To be really cross with all my friends for different reasons and now feel unloved and alone

[Hullygully]

Even though it's me not speaking to them?

spawnchorus is right.

It reminds me of my mums 60th birthday. Every year her house had been filled with friends and family on her birthday. She never invited, but always made a party, and people came. Likewise on her 60th. We baked, and prepared a cold buffet, and had plenty of food. My dad dressed in a suit. My mum in a new dress. Nobody turned up. I have only seen my mum cry twice. In my grandmas funeral, and at her 60th birthday. Your Op, Hully, reminds me a little of this.

Quintessential - that's heartbreaking

I think you need to let them know that you aren't speaking to them. I don't know how you tell them without speaking to them though.

One of my friends at university stopped speaking to me for a term. I saw him all the time and it took me a term to notice that he wasn't speaking to me. The impact of him not speaking to me was rather lost as I found it hilarious that I hadn't noticed.

Oh Dearest Hully

I trust that your Froideur has melted and you have returned from your evening out with your 'friends' a calm pool.

Did they notice that you were frosty?

Hully, I am sorry to say that the eloquence of your frosty descriptions has made me smile, and I know I am supposed to be cross.

So now I am having to think about David Cameron and wheel clamps and low fat ice cream and cosmetics adverts and people who can walk in really high shoes and batteries that run out at really INAPPROPRIATE times and people who don't hold the door and rudeness disguised as entertainment on the television and tax to make me feel cross enough to be sympathetic.

It is a testament to how much I respect and admire you, that I am prepared to endure this for you.
Especially the batteries.

Thank you all for your kindnesess and concerns.

I was the bigger person (NOT literally) and I offered olive branches and love and we made up (the egg one) who is really lovely but a bit off the rails (so right Animula).

Didn't see education one, but I shall let it lie as it is her issue and nowt I can do...

I am all fluid again.

You need more time. You're still angry with them.

In the meantime - boredom is good - do something nice today.

I hate to say it but if you cut your friends off in the end you will be the loser. I go through times like this where everyone annoys me and I feel dissatisfied with each of my friends for various reasons. It is a lonely feeling. But i am also someone who recently forgot a date with a friend completely and didnt turn up (i apologised profusly and was forgiven). I think it's ok to cool off for a bit with people if they've really annoyed you. I would be very wary of dumping them unless you know that it's the bigger picture that says that you don't want them as your friend any more and not just a single incident. If so I think it's fine (although sad) to dump a friend. If it were me I would rather be dropped than have someone continue to see me who doesn't really like me. Personally I wouldnt send anyone to Coventry or do any getting my own back stuff. Just keep away for a while, get a bit of perspective and then decide whether you want these people as friends or not. Good luck. You sound nice and won't be lonely for long I'm sure.