Crepe And Stormy

[Cremo]

Over here Crepemunks!
Hope no one else has started one

[Lalsy]

I really like the fashion choices! Will have to wait till the bank account of truth has bounced back from dh's recent optician's visit....

Monty, good to see you, look after yourself. And hope you are doing that too, Auriga...

[Cremo]

Bugger, lost a post there .
Rose I like the great planes tops there. I am hankering after this frock and can recommend the Zalando site for finding a lot of brands together. Vero Moda has great things.
It seems the main thing you are supposed to have this summer is 70s style denim: but there are a lot of lovely denim tshirt S and tops out there. Zara is, as always top of my list Lalsy

[Lalsy]

You'd look cracking in that, Crem!. I have always struggled with Zara armholes but will give them a whirl, thank you.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Sorry so many of you are having such a crap time of late. Sending thoughts, strength and wine to you all.

My Polish teacher's husband died the other week (have only just found out). He was such an amazing man - he went through the Warsaw Uprising and lived right on the edge of the ghetto. Such amazing life stories, and all gone now. I had known him and his wife for 30 years - we'd been on holiday with them, they had been to stay with us in London so many times. He had Alzheimers - we last saw him three years ago when I went back to Warsaw and he wasn't great then. I will probably go back in the summer to see my teacher, if I can stand the heat, or see if she and her DD want to come and spend some time in London.

Work is mad at the moment - I did 11 hours today, came home and cooked dinner and was greeted with: where are the vegetables (there were at least three in the dinner), why can't we have salad with it, this meat's a bit chewy, I think it would have been better with rice and not noodles.

[Blackduck]

MrsS my lot would have been wearing the dinner if they made such comments.

Today Dmum told Ddad she hated the home and PhD could look after her at home.....

It really is very draining and I have no idea how he is carrying on :(

[Blackduck]

PhD? He...

[magimedi]

Mrs S - I think (actually know) the dinner would have turned into a shampoo if that had been me.

Crem - that is a dress to die for and will be worn over & over again if it is hanging in yr wardrobe. £££ per wear - for sure.

[BeachysSandyFlipFlops]

Miserable folks yours are, Mrs S. Still I'm not home yet, another hour on the train. I would happily disembowel my boss, my miserable team member and many of my esteemed colleagues....

Crem, you poor love. I can't believe you need a weeks course in order to access the medical help you need. Surely that's sick leave in some form.

I'm so sorry to hear your news, BTM. You are being so strong in the face of such sadness.

Ive got a busy couple of days dealing with some ishoos, which will be taxing, but then driving to deposit dd1 at university and spending a couple of days with dd2, walking, visiting Cornwall's finest sights and eating pasties . Tempted to throw my work phone off St Michaels Mount or similar!

[bigTillyMint]

Oh BD, your poor dad. Like my DM, she is in the best place and he couldn't have done more. Does he have any support nearby?

MrsS, my family would have been wearing the dinner too

Beachy, it sounds like you're yet another Crepey suffering with work Is it just coincidence that so many Crepeys have work problems or is this just par for the course for people in general?

Love the dress Cremo (despite the £££ tag!) and lovely tops. Whilst scrolling through the Esprit ones I clicked on models info - 5'10", size 8 with 24" waist - no wonder she looks so good in her floaty top! When are we going to have more average women modelling?

Managed a better nights sleep with DH next to me last night, though I definitely don't feel refreshed!

[Dreamqueen]

Sorry to read that so many are having a difficult time through many different reasons.

[addle]

Glad you slept better BTM - it's such an exhausting thing to do and lives with you for quite a while after the doing

Rudy

Mrs S - FFS - they really don't deserve you cooking for them (or anything else)

Cremo - as Beachy says, surely, surely, that's sick leave?

Sorry work so rubbish, Beachy, and thank you for taking the time for DS in the circs. Pasties and Cornwall sound like bliss though - what with exams, football, pil, summer schools, etc, etc - I can't see a time when we can all get away this year which is sad because we had a couple of years when dd didn't come with us and it's more fun, esp for ds, when she can. maybe a really big family holiday a la BTM next year after A-levels ...

in S&B news I bought a 1940s dress from Oxfam - I imagine it's rayon so it's going t have to be drycleaned I think - any notions anyone? i'd prefer not to

[bigTillyMint]

Addle, I bet you will look fab on a 1940s dress! I love 40s and 50's fashion - I used to love watching all the old movies when I was young and dreaming of wearing such beautiful clothes, especially the ballgowns/evening wear.

DD seems to have survived her first night home-alone and is up already Maybe she had a good night's sleep after going swimming with her friend and apparently doing 60 lengths (she used to swim a lot and v well - perhaps she will get back into it?)

[Rosebag]

Soz about rubbish work sitch, Beachy. Cornwall with no mobile phone signal would be just the thing I should think...

Lovely dresses Magi and Cremo. Addle...rayon...gosh, that's a blast from the past. I'd be scared to put it in the machine...

Tilly I expect DM was more confused than usual having to be taken out of the home...and I suppose there's the possibility she was getting the virus which can also exacerbate it all. The whole thing must be very wearing.

Also feeling with you BD and for your poor DDad who has so much to deal with as well.

Monty You must be feeling in a kind of limbo but I'm glad work have taken certain responsibilities from you at this time. I had the birthday card experience in January with my own birthday. Its an awful jolt. Like you say, small steps. We need to get together. Will text you.xx

Also a shout out to Auriga and sending love xx

Totes emotes last night at Ds2's final concert. What a lovely bunch of young musicians and singers they are. My phone has run out of space and I'm going a bit mad. DS1 who is still Down Under is trying to help me transfer all the videos I took onto the computer so I can free up some space. He's also offered to edit a vid of all the performances and put together a little compilation. First I have to work out how to get the clips into DropBox. Oh the frustration!!!!!!

Going singing myself now with my lovely teacher. Some classical, and then we are putting together a Sound of Music medley. How cheesy and lovely!

[hattymattie]

Hello crepies - really sorry to have been absent. Turns out I'm not very good at juggling part-time work and the extra child back from Uni which seems to make all the difference to the feeding/washing/tidying cycle. I don't know how the women with big jobs do it. Mrs S - they need to start cooking for you!

I haven't caught up on the thread properly - had to search for it as the last one ended without me realising. I am really sorry for the many crepies having a miserable time at the moment Monty/BTM/BD.

Crem - also really sorry to hear about your deterioration in vision - I hope they can get a suitable treatment worked out for you.

We have some rather nice weather at the moment the downside of this being the worst hayfever I've had since I was a child. My eyes are continually weepy and I cannot wear eye make up so look like a right old boot!

We had a lovely weekend as one of the neighbours did a champagne tasting dinner. As you can imagine, we were very enthusiastic, especially as we only had to cross the road to get there. Great fun was had and despite copious consumption, I didn't have a hangover the next day which goes to prove I should only drink top quality champagne.

[Cremo]

Morning Crepes, and welcome back Hattie. Sounds like you and Beachy both have had your fair share of feeding the prodigals. Dd ate us out of choc biscuits, fruit and cereal. I have become unused to such volumes of food vanishing. Dh and I seem to survive on noodles and rice plus many veg.

Mrs S, they are the giddy limit, your lot. You clearly have tried everything to entice them to cater for you. Is it that they are using your competence as an excuse not to bother? That's what happened here. I made a rota ( that was mostly ignored), but after a fashion, dd cooked on Thursday and Dh had to produce something on a Friday ( usually Mexican takeaway ) and create something with leftovers on a Sunday night ( to allow me to change beds and sort stuff for the week ahead.) it's all such joy isn't it?
I am also sorry to hear about your lovely friend's passing. I do hope you teacher and daughter will come to London. It sounds like a mutually soothing arrangement.

I am trying now to find out about these diabetic ed. courses and setting up a time to do one. I am a bit stuck now as the New Management has set the rota in stone for the next three months, and I no longer have any influence over it. Apparently This Is Progress.

[Lalsy]

Hatty, just dashing in to say I have absolutely the same experience with working PT and prodigals returning. I can't get on top of stuff and they don't seem to clock that there is a difference between my work days and not. No routine, shifting sands, every day different juggling.

Crem, pah, what nonsense.

[hattymattie]

Crem and Lalsy - exactly and they'll never pop out to get more orange juice to replace the one that they finished - even though they are about all day and I am not.
However, DD1 is making curry tonight so I'm happy. DH is the official Saturday lunchtime cook so it is nearly always fajitas!

[motherinferior]

I have in fact delegated Buying Posh Crisps to DD2, who has nipped out to buy baking ingredients with one of her friends from primary. DD1 is out somewhere with the older Schadenfraulein. I am dragging myself through the rest of the afternoon with the help of chocolate mini-rolls and awaiting an old friend turning up at 5pm or so for the bottle of pink cava I found in our fridge

I wish I was not so damn tired. ALL THE TIME.

[Lalsy]

I have perked up after eating a bar of M and S dark chocolate and getting a couple of hours peace to work. Turns out neither dc likes dark choc so I had to do the decent thing .

[Cremo]

Naturally Lalsy. It's rude not to.

[hattymattie]

I am actually eating a Lindt chocolate bunny left over from Easter and half price in the supermarket. How sad am I?

[Lalsy]

Bargain choc even more cheering than full price, Hatty.

[herbaceous]

Ooh. Lindt bunnies. Love them. That reminds me, I have a bar of posh choc in the hamper given to me by Non Wedding Invitation friends.

I'm hiding upstairs from DS who wants me to come downstairs and play a game about train destinations. Like yesterday. I'm knackered though, as have just driven to, and trailed around, the RAF museum in Hendon, along with most other small boys in North London. And yesterday trailed around St Pauls and along the south bank. And the day before trailed around the Olympic Park. And the day before did something else Improving and Outdoors. And tomorrow we're doing an easter egg hunt in Epping Forest, and the next day doing a transport extravaganza, involving as many forms of train as we can fit in.

I don't suppose for a moment this little blighter appreciates it. But it's almost easier than staying at home and thinking of FUN things to do that don't involve him staring at some kind of screen.

Those on Facebook will have seen DS dressed as a chorister yesterday. I am now harbouring fantasies of him becoming a choir boy at St Paul's, and the associated free and posh education.

[bigTillyMint]

Has he got the voice of an angel, Herbs? I know of a small boy who got a choir place at the Oratory at a similar age to your DS - apparently pretty prestigious though not private. Treasure the outings - those days will be over before you know it

No chocolate here and we bought TV dinners for tonight thinking we would have eaten out at lunchtime with DM. Might have to send DH dash out later

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Herbs - my friend's DS is a chorister at St Paul's. He loves it (even the boarding).

I am still working, and my wonky eye has gone wonkier as a result of staring at a screen all day.