We May Be Crepey.......

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.....but we are still Stylish (if not Beautiful).

Oh all this talk of lovely property is making me. I love our house location - almost rural- and the fact that neighbours are sheep but we always meant to convert the loft and never have. I'd love love love a new bedroom upstairs but I can't ever see us having the money to do it. Gonna have to think about university fees and living expenses soon< shudder>
Rubes I am indeed dds auntie. And it's a long an q unbelievable / tragic story perhaps for another thread. Her mum and dad ( my brother) both died from cancer.
She has been with us since she was 5.

Have had a weird day today. I was interwebbing at lunchtime and typed my name in google images. Just in a hohum sort of way. Anyway 2 photos of a band came up and I was credited as the photographer. Photos taken in 1984
Omg! They were on a blog belonging to someone I haven't seen for years so I left a comment and he emailed me.
I am so delighted ! We were really great friends as teenagers and he's living in New York. It will be brilliant to catch up!( foresees great excuse to go to NYC)
Lol.

Issey I think I love yoo
My borders are a disgrace yet I celebrate the non- killing of the blue hydrangea this year from lack of attention.

My borders are as unkempt as my bikini line.

Paralympic news: have gone from famine to feast. As well as getting tickets for Saturday night, I have also been given two adult and one child tickets for tomorrow morning. Obv I shall be using one child, one adult, but if any of my crepeys want to come and sit with me let me know!

Borders? What are borders?!

Hi Issy, you sound like you'll fit in just great

Herbs I would have loved to if I didn't have to work full-time!

Hello Issy! DD1 enters secondary tomorrow too . Been wondering how you were but was too much of a wuss to email you

And happy birthday BTM.

Yesterday was, well, pretty awful. (Not helped by various work woes in the morning, including the fact I heard I'd not been shortlisted for two, count 'em, two jobs I could do standing on my head.) And it was also very beautiful, and I'm in awe of my friends for managing to bring off such an occasion with grace and generosity, and to extend such a welcome to all the children who came (including from L's school - a group of them sang, heartbreakingly, her favourite song). We all got very slightly pissed tiddly at the wake. There's no option, really, when there is absolutely bloody nothing salvageable about the situation.

Oh MI, how heartbreaking.

DS starts on Thursday, amid much excitement as his BF got a place there too, last week!

MI
Agree issy , but tis an unfortunate thing to have life experience sometimes

Good luck to all dc's at new schools.
Dd has been back a week and hit a stinker of a cold. She has just announced." I am really very unhappy " < weeps>
Have tucked her up with clean jammies a hot lemon drink and a DVD .

Just saying stockpile the lemsips Crepesses. School is a germ infested petrie dish.

hi there issy. come on in and make yourself right at home.... like the sound of your borders (did you know we have our very own herbaceous on this thread?) but me I'm more about the dahlias. Good luck to all those little crepeys starting secondary school this week, that really is a whole new stage...

oh and have another few . How completely awful to be attending any child's funeral. Job shortlisters are obviously so shortsighted and bonkers you couldn't possibly want to work for them...

Ooops. That last post was for MI.

I don't have a bikini line. I have fronds that get tucked in when I go swimming.

I have also been rejected for two jobs without an interview, and am very much hating my job at the moment. I spent this afternoon going through the 100+ applications from people who are desperate to be my assistant. By getting rid of those who didn't have the language requirement, and those who made grammatical/spelling mistakes in their applications, I got rid of around 40. The job demands experience in, or an interest in XXX. I got rid of another 25 + who didn't mention this in their cover letter or have anything in their CV. Of the 100 I looked at today, I have shortlisted 10 so far, and have another 45 applications to look at tomorrow. I expect to whittle it down to 5 for interview.

I am tempted to get rid of all of those who mentioned that they went to Oxbridge in their first sentence and those who have done nothing but internships for the past three years (I would rather someone had been working in McDonalds or a nursing home - at least it shows you're not afraid of hard graft).

I do despair a bit when I look at all of these "bright young things" - can't they check their spelling and grammar? Do they not realise that sentences start with a capital letter? And almost all of them have 10 x A* at GCSE, 4 x A at A level and a 1st class honours degree (I was beginning to wonder if anything else is given these days, but then I had one from an applicant who had a 2:1 in her BA Hotel Management and some Bs among her GCSEs.)

And then there will be the annoying ones, who phone persistently to say that they can't understand why they didn't get through the sift, and can you please explain EXACTLY WHY they failed to make the shortlist - hello? I've got a double first from Cambridge, did you not read my application? (As one charmer asked last year!)

Rant over. And Hello Issy - haven't seen you on MN for years! Welcome back!

I also got rejected for two jobs without an interview over the summer. Looks like my luffly interview clothes will not be getting an outing any time soon. I think I am going to have to knuckle down and get marketing to get more freelance work in, but this is not entirely straightforward for a variety of reasons.

MI, your friends sound like truly amazing people.

Hello Issy. My borders are a disgrace. But I do have a lot of wildlife living in them.

S&B news: my hankering for tweedy trews coupled with my limited budget led me to purchase these . At a reduced price, I might add. They are full length on me and the 10 fits nicely. Dd declared them OK, but when I asked if maybe they were Granny trousers, she said, "Well, that was not my first thought, but now you mention it she would wear some like that, but they would be from M&S. And have an elasticated waist." Hmm, not sure now.

BTM, I keep forgetting to say: Good luck with the transition to full-time.

< slightly terrified of mrs S>

Don't envy your workload at all. The whole interview thing absolutely panicked me until my own BitchBoss actually told me I'd done really well in my interview for current position.< preen>
Still far to afraid of going for another job ATM tho.
However just helped dd fill in an application for weekend retail job. Oh how we laughed( not)
She's now not speaking to me for 'interfering' oh dear tired poorly AND cross.
Lucky me

Stropps - nice strides.
Only they did make me think of Leonard's trousers in big bang theory that were made of a polyester and firefly mix

I love MrsS's posts about sorting the wheat from the chaff. This is because I especially like to hear about spelling and grammar being Important, as I fight that particular good fight all the time in my current job.

Crem, I did wonder what the strange glow was last night

Oh me too. Dh calls me The grammar queen
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All of cremolas spelling on mumsnet is overwritten by iphone autocorrect and she is fully aware that it often comes out wrong,but is too lazy in this context to change it

My BitchBoss spells aisle ISLE
Drives me to distraction.

I hate job interviews - I haven't done a proper one for about 12 years. My current job materialised after a five minute chat, along the lines of "You'll do - can you start Monday?"