Crepe And Stormy

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Over here Crepemunks!
Hope no one else has started one

Good haul BTM.

Rose - hope your headache goes in time for your meal. It's always hard being sociable when your're not feeling on form. Take no notice of DD - I'm sure your hair looks great - what do they know anyway - the young haven't necessarily found their style yet - as I notice when I look back at old photos

Mrs S - it sounds like a recipe for making the working day more fun. I work with a guy who is young enough to be my son but he's great fun and his enthusiasm and approach is refreshing.

Very quite day today, DH is spreading lawn seed, so I have retreated indoors with my book. It is much colder - and snow is indeed predicted in the Alps for MagiMedi.

I read that article too, Mrs S and it all seems incredibly 'close' - all friends together, which must be massively uncomfortable. The potential for explosive damage seems very high linky.

Now on another matter entirely, is anyone up for camping in June, avec moi? Dogs, children, DH's, DP's, anyone really? Just a bbq really, with chat and lounging around in the dark. Happy to PM details if you fancy it.....

I'm not even convinced it is a true story

That sounds lovely, Beachy - will sound out DH and if he is interested, the DC. Any particular weekend? We haven't used our massive tent for 5 years....

Here DH, DS, DD and bf are watching the match Got to drop DD and bf at besties party after and then on for something to eat with DH and DS

A very rich friend of mine confessed to me last summer that she was shagging their gamekeeper. Very Lady Chatterley. His wife is their cleaner too. Put me in a slightly awkward position, because I was friends with her DH first - met him through work. I think she just had to tell someone, and I was there. I told her not to tell anyone else, particularly not her family as it would be even more awkward for them. And yes, they do "do it" in his hut...

I thought the article sounded odd - far too much closeness with the two couples. Maybe they could just go in for a bit of swapping or a foursome? (At least with a foursome no-one gets left out. )

I'd quite like a gardeners hut - not for shagging (as I haven't got a gardener), just for the hut......

June 11th is the date.

And how do you manage to leave no email/text trail AT ALL? And I'd be no good at never telling anyone ever. Especially as it says 'don't drink'.

I'd love to camp. As long as it doesn't clash with DD2's 13th (actually, if it does I might be tempted...) though her birthday is the same as my mum's so may need to be negotiated a bit for my dad.

No major change here. Managed to send dad off to shops with shopping list so there is viable food in the house (including the leftover roast chicken which will form part of a noodle stirfry later ) and a few things like fishcakes in the freezer. It does very much annoy me how he expects food to appear. Said to my mate A whom I'd nipped out for a quick G&T with yesterday that I had to go home to cook my dad's tea. He offers sometimes to help but given that he can't chop up an onion without panicking, that's not really a genuine offer.

I think I am quite stressed as I am off my food. By my standards, that is. DSis pointed out I haven't starved myself by any stretch of the imagination.

Do they re-enact that scene with the flowers, MrsS?

The Guardian woman is very calculating - if I had an affair I'm sure the guilt would be written across my face. Mind you she's probably got better with practice.

I am a shameless gossip hound, so a) want to know the gory details of Mrs S's work-based crushboss, and b) the names and addresses of Rudy's demons. You are brave, Rudy. I have a number of demons, which I'm keeping safely buried beneath six foot of Britishness.

I'd love to camp, Beachy. I however have no tent, or any equipment whatsoever. Would it be appropriate to bring DS, or should I leave him safely in London, allowing me to get shitfaced let my hair down?

Met some chums for 'lunch' in an Islington hostelry. Have just returned. Drinks included an espresso martini. DS is still up. DP has gone out again. Chaos is reigning. Later, I shall watch Victoria Wood tributes, drink wine and cry.

Talk of affairs with flowers puts me in mind of a joke.

Two women chatting over coffee at Woman A's house. They watch a man walking up the path, carrying flowers.

Woman A: "Here he comes with his flowers. That's me on my back again for a few hours."
Woman B: "Why? Haven't you got a vase?"

It would be very easy for me to leave no email/text trace at all. I'd simply use my work Blackberry.

I didn't ask for gory details, MI. I did, however, meet the gamekeeper, and he did look quite, err, fit.

How very.... literary Mrs S - life imitating art innit?!

I'd be crap at having an affair - firstly I couldn't be arsed to make all that EFFORT with someone new and secondly I'd call them and dh by each others' names within 5 minutes or something similar.

Giddy - I'd do that as well.

Not enjoying the Shakespeare thing so far - thought it was going to be more acting/documentary.

God yes to the names. Somehow I feel the likelihood is low, however. Especially since Mr Rickman never got the chance to celebrate our love.

I am going to watch Line of Duty on iplayer in my old bedroom. Odd to be reunited with it after so long.

No idea what is happening with my mum. I have this vague idea it'll go on like this forever. Like the last weeks of pregnancy.

I had an affair at the end of my relationship previous to DH. Clearly I wasn't very good at keeping it a secret as my ex sussed and it all became rather ugly. It wasn't the cause of our break-up, I had already decided I wanted to break up...

Just been out for a jolly meal with DH and DS in hipsterville and DS was very forthcoming with chat

MI, I know that feeling of sleeping in the teenage bedroom - very strange!

I don't really have a teenage bedroom. DM moved house while I was at boarding school, and my room in the new house was never more than a spare room really.

Having an affair? When do these people find the time? I'm literally never alone.

Ooh, camping. Sounds tempting, if only to escape the mid-GCSE angst-fest that I am anticipating May/June. I don't have a tent, though, unless you count the little two-man pop tent for which DS lost the topsheet thingy the very first time he used it. It's fine as long as no rain is forecast.

Nice clothes, BTM! I'm a huge fan of Uniqlo, and have also bagged a few bargains in Laura Ashley (although you do need to swerve a fair number of Per Una style horrors). I just ordered a couple of heavily-discounted bits from Baukjen, which I usually avoid because most of their stuff is just too damned figure-hugging, but these don't look too bad: Trousers and dress.

Why didn't you just break up then, BTM? That's quite rich from me actually, as my last relationship with exDP before I met DH limped on for a year longer than it should have done. And I was never faithful to him - as he wouldn't commit, I didn't see the point. He was the only person who was surprised when I went off with his best friend.

I suppose I could manage an affair in the daytime but I'd keep worrying about deadlines. I'm all about the sultry eroticism, me.

Great minds CV! I bought this

Eek - not in that disgusting pale orange colour though - in dark grey!

SO s and b!

GG - agree in grey it would be much nicer. Love the stripy one as well CV and the trousers - I have never heard of this make though.

DD1 has a vintage clothes fair at Cambs today - I love these sort of things and am well .

Like CV - I never seem to be alone - I actually don't think I'd be very good at living alone - having come from, and having had a large family. Also I am tending to fall asleep in front of the tv at about 11.00 - a good test of programme quality but worryingly like my DM.

MI - I hope you had a reasonable night.

MrsS, it was complicated - we lived together, his mother was seriously ill for months and I knew he didn't want to break up with me at all. He still didn't want to accept it was over with us even when he found me out. Loooonnnnģggggg and messy break-up.

Bargain clothing CV! I was at the colour of that dress GGG, but grey sounds way better!