We had peaches, we had plums, we had strawberries in the sun, but the peaches and the plums, like the strawberries are all gone - 10 / 10 thread

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Helloooo

Titty you have enchantingly beautiful children.

Went to see DS' new teacher today. He is seemingly looking forward to school now. We are talking about it lots now so hopefully by next week he will be feeling less wobbly. So slightly less stress on that score.

The new person who I will be working with started work today. She is very young, but has two DC older than DS so it feels odd (I know some of you are much younger than me with older DC but in my head we are all the same age )...not sure if I am explaining that very well.

She is frighteningly confident

Boco what sort of thing do you think you are going to be doing? I mean have you some ideas already?

we shall be your life cheerleaders. we shall stand in the background shouting
'go boco' as you clear out a cupboard and make a list for the garden centre.

It was great having someone saying in a very calm way. ''OK. So when are you going to fill in that passport application? Tomorrow? Ok, good. What time tomorrow...''

Oh god, I can hear her voice now!!

It didn't change my life and I never did have more driving lessons, but my god, she tried!

I did however, explore some home business projects and got into a routine of having shopping delivered and doing my paperwork on a monday (day off) instead of pissing about on here.

And she made me do one of those circle of life forms, to see which areas of m,y life I felt were lacking and which I was hppy with (eg spirituality, home life, sex life, money etc etc)

Oh postcard and parcel thing was funny.

"The Joy of Cheese"
I think my parents had that book hidden in the top of their wardrobe

oh FK - menat to say - mine did / do that crying thing when I go out. Friend told me to go out regularly and more so they get used to it rather than avoid going out and it worked. Even habit of nipping out for five minutes to shops etc helps.

I am currently gorging on MN in the manner of one who is due a MN holiday in order to , erm, achieve some stuff in RL...

well, no, I want to change pretty major things really. I need to decide what I want to do - career wise. Do I stick with illustration and make a real go of it, do I accept that i'm not actually good enough to succeed in any way so I might as well get a proper job and stop faffing around. Do I become a teacher, do I retrain as a social worker, do I get a local admin job just to pay the mortgage, will i ever pass my test and be able to get out of The Village? WHAT SHALL I DOOOOO.

Oh crap, not another mid-life crisis...
I had one but it was out-shone by dh's...
Mine's currently on hold.
I'm opting for the stick-fingers-in-ears and tend my garden while I wait for my special purpose to fall into my lap.

(and for the record, I think you're good enough.)

Oh god don't say midlife crisis!

I feel like I haven't actually started yet, I'm a late bloomer, I can't have a midlife crisis til I've actually made a start on something.

But when I do have one, it'll involve sex and drugs, not retraining as something low paid and worthy.

i think you are good enough too, but i think in that kind of thing you have to be good and lucky.

i think that you should do something that allows you to still do that as well because i think if you are not doing art you will go all funny.

from what you said i agree with keep trying with teaching / art clubs / creative things in the background.

(she is all funny, she has a rabbit head...)

disagree - she is sixth most unfunny person on mnet. there was a thread.

Boco that makes me feel better, I have been at the "retraining as something low paid and worthy" stage for the last three years, so bring on the drugs and sex

I think it's about time.

AVI - make me do my cross stich!

who was most unfunny?

Avi, nice to see you! I'd be up for a Spring meet-up (lordy, that's scary, have winter to get through!)

I'm off to bed with my book, before dh comes home with depressed friend, who I love but cannot face comforting right now...

FMV - Can you e-mail your address again, please.

avi - i have to finish a cross stitch bookmark for my sister for her birthday and it is hard and i can;t be motivated. send me vibes.

Avi that sounds a bit

DS seems mostly to just play at nursery, and do lots of painting. They also have a music and a dancing session in term time.

How were they being taught?

(I am reading small island)

lol at Bozo Bozo.
Am with you on the orientation confusion and waiting-for-special-purpose. I have been a [non-med!] Dr for 5 years now (passed my viva 5 years ago today) and was in work when I remembered - it was a rather sinking feeling thinking 'and this is what I've done with it?' If I manage to follow my plan, though, I will be inching back now to where I feel I should be, which is comfort. We can make changes and get things done together, Boco
Tending your garden is a good and lovely thing, FMV

OB, do get yourself well-deserved nice clothes. You can put a little bit of it away.

Franny, I am sorry about work situation. It is yuk.

Pear, apple, plums, rocket, cucumber, sunflower-seed bread, veg lasagne.

KUDOS ON ANOTHER EXCELLENT TITLE

my fave so far I think

Lots of x posts.

Bee you are very right, I think, about going all funny if (just generalising it) you do not do what you love.