Though She Be Crepey, She Is FIERCE!

[QueenQueenie]

Ta Da!

We did Beachy, we did. Let's hope he wises up soon. ( hopeful) and finds some sort of work that's more appropriate to his situation. As we know, he was not A Man with A Plan Sorry about your Pa too. Hope the op goes smoothly.

BTM, can you claim it back on your insurance? Or is it below the excess? $Nz100 is a lot. Sympathies.

Off to Occ Health today. Whoop. They never know what to do with me.

The friends and the seals sound great BTM.

MI glad you've answered your own 'What to wear to the Alhambra' s&b question

Mrs S I shudder whenever I read about your neighbour. Your peace is being horribly infringed. I would be inclined to put SS and the police on speed dial and be a very squeaky wheel until he is moved ( is he a renter or owner? Sorry if you've said already)

Rose how lovely to go back to somewhere special with DH. Maybe the over hotness was a blessing in some ways - kept the nostalgia at bay a bit.

Thanks all for your friend requests on Fb. Bear with me, I am slowly getting the hang of it.

My sleep reduction routine has been working v well in last 10 days. However awake a couple of hours last night with excitement: an agent who had the first 3 chaps of my nov is keen to read the rest. I feel fantastic. Particularly as she doesn't want it til end Aug as on hol. Gives Mr time to get out the wordy Mr Sheen although will prob realise it needs more serous renovation and panic

Also Crem, hope they suddenly think of something new for you today.

And Beachy, echo thoughts for ddads eye op. Are you on top of dd2's need for summer action? Mine has agreed to a performance week thing in a fortnight, which she has previously spurned, so phew for that.

Hatty hope dd2 gets over her bf's departure soon. If I don't find you first, I have black glasses, blonde hair and 10 year old dd in my profile pic.

WAF, am guiltily aware I have never given more feedback on yer book. Events and mum stuff. Please forgive. VV exciting (and inducing) about agent. Am attempting my rewrite...have got to the sticky bit about Love.

Mum rallying but has "lost her appetite". [eyeroll]

Yes, I shall waft round the Alhambra in Toast gauze churidar and a top purchased in DippyHippyBonkersville. What my sister calls Floaty Feminine Ethnic Bollocks.

There is blue sky in Yorkshire, so we may venture outside.

Mrs S - you can't wait for blue sky up north - you just have to go for it.

WAF - we are already FB friends. I have to say there are one or two Crepeys who I have on FB and I probably muddle them up with their MN names. Herbs and Mrs S, I feel like I know, even though we have never actually met.

Hot again here - feeling droopy and lazy ( but excited about trying new toothbrush).

No blue sky here, patchy white cloud with more white cloud behind.

Sorry to moan on about dh; I'll stop now.....

Dd2 is fully booked up with activities, she's away this week on a residential, sports camp next week and hiking with the vicar the week after . It's ds who has nothing planned, although there is a 'musical theatre' week locally which I've seen. I think he's concerned it will be full of 12 year old golden haired stage divas (which of course is a possibility!) Still nothing like throwing a 6ft rugby playing 14 year old in the mix - could be the making of him.

I'm sure we could co-ordinate crepey offspring better next holidays - send them all off together somewhere!

Absolutely. Though the thespian combo of our two 14 year olds might be a bit much...

DS has crammed his holiday diary, and is permanently out and about with mates and/or GF.

The DDs are turning into PJ-wearing nocturnal hermits.

All three have developed a worrying addiction to poker.

I appear to have wandered into an alternative MN, where there is an enormous fracas going on about sinks - quite extraordinary....here

Can I just incite you all to murderous envy, in that my fellow-inmates have all gone off for a WEEK of hippy t'ai chi????

You can indeed MI ... Here's hoping you will break all your own rules whilst they're gone....this is what I do in similar ( woefully rare) circumstances. Includes, eating meals sitting on the sofa with plenty of gin...watching romcoms back to back until 3am and having all the Doritos to myself.....falling asleep on said sofa....I could go on....

Good luck to your DDad Beachy and speedy recovery. Men with career crises are notoriously hard to manage, as I am finding to my cost.

tilly seals looked fantastic on FB. We happened on a colony on a walk on Vancouver Island last summer. They're lovely.

We are in Monaco after a bit of a melt down about how to get here... just don't ask our rooms aren't ready but we are enjoying complementary drinks on the pool terrace to appease us for the delay. Not so bad....heat is less oppressive here and views are spectacular. Our taxi driver from the station was a complete psycho...he was blethering on in Franglish...the only words I understood were "fucking tourists " and Man United. I was thinking, " for gods sake man, speak French will you...

I have made sure we have Food I Like, including pate I made with organic chicken livers and masses of garlic earlier this week. We also have cake. I suspect that Mr Inferior has finished the Naice Tonic, but we still have some rose wine.

Ha, MI, that's funny - whenever I'm alone I always bust out the chicken livers - pan fried in olive oil and balsamic vinegar and lobbed onto a salad. The rest of the family make gagging sounds at the very idea.

I'm very of your solitude, though. I got back from work in a filthy temper, shouted at the DCs, and retired to the study to watch Desperate Housewives of New Jersey and eat chocolate. I'm with DS, who borrowed the brand new tent and returned it minus a crucial component. I'm at DD1 for refusing to go to her expensive gym session "because A isn't going". I'm with DD2 because..... I just am.

Beachy, WTAF???

CV , I'm with the rest of your family on the chicken livers, although you make the salad sound delicious!

I am lying in the most comfortable bed of the hols (a pull down at our friends!) listening to the rain. So glad we went seal - spotting yesterday! I think we will go shopping and maybe museuming today.

Weekend forecast lovely in London, Rudy. Hope good for you and for other crepeys at home and away.

MI, how is your mum doing now? Hope you can get some good r and r in whilst the others are off doing TMAWSNBN (is that right?)

Must gird loins for trip to ikea. Let's see if I can get in and out for under £50. I need 2 picture frames. I wonder what I will come home with .

Mum not too bad at the moment, and I think has learned the message that she MUST tell the GP if she's feeling even slightly off-colour.

OMFFG Crepeys.
I write from a cafe in terminal 2 at Heathrow, waiting for 5 pm plane to Denmark... sounds ok? Except we had tickdts for the 7.15 flight from Luton... which we missed. I can't quite believe it but it's true.
I wont bore you with whose fault it was - the post mortem is ongoing - cough ?DH?cough.. am rather traumatised and we are a lot poorer. As I said... OMFG.

Oh Lordy Be, QQ. Definitely sounds like DH's fault from where I'm sitting.

Heavens to Betsy, QQ! How did DH you manage that as if we can't guess?

My R&R has turned into a work marathon as commissions are suddenly rolling in, but hey, it's money.

S&B fail. I'd rather fancied a pair of slouchy casual trews for those days when it's too hot for jeans, you're going to be doing a lot of mooching, bending, sitting, etc so skirts aren't totally ideal. One step up from tracky Bs, and imagined myself to look like an insouciant coltish Robin Wright on her day off.

So, naturally, I bought some jogging bottoms from Sainsbury's. And surprise surprise I look like White Dee, or that woman who put the cat in the bin.

I think what I'm after, about two years after the pack, is a pair of harem trousers. Though they're probably not advisable for those in possession of arse and/or belly.

Ho yes, Herbs. I keep thinking I must get some. Because my leggy 14-year-old looks so divine in hers.