A Very Crepey New Year

[Cremolafoam]

Will this do ??

Beachy - good luck for and with DS.

BTM - think you had particular work stuff going on too today and tomorrow? wishing you strength

GGG - good luck for DS on Wed

Rose - am very pleased your DH has come up with something

Crem - hope you and DH are doing ok - very sorry to read your news

Monty - have added you to list - hope DD nicer today

Hattie - congrats on gnashers

Up at 5.45 with DD this morning as she needs to get way up north (london) for work. Fall out between her and DH last night when he wanted to play Bowie really quite loudly last night after watching the prog. from Saturday and she wanted to get an early night. She shouted and he said grumpily 'it's like living with my gran'. FFS.

Mrs S, hoping you're still in bed while I'm writing this. And no, quiche making not a convalescent activity, however clean your hands.

Cocoa and NU - how are you doing?

Added to list. Always feel a bit flakey because of DH but fingers crossed.

11th Feb - BRUNCH
Hatty
Rose
Lalsy
Rudy
MI
MrsS
BTM
CV (possibly!)
Addle

24th Feb - birthday DINNER
CV
GGG
WAF
MrsW
Herbs
Beachy
MI
MrsS
BTM
Monty
Addle

Addle at your DD moaning at your DH for playing music too loud!
Yes, work stuff today and tomorrow - DH has had to take time off to look after DS!

I am on the train to work - grim - really not in the mood for this.

MrsS I too hope you are still in bed and intend to stay there.

Mrs S and Crem, hope you have a date with your beds and Netflix for today. Take it easy.

Love to you, Auriga. Get well soon

Btm, thinking of you today.

Good luck BD. I hope it's not as bad as you fear xxx

I had the good sense to get a flu jab before Christmas and I think they must work since the other 4 inhabitants of my house have all taken to their beds and don't seem likely to leave them anytime soon. And I feel fine, well, as fine as anyone ever does on a Monday morning going to work.

I would love ear splitting Bowie blasting through the house. I have the programme recorded...hope to watch later.

Am anxious that I haven't succumbed to the lurgy as yet this season. My vulnerable time tends to be around February. Saying that, DH has gone off to fight the good fight on the wonderful not London transport system, with a blocked ear and tinnitus...so in very bad humour. Won't take any of my advice...just likes being a grumpy martyr. I do hope sickly Crepeys are not even attempting this...and are staying in bed. Crem how are things going...? what with you being ill and dealing with DH's recent loss?

Good luck today tilly getting to work and all

Today I am helping a good friend who is recovering from a hip replacement. She's young and it's all come as a bit of a shock. And trying to get my admin up to date as teaching starts this week.

Am not going in today. In bed with book by my new favourite author. DD2 is also here as she can't get on a bus to get to school. She's going to try again around 1030. None of the buses are stopping near us - they are completely rammed by the time they get here. She usually goes back Sunday night but the car wouldn't start.

Buses here were jam packed at 0630, which is unheard of!

Blimey...they are evacuating Clapham Junction owing to over crowding!

I have zoomed through the crowded Chennai streets on an autorickshaw.

BUT have come back to the news that my cousin's 50something husband has had an emergency stent put into his heart. good thing I am still staying with my mother's old friend and am not around to bother them!

Had my smear test this morning - gah! The nurse was one of the mums from school - GAH! I stared resolutely at the ceiling and did not partake in any small-talk whatsoever; to her credit, she was fast and efficient.

She did tell that because I am still (just!) 49 I will probably get a call-back in three years, not five. That'll teach me for being so efficient in booking the appointment.

Sympathies to those of you battling the crowds today. DH left extra early, expecting the roads to be mayhem.

Our road was gridlocked from around 0530 this morning until about half an hour ago. Now it's empty. DD2 texted an hour and a half after catching the bus from here to say that she was still not at Kings Cross. The longest it's ever taken me is 30 minutes.

You feeling any better, MrsS?

CV, eek at nurse being a school mum. Nowhere near as bad, and I think I have told on here before, that on my one and only visit to the osteopath (man), I was there in my bra and knickers chatting to him and it turned out he was a DAD at my DC's school. He was terribly professional but enough to make your shoulders tense up and your back lock even more than it was when you came in.

I had a very restorative walk across BP this morning after school drop off - just me and my thoughts. It was sunny, bright and warmish, which did me the world of good. Thought of the other BP lovers (BTM, addle, Molly, amongst others) and wishing I could send that sun and warmth your way. Clearly now pissing down but it was glorious earlier on.

DD2 is still not back at school - still on the train, albeit not far. She left here at 1030, the bus lane was clear, and it is bus lane all the way to Kings X. She had planned on catching the 1152, which would have given her plenty of time to get to the station, normally. Good job she's not coming back tonight! Hopefully DH can get the car sorted...

Well done on the smear, CV. I must book mine.

I have just washed DD2's bedding on a hot wash, with Ariel. She does stink, and Fairy won't get the smell of sweat out of her clothes and bedding. Fragrant young lady, she is not. She tells me she showers every day at school, just not at home. Well, lucky us.

Just investigating the Cote options for our dinner on 24th Feb and see that there is a gluten free menu. It looks ace and not too spenny. Should I try to book or, GGG, would you like to do the honours? Happy either way.

CV, I would really not be happy with that. But like you say, no small talk and eyes firmly on the ceiling.....

BTM, mocks start here on Wednesday for just over a week. Results come through end of the month at the same time as parents evening. That's when we start ditching subjects like sandbags off a sinking hot air balloon.....I mean, no one ever got turned down for a job for not having a Drama GCSE, did they unless you're heading for the RSC, which he's not

DD2 did her GCSE mocks before Christmas, which seemed quite a good idea to me. She got 16/80 in her maths, but told me that the average for the class (top set) was 18/80 didn't feel her result was quite as bad as she expected. DD1 has her IB mocks about a month before the actual bloody exams start. What is the point in this?

Eek CV, bad enough without it being someone you might meet at the school gate.

Dh and I are here, sitting about in that weird gap between death and funeral. Dh has had a tiff with his sister, who is hysterically trying to sort the house, the bills, the bank account, her mother at full speed. All unnecessarily hasty, we think. Anyway it has upset dh. so trying to cuddle and console.
I have managed to collect another illness. This time a tummy bug and associated diarrhoea. Wtaf🤢?
Fed up to say the least.
Supposed to go to Pilates this evening but will cry off I think.

Oh goodness, Crem, it doesn't rain but it pours. As my gran used to say "You can never suffer alone", so shove up and I'll join you on the stomach cramps and diarrhoea bench. I can't get my temperature below 38.3, which is still a bit high.

Moving away from the self pity mode, I got an email from a friend today, who took early retirement two years ago and moved to NZ, to tell me that the chemo he has been having for his rare cancer is no longer working, and he is being given palliative care. He said that a "very very" good outcome would be two years. At least he has had two years of fun in NZ with his wife and daughter (he absolutely loves life out there and wishes they had moved years ago) and is still relatively fit and pain free. And there is always the possibility that they may discover a new treatment in the interim. He is planning to do some travel in the region while he still can. He is such a lovely man, and I have known him for so long - we partied together on the Corniche in Beirut, had a mad drive through the Beka'a Valley and panicked together on what to do when there was an earthquake. ("Does your apartment usually shake like this?" "Do you think it might be an earthquake?" "No idea - should we stay in or go outside?")

[grin - Rudy!!

Crem and Mrs S - wishing you both better soon. Crem - double misery -illness and bereavement .

Mrs S - if the class average for the top set was 18/80 - the teacher must be either rubbish or marking them very severely (a la Francaise) to make them work harder.

Have had cryptic text from DS saying "we need to talk seriously and this will possibly ruin your day". Either he's in trouble or has a bad grade - am waiting for him to arrive.

Have been freezing all day - the school heating had broken - everybody has been wearing coats all day.