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Crepe And Stormy

999 replies

Cremo · 04/04/2016 14:55

Over here Crepemunks!
Hope no one else has started oneSmile

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herbaceous · 08/04/2016 09:53

'Over' ground lines, that should say.

Dreamqueen · 08/04/2016 09:54

thanks for the choc tip Rose

Gosh Herbs even reading about your planned outing has sent horrors through me. I quite like public transport for A to B but not as a day out. Wellies & lunch sound so much easier.

I haven't done my planned daily 5k walk since last week. I gave myself a stern talking to this morning & have promised myself to just get up & do in tomorrow. it's a slippery slope when I miss a couple of days on something. (hangs head in shame at gym membership that hasn't been used for months weeks.

bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 10:17

Herbs I feel weak too, and that day out makes me feel even weaker! Lunch in Sainsbos - no uterine motive there?Wink

Cremo · 08/04/2016 11:29

Uterine Motive? Sounds very ominous BTM ConfusedGrin we know what you meant!

Herbs, glad you feel better today. Good move postponing the train marathon for another day, perhaps in 2021 or something.

Rudy, so good to hear you are doing ok. KBO. We are here for you. Sounds like ds is working a lot. Is this good or bad?

Ah yes Book Clubs. Beachy sounds like a great way to get to the heart of the community.Grin I would be exactly the same about other people's houses.nosy
My sister's book club is infamous for its champagne drinking, posh snacks and weekends away. I asked her which book they were reading and she couldn't actually say.

Dh is too control freaky for joint accounts. We do have one, but it flounders and is only used for the TV license I think.I pay some bills and he pays the rest. Seems to work out for us somehow.

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bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 11:39

uterine? WTF! ULTERIOR of course!

Cremo, I want to join your sisters book club Smile

Collymollypuff · 08/04/2016 11:47

Grin at your sister's book club, Cremo.

DQ, a DAILY 3K walk, eh? Bloody impressive. Please post more about that, in the vain hope I might emulate it. One day. When I'm older. When Herbs is my mum.

BD, can I really be your crepey bridesmaid? Can I, can I, can I, can I?

herbaceous · 08/04/2016 12:18

I may or may not have uterine/ulterior motives for visiting Sainsbury's! With DS in tow, there isn't much chance for clothes shopping, unforch.

I am still not dressed. I have watched Homes Under the Hammer and Four in a Bed while DS has dicked about on the computer. Go me!

Dreamqueen · 08/04/2016 12:36

No walk,my hayfever is playing up & I feel rough. I've got a stuffy head and congested chest & runny nose. I phoned the doctor & have an appointment for 2 weeks time!!!!!!
Hope to be better by then.

motherinferior · 08/04/2016 15:37

My father has apparently started on the anti-Ds...which are the same brand as my sister's (she's on a much bigger dose). DSis points out that a normal family would be able to laugh about this (and that it won't stop him being a selfish @rse).

I am now the only one of us lot as yet unmedicated.

Lalsy · 08/04/2016 15:50

Oh yes to crepey bridesmaids! The trouble we could cause.

Herbs, we have done almost the mirror image of that day out (from our opposite end of London), came home with a bagful of plums having fed some goats. London is full of surprises Grin. How cool that he can work all that out.

TFIF. Hope everyone feels better and less knackered tomorrow. I am buying pizza for dinner......

NUFC69 · 08/04/2016 15:55

Oh, MI, so sorry. You're welcome to become a member of my extended family, by the way.

The cuckoos in the nest have departed for their pod in the Lake District so I am relaxing in the tranquility (surrounded by grot and dried snot, tbh), before I go and start a chilli for tonight's dinner. Everything was going swimmingly with their house until the plumber rang to say that one of the newly delivered shower trays has a fault and needs to go back.

Crem, it's 120 miles from DSis's house to Southampton, so two hours as it is dual carriageway/motorway, then an hour on the ferry to Ryde, so it was a long day, but worth it.

MrsS, I shall look out for you on the lovely beach - you will recognise me as I will be with three other people and using a walking stick as I hobble along the sands. I would like to meet the originator of the famed marzipan and poppy seed cake!

NUFC69 · 08/04/2016 16:55

Chilli is on hold, DH and I are going out for a meal to celebrate our freedom.

bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 17:02

Ooh, how nice, NU! And I loved the IOW when we visited a few years ago. The DC were less impressed, but DH and I will definitely go back on our own.

MI, do you think he will keep taking them?

DH and I have just watched that rather depressing programme about aging on catch-up. Angela Rippon looking better at 71 than me 20 years younger. And all the advice on what you should be doing - we don't do any of it. Not even a pet. And although I could sit down cross-legged, I couldn't stand up without using my hand. DH could do it. Just.

Lalsy · 08/04/2016 17:28

BTM, am giggling at the thought of you and dh sitting on your floor, grimly copying Angela, of a Friday afternoon!

What else should we be doing?

NU, enjoy Smile.

CointreauVersial · 08/04/2016 18:05

Afternoon, all (or is it evening?). The week has flown by! I can't believe it's the last day of the school holidays already. DS came into work with me today and earned a small wedge avoiding GCSE revision doing scanning and printing, meanwhile DH has been at home recovering from a tiny op to remove a cyst from his neck (one of those repeat-filling ones that had to be de-gunked every few months. I shall miss it ). Nothing else newsworthy is happening here - I've been trying to set up the next round of dull home improvements, top of the list being re-cladding the gable end and putting in some cavity wall insulation. Oh, and booking more stuff in California, which is considerably more fun.

Glad you are better, Herb - that sounded nasty. Nothing worse than having to entertain a small person while you feel like death.

NU - enjoy the brief respite!

BTM - wow, you seem to have done a sterling job with DM's house - it must have been an exhausting week, especially if you weren't feeling great. I didn't see the Angela Rippon programme, but I'm not sure I want to if it makes me feel old! We seem to have been watching so many police dramas recently that they're all merging into one, and I can't remember which hero/villain belongs to which.

Beachy - I'd love to find a book club - for the books, obviously, not the social/drinking side, of course not. I know hardly anyone in this village, even though we've been here for seven years.

Crem - regarding your vision - I can't imagine how worrying that must be. But you have to get onto that course and sort out a pump, even if it means your new boss has to stuff his staff rostas up his jacksy. It's your health, it's paramount.

bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 18:09

Lalsy, we were Grin

We should be vegans - they interviewed a 100yo ex-surgeon who had turned vegan 50 years ago, looked about 70Shock All the vegans I knew at uni looked illGrin but I guess that if you follow a proper, full-menu vegan diet, that is quite different from beans on toast most nights!

And apparently dancing is better for you than going to the gym. I am sure that is right, but where can old codgers like us go dancing 3+times a week? I guess Zumba is next-best.

I can't remember what else they said, but brain-aging/dementia is next weekGrin

bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 18:25

Cremo, I agree with CV - look after yourself, someone else can do your shift.

Am feeling slightly better as I just asked DD and her mates to do the cross-legged challenge. DD did it effortlessly (all those years as a gymnast), one managed it eventually, the other couldn't do it.
Please feel free to test my theory that if you are petite, it must be way easier!

MrsSchadenfreude · 08/04/2016 18:49

Why would anyone beyond the age of 5 sit cross legged anyway? Do you have to get straight up or can you topple over onto your knees and get up that way?

bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 19:02

You clearly don't work in a primary school, MrsSGrin
You lose points for using other body parts AFAIR

Lalsy · 08/04/2016 19:22

Will try the cross-legged thing.....

I have heard/read the opposite - lots of zumba injuries because people can run classes without doing the physio/anatomy/safety stuff gym bods need to do, dunno if true. Anyway, I can't wiggle my bottom. My ears OTOH, seem to wiggle on their own, and ring off in the middle of phone calls on my mobile and dial random numbers instead Blush.

magimedi · 08/04/2016 19:26

I can get down to the floor like that - no problem.

But I need a hand on the floor to help me up.

At 60 I am not too bothered - there will be a new health test/cancer/dementia scare along next week.

I feel reasonably fit - I walk at least a mile every day & swim 1K 3 times a week & eat reasonably well.

Wine is my downfall - but quite honestly I don't want to live to be a burden. I'd rather go out in full flight at 75 or so than be a doddery old nuisance at 80+.

bigTillyMint · 08/04/2016 19:48

MM, same here!
I am also reasonably fit and healthy but I agree, life is for living and even the healthiest people get ill/dementia/die. Shame we can't just decide when we want it all to be over though - DM would love it to be the end nowSad

Blackduck · 08/04/2016 19:51

Colly you're on if I ever do the deed!

Blackduck · 08/04/2016 19:54

Oh MM with you there! Should we have some wine and then try to get up :)

magimedi · 08/04/2016 20:14

BTM - Flowers - such a very hard time for you.

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