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The Creped Crusaders - new thread!

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wilbur · 23/04/2012 13:27

New thread for chatting. Oh and swapping S&B tips.

Having a manic day here - INSET day at school and I have 7 kids (inc my 3) over for lunch. While also trying to "work from home" and talk to removal people.

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TheReturnOfStropperella · 14/06/2012 11:23

I also volunteer to join the ArseBoss Chastisement Team. I will bring my boxing gloves. I have been practising punching people since November and am now very good at it. Grin

Blackduck · 14/06/2012 11:44

MrsS - hope convo goes okay today.

CointreauVersial · 14/06/2012 13:29

Why whenever I write a particularly long post does the internet go Pouf! and I have to start all over again?! Angry

Mrs S - I have got a Boss Voodoo Doll knocking about at home somewhere (some crappy secret santa gift to DH a couple of years back). It has pins and everything. Worth a try??

BD - I'm chuckling at DD's "denial" - DD2 used to do exactly the same (she spilt her water, it was sweat, no idea how that happened but she certainly didn't wet the bed, oh no). I thnk being the youngest she was aware how it would be regarded by her DB and DS.

Father's Day - thanks for the reminder, must get the card in the mail. We don't do gifts, fortunately (DH might get breakfast in bed if he's lucky). It was DH's birthday last week and my dad's next week, so it's all I can do to keep up with the logistics of card-writing.

DH had a watch and a pair of trousers for his birthday; I was toying with the idea of one of these but I'd never get him out of it. And there's no sun this year anyway.

herbaceous · 14/06/2012 13:51

I've bought DP a backscratcher - he's always asking me to scratch his back - and will get him a voucher for a proper shave, as he was just saying the other day how he fancied one.

I've just now created one of those personalised card thingos for Father's Day, so hopefully that will suffice.

And CV - whenever I feel an epic post coming on, I write it in Word, then C&P it in. That way my beautifully crafted words are not lost to the world...

bigTillyMint · 14/06/2012 17:10

Herbs, only at least 5 years to go till you can hand your DS some cash to buy his daddy his own card and prezzie. Or make him buy them out of his pocket money as I doWink

herbaceous · 14/06/2012 20:08

I'm imagining they'll 'make' something in nursery tomorrow. They did for mother's day, and easter, both of which made me cry.

Potty training update: first day without nappies at nursery, and no accidents! He demanded his own potty from home for a while, but they soon beat that out of him.

However, no poo. He really wants to go, keeps talking about wanting to do a pooh, then doesn't do it when presented with either potty or nappy. I'm all stressy and PFB.

bigTillyMint · 14/06/2012 20:22

Pretty likely they will make something. Nursery are fab at toilet training aren't they - must be the mini-sized loos! FWIW, DS was at a stage when he wanted to strain on the looGrin

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/06/2012 20:22

Herbs - I feel that now is not the time to tell you about DD1's constipation when she was 3, the glycerine suppositories, the latex gloves and the bath...

Convo went OK. I didn't shout. He told me he was feeling "bruised" by our discussions. He got a bit nasty and personal at one point, but I think that said more about him than me. Now on with job applications. Had complete meltdown tonight from DD1 who was crying that she doesn't want to leave Paris, doesn't want to live in London or anywhere else. I think this has been exacerbated by it being the end of term tomorrow and a couple of her friends are leaving (one back to the US, one to Korea). On a brighter note, almost all of her friends are leaving Paris next year, so I am hoping it feels as if it will be time to move on.

Now I have to make decisions about where I want to work next, if we go back to London, and if we do, what we do about schools...

Blackduck · 14/06/2012 21:07

Ahh poor didums, feeling 'bruised' ....sympathy lost
MrsS I am envious - where to work next, what a FAB position to be in :) (for you and the girls). I think a wealth of experience whilst young is a great thing...it was the coming home that did for me!

motherinferior · 14/06/2012 22:24

DD1 is the child who hated Paris, couldn't bear living in Paris, etc etc, right Confused?

WTF does HE mean by 'bruised'???

My own contract, I have discovered, ends on 24 August - and I have two weeks' holiday left anyway. Thought I had longer, but at this company a year = 50 weeks Confused. Am rather worried, to be honest, about how I'll earn a living but am also getting very, very tired of juggling work/freelance stuff/kids. Haven't had a clear weekend for so long.

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/06/2012 22:33

Yes, MI, that is indeed DD1. Grin

I expect he means that I hurt his fragile male ego by standing up for myself and challenging him. Hence the whole thing getting personal. (He has previous for this, when he hasn't got his own way, but not with me.)

How can a year equal fifty weeks? Confused The DDs break up tomorrow lunch time for 10 weeks... I weep...

rubyrubyruby · 14/06/2012 22:45

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Blackduck · 15/06/2012 06:05

So MrsS you didn't act like a doormat and he can't handle that, and he got personal, think he loses all round really. 10 WEEKS I have trouble handling 6 with ds!
Oh ruby, how terribly sad. :(
I got slightly ticked off yesterday by new boss, not sure how I feel about it at the moment....will ponder over the weekend.

bigTillyMint · 15/06/2012 07:54

Onwards and upwards MrsS! And just remember, if you get them into a state school back here, hols don't start till the end of JulySmile

Ruby, what is this cream of which you speak - sounds like the perfect accompaniment to the card DS has chosenWink

herbaceous · 15/06/2012 11:20

That is sad Ruby. It wasn't in north Herts somewhere was it? My sister's first marriage was in a lovely old barn round there.

rubyrubyruby · 15/06/2012 17:14

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herbaceous · 15/06/2012 19:06

Whoop! DS came home from nursery today in the same trousers as he went in and, what's more, produced three poos in the potty this evening!

Have some fairly civilised friends coming round for drinks tomorrow. Not sure what they're going to think of DS, naked from the waist down, sitting on his potty every five minutes in front of them. Oh well.

bigTillyMint · 15/06/2012 19:17

ruby, it sounds perfectSmile

DD is back from school journey looking a few pounds lighter (as she didn't eat anything - food was disgusting???), exhausted - (early night tonight!), slightly tanned (even though she went oop North), with loads of tales of high jinks and having had a great timeSmile

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/06/2012 19:31

Very sad about the barn, Ruby.

I think you have cracked it, Herbs. Oh and when you get a little toilet seat to go on the toilet, please do not let him play with it and jam it on his head. Oh no. Because it can get stuck over the ears and you will have to go to A & E to get them to remove it and the mirth from all the staff and drunks patients in the waiting room is very embarrassing. So I understand.

I found out something about Arseboss today which made me a) laugh and b) very smug. But I cannot share it on here, as it will out me, suffice it to say that he has previous on getting nasty when he doesn't get his own way.

bigTillyMint · 15/06/2012 19:43

MrsS you cannot do that to us

Blackduck · 15/06/2012 22:14

Spill, or PM us all :)

CointreauVersial · 15/06/2012 22:52

Herbs, I do hope you realise you have got off very lightly on the potty training. Envy

MrsSchadenfreude · 16/06/2012 08:49

DH is away for the week (went yesterday evening). The girls and I had pizza for dinner and then went down the Champs Elysees to the cinema for a late night showing of Madagascar 3 in English. I have never heard DD2 laugh so much and so often during a film (and she is not a serious child). We should have done this more often.

Blackduck · 16/06/2012 10:20

Oh MrsS sounds good!
I am seriously stressed and have come out in a nice blotchy rash as a result, coupled with the on-going (2 weeks and counting) flood of a period I have had better weeks....
Another viewer turned up last night that I didn't know about (ahhh). I have decided I am going to knock out an audion tape, or laminated cards with salient info ti be placed in each room...
I have also fixed the leaking loo (dp is hopeless)

motherinferior · 16/06/2012 10:31

Oh Ruby, how terribly sad.

Sounds like we are all having a somewhat grim time at the moment. I have now got the end date for my contract - see above - and am suddenly caught between worrying about how I earn any money afterwards, given the fact we are in a whacking great recession: and feeling v irritated by the constraints of current job. It's been really interesting to be there and learn the ropes, but the ropes have now been learned and are starting to chafe (see what I did there? Clever, eh Wink?) I had rows with patronising colleagues yesterday about where Products should be Put On a Page. I do not give a stuff about this sort of thing. I also find it wearing when various of same colleagues clearly think my subject area is really, really boring. (And I, by extension, am boring.) Am fed up with trying to pretend I've heard about various vacuous- celebs to be interviewed, and with the fact I don't have manicures or bikini waxes and I dye my own hair cheaply-- and have it cut cheaply and generally am fairly normal 49 year old.