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A Very Crepey New Year

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Cremolafoam · 02/01/2017 15:22

Will this do ??

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Lalsy · 13/01/2017 19:26

I should have said I would mind the former category, so try to avoid place names or organisations if unusual etc. I will ponder further.

CointreauVersial · 13/01/2017 19:33

Yes, Auriga - what's up? That was worryingly cryptic.

No further brushes with appliances, but I just opened one of the kitchen base cupboards to find that something furry had nibbled a hole in a sachet of curry sauce. Which then poured all over me AND the floor. Could this day get any worse? Am ordering takeaway; I think that's best.

Lalsy · 13/01/2017 20:33

CV, do you have an NBC suit handy?

GiddyGiddyGoat · 13/01/2017 21:12

Make sure it's not a dodgy one - food poisoning would truly be the last straw!

Are you OK Auriga?

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/01/2017 21:44

Beer goggles are on and the lust is back. But on my way home.

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/01/2017 21:47

Interview was OK

GiddyGiddyGoat · 13/01/2017 22:02

You're a dark horse re interview Mrs S! Glad it went well - when do you think you'll hear? Fingers crossed - assuming you want it?!

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/01/2017 22:42

Will hear next week. Have another interview for later in the month too. Doesn't matter if I don't get this one.

Was out with That Colleague. I hope I meet him in another life when we are both single. And I am three stone lighter.

Auriga · 13/01/2017 23:41

Fine thanks everyone. Was worried about leaky thread (hence no longer on FB). Had been trying to PM people but was travelling today & PMs weren't getting through. Many failed attempts.

Singing is good and it's a lovely C13th manor house in the middle of nowhere Smile DH and I have been given a twin room instead of a double so we're in a single bed Grin Grin

Have a good weekend everyone.

Collymollypuff · 14/01/2017 01:36

Sounds idyllic, Auriga. Enjoy!

Lalsy · 14/01/2017 07:19

Glad to hear that, Auriga! Enjoy the weekend.

Off to meet dd mid-way, weather and trains permitting. She has had some good news re next year - a way to go yet but nice that I can buy her a celebratory burger today!

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/01/2017 07:33

DD1 has had an offer from Warwick, which was her top choice. Smile Offer of 34, which should be achievable if she doesn't cock up the whole thing. And interviews with Bristol and Leeds.

I am feeling mildly hungover this morning. Yes, yes, I only have myself to blame.

bigTillyMint · 14/01/2017 07:55

Auriga Grin Have a great time Wink

Good news, MrsS, on all fronts!

Lalsy, glad you can celebrate good news with a burgerSmile

CV, I hope there were no further mishaps last night!

Herbs, how frustrating re your mum/DP's. Is there any way she would be convinced to have financial help now?

motherinferior · 14/01/2017 08:17

I too have a slight hangover after my outing with the priest...have visited my lovely aunt nearby (her even lovelier daughter is at the hospital with her husband) and am going to mooch around for my last afternoon after packing.

It's been a good trip overall for lots of reasons. Thank you for propping me up when I wobbled.

GiddyGiddyGoat · 14/01/2017 09:25

Safe journey MI.

motherinferior · 14/01/2017 09:39

In Nice Cafe. Fighting the urge to shop:)

herbaceous · 14/01/2017 09:41

Glad Auriga's back. Thought she'd left because I'm such an arse. A leaky arse.

And glad Schadenfreuline ein has something on the horizon - might she apply herself to getting there? Also - was the job interview for the job in forren?

I too have a slight hangover. Half a bottle of red wine, after a week of not drinking.

Re mum, the problem is she doesn't remember. We had a long talk about the accountant taking over her tax affairs last year, then brother collated necessary paperwork at Christmas and left them in a 'safe place'. She doesn't remember either of these events. Her lack of memory coupled with her wild swings between competence and lucidity and vagueness and feebleness makes it very hard to manage, and makes me bad tempered.

What is that feeling it churns up in me... fear? I don't like it, whatever it is.

herbaceous · 14/01/2017 09:46

Also, here's the [now redacted] stuff I wrote before re Cos dress.

I am indeed 'shapely', but most things in Cos look shite as they hang directly from my (famous) boobs, cling lightly to my arse and belly, do not pass Go, and avoid my waist and any mention of said 'shape'.

I also tried on a GORGEOUS black floaty skirt by Finery in John Lewis, and was torn between the two. But the skirt would have needed a very fitted top, and with the current size of my arse would have been in danger of making me look waddly.

Beginning to despair re fatness. I eat generally under 1500 calories a day, yet stubbornly stay the same flubberiness. Unless I glance at some fish and chips, in which case I put on half a stone immediately. I can't do much exercise, other than swimming, due to knackered hip. It seems At Our Age one has to eat very little AND do exercise just to remain acceptable, let alone lose weight. Maybe I should just give up and book in the whale stretcher to remove me from the house in a year's time.

Our dishwasher = Beko. No problems so far, but it's only been three years. Admittedly, it tips over when you pull the bottom drawer out, but that's a fitting problem. One of those things that's v annoying every day, but too difficult to sort yourself, and too small a job for a handy person.

Well played all the crepey offspring with their offers and their exam passing and their coming out of hospital. DS continues to be the squarest child on the planet. He really really wanted to be a chorister, so I found him a suitable choir, he went along on Wednesday, wants to go again tonight, and particularly loves the Latin.

herbaceous · 14/01/2017 09:46

MI - give in to the urge.

herbaceous · 14/01/2017 09:57

This is the Cos dress

I'll shut up now!

Blackduck · 14/01/2017 09:58

Here birthday breakfast seems to consist of much yelling, door banging, tears and very little sign of breakfast. Cancelling birthday forthwith.....

motherinferior · 14/01/2017 10:00

Oh BD.FlowersWine

Blackduck · 14/01/2017 10:01

Lovely dress Herbs and it has pockets. I am a fan of pockets :)

herbaceous · 14/01/2017 10:05

The pockets sold it to me.

Go out for breakfast, on your own, with the newspapers.

Blackduck · 14/01/2017 10:09

Herbs it is. Very tempting

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