Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

I'm so downwardly mobile I'm probably part of a category that no one's recorded yet. H5, perhaps.

Just in case anyone's wondering (they really probably aren't): fishy survived the night in his little bowl and is now ensconced in a rather swish tank with a new friend. Mostly costly visit to a fair ever.

I bought lots of clothes last year in Paris, but all for dd who was then a size 6. She is now about an inch taller than I am and a size 8. Whereas I am a short, squat, super-annuated, Anglo-Saxon milkmaid type (broad shoulders for the yoke), so no wonder I couldn't find any clothes to fit me in Paris.

Is there not something a bit "fishy" about that Stallion..?

Some of us live in Paris - nothing to do with social class or career - we sort of met and fell in love with Frenchmen (if I'd known what life had in store would have worked harder at French o' level). Day to day life with kids here is just like day to day life in any big city - especially with school runs, supermarkets etc. For me - a day out in London has all the glamour and excitement as coming to Paris does for those who live in the UK (plus I can find clothes that fit).

This is not a click, it's a support group.

The downside of swimming is an outbreak of various not very charming conditions on my feet .

Am very much hoping MrsS wore the Earrings of Tastelessness.

I need all the support I can get :)

I am most definitely a B.

Class, I mean, not cup size.

Stropperella, I think you are right. The Stallion is even more fishy than the gold creature swimming in your tank.

Do you mind if I swear a lot?

HAve just heard back from yet another fucking agent that my book isn't for them.

I think I may give up.

Don't give up, MI. Just do lots of swearing and possibly throw a few things.

I have examined those NRS classifications now - maybe I am an impecunious B. I'm a translator, does that make me a B?

I am quite upset, to be honest. And tired, suddenly.

It must be very tough getting your book thrown back at you. Very demoralising.

Oh MI - call that alot of swearing? Clearly haven't met me on a bad day :) At least you have a book idea to be turned bown, I don't....... SOrry you are upset, sometimes it all gets too much - go and kick the cat or something.

I am most definately a B (bordering, I will have you know, on an A)....
Very well written (relatively) for the fishy one, but haven't checked out any other posts from the Stallion....

Ooh MI, how very vexing. I know what it's like to secretly set your heart on something working out, even though the rational side of you says it may well not, and then to be so disappointed. Yet part of you saying 'told you so'. Or is that just me?

Had a friend for lunch yesterday who works for a city law firm, and hires freelance writers. He told me how much they pay ? it's ££££££££££ ? and that he needs a new person on board. KERCHING!! I'd always resisted selling my soul to the devil, but didn't realise how much he paid! About 10 times what I earn at the mo...

Egads. Just started the shred again after a two week break. Not actually that bad. I dare say that means I should move up to level 2, with its hideous plank jacks and squat thrusts.

Herbs, did L2 on Saturday and was 'gargling my heart' - charming phrase. Slater moves defeat me (but thats my poor coordination) I am now sporting a lovely bruise on the upper arm where I have thumped myself with a weight....

Herbs, does he need anyone extra?

No, that was not me swearing a lot. Swearing a lot is me stomping around saying I am completely fucking fed up with agents fucking around with my fucking book. And if another person says tritely to me to think of JK fucking Rowling I will fucking deck them.

Now that is more like it! Why do they want you to think of JK Rowling? Puzzled - surely thinking of her will only depress you even more?

If we were being judged on cup sizes, I'd be the tops - definitely A class

Went for DD's leg appointments - was a long but fruitful morning - it seems the leg length discrepancy is still about 1cm, but that there is some sort of muscular problem in her hip / spine. So we went to see the physio for some exercises and orthotics for a heel raise.
Hope it all does the trick as DD was crushed when the rather scary (in a Cruella deVille type way) consultant suggested that she was doing too much sport and should cut back.

Must fish around for more evidence of the stallion....

Hey, at least I have a piece in the Guardian (family page) on Saturday . Onwards. And so on and so forth.

In the family section? I have it here before me. Was it 'mouse tea'??

No, it's in next Saturday. A feature I wrote ages ago, before Christmas, but they hadn't sorted out the pics.

Well, a piece in the Grauniad sounds impressive, MI. I will look out for it (and try and guess who you are!).

Sorry to hear your book has been knocked back, it must be so depressing, like pushing water uphill, but hey, just think of JK Rowling and how long she took to get published.

Herby, go on, do it, sell your soul. Man cannot live by bread alone etc. etc.

Lots of "proper" writers on this thread; I'm feeling wholly inadequate now (I do have an O Level in English Literature, if that counts).

Oooh MI, hope we can get a copy on the campsite! Very impressive - hope there's plenty of spelling errors / typo's

And Herby, go for it - it may be boring to do, but you need cash for bread (and )

I also feel inadequate, but then I feel inadequate compared to DD in Y7 in terms of writing - I got 2 A's in English language and literature, but she's already waaaayyyy better at writing than I was at O'level (looking back at my books ) - definitely no dumbing down there!

I seriously considered writing a novel during my PhD (dp has a theory that all humanities students get to a point in their thesis when they think 'what the hell am I doing this for? I could knock out a novel' I think he might have a point) - I had a trashy sub Georgette Heyer Historical Romance in mind (all that Restoration Literature in my head) :) Ithink, on the whole, the reading public had a narrow escape....

'Snot fiction. (That is a whole other great unpublished work to which I have periodically exposed Hester.) It's memoir-thinky stuff. Ho hum.

I had a moment there when I thought 'snot' fiction??? Is that a whole other genre that has passed me by? :) Oh, memoir thinky stuff - tell us more.....

O god - I have already bored several hags on this one so apologies - it is all about race and colour and being mixed-race and looking white and origins and narratives of passing and identity and physical construction.

That sort of thing...