A Very Crepey New Year

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Will this do ??

Hi All, Glad to have found you but not much to report - getting reluctantly back in the swing of the same old same old... feeling a bit knackered and run down - and I haven't even started doing all the usual things yet. Doesn't bode well!

Addle - I'm shocked! - But then I'm easily shocked... hope you feel fully recovered now? One good reason for not over indulging in my Crepiness that I've found out the hard way is that a hangover now lasts around 3 days and I can't bear it.

Go HerbsCat!

WAF, that sounds so miserable - poor you. I had to look up to see what a HH was, and it says that a third of people over 50 have one I hope it settles down soon

MI

I have to tell you that Addle barfed in a very lady-like manner whilst forcing herself admirably round BP

Addle is superbly and magnificently ladylike!

WAF, sounds horrendous - isn't there a surgical remedy??

MrsS, I too would be fuming. As you all know I am a pretty hands-off parent but have told DD1 to tell us her mock results when she gets them and if necessary a Stern Word will be had - but then to be fair to DD1 she has learned by previous hard experience that one has to do the work to deadline. Even DD2 is learning that though not with her instruments.

I am going to potter around Pondicherry this morning and possibly find a nice café to sit and write in this afternoon.

Hello Crepes and greetings from the departure lounge of Queenstown. Said goodbye to DS and think I have banked enough hugs to last me for a while. Thanks for your advice, Lalsy. I will indeed sit tight for the time being. Lots to consider...

I have DFs Memorial service to attend on Monday. Managed to get off doing any reading. Bearly held it together for the funeral. In fact, I was a sobbing snotty mess on the altar.

This trip has given me some space, but am aware that DM will be leaning on me heavily for a while when I get back.

Your chundering exploits made me laugh. You are even more my kind of people than I thought! It's been a while since I've had a public chunder, but the marinas around Southampton have seen me with my face almost in the water of a morning. An don't get me started on Jaegermeister and the NYC subway

Have slightly lost track of MUs and their dates and locations. Maybe there was only one mentioned anyway? Once home, I'll consult my diary.

Mixed feelings about the cat , Herbs... !
Also sorry for those with HHs. I agree, wheat or the avoidance of wheat makes a massive difference to me.

Looking forward to getting home to my doglets. I'd usually add I've missed a decent cup of tea, but at least the Kiwis know how to make a good brew, and there are kettles everywhere you stay.

Had begging Whatsapp message from DBro who is struggling to cope with tide of panic from DM re Thanksgiving service while trying to have a few days skiing. Looks like I have my work cut out. Jetlagged or not.

Chillin in Auckland airport with glass of Cloudy Bay which is SOOO going to bite me on the bum somewhere through the U.S. Immigration system at LAX.

Gawd. This journey is loooooong. Not even left NZ.

Venturing out again after getting a bit overheated this morning: going to sit in a cafe and do some writing!

I once chundered outside the Rutland Conservative Club .

I feel a total square. I haven't chundered from booze for a number of years - I leave that to DP. Talking of whom, he seems to be bearing up, though in full 'doing' mode, which acts as a distraction...

Cat leaping around the kitchen, but won't eat the delicious yoghurt in which I secreted his many medicines. Or his liver-friendly prescription cat food. Only some ancient dry biscuits.

Oh bless Herbcat, but vexing he won't get the meds down him. DD1 and I went for an evening stroll last night and adopted a cat by mistake. We said hello aren't you lovely and it followed us all the way home then sat bellowing outside our front door in a needy manner. WAFcat was Not Impressed.

My chunders are all vintage affairs, far too nesh about hangovers to get that drunk these days.

Cocoa - your journey and return both sound taxing

Thanks for your sympathy girls. I'm feeling brighter this morning. Have got used to sleeping upright-ish. I had a looooooonnngggg 'consultation' with Dr Google yesterday and she 'diagnosed' gastritis. Basically inflammation of gullet. If it turns out it is that - it's certainly caused by the HH, and even if/when HH is operated on, the gastritis will need to heal separately so it will be onion, tomato, garlic, red meat, cream, ice cream, butter, anything fatty off the menu. Ought to be caffeine too but am keeping my coffee. Will try to just have one and only in the morning. Wheat I have been eschewing (and not chewing) for a good year and a half. I'll stop wailing about it all now. I seem to be on top of it, with less meds taken yesterday.

Mrs S, it must be a pain in your heart that DD1 won't get it. I'm so sorry.

MI, I've been meaning to ask how your DD's mocks went.

Rudy - hope work will be flexible around all dm/ds's hosp appointments.

I am here

Won't know about mocks till 13th.

Cafe filling up with sunburned tourists/ people with ashrammy looks of Calm and Serenity/middle class Indian girls in skimpy frocks.

OH MI that looks lovely....

waf glad you are a bit brighter this morning. Do keep up the good practice posture, food and meds wise.

Have a safe journey home cocoa

Herbs cats are quite amazing, aren't they? I do also hope DP is ok...I guess we all have our coping mechanism and being busy ..well, there are worse ways...

As a hopeless and virtual teetotal lightweight wuss, I will never understand the appeal of drinking and resultant vomiting. I always have this sense that I have missed out on something, feeling left out... not being able to drink...but I'd do anything and I mean anything to avoid being sick.

Have just finished the final comb through of the script..it is awaiting ConS's rubber stamp and then is to be fired off to Artistic Director. I wonder what I'm going do with my time...? Meanwhile trying to get back to normal feeling a smidge sluggish and unmotivated. DD has two review days on her course prior to the end of the Xmas show run and then a week off for all of the cast. Tonight we have DS2's 6th form graduation ceremony (and buffet, which is the bit that I look forward to...) and he will return to Uni at the weekend. Normality (boredom?) beckons, plus the inevitable slide into misery as my birthday approaches...

MI - can we trade places please. It's freezing here, due to get colder and my central heating has stopped working. I could usefully do with a spell in a cafe in the sunshine.

I am on the non-chundering drinking team - the worst aspect of hangovers for me is the sense of paranoid amnesia that follows over indulgence. I often wonder if that's what Alzheimer's is going to be like.

Rose, thanks for the PM - it's going to be a useful additional info source and glad to have the travel agent recommendation. And why don't you like your birthday? I've always liked having a Feb birthday as it provides a welcome high point in an otherwise potentially cold and gloomy month.

If it's any consolation I am feeling a bit lonely today. Be nice to be back with friends/family tomorrow.

Better prepare yourself for the temperature change!

I meant back in Sarf Injah not Sarf Lunnon - don't fly back till the 15th

I have chundered memorably on more than one occasion, but in the past and mostly down the great white telephone anyway I now try to stop drinking well before the end of the night which seems to help immeasurably with hangovers/sickness. Even when I have had more than a couple of D&S's early doors

MI, so nice to see you are relaxed and untroubled - you will be wishing you were back somewhere hot feeling lonely the moment that you step through the door

I have had a busy day, workwise trying to get back up to speed whilst pouring oil on troubled water plus going to rescue DS from school - he is not well enough to be there although he would like to be. No real plan for what will happen next but hopefully there will be some news on that front in time. He is really unwell despite us trying to do our best

Meanwhile DD is doing her first mock A'level this afternoon - hope it wasn't too awful as she (and the rest of them, I'm sure) didn't think the planning them for immediately after the Christmas (NYE) holidays was a good idea!

BTM, sorry to hear about ds - it is the illness, not you . Thinking of you lots.

My chundering days are over - I never enjoyed what led up to it much, always made me feel uneasy, paranoid and stupid. Now, I can't stay awake, and hate the next day even after a small amount too much - really enjoy one or two cocktails sometimes these days.

MI, am greatly enjoying your despatches.

NU, how are you faring now?

Ach, my stomach goes into full chunder mode with very little provocation. Three-quarters of a bottle of wine is my top limit before it all goes horribly wrong. I have an assortment of eccentric dietary restrictions to control general gastric misbehaviour. But then go out on the piss with much younger friends (the sort who drink shots and mix drinks like they have no taste buds) and after the third glass of wine, think I am magically cured of my acidic stomach. I also find myself upsettingly dim when I have a hangover these days.

Likewise Lalsy, I am enjoying your Notes From India, Mi. I know that feeling well, when travelling alone. It's all you crave when at home, and then in reality it can be lonely, with hours to fill.

BTM, continued courage to you and to ds.

Rose that's very positive re the play! Wow! You'll have to write another one. About Crepes perhaps.
Don't worry about your birthday. It's just a number. We will get you through.

Waf, glad you're a bit better and that you are able to jiggle the meds about to get a result.

I have be at the gp who who says it's pneumonia ( mild ) I am . Second time on leave with sodding illness. Am also annoyed with dh for going in to work at 5am this morning. Wtf? He promised there was a deadline before Xmas. He obviously meant Xmas 2019

BTM so sorry about ds :(.

Here the dog shredded one rubber glove so put paid to my downstairs loo scrubbing. Ds came home in tears and hating school. Cooked a weird hybrid dinner that everyone loved ( and I won't be able to repeat)

Very sorry about DS, BTM.

I have no gall bladder and was told, post op, not to have more than 3 glasses of wine at any time, otherwise I would be very sick. It's very odd, some days I can have quite a session, but other days I throw up after half a glass. And there is no way of knowing what it will be. I have been more drunk in the past year in this job than I have for years.

I have a hideous cough and temperature, and am feeling very sorry for myself. Bright young thing on my team is feeling overwhelmed by work - she is a bit of a perfectionist, and doesn't (yet) subscribe to my "that will have to do" mentality. I have plans for getting rid of a large part of my portfolio, but not sure head honcho will agree. But something has to give.

DS has cough, sore throat and I suspect a temperature - have you been in close proximity, Mrs S? I think he may have to have a day off school tomorrow, his first EVER. He missed his choir taster session this evening too, due to inability to speak, and was v upset.

Got to the bottom of why he's being so 'whatevs' about his nana - he said he doesn't want to be sad as it will make daddy sad. poor thing seems to have inherited my 'fix it' personality. I told him daddy would be sad whatever, and he could feel exactly what he likes. Talking of whom, DP is now back and very sad. Cried at the table just now. Even her priest is devastated - can't see them until next week as he's too traumatised!