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In the bleak midwinter, frosty Crepes may moan

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Collymollypuff · 12/12/2016 06:43

Earth stood hard as iron, my heart like a stone.

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motherinferior · 30/12/2016 07:59

BTM, am thinking of you. Flowers

Am sitting with various cousins in hippy cafe.

Blackduck · 30/12/2016 08:09

Oh if it's a Sturday I might be able to make it :)

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/12/2016 09:22

Count me in for a Saturday! If we are meeting near St P, how about that restaurant next to the Champagne bar? It's a nice place and not as speedy as it looks. We used to go there before getting Eurostar back to Paris and spent a lot less there than we did in Yo Sushi.

herbaceous · 30/12/2016 09:34

Oh! February. That makes more sense. Takin I can join in!

Rudymentary · 30/12/2016 09:54

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Cremolafoam · 30/12/2016 10:13

February not an option for me due to being on the hippy trail in Morocco, but definitely on for late March.
I have now got dds lurgy symptoms including tight sore throat and barking cough. It never stops.
Also sleepless night and long work day ahead. Meh.

BTM , so sorry you've had to cancel skiing, but understand how hard it would be with ds at the moment.

hattymattie · 30/12/2016 10:56

Fantastic for Feb lunch/brunch crepies - I'm more than happy to be told which restaurant to go to and obv near St P is great.

Will try to come back again for late March Crem - very envious of hippy trail. Sorry you're getting the lurgy.

I think we are finally though our multiple illnesses and I will venture wine at lunchtime.

BD - goodness - arm wrestling and such like.

CointreauVersial · 30/12/2016 13:07

Ahhhh....February! I did think a Wednesday lunch might be tricky for us 9-5-ers. I should be OK for that.

IsItNearlyBedtime · 30/12/2016 13:24

So the festive period has been totally shit. As predicted. A few weeks before Christmas, the OH texted me to say we needed to sell the house. Classy I know. To him they are all just things. To soppy old me it's our family home.
I've spent the school holidays fraught with anxiety and I guess immersed in a deep depression. He works in the leisure industry and just works night and day. It's not a noble thing for him to do. He does it because he doesn't like to actually look after his two young children.
I stopped working when the kids were born and I've found it very hard being kind of shut off from the world.
I've lost all my friends because I guess I've just turned into an introverted weirdo. I've been too sad to socialise and my friends quickly turned their backs after I had the children. I never have anyone to look after children anyway and wouldn't just leave them with anyone.
So January is soon approaching and I need to figure out how to find a house to rent, how to move all my stuff, how to just keep bloody going as it's all just suffocating me.
It's been hell to live with him for months, being mean, leaving the house in a shit tip, sleeping the whole time he's supposed to be looking after the children.
Where on earth do I start? I've only just started a part time job which was just what we needed as a family as I get the school holidays off but I can't see how I can support my family on my own with the wage I'm on. This is a long time coming as the relationship has not worked for a long time. Mainly because he puts no effort in whatsoever. That's why he wants out because he doesn't want to look after the children and he'd be quite suited to living in a bedsit, not cleaning anything, lying in bed on his days off. Reality is, as a parent you can't do this. I'd love to have a sleep in, get up when I want, make my own breakfast and do my own thing sometimes but you just can't. Those children rely on us to care for them.
Sorry for ranting and raving. Don't have anyone to talk to.

wordassociationfootball · 30/12/2016 13:31

That sounds really tough It'snearlybedtime.

wordassociationfootball · 30/12/2016 13:41

BTM, I don't know how you keep your sense if humour, you're amazingl.

Crem, be well soon you poor lovely love.

Wave to MI across the continents.

Mrs S that Nyx BB sounds great. My fab Boots Naturals is getting a bit vintage and smelling weird. It and I have much in common.

I am waiting at the walk-in for stronger reflux meds as last 4 nights horrible. Have been watching other people eat and drink festively while on tiny(ish) boring rations that ragw into my throat despite pouring down usual script and multiple top ups. Keyhole surgery right now please. Ought to be rethinking a couple of pieces of work but head like a cloth in dishwater.

Hatty - sadly that Saurday I will mostly be turning fifty and have plans.

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/12/2016 13:46

Isitnearlybedtime - welcome and rant away here. That sounds really tough. How old are your kids? Does your H not realise that he will still have to contribute towards them and maybe have them for overnight stays, or does he think he can just run away from family life, and leave you to carry on? Do you have enough equity in the house to buy a flat or small house?

Rosebag · 30/12/2016 15:50

isitnearlybedtime that sounds very tough. In another life, I was in similar circumstances albeit with one DC, not two. Set clear goals...hard when depresssed, I know. Treatment maybe? I cranked up my part time role to full time, had temporarily living arrangements for a while, whilst the house was being sold, . Used the very small equity, combined with an equity share mortgage to get a small flat. Had to pay for child care but advertised in Ds's nursery and one of the other Mothers offered, (they won't all think you're a weirdo...) for a lower price as it was company for her DS. However it was a business arrangement...I was quite formal about that. (The boys are still great friends at age 29! )

Poor Crem . Poor auriga. beachy still got the headcold? Bugs and migraines be gone! Waf does the festive food aggravate the condition? I find I just have to put myself on porridge for a few days when it gets really bad and crank up the meds obv. You poor love...oh and btw..I would never have guessed that 50 was threatening...you look amazing, woman. bloody amazing. Xmas Smile

Hatty I'm an idiot....so it's February. I will check dates and hope to be there...

Tilly how are things today?

Nu how are you?

Mi plenty of sitting in hippy cafes must continue. No stressing allowed. Are we going to get any FB pics?

I too am in lazing in a cafe well known to Beachy having survived the fog-ridden drive south...but no traffic to speak of, at least. DH and DD are coming tomorrow so I have one of my much needed solitary sojourns to enjoy.

In other news ConS and moi worked feverishly this week and the final draft of the script is finished and going to artistic director early next week. Hoo bloody Ray Xmas Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/12/2016 16:24

WAF - I think I have tried most BB creams - Garnier, No 7, La Roche Posay, Filorga... and the Nyx one is the best.

I am tired and stressing about going back to work. Supposed to be not working today, but have been on phone and email. Colleague who is holding the fort said not to go in, but TBH it would have been much easier to have had a quick conversation rather than all of the convoluted emails that have been flying around.

We are having salmon, salad and latkes tonight, minimal effort. Apart from going to sodding Tesco to get the sodding salmon.

Feeling profoundly depressed for somewhat trivial reasons. Jeans still do up, so that is something to be cheerful about, though, no?

IsItNearlyBedtime · 30/12/2016 16:26

What an absolute spoon. I'm sorry I gateceashed your thread🤓 See how completely and utterly useless I am😂

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/12/2016 16:38

Please stay, Isitnearlybedtime, we are all luffly here, and if we can help, we will. Can you break things down into more manageable little chunks, so easier to achieve a bit at a time, rather than be overwhelmed with the whole lot?

Collymollypuff · 30/12/2016 16:45

Fifty, WAF? Surely a typo? Welcome, Isitnearly. I love Rose's story of the two 29 year olds still being friends. Funny how life throws good things as well as bad at us all - silver linings and all that.

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Rosebag · 30/12/2016 16:56

I made latkas yesterday MrsS. They were rather good if I do say so myself...

That's important for all of us to remember...let us heed Molly The Wise about silver linings. We could all do with a few of those...

I am cosily tucked up at the flat. The fog is swirling outside in a Dickensian fashion. I have a hot water bottle Blush and a lovely film on about Paul Potts on 5*

Collymollypuff · 30/12/2016 17:03

Grin at Molly the Wise. Oh yes. Dd has kicked off here, demonstrating what a crap mother I have always been. Still, we are dealing with it. It's partly because she has a cough which won't go away or allow her to sleep.

I did like your story, though, Rose. I could tell ya some...from my Past...

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bigTillyMint · 30/12/2016 17:40

WAF, my GSOH has been sadly mainly missing today, but I do feel a LOT better than I did first thing after 2 separate coffees/chinwags with RL friends. And DH and I are going out later to drink vodka at friends - time for DS to man-up, though DD will probs be in. He is currently wearing a 24hour ECG tape thing - won't be much to measure as he has been in all day...

I think I need more tales of overcoming massive obstacles - Molly, walk in BP asap?!

Blackduck · 30/12/2016 17:55

On way back from mil where sil has given ds as the usual rubbish (re)gift. It gives me the rage - we give gift cards and have done since their children were ds's age, she gives him something that has been given to one of the children - I wouldn't mind if there was any thought in it, but a bright luminous green rucksack? Really?!?

Arm is very broken Shock

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/12/2016 18:02

I have Champagne, FIP on the radio playing Take 5, which means it is 6 o' clock, and DH has just given me £1000. In cash. Shock

Blackduck · 30/12/2016 18:05

Wow MrsS just wow and why?

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/12/2016 18:08

No idea, BD. But not complaining. Just still ShockShockShock

Rose - our ancestors must have come from the same part of Eastern Europe, I think!

bigTillyMint · 30/12/2016 18:12

Did he win on the horses or something?

BD , how effing mean of your SIL Angry