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Crepey wattle and daub

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herbaceous · 13/03/2015 10:30

At last! I get to use my thread title.

Over here, my hags.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 14/03/2015 18:35

I did the sex talk with DD2, and she looked at me and said "I don't even want to put a tampon up there, so what makes you think I'd want a penis anywhere near it?" Grin When I was that age, my mother was all about the "damaged goods" and "he can always throw it back in your face, if you've been with someone else" and "look at your cousin Pamela, all on her own with an illegitimate child."

I have discovered the joy that is the food bit at TK Maxx, and came out with a huge jar of olives, rose harissa, Nice Italian Pesto and a pretty tin of Portuguese olive oil. And didn't pay more than £2.50 for any item.

DD2 has laptop and DH is sulking because she has "won". Hmm DD1 is camping with the venture scouts in Cheddar Gorge this weekend.

We are having sausages tonight because I cba with anything more demanding.

Have any of you read "A Song for Issy Bradley"? Also short listed for the Costa prize, and a much better book, I think.

I am still feeling sick and have phantom gallbladder pain. I will make an appointment to see the doctor, with a bit of luck, before May, and he will tell me that it is nerve damage and I will just have to put up with it as they can't do anything about it.

Rosebag · 14/03/2015 18:51

Respect up you cv you're handling it all brilliantly.
mrsS I made s rule a few years ago no do not cook supper at weekends. DD wasn't very old... Still at primary school I think. So they make themselves cheese sandwiches... Or something. Bad mother? Dunno. Try it ! Grin
It's probably nerves herbs hope it goes well tonight.
Having a very civilised drink with DH in the theatre bar.

hattymattie · 14/03/2015 19:07

I don't cook weekend evenings either - salad or soup or smoked salmon on bread Saturday and crepes (by DH) Sunday.

When I tried to do the sex talk DD1 said "Mum don't give me the sex talk!". She has always asked questions when necessary and I encourage them to ask anything no matter how embarrassing or stupid it may seem. She did say at age 16 she was still disgusted by the whole concept of sex. I get the impression this is no longer the caseHmm.

beachyhead · 14/03/2015 20:16

Hope you love it Rose, I was mesmerised......

Blackduck · 14/03/2015 20:59

I cooked 'love soup', lasagne and beetroot and choc cake. I have defeated the veg stockpile. Tomorrow I don't care....
Mushrooms and egg for breakfast and then I don't care ;)

CointreauVersial · 14/03/2015 21:32

Bah. I have to get up for football tomorrow. Barely time to scoff down a Hot Cross Bun before I go.

QueenQueenie · 14/03/2015 23:53

How was the play Rose? We're going in a few weeks...
Just back from a 50th party (one of dh's colleagues). Bloody hell it was dull - and hardly anything to drink Shock! Call that a party Hmm?

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2015 00:04

QQ sounds like a particularly crap party!

We are on a bus home from dinner at old friends in their new flat. They have moved from a lovely flat in the West End to a lovely flat in middle-class-ville. I predict another move before long??

Blackduck · 15/03/2015 08:33

Happy Mothers Day Crepeys! Hope you are getting breakfast in bed!

beachyhead · 15/03/2015 09:11

Happy Mother's Day too.... Waiting for sausages and toast here. Then dh and dd2 are off to see his mother, ds is out doing some Navy activity all day so just me and dd1. Heaven! Might take myself off to cry at that movie about the young Crepey mum who gets dementia (or would that freak people at the cinema out - middle aged mother alone on Mothers Day watching depressing film Smile)

MontserratCaballe · 15/03/2015 10:01

Beachy Grin

Happy mothers' day. Have conducted a ladyjog and was expecting to come home to lovely breakfast etc but nothing. Hm. I will go and have a bath and see if they galvanise themselves to do anything.

Hope everyone is having a fine morningSmile

Rosebag · 15/03/2015 10:01

To all who celebrate Mothers Day, hope you're being fussed over and waited on. Here it's just business as usual….

Beachy QQ its a lovely play. I was quite astounded by the sheer volume of script and poetry that Wannamaker had to learn for it…she's really good in the part, as are the supporting characters…(although it's very hard for me to see Lynda Baron as anyone other than Auntie Mabel!!!) It isn't universally popular though…some people next to us didn't come back after the interval…. (maybe they didn't like sitting next to us though…Hmm ) I don't know that DH loved it…he was very fidgety and annoying throughout. I loved it that Avondale Road is just a few minutes for where we live!!!

How did it go, Herbs? Are you less nauseous? And what about other ailing Crepeys…Auriga and Stropps DS? Who else BD? I still have a sore throat….

Homework and visiting DParents day today… Meh

Rosebag · 15/03/2015 10:04

Monty if nothing materialises…take yourself off to a lovely cafe and order a delicious breakfast for yourself leaving them to their cornflakes…. Grin

hattymattie · 15/03/2015 10:14

In France it's not Mothers Day till June so I just have wait!

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herbaceous · 15/03/2015 10:18

I got a cup of tea in bed, and a lie in. I'm going to do my essay, then if I have time, go to ikea. Living the dream.

Concert sent well, thanks rose.. Apart from my section failing to come in at the beginning of a movement. I blame the conductor. I nearly cried during the Sanctus - it's so beautiful, and we were singing it so well.

Brilliant orchestra, with all baroque instruments, like trumpets and horns with no valves or even holes. And the two soprano soloists were daughters of someone in the choir, and just gorgeous. I don't know how she could watch them without blabbing.

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MontserratCaballe · 15/03/2015 10:20

Rose, I think people often give themselves a free seat upgrade in the interval if they want to be nearer the front, not behind a pillar etc. I loved Aunty Mabel, especially when she went into the sewers. Never has an actor earned her fee more grudgingly. Zoe Wanamaker is always v compelling to watch, isn't she? I may take myself out to the lovely things shop to buy something for myself as it doesn't look like any other bugger is going to bother. The swines!

Have a good Sunday everyone.

MontserratCaballe · 15/03/2015 10:21

Shit, I have just remembered Church Parade for the Brownies today. They are currently in their onesies and the service started at 10. Oh dear. Red choice for Mummy.

MontserratCaballe · 15/03/2015 10:21

Shit, I have just remembered Church Parade for the Brownies today. They are currently in their onesies and the service started at 10. Oh dear. Red choice for Mummy.

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2015 10:33

No breakfast in bed here (not that I'm hungry after dinner last night!) - DH has gone off with the outlaws to watch DS play v Portsmouth (I think) Luckily it's a home game! And DD is in bed. There is however, a lovely bouquet of cheering spring flowers and a box of chocolates as well as a homemade card for me on the tableSmile

I am off to meet a friend for coffee in a bit before they all appear back...

Stropperella · 15/03/2015 10:36

After I had got up early as usual to let the chickens out and make coffee, I went back to bed and told dh to get up and make me breakfast Grin Ds presented me with a card he had got up early to make. Dd of course is not up yet. I am cooking lunch for Dm, then need to spend some time practising administering various tests on ds, as I have to re-assess my "learner" this week.

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2015 10:37

LOL Stropps, I used to do that on my two too! DD was the same age as my first learner and DS the same age as my second oneGrin

motherinferior · 15/03/2015 11:07

I have a slight prosecco hangoverGrin. I am lounging in bed but think may now import laptop and do some writing. Dd1 has promised to make me a cake, which is v sweet of her.

I thought A Song For Issey Bradley was terrific, btw.

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2015 11:11

I have amazingly no hangover from the G&T/prosecco I was drinking last night. Could have something to do with all the food I ate!

Monty, did you rush them off to Church Parade late, or go for a relaxing breakfast on your own?!

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herbaceous · 15/03/2015 11:36

I feel slightly hungover, which is SO UNFAIR, as I had merely one glass of wine last night when I got in from the concert at 11.30. Oh, and one in the interval.

Must crack on with this essay. DP is crashing in the kitchen, in what might quite possibly be a martyred fashion.

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CointreauVersial · 15/03/2015 11:37

Bah, Bah and thrice Bah. After I dragged myself out of bed early, and togged up for the football touchline, DS then decided he had stomach ache and didn't feel up to playing. I'm hoping it is just a dodgy DofE sausage and not the onset of the crepey gastric affliction which has found its way through the ether to Chateau Cointreau.

On the plus side, the DDs produced chocolates, earrings and a mug, and made a lovely card, all of which they had purchased and prepared without any assistance from DH. Lovely girls.

I have spent the morning reading the papers and doing not much else. DH is back after lunch.

Oh, and GF's mum texted to say that on reflection the Norfolk break might be "too much too soon", so decision made.... DS is not impressed.