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Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where those Crepeys is?

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GiddyGiddyGoat · 05/03/2017 22:19

Ha!

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motherinferior · 19/03/2017 09:02

Elvis.

Or Berry?

Rudymentary · 19/03/2017 09:19

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Rosebag · 19/03/2017 09:26

What are you like? If I ever got rid of my allergy, and got a cat the DC decided we'd get two and they'd be called Shrek and Donkey. I particularly like Donkey. My friend has one called Maud, and she has her own Facebook page. Grin Grin

motherinferior · 19/03/2017 09:30

And in ailing parent news have just had text from MrsS saying she's on her way to her mum in hospital where apparently she's been for a 'few days' and is now in intensive care. (WTF and why didn't anyone tell her??)

Am off for nerve-restoring drive and will update later.

Stropperella · 19/03/2017 09:44

Hope the drive goes smoothly, MI.

Poor MrsS. :( Maybe her dm told the hosp not to contact her initially? :(

Blackduck · 19/03/2017 09:46

MrsS fingers crossed.

MI good luck!

hattymattie · 19/03/2017 09:49

You'll be fine MI. Smile

Confusedre Mrs S's mother - the only reason I can think of is that of Stropp's above. My DM would do something like this to not bother the children.

herbaceous · 19/03/2017 09:51

I wouldn't put it past GrandmaS to deliberately withhold info to make Mrs s feel bad. Hope all is ok.

I wanted to call our two Elvis and Priscilla, but was vetoed. Jerry looks just like an Elvis - sleek, dark and handsome.

Tony Blair is on the telly. He is talking great sense. I wish he'd come back and sort out this Brexit shit. Shame about the whole illegal war thing.

MrsWobble3 · 19/03/2017 09:56

In cat news: dh wanted to call ours Squish and Squash because we live on a main road and he was pretty sure that would be their fate. He was overruled though and they were named by committee (average age 4) whose track record for creativity was naming the goldfish Goldie. And they didn't disappoint with one of them at least.

Hope MrsS's mother is up to tricks rather than seriously ill.

motherinferior · 19/03/2017 10:06

She's in intensive care .... let's see.

Drive fine APART from total @rseholes who honk and swear and undertake when I STICK TO THE SPEED LIMIT - round here has become a 20mph zone for reasons I personally think are very sound (like, you know, not killing people). Came home and grumbled to DP who said well personally he "flexed" between 20 and 30. Given that he is usually fanatically law-abiding I suspect this is to do with his ego, which is closely bound up with his cars AIBU to hope he gets caught speeding and fined?

DP and his three identical (and car-mad) brothers excelled themselves in the cat-naming department with Black and White Cat and Orange. They also at one point had a mongoose (in Dhaka) which was called .... mongoose (in Bengali, at least).

hattymattie · 19/03/2017 10:07

I think Intensive Care sounds like the real deal this time.

Herbs - agree re Tony Blair but I fear he has no credibility now. I cannot understand how an unelected PM can be reponsible for taking us out of Europe.

herbaceous · 19/03/2017 10:15

An unelected PM who previously campaigned for Remain. I suppose technically we don't vote for a prime minister, we vote for an MP, who happens to be in a party, which has a leader. But still - that's 'technically'. And where's that shiny, ham-faced toff Cameron, who started all this? Nowhere to be seen.

Re speed limits, I'm a total stickler after doing one of those speed awareness courses. Apparently if a child is hit at 30 mph they have an 80% chance of surviving, at 50% chance at 35, but only a 20% chance at 40mph. Hence the limit.

I once very unwisely gave a v sign to a white van driver who had been tailgating me for miles while I was doing 52mph in a 50 zone. He stopped in front of me (on the A12), and started to get out of his van. I drove off, but he drove parallel to me for miles, shouting and swearing and gesticulating, with his big round red tattooed head and cheap gold jewellery. It was so scary! I had little DS in the back, too, and wasn't sure how it was going to end - just hoped I wasn't going to run out of petrol before he did... In the end he went away. I saw him a few miles on having an argument with someone else in a lay-by.

Montypulciano · 19/03/2017 10:17

Well done on the drive MI. Hope you feel better and less jangly.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to grandma S and love to MrsS. Thinking of you.

Dd2 is ten today! She is accompanying me to the nail bar for a lovely pedi. Well, industrial foot scraping for me and a bit of polish for her. My feet are bad so I suspect we may come out the same height...

motherinferior · 19/03/2017 10:23

Yes, Herbs. Also frankly I am quite happy pootling along at 20 in our crowded neighbourhood. Am not quite sure why Mr Inferior has taken it upon himself to interpret this particular law 'flexibly' given he is so meticulous in other areas.

BeachysSnowyWellieBoots · 19/03/2017 10:35

My feet are bad so I suspect we may come out the same height... GrinGrin that's Spring Hoof, Monty!

Flowers for Mrs S and her morning dash.

bigTillyMint · 19/03/2017 10:45

Happy Birthday to MiniMonty!
And Green and Blue changed about 2 years ago (maybe more!) Grin An Easter Hols MU on the Lane?

MrsS, sorry to hear you have had to go dashing to see your DM - I bet she told them not to contact you, that's her style.

Herbs, the road-rager sounds scaryShock

Cremo, we are awaiting a picSmile

Cremolafoam · 19/03/2017 10:59

Oh no re Mrs Ss dm. I hope things are ok.Flowersthough suspect they are not.Sad

Oh yes, speed limits. Well here you would be forgiven for thinking they are there as a 'suggestion' only. Dh goes on about being allowed 10% more than the limit and always drives as if he's being chased in some terrifying Russian gangsta film. I have a small car and drive the limit or less. I am regularly , and angrily overtaken by larger, flasher cars. It can be quite terrifying. Often it is harangued mummies in Chelsea taxis , in a complete fury.

hattymattie · 19/03/2017 11:42

Boo to arsehole drivers. What is the matte with people. I am often overtaken in a 70km zone only for them to sit in front of me at the traffic lights.

Crem we need photos of Berry. Herbs' kitties need some competition in the cuteness stakes.

motherinferior · 19/03/2017 12:16

Appaz GmS is being kept in intensive care for a few days and then back to the ward..

Cremolafoam · 19/03/2017 13:07

Oh gosh MI, sounds serious. Is it cancer related or something other..

Berry has been vetoed by the voting public. I present
Saga
Short of tail, but long of history. All she wants is cuddles and reassurance. Dh in love already.

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where those Crepeys is?
motherinferior · 19/03/2017 13:09

Ooooh!!! She's loverlee!

Montypulciano · 19/03/2017 13:13

Beautiful puss. Welcome Saga. Great name, Crem.

Cremolafoam · 19/03/2017 13:14

She is. And likes to be beside a human so far, which is lovely having been without soothing fur for so long.

hattymattie · 19/03/2017 13:16

Soooo sweet.Smile

magimedi · 19/03/2017 13:20

Flowers for Mrs S.

Love Saga (& her name).

Doing the speed awareness course a couple of weeks ago was a real eye opener to me & I know I have been a better driver since.

Very hacked off as my UTI has come back. Have got horsepill killer antibiotics so hope they see it off. I am so fed up of all the viruses (sp?) I seem to have had lately.