Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

BD, think you have identified the right questions for your DP to ask - given the discrepancy between his G&T and literacy, do you/the school think there might be dyslexia-type difficulties?

BTM sending dp in as we are apparently only allowed to see teacher re report Monday or Tuesday and I can't do either. Dyslexia - no, has no indication of such issues. My understanding Fromm parents evening is he thinks about everything for too long and thus doesn't get enough on paper. So I guess the level is based on the insufficient evidence he has supplied. My issue is come down on him and get him to produce more. They identified the problem but appear to have done nothing to sort it .

Ah. Is he a bit of a day dreamer?
BTW, wasn't trying to suggest you were trying to wriggle out of seeing the teacher, just thinking how nice it would be to send DH in to "fire the bullets"

I find dp is much better than me. Doesn't get emotional but can make his point!! A bit of a dreamer, but also just has so many ideas and can't settle for one and just get on with it. When we do homework he is fine because I can keep him on task. Hey ho, maybe I am worrying too much weirdly he got a great mark for science despite the fact he says he hates it and its boring.... I think I might be sounding like pushy parent sorry....

Hmm, I personally am currently of the opinion literacy is overrated . It is the one subject in which my daughters both excel, and I find this slightly alarming as Look Where That Got Me.

BTW have had series of blissful texts from MrsS, whose holiday is clearly utterly fab

Dont want to know about MrsS's fab holiday thanks... what puzzles me is the high grades elsewhere. If his literacy is so poor how come he can write perfectly well in history and science? He did make me yesterday. 'I hate literacy. I don't want to be a poet when I grow up'

Well, most boys hate poetry, and plenty of girls too

Does he read alot? DS only really got into writing good stories this year, which coincided with him reading much more challenging and longer novels (Robert Muchamore, plus some less edgy stuff ) and having a very strict and focused teacher. So hopefully it will come

Yes, holiday was utterly blissful. Didn't do much at all - stocked up at Super U on BBQ food and wine and stayed by the pool. Did go to Bordeaux, which was lovely - we need a return visit, but think will go by train next time. Caught up on sleep, and am now grey blonde bronzed sex goddess (and deluded). Am now relaxing with a nice bottle of Pol Roger. Feel very relaxed, and only slightly annoyed that I have to go to work two days next week to interview for two new staff members. And cannot be arsed to cook tonight, so will be off to the local Lebanese for Lovely Mezze and more wine.

Oh and DD1 got an A in math(s) (American School) which is her weakest subject and will be learning maths with 8th grade next term (she's going into 7th grade/year 8). She is and keeps going back to the report to check it! V v pleased, as if she has to go back to UK system, this means she should not have any difficulties (apparently).

MrsS sounds like you had a fab time and congrats to MsS on her maths!
BTM - interesting thought. Ds reads a lot but mainly non-fiction. Perhaps I should force a novel or two down his throat! We are having a totally lazy evening and I have gone a week sans alcohol and despite raging insomnia feel much better for it.hope all the various parties have gone well!

Oh and as this is Style and Beauty, can I just add that La Roche Posay's after sun cream, Posthelios, is absolutely fabulous? It has not only transformed my lizard legs and crocodile knees, but has given my face a gentle sheen too.

Well my recommendation is waitrose baby bottom butter on the feet - my dry cracked hoofs sucked the stuff up and it's cheaper than fexitol.

Hello all, I've barely had time this week to eat, let alone lounge about posting on MN, so a lot to catch up on.

Several stressed/teary/run-down peeps on this thread at the moment. Hope all the various parties/poo collections/teacher consultations over the next few days go swimmingly, and, touch wood, we'll get some better weather to make us all feel a bit sunnier (and the end of term can't come a moment too soon).

I'm a little tense at the moment, but it's all my own making. I find clutter/mess/chaos very stressful, but with our bedroom in full renovation mode, together with the end-of-term frenzy of activity it is unavoidable. Completely stupid, I should just relax and go with the mess, but it's difficult.

I find myself snapping at the smallest inconvenience. I chuckled when I read your post, Wilbur, that is just how I feel about DH sometimes, but it is usually over something completely meaningless, like leaving a drawer open. AF has completely abandoned me this month, so I think I have another 28 days of PMT to look forward to.

Inset day on Monday (rats), but the house will be crawling with sparks, chippys and carpet fitters so I won't be doing much apart from hyperventilating about the mess and writing cheques. Oh well.

Herbs - a friend has just been diagnosed with Crohn's, after years of being fobbed off with it being IBS. After years of living on Immodium, she is now being treated and is like a different person.

My AF has been all over the show since DD1 started hers. I have been coming on every other week and spotting intermittently in between.

My mother arrives on Tuesday evening for a week [sob]. I had been hoping to take her to Paris Plage, but it doesn't start until 21 July, so not really sure what to do with her now. She likes shopping, but not in Paris as it is all too expensive. And sunbathing. And that's about it. She is hard work...

Hi ladies

Well, feel much better now the party's over. Went with a swing, with the last guests going at 11 last night. Cooked Nigella's ham in coca-cola, which was great, as was the BOUGHT cake.

My cold, however, meant I lost my voice, so conversation was tricky. It also means I can't sing in the concert tonight, which is a shame. I think maybe it was the high Bflat in the rehearsal on Friday that finally did my voice in.

Going back to bed now DS is having a nap. Mmmmmmmm. Zzzzzzzzzz.

Glad your party went well Herbs

DD's party with 15 12yo's was interesting - lots of screamy excitement, checking of and using of mobile phones, and I can't believe how much food they demolished! She won't need to buy nail varnish, earrings or necklaces for at least 10 years

Herbs and Tilly, so glad your parties went well and you're feeling better. I have decided to Pull Myself Together, and generally confront the fact that no I'm not earning but I could, er, write my Great Book as I've got so much time. (Well, so much time after this week which is going to be busy.) The temptation to curl up and hide under the duvet is strong, but Must Be Resisted.

MrsS, you are a saint for even having your mother under your roof.

When my mother came to stay with us in MK, I took her round to see a friend of mine for coffee. Friend knew of difficult relationship, and said to my mother "You must be really proud of Mrs S and how well she has done in her career." My mother just sniffed and said "But she was a really horrible child." (She wasn't joking.) My friend was

Oh glad all parties went well. MrsS - your mother . sounds like a friend of mine and his parents (surprisingly he has absolutely nothing to do with them anymore - doesn't help that they thought they could 'cure' hm of his homosexuality...)

MI - I am taking a leaf out of your book and mentally kicking myself up the arse. I need to get a grip on this job and do it properly and stop dithering around - its only a year so I might as well make a mark - if they don't renew I'll have to look for something else.

I am :) this morning as I got into a pair of trousers I haven't been able to wear for a year, so somewhere a few ounces have shifted!

Dp is off to school today to ask about school report - ds is mortified! Dp also had the most fab weekend at the Oxford Food Symposim - champagne reception and dinner by Shaun Hill on Friday Night, massive Italian spread and five wines Sat lunchtime, Mexican 'Day of the Dead' meal Sat night (he brought the table decorations home - they were fab), Greek Meza (Vegetarian - not sure what octopus was doing in there) for Sunday lunch - he calls this working.........I am writing a paper next year and going!
Lovely sunny day outside folks - enjoy!!

I am going into the office later to interview someone who couldn't make the interviews tomorrow or Wednesday. My advice of "if she can't make it, don't interview her" clearly wasn't heeded. As was my advice of not interviewing more than five people for each job (there are two vacancies). My mother will have to be looked after by the DDs on Wednesday - this means that she will sit there with her nose in a book all day while they do their own thing.

Oh yes, my mother, ha ha. When I got married, my ex was an usher (all v amicable split) and at the reception, she came up to me and said, everyone is asking why you didn't marry your ex as he is absolutely lovely (she never had a good word to say about him when we were together). I should be in therapy, really.

Almost as good as a friend of mine whose mother got up at the wedding and said 'He'll break your heart'..... (to be fair she was right on the money......)
Do you want her looking after your children??

I have just realised a monumental fckup with my joint application, which has meant half of it (my half) didn't get there. Don't ask. Suffice it to say I am gutted, near tears and feel a complete idiot.

Joint application? So half of it did get there? Is this for the one this week? Could you not phone and grovel/make excuses?
Meanwhile {{}}

Oh dear MI, joint application for the jobs, or for something else?

Yep, other half got there. He's sent off my bit of it, but it's just too late. Job. I am so STUPID.