Crepey wattle and daub

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At last! I get to use my thread title.

Over here, my hags.

I had scrambled eggs and mushrooms, a nice card and a lovely wooden box. - oh a two unwelcome deposits from the dog
I did, however, tidy up the kitchen as the mess was too much to bear (even though do told me to leave it and he'd do it later)

Rose I'm on the mend but v tired (I think this may be partly due to the fact that I've only had odd days off this year and haven't taken anything longer than a week and thus am feeling jaded)

Well, I am pleased to report that I phoned my mother and the conversation was pretty much as described above, particularly about the colour of the flowers, although their freshness did not seem as bad this year. An added gripe was that they had left the flowers in the porch, as she had not heard the bell.

DH has gone out to collect DD1 from her camping weekend, and DD2 has mysteriously "gone out." So I am on my own listening to French radio and contemplating a nice glass of Austrian wine.

Phew CV - lucky escape I'd say. Maybe she saw the MN thread.

I agree with Hatty, CV. Right decision, and right outcome, and you don't get the blame! Win-win, I'd say!

CV, we had the stomach ache on arrival at a match a couple of weeks ago (admittedly after a lengthy car ride) but we forced him out and he felt a lot better and played. Put it down to a massive bowl of Shreddies and milk plus orange juice which is not always a good combination!

And result on the holiday front

MrsS, glad your DM was on form and that you are having some P&Q!

Here DD is watching TV whilst learning her Spanish CA

Yeah, BTM, I wasn't convinced about the bad stomach either, but couldn't persuade him that getting up and eating breakfast might actually help. The team lost 7-1 so he's quite relieved he wasn't there.

Just had to come on to say DD2 has said she really loves a group called Duran Duran. Obv born 30 years too late.

Monty I have never seen Zoe Wannamaker on stage actually! I think it's always the acid test of a good actor…whatever popularity they gain on TV and in films, if they can impress on stage they are true artistes!

BD you need a break…don't you.

It's probably a relief in the long run, CV. You could whisper to DS, that if he wants hols with the GF, find a good, organised youth summer camp, and both go with a crowd of friends. I did this from the age of about 14-17 and we had a ball… although when I think of what went on after lights out you might not thank me in the long run

I am having a stressful, shouty and dreary day. exit stage left to check calendar for how many days til the DC leave school

Hatty

BD, definitely time for a holiday

A belated Happy Mothering Sunday to everyone (I am old fashioned and can't cope with new fangled Mother's Day).

I, well we, were taken out for breakfast and I had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. The DC also gave me some bulbs to grow and a ceramic pot with a hand print of my youngest GS on it. The pot was timely as I had decided this morning to rehouse a cactus which used to be my DDad's (he died about 20 years ago). It almost made me want to cry, tbh.

Sorry to hear that you're still not too good, BD.

DH has just got excited as he has seen 2 magpies on the lawn and our football team play in half an hour. "One for sorrow, two for joy"...

Having a dull and invisible Mother's Day here but dh is cooking tonight.

Easy cuisine this evening, as I have a Costco chicken pie to slam in the oven.

I'm busy doing some well overdue eBay listings. My oh my, the app has improved since I last used it. You can actually speak your item description (although you do have to add punctuation and capitals). And they relist automatically.

Very dull day here. Housework and ironing and unrelieved grey drizzle outside. Our English neighbours have arrived and the "broadband" has dropped from 1.5mg to 0.5.
Rural France at its worst.

Nearly finished my essay draft. Thank God.

Had a break to go to Ikea. Now I remember why I don't go at weekends. Hoards of slow-moving bovine idiots, celebrating their mass consumption of bag clips and tea lights by spilling hot dogs and ice creams all over the 'bistro' area.

However, we did buy some vair nice blinds for the bedroom heavily reduced. Five 2m-long blinds, a chopping board and a packet of straws for £42. By taking all the short cuts, and the single-minded vision of DP (preventing me buying bag clips and tea lights) we were in and out in 20 minutes.

Well I have had the ultimate lazy afternoon binge watching Downton Abbey Season 5 as I want to return it to my friend who I see this week. (that's my excuse).

DD1 made me biscuits and DD2 wrote me a poem

Dh disappeared to the petrol station just before lunch to fill the car up (and didn't take his phone). 50 mins later, I get a call to say he's filled it with petrol instead of diesel and is waiting for a tow from the AA Car is now left at a garage waiting to be rinsed out, or whatever. Dd now decided that giving up French is a "stupid idea" and I am ridiculous for suggesting it.

Good God Stropps. Your DH hasn't covered himself in glory of late, has he. Why do you have to be the only competent person in the family? Is the car new, or was it a spectacularly divvy cock-up?

There can be few bins still holding their shape round your way.

God Stropps - don't know how you cope. Teenagers are so contrary! May I suggest Downton is very soothing.

Jeeeez, Stropps I guess he's not the first person to have done that, but
And as for DD, sadly she'll have changed her mind again in a week or less, no doubt

Here we had a mammoth curry (Sunday buffets come into their own when DH's family visit!) and are now being subjected to The Voice. Could be worse, I guess!

I have to admit I live in terror of doing that. And a v lovely friend of mine not only did it but then drove the car home in a moment of divorce-inducing madness.

Stropps, your DH can't half be an arse sometimes. Should we send you another bin to take out your frustrations on? And yes, the contrariness of teens...

I am on my own (which is bliss, as it rarely happens) with a Needy Cat. If I sit down, he has to touch me, or sit on my lap. The other one has stamped off on furry trousers because I have told her that it is not dinner time yet. I am also hugely tired and contemplating an early night.

I did go to see 'still Alice' which was amazing....sniff sniff. Dd1 came with me, which was lovely. I would recommend it thoroughly.

I made hoison duck for supper which was super easy. Rub duck crown in five spice, bung in oven pretty much all day, shred and bung in pancakes (bought from the Chinese restaurant)....

I did the petrol/diesel thing Stropps, about a year ago....

Beachy!

I am not sure I could face Still Alice - too close to home.

Oh Stropps my Dad did that once with a Hertz car once. Oh how we laughed. Another thing we are banned from mentioning chez Cermola.
LTB

Brian and I have spent the last 48 hours getting intimately acquainted . I am utterly destroyed as the retching has done nothing for my back as you can imagine I am off back to bed, slightly weepily to examine the coldsores that I can feel coming on to complete my Ultimate Makeover.