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Crepeys Not Crêpes

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Cremolafoam · 06/09/2012 15:38

Oi over here hags

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Blackduck · 20/09/2012 10:42

Herbs, do you need a bag carrier?? I'm free..... :)

CointreauVersial · 20/09/2012 13:09

Herbs, you lucky bugger, that place looks like heaven on a stick. Envy

Re: lodgers - a friend of ours does this very successfully - he gets a ready supply of foreign students from a local language college. But he lives in one of those tall, thin Victorian townhouses, so they are not under each other's feet. It wouldn't work so well in our open-plan house.

herbaceous · 20/09/2012 13:17

It does look gaaargeous, doesn't it. I think our apartment is the one that opens practically on to the pool. With safety gate in between, obvs. I'm envisaging not doing a whole lot. Perhaps a day trip to Granada, a day on the beach, rest of the time just lying about or bobbing in the pool. Mmmmm mmmm.

Cremolafoam · 20/09/2012 18:28

Envyherbs vvEnvy
Looks perfecto.
Had a jolly old time browsing that site too.

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alto1 · 20/09/2012 19:39

herbs it looks gorgeous - and 31 is not too hot when you've got a pool.

Thanks for lodger thoughts, wilbur and Cointreau. Still pondering on it. Quite like the Monday to Thursday idea.

re: husband - he broke his back in a quad bike accident. I may not have posted about it, I wasn't on here much. He had spinal cord compression but has made good neurological recovery after extensive surgery. Still needs another operation.

This was only a year after his emergency triple bypass, with serious complications which went on for months.

That's why I jump out of my skin if he hiccups Sad

bigTillyMint · 20/09/2012 20:53

Gosh alto, that's a lot to go through.

I would love to browse your hol spot Herbs bu I am limited to MNing on my phone ATM as our PC is at the Drs.... and DD doesn't like sharing her laptop Sad

CointreauVersial · 20/09/2012 23:21

Ha, BTM, our laptop is also "unwell", most likely due to some rough handling by one of the rug-rats. It is only six months old, so I'm hoping I can get some kind of fix under the guarantee. Meanwhile, I have to use my dad's hand-me-down, which is so slow I have to wait for the typing to catch up all the time.

Day off tomorrow. Have to go to Guildford to test drive a car, but it would be a shame to go all that way and not have a teeny tiny jaunt around the shops.

In other news, MN has given me a £50 voucher to do a "secret shopper" snoop at a local gastro pub. Happy days!

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/09/2012 23:21

I have just made 36 muffins for DD1's soccer match tomorrow. I have spilled a load of cocoa powder on the floor, and a) I have trodden in it and walked it around the kitchen (bad) b) the kitten has walked in it and has trodden it into the kitchen and the hall (worse) and c) the kitten sat by it, swished her fluffy tail across it and has dusted the kitchen in a light covering of cocoa powder (worse). It is everywhere. Dust, pawprints and toe marks. And I was hoping to go to bed as I have an early meeting...

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/09/2012 23:21

Alto - that must be tough for you.

bigTillyMint · 21/09/2012 07:02

CV Envy I would offer to be your secret sidekick but I have to go to work

Still TGIF!

rubyrubyruby · 21/09/2012 08:23

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Blackduck · 21/09/2012 09:28

Alto that's tough - hope everything continues to improve.

Oh god Ruby, I don't want to even think about such things! (I am grounding ds until he is 25....)

I was so pleased last night, we sat and had tea and I had 30 minutes of ds rabbitting on about school :) couldn't get two words out of him about the old place (aside from how much he hated it). I am :) (But probably in a month or so will be hoping he could just shut up about it all!)

TGIF indeed - loooong week here..... I am sorting out the wardrobes this weekend as I can't find a bloody thing.....

wilbur · 21/09/2012 10:50

BD - Glad to hear ds is enjoying the new school. Smile I am also sorting out wardrobes this weekend after finding ds1 (age 11 and tall) wedged into ds2 (age 7 and small)'s jeans last weekend. One of the more hilarious things I have seen during family life - rather like George Michael in his cut off tight jeans circa 1983 - but since ds1 is so vague he barely noticed, I think I had better get him sorted with some decent clothes in the right place. He will always be the boy who put on the first three things that come out of the cupboard, so he needs help.

Alto - that's very tough for your family - hope your dh continues to get better and that the next op goes well.

Oh, and to the crepeys who have new Y7s - what do we think about the fact that our dcs will be the first year to take the new style GCSE exams, if they go ahead? I'm torn between being pleased (like the sound of one exam board per subject and no retaking to inch marks up) and being distraught that there will be no road map for ds1 to follow (past papers, exam techniques etc). I have never been much of a PFB-style parent, but I'm feeling a bit weebly about ds1's transfer to secondary, don't know why, and this has added to my list of things to worry about.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 21/09/2012 12:49

wilbur, the guff in the media about the new Y7s being the first lot to take a new-style exam is, in fact, wrong. The current Y10s (of whom my dd is one) are already on linear courses with no modules and only end-of-course exams in Y11, with no retakes. I went to an information evening on this subject at dd's school last night. Arguably the current Y10s and the 2 years below are in the worst position as they will be doing the new linear-style curriculum (and there are no past papers etc for them as the exams are all different and much tougher), but will still be awarded a GCSE - even though it will bear little ressemblance to the modular/coursework-heavy GCSEs done by previous year groups. The new Y7s will do a linear course, but at least they will be awarded a qualification with a new name that will differentiate it from GCSEs. My dd's quals will be betwixt and between, which seems massively unfair. The staff are all quite cheery, as the reduction in coursework gives them a huge reduction in workload.

Alto, I do hope your dh's next op goes smoothly. I am not surprised you jump when he hiccups with all those health issues going on.

Things have not gone according to plan today at all. Dd had a complete meltdown this morning and was utterly distraught about um, historical issues. And I had to spend 2 hours sorting things out to the point where she was fit to go to school. And I have a deadline for Monday, so will now have to work part of the w/e. The school texted me at 10.30 to ask where she was. I took her in at 11.30. I am feeling a bit wrung-out.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 21/09/2012 12:52

Sorry, wilbur, that was meant to be reassuring: I meant that by the time the current Y7s get to Y11 there will be plenty of info in terms of exam technique at least and whilst the selection of core subject they will be required to take may be slightly different to currently, the curriculum probably won't have evolved that much from what this year's Y10 are doing, as that is already much tougher than in previous years.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 21/09/2012 12:53

core subjects

Blackduck · 21/09/2012 13:10

I am resolutely sticking my fingers in my ears and singing 'la la la' very loudly to block out any conversation about changes in courses/exams etc (I have to deal with the secondary school decision making next year, and thinking about how this lot are tinkering with the curriculum etc is just too much to even consider).

Oh Stropps much sympathy over tough moring - hope it settles over the weekend.

Worst I've had this week is some rather personal comments about me via the student feedback system which was brusing to the ego.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 21/09/2012 14:15

BD, I do not envy you having to deal with rude comments from the students.

I think the exams season in 2014 will be hellish and there will be many students buckling under the stress. It won't be like when we did O Levels; it will be significantly nastier. Dd is currently slated to do triple sciences, so she will have to do three 3-hour papers for each science subject. Which is way more than I remember having to do. I suspect that there will be so many crises that Gove and Co will then have a bit of a re-think in time for the introduction of the actual Ebacc. The current Y8s/9s/10s will be the guinea pigs at exam time. I don't really envy university admissions tutors when these cohorts get to that stage, as there will be all sorts of "special considerations" being raised, I bet.

bigTillyMint · 21/09/2012 14:25

ruby, eeek!

wilbur, re the new exams, I was pretty concerned that they will be the guinea pigs in this new system, but having read Stropps' post, I am much reassuredSmile even though my DD will also be betwixt and between as she is Y9 and has already started on her options.

Stropps, sorry you had a bad morning - alos hope she settles down over the weekend.

bigTillyMint · 21/09/2012 14:29

Re the 3hr exams, at least the DC will be used to sitting exams by then as they do formal exams in the sports hall every year from Y7, plus half-termly tests. I only did 2 sciences, so it was probably 2 x 3hr exams - only 1 more for DD !

TheReturnOfStropperella · 21/09/2012 14:34

Noo, BTM - it's three 3-hour exams for each science which means nine 3-hour exams if you're doing 3 sciences.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 21/09/2012 14:40

Re: dd's meltdown - she will have to either accept that a wailing meltdown is not a good enough reason to be late for school and get in there on time or accept that she needs some counselling to deal with the reasons for the meltdowns. School have said that the attendance officer will get involved if she starts making a habit of it and I'm quite behind them on this one. I don't think giving her loads of leeway is the right thing to do, as it just encourages her to continue avoiding having to face certain uncomfortable issues. Still, it is tough and tiring for both sides. Ho hum. I also have to draw on reserves of patience and reasonableness that I'm not sure I have.

bigTillyMint · 21/09/2012 15:20

Ohhhhhhhh!!! All in one go in the June? Gulp!

Stropps, you must be a saint - I find my patience is shot after a day at my workplaceBlush

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bigTillyMint · 21/09/2012 18:54

Just had a fairly stressful 2 hours - the worst bit being called by DS who needed me to pick him up from the velodrome because he had had a nasty accident at the cycling ASC. He apparently did one of those big skids on his head/collarbone/shoulder and has skinned himself really badly - arm, shoulder, leg, kneeSad His PE shirt is in shreds. And he was so brave - when I picked him up his lovely PE teacher said that he didn't even cry.

He has had a bath in TCP and has a load of Savlon on, but I don't know how he will sleep - any ideas for what we could do?