7 DHs from adjacent houses cycling all weekend (again)!

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I’m sitting here with ice on my ankle because yesterday I twisted it during a ridiculous situation where I had to take 4 special wheels to the garage for DH’s car and he’d loaded these in my car at 5am. I couldn’t park in the garage forecourt as no space, so I had to park up the road. Then I couldn’t lift the bloody things out of the back of my car, so I just pulled two out and tried to roll them along, but the road was on an incline and the wheels took on a will of their own, like wagon wheels rolling off, One was veering into the road so I had to chase it like a lunatic and I caught the edge of my wedge sandals and twisted my ankle which is still very swollen. So that was yesterday afternoon.

DH complained to the garage that it was unacceptable that nobody they’d helped me, but he has since apologised so I’ll just put behind me, but there are repercussions now for this weekend.

We live on a street where we actually get on with lots of neighbours (rare for London) but this is mainly led by the DHs who are all cycling fanatics. This weekend they are all off to the midlands for some famous ride I’ve never heard of. There are seven of them going.

Now normally I’d be glad of the peace, but today I have -

• Landscape gardeners coming around 8am
• The flooring man coming at 9am
• I need to leave at 9.30am to get DS (14) to his tutor, 20 min drive away, so I won’t be back until 12
• DD (11) needs to be at a party for 1.30pm which a good 40 min drive, but could be more like 2 hours because they’ve closed Hammersmith Bridge and Putney and Chiswick Bridges are rammed. Also, I can’t walk to the tube and this DD has a broken toe as well
• One DS in the midst of GCSEs and will need support / someone to practise French with / test him etc. He is working very hard, but sometimes just needs calming down or distraction. Other DS also has end of year exams starting on Mon and he needs a fair bit if input due to dyslexia.
• 2 new kittens who I have to watch in case they get out due to gardeners leaving doors open
• Plumbers coming at some point in the afternoon

AIBU to be a bit miffed? Of course, I know DH can’t cancel the ride now, but I feel aggravated and it’s only 7am!

Just tell your selfish h that you won’t do any car-related chores. He sounds selfish.

Can you imagine Midlands mumsnetters leaving a sign on a bridge/ lamppost /tree telling the DHs to go home as their wife needs them.

Which one has dyslexia?

DS (14) to his tutor,
this DD - Meaning more than 1? Your use of this DD is strange

• One DS in the midst of GCSEs.

Other DS has end of year exams

'No this is not my first post Martha, but so what if it was? I have read your comments before and you’re invariably troll hunting and it’s quite odd tbh.'

Ah so you are a regular poster.

I really hope you have a spreadsheet to keep everything organised, especially when you can't keep the children constant

Did you get an Uber then or drive?

If your 11 year old has a broken toe, I probably wouldn’t be traipsing her across London taking her to a party.

No I’m not financially controlled at all. Teallyots nothing like that. I just didn’t want to get an uber here, then stand round for an hour and then have to call another one back. I guess I could have sat in the tutors flat, but I didn’t want to.

Sounds like a 'chic lit flick' plot.
Now the rent a Polish odd job gang

But why did you need to go at all? He’s 14, he could have gone there and back in the Uber by himself!

Karmin - you are wrong. Read again.

I just didn’t want to get an uber here, then stand round for an hour and then have to call another one back.

A 14 yr old London boy who has to be escorted by Mum, even in a cab?

If he is unable to navigate public transport for some reason why on earth would you not stick him in a cab your end and book another for the return trip?

So are these Three Polish freshly recruited this morning at 7.30 by your very organised DH

At you house now with your other Dc?

I can’t be arsed reading the whole thread. But surely you can’t drive with your gammy ankle?

Ps

I'd shake that tutors hand if we are even 5 mins late ours can't run over.

Quite understandably

I don’t want to say who are boys and girls tbh becsudr it’s irrelevant and in case anyone I know is in MN, but I have 3 DC and it’s the middle one who needs support - hence the tutor now, Oh my god. Would you like their birth certificates? Passports?

So you’ve got the money for landscape gardeners, expensive bikes and hobby cars and tutors, but you afford that by taking advantage of pushing wages down for unemployed - and possibly illegal - immigrants.

Nice.

If it’s so hard to manage your life from those fancy wedge heels, why not just go the whole hog and over work and under pay some poor vulnerable Filipino maid?

You’re a disgrace.

So your twisted ankle is ok to drive with?

Rest is best Op

I'd put your feet up

Public transport is not always direct in London esp on the outskirts, but I’d def send a 14 yr old in an Uber to a tutor if it was imperative they went.

You still haven’t explained why a 14 year old can’t go in a minivan in broad daylight without Mum?

Minivan.

Aargh fucking autocorrect. Minicab.

@RSAcre yes it's time for a new snapped and farted!

Yes the gardeners are there with the DC but also the flooring guy is there who I have known for years and the DC know him well and his wife, plus the gardeners can’t get into the main house and DH would have been back shortly after I left anyway. I don’t have family around or babysitters and sometimes you just have to go. The eldest is 16 and 6 get 5.

6 ft 5.