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There you go lovelies

Just caught up with your posts WAF - bloody hell- take it easy and gently for a bit won't you. What happened?

I once called the police when two men started fighting in the street in front of the car I was in - one of them armed with a baseball bat stick full of nails and the other with an enormous plank of wood. At 3pm!

Police came in force v quickly and arrested them both after initially being turned on by both of them! Terrifying. Had toddlers in the car too.

Goodness me, WAF. Well done on being brave enough to intervene.

Auriga, I hope you get fixed soon. Glad you have fast-track appmt.

Herbs, I'm so pleased to hear your news.

Sounds like a very pleasant day, GGG.

Rose, you should certainly go on strike about the clearing up. Although admittedly my attempts to do this have not always been successful. I have often had to do the washing-up from the night before at 5.30am before work. Grrr.

Auriga, I do hope things are a bit clearer soon.

I have cooked a slightly experimental supper, i.e. Used Stuff Up. I shall report back. I have to interview someone at 8.30

MI - bet you didn't have a random piece of fish discovered in the freezer dumped into the rissotto - it did work quite well I thought.

Rose - spot on about "going in to dinner".

Am going to watch Masterchef with a glass of rosé.

Auriga, that hazel is lovely. What a good idea. Hope your appointments find a solution.

Well done, WAF and Herbs! Thanks for the recipe, WAF. Well done to all other Crepeys for soldiering on.

I was feeling huge relief today that I will never ever ever have to deal with a fecking Results Day again. Dd can cope with her own uni exams so they don't count. Hated, hated Results Day, fecking up our summers. Hooray for no more of them.

Following that little rant, mucho sympathy for all Crepeys still enduring revision with Results Day in mind. Dd is revising but I have no idea about uni marking schemes or owt else, and I don't care either. The end does come at last.

I did have my own exam nightmare again recently. It was bloody awful. I so hate getting it. I understand that it's to do with general anxiety about pressure and deadlines.

WAF, I hope you are safe and sound in your own home now.
And the curry looks lovely.

Auriga, lovely hazel, and hopefully a bit further forward on the diagnosis front?

Herbs, I agree - that boy will be your favourite and you his before you know it!

I am knackered and not looking forward to heading north for my DGodF's funeral tomorrow

Pleased to report dinner was a success. It was indeed slightly random fish - frozen salmon, of which we had a bizarre number of fillets - with rice, because we always have rice with salmon and DD1 insisted, and a mix of various veg - broccoli, slightly bendy aubergine, ditto courgette, and some of the glut of over-ordered carrots - roasted and then Lightly Dressed (get me!) with Tabasco, lime juice and soy. More soy on the side.

Dinner sounds nice MI but then I'd eat anything with roasted veg, tabasco and lime.

WAF, I've done that recipe and it is indeed delicious.

BTM, hope it goes well tomorrow and is a good celebration of your DGodF's life.

Knackered.

Here it was pan fried prawns with oven chips (for the carb eaters), watercress salad, and roasted courgettes. Served with a whizzed up dressing from Nigel Slater - like pets without the cheese and runnier. Was all very green (and a bit pink). Well received by the troops...

Go you Herbs - off to a flying start - really pleased for you.

Stroppy you are tired because you are v v busy and have an awful lot on your plate - but hope it's nothing else on top...

Err, sauce was not like 'pets' but like 'pesto' you'll be relieved to hear...

Here's to random fish (cod in my case) and other such stuff.

That sounds delish.

I am exploring oven sweet potato chips. Am on a mission to increase the veg we eat. We already ate a fair bit when I cook, but I feel the need to compensate for DP, who feels a small helping of green beans is plenty. (And his recent attempt at roasting carrots was a total failure for some reason. They tasted boiled.

Dinners all sound delicious if slightly random - good to hear no animals were harmed in the making, GGG. Jacket spuds with tuna here, as I was out at Zumba.

WAF - were you brave and fearless? Like GG, I also witnessed two people whacking each other, but it was in the middle of Oxford Street and one of the weapons was a broom. I don't think anyone came to any harm.

Revision has been put to one side here, as tomorrow is the culmination of GCSE Art. Typical lastminute.com - DD1 is still furiously mounting stuff into her folder and finding bits and bobs she still needs to do. But that's one more in the bag, at least.

Reeling at the moment from news of a lad DS was at preschool/primary school with, who went into motor racing; he had a horrible crash while racing on Sunday, and we just heard he has lost both his legs. Seventeen years old. It has really shaken me.

Wow to MC this evening, as very unappealing dishes made it through. Nothing like the fantastic dinners offered up by Crepey Cooks. We all do MC every night and no-one even blinks. [Oven spuds, rump steak, m&s veg Kiev for dh and a green veg mixup of homegrown purple sprouting, frozen soya beans health pods, a few leftover french beans and a lonely leek)

Oh Gosh CV that's horrific.

BTM, sorry you have to face a funeral, hope there's some comfort in it

DD is revising steadily & doing well but shows no sign of slowing down her social or musical life. She seems happy & not over-burdened but she crept in to our bed for a cuddle in the night before term started, so maybe it's not as easy as she makes it look.

WAF, Crem, Stropps, hope you can cut yourselves a bit of slack for a while. I'm doing the minimum of everything, tbh, & the state of the house reflects this. I'm the only one who minds about this, of course

A while ago, there was some pooling of Crêpey wisdom about Prom dresses. Does anyone remember when, so that I can look it up? Our turn is coming.

Cross-post CV, I'm so sorry.

Rudy - I'm all for a bit of multi tasking furniture... In fact, I have a similar scenario here in that I need a central coffee table, for looks, but it would end up being too far for everyone to park cups on.

I have resorted to oddments of small coffee tables dotted between a couple of chairs which at least solve the 'cup-parking' problem. I'm calling it 'eclectic'

Herbs - so glad job is a success.

BTM - hope you manage to gather up all your Crepey Fortitude for tomorrow...

Sorry to hear about all the revision woes - it really grinds you down. I seem to recall I busied myself in the kitchen trying out new recipes... I felt so housebound by it all.

Warm spelt salad wth roasted squash, fennel, walnuts and garlic, topped with lemon, Parmesan and parsley. Recipe: the guardian. Chef: DP!

V glad arrogant young man who couldn't find 'his' sort of ingredients got kicked off MC. Tit. Though I suspect he would have been better than spaghetti Bol man.

Large Boy was apparently caught stealing from the Salvation Army shop, so he could take a while to enter my affections.

Sorry Auriga - meant to say too that your hazel tree is just lovely.

CV, how awful.

Am assuming DD1 has sorted art.

And we will have prom frock worries...

That was my DD1, not yours!

CV that is awful.

I have been well behaved tonight and have come home. Sensible but dull, but the right decision.

CV -

• Formula 4?

I am a keen motor sports follower & had read about this - so, so, sad & the lad obviously had so much talent in that sphere.

How horrific CV. Even if they're in no contact now CV it might be upsetting for your ds too - they don't expect their peers to suffer terrible tragedies or to be reminded they're all vulnerable (even if we Crepes know all too well that this is true). X