Crepe Oddity

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Sorry.

My Filth Factor won't let me click on that link, Molly! We must book it immediately

Yes, Rose, I have heard that. My dc never get predicted grades though (until UCAS time)! Blissful ignorance .

Ummm, would it be a pain if I asked for it not to be The Florence (bit too close to home - privacy etc etc)?

Rose, I have no idea how to get wifi into the chalet (at the top of a mountain en France) though that might help

Happy to go to the Florence or anywhere really! Presuming I'm not dead with stress by then

Oh, OK, Lalsy, not the Florence, I understand perfectly.

AS YOU WERE, everybody.

Tilly
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Bonjour from Paris .

Molly thanks for suggestions,and thinking of me.
If lunch suits better for peeps, I'm happy to do either lunch or dinner.

BTM , I am so sorry about all the trouble your having at the moment. I could well imagine dd doing something like this at that time. I'm afraid I'd have put my foot down about coming with .
Best of luck. I'm really really sorry it has come to this. Have all my fingers crossed for you.

I don't mind lunch or dinner, either, and it can be anywhere, so please make suggestions. Crem and I can get pretty much anywhere from chez moi. Although I would prefer to avoid Clapham Jnctn.

NU, I have a four-letter word for you: ROTA

We COULD also go to Forest Hill, which is fairly accessible to all (admittedly especially me) though this might involve a change at You Know Where.

ROODEE??????

Can I just be irritating and enquire when this March meet up might be? And is it different from the Fortnums one?

Just returned from funeral of one of mum's best friends - I went in her place. I found it ridiculously moving. I often get more upset in funerals where I'm slightly removed from the deceased than in closer relatives. A safe place, maybe? Though I guess with this one it was because I was imagining mum's funeral...

She had a massive turnout. She was a social worker, teacher, school governor, adoption panel chair, church committee person, etc etc, as well as good neighbour, loving grandma, and all that. Quite a lady.

In other news I have just de-bobbled a jumper USING A VELCRO ROLLER. I feel the need to pass this tip on. You don’t roll it, just scrape along.

If we're in the Forest Hill region, then the Tulse Hill Hotel, with homage to CV, would be much better than Forest Hill itself for me and Crem.

I have a wonderful machine for debobbling, MI, purchased from the EBay Emporium. It does sometimes seize great chunks of knitwear, so it has to be used with care.

BTM - have you got a spare ticket for the skiing holiday?? Can I come??!! I could pass for 16! Honestly, they are ungrateful little herberts - you book these lovely holidays and then they don't want to come. DS was ghastly when we all went to Norfolk last Easter, and just slumped about the place moaning and complaining. I'd like to imagine it was because he didn't want to miss out of valuable revision time - ha, ha, if only - no, it was having to leave (now ex-)GF behind. This summer, fortunately, they are all on board with the holiday plans, as it's The Big US Road Trip, but DH and I sadly acknowledge this might well be the last family vaycay. I would suggest you find somewhere for her to stay for part of the time, and people to check in on her, and leave her behind. There was a thread all about this recently.

I had a call from a recruitment consultant this morning, all keen for me to be interviewed for one of the jobs I applied for yesterday. The job turned out to be in a bit of an awkward location but sounds brilliant, and well paid too. I need to let her know whether or not i'm interested.....

www.tulsehillhotel.com/

12 March, Herbs.

Oh yes I've heard good things about it Molly.

CV, you would be very welcome!

Herbs, the funeral sounds like a great success -shame your DM didn't want to go but I guess that's understandable.

I guess she might be able to stay at friends for some of the time if not all, but she is clearly wanting to stay at home - seemed amazed when DH told her not goung to the house in the daytime either, but he may have to retract that.

Tulse Hill? That would take approx 12 years from here...

Re funeral, it wasn't so much that DM didn't want to go, I don't think, but that her knee and other ailments mean it's a massive pain in the arse. Though she's also saying she's not coming to a family get-together in the summer, and being a bit feeble. Sis and I are determined to winkle her out!

My lot are already whingeing about TWO WHOLE WEEKS OF HOLIDAY (on top of the hippy t’ai chi week, which they are very enthusiastic about –-perhaps because it includes boys--). I want a holiday, dammit. Two weeks of it. Though I suppose I could concede one week and then bog off somewhere gloriously ALONE. Or perhaps with a Crepey friend or two…

Though in all honesty I suspect a lot is going to happen before summer in any case. Mum sounding tired again. Unsurprisingly, what with having terminal cancer, obviously.

Well we have a possible summer hol with our BFFs in the offing, but I'm now not sure she will go for that even though the DD is one of her BFFS.

We have managed one week the last few years (before that did 10 days or sometimes two one-week hols). I am about to book our week and if we manage a long weekend or something as well, I will be pleased. It is just too hard to work the timing out as they get older - dd's summer jobs weren't confirmed till really late last year (DBS/passport checks etc, just takes a while). I find it stressful and a relief when something - anything - is in the diary.

And I should 'fess up that the one week is in more or less the same place with the same people, so hardly an organisational triumph. I suggest other things and they all just go "yeah, mebbe". Maybe butters no parsnips, say I.

Crumbs, crepes - we're nearly at the end!

Someone think of a new thread title (unless you've already started one and are chatting away without me).

Crumbs, crepes, and Chums catalogues?

Yesterday was Crepe day?

You can get there on the Thameslink from St Pancras Intl, Herbs.

I feel we should acknowledge the extra day of Feb somehow in our next thread title…29 again?

Something about leaping? As opposed to leaking?