Though She Be Crepey, She Is FIERCE!

[QueenQueenie]

Ta Da!

It is Mr Inferior's 50th birthday today. I am fighting a rather repulsive migraine to make him a Nice Supper, which is all the fuss he allegedly requires.

Not having a t'ai chi party then MI?
< half hearted joke

I am ebaying, instead of working. And planning a buffet for family next weekend for my birthday. Dd is still on the radar for joining us, but I am on standby for this not to happen.
So finger food, salads and so on for 15. It's my birthday , but I am so how doing all the work. Control freak to the last.

It's a kind of learned helplessness, MrsS. I keep wondering if I encourage it by being there all the time, being the universal sorter outer of problems...DH just never seems to have any ideas in the absence of me making all the suggestions. Today I haven't got any, so apparently I'm spoiling everything Still, I stood my ground. They are wandering around Nice somewhere and I am in the shady garden.

Happy 50th to MI's DP.

Well played, Rose. It's your holiday too - you are not merely their facilitator.

I am supposed to be writing about new developments in Reading. The Berkshire town, not 'words' sort. I am also doing a half-hearted 5:2 day. Facebook followers will know that on Saturday I ate (imagine Hungry Caterpillar) a slice of strawberry pavlova, a slice of cherry clafoutis tart, a chocolate brownie, and a slice of orange and almond cake. Also, a roast dinner and some cheese and biscuits. Played merry hell with my innards, all that sugar.

Wow. Herbs. I'm impressed.

Have had silly row with my daughters and am consoling self with the knowledge they'll all have buggered off by this time on Weds.

That's some bender herbs. how glorious. Sadly I have to go cold turkey with cake. It's too addictive. This week I am concentrating on not doing SW. The weekly email has come in reminding me to weigh myself. I told it to go sing. No doubt there will be some repairing to do when back home....

I am grumpily cleaning the kitchen and trying to make the place look halfway presentable before we go away. I have lost all enthusiasm for anything domestic. We had what DH described as Resentful Salmon last night. We are definitely going out to eat tonight. Oh yes.

Love the idea of a t'ai chi party - sort of very elegant, dignified silent disco.

Well, we have all gone out separate ways this week - dh to his crappy new job, me to mine, dd1 on a road trip with a small car, a friend and a tent (think they are heading your way Stropps!), ds on a bus to the beach and dd2 on a residential trip until Friday.

Wish my dh had taken even one day to rethink his career, consider his future, spend more than two seconds on his CV or make a plan rather than just take the job offered to him from his last department (except they've moved the office 70 miles away, lowered the pay and become very inflexible). Ho hum, you just can't help some people! No doubt he will profess to love it, the people, the new office and the long and tortuous drive cross country

I have made curry. Must make dal and raita later.

Beachy on your behalf.

MMmmmmm. Curry. Just had disastrous low-cal omelette that stuck to the pan. So was really just hard eggs. With ham and parmesan.

DP's default mindset is 'tortured', but usually he's found it v easy to get new jobs in the past. It's not proving easy this time, and he particularly hates his current employer, which blocks every single initiative of his, so he sees his CV getting weaker and his value decreasing by the day. The temptation to just leave and see what comes up is very tempting, but could result in a frying pan ----> fire scenario.

I raised the 'crumpled t-shirts' business, in as lighthearted a manner as I could muster, and he was perfectly fine. Result.

It's a Hot Meat Curry. Very nice. We don't eat it often enough on account of DD1's vegetablearanism.

Mmm. Hot meat.

Mmm, hot meat curry. Think we might have a curry tonight.

Those of you who will remember the "Paris-ites", as, I think, Herbs christened them, will be amused by this. We will be staying not a million miles from where they live, and DH said "We should see if we could stay there the last couple of nights, it would be nice to see them again." No, we cannot. They are decorating, and it is not convenient. I said the DDs would be happy to sleep on the floor, but no, not budging. There must have been one room we could have slept in, I helpfully said to DH, as there are only two of them, and they have five bedrooms, and they're not all going to be being decorated at the same time...

Arf, Mrs S. This does not surprise me one jot. Un peu. I hope you'll be 'decorating' should they wish to prevail on you again!

Please give me a round of applause. I have just booked a smear test. Regular readers will know I've been putting this off for far too long.

Hurrah for Herbs!

Crepeys, helllllllllllllp. Pathetic question. Bear in mind I am knackered and migrainous. Am booking tickets to go to the Alhambra. Do not know which slot to go for the palace bit...first, or last? Argh.

What, you meaning early morning or late evening? I think either would be amazing, but might plump for late evening. V atmospheric, and the gardens would be wonderful.

I think I would go in the morning, as early as possible, before it gets too hot. If you go in the evening you run the risk of sour and fractious teens, who are hot and tired and want to swim or go to the beach. I am most envious. Am thinking of going there in October half term with DD1. I liked Malaga a lot too.

Sorry to detract from the conversation but I see 'crepey' coming up on active so much and have no idea what it means - can you tell me?

We are a bunch of middle-aged - and thus creepy-skinned - biddies who originally joined a thread to moan about jowls, chin hairs, varifocals, and other perimenopausal delights. And it's just carried on. So now we talk about all sorts of things, occasionally straying into clothing and the like.

Morning is a bit hard as it'll take us a couple of hours to get there. I reckon go for early evening for that slot. Oh, I don't care. Can't be @rsed. I just want to GO and inflict CULTURE on the buggers.

GrumpyOldBiddy2, that's us. We are defiantly positioned in S&B because, er, often we are the anti-S&B. We are mainly a group of dames who are Refusing To Go Gently Into That Goodnight, but not always by taking refuge in tasteful maturity.

Checking in from Pembrokeshire day 2 of 14 in the Cottage of Darkness. Agree re disappearing for Me Time aka If I Dont Get Some Time By Myself I will Wreak Evil. (I was hiding in a loo as I read about you hiding in the garden, Rose)

All going surprisingly well on our hol. The DDS were very, very matey yesterday. I mean like someone had slipped them both some Ecstacy. It was all 'we're looking for a heart-shaped stone and a stone and a shell with a hole in.' We had a wonderful beach day, the kind where you go 'maybe we are actually doing an ok job at this family thing'. Lots of overheard parental 'because I said so,' and 'what did I just say?' and 'for God's sake leave her alone,' to remind me there by the grace... Bit of that today but managed a water park and will have the flume related bruises for a while.

Symps to those with stressy waits for results.

And to those returning home to difficulties.

Crepeys I gave finally embraced fb and would love to hook up thusly.

Should we look you up, or do you want to look us up? Like? Maybe if you find MI's profile (she has the most unusual name, and thus easiest to find) then you can have hours of endless fun finding the rest of us!

MI - we did Alhambra first thing in the morning - cool and not too crowded. We did have to get up at about seven to get there for opening but worth it.

Applause for the smear test Mrs S.

I have spent the afternoon reading Sebald and listening to the teenagers gossiping in the kitchen (more the latter than the former).