Burning calabrese I think I'm burning calabrese I really think so - 10 / 10 thread

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ah no 100. This is one of those lovely cluster weeks of stress...appeal was monday - we find out may 26th. This is to do with ds2 and his anger management issues at school...
Have started thread about it as I am in mild panic.

oh god, Moll really is one of those weeks isn't it. Poor you, and but also good that ds2 is getting some help. Is he coming to stare very hard at you and dh do you think?

I am terrified she will think hippy=no boundaries.
Come to think of it, do we have any boundaries? My mind will go blank, I know it!
Must look out the 100,0000000 parenting books I have bought over the years to casually leave on coffee table...

Well, I think it is much more exciting to imagine Boco extracting a whole claw from her face. I think she was wearing a safari hat and emerging with furtive glances from The Jungle too.

Hello Sobu.

I am trying to time my garlic, tomato, basil and watercress stuffed chicken with a whole bunch of asparagus for the same time that the Dominos pizza delivery arrives. This is to help me not eat it. I am determined to be strict and be weighter of the week next tuesday. She tried to give that keyring again last time. I said one was enough thanks, special as it is.

Oh fuck, that's the pizza. It's early.

You have all the necessary boundaries, Molly and you will be great.

so would someone look at you and think 'hippy', molly?

Yes but Dominos are shit, aren't they?

in fact, how many of you reckon someone would look at you and think 'hippy'?

And why/not?

erm, I can do a good impression of a 'naice' mummy.
But my home does look, erm, artistic.
(Yellow walls, big artwork canvases, coupla buddhas, ganeshas, candles, ethnic lamps etc )

oh gosh, yes, I see what you mean, moll

Yep. But that was ds's request and we said he could choose whatever he wanted for dinner to celebrate end of SATS. It's the garlic bread that gets me. I am staying up here.

What is an ethnic lamp?

Nah I bet it's not like that Moll, you will be fine. I think they'd want to check that he wasn't angry because he was living in a 'at risk' home, and that both parents were fine and functioning within the vast bracket which is 'normal' don't you? It makes perfect sense really. Ed psych coming to help, not to lay blame.

Guad, we have 4 11-year-olds, who have requested pizza, chips, icecream and homemade popcorn with toffee sauce, to celebrate end of SATS.

can you hide the buddhas and ganeshes? Or are they too heavy?

I don't think anyone would look at me and think 'hippy'. For obvious reasons.

You're brave. Ds is going to his friends for a sleepover tomorrow. They can deal with the toffee sauce.

ethnic lamp - rustically carved, genuine african base or beaten indian brass?

Ethnic lamp is large triangle with parchment stretched over it and 'henna-ery tattoo sort of patterns. Is morroccan.

Why does she have to hide the buddhas Pointy?

obvious reasons being? Top quality make-up and high heels?

Ah, my mum has one of those.

pointy, is like holes in dyke. If I moved buddahs and ganeshas, her eyes will then be drawn to the Green Man, the fairy lights, the chilli plants and tomato plants on the window sills (which she will probably assume are cannabis plants)

Dear god, I need to move. Will see if neighbour will let me use her Masterpiece in Magnolia! Even the flowers in the garden are magnolia....

pointy - her alter ago is Anne. Have you ever met a hippy Anne? Or a susan, for that matter.....