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

[herbaceous]

As requested!

Yes, best wishes from me, too, MrsS, for tomorrow.

And me Mrs S. I'll be thinking of you too.

Yes, hope it goes well, MrsS

Just to change the subject again, but definately in a crepey vein, I just read this and liked it article

I don't know the ins and outs of the author, but it made me laugh.....and think.

I can't spell definitely

Thinking of you, MrsS. Hope it goes well

I used to work on the same mag as Suzanne (she was important, I wasn't). She was rather lovely.

Me too, MrsS. .

Good article Beach. I have just missed a period so maybe this is me....tho I thought they tailed off rather than emergency stop....

All the best Mrs S for tomorrow

Bad day here - DD2 after her maths mock exam and DD1 rejected from her third interview leaving her with no summer law schemes. it is horribly competitive and I think she has been naive in not researching it last summer and rushing all her applications off over Christmas, when she didn't have time to do them properly

MrsS thinking of you...

Nurse said to dad today 'you realise you won't get her back mentally don't you'.
This really is it, my mum has 'gone' but is still here..... It's hideous

Oh BD, it is so awful...how did your ddad react?

Magi, I hope she is getting looked after properly now.

Oh BD, that's such a horrible moment when that happens. I know when they finally put dmum on the morphine feeder drip, we knew, although she was peaceful, there was no going back.

Oh, darling.

MrsS reports that she will do Bar Research tomorrow

BD

The awful thing is she could still go on for a good while yet. But the lucid gaps have pretty much disappeared this week. I think once we get her into a home (please) it will be easier for dad.

I felt I had 'lost' her a while back, but it's hard to know she is still alive but I can't have a mother/daughter conversation with her again. It's all the unsaid stuff.

Lalsy, I started missing periods when I was 45. They still haven't stopped[amgry]

Oh no Hatty - is there anything she can do about it?

BD, big hugs. I am crossing everything that a nursing home can be found - it feels much better for me now, and my DM is still able to communicate you can't get a word in edge-ways even if most of it doesn't make sense.

And your poor old dad It must be hideous for the one left without their life-long love. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like if it was my DH, though I think it's more likely to be me, given the family history.

BD . I have heard other people say they felt they had lost their dps a long time ago, such a cruel mockery of what life should be.

BTM, harrumph, that's no good! I can't plan around that .

Lalsy, we are all different. My friend had her last one a couple (or more) years ago and nothing since

BD, {{{{hugs}}}. It is so very sad and difficult. You can only do what you can.

Rudy, looking forward to RL hugs and no questions. It will be great to see you.

NU, thank you so much for your amazingly kind offer re the Radley bag! But I am rather enjoying trawling Debenhams and even TK Maxxx. I will continue the search locally, so please don't worry.

MrsS, good luck for today, thinking of you.

Crem, you will be most welcome here whatever your state of health. Tbh, even if you were Michelle Obama, dh would prefer it if you just came in and said nothing much to him but a greeting. He wouldn't even ask you what was going down in the White House. We are not a glam middle class family, more like the Addams family....I hope your expectations are appropriately low...Just make yourself at home!

Dear BD, sending you much love and strength. It is such a horrible situation to be in. Thinking of you.

Good luck, MrsS. Hope you have a treat planned for afterwards.

Molly, love the Addams family ref.

Lalsy, as QQ said on a thread some while back, the only thing one can do at this stage is always carry industrial strength sanpro. Believe me.

I haven't had a period for some months now. But have had massive hot flushes, though I think those are made worse by stress in any case.

En route to hospital, having had massive row with DH.

Still very regular AF wise here. I yearn for periods to stop. No hot flushes either, just the beginnings of a beard.

MrsS
Magi I do hope your aunt is ok and safe. What a terrible way to treat someone of such seniority.
Beachy that was a very good article. But I don't think that she fully understands how those of us in HRT were really desperate....
Rudy No questions, no 3rd degree...only hugs and light relief. It will be lovely to see you.
BD I know. I know. There's no other thing I can say, except that. But I echo Tilly's experience...once your DM is safe and comfortable in a home, things might seem a bit better on the communication front. Bastard disease, dementia.

I felt incomprehensibly tired yesterday. Good meeting with ConS in the morning...preparing for meeting next Thurs with potential director and I have set up one on Monday with a theatre Head of finance to try to understand the ball park of production costs.

Great class last night...loud, raucous and hyper lot these are. DD has her French oral GCSE today.....we've been drilling her for weeks. And so it begins...And we are trying to fit everything around a demanding run of shows...10 performances in all.

Am now off to a teachers meeting in Herts and then on to meet Dsis to have such and discuss DM's driving which is starting to worry us, just a tad.