In Crepey Remembrance Of CremCat Past

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Hope that's an OK unilateral decision!

Molly, Stroppdog might be arrested for assault under those circs. Particularly if we tried to dress him up.

We have already planned some Christmas shopping and lunch in a nice resto, leaving the oldsters (Stroppdog and dh) at home.

Totally agree - definitely reward the mature and managing behaviour big time Stropps! Send her a nice parcel and tell her how pleased you are for her that she could manage all that.

Brilliant news re the novel WAF, fingers crossed for a frenzied bidding war and an extravagant launch party.

Addle, thinking of you. Agree with Stropps if you are v worried and a bit of tough love re him needing to get some help.

Nice shopping Rose!

MrsFP you don't deserve such shitty colleagues, really you don't. Are you worried about dd2? She didn't have to tell you about seeing the counsellor but she wanted you to know... would keep an eye and an ear out for her.

Another evening of endless fucking fireworks here accompanied by endless fucking barking. NOT V RESTFUL for a Sunday evening.

Nevertheless, focusing on the positive:

1. Dh is in the kitchen cooking roast chicken dinner.
2. Went for a lovely walk with dh and the dog today.
3. Ds2 is on very good form and is charming and helpful company atm

I feel properly apprehensive re Tuesday's election - there's no good outcome really is there - it's like Brexit revisited. If Trump wins that's a terrifying prospect, if Hilary wins he and his supporters aren't going to go away and shut up are they. Bloody Hell.

GGG - the problem is, I have no idea what is wrong with her or what she thinks is wrong with her. She bangs on about having social anxiety and not wanting to speak to "strangers", but I haven't actually noticed this, apart from a couple of times about a year ago, refusing to order her own food in a restaurant and me having had to do it for her. She is the life and soul of the party with her friends, was happily chatting to the hairdresser about school and stuff, enthusing about puppy walking and how it seemed a good way to meet people. So I don't know if this is true social anxiety, or whether it is in her head, or something she has picked up from a particularly neurotic friend, who claims to have everything under the sun. She said tonight that she was sad, and had been sad since we left Paris. This was the first I had heard of it, so I asked her if she would be happier if we had stayed in Paris (to which the answer was an emphatic "no!"). I asked her if I could do anything or if there was anything that could be done to make it better, and we got back to the "I don't knows". I don't know if it is related to the sexual assault case - she says, absolutely not, and I am just starting to despair, really. Maybe she doesn't know herself. I have said I will call her tomorrow night.

Next week at work is going to be worse than this week, and I have to be in at 8 for an early meeting. Must try and remember...

CV put him in the alcove and have a laugh at his expense/plot his downfall with the nice colleagues.

Lalsy, I agree, tights that are too big fall down. M&S seem to be ok for me.

Stroppo, fab news re DD. I think they lie to sound off a lot about thrir anxieties, but if you can hold firm and stay calm and reassuring and leave them to sort things out themselves, it often eventually works. Though it can be very nerve-wracking at the time.

MrsFP, she must want you to know, so maybe you will find out more in due course? It could just be normal teen wobbles of course.

DD is back (after coach was delayed an hour and arrived at the pickup point at the same time as the next bus) having had a lovely time

Oooh thanks re tights tips. Think you are right about sizing Stropps. BUT, how do you know which ones stay up? When I take my falling down ones off tonight, how do know whether they are M and S or F and F? Am I missing something?

GGG, I agree. It is all scary, properly scary. And here.

MrsFP, how baffling. Hope this week is better than you fear.

Your day out sounds lovely, Stropps.

MrsFP, I am feeling unreasonably unsympathetic to your DD2 because everyone in your household is so horrid to you.

Lalsy - if the tights you are wearing today fall down, then toss them straight into the bin when you take them off. Then there will be one less rubbish pair in your tights drawer, and by law of averages you are more likely to fish out a good pair next time. [grin[ My biggest problem is getting my (lovely, unblemished, medium-posh) tights mixed up with the DDs' (holey, bobbly, Primark) tights when doing the laundry. I haven't solved that one yet.

Reasons to be cheerful:

• I am nursing an enormous Lidl gin and tonic - very nice it is too, and half the price of my usual bottle.
• I am clutching two hundred and twenty shiny pounds, after a nice man from Wandsworth came and collected DD2's bed that he bought on eBay earlier this evening.
• Did I mention the gin?

CV, is it the posh gin that ?mm/monty/cocoa or someone said was v good?

In the end DH appeared at 5.40 so as not to miss out on going to bloody cinema club (as that would be a Waste of Money), we went in silence (Notes on Blindness which had a lot of interesting connections around isolation and withdrawal) and when we came back he went straight back to bed but then did come down to sit in a room with us. Not eating but drinking water which is what 111 said was crucial.

I know or think I know it's about disordered thinking and self-hatred but it feels a lot like hatred of me and being in a family a lot of the time. w/e fucked up and gone. DCs ok - ds had lovely time with lalsy ds and dd nursing hangover so grateful for home sofa. Dinner had over planet earth. I don't know how anyone stands nature programmes; they are so tragic. I have to be on my phone they make me cry.

off to bed as ryanair refusing to let me go to belfast for v little money to see dsis who is having rotten time

stropps, so pleased to read about dd

good week everyone! good luck with meeting if hasn't happened mrs w.

Cowardly boss has just texted me to say that he "forgot" that he has to stay in for the gas man tomorrow morning so won't be able to do the 0900 meeting and I will have to do it. I'm not entirely sure why it needs him and his wife to stay in for the gasman (she doesn't work)...

Addle, we watched the bit in Planet Earth about iguanas being hunted by snakes - Who knew? I certainly found that upsetting. Glad your and Lalsy's ds were hygge, but sorry your weekend was fucked up. I've heard very good reviews of Notes on Blindness, but again probably not the most cheerful film? Sorry your dsis is having a rotten time, too.

CV I used to be a spaceplanner, so hand your dilemma over to me. I will sort, and you can then say it 'was nothing to do with me'. (Which option do you want..?)

I have yet to recommend gin on here - just coffee and tea- but am more of a gin girl than wine one. I'm perilously close to finishing the gin, so any recommendations welcome.

Oh, and those magnetic plates fall of when you go too fast. Much better on the inside window!

Reasons to be Cheerful

1. DS back from his travels visiting mates in far flung cities in the UK. He's in one piece, and I've missed him.
2. Went to see the fireworks and bonfire at DFs nursing home. 'Twas a lovely evening with DF, DM, DS, DBro+ SIL and nephew all in the room watching together. I could tell DF found it too much, but it was the first time we'd all been together. Wish DH had been with me, but work has taken him elsewhere.
3. Managed to make half decent supper out of meagre contents of fridge. Watched Poldak and ate too many mint creams.

Yes, it is the Lidl "artisan" gin recommended on here by someone. I snaffled two bottles.

Crikey, Komodo dragons ripping antelopes to smithereens. Ghastly, frankly. But I did enjoy the chin strap Pingus and their politically correct feeding set up. ( neck wiggle)

Addle if I can provide any sort of light relief over a drink or meal or coffee, let me know. try Flybe, they can be just as cheap.

CV, you are the most brilliant merchandiser! Love hearing about your latest sales.
My own eBay forays are modest by comparison. Sold a very nice coat for far too little money. I was trying to offset a Cos felted Autumn number I snagged in Barnardos last week, to no avail.

In one sitting CV?! You absolute LUSH. X

I don't think she drank two (2, ii) bottles, just bought them!

Lalsy, my M&S ones have an M&S label in them. It helps me/DH differentiate between mine and DD's (also M&S) age 13-14 ones

Addle, look at SkyScanner - DH swears by it.
Are you off to work this morning - how do you feel about that? Glad to get away or worried about leaving DH?

CV - £220? You are a true star seller - must have been a nice bed!
And the gin - must get down to Lidl!

MI, just spotted a post on our local forum about your DH's hobby - thought it was your DH for a moment

Twas I who recommended the posh Lidl gin (Hortus). So pleased you enjoyed it.

Posted too soon - Addle, so sorry to hear all of this. It must be so frustrating to be able to do nothing for him. I'd also echo all the remarks about oxygen masks & urge you to look after yourself.

Right. Am off to gym. Then Lidl's .

Yes! BTM, that is the problem - none of mine have labels in. So I chucked yesterdays baggy ones (quite right CV) but how to avoid buying them again?

I've bought some Lidl gin but not tried it yet. Think they are now doing two posh ones and one normal. I will report back!

dh got up at five for work trip. Far too much Trump on the radio.....

Lalsy, all my M&S ones have labels in
When you buy, check they have labels in?
If they don't and they fit, sew a bright coloured cotton thread into the waistband - like a string so you know they will fit? Or just keep chucking out all the ones that don't and you will be left with ones that do?

If you have lost weight, it's not surprising if they don't fit

lalsy Maybe once you discover the right tights that don't fall down, keep empty packaging in the drawer as aid memoire? As said, my M&S ones to have a label, I think (usually M). All my opaques are from Sainsbos...I don't buy them anywhere else and they don't fall down (M/L). For posh wear have Wolfords which also have a label, I think, and are cut big so no bigger than M. I like tights that come right up to the bra... . I am also double to admit that I wash DH's and my stuff separately from the DC's stuff. I couldn't take the confusion over all the black socks and black opaques especially when DH was doing the laundry

Addle Stropps and cremo speak good sense....if DH isn't eating at all, he is putting himself in danger.

of CV's Ebay profits....note to self.....must list a few things....

DH came back from his weekend away and is now off away for another night, for work I have this rearranged meeting today, with a new manager from Annoying Trustee Organisation who wants to hear my grievances....Wish me luck. I am repeating the manta...I will not be sucked in to more slave labour voluntary work.

How are things this am, addle? Am thinking of you. keep talking to us and look after yourself as much as possible. Sending huge hugs.

Tights - I buy L because I like them up by my bra and M usually aren't long enough in the leg so they create a crotch near my knees. Not good. My mum wears her knickers over her tights a la superman to keep them up. It looks hilarious but that's what they did in the sixties, apparently, as they had knickers over their suspender belts when there were only stockings in the fifties and it stuck. I am not sure I could do it though. Looks bonkers but does the job.

Am on the bus to court. Am dressed smart casual, so Dh thinks I will get a fraud. I said I can't wear jeans in court as it would be too odd. Will see what Everyone else is wearing and maybe go more casual tomorrow. I don't really want to go at all. Hm.