The CrepeVine

[MrsSchadenfreude]

How did we finish the other thread so fast...? Less than a month.

Ofsted!

Oh - just read it, that's lovely. And yes, the head is outstanding

Hatty - adding my birthday wishes!

BTM - how scary for your DS. It's one of my biggest fears, as a parent of a boy, that there will be some aggro encountered at some point in their lives, and there can be such awful consequences if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, or cross the path of someone out for trouble. Although one hopes at 12 they are too young to get into any serious scrapes.....Luckily, the two secondaries here rub along quite well - there is rivalry, of course, but you often see mixed groups hanging out together after school.

House B, Ruby??

Ooh yes, Ruby, I spotted you signing on with Sergeant Major BIWI. I am tempted myself, as standards have slipped of late, and I am gaining a small tyre just in time for the summer.

God no, can't do that low carb thing...give me fasting any day....

Oh Ruby sounds intriguing...

ruby Update asap! Location, location, location, you know!

Gah! All this talk of BIWI and 5:2 is making me feel guilty. And plump!

Ah Ruby but its only when you get to house C that it gets really interesting
I love carbs (except rubbish bread which bloats me) but lay off them in fast days as they are too high in carbs for a meagre amount. It's the range of stuff you can't eat on that low carb diet that does me and as a veggie means my diet is severely limited!!

I do find low-carb works, if I can stick to it, but I'm no good in the pre-school world, where soft-play places only sell high-carb lunches, and picnics are much easier to make if they're just sandwiches. I'm too lazy to pack a delightful melange of feta, parma ham and chargrilled this and that.

Fretting about the school again. I want to go and visit, see if I like it, how the 'second site' thing works, how they'll accommodate his genius, etc, but despite three phone calls and two emails, have yet to have anyone call me or reply in any form.

We haven't had a letter, an indication of an open day, nada. The website doesn't even mention that it has a second site. Doesn't inspire confidence.

Happy Birthday for yesterday, Hattie.

Herbs - I'm sure the school will get back to you soon - maybe they are planning an open evening this term? Lots of schools do. Your singing at the South Bank sounds lovely - I know a couple of people who did some of the choral stuff there this weekend, it was obviously very good.

Now, in the intersts of S&B, I have been looking at Sainsbos website since I don't live near a big one and wanted to know if it's worth me schlepping down to Merton. They do have some nice stuff and I will make a detour on my next trip that way, but please, ladies whatever you do, DO NOT BUY these. They are shocking and wrong, doubly so for a crepey.

alto - so sorry about your colleague, that's very sad, even when it's expected. I have been unexpectedly affected by the horrrible boating accident in Cornwall - I didn't know the family, but know kids at their school, and life all just seems so fragile when people die before their time. I keep thinking about the mother - I know people survive these things, but really, how do you ever truly move on when it's such a ghastly, and possibly preventable accident?

I'm sure they are planning an open day, but I need to know when dammit, in case we get offered a waiting list place at other school and need to know whether to take it up. Panic panic.

Re Sainsbury's, as the resident Tu expert, I'd say get yourself down to a big shop. They only have a fraction of the extensive range online. And quite why they chose to feature those trouser monstrosities God only knows.

I would certainly "turn heads" in those trousers! People would turn their heads away from me and run... I have some garish bold trousers in my cupboard but those are something else.
Herbs, what about direct action? Could you go to the school and ask to see someone in the school office? Sounds v frustrating and agree it can hardly fill you with confidence. Do you know anyone who has dcs at school there?

Wilbur, they are shockingly Per Una-ish And I agree, hardly anything online!

Yes, I agree about that Padstow coat accident - awful

herbs, are you brave enough to rock up there and say that you would like to make an appointment to visit, etc? I would!

I did go there once, around lunchtime, and the place was deserted. And it's a bit of a schlep, and you can't park.

I don't know anyone with kids there as its only got 30 at that site. And seems to act as a soak up site for rejects from other schools, so kids come from far and wide.

Can't swing by today as have pox-ridden child. Tho I think he's mainly scabs now.

Xpost QQ - great minds!

And re the trousers, I used to wear some pretty garish ones (hareem pants too in my yoof!)

Only 30 kids at the site - just reception class?

At the moment, yes. That would become year 1, with DS's class becoming reception. And it would fill up from the bottom like that, one form per year. At least, that's what I've pieced together from asking on Facebook. But it's the sort of thing I need to actually ask the school!

Get up there! It's the only way! Is the main school near by? You may have to go there too if it's only the reception staff in that building - the Head/Deputy will be on the main site, I would have thought.

There is a photo of me in existence, taken kindly by my mate Martin who then scanned it so I have it in e-form, of me in an outfit that would make those trousers look positively monochrome.

Am having v chaotic week. Must get back to writing something...

I had a pair of culottes with pineapples etc on them (my fruit salad skirt as dp called it) - it would give those trews a run for their money......

I (luckily) have NO photographic evidence...

Thank you all for your birthday wishes here and on FB, you are all lovely. This morning made kids do a long walk - which they actually enjoyed before coming home and forgetting it was a bank Holiday so now DH is out combing the countryside for a pizza

As for the Sainsbo's trousers - I do not understand why things like that are manufactured - I can already see them in the sale.

DD1 very pleased as I sent her up to the law courts to find some stuff out - like if she might actually like to study law. She flirted with the lawyers during their cigarette break and has heard today that she has a week's work experience at the beginning of June. So she will have something to write on her Personal Statement next year after all. Phew.

That's great Hatty!

I haven't got any photo evidence of my trouser-disasters (though I didn't think they were disasters at the time!) - binned anything like that years ago!