Crepeys, not Creepys

[Cremolafoam]

Get back on here you lot!

Oh yes, definitely "with-it". Though my mum also used to say "oh darling, you know I'm no good on English clothes" though she'd lived here longer than I had...

Yes please, Mrs S, unless I manage to get hold of some first - will let you know.
Dh's favourite compliment is that looks comfortable.

DP has been known to ask if I am actually planning to go out like that.

In the privacy of his own home he would prefer me to dress in manner of laydee of the night. Ain't happening

I have noticed that I get most of my compliments from DH re my attire, if cleavage is involved. . It's less about the garment, it seems...

My dh looks bewildered and occasionally pleased if I appear in anything other than jeans or gym kit. And is baffled if I ask him anything. dd OTOH is excellent, encourages me to try things, comments positively much of the time and tells it how it is occasionally .

Rose and MI - I've worked out my DH is actually afraid to reply if I ask for an opinion in case it's the wrong one.

Hatty, my dh too. He is also pleasingly but unhelpfully baffled if I ask him about a swimming costume or skirt length or something like that, peers at me, confirms that yes I am in what appears to be a swimming costume and it is fine, as if it couldn't be anything else.

Mrs M - I miss my daughters - for all the girly chit chat as well as useful opinions.

My DH is also completely unable to react if I walk into the room in a new outfit, or all done up for a posh do. He usually catches up several hours later with a vague comment or two, mumbled incoherently in case he's said the wrong thing in which case he can pretend he hasn't actually said it.

Oddly enough it's DD2 - the one who finds me So Embarrassing - who is most constructive about my clothes and looks in general. She is a great fan of me keeping my hair a fuckoff silver.

Me too Hatty. And remotely too - getting info from fresher ds...you'd have thought he was protecting state secrets, not just basic info about how his first day of lectures went.

Week 1 of the new catering regime - interesting observations regarding the different approaches taken. Dd1 produces meals she has cooked before having added the ingredients to the Ocado order. Dh chooses what he wants to eat from cookery books and then has to source the exact ingredients. Dd2 scoops up whatever is languishing at the bottom of the fridge and chucks it in the oven before serving with pasta (if she can be bothered) or pitta (if she can't). I think dh will learn the hard way that however many hours he spends it will still be eaten in minutes, probably unnoticed and once the novelty wears off suspect he may start copying dd2 or revert to his previous technique of takeaway menu and telephone.

I'm enjoying watching all this unfold as well as eating food I haven't had to organise.

MrsW

DD1 attempted to convince us that Beans On Toast constitutes her turn at cooking the other evening.

Ah... toast is the agreed default option if anyone turns their noses up at what's on offer. But offence is likely to be taken so you need to consider the state of the wider sibling power play before Choosing Toast!

And you are allowed to register known dislikes which will be taken into account - but in doing so you are giving others the power to irritate you so it's actually best to limit your fussiness to things you really don't like - which tend to well known already.

MrsW, loving the careful calibration. How did you agree on the rules? What happens if people go out/forget?

My DH gets back way too late to do meal sharing. He does do Saturday though. One DD cooks really well - the other would make cakes for tea the whole time. DS is brill at Asian fusion food but he gets back from school at 6 pm so I do it all during the week.

Mrs W - your DD2 is the one who'll be able to pull a meal together from nothing in the future.

Yes, same here Hatty. And the dc, when home, never seem to know when they are in. I love the idea though!

"Food I haven't had to organise" - nails it MrsW - I wouldn't mind cooking if someone else did the thinking, shopping and peering into back of fridge.

To mitigate the 'what in the name of BUGGERY am I going to cook tonight' factor we signed up to a special offer of Hello Fresh . They deliver a box containing the ingredients for three meals (for two), plus three recipes. All the necessary food for each meal is in a bag, in the precise ingredients needed. Little tiny pots of cumin, sour cream, etc. So cooking is quite fun, as it tells you exactly what to do and provides all the gear. It's no doubt very extravagant (about £35), but there's no food waste, and it takes care of three meals a week. Another two I'm back on the 5:2 (so eat omelette or soup), or DP is out, and the remaining two are at the weekend, when cooking is actually fun or we go out.

I tend to cook something nice on Monday when I have the oomph from a weekend of DP's cooking (i.e. Also need for VEG). After that things go downhill. Girls now expected to cook on Tuesday and Thursday.

I made a very nice dinner yesterday but that was partly because my sister was here.

Am flattening a pork fillet and stuffing with bay and mustard anointed breadcrumbs. I just woke up this morning and really fancied it. Dh will have to have. Quorn grill or something. I like your system Mrs W. sadly it is always down to me, unless we have a takeaway, which I do not like doing very often.
I still menu plan, but am frankly so bored with my repertoire. I must read a few cookbooks and get my mojo back. I have lost my touch with baking it seems. The last two cakes I made were hopeless. One tasted greasy and the other apple and caramel loaf cake was dis gus ting.

Herbs , you made me laugh there. My mother always described and still does describe clothes as 'together' as in ' I thought Margery looked very together yesterday'
Odd as get out.

Quite fancy that myself Crem.

I can recommend flattening a pork fillet, stuffing with fried onions, leeks and bacon and cooking it in a shallow puddle of apple juice and cream added at the end!

Not healthy but yummmmmm