Maybe Yes, Maybe No, May Be Crepey

[QueenQueenie]

Unilateral decision... No space for consultation. Call me Dave...

Sorry, X posted with all your B&B posts, MI. Bloody annoying - all the more so for the work it makes for you, trying to cancel etc.

God MI - just caught up on this. Agree with name and shame on Trip Advisor and book yourselves somewhere nice.

Rose - I'd be quite happy singing in the background but love classical choral music - Berlioz, Gounod, Mozart masses - I don't think I would work up to that level.

By the way Herbs - you made me laugh so much with your FB account of your DS's introduction to G&S.

Bored of it here too, QQ. DD has 9 left to do. Roll on June 16th.

That's very kind Rose. I am not that worried about her, just a bit She seems to be managing OK, but I just can't get much sense out of her! For example, she kept asking me about paying the carers, but when I rang, they said she had already paid. She doesn't like the fact that they wear uniform

Yes, MI, name and shame. You need a nice place to stay to make it remotely bearable

Stropps, flowers and chocs sound good

DD has to choose between the prom dress I found on t'internet (but tight in the boob area - might be better if I can excavate the padding - and too long) or getting my dress altered.

I have slightly forgiven my dad as it turns out they actually stayed there some years ago when work was being done on the house and it was a nice family-run place then. As opposed to now where every single review on its own site says how filthy it is and how unpleasant the staff are. Honestly, I'm not being princessy!

I am v shocked that they would behave like this to a customer who's clearly pretty old. He could quite easily have dementia, dammit.

How enraging, MI. But yes - I agree with les autres crepeys, maybe he's just doing what he's always done, show affection by organising. As if you were 12.

I am thoroughly enervated by my weekend of doing nothing, while juggling senile dad with sprightly DS, with the weight of my assignment hanging over my head. Though dad and I had some good chats - he's more forthcoming when mum isn't there. Apparently in the war he was at the liberation of the concentration camps. Not the kind of thing today's 19-year-old is likely to experience.

Got home to find DP had cleaned the house, changed the sheets, bought some wine, and cooked a fish pie.

I saw Pitch Perfect for the first time the other night and LOVED it. I LOVE acapella, and would love to do it properly - our choir is mainly accompanied, and even when it is acapella there are about 10 of us on each part, so not very challenging.

Going to the G&S yesterday reminded me how I love to tread the boards, though also how utterly cringeworthy it is when amateurs don't quite sing well enough for lead parts.

My choir is v small and much of what we sing is unaccompanied. This can be rather scary. Especially for the tenors, of which we have only four, which means it's often two to a part. I think we have a total of four second altos.

I am very fond of my choir.

DSis now in hotel fray and saying she doesn't mind staying in repulsive hotel as it's "only one night". Dad on other hand now of opinion that is completely out of the question. Oh god and the sodding party isn't for another month

I still think it would be a lark to have a mini-crepey singing MU, with Rose as choir master, and auriga as some kind of star.

I feel your pain, MI. We have a family wedding next year - the daughter of my cousin Z, whom my mother rings all the time (she never phones me) and thinks of as "the daughter I didn't have." We have offered to collect my mother from Berkshire and take her to Kent for the wedding, but she "doesn't want to squash in the car with all of us." If any of you have visions of five of us crammed in a mini, it's a large 4 x 4, and has plenty of room for five. I suggested she get a taxi all the way there, and get Z to book her one back, but that has been dismissed as "ridiculous" and "far too expensive." She has already got the hump with Z, as Z has said she can't put her up, as she is putting up her brother and his wife from Oz, her sister and her husband from Spain and a couple of Hungarian cousins. Apparently she should get priority because she is old.

We stayed in a B & B like the one you mention in Enfield, for a family wedding. We were thankful it was only for one night.

Herbs, your dad sounds a most interesting person. Getting old is crap, isn't it?
And at your DP - mine would NEVER, EVER think to change sheets. Unless someone had vommed all over them.

I'll sit in the cheap seats and clap

Right Crepeys, I need some S&B advice on the prom dress for DD. But I don't want to post for all and sundry to see. Don't know how to PM photos (can anyone enlighten me?) or would FB messenger work?

Jamie Raven who is about to appear on the final of BGT (after the break)started on the barmitzvah/ batmitzvah circuit. He did a performance at both of our younger two DC's parties. He's a really nice bloke. Hope this doesn't turn his head.....

Other interesting things dad has done: built four houses from scratch, by hand. Built a boat and sailed it across the channel. Sailed around lots of the world. Travelled to all manner of places, nice and not so nice, from Bangladesh to Monserrat, designing housing to resist local conditions, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, flood, etc. He got caught up in a coup in Kenya, and ended up with bullet holes in his hotel wall. He remembers some of this, but not all.

He does sound amazing herbs

Herbs - what an amazing life. How fabulous.

Herbs, didn't you say your dad also started the precursor to Which? Or am I thinking of another crepey's dad?

It is just horrible to see all that capability and vim just dwindle away.

Stropps - well remembered. But it was in fact my mum who set up the precursor to Which.

Not much to live up to, parent-wise!

lots of meat being eaten here because of exams, relatively little veg. and masses of fondant fancies

those of you who sing - have you heard darlene and jonathan edwards massacring popular song of the 40s/50s - they are just playing their 'tiptoe through the tulips' on radio 2 and it's equally making me howl with laughter and scream with pain. it's on youtube - quite therapeutic in a weird way

tomorrow dh comes back from a week away in spain and we acquire a guest for two weeks while ds enters most intensive two weeks of gcses and i face hell at work. would not be vertical without support from lalsy

see you on the other side

Right Rudy, give me your opinion!

Yup, seriously impressive parents, Herbs! It's so sad to see them get old and frail and lose their personality, bit by bit. :(

Addle, best of luck!!

MI, I can well imagine the total and utter frustration and you must be feeling. :(

Sending you strength addle. And

Oh yes, Addle . I would offer to take you out for a drink, but am still not drinking.

Aww... Rose - your Jamie was pipped at the post. He was pretty amazing though.

Yes and by a silly dog. Honestly!!!

I've thought of a new money-spinner for Strops..... persuade StropDog to turn a few tricks, and get your name down for Britain's Got Talent. I'm sure his charm and personality would see off all opposition.