The Crepe Escape

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New thread!

Title can refer either to our upcoming holidays, or our upcoming fleeing from the Bojo-led charabanc of doom.

Fish curry sounds lovely MI...

Here I was woken to much thumping and thudding and upon investigation found a mouse in ds's old Thomas the Tank train and track box........ Poison here I come.

I am tired...... In good(ish) news the bi-fold door blind people have dropped the price three times - if we'd hung on maybe we would have got them for free.

That is good news BD!
Curry sounds lovely MI - must try it.

I am just grabbing a restorative coffee en route from a meeting. Academies are so not the way forward

I think you may have given me that recipe before, MI, but you've reminded me how delicious it is.

I am always up for a Mr Kipling meet-up.

Good to see you Molly!

Yum, MI!

We're going Academy, BTM. Teaming up with two other local schools. I've no idea what it really means; we've had blandly reassuring letter from the Head, but nothing else.

DH is off to Shanghai for a week later in the month. He's fretting about the flight, worried his flat-bed Business Class seat won't be sufficiently near a window. He will be coming back to earth with a bump when we fly budget WOWAir to LA in August. I'm not sure that plane will even have windows.

CV, are you going to the 6th form Open evening at the college that is neither near you or near me tonight? [cryptic ]

I am finally achieving things today. Still knackered but made it out into the sun for a slightly prolonged lunch hour...

MI you should go on Masterchef....no, really! They'd love you.

BD' that's good news...what's your secret? Oh and maybe just borrow someone's cat for the night if you can stomach the carnage. Better than a rotting rodent corpse under the floorboards, and all those flies....

beachy how is your first day of the new life?

I am still fighting a terrible woolen brain but up and about. Have had a four hour meeting with sexy new director (name for him if you please Herbs ) re casting for the forthcoming three -day workshop of my play and subsequent reading. I want to ask something of crepey wisdom, particularly the laydeez who were at the first Reading. Am I going to get criticised for not having an LGBT couple in my play? I'd like your opinion.

Tomorrow I am pitching to a secondary school whom I have got interested in using scenes from the play to support their PSHE curriculum. I have sent costing and they want to see me. YIKES

I've got another bit of work... am going to be RICH* but HAVE NO TIME TO SPEND ANY MONEY.

Well, not rich. Slightly less poor.

MI, even a little bit of extra cash is always welcome. Rose, your life always sounds so exciting. BD, we think we have a mouse, too (well we know we have/had as DH saw it) unfortunately it has not gone anywhere near the trap. Yes, Beachy, what are you doing on your first day of freedom.

Swimming, Aquafit, shower, nap , lunch, etc., for me. Then I decided to make a Charlotte Malakof for DS's birthday lunch on Sunday. Last time I made it I ran out of Cointreau, so bought a cheapie alternative from Aldi which was in, I thought, a blue bottle. Unfortunately I was wrong and the liqueur was blue coloured, so my Malakof is pistachio coloured - I just hope it doesn't put anyone off.

NU, we sometimes have a mouse. It seems to have got wise to the sticky pads (do they sniff them out or something? And we have never had any luck with traps or poison
Pistachio coloured sounds good and I'm sure it will taste delicious.

I am so out of practice/interest in cooking Maybe our forthcoming hol to Vietnam will fire me up again.

Forgive me crepeys, for I have sinned. I was all geared up to make DS a chocolate birthday cake, as the substrate to the London Underground map icing I've had made, but was in Sainsbury's just now, saw the chocolate tray back that's about the right size, and bought that. Will make some nicer icing with which to stick icing sheet on. Fuck it. Too much else going on. All day interview tomorrow, and feel woefully underprepared.

Big boss has asked for my availability next term. Now is the time to say 'er... here's my notice' but I'm suddenly all scared! What if I don't get any other teaching job ever again?????

Herbs, I sooo wish I'd done Bought Cake for all those birthday party years. In fact DD2 was perfectly happy with Bought Cake for her 13th.

And I've just realised I've written about this topic before for someone else so I can Frugally Recycle.

I have to say I could not be interested in cooking every damn day. Yesterday's curry was the first bit of proper cooking in, er, a while. Tonight is Bought Garlic Bread slightly past its best, peppers and cherry toms I've slammed in the oven, a tuna/cannellini bean no-brainer salad and my watermelon feta one nobody else likes. We appear to have a lettuce too, rather guilt-inducingly.

And did you say London Underground Icing?????? 'kinell.

I did say that, yes. But... get this. I got a high-res version of the tube map, cropped his favourite part (involving Stratford International, his favourite station) and sent it to a Little Woman who prints stuff IN ICING! It cost £4.50, and took a couple of days. And will impress, mightily. Well, it had better.

Underground nap cake sounds inspired (esp wrt corner-cutting!L I made some fantastic birthday cake creations for my DC (if I say so myself) up until I went back to woring full time. Similarly my inclination to have friends over to eat has diminished with every year of working full time. Must steel myself soon as we owe many meals

Good Luck Herbs! Can you at least wait to tell big boss's anything till you know the outcome of this interview?

Good luck for tomorrow, Herbs. I am sure you will ace it. You are also supermum for doing the icing map. Respect. My DS got a chocolate cake (tesco) with smarties as a no 7 for his birthday. You have gone the extra mile .

Congratulations on your first day of freedom, Beachy. Hope you can get some rest in before you are called on to leap into action again.

Rose, your days sound so busy and exciting. I hope the meeting goes well tomorrow. Which bit of PHSE will you be addressing? It is very impressive to have drama you have written being used for other purposes. Fantastic.

Am afraid I know very little of Mr K but am always up for a meet and a wander

BD, result on the doors. Did you haggle hard or did they just cave in?

NU, your recipes sound amazing, as do MI's. What happened to the Crepey cookbook? If anyone has a link, could you please PM me. Thanks.

Very busy here. DD1 went to new school induction, where she was welcomed by WAF's lovely DD2 and so she is very happy with her choice. DD2 is playing in a concert at RFH. DH is alas now a casualty of Brexit and is shortly to be looking for panto, but has put a few feelers out and is lining up the meetings. I do despair of ever getting a summer holiday but at least I have a good chunk of time away from the office

Right, off to crack the whip and set DS up with football whilst girls and I watch Sewing Bee. So sad it has finished. Monday nights will be empty again.....

Good luck tomorrow Herbs
MC every time they phoned the price dropped
Dp wasn't actually playing hard to get, just hadn't had time to do the necessary :).

God, I'm so FAT at the moment. Must run tomorrow. In hope of being firm though fat. Must also stop looking in mirror alongside lithe teens.

In fashion news, I bought this dress for a mere £12.50 from Brand Alley. It's pretty nice, though annoyingly the neck isn't as wide as in the pic. It's smaller and more boring.

MI, me too - especially next to DD in her next-to-nothing bikini!

Well, I got a call from DM's care home earlier - apparently she had had an altercation with another resident (started by her I think) - fisticuffs and the other resident managed to punch her in the stomach. Now DH has just taken another call - apparently another altercation where she hit the other resident. No idea if it's the same one DH and DS are calling her Rocky Balboa and she has suddenly gone up in the family's estimation. What does this say about us?

Oh, BTM, you joke but that is a worry, isn't it? Poor you.

Can we have a link please to the lady who does icing versions of printed maps? Good luck for tomorrow!

This is quite daring of me given how shite the picture is, but Sainsbo's red broderie shorts and matching top are surprisingly flattering:

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Well, I like 'em anyways. In hot weather (which I am confident we shall get) no-one notices crepiness.

MI you could never be described as FAT ever, and bloody well done on the new bit of work. Yay.

Herbs, in that dress I would look like a silk worm in a cocoon, but on you it will be both 'fabulous and useful'. ( surely the Crepey cri de guerre , non?)
RE Bought cake . God , I even ( dmum makes cat bums face) buy cake now, without a child in the house, and Dh knocks it back, even though he is a patisserie snob. Dd's parties were famous for her birthday deconstructed cakes that we'd make together: in a bowl whip cream. Add chunks of muffin, buns, cake or whatever is to hand,. Add marshmallows, smarties, sprinkles, meringues crumbled up, strawberries, slices of mars bar etc. Stir lightly to combine. Top with choc or Carmel sauce and crumbled Flake and candles.dollop out into bowls
Send small children home with smeary happy faces. lazy Crem lazy Crem

NU give me pistachio coloured pud anytime. At least it ain't blue, which as we all know is not a good look for anything edible.

Rose, re your play and LGBT - you could defend your current play by saying you didn't want to be tokenistic. Also that your play represents your real classes. Are you toying with the idea of adding a couple of characters? Surely that would be a mahoosive re-write and change the dynamics completely? Or not?

My dc always preferred and thus got Bought Cake. Crem, did you see the press coverage about the merits of goats vs dogs as pets? Verdict: goats are as good, if not better.