Someone left a Crepe out in the rain

[BeachysSandyFlipFlops]

Here we go, ready for the Autumn.....

Teenage party not going so well

[herbaceous]

Crepeys I do love you so.

I would like to write a blog, but can't think what about? One idea was 'starting again at 50, new career, juggling hot flushes with swimming pool changing rooms' kind of thing, and another was a kind of letter to my mum as she fades out of sight. Both therapy and possibly an outlet for people similar afflicted. Though not a barrel of laughs.

[motherinferior]

Herbs, I need to pick your brians re copywriting gigs. There is a job we could apply for together but it is buttock-clenchingly boring.

My mum was very very sniffy about Bought Cake.

[bigTillyMint]

And Herbs, re teaching, the students LOVED you and thought you were very good. They are the ones who really know - don't doubt yourself!

Bought fish and chips sounds good!

[bigTillyMint]

Have PM'd you Justme.

Herbs, a blog would be fab - you would be great at it. And Tshirts!

Justme, how have you emerged from Menopause Hell? Is there some magic pill, or has it just lifted? I am back on my old, old HRT and it seems to be matching my natural body rhythm a bit better than the other ones I tried. Don't know WTF I changed

[herbaceous]

Re healthy diet, I've been meaning to go paleo, with a trial run while DP is away. However, as it's easier to eat with DS tonight we shall be having Bought fish and chips. With a tin of mushy peas. In your face, John Briffa.

(Context: my mum always used to say 'Bought' when someone produced a suspiciously perfect pudding. She was pretending to be joking, but probably wasn't.)

[Blackduck]

Beachy shouldn't the Dhounds be running the support group? Can't get more chilled than Dylan in his bed :)

[herbaceous]

I believe Cremo is going to be a naked crepe, ostentatiously scrubbing her parts in Iceland!

JMATChickens - aha! I too have hideous brain fog and irrational anger. I was putting it down to having a cold, and being perpetually enraged by my incompetent workplace, but maybe it is menopausal hormone hell. Do I need a Herbal Remedy?

I'm having massive career self-doubt. Teaching is all very well, but I don't think I'm very good, and being very part time am not going to get good soon. And can't afford to do it more days a week. Am supposed to be finding some kind of copywriting/editing/writing gigs in the three days a week I'm not teaching, but am suffering crisis of confidence. Have registered on People Per Hour, but they want me to upload a video saying how great I am! The utter horror.

[motherinferior]

JustMe, I have kids and still worry madly about my own lack of mark on the world. Hence the novel.

Beachy, I would serve up pasta with garlic and chilli and olive oil a lot. With additions as people feel like....

I can't remember where the MU is!

[BeachysSandyFlipFlops]

I'm not sure I want to be a Naked Crepe, what with the temperature dropping and the leaves falling

All ok ish here....appointments for everyone, every day for the next week. Well that's what it feels like.....honestly, the dog is likely to be put in a support group soon...

Struggling with cooking here, what with me and dh eating everything and ds not eating meat and dd2 really not eating vegetables or fish everyone eats something different and I try to get everyone round the table at the same time....

[JustmeandtheChickens]

Good working day for me!

I seem to have emerged from 8 months of menopausal hormone hell - (moody, tearful, brain fog, low mood ... and frequently angry for no discernible reason!) combined with losing our beloved dog (no kids - we were definitely over-invested) and turning 50, which I think may have experienced a bit of a mid-life crisis feeling of realising I won't leave a mark on the world - see previous comments about no kids. It's been horrid.

However, things feel a bit better this month. I work in quite a specialist area and have definitely doubted myself this year - but today has gone well and I'm very pleased!!

Can someone remind me about the Nov MU - is it 26/11? And where?

MI - your soup recipe sounds lovely. DH is vegetarian and he'd love that.

[motherinferior]

Oh buggrit, PP, wassup?

[P1nkP0ppy]

Flaming crêpes comes to mind....
I'm lurking impotently, primarily because a mixture of aged parents and sibling strife is doing my wrinkled brain in....
I love the idea of adopting a Greek dog but I fear DH would probably explode.
Herbs- you definitely need to capitalise on your so apt sayings. I'll be first in line for a large tee shirt.

[Collymollypuff]

If only you had a cute son who could travel round London with you, commenting on its transport systems.

I like Naked Crepe.

[hattymattie]

Herbs - A blog I tell you. I think you have to get famous and attract advertisers though.

DD1 back this evening. Am sillily excited.

[herbaceous]

I'm trying to think of a way to 'moneytise' my occasional pithy sayings. Surely someone would give me a job doing such a thing?

[Collymollypuff]

Yay, Roxanne! Got it in one! I'm going to get one for my sunny front porch, NU, and we'll be matching Crepeys, indeed a threesome if BTM does likewise.

MI, they're in Kingston now. Is anyone still there we know???

[motherinferior]

Oh god WAF that sounds divine. Divine AND vegan. I am doing quite a bit of being vegan at the moment, interspersed with blue steak. dinner in the Inferiority Complex veers between my veganesque offerings and DP's sausage-based cuisine.

[wordassociationfootball]

Consider doing some of your Herbisms as T-shirts for a sideline. I would deffo buy:

"Any kind of condescending behaviour only meted out to females is equally unacceptable, wherever the protagonist chooses to insert his penis."

Stropps - so sorry for Nonsense Continuum
Crem - Have a fantabulistic time in Iceland.

V moved by all words on IVF and miscarriage to all.

Also by DM and lovely DS, BTM.

CV - sounds like the being ill novelty is wearing off for DS.

I had the most delicious lunch: Half a tin of butterbeans heated with Zest vegan pesto, on a bed of spinach with pumpkin seeds and pomegranate... things. Sour, sweet, oily and crunchy.

DH is still sleeping horribly and really not feeling any better after two weeks on mirtazipine. He didn't feel improvements til 3 weeks plus last time though, so fingers crossed.

[NUFC69]

Sorry to hear you are still having problems with that establishment, Herbs.

Molly, it is indeed Roxanne. AndBTM it seems to thrive on a bit of neglect: it obviously loves the front door step which is in the sun for a lot of the day, I water it a couple of times a week as it is under cover.

CV, poor lad. Keeping my fingers crossed that it is tonsillitis.

Moving to Scottsdale today. The water in Vegas is horrible: I am convinced that it has been through too many people too many times. We met a hen weekend party: a group of beautiful Asian women, half from the UK and half from the US: the wedding is in England next April.

[herbaceous]

No-one has replied to my emails. So frustrating. We are told we MUST assess our learners in a systematic way, introduce this IT-based system, then don't give the tutors the tools (i.e. rooms, passwords) to do it. And ignore pleading emails for said tools.

Musing over next thread title... 'naked crepe' is about all I can think of.

[Blackduck]

Stropps any word from dd?

[Blackduck]

I am starting to get a scratchy throat and feeling distinctly under the weather......

I really haven't got time to be ill - I have stuff to do!

[herbaceous]

Mrs W. Good question. It's partly because 'that's the done thing', and if I suggest not working over my paid hours I get a lemon-sucking face and a 'well I do' kind of response, which is admittedly ridiculous.

But I really couldn't fit in planning two lessons, marking work, photocopying it, creating and filling in individual learning plans, filling in attainment grids, measuring and recording progress, and trying to work out how the various IT systems work, blah blah blah in the 2.5 hours I'm allocated. Just the marking can take that.

It is utterly shit, and I'm remember now that the only element I enjoy is the actual teaching, but all teaching jobs seem to involve ridiculous amounts of admin.

I have considered being a TA, so I can do the contact time but not the admin, but I'm over qualified!

[motherinferior]

Thinking of titles...

Have sold a piece for a small but significant sum (and on lovely topic and v easy) which is cheering and have made roast cauli/roast garlic/pea soup for lunch. And have done roast beetroot for an Ottolenghi-based salad with leeks and walnuts tonight.

[bigTillyMint]

Oh God, CV - fingers crossed the penicillin works. DD's mate's bf had it last year and then friend got it, but thankfully it was relatively short-lived and they got over it fine.

Herbs - very frustrating.

NU, I liked that geranium too. But I am hopeless with plants!