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Crepe Oddity

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MrsSchadenfreude · 17/01/2016 19:59

Sorry. GrinGrinGrin

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addle · 25/01/2016 19:13

NU - I was near Seahouses about 20 mins walk down to the sea and dunes. We walked from (Beadnell) via Football Bay and sang on the beach at Newton by the Sea before retiring to the The Ship. Just lovely. Then walked along the beach by Bambrugh on Sunday before heading back to Newcastle.

Fingers crossed, BD.

Have a great time Cremo - I love the idea of Caribbean weather and light with French cooking. Look forward to hearing about it.

CointreauVersial · 25/01/2016 19:49

Sentences I have never typed. ......"DH has spent the afternoon making marmalade."

Envy
hattymattie · 25/01/2016 20:20

Have I missed something - is Cremo going to the Caribbean? - if you are, have a fabulous time.

Addle so pleased you enjoyed Northumbria - I love Bamburgh Castle.

Hello Monty - I'm loving my job and the teachers are great. I am having to brush up on my IT skills though - I didn't know how to do coloured text or use a USB key never having needed to before. I got DS to give me a quick lesson Blush.

I have just sat through a meal with DS and DD2 being unutterably foul to each other - I didn't bring them up like this!

GiddyGiddyGoat · 25/01/2016 21:26

I do believe she is! Have a FANTASTIC time Crem, God knows you deserve it.

Sorry to hear about you poor Mums BD and MI. Hope you are both as ok as the awful circumstances permit.

Go CV. We could write you a good reference!

Cremo · 25/01/2016 21:31

Sorry to hear the dcs are at each other's throats. If it's any consolation my sister and I were quite murderous to one another as teenagers, and now absolutely love each others company. It had absolutely nothing to do with how we were brought up.Grin
Off to Caribbean Sea on Friday. Sorry I won't mention it again. Thanks mes amies.

Grin @ CV. My Dh is quite likely to be running up another batch of macaroons tooGrin CakeCakeCake

bigTillyMint · 25/01/2016 21:44

No Cremo, we want to holiday vicariously, with lots of photos!

CV, me too. Be lucky if he made some toast!

Lalsy · 25/01/2016 22:01

Yes, mention it lots Crem, please. Do you have to pack lots of floaty wafty clothes [vague]?

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hattymattie · 26/01/2016 07:02

Crem - we need to holiday vicariously - post lots of fab photos of you in wafty clothes - much as BTM did when in Asia.

I'm thinking Iceland or Stockholm might be a good destination this summer as an escape from menopausal sweats. I'm not sure DH is convinced.

MI - hope you're managing xx

Dreamqueen · 26/01/2016 07:08

MI & BD it sounds very difficult & emotional for you Cake and Brew

I'm just catching up on thread.

would love to have been able to come on 12 March but alas I'm away so will def do the one after please.

Rosebag · 26/01/2016 07:20

MI I am so sorry. And it's so very hard when you become the contact point for other interested parties and you have to keep going over the same ground and information which you are still grappling with. I used email a lot to keep relatives and friends informed. Even my DM said she couldn't face the ansafone when she got back from the hospital/care home...I told her people would understand if she didn't answer. Love and hugs to you xxx

That's the way to do it NU....giving each other a bit of space

Stropps that's one of the reasons I can never go back to work in the NHS...seen it all before and some things seem so trivial in the grand scheme of things. I expect they'll come to see you as wise, actually. Not an old bat...
that's me

Good on you CV No time like the present. I wish I had the confidence to do something like that.

Fortnums was lovely yesterday...I haven't been there in ages and had forgotten how lovely a place it is. Play for a special creepy breakfast, I feel. But DM drove me to distraction over everything and I got a godawful headache which isn't responding to pain killers. This may also have something to do with DDs parents evening tonight, of course. Maybe the last one ever, though....

And I am locked in email wars with the booking administrators over my next course, which is booking, but slowly and they will not take it off the AT RISK status until they have called every existing participant and warned them that they group might be small in case they don't want to go ahead. In a fit of anger, I sent them this acerbic email...

Dear XYZ Would it not be a more positive approach to try to secure the fourth reservation, and chase the lapsed ones invitingly, rather than to try to put the confirmed couples off?

I have signed my own death warrant, haven't I

Lalsy · 26/01/2016 08:04

MI, I agree with Rose about the phone draining energy, especially when circumstances change quickly and people are still in denial or offering helpful suggestions. If you can use a group email or something like that, I think that might be good, even if people don't like it or understand. Your dps, you and your dsis are what matters Flowers.

motherinferior · 26/01/2016 08:32

The problem with yesterday was it was ahead of the usual write up I do send out - have done since first meeting. And would not have put off this particular Auntie anyway Grin. There is also a saga about whether my mum's actual sister (there was a brother, a very lovely man, but he died about 20 years ago) will visit from Canada. This is fraught with (IMO entirely circumventable) perils like her phobia of escalators - yes - and the fact that the usual v nice chap (who married into this family, and has found himself saddled with such bonkersness) has had an accident.

I am now going to spend an hour writing fiction. Some of which is about the Madras Lunatic Asylum...I did in fact have various great-aunts who completely lost the plot and one of them certainly had ECT but apparently in this particular establishment.

wordassociationfootball · 26/01/2016 08:35

Oh girls, there is much coping going on here and once again it feels like a hug for the soul to read it.

MI, sending you much strength for what lies ahead Sad

Rose, your email sounds v v reasonable to me. Hope your head feels better today.

Crem, agree with everyone else. The thought of you wafting gives me nothing but pleasure, you totes deserverate it.

CV, fantastic you've arranged that appointment. It 'puts it out there'.

Lalsy · 26/01/2016 08:54

MI, that's good about the usual methods.....should have guessed you would have comms sorted Grin.

Rose, I agree about the email too. They are suggesting it is a problem.

Auriga · 26/01/2016 09:21

On train, wanted to say good wishes to MI & BD. When DH was ill the first time, I knocked myself out trying to keep everyone informed. Some people were awful, badgering me or complaining I didn't update them promptly enough. When he had his accident I simply didn't communicate with anyone except my sisters & they told close family.

Last blood donation in a two year research study today - what a relief.

Crem, the thought of you wafting around a sunny beach is immensely cheering :)

Lalsy · 26/01/2016 09:25

See, we're expecting some top wafting Crem...no pressure Grin.

Blackduck · 26/01/2016 10:08

Yes Cremo please waft regularly across the thread whilst away - preferably with a large exotic cocktail in hand.

Not coping today. All a bit tough.

motherinferior · 26/01/2016 10:14

Yeah, Crem, waft like the waftiest! Also lounge. And sip exciting drinks.

motherinferior · 26/01/2016 10:16

BD Flowers me neither. Do what you can, and no more.

motherinferior · 26/01/2016 11:02

On another note, a (gay) friend who had to go to the Vatican for work recently has sent me this

Cremo · 26/01/2016 13:12

Wow Father Dreamy! I could waft all over him Grin

Cremo · 26/01/2016 13:26

where i is going

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CointreauVersial · 26/01/2016 13:30

Envy Envy Envy

magimedi · 26/01/2016 13:32

Flowers BD & MI.

Crem - it looks awful Grin

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