Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where the crepeys is

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As requested!

MM, it is definitely the word "atrophy" that makes it sound so bad!

I promise you my fanjo is not decaying - it was just the horrendous itching that was the problem.

All is well now I am using vagifem, I don't even need KY!

That's really reassuring Magi. Bet they wouldn't call the male equivalent penile atrophy. On that note, happy Easter, crepeys.

I forgot to mention the other ailments of needing glasses all the time not just for reading and thickening fingernails. I just painted my nails and they officially old nails now.
Otherwise I've had a very nice day.

I won't get to see the Night Manager in real time as DD2 and I have an Indian Summers date...

On way back from parents'. All quite grim. Mum gaunt and fading, dad going on and on, sis hardly eating anything and silent...we did manage a nice lunch with the help of champagne - and it is very obvious that if she does eat anything my mother perks up - but it was quite hard going. Nice to see my younger nephew, though, and the Inferiorettes did their best to jolly along proceedings.

She must weigh five (5, v) stone or so.

@ penile atrophy!

DQ, I would give my right arm for thickening fingernails - mine constantly flake and break

Oh dear, MI - sounds very sad. I'm glad the champagne helped.

Oh MI that's a tough Sunday. But what your are doing for them is fantastic. It really is xx

Agree that VA isn't inevitable. Mine presented as chronic cystitis...but no infection ever showed up in tests. Completely under control now. The need for lube...well, like I say childbirth damage has a lot to answer for too....

DH and I had a relaxed and easy drive home. The DC have been out for lunch with DM, having also invited her over to share Friday night dinner for which I had left a braised beef dish. They have been very sweet to her. I was also really pleasantly surprised that they had kept the house in a very reasonable state and DD had done all her Art homework ably supervised by DS2. They had treated themselves to Pizza Hut delivery and a movie last night and had taken themselves out for a walk etc each day. The glow hasn't lasted though as DH and Ds2 are now arguing over the latter's allowance, and how he's going to play for his trips to Berlin and Amsterdam this summer. Business as usual.

In other news, DM having asked we siblings to contribute words for DDads stone, has gone with the others' words and left mine out completely. This sort of thing has happened so much that I am almost growing to expect it tbh. But it does hurt.

In other better news, we have booked our Eurodisney trip for our post exams treat and yes, MrsS, I will be definitely be consulting you in due course. It is heinously expensive whatever way you do it, if you don't want to stay remotely. And I don't!!!!

And I other random news, I am still full of sinus infection which hurts my teeth ...neuralgia, is it called? Oh and I have managed to blow my nose so much that I have a burst blood vessel in my eye and resemble a vampire. The plus side of this is that it's scaring the DC witless

Vampire eye

Oh Rose, the wording must hurt even more than the eye. So sorry.

Rose, that's so hurtful. Doesn't DM have any idea of how it must make you feel?

No atrophy here, but it might have sealed up from under-use.

Well, an excellent Easter Sunday here; family all descended mid-morning (including the rarely-spotted DB) and we walked up to a pub in the village which reopened a few months back after being completely renovated. Well, it was the best pub meal I've had in years - delicious and huge roast dinner, lovely staff, and a nice buzzy atmosphere. I still feel stuffed! Back home for an Easter Egg hunt (indoors, on account of the horizontal rain and squishy garden) and chocolate - I also bagged some late birthday presents - earrings from DSis and a huge box of Lancome goodies from DDad/DSM, lucky me!

Almost (but not quite) got caught out by the clocks going forward - I think it's caught a lot of people by surprise being over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Rose - agree about hurt at your words being missed. Eye looks really painful. I've had sore itchy eyes all afternoon from hayfever after a walk in the forest.

We had annual passes for Disney at one point. The best plan is to get Fast Passes for the most popular rides first thing in the morning when the park opens. I still love Pirates of the Caribbean best.

Have had a relaxed day here and watched the boat race - heroic Cambridge girls.

Now hunkering down for the Night Manager.

MI so sorry.. Drum is the same - she's about 5 stone and would blow away in a light wind......

Done very little today. Dp taking ds to Inlaws tomorrow. Not in the mood for TV so will catch up with Night Manager tomorrow.

Oh MI, that sounds hard.

Rose, so sorry your dm's behaviour is causing such hurt.

I have had a particularly long and taxing day, which appears to have been going on since about 1am. Dh was playing a gig which meant he only got home at 2am and dd had one of her "special behaviour" nights, which meant that she summoned me at 4am to collect her from the next town, claiming an emergency. When I got there, she had changed her mind, so I returned home at 5 without her. She got home under her own steam at 6.30am. I was obvs immensely thankful to be woken up again at this point, as I was able to let the chickens out. Unfortunately, it turns out that I also had to be responsible for getting everyone to dm's on time for lunch today. Unsurprisingly, this went a bit wrong. According to dm, this was all my fault. We were then also summoned round to dm's neighbours for tea, which was fairly excruciating as they have dcs at the school where I work and are eye-wateringly posh, and I had to work hard at saying the right things whilst the other members of my family were too hungover/teenage/plebeian to bother saying anything remotely sensible. Aibu to think about holidaying on my own with the dog this year?

God, how excruciating, Strops. What a day. My lot were reasonably behaved today. The DDs were kept busy entertaining 5yo cousin, however DS had a bit of a sense of humour failure when DDad suggested he join in the Easter Egg hunt, and stomped into his room for the rest of the afternoon.

We have Round Two of family visits tomorrow - DM and DSDad are here for lunch. I'm expecting they will arrive early and leave mid-afternoon, as DSDad usually spends the whole of lunchtime twitching about being stuck in traffic on the way home, and will eventually pluck the wineglass from DM's fingers and drag her away.

Night Manager was excellent....no spoilers here, though.

And I seem to have become addicted to Little Alchemy. I blame Beachy.

Blimey Stropps that sounds like a marathon. I'd have been less than pleased...

Here dp set off at five (5, V) with ds... I am continuing with house rearrange and declutter as it is howling the proverbial gale outside and peeing down ....

God Stropps - it makes me feel grateful for the incredible sleeping teenagers that I seem to have. at plebian family though. I do have some friends where I feel I might accidentally say something untoward and get struck off!

Loved the Night Manager but apparently the ending is dramatically different from the book so I'm now going to have to research this.

We were supposed to be going to a golf induction today but it is tossing it down. I don't want to go but the other family is still keen. Ho hum - what to do?

Got woken up by the storm, which has now died down a bit

God Stropps, you have the patience of a saint! Going to get her at 4am and having to return without her? Thankfully pick-ups are no longer usually necessary here with buses/trains/Uber. And no posh neighbours to impress either

No big family do's here but had roast last night together before DD went off for a girls night in and DS went upstairs to watch/play Fifa on his new (birthday money) TV

Good Lord, Stropps! Hope you can get some sleep now.

No impressing done here this Easter, but very chilled and unusually harmonious family weekend. I set the engagement/helpfulness bar low and the teens cleared it. But I spent most of the night worrying about my bins in the storm (the council takes 8 weeks to replace them, during which it is hard to think about anything but rubbish) and am now deranged.

MI, you will be so glad, for ever, that you have done all this.

Rose, how very hurtful.

ds and I really enjoyed watching Night Manager together, despite my huffing over the women. Olivia Coleman was fab.

I watched IS AND the Night Manager and went to bed v late. DP huffed.

Apparently the ending of NM was changed from the book so that they can do a second series.

Rose - that is so hurtful. Have you told your (d)M how you feel?

Stropps - You are a saint

I was woken at 5am by my bedside light coming on. It's one of those touch ones & if there is a flicker in the supply they come on. Not amused as 5am was 4am to me, after the clock change. The wind was the strongest I've ever heard it here. Calmed a bit now & I think we'll go & have alook at the sea soon as is high tide.

Actually , the eye has no symptoms at all other than making me look like an alien.

hatty we seem to have early entry for the theme park and one fast pass per person, in the package we have booked. Can you get more fast passes? We booked via Coop which was £30 cheaper than the next cheapest, and £180 cheaper than the one after that ...includes Eurostar standard premier fares, rooms at the hotel nearest the entrance, ( I had to fight for this but stood my ground, having been years ago to Florida and made the mistake of not staying in the disney resort....) B&B, park passes as above and various meal vouchers, for another meal a day either in the park or at the hotel...and some kind of teatime food pass as well! ( eating doesn't matter to me at all...Ho no...)

Good lord stropps I'd have been livid.

Loved the Night Manager, and partic Olivia Coleman and her bump. Loved Jeds clothes although I'd have looked like a sack in most of it. Great, great ending.

Lovely lazy day in the offing. woken several times by Storm Katie but had a lovely lie in and a whattsapp with Ds1 in Aus before he went to bed.

Cross post...magi it isn't worth it. It's her way or no way.

Sorry to hear of weather related disruption in the south of England.it brought back memories of that horrific storm in 1987, during which I had to sleep in the Victoria Palace theatre as I couldn't get home from central London

Rose how utterly agonising for you with regards to the headstone. And sorry about your poor eye. Rest today and build up strength if you can. You do not look like an alien btw.
Stropps, you deserve a day in bed tended to by plebeian family. LTB.

Night Manager was superb. Also need to mention Olivia Coleman who was tremendous. What a phenomenal actor she is. Yy to a second series, hopefully again based on a John le Carré story.

Mostly cat sitting and wall painting today. Just rejoicing in being OFF.