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Crepey continuum

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Cremolafoam · 18/03/2013 15:12

Grin Over here!

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Stropperella · 28/03/2013 16:56

Nooooo, Beachy. That's very much not nice for you.

herbaceous · 28/03/2013 17:01

This is why I'm putting off going to the dentist! Last time I had root canal surgery was 10 years ago, and I had to be sedated as my hands were gripping the arms of the chair so tightly I was turning them to powder.

CointreauVersial · 28/03/2013 17:52

Cringing at tales of dental woe.

Easter egg shortages - I got caught out a couple of years ago, and ended up buying something overpriced and inappropriate late on Easter Saturday, so I now stock up in good time for the DCs. Back in the day DF used to own a petrol station, so Easter Sunday was either a nausea-inducing bonanza of overstocks, or sweet FA. Grin

Strops - I read that story, but concluded that I wasn't expecting any of mine to become actors, sportspersons or singers, which is what the article mainly seemed to focus on. I have come to terms with my un-pushiness regarding the DCs' education; they are in "good" state schools, and as long as they are progressing, are happy, and are growing into articulate, interesting people I strongly believe that they will make something of their lives, even with the "burden" of a state school education. You are not failing your DCs by not privately educating them, but it would suit your family to make you feel like you are, so they can justify what they are spending on school fees. So there.

Stropperella · 28/03/2013 18:06

I heart CV Grin

Cremolafoam · 28/03/2013 18:51

Oh Beachy that's wretched altogether. Hope you are double dosing on the drugs. If you can bear it( and I don't blame you if you can't) try to keep the tooth. A prosthetic can cause all sorts of untold other horror. I speak from experience. My gentle dentist is all about keeping your originals and will always try to save it. I binned three shit and thug-style dentists before I found a sensible reasonable one. I feel so sorry for your pain. Chocolate via straws all round:)

Rubes you too. Well bloody done today.

Strops FGS the private school thing is a racket. It does not prevent anyone who didn't go to one from later life success. Good teaching and positive role models and confidence giving experiences can be found at plenty of state schools , ordinary primaries and bog standard grammars. Your children will do well in life because they've got You who gives a shit and doesn't pay someone to do that for them. Grin I have been up against this attitude for years and its codswallop. Privately educated kids may well do brilliantly but there are no guarantees.

I am now anxious about chocolate egg shortagesShock I need a Dr who one and a minty aero one. However if they have to be upgraded to hotel chocolat or downgraded to cremeggs from the spar I think I can live with itGrinGrin

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MrsSchadenfreude · 28/03/2013 19:01

Strops, I will swap you your family gathering for mine if it will make you feel better. My faaaamily is like the Mitchells in Eastenders but marginally less violent. No-one has been privately educated apart from my second cousin once removed who won a scholarship to a London public school. No-one went to uni either, apart from second cousin once removed, who got banged up inadvertently detained somewhere, missed his finals and had to do an extra year. A few have HNDs (or whatever they are called now) from Polys. They meet up at weddings and funerals, declare undying love for each other, it's because we're faaamily, innit? They get very drunk, have a huge row about something quite trivial and don't speak to one of their relatives for the rest of their life.

They have disowned quite close relatives for the following reasons:

Someone being given a Catholic funeral when they weren't Catholic. ("I suppose because you're the widow you think you can do what you bleedin' well like?")

The disappearance of Auntie's jewellery being blamed on someone being a tea leaf. ("She left that to me, you know.")

Someone inheriting something that the others thought they shouldn't have, even though it was all above board and in the will.

And I've heard the following comment at a cousin's wedding:

"Is your dress second hand? It looks it, it looks a bit grubby round the bottom. No? Are you sure?" (This was to the bride.)

Uncle to his sister: "You're far to ugly to be in our family. Mum must have been having a bit on the side."

On the tooth front, I now have a shiny, new crown and a sore mouth.

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/03/2013 19:02

Oh and Strops, privately educated second cousin once removed now drives a mini cab in Saaaf Landan...

hattymattie · 28/03/2013 19:31

Well definitely got off lightly at the dentist compared to some of you. Hope you're all feeling better.

DH always very bemused by how many Brit actors are Oxbridge. He says in France the dafter you are the better and cites Depardieu as an example.

Mrs S - my friend has a family like yours - her DF was a black cab driver who interestingly sent her to private school (she's an accountant now). With some of the stories she tells I'm beginning to think she's related to the Krays.

Stropperella · 28/03/2013 19:38

MrsS and Crem, I you too. Although, MrsS, your family gatherings sound a bunch more fun than mine. Ours is vast collection of poshos with sticks up their arses all being polite but incredibly cutting. A bit of shouting and swearing would air about 50 years' worth of grievances and put a stop to the 2 months of snidey bitching phone calls which inevitably follow one of these dos. The snobbery is painful. This will be the first time some of the more dreadful cousins have met dh - who is very much not their sort of person. He won't give a crap about their reaction, but I will. Then again, I shouldn't, should I?
I should prob also stop spending money I can't afford on clothing to wear to this do in an effort to boost my flagging self-confidence. I will get sneered at whatever, so I might as well put on my stripey M&S strides, DMs and a fuck-off attichood instead. Grin

hattymattie · 28/03/2013 20:10

Love the idea of the stripey strides and docs at a wedding. You should go for it -especially if you won't see them again for years; Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/03/2013 20:48

DD1 is utterly distraught. She auditioned for the school musical and has been given a place in the chorus. Last year she had two major speaking parts with solos, and had been led to believe she would have a big part this year too (the 8th graders tend to get the bigger parts). She has said she is going to tell the teacher where to shove her musical and do football instead. I don't blame her. Her friend, who is outstanding and has the most amazing voice has also been shoved in the chorus. She says she's not doing it either. DD1 is also muttering about favouritism. Not sure what to do. She is sobbing in her room as if nothing can be right ever again. I don't really want to email the evil bitch teacher as that looks a bit precious, but she put her sport on hold to do this instead and now may not get onto the sports team either. I can quite see why she doesn't want to be in the "dancing chorus", particularly as she said earlier in the week that she saw the other teacher's notebook and was very excited because her and her friend's names were pencilled against two major parts. Not sure how you can go from that to the chorus in the space of a few days.

hattymattie · 28/03/2013 21:03

Aww Mrs S - I had a similar situation last year when DD2 got given the part of a Wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast (although being a bad mother I couldn't suppress a snigger - at talking wardrobe). These school drama things are really tough and I did think DD was better than her friend who got much bigger role. I always feel very helpless against the 'powers that be' in these situations. DD2 did do a flounce and went for swimming instead.

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/03/2013 21:33

According to dratted FB, five people have quit because they aren't happy with their roles. These are not "precious" children, either, they just felt that they probably deserved better (and are right). One of DD's friends has been cast as a dancer. She can't dance. I don't mean that she has no sense of rhythm, she has something wrong with her back, and she can't physically dance, so she is having to ask for another part. Confused

CointreauVersial · 28/03/2013 21:34

Oh, MrsS, that's a shame. Is it one of those "you had a part last year; it's someone else's turn now" situations, or something more underhand? I suppose it's a life lesson; sometimes it's not bloody well fair.

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/03/2013 21:43

I think it is probably favouritism. The 8th graders usually get the good parts, the idea being that you start in the chorus at 6th grade and work your way up. The others who have all been given chorus parts have told the teacher where to stick it too. It's like a step back from last year for DD1, and all of her friends are saying "Y r u in the chorus? U r reeeellly good." And crap like that.

At DD1's first school in Brussels, the drama teacher cast his daughter in the lead role in every play (she was Mary, she was Goldilocks... you get the picture). Some parents not unreasonably complained (not me!) and said that other children should be given a chance. The head agreed, roles were recast. Apparently he had a hissy fit and resigned on the spot!

Cremolafoam · 28/03/2013 22:13

Mrs s I think there is definitely some underhand control freakery going on. I'd put money on it being one nasty individual with a grudge.

Hattie do you actually have a restaurant in RLSmile?< fascinated>

EnvyEnvyEnvy @ BTM on her travels today. SO need a holiday rather than the promise of trawling university campuses with dd.
I am working the entire Easter Weekend which is adding to my sense of doom. This day last year it was 18 degrees and we were off to the west of Ireland to have beach and donkey fun with friends.Sad

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Blackduck · 29/03/2013 08:04

Morning all - just caught up. Hungover here - I blame the champers. I am in a warm (friends) house and might just stay Grin

Don't do Easter eggs here so ds has two more books in the Percy Jackson series as he demolished the first one in less than 24 hours. He'll get a ton of choc from the in-laws.

Mum is off for ECG and 24 hours heart/blood pressure monitoring - fun (not)

Stropps yy to stripy trousers, DMs and attitude Grin

hattymattie · 29/03/2013 10:58

Crem - no no restaurant here - watching Masterchef is as far as it goes - though I do try to up my game - when Masterchef on TV. My DD wants to trawl universities as well, I don't know when she thinks we can dump the rest of the family and actually do this.

Mrs S - I reckon all these drama things are inherently unfair, can't believe the drama teacher resigned when accused of favouritism. Drama Queens the lot of them. In our school the younger ones get small parts as well and are expected to work their way up year after year.

BD - I have confiscated my DS's Percy Jackson's as he's reading them in a loop and needs to read other stuff for school. I felt really mean but he's addicted!

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Blackduck · 29/03/2013 11:49

Oh which threads Ruby?! I am on my way home to my freezing house ...
I intend to do very little today, but need to tidy up as have guests coming on Sunday. Need to decide what to cook.

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/03/2013 17:17

Well we have had some serious backpedalling going on from drama teacher. DD1 spent most of the day in tears at school (she rang me twice from the loo). I was quite worried about her - she had a serious maths exam today, and I emailed the teacher and asked that she be allowed to do it next week as a) she was in no state to do well and b) maths is not her strong point. She told me the drama teacher had asked to see her after school - she did not want to go. I said she should speak to her, so that she could see how upset she was by the whole fandango. Teacher spoke to her - of course she is not in the chorus Hmm, she did not read the email properly - this role has been created especially for her, she will be on stage for 90% of the musical, of course it is a speaking part... yada yada yada. All I can say is, lying bitch - I read the email too and it definitely said chorus! DD1 has agreed to do it - I think she should ask to see the script to see exactly how much of a role it is. Actually, I am now envisioning the drama teacher spending this weekend hurriedly writing an extra character into the play... Grin

Blackduck · 29/03/2013 17:40

Blimey MrsS what a stress! Do the French not get Good Friday off?
I am over the hangover and inordinately pleased that dp managed to get the old loo seat off and we have a brand spanking new one - one step closer to the new bathroom? :)
I have a five day break - hoorah!
Hope all those with teeth issues are on the mend...

Stropperella · 29/03/2013 17:50

Ooo-er, MrsS, the drama teacher is clearly having a big old panic. Maybe she allocated the parts in the first place by getting pissed and then putting on a blindfold and sticking pins in a list?

BD, we had an epic Percy Jackson phase that lasted for about 6 months. Ds read the final book in the original series just after Christmas. He has the ones from the new series on hold whilst he catches up on a bit of HP. I loved PJ too, but can't be arsed with HP.

Having spent the morning freezing at a sand sculpture exhibition with a sci fi theme - ds went dressed as a jedi and was v. excited because he met a Tusken raider AND Darth Vader - I feel I have done enough boy stuff today. Looking forward to a fish and chip supper and a glass or two of fizz.

Ruby, you must be sooooo sore, you poor soul. Hope everyone is on the mend from their dental disasters - or at least bearing up, in Beachy's case.

Cremolafoam · 29/03/2013 18:09

Ofgs mrs S what a carry on!
What a menteuse! It would be laughable if it weren't so cruel.

I am visiting my friends cat( feeding him while she's away) we are watching Ratatouille. The cat is nose to screen watching the cartoon mice.
Vair funnyGrin

Hattie quarter final ce soir of Masterchef. You watching?

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