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A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

999 replies

oldqueencrepey · 30/01/2013 08:43

It had to be done.
Phew that feels better.
Over here crepeys. All very welcome (but only if you're crepey).

OP posts:
MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2013 11:23

Just listened to it, Crem. Very articulate and professional. You must be very proud.

Cremolafoam · 16/02/2013 11:35

Thanks mrs s
Yes lump in throat time.
Mumsnet saved me during those wretched years.Smile

Cremolafoam · 16/02/2013 11:37

MI anyone would be lucky to have you. Thanks

womblingalong · 16/02/2013 11:46

Sometime lurker on Crepey's here, have been on MN a long time, just wanted to say Cremolafoam, I heard your DD on Radio 4, and I thought at the time, what a well adjusted, really lovely girl, who was really lucky to have the parents she does.

bigTillyMint · 16/02/2013 12:21

Just listened Cremola - what a well-adjusted intelligent girl. Brought a tear to my eye.

MI unless it really doesn't appeal, go for it- you never know!

Don't feel like packing - just want to sit here doing nothing. I think the full-time is catching up on meSad

motherinferior · 16/02/2013 12:56

Just listened - what a lovely young woman. You must be very proud - and of yourselves too.

I edited a report on kinship care on NI last year, btw.

MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2013 14:48

I just typed a long post and it got eaten. Grr. Go for the job, MI, you can always turn it down if they offer it to you. This lack of confidence is a female thing, isn't it? The boss for the job I didn't get has emailed me to say they are advertising a similar job (essentially same job, different city) that I might be interested in. Not sure if I can be arsed actually. Wanted to ask if this one came with a Jag and driver too. Shallow, moi? Grin

Blackduck · 16/02/2013 15:37

Yy to female thing - I seem guys confidently apply for jobs they are vastly underqualified for, but that isn't something women generally go. We seem to look at job description and hone in on the bits we think we can't do/have no experience in, they home in on the bit they can do and focus in that!!
Nearly chez parents for a couple of days with ds whilst dp dies the ton of work he should have done last week.

motherinferior · 16/02/2013 15:42

Ah, but that's the thing - this job would not, in truth, be an "oh yes I want THAT" option. And the galling thing is that most of the others I've gone for except for the highly paid MN one have been similar. It is the rejection by jobs of that calibre which so very soul- destroying. Especially as DP is going for one or two really nice things.

MrsSchadenfreude · 16/02/2013 16:14

Oh I agree. I've just been rejected for a bog standard job that I could do standing on my head, yet have had interviews for some really quite senior roles. Don't get it.

Cremolafoam · 16/02/2013 18:55

Thankyou wombling and everyone.
She's on cloud 9 today. And after Jenni murrays job too. Lol
Mi that's interesting about your thing on kinship care!
Where did that originate?

motherinferior · 17/02/2013 13:22

I'm an assessor for something called the Clore Social Fellowship programme, and this report was written by one of the fellows - I was brought in to edit it. It was really interesting.

It's that kind of work I don't want to drop...

Cremolafoam · 17/02/2013 13:35

I just had a look at the kinship website this am. I'm really pleased there is something out there for family adopters - wish I'd had them when dd first arrived. It was desperately hard at the beginning
Although we did have tremendous help from barnardos team and Cruse
However friends ( who I thought would be there for me) fell away rapidly. Thank heavens for mumsnet.
I really felt like a fake- mum for years.
Like an imposter at the school gates .

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/02/2013 14:43

I am in bed with a temperature of 39 degrees and a lemsip. Sad

I have to be in the office at 0800 tomorrow to brief Head Honcho for a meeting. Not good...

motherinferior · 17/02/2013 15:03

O MrsS, do not hesitate to postpone if you have to.

CointreauVersial · 17/02/2013 15:13

Cremola - I just listened to the clip - what a lovely, confident, articulate girl she is!

Remind me, did you have any DCs already when you adopted her?

motherinferior · 17/02/2013 15:21

I just may have some nice interesting work in the pipeline. It may go poof, of course, rather like my last lot of lecturing did...

Cremolafoam · 17/02/2013 15:28

No other kids sadly( cf The IVF years)
However obviously love dn like she's my own.

Oh mrs s that's a fierce temp by any standards. Shock May I recommend fruit juice ice cubes? Saved me this week from hot sweat hell. Hope it passes soonHmm

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/02/2013 17:13

No, fruit juice in the house, but am swigging DD2's Orangina.

I am feeling very grumpy about my birthday which was a few weeks ago. DH said "I didn't know what you wanted", so didn't get me anything. DM said "I'll transfer some money to your bank account so that you can get yourself something," (and hasn't). DD2 bought me some earrings and a cocktail. Grin DH said he would take me out to dinner (and hasn't) and DD1 said she would make me a coffee and walnut cake (and hasn't).

AIBU to think a bit of bloody effort/pre-planning wouldn't have gone amiss? DH often says things like "Oh I was going to get you tickets for Goldfrapp/Antony and the Johnsons but didn't get around to it/they were sold out." FGS, I am not that difficult to buy for! (And Antony and the Johnsons are playing at a venue 10 minutes walk from here next month - which he knew about, because he told me - surely he could have got tickets earlier??) And why hasn't he taken me out to dinner??

motherinferior · 17/02/2013 17:31

BASTIDS.

I would be incandescent with rage. Mr Inferior has painstakingly learned over the years to clear up his act on birthdays.Grin

motherinferior · 17/02/2013 17:37

Book the resto. Ask DD1 pointedly about cake. Identify delightful and pricey objects for DH and your mum to purchase. I realise this does not tackle the central problem but does at least mean you have presents and a nice meal. BASTIDS.

Blackduck · 17/02/2013 17:54

Oh Cremo haven't heard radio thing yet, but in awe! I recall dp's bro putting us down as the inheritors of their children should anything happen and I was really not comfortable with the idea. Now I know my instinct was right - I'm fine with mine, but no natural mother....

Done Brit lib and museum today. Glad of vino, rubbish tv beckons..

Blackduck · 17/02/2013 17:57

Oh MrsS sounds like my birthday - no pressies, work and the children ate the cake I had cooked...
I bought my OWN pressie - oh said dp didn't know you could get it kilo calmly - it's only some shower cream ffs. Angry
I was, and am, still pissed at him

Blackduck · 17/02/2013 17:58

Ah 'get it locally'

CointreauVersial · 17/02/2013 18:58

46 today!

Breakfast in bed from DH and the DCs (although I had to tear open my gifts double-quick as the boys were late for football).

A lovely silver and pearl ring and bracelet from DH (how fortunate that he spotted the turned-down page corners in the catalogue...Hmm ), to go with the forthcoming perfume workshop, and a scarf and necklace from DM. Chocs from the DCs.

I have done sod all all day (I was contemplating some gardening but couldn't be arsed). And now we're off out to dinner.

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