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

[herbaceous]

As requested!

Oh...MI. I don't suppose DM is well enough to be taken to visit some of these places to see for herself?

BD

I like the look of that Curvy Kate bra MrsS......have never tried this brand, so might be tempted. Do love a red bra....

I am feeling a vaguely sick...after a delicious Korma last night locally with friends. It always happens, I don't know why. Crawled to a 2 hour writing session with ConS this morning, and ..... we have finished Draft 5.....

All quiet on the Annoying Trustee front for the moment after my less than tactful email. Fingers crossed.

Thinking of Monty and Auriga and also wondering if Rudy is ok...and you, NU where are you?

She is well enough at the moment, Rose, and of course I have to support her if that is her decision (sigh)....

Poor old DD2 has set off for the cinema and the train that would whizz her up there is cancelled! I am proud of her for not panicking, though. We have sorted another route.

MI I hear ya, sister.

I am hoping Crepeys will be pleased with me. I have acquired a private client for work, and have doubled my hourly rate (from what Annoying Trustee Organisation was paying me...) who didn't bat an eyelid and has paid me in advance! And I have started the literature search for some teaching in May, that I have been invited to do (via a contact who first met me via Annoying Trustee Organisation), nearly tripled my lecturing rate and they asked me if I was sure that I was charging enough!!!!! I can only assume Annoying Trustee Organisation was raking it in, and paying its tutors a pittance....What a fool I have been. Maybe the phoenix is staggering up from the ashes.

Just dealing with mild annoyance of being locked out of the online journal service of my professional membership organisation.... but on the plus side have managed to get three books, used, for next to nothing from Amazon.

Yay! You go Rose! Tell Annoying Trustee where to shove it!

That all sounds fantastic rose the other people really undervalued you.

Go Rose! Go Rose! (does that swivelly hipped dance)

Jolly day today. Appointment with DS's regular lovely eye doctor this morning to get him a new shell; lunch at Wagamama; cinema to see Zootropolis (not bad for a family film); coffee with old chum; drove home and about to go out again to the Gilbert Scott for drinks with another good chum who's 50 today.

Cashflow crisis, so trying to remember the PINs for my credit cards. Or hoping they're contactless... Or else I'll be plying my trade round the back of Kings Cross. If one can still do that, post-gentrification.

Rose, that's terrific! Really pleased for you. And I hope it'll make it even easier to tell ATO to sod off.

Congrats on the juicy new client, Rose. Onwards and upwards!

Have had a lovely time having a Crepey mini-MU with BTM, here in the not-so-Wild West. Fish and chips, fizz, cocktails, a bracing walk and lots of yakking

Because you're WORTH it, Rose.

Wild West meet-up sounds fun, particularly the cocktails.

Terribly quiet here, without the DDs.

Hurrah, Rose, am chuffed to bits for you. Well done.

Family joys wearing a bit thin here...Could do with the house to myself for a month or so - or a much bigger house.

Well done Rose!

Yes, fab mini-meet in Stroppshire - lovely place, lovely food, lovely drinks, lovely weather (today and of course, lovely people

Back to reality here - wall-to-wall footy and exam-revision-stress Sympathies Lalsy! CV, make the most of it

Yakking Stropps/BTM? Surely not! Am quite

Lalsy, I feel like that re the house - it's bittersweet, isn't it? Lovely that they're here, fantastic that they can cook, but where am I supposed to put my food? Oh, well. I expect when I'm ancient I'll be glad they can feed me. Rose, congrats on the work coup!

Molly, you would have loved it - Stroppdog is sooooo cute and funny

Still think we should have a baddest crepey dog competition...they would probably all be lovely best friends...or possibly not.

Dinner in the pub with dh and s1. V enjoyable.

Typed a whole message there and only the last sentence posted. V odd.
It was to say that my money is on dGoatdog winning any badass dog contest hands paws down. She is a perpetual embarrassment and a disgrace. But we luffs her v much.
Glad you had a fab time Stropps and BTM. Sounds fab.

I only had 2 (two, II) glasses of Pinot Noir. Honest Guv.

Oh at mini meet up.

BDhound would have won any competing paws down, but not these days.... He's a very old man who really doesn't want to know anymore :(.

DGoatDog is adorable and knows it

The Shitten would win any worst behaved cat contest hands down...

When and where on Saturday?

The Shitten does indeed make all three (3, iii) cats chez Inferiority Complex look positively prestige

Waterstones? Late afternoon? How does it work for MI and BTM?

It works like a thing that works extremely well. 5pm?

Help. Me.

Met up with old chum for 'a quick birthday drink'. Had cocktail. Had champagne. Went to 'our' Caminos at Kings Cross and had red wine. And then some more. And then some more. I woke up a 6.30 and had to commune with Brian. And now I have to go to my parents. I'm going on the train, as would be unfit to drive, but this requires movement. And entertaining v jolly DS all the way.

Oh dear herbs... Alka seltzer? You poor thing. Maybe try and lay off the sauce a bit before travelling? I guess it all tastes a lot better on the way in than on the way out.