All I Want For Crepemas Is Youth

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Phew

And me Molly - I am in what looks like a Specsavers ad with dd.

Excellent about outing.

Molly I'm a view through a stone window at greenery on FB

Would love to come to Bateman's.

Got to make emergency Brownies for chamber orchestra party. Would not have been emergency if DH had not eaten cooking chocolate

Batemans café trip sounds good.

MI, I immediately thought they all looked too big for your face, but the 3rd ones were the best out of them. Not that I know anything about glasses!

Pineapple upside-down pudding? Yumm! I have a beef-in-Guinness stew smelling delicious in the slow cooker - definitely worth the chopping up and browning off last night!

Specsavers ad I have booked in for a hearing test on Sunday and hoping I can fit in an eye test at the same time. I am truly crepey

They really are all too big MI...
Do any of these look any good? petite frames
Apologies if you've done this already - have you been to a good opticians and tried on a whole load with someone making helpful suggestions? Doesn't commit you to buying expensive frames but will give you some idea of what works best. Also agree with suggestion of trying on children's frames...

Oh, you are all too kind with your friendship offers! I will find you all, but it'll have to wait til the weekend - we are off to a fancy restaurant tonight with pfb ds and his lovely gf, before they swan off to uni again tomorrow. I am up for Bateman's although I can't forgive Kipling for sending his son to war. There was a drama about that, with Daniel Radcliffe as the poor, nearly blind son who couldn't see a damn thing in the trenches (that's why he failed the medical, duh) and Kim Cattrall as Mrs Kipling. That drama would be good easy revision on Kipling if you could track it down. Was probably BBC, probably 3 or so years ago.

Thank you all: I am feeling truly glum about this glasses lark. Not least because I then have to pay for pricy varifocals. And because I am weirdly convinced that my head is the size of a spacehopper – my face is incredibly wide and doughy. (I had this with the ring DP presented me with when he attempted his Romantic Proposal back in 2008: I am so convinced my fingers are the size of premium sausages that it had to be reshrunk twice.)

I shall check out that site, GGG. And in fact the gels at my local Boots opticians are very, sadistically, good – they refuse to let you buy ones that they feel are the wrong size.

MI you are fair, and small featured. The frames are dark and heavy although very fashionable. How about looking at a pair with lighter frames, or (as I tend to favour) a half frame?

www.buzzle.com/images/eyes/eyeglass-frames/woman-with-half-rim-glasses.jpg

Addle, Magi, Lalsy, Molly, MI, am giving myself a Kipling crash course, may try to pick your brians and will look up the BBC drama, thanks for the tip.

Hello Dreamqueen, have we met? Welcome if you're new. If I've missed a name change, can you give me a clue?

Definitely up for Batemans in the Spring, as long as it's a weekend, of course.

My Kipling knowledge is limited, although since the age of ten I've been able to recite the whole of "If" from memory, as it has always been DM's favourite poem.

That might work rather well, Rose. I shall ponder.

In other news, I’m pulling together a feature for hospital doctors about dealing with patients who’ve got dementia – so they’re in hospital for other conditions, but have dementia (either diagnosed or obvious) as well. Rather interesting.

I remember that drama! tho have since Read something (can't remember where) saying his son did want to go and had tried to enlist, got turned down, then Kipling intervened (was pre-conscription tho the social pressure was horrible, I think, on everyone). He was killed at loos in 1915.

MI ny head is so massive hardly any glasses fit me. I have always wondered what my head weighs. I love my varifocals, pricey tho they are.

Am loving the insistence that heads ate too massive/doughy/whatever - you look perfectly lovely and normal to me!

DS has just come in looking like a drowned rat. His school footy team are through to the National Quarter finals!!!

It was incredibly hard to resist the pressure to enlist, at that time (my 16-year-old grandfather lied about his age and went to the front, no doubt prodded by the fact people thought his Swedish surname was German). You only have to look at the anti-pacifist bile that gets spilled on MN regularly to get just a fraction of it, I’m sure.

(I have a lot of issues with Kipling. But a couple of interesting Indian academics have made me do a bit more thinking, especially about Kim’s deliberately fudged racial origins. However, I do realise that this isn’t interesting to most people!))

Auriga if it interests you at all p8 onwards looks at Kim.

(actually it almost certainly won’t interest anyone. Sorry. This is the sort of thing I’ve read lots of for my Effusion.)

MI, definitely, - from the little I know there is more to Kipling than one might think. The pressure to enlist was so horribly expedient after initial defeats. It seems so alien to us that fathers would have been keen for their sons to enlist, but when you look at the propaganda (some of which we know now was based on real incidents) and think about how these men had been brought up, it is perhaps more understandable. Horrible.

Are any of you knitters?

Well, this is vexing. Email from my boss saying that as not enough people have enrolled, the course I teach has been cancelled. They may, or may not, be running another course I could teach. But don't know any more than that, like when. Or if.

I am queen of the dough head. Uncooked, and drooping from my bones. I've always had too much face for my head, and now gravity is taking its toll.

Am trying to persuade DS to take part in, or at least go to the meeting about, a dear little community production of Oliver! He is saying he's too shy. FFS. How is he going to become future star of stage and screen with that kind of attitude?

BTW, we have a rival crepe thread Though they seem to be talking about clothes, rather than Kipling, SAD lights and aged parents.

Where/what is Batemans?

I had family on both sides in the war and some in concentration camps. My German Great Grandmother's British son ended up in Theresienstadt (but escpaed and got back to UK) - her sister, who was still in Germany, used to send him food parcels. Her son was a POW in UK, and my great grandmother used to visit him and take him clothes (she was a tailor). GGM's sister disappeared during the war and was never heard of again.

I have a hectic travel schedule coming up: Germany, Switzerland, US and possibly East Africa.

OMG they have fotos of them looking glam.... (Not that we are not glam, but please....)

Here slumped on bed whilst Dp has gone to 50th birthday curry - babysitter ill.

For those who remember our long running pub saga we have new landlords (hooray) but apparently the last one - he of banning everyone fame - injected sealant up the beer lines and stole the fire grate!!!!

Lalsy I am! Why?

BD

Off to check out the other thread...

I don't think the photos are of them, BD, but of from a fashion blog for the aged. They seem like good eggs, however. And have chin hairs.

Herbs, how crap, and unprofessional.

BTM, just wondering what to knit next!. I have been doing blanket squares (badly) and can see the end in sight. It won't be very good (am terrible sewer) but I have loved doing something that allows lots of comfort TV watching (I find patterns hard to follow). Any ideas?

Cushion covers Lalsy! Big knitted squares, sewn together... X

Oooh, what one square per side?