The Crepey Buds Of May

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Err, how did that happen with no one noticing!
It's because we're all on the dark and stormy, sloe gin and prosecco innit.

Sorry for the not v inspired title but I panicked.

Don't use Eurax on chicken pox.

I don't know what Eurax is. We used good old Calamine Lotion.

I've half-mooned my border so it looks spankingly neat, but it's ever so empty. I'm hoping for a dry afternoon tomorrow so I can stick a bit of bedding in.

Crem - did I mention the sun is cracking the stones here?

I am managing to snigger childishly at CV halfmooning her border.

My nephew is v keen on circus skills and my sister finds a never-ending hilarity in the juggling jokes. Apparently he needs jazzier balls because his technique hides them otherwise.

According to an obit in the Mumbai Mirror my mother lived in the 'rustic idyll of Norwich' and 'famously always wore salwars' (wtf? Famously? And she didn't. Had a fine collection of very lovely saris, as well as various western clothes).

Have you got to do an obit for her too, MI?

I did wonder what kind of half mooning CV meant. Not that I would do either, of course!

Back from footy - another win, just one more point to win the league...
Poor DD is cross about some revision materials that the teacher hasn't given them because 2 girls haven't completed their part. And not worrying about what others might ask/say at school tomorrow re demise of her relationship. I fear a meltdown imminently.

MI, hang on in there, and try not to worry about what you might or ought to be feeling. As others have said, it is complicated, individual and well, downright odd IMO when you know someone is dying for months (I felt relief when my df died, miss him now). You supported your dps brilliantly, in the face of very difficult behaviour and dynamics, and you and your dsis and your dm enjoyed some time together.

Terribly dull question for Rose - have you found anywhere that will deliver plants on a given day?

Genius on the rude words on patio front, MM!

I think one of her rather nice and eminent friends wants to do one for the Graun and I'll talk to her about it.

Agree re the rude words!

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, life has surface noise.

Don't why this feels right....it's all surface noise and we all deal with it differently....

Auriga, it says on the box that you can use Eurax on chicken pox?

I've been faffing too much today, the place is still a tip and I've got a friend coming to stay tomorrow night... Although I have had a shoe and bedding clear out.

I was thinking of halfmooning as displaying one buttock.

I am feeling unsettled again. I think it is largely to do with restructuring at work and our head of dept being indecisive about which teams will do what.

And I was thinking half mooning was just pulling your trews down a leetle bit

I know how you feel, Mrs S, I'm feeling massively unnerved tonight. I need to tell everyone that I've resigned tomorrow. It's been such a big decision and once I've told everyone, it's done. 30 years in the City horrible pit of dread in tummy...

Had a great day yesterday. I went to ddad's and did jobs, while dd2 took a friend and went crabbing on the beach, something she had never really done. Made a change from watching make up tutorials on YouTube and chatting on her phone.

Today dh and I enjoyed tea at a local stately home, a pressie from friends for our 50th last year! Very civilised and much needed adult chill time.

MI, me and my db and dsis did a lot IFAD htsterical laughing in the days around my ddad's death, we then were or felt pretty efficient I the days immediately afterwards and have suffered more severely but quite differently since. Xx

Beachy, very best of luck tomorrow.

I've loved the weather today - trip to town to see London library lecture in dt James sq with Lalsy, lots of gardening, hours spent on ottolenghi salad but all eith sunshine and breeze.

A half-moon, you gardening buffoons, is one of these. Also known as an edging spade. Although while I was bent over my borders in my ill-fitting gardening trews I can't rule out the presence of another sort of half-moon.

We rounded off a lovely day with a BBQ and some utterly sickly s'mores, made with some giant American marshmallows I picked up in Costco.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Should have said 'don't use hydrocortisone for CP'. But I now see you can get a version of Eurax without hydrocortisone.

Beachy it will be fine. Your decision is made and you seem happy with it.

Lovely day here too... Walks and reading. As I have a garden the size of a postage stamp there's not much to do!

I appear to be developing a sore throat just as summer arrives!

Good Luck Beachy! And what BD says

Just tried to iron a dress and the iron started smelling of burning and then beeping madly. Must have been the shock of being used! I have put it in the bin

I am coping badly and throwing tantrums.

Oh MI, can you take yourself somewhere quiet for a bit? Emotions will be raised and decisions may be made you don't agree with, but deep breaths and a bit of space could be best in the long run.

Sorry waffling a bit

MI - agree with Beachy - can you get some headspace?

Beachy not waffling at all! Go get 'em girl!

I am staying in bed with a novel. My OWN BED. Ha!

Sounds just the thing, MI and anyway you must be exhausted given recent events. A duvet day or two is in order.

Good luck today Beachy. This was a big decision and great things are waiting out there for you. There are other ways to live and being decisive has its benefits!

about half mooning. CV I'm sure yours (whatever it is...) was infinitely more appealing than DH's when he was bent down trying to reconnect our irrigation system yesterday....

So sorry to read of your dmum's death, MI. You have been a marvellous daughter and could not have done more.

Apologies for my unaccustomed absence from the thread; I had a shock to do with the extended family which then resulted in/coincided with a horrible bout of gastric flu which lasted and lasted. So I stayed in bed and ignored everything, especially emails and anything to do with the computer. Very glad to catch up with everyone now I'm out of bed, and thanks to crepeys who PM'd me and passed on that I was OK. I can't really divulge the (actually fairly tedious) extended family stuff, but anyway I am over the shock of it now.

Sorry to have missed the last MU but am up for whatever Crem is planning.

I'd love to see SOP Rose. I'm glad to hear they are still amazing. Perhaps we'll get them at our venue

So we've got the weather today biatches. And where am I . In the dark cave that is work.

Beachy and MI hang in there.