Crepeys who try not to look like creepy clowns....

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Would that be OK?

Must try to avoid a thread switch on a Friday night

Oh good was just about to check timing

I am considerably better and determinedly cheerier, thank you.

Hmm, have been reading about hormone headaches and sounds like that might have been it. Am going to book an apt with GP, as the headache plus new hot flushes, mood swings ( I nearly lost the plot Ina meeting yesterday) could mean the hrt no longer sufficient. Feel ghastly today. Am drinking lots to try and lift the feeling of heavy objet on tête.

In fun news, the farmer next door is keeping a couple of fawns for the garden centre nearby ( they go all out with Santas grotto). Little reindeer are divine, and talk to each other in kisses ( they make funny little kissy clicks) aw!

In charity shop news I scored a fabulous long felted wool coatigan in Barnardos for £5. Having it dry cleaned and will call it 'my Xmas wardrobe'

Oh and another friend assures me that those large Sloggis are the Rolls-Royce of knicker.

OMG at baby reindeer kissing!!!!

Sorry you feeling so rubbish, Crem. And Auriga, for yesterday. And what heroism, Herbs.

I liked your pants, GGG [off to read rest of thread].

Just rushing in to say pants to headaches and Auriga and Herbs shitey days and sciatica. Have recently carefully updated bras, pants and socks to comfortable items that do their jobs well and getting much pleasure from all.

pfb's 15th today.

Addle: journalling. Fantastic. You are Editing Yourself (not surprisingly.) You need writing practice and to read Natalie Goldman's Writing Down the Bones which will help you 'get out of your way.'

Am having delicious time with my writing. The more I do, the more I learn. To those of you, recent, and longer ago who had my manuscript and put it down, I get it. Page Turning Quality is a skill, and I think I'm getting here now. Learning how to take a reader by the hand, immerse them in the protagonist's emotions and give them the story. I'm quite giddy.... just spilled a Kabuto rice noodle pot over self and floor, seems to have woken me up. The reader who currently has my ms... it would be very much appreciated if you could plough on and read and give me comments. I am fantasising about an acknowledgment to the crepies (if I sell the ruddy thing)

No idea if this post makes sense. Have to drive a bootful of choc cake to my sis's for an afternoon of table football.

Kissy fawn clicks from me.

Cremo, I think you should task your DH with getting a photo of the reindeer kissing to get us into the Christmas spirit.

WAF that sounds fab and exciting. Glad you are enjoying your writing and have a lovely chocolatey celebration this afternoon. Is she doing a teen celebration too?

I had such a lovely morning with DS mooching round the shops - had big slabs of cake thanks to JL voucher, got him new smart tracky bottoms and a few other bits and stopped at Subway on the way home (the place makes me come out in a panic - too many questions/choices!) and lots of chatting. He is now doing some Maths with DH

Looking forward to a in 3 hours!

Cremo - hope you're feeling better - headache sounds dire.

BTM - cannot stand Subway, but the young seem to love it (old lady emoticon). I've had a lovely lunch in Paris with two friends, had a quick rush round M&S food and am now back home with DS whom I suspect has been on the computer the entire time I was gone. He has just told me he scoffed the remaining quarter of chocolate cake for lunch.

WAF - glad the book seems to be going so well.

crem you poor thing. Could this also be a bit if fallout from the stress of all the clearing out of the French place with DM? Paracetamol won't do buggery to help. You need hard drugs and a bit of stress free time . I'm sure Sister Is Watching.

herbs hope today is going ok?

waf was that meant to be me ?

tilly that's lovely re you and DS. It does sound like progress is being made.

We are 9/10ths home and have stopped off at the mall. I have collected the LBD from JL and thought about trying it on in store but I've got joggers, hoody and trainer socks on... It'll kind of ruin the potential. So later, I think. Still raging with reflux, and that bloody zit on my chin, which I "dealt with" earlier is bloody killing me....

You are among friends Rose . I think of you all as friends.

Several crepeys had it around that time. I admit I felt a bit odd when I realised no-one was getting back to me but looking back the draft was so fragmented, it would have been hard to stick with it.

Hate chin spots. I had one that moved in for about a month.

BTM - DD has Beach Boy staying and had an evening with mates last Friday.

Subway is resolutely Gluten-y, so no good to several of us.

DS sounds in a really good place BTM

Am so stuffed with cake, I don't think I'll even salivate over Bake Off.

Have a fab drinkie.

Omg bakeoff Final tonight. I nearly forgot ! Mind you dh wouldn't miss it for anything.
Thanks Wafaroo.

Will attempt Fawn Foto tomorrow,
Had a restorative coffee with dsis, and a good old bitch about things which is always cathartic.
Equal quantities of despair re parents. Possible linking of headache to the French situation. Buyers now havering because dp's solicitor buggered something up. Have been v detached about it all for own sanity sake. All 'de trop' for me.
Am cleaning a cupboard now.......

Noooo - don't clean a cupboard Crem - (something Hattie does once a year at the most)

I didn't realise it was the Bake Off final tonight - I'm rooting for Adam now the gorgeous Salesi is gone. I wonder if Bake Off final can be used as an excuse to open wine?

Thanks Rudy for your suggestion of Figleaves. I'd forgotten all about them.

I bought a tankini a few years back from them, for a flotilla holiday in Greece. It fitted really well at home, but by the time I was wrestling with it in temperatures over 40 sweaty degrees down below in a boat, I sort of broke it beyond all repair. However, that was operator error, not retailers!

I wore my Lands End one instead and got horrendously burnt. It was the last flotilla holiday we did, after I had to sit and listen to DH telling everyone EVERY BLOODY NIGHT what an excellent sailor he was, and that we didn't NEED to do a flotilla sailing holiday - it was just for the company.

I now take him to a lonely cottage with his boat for a holiday, so he can just bore the pants off me instead.

Care homes, hospitals, NHS (bloody love 'em) all continue in my life, but CBA telling you. Its boring. And your lives are so much more interesting than mine.

Enjoy your meet up - is it tonight? I used to live just off Goose Green (Peckham side) in my 20s - having upgraded from Nunhead. I lived in the swankiest parts of London, I tell 'ya. They probably are swanky these days...

Crepey culinary emergency: can anyone tell me which crepey thread has MI's chicken noodle soup on, pls?!?

Crem, so sorry to hear about your poorly head. Hope you are recovering.

Auriga, will be thinking of you on Friday.

Posting in haste, while minding pressure cooker and drinking wine. Possibly not a good combo. Especially when you are underslept due to dealing with @!!!#%*§& teen at 2.30am.

Nice pants, er, everybody.

Ishouldcocoa at tankini wrestling.

2.30 is a gruesome time to be dealing with anything Stropps, how crappola.

Crem, de trop indeed. Great that you and sis had a cathartic rant. I am an on another planet Aquarian like your DH... different planet prob.

With regard to the too many hobbies.... no idea what to get DH for his birthday as he doesn't have one in cakes or telephone exchanges... is it nice of PA to get him some new comfy tracky lounge wear and suggest he retires some of current garb.

Yes, to wine Hatty and deffo no to cleaning cupboards.

Have been listening to terrifying hip hop in the car with the dd's and Beach Boy. Some of it was tip top hip hop. And some thrashy wall crawling weirdness.

I'm out at a meeting 10-5 tomorrow. DH is out too. DD2 will be on Musically/youtube all day is my guess, is that terrible?

Not terrible at all WAF. SOP IMHO ( standard operating procedure)

Stropps i can't find it in the creepy cookbook soz

Yes to Hatty

I WANT the crepey cookbook.

About to vanish - 'tis fake bake off final -

Makes me think of

Stropps - at 2.30 am awakening.

WAF - DS has been on the computer all day whilst I went out. I've given up feeling guilty. Also I cannot abide rap - I'm tend take the stance - I'm driving so I choose the music.

Happy meet up crepies.

Magi, have PM'd you a crepey cookbook link!

ds is working in the mornings, and then on X box...he is doing a bit of sport and socialising but there are an awful lot of hours in half term, no?

BTM, glad you had a lovely outing with ds, sounds very restorative.

Magi - Thank you... I know all the words. I grew up with that tune.

Stropps Wishing you a gallon of and early bed tonight.

As a newbie, I have yet to experience the collective Crepey Recipe Collection. I bet you lot have some great stuff in there, if only someone could find them

Chicken noodle soup is a true superfood ( or a supersupper?) Hope someone finds you the recipe.

Not to worry, crepsters, I remembered MI's magic ingredient: Tom yum paste. Every member of the family (even the arsey one) has pronounced the chicken noodle soup "very good".

Phew.

Am happy to PM recipes to anyone who requires. Most were my mother's. She combined excellent cooking with the firm belief anyone over a 1970s size 10 was dangerously obese.

A delightful drink (or four) ceased only by imminent Bakeoff needs.

Cocoa, have PM'd you the link too - has many delights. We should design a cover - featuring gin, pants, trams, novels, and evil bosses.