The Crepe Escape

[Cremolafoam]

We were getting to the end.

Oh Lordy! Will have to do an emergency clothes shop for DS on Saturday morning as he goes on School Journey on Monday and nothing fits him any more. Well, 5 T-shirts still fit, but he's not got any track pants or anything

Jeez herbs that sounds like my idea of hell. Well done for surviving all that

Dd has announced The Great Birthday Plan. 10x 18-20 year olds coming here ( inward shrieking) for a movie and 'my famous pizza' then going out at 9 to rock club with a drinks promotion on a Tuesday ( feels queasy) and Mademoiselle Cremola is to be collected at 2am.( feels ill and yawns) < volunteers dh>

AIBU to just book into a premier inn until its all over?

Cremo...time for a small minibreak?

I have bitten the bullet and took myself to the docs this morning to see if he could do anything about my missing "get up and go". I've been feeling so bleurgh recently, tired and grumpy, slow and sluggish......he's lovely, my GP (I have had the same one for 16 years, we have mutual friends), and he was very sympathetic. We discussed HRT, and he has arranged a full blood test / MOT to check there's nothing else going on, however I don't think there will be, and I expect to some extent that I will have to "suck it up" and get used to my miserable menopausal existence. Meanwhile, my period is about to enter its 13th day, which is really starting to get beyond a joke.

I consoled myself by more Sales shopping (Great Plains, more Zara, New Look for the DDs and a new pair of running shoes - yes, I'm back out there pounding pavements!). I also spent £850 on new soffits, fascias and guttering, and Our Man will be busy for the next fortnight making our house nice and drip-proof again.

Cremo, that sounds very retro and not too difficult for you! We all had our 18ths in clubs with drinks promo's that shut at 2 back-in-the-day. I was probably the only one who was 18 at all of them as I was the oldest in my year-group!

CV, sympathies. HRT is working for me - only the other morning I was thinking about how bad "the rage" was before HRT and how I never get that bad any more, never mind the reduction in flow, etc!

BTM - for ds' clothing issues, if you can face the grimness of it, Sports Direct in Streatham is having yet another closing down sale and I did a supermarket sweep through a couple of weekends ago and got track pants/trainers/sneakers etc for dcs for really not very much £ at all. They do more crossover leisure stuff than I was expecting, got dd some v sweet navy plimsolls.

Yes, we're hitting Sports Direct and Primarni - no point in buying anything fancy in a rush as he will no doubt continue growing like a double-strength weed

Just caught up with everybody - MI hope your friends are bearing up. These sort of things put my petty worries into perspective.

CV - here the gynaeco' suggests two years of HRT not more. I may visit in September to see exactly where I am on the menopausal clock.

Meanwhile French sales started yesterday - went with DD2 following massive row between DD's over bra borrowing. Turns out DD2's boobs have had a growth spurt and overtaken DD1's so I have bought her 3 new bras and she has to promise not to raid her sister's underwear draw.

I myself have treated myself to a very posh french bra the price of which even on sale equals at least two from M&S. I'm waiting to see if I suddenly feel sophisticated when wearing!

Tomorrow end of the french bac - with orals in french. I will be so relieved (I expect DD1 will be also). Then off to London for university viewing and John Lewis's yippee.

CV, surely something at least can be done about the endless period? No wonder you're low - your iron must be plummeting.

CV - MI speaks the truth. I got some iron/vitC tablets the other day as I was feeling so tired, and they did indeed perk me up good and proper. When I can remember to take them, obvs.

Just come back from visiting DS's new school. Did massive cry. Didn't feel the love. The second site - an old Victorian school building designed for about 300 children - will just have two forms, and feels empty and austere. Yet chaotic, at the same time. His teacher seems lovely (and suitably impressed when I said he was reading), but it feels very much like a hotch-potch collection of families and children than couldn't get in anywhere else. It also looks like he'll be the only white child, which probably doesn't matter but might make him feel a bit lonely. Or it might mean that I'm 'casually racist'.

I'm sure he'll be fine, but I don't feel we've done the best for him. Not that there's anything I can do about that, bar moving house or going private, neither of which are appealing options.

Oh Herb's I hope it comes right for him. If there are only two forms at least that's small and cosy. It probably feels empty for now as it's the end of term. The important thing is that his teacher seems lovely - I always think it's the teacher that's make or break. My only issue with being the only white kid would be as long as the rest can speak English, otherwise, I don't think at that age they even notice that much.

It's only one form per year, and there'll be just two years in there. So at the moment, only 30! It will be small and cosy, yes, which is in its favour...

Herbs, agree re lovely teacher. Hang on in there. Keep him on waiting lists if you're unsure. I don't know about your area but kids swap around like nobody's business round here from different schools!

Oh yes, CV, I am anaemic (due to years and years of heavy periods, no doubt) - beware of the dreaded iron tablets (side effects not good!) Floradix seems a little better, though the taste makes me retch a bit!

Oh Herbs {{{}}} You have definitely done the best you can - it wasn't down to you which school he was given. At least the teacher seemed nice, which is very important. He will probably be absolutely fine and make lots of varied friends. And you can stay on the waiting lists for the other schools too, incase a space comes up and you want to move him.

Oh and very cosy indeed!

BTM - try Spatone or the Vitabiotics liquid iron - they seem better in their, er, effects. (I have managed to blag acquire quite a bit of the stuff...)

15 per class Herb's? That's cool. Here we have 30 to 34 per class!

Sorry HM - I'm not being clear. It's 30 per class. In 2012-13, there was only the reception form there (ie, 30), and from this September there'll be reception (DS's class) and year 1, totalling 60. Then it will fill up from the bottom, as it were, until year 6 when they'll go over to the main site to a new building.

Off now to a photoshoot! A new dress hire business wants 'ordinary local mothers' to model their clothes! And I'm nothing if not ordinary. And local.

The same as here then. Have fun modelling the clothes. I'm sure you'll look great.

Get you, herbs - S&B model now!

It was rather fun. I've been assigned a 70s evening dress, with batwing sleeves and silver thread. It makes me look like Joan Sims, or similar. Right busty. The actual shoot is on the morning of DS's birthday party. There will be cake, and wine. All rather jolly.

Sympathies, ruby!

And get a photo, Herbs!

We are in a state of disarray here.

Dd1 wants to go to a party and stay over with a slightly disreputable friend who is 'home alone'. We have 'disagreed' politely and she is ensconced in her bedroom, fuming.

Ds1 did a cycling day today (thought of Ruby!) and has sunstroke and was sick in the shower.

The rest of us are fine!

Lucky you herbs, quick put model on your cv!

Sunstroke - how did he manage that? It must be seriously more sunny where you are But sympathies - DH suffered from it once after playing footy in Luxor with no sunhat on.... It's not good.