Crepe Fear!

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Ta Da.

Thanks Monty. Realise I sound daft as we are only a mile away, too. But it makes you a bit temporarily insane, the schools thing sometimes. I think music scholarships are often hard, the expectations for being in all sorts of weekend and evening stuff as well as lessons/rehearsals at random times in day can be a bit much. BTW, DD1 really discovered her love of her instrument in year 7/8. Has v good value lesson at school only and plays all the time at home.

Think what Ikea first thing on Monday will be like.... bliss. Ish.

Crepeys, your help please.....

I need to find somewhere to work for the day tomorrow that is quiet, where no-one will disturb me. At all. Or mind that I am hogging a table/using a space. And gives me v easy access to food/lets me eat at said table/desk. I would prefer not to travel into town for cost/ time-suck reasons but might consider it for right venue. It's a Saturday which makes it harder. Thoughts?

Local library, WAF? Ours is pretty empty on a Saturday, but I think only open till lunchtime.

BD - we move every 3-4 years and it is becoming more stressful and less appealling the older I get. The worst bit of it is the packing, strangely, not the unpacking.

I have a Paris friend in town and we are meeting on the South Bank tomorrow. Her DD is the same age as DD2, they know each other a bit, but DD2 has had a screaming fit and has said she is not coming... if she does, she will have a perfectly nice time, it's just getting her out of the house. So tired of this and little sympathy.

Library.... Excellent I had been ruling out the idea of our local as potentially full of school-y acquaintance. But a slightly less local library would be great. I know just the one. I will do just that.

Sounds exactly like my dd2 btw. So freaking annoying.

WAF, I was going to say the library too - DD spent a lot of time in ours revising for GCSES!

IDEA is great first thing in the morning and I nearly wet my pants when I discovered our local one had a Dunelm nearby too!

I think dragging teens along can become tricky if they feel they don't really know the other teen. But I'd they don't meet up, then they never will get to know them!

Another who can relate to the teen dilemma but and agreed - yes they often have a nice time when obliged to come.

WAF, I love the Wellcome Collection library (in town, but right opposite Euston). You can't eat or drink in there but it and the new reading room are beautiful, inspiring places to work.

And here too on teens. They just won't do it any more.

For light relief, crepeys, check out the 'I've got rug in my hair' thread on chat. I actually guffawed at the phrase 'my chuff is like an old badger's arse, I'm afraid'.

It's not like she doesn't know this child at all, they spent several evenings in each other's company in Paris. She remembers her. I may bribe her with some jeans she wanted from Forever 21. The other girl is keen to see her, too, which makes it more awkward.

I have ordered DH a Brush-o-Matic for his birthday next week - this is something very crepey, so does anyone remember it from the 70s?

Bribery is always good
Was that the hair/dust on the clothes brush thing?!

Herbs, I can't find it!

Brush-o-matic.... Oh yes

Yes, BTM!

Rudy, great post, good to hear so many positives especially when you've had such a lot on your plate

Herbs, I had a good laugh at the rug-in-hair thread, especially the suggestions about getting the builders round to smear peanut butter in it, or something (may not have been paying close attention).

Branagh's A Winter's Tale is a thing of extraordinary beauty

Are we being spammed??? ^^

It would appear that someone wants to commit crepicide. Should we report them?

DD more likely to be happy to go out today MrsS?

Here dp hauled us all out of bed at 7.00 in order to head home.

Whoa, an imposter! What fun! A spook for Halloween.

Here Halloween in full swing. It's always been a big date on the calendar here, given that the 5th Nov is not celebrated for reasons of Politics or some such. I have happy memories of a childhood filled with hours, and I mean hours, hollowing out turnips, long before a pumpkin was ever heard of. And trick or treating only the most terrifying houses as a dare. Tonight there will be pumpkin pakoras , baked stuffed potatoes and sparklers chez dsis. I need a costume, which really should be the hunchback of Notre Dame, given the state I'm in, but due to lack of planning will be a mask form the pound shop.
Lovely to hear your news WAF and NU and Monty.

DD2 now refusing to come out. Well fuck her, she can't have the jeans she wanted now. Being nice works both ways. She is currently in bed snarling at me. Full boarding is very tempting right now.

Cremo, that sounds a fab Halloween party! It was great to see all the decorations and stuff in NYC - it isn't nearly so big here, though Trick or Treating is usually very popular around our area. I have bought sweets in, but haven't got a pumpkin to put out... DD is off to either a rave ( - not at all sure this is a good idea) or (and hopefully more likely) they will all just stay at her mates for a small party. Either way she is supposed to be staying overnight at her friends. DS is also off to a party round the corner. No doubt this will involve alcohol, but he hasn't asked me for any, yet!

WAF, hope you have found a nice quiet library!

MrsS, I hope your DD2 has changed her mind!

Oh no, MrsS! Cross-post.

Oh damn Mrs S. Poor show. Can you get df to come to the house and deposit her dd there and leave them to it( sneaky)

WAF, get yourself a British Library readers' ticket. You can use the rest of the building anyway but it is a divine place to work.

Dragged own kids out to meet friend and her daughters yesterday and we all had the good time I'd predicted. They have just gone (stayed over). I am dyeing my hair and will then walk over to meet another v old friend (who has read my draft and has comments) at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Oh MI, there is an Escher exhibition on there that I fancy!