumbed. Despite there being not many rides he could actually go on, and the intense disappointment of not sinning a giant cuddly toy on one of the side stalls, DS declared it 'awesome' and better than Legoland.

Today is supermarket shop, browse of the animals in Pets at Home, then Cinderella at the cinema.

I have suggested lunch out to my beloved Inferiorettes, to whom I suspect it will be brunch rather than lunch. They're being taken out by friends later and I am going to a freebie do with canapes, yet (I don't get many of those in my life).

I have Ladyjogged and flung words at page. Now on to earning a living.

If I can keep going at this rate I shall actually get a first draft down within the next decade . New characters keep emerging, but they're quite nice ones.

Sounds like a fab day out, Herbs.

I have tried on my trousers of truth and they do up! Hurray! They are a sainsbury's size 12, so not exactly slimmer of the year, but it represents progress of sorts. Esp as I dipped out on the ladyjog this morning.

5 weeks today I am off to Spain. Need to get into proper size 12 by then if possible. Rose, you are inspiring me to try Slimming World as you have lost loads. Would you recommend it? Do you do the classes? I did WW long ago and the classes were terrible.

Herbs it sounds like you're having a lovely holiday with his nibs!
And canapé party? Get you MI!

Looks like I have managed to get carers set up for DM, though the cleaning agency seemed a bit miffed that I was cancelling them. DM is now trying to cancel a booking she made for a coach holiday as she is thinking it will be too much for her. She is sounding more confused/forgetful by the minute

I love the idea of swanning around in cream satin. Never been a loungewear wearer though....never really been one to change gear on getting home, but kinda like the idea of it.

hatty how lovely to have reached that place of post teen -awfulness.

monty judging by your photos you really don't look like the type of person who needs to diet! I am doing SW on line actually. Saves the need for the awful classes...I don't like sitting in a room of women going on about how they ate a gazillion syns and don't understand why they're not losing any weight! It works for me...is all I can say but you do have to be religious about it for the first three months to have any impact. I also do find it so much harder now I'm older....the loss is quite slow. I only ever did it after my births, and after I was ill, when I'd been on steroids which made me gain a lot of weight. I couldn't do low carbing....I like pasta, potato and rice too much. And I do like not being hungry...well mostly, anyway.

We are off on another walk...but will stick to even ground today...ankles are complaining after yesterday's rough terrains!

tilly and well done for getting the carers set up! especially as you're trying to do all this from a distance. It's a time of change for your DM so the confusion might temporarily get worse, but hopefully will settle a bit once she gets used to things.

MI, I'm guessing you'll be hosting soireesin your Janet Reger loungewear?

When not swigging sipping cocktails at the Ritz, Molly....

Oh dear, DM doesn't sound in a great way. But I'm sure part of this is the last round of chemo and quite a lot of emotional Stuff to deal with as it's the last bit of her cancer treatment (for now. Hmmm).

No lady jogging for me - it's my knees, you know - but have undertaken a Fit in 15 Davina workout. It's one of these high-intensity exercise thingos. I now feel distinctly wobbly.

DS is now doing one of the sections downstairs.

My trousers of truth not only did up, but were sit-down-able in before Easter. Now, not so much. Which hardly seems fair, as I had minimal chocolate.

I should probably explain canapé do is organised by a vitamin company, which realises it needs to make an effort to lure us in!

Hello crepeys.

MrsS, I hope Spain is fabulous.

Canapés and Janet Reger, how glamorous! She used to be a byword for a sort of slinky sexiness with class, didn't she? Until the bankruptcy anyway...

Extremely envious at the size 12s, well done. I sat in the garden yesterday and got slightly burnt so feel stupid but never mind. Really don't want to go back to work next week, it's been lovely. Drank wine with DH last night and woke at 4am in massive sweat, urgh.

BTM, well done on getting carers set up, that's quite an achievement! By the way, I know a couple of elderly ladies whose confusion has masked untreated UTIs, which make confusion worse.

Hatty, that is lovely about dd. My dd is lovely when in a good mood, grumpy at other times and is driving us mad at the moment by refusing to chase or do anything about that course issue....Yes, they do seem to work - dd has two summer jobs lined up (if logistics and training and stuff all work out) and earns a bit in term time working for her department at open days etc. She finishes exams mid May though, so has plenty of summer - can't think what she would do if she didn't get jobs.

ds has finally woken up properly after his camp last week and seems to be getting some revision done.

I would quite like the house to myself for more than half an hour at a time.....

Greetings crepeys. I too have ladyjogged and kept my deal of running, or loping all the really quite short route as havefallen into a bad habit of mostly ladywalking. Mistake though to go via high street. Windows you see.

Small d is playing in mate's 1960s cul de sac. Reminds me fondly of my own youth. DD1 is out with dad. I am supposed to be doing work on a paid commission but feel a bit restless and am even considering getting out the hoover.

Tim Vine Hoover joke: Sold my hoover. It was just gathering dust.

Yesterday dd1 had full on teenage rant made bearable by her recently acquired side fringe entirely covering her face while she moaned and groaned about my unreasonableness.

Rosebag envious of all your walks. I have failed to instill enough of a 'walks must be had' line in this house.

Re: loungewear, DH doesn't even come and say hello of an evening until he's donned his equiv of Herbs rig-out and I'm v partial to my grey with white stars fleece Tesco house-strides. I mostly work in a black zip fleece often accessorised with egg/soup stains. Sis thinks I look like our dad so I retired it for a while but I'm sporting it right now.

And MrsS, have a fabulous time!

Agree with Lalsy, UTIs both prevalent and cause of wide ranging confusion, high etc temperatures in seniors who may not have usual UTI symptoms.

Hopefully the docs/nurses doing the tests will check out for UTI's for DM.

MI, will the canapés be healthy?

WAF, love the joke and the S&B

No ladyjogging here, but I did go to the gym and have just walked to BP and back (with a stop outside the café) with DH. Beautiful day

Lalsy - it seems so much easier to have summer jobs in the UK then in France. Also, of course, DD is interrailing July so that complicates matters. She needs to find something so she can finance her holiday and also her rather expensive taste in cocktail dresses!

With regards to teen awfulness I still have DD2 to keep me on my toes. She's given me more of a run for my money than DD1 ever did. DS is also revving up to be a full blown Kevin the Teenager - I reckon he can flounce better than either of the girls.

Yep, one of my mother's current problems is chronic bloody UTIs (obviously she doesn't drink nearly enough in any case). I dragged my two out for a delicious Indian lunch - DD2 literally wept all the way there, but then cheered up 10 seconds into magnificent Indian thali. They both ordered puddings and neither of them finished them, so I am very happy indeed as well .

Our polling cards have arrived, to my reassurance.

Extensive Sainsbury shop done, though neglected to insert my usual wardrobe-transforming item of clothing, as had restless 5yo in the trolley. Had glamorous lunch in the cafe, and bumped into an old chum, which was rather lovely. Then trip to Pets at Home for dS to look at the various rodents. Unloading fridge-bound produce, then off to see Cinderella.

DS has really ramped up the Christianity at this most Holy of times. He said solemnly: 'Mummy, Easter isn't all about chocolate. It's about our Lord being risen. When you look into your hollow chocolate egg, think of the empty tomb." I had to restrain myself from guffawing in his face. He even said to my friend this lunchtime: "Do you know, some people aren't friends of Jesus." She did well to keep a straight face.

Yum, MI, where?

Herbs, I'm loving it! We had a deal of that when ours were small, including one memorably embarrassing afternoon at the local museum with both of them singing "If I was a butterfly" at the tops of their voices

No polling cards here yet.

Herbs.

I have to say my DC's went to a Catholic primary here and are absolutely clueless - I think most people have more religious knowledge just as a matter of general culture.

Do report back on Cinderella!

Herbs .

MI, that is so funny about sobbing all the way to lunch.

Hatty, we have yet to see how these jobs and their training pan out in practice but she has just applied and told them when she is not free (one is a famous sporting event at which dd will be working for a notorious company doing security and customer service - she doesn't know the name of a single player involved ; the other is essentially a TA job at a summer school. Both were on big student job type websites I think). We'll see.

Ganapati, BTM. As ever.

I just interviewed a seriously Crepey dame and am a little star-struck.