The Crepe Escape

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We were getting to the end.

I am currently working from home in the nearest cafe Nero because BT have monumentally failed to fix our broadband...
I am also in a coat, because when I left it was grey and clouded, now there is a blue sky and the temp is rising - I am over dressed....
I am also lugging four bags having been to Wilko and Waitrose - oh how the other half...

Am at party which might lead me to murder dp on his return....

AIBU to give a feature - on how a GP surgery is training up an apprentice for admin work - the heading 'The surgery's apprentice'?

MI sounds interesting. My Gps receptionist is now A Machine into which you type your Dob and it then speaks to you telling you to
"Please wait in waiting room 2" in a Shelbot voice.
Then there is the practice manager who doles out the scripts and tries to snap your fingers viciously in her glass partition

Ours in MK used to have a machine which invited you to "arrive yourself."

MI

Our new doctors surgery has a person employed solely to apologise to people complaining about its Kafka-esque appointments system. Our old one had the "arrive yourself" computer too - I always meant to dob them into the Campaign for Real English.

Snorts @ Wilbur
Lol "Dob them in"
Can I do that to my boss who consistently spells 'aisle' as i s l e in emails.

Scuttles of to decline the verb ' to arrive' in mild hysteria.

Really, Crem, I would just do him/her in. It would be a kindness.

11pm, and I have Just Sat Down. I managed to blow a quite magnificent £310 in Sainsburys, but that was just food and alcohol; no par-tay dresses to be found. I was only five minutes late to pick up DD1, but I bribed her with a retro bar of Caramac.

Good news arrived in the post today; my lovely, lovely cousin is getting married again later in the year, having lost DH1 to suicide a few years back (he was also DB's best friend, so particularly awful). It should be a good do, kids all welcome, so no babysitting challenges.

Lovely, CV. I haven't been to a wedding in years!

Oooh, ruby!

CV I'm so glad for your cousin. It'd be lovely to have a nice wedding to go to. Round here it's divorce mania - I think there's some sort of domino effect going on. It is chaos socially.

Ruby - I remember house viewings and trying to keep the house in tip-top condition and yelling at the kids the whole time. Have a relaxing weekend (and fun party).

I have pulled out my summer clothes and don't like anything - what was I thinking last year? Everything is either too baggy or shows my mummy tummy. Very hard to find something just right.

I still don't know what to wear tomorrow...

Me neither. It's got to be effortlessly stylish, suitable for a four-year-old's birthday party in hot sun, non-creasing as I've got to drive for hours, and easily made warm by the addition of something stylish that I don't possess.

I have, determinedly, my Frock. Probably accessorised, at this rate, with a parka.

I have purchased a large amount of cheap fizz. Also various veg which are staring at me as I am supposed to turn them into curry

(I am in fact v practised at turning veg into curry...)

Have just spent the afternoon in the park in a summers dress. It was raining and cold

Cheap fizz and curry sounds fab

I wonder if I stare hard enough at the veg if they'll transform themselves without assistance....

Very jealous of the curry and fizz.... I have my ball on Saturday, for which I have finally found shoes and a pashmina (yes, I know, very 90's, but frankly a lot cheaper than a bolero and I will get more use out of it!) Good old Accessorise!

I have a dilemma that I am stressing over and I would like your advice:

We are having a barbeque in the summer and we tend to invite local friends and then a few from far away, all families, very casual, but a bit of an annual event. I have messed up this year and invited a 'school' family by mistake, as I muddled up their names with someone local and they have accepted. It's not that I don't like them, its just that if I've invited them, I would have invited about ten other families from school. They will realise, very quickly, if they come, that it was a mistake, as they won't know anyone else there (or may know about two, but realise we are a lot closer to all the other people there)..... basically, we've never socialised 'parentally' at all with them, not intentionally, just haven't...

What do I do? (a) Do I admit my mistake and effectively uninvite them? (b) do I just leave it and hope they don't notice that they don't know anyone (or tell anyone else at school!) (c) quickly invite loads of other school people (which I'm not really keen on!).... She looked really pleased this morning in the playground too! Aaaaarg....I'm so stupid!

oh GOD I feel your pain. (And would do something like this.)

Could you add a couple of mutual friends? Or just go for option B.

Beachy, what a dilemma!

I think a) would be very tricky now, especially as she looked really pleased - you could come out looking pretty bad (unless someone else can come up with the right sort of wording for it!)

b) is probably the best option, but I think I would probably feel really guilty and awkward and end up c) inviting loads of other school people too. Have you got a big garden?

But have fun at your ball

MI, can't you rope your DD's into peeling and chopping?!

Beachy - I'd suggest d) mention in passing that you haven't invited many from school, hope that's OK; presumably she'll get the hint from that not to blab to all and sundry that she's been invited, and she'll be prepared to not know many people. You definitely can't un-invite, and I'd resist the temptation to invite loads from school, unless there are one or two that you could tag on.

I've just spent half an hour sifting through my wardrobe, and think I'm sorted for tomorrow. Not a frock, though. And not from Sainsburys.

So have you party going crepeys appointed an official photographer?
Am expecting a full report and some pmed photos you know!

No you are right, I can't uninvite... Think I might 'pad' her out with a few others... Still will look mighty suspicious. I don't even know what her husband looks like guess I will soon

Have just got school fees invoice and I underestimated the amount we will have to contribute by about £6000 per annum. Feel sick now. I guess DH will just have to agree that we dip into our savings. I was looking at the wrong figures. It is my fault, but he has shown no interest at all in the children's schooling and has left it entirely up to me. But he is going to start ranting about it, and I can't cope with him and AB as well.

Looking at it logically, when the DDs were in nursery, we were paying £1200 per month for both of them and I was earning half what I earn now, so it should be do-able really, if we did it then. And very logically, our contribution will be less than if the DDs were going to a mediocre London private school.

But this is just something else to add to my stress. Thank god the holiday is looming.