Crepe Fear!

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Ta Da.

Yes Sister, I hear you. I will write a batch of emails this weekend covering off the key stuff in the coming two weeks (see I get MrsS totally) and then I will be very clear I won't be logging on to check so it will just have to wait...

I welled up a few times there at your concern my lovely lovely Crepeys....

My DD also has a floordrobe and requires my help to sort her clothes

Stropps glad you made it and that she is about you not being able to MU with BD. Not looking forward to trekking about uni visiting with DD - in my day we went on our own, why did it have to change?

And go WAF!!!

I am having a lazy day. So tired. Need to pop out in a bit then a friend is coming round for a cuppa and catch-up and then DH and I are out with friends. DH and DS have gone to a match and DD is snoring on the sofa with another fun night planned tonight...

Now on coach tour to view the accommodation

I have now cleared the floor, put everything either away or in the wash, tidied away all of her knitting/dressmaking stuff, thrown away any number of tissues, receipts, pieces of paper, emptied two suitcases. You can now see the floor, and I am going to be able to change the bed! And then I will hoover.

MI - we have some more clothes heading your way, from DD2, who doesn't hoard and is relatively tidy.

Hamster still AWOL. DP in doghouse. Dd2 tearful.

Have your cats not located the free-range rodent yet, MI?

Cat smirking?

And I have changed the bed! It now looks like a relatively normal bedroom rather than TK Maxx on a bad day. Apart from the bookcases that DH is selling, which are sitting in there for now...

DP points out the cats would have left evidence.

Sounds good, MrsS - will she be pleased?

Stropps at coachtour!

The hamsters we had as a child always used to hide out behind fireplaces / kitchen cupboards when they escaped. Turn everything off, be very very quiet and listen hard for telltale scrabbling noises!

He hopes, MI!

BTM - probably not, but I have thrown nothing out (apart from some age 12 pants which will fit no-one). She does need to go through it all when she gets back, I reckon at least half of it can be binned. Not much gets handed down to DD2 - they have very different shapes and styles, and DD1 is amazingly hard on her clothes.

Mrs S - I don't think mucking out a bedroom for someone who will not be grateful will meet with BD's approval. Where's the 'me time' in that? Get to the settee immediately!

Just returned from a 7th birthday party. Just the restful thing you need with a hangover. DP is out 'having a cheeseboard' with a friend. In the past this rather fey activity has been swiftly followed by a number of pints of beer, and pretence at not being drunk upon his return.

Stropps you are a trooper....I remember that coach hop to the accommodation ....we waited three times as long for the next coach than the trip itself actually took...

BD wot Sister said. This is about putting the oxygen mask on yourself for a bit. xx

MI oh dear....perhaps wait until the night when all is quiet, and listen out for scratching? Poor DD2

MrsS I am ashamed to say that I give/throw away my DC's outgrown clothes without them realising. I will probably still be doing this when they are completely grown up...such is my obsession with wardrobe culling.

Had an unexpected trauma this morning during the service we attended. DD sat there in floods of tears virtually all the way through. Kept saying it was because she was "hormonal" but I know there was an issue around her cousin (they are incredibly close) whom she saw there, for the first time surrounded by all of said cousin's friends...and consequently, said cousin didn't want to acknowledge DD or sit with her. There was really no consoling DD and it was so obvious...people kept coming up to me and asking what was wrong with her. I felt horrible.

Ah well, she's ok now and getting ready to go bowling with a few of her own friends. But it's taken all day for her to get past this. DH and I will then meet at the theatre having gone in separate cars, him via the bowling with 5 15 year old girls. Odds on we'll have a row about something or other. WAF your DH relations sound infinitely more appealing

MrsS, DD still has some age 10 pants which she refuses to part with and still wears!!!!

Herbs, you're doing it all wrong. You DROP them at the party and collect at THE END

Oh Rose, poor DD.

I did leave for an hour. But it was a bit far to come back home, and not a great deal to do in the vicinity. It was also a good opportunity to gossip with other school mums!

Rose - your poor DD. Cousin needs a good talking to.

Ah Herbs!

I met my lovely cousin for a glass of wine cup of tea at St Pancras (she lives in Cambridge) and am heading home. Do not feel like going to friend's 50th (cheesy 80s disco) but will in fact have a total whale of a time as long as DP doesn't dance.

Dashing in......not caught up properly but uni open days - Stropps, great result if infuriating start. My dd was bloody awful about open days and kept trying to run away, with much less reason. Get some rest, you are indeed a trooper.

BTM, we are strongly warned off prodding our dc about uni till after Christmas I think it would be a waste of time and money for most to go to open days alone. They can't nose around and ask hard questions like a crepey. But no point in going to many (had to with dd because of course complications).

MI, I agree with you. And money-wise, if you earn less you pay back less, so it is not straightforward.

WAF, bless your lovely family. How very heart-warming. I was in fairly early days with my dh when my df was dying, and he was rock-like. He never made unhelpful suggestions or queried what we were doing and just did what I asked.

BD, do what sister says!

Oh Rose poor DD.

I didn't realise how much ds was worried about me until I came out to find him inntears. Dp took the opportunity to have a flu jab.....

I do feel more relaxed - is that psychosomatic?

Back home by 8pm, nice thank you from dd - it's a result.
Hope WAF is having a boozy and enjoyable reunion.
Rose, your poor dd, that is so sad.
BD, keep taking the medicine - more R&R.
Watching a programme about TV in the 90s - dear god, it makes me glad I wasn't watching any of it. More shocking than revisiting the 70s.

Glad it went well Stropps. Well done for getting her there.

Rose, it's sad when the big cousins ignore them. I remember being furious and going off my nieces in a big way. But the age gap seems less now than it was three or four years ago. 17 to 21 is easier than 13 to 17, for example. So it seems to be coming right again for us.

Sang in an absolutely glorious concert of English music last night; choir on terrific form. Happy reunion with old friend who came to listen. Big fun.

Got to bake for visiting cousins now: the 90th birthday commences

All those on the sick list, please inform your care teams of Sister' orders, ie that you should stay in bed until someone brings you tea, newspapers, etc.

I'm glad it went well too, Stropps!
Lalsy, that's useful info re uni visits - it's great to have advice from those who have done stuff before - keep it coming crepesters!
Glad to hear you are already feeling a bit better BD
My DC don't have any first cousins so not an issue here.
Hope the party goes well Auriga.

Hope WAF and MI have hangovers I don't know how I haven't after our night out with friends. Came in (at 11.30) to an empty house, got up and there are Dominoes boxes galore in the kitchen!

DD had a nice time at bowling last night and is much more cheerful. The really sad thing Auriga, is that my DD is the older one. We may have the same problem tonight at the party as Dsis, DBIL and DNiece are also going to that.

Anyway the concert sounds fantastic...how you find time for all that plus your nursing ward duties I'll never know!!! Yesterday someone from the choir that I was previously involved in came up to me and said "Do you miss us?" And feeling somewhat vulnerable I said "Actually, yes... I didn't leave because I didn't enjoy teaching you....." She looked completely surprised.

Stropps so glad the Uni visit worked out well in the end. Maybe your DD will feel more confident in visiting some others in due course?

BD If you are starting to unwind, this is a sign that the leave is just what you need. I do hope you now start to recover. Having burnt out once in the NHS many moons ago, I do feel for you. You are doing the right thing. xx

DSis sent out an email late last night with a whole diatribe about DDad's condition as she had been there yesterday when the doctor visited. Stuff I have known or worked out for myself......primarily that he is shutting down and it's probably months at best. And would someone else fill in the DNR forms with DMum as she's too busy working. And can the four of us (siblings) Have A Meeting to talk about "Arrangements" in advance... I haven't slept well.