Crepe And Stormy

[Cremo]

Over here Crepemunks!
Hope no one else has started one

Oh MI I know, I know.

I have found a beautiful little place www.kanukatea.com/pages/contact-us
And as a lover of good tea, I could sit in here forever. Makes such a change from the Costas and Starbucks of this world. I have not done well in my quest to use my 20% off voucher in joules though. Nothing looked right. Gah. Thank you, however for the push, MI and magi . I am enjoying the solitude and the break. Do any Crepeys live within travelling distance of St Albans?

My mood is lifted in a small way by the organisers of the training session I'm giving in May saying the projected programme I sent them was "excellent" . But I am worried I'll cry at choir tonight. If they're good, I'll cry because they're better for not having me there. If they're bad, I'll cry because of all the vocal work I did with them over four years, going to waste..... And I'm worried to see Maestro The Terrible, whom I gather is surpassing herself in her terribleness.

Snap out of it Rose. I think I'll feel better when DDs final drama performance is over on Wednesday evening. I don't know why I'm being so silly. She was bloody brilliant last night. I should be struck down for doubting her ability.

Where's Stropps ?..

Cross post...thanks lalsy too

Lots of German Crepeys in this hotel, and they all seem to be firmly stuck in the 1980s: bleached, spiky blonde hair, blue eyeliner and mascara and a penchant for light blue denim.

Lovely, MrsS!

I think Stropps is OK, but busy with work and, no doubt, home.

Here the electrician has just finished and we have light in the bathroom and a new fuse board (for £££!) but I totally didn't compute when I put the slow cooker on this morning. So no pulled pork for dinner - freezer's looking good!

MI I now have a vision of you in your 80's jumper (a la photo) and a long swishy mullet of silver hair I know this is not the look that you are aiming for!

Evening Crepies - Rudy - those dresses are lovely. You must have a much more glam life than me though - I cannot think when I'd ever wear a Viv Westwood.

Mrs S - loving the saga of your DD on FB.

Here the weather has improved slightly but DD1 left today and informs me that it is grey at Uni. I couldn't persuade her to leave her winter coat here - she says she still needs it! It is very quiet in the house without her presence and we will need a couple of days readaptation.

I quite fancy long swishy silver hair - although not a mullet!

I have now had a flaming row with DP about the car and the insurance people suddenly bumping us with replacing it (it's been pranged by some *er who didn't leave details). Apparently I should have "pushed back" at them on the phone. I ended up putting the phone down on him. Childish, but I have HAD ENOUGH of being berated today.

But I've finished a feature. And am going to put pizza in the oven.

I get it that my mum needs/wants emotional support and someone around. But I can't do it. I can't. Or rather I won't. And the thing is that I could. They'd all be fine here. I could even take the laptop and work. But I don't want to.

MI, I totally get you. I have various horrible family obligations looming at me in the future, and I just Don't Want to do them. Something within me recoils.

But on the other hand, you ARE already being supportive, etc, but at a distance. They could not have done without your help to date.

In hair news, I have an appointment tomorrow. Any suggestions crepeys? Naturally, it's pretty short so options are limited. I quite fancy a GGG-style quiff, but fear it would take upkeep...

I like your hair as it is Herbs [helpful].

MI, I am honestly not sure you can, given what you have said about your relationship with your dps before. That is now part of you. I have a smidgen of this in my family, and I think it might corrode me to pretend the past never happened, which is sort of what would be involved. I don't know if that makes sense. When the time comes, I will try to do what you have done.Maybe all non-dm-related unpleasant jobs should be dp's department now, for the duration?

MI I get what you are saying and you are doing what you can - don't do something you don't want to.
My Ddad has a downer on one of my brothers because he thinks he doesn't do enough. I know my dbros view on this situation but it's hardly something I can share with my dad. I get tired of the nightly update - I find it hard to take and pointless, but I know my dad needs to do it.

Work is crap - meeting with head honcho where he acknowledged how overstretched the teaching staff were but no recognition for admin who have been culled. Not sure I can take much more....

MI, don't do it. Don't go there. Use the phone for support. I know my mother is in a league of her own, but when my DDad was diagnosed with cancer, I was going home pretty much every weekend. This involved a three hour flight and leaving my new baby behind. I got no thanks (quite the opposite) and lived in a sort of limbo land for ages. My home life suffered, my baby developed eczema as soon as I'd stopped breast feeding, and I didn't actually feel that I was any help to anyone, everyone just got angry with me. For your own sanity and well-being, don't do it.

Thank you.

I know you - and other friends too - are right.

BD I am with you there. Really can't take much more.
My muddled, drug-sluggish head meant I locked the car keys in the boot after a Tesco shop. So I stood in the car park at Tesco in the rain, crying a little bit. Duh! Dh has to 'rescue' me
Seriously, who the hell is ever going to employ me with cotton wool brain AND foggy eyesight?

MI, you are already doing everything you can. I too think it's amazing that you are able to ' Get Things Done' against a background of such worry and sadness.

Rudy, you are my style icon! There is nothing you have linked to that I would not like for myself. The Reiss dress is sublime . You'll need a strapless bra I suspect. Not something I'd be able to consider, like ever. (too norky)

In pet news, the Cat has confused the vet by his recent blood tests , which are now suggesting that he is not, nor ever was, suffering from hyperthyroidism. So I've been paying for two pills a day for the last two years for NO REASON. Meh

And the friend of my mum's who went up today and to whom I spent half a sodding hour on the phone today (she's younger than my mother and likes facts and clarification - she's an economist) is going to try and work out what specifically my mother needs - an audit of what gaps need to be filled so that we can think about how to fill them.

I am starting to boil with resentment about this, though.

Sorry to snigger, Cremo, but that's just so...so cat.

Cremo :(

I want BDhound back.....

Rudy, if you can get away with wearing your bra on your head, I am sure you can get away with wearing a VW dress back to front and still look great!

There is a really unforgiving mirror in the bathroom at the hotel. I look 90.

May I have a collective crepey arse-kick please? I start teaching again on 25 April - my usual course, plus a new one. This will require many schemes of work, lesson plans, and resources. I have had since January to get them all together. Have I ? Have I buggery. Now I have three days (plus evenings and weekends). And what am I doing? Faffing about on the inter web.

Herbs, GET ON WITH IT.

I need the same advice, obvs.

Herbs! Go and lesson plan! Lol

Herbs, I hope you don't see this because you are working! Get on with it

Ha! Have done quite a lot. Thank the lord for online resources, that's what I say.

Now off to meet old mentor from PGCE for lunch/coffee (and possible brain pick), and then off to have hair cut.

I'm thinking about getting rid of my 'casual learning consultant' biz - the stuff I do with the Terrible Teens. New teaching in Proper Job will take all day Monday and all day Wednesday. There will be LOADS of admin. At the moment, I work as the CLC on Tuesdays, which would be much better spent marking, filing, planning, etc for Proper Job.

As the CLC job only pays £9 an hour, I'm hardly going to become impoverished...

BD, the nightly update sounds grim

Rudy, I have worn a silver heat tech scoop neck under a black Moschino dress but it was the right way round, so you win.

I love that belt. The Viv would nicely accentuate my neck hump, however.

DH is not working here today. When I went downstairs the kitchen was all empty, it was really nice.

Rose, thank you for what you said well-done-ing me on putting in the marital work. It made me feel great.

Go herbs ! If they're paying you rubbish money, and you don't like it, you're probably on the right track. Looking forward to seeing the new haircut!

Bless you waf but it's true...you're doing good, kiddo. KBO

BD and MI

I am faint with hunger and have realised that a few mouthfuls of poached salmon does not a breakfast make. No matter. Have been singing this morning with my lovely teacher, and have raced to the mall with a load of chores to do. DD has her final rehearsals today and her group is being examined tonight. As we were driving home last night from another endless long day at school, she announced that her stick (aka broomstick), her much needed prop, had been nicked. Cue yours truly getting stuck in mud in local hedgerows looking for another one, swearing very loudly. Crepeys will remember that I HATE mud. Then a race to ex choirs end of term soirée with DS for moral support...who ended up page turning for maestro. Yours truly very close to tears by the end. God, life can be bollocks sometimes.