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Crepey Corner

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DukesOfTripHazard · 18/10/2011 17:26

Where the cool and the discerning hang out. New one.

Chat now, innit.

OP posts:
herbaceous · 15/11/2011 14:21

I've been on the committee of our local play centre cum toy library for the past year. The committee has just changed, and we have the first meeting tonight, at which roles will be decided. I have a horrible feeling I'm going to have to be chair. There just isn't anyone else who could do it. It's something of a poisoned chalice. While I'm sure it's good for the CV, I'm not sure it's going to be good for the stress levels: constant lack of funds, slightly useless staff, potential for mummy politics on the committee.... Ppppfffff....

wilbur · 15/11/2011 15:17

I am another "I do it/remember it/sign it all" person but the problem with leaving things to dh is that often they simply don't get done (not everything and he does a lot of the cooking, which is wonderful. Wish he would do the shopping too). For instance, dd recently had a project to do and needed family pictures printed from the computer. She asked dh, as I was away visiting elderly relatives (I do that, too) who half-heartedly looked on my laptop, but didn't really make much of an effort and ended up not printing anything. So dd, who is a stoic, but also only 8 years old and therefore didn't realise she should have tried again and made it clear it was for a school project, went quietly back to school, printed a couple of things off there and handed in a totally rubbish piece of work for which she got a correspondingly rubbish mark, which really upset her. When I discovered what had happened, I felt terrible - dd loves school and works really hard so for us not to have supported her work properly felt like a big fail. Ditto things like presents for his family - dh was supposed to get a birthday/housewarming gift for his youngest brother 6 months ago but has done nothing (just that little bit too much hassle as it involves research and possibly Ebay), but it's me that ends up feeling bad and embarrassed about it all. Dh doesn't do embarrassment, shame or guilt, which is very well-adjusted of him, but does mean he has almost no incentive to get this kind of thing done. Ds1 has a savings account that his grandparents set up for him, that has mistakenly been done as if he were an adult. I have been waiting for 8 years for dh to sort it out...

wilbur · 15/11/2011 15:24

On the other hand, he can get me a discount on thisngs like this which I am considering for Xmas. I also like this but I worry about the being too meh for my colouring.

bigTillyMint · 15/11/2011 15:52

Oooh, Dules, I think I will have to hang around at closing time on Saturday (shouldn't be too difficult as I live around the corner!)

Herbs, it will be good practice for the School PTFAWink

WilburEnvy I love the second one - if it is silvery(which it looks like it is) it could look really good. I like the red colour too. The blue one would be too unforgiving on me, but you are much more slender and will look fab in itSmile

Blackduck · 15/11/2011 15:53

Wilbur, your DH sounds like mine, guilt/embarassment - nope - does not compute. I no longer worry about his side of the family - his responsibility, and if he doesn't do it so be it (has taken me YEARS to get to this point, but is helped by the fact none of his family except his mum, ever remember his birthday). But I get the school work thing (am currently nagging dp to help ds with his scales for his piano exam on Friday - I CAN'T do this as I can't read music) - I am the one who does the homework and spelling tests.....

Like blue dress, less keen on colour of second one - bit humm....

wilbur · 15/11/2011 16:10

I'm going to try on the frocks, I hope, tomorrow while ds1 is sitting the Tiffin's test, along with finding a birthday present for my lovely arty godson (was thinking a really special box of colouring pencils, those Derwent ones that act like watercolours) and looking at curtain poles to match some material I bought for some long overdue curtains. Poss should have bought poles before material, but that's why I am not an interior designer.

wilbur · 15/11/2011 16:11

Should I wear spanx to try the dresses on?

Blackduck · 15/11/2011 16:43

Probably, but suspect I am not best person to advise.
Had crap offer on house, so back with a no. Think it will happen, just in the brinksmanship stages (hate this)

wilbur · 15/11/2011 16:58

Aargh, I hate the crap offer bit too. We had a very low one and then silence for a couple of weeks, and then a proper one. Will cross fingers for you.

Blackduck · 15/11/2011 17:35

I just want to say fgs we dropped price twice already ourselves we are not likely to take much below what it is now on for AND you love it so let's just make a reasonable offe and get on with it!!

bigTillyMint · 15/11/2011 17:53

Toes crossed for you!

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/11/2011 20:29

Holding thumbs for you BD!

DD1 announced tonight, as she wheezed gently "I've run out of my asthma medicine." Angry Thankfully have found in date prescription and will dash to pharmacy in the morning, and drag her to doc after school to make sure we have another one.

I don't drive (I can, obv, but I won't) and I don't do the tax return. Otherwise I will be doing everything. It's a small stand, I feel, but one that has to be made.

I have told DD1 that she can't go to her school sleepover. Feel a bit mean, but she has a cello lesson on the Saturday, and if she plays football on Saturday, then her cello lesson is moved to Sunday morning (he can't do any other time), which means that she misses her riding lesson (they won't move it, and I had to pay in advance - 50 euros a lesson, which is a killer). Something has to give here, and I would very much like it to be the riding. Her friends go riding after school on Monday, and she would like to go with them, but she has string ensemble on Mondays, Art on Tuesdays, Football on Wednesdays and Thursdays. It's all a bit much.

Oh and DH frequently forgets to be in when they come home from school. MI can vouch for this - he was supposed to collect them from the bus at 4.30 when she was staying, and rang me at 7.30, from the office, saying he had forgotten. Fortunately MI was there and took the Schadenfrauleins to the park with the Inferiorette.

Original poster
DukesOfTripHazard · 15/11/2011 20:47

Yes Wilbur, wear Spanx for the frocks so it's as good as it gets Grin

Through the ordeal that was freezergate.

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bigTillyMint · 15/11/2011 21:09

Hope you didn't find any out-of-date body parts - how big is the freezer? Mine take about half an hour each to sortGrin

motherinferior · 15/11/2011 21:10

I like the blue more...

DP has rung from Turin. I am sort of glad he is having a Lovely Time but really too tired and grumpy to be altogether sympathetic. OTOH DD2 is asleep in our bed so I can't go to bed and read.

Have been to school Maths Evening, which was rather better than I grumpily expected it to be. I do slightly feel that I have done quite enough maths in my life already. Even if I did last do it in 1979. I did get an A at O-level, ffs, which was more than anyone expected me to do, doesn't that let me off for good behaviour???

bigTillyMint · 15/11/2011 21:15

Wait till they are at sec school, MI - DD (who is only in Y8, FFS) was trying to get me to dredge up sin/cos/tan from my 1981 O'level memory. I couldn't remember anything about itBlush

And what's worse, I did A'level maths. And got it!Grin

Blackduck · 15/11/2011 21:40

Hags I am channelling the vibes so here's hoping...
I nearly killed dp though when he told me they offered x and he said no, and EA said well what would you go for and he said Y and he hadnt consulted me- I would have said 'asking price'!!! But I do feel this will happen and now have images of coming back from India and packing up a rather large, over full Victorian semi...... (damn).... Can we book in the jan birthday/post Christmas/it's jan I'm depressed meet- up as I think I might need the drink!!.
Ds didn't go to golf today as not keen so I get call from school saying he hasn't shown up - minor panic - had taken self off to after school club instead....

bigTillyMint · 15/11/2011 21:46

Yes, yes - I am up for itGrin

Is a Friday night better for people so they can come after work?

Blackduck · 15/11/2011 21:56

Okay dates.. in London weekend of 20th anyway so is this possible?

CointreauVersial · 15/11/2011 22:11

Wilbur - those dresses are lush, especially the blue one. Hope your DS does OK in the Tiffin exam tomorrow.

I can confidently assert that I have absolutely nothing in the calendar beyond the New Year (largely because I haven't actually purchased one yet), so 20th is fine for me.

motherinferior · 15/11/2011 22:14

Wot CV said.

Blackduck · 15/11/2011 22:30

MI dresses or date or both?

motherinferior · 15/11/2011 22:31

Date, in pertickler.

Oh god must go to bed, look at the time, wanted an early night!

bigTillyMint · 16/11/2011 07:07

Are we talking Fri Jan 20th?
That's fine for me AFAIK - same reasoning as CV although I have purchased a 2012 calendar - the Lakeland Family one which is so fab, I get it every yearBlush

Stropperella · 16/11/2011 09:08

Aww, shame, I cannot do Jan 20th. Is ds's b-day, so will be his party w/e. Unless I can persuade him to have the party a week earlier. Which might well be doable, come to think of it. Hmm. OK, will mull on this...

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