Crepe Expectations

[Cremolafoam]

Will this do?

Morning and happy bank holiday to all. We are on our way back from a hippie festival in our van, with very sleepy teens and little ones! We've just looked out the window and we've driven 70 miles with the shower gel hanging off the roof rail

Results were good, better than expected, to the point we almost wet ourselves laughing at the fact she got a B in Maths, which was entirely unexpected! Teachers looked on disapprovingly

Good luck tomorrow Ruby with the move.

Cremo - bad mother
Beachy - at shower gel. (My C in chemistry was a bit like your dds maths - still have no idea how I got it!)

Ds is a size 3 in shoes - another half a size and my stuff will fit (he might pinch the canvas trainers but can't see him liberating anything else) which is scary.....

Beachy rofl@ shower gel.

DD1's feet are now a size bigger than mine, so I can't borrow her lovely new black brogues.

Perhaps I could borrow Beachyboy's....

MrsS, go and shop? Les flics? A last luxurious wander round la ville? I would kill for hugely enjoy some time without my fellow inmates' demands, I must say.

MI has a point - time on my own in a lovely city - hmm I could do that.

Sorting out bedding for DD2 to take to school, I have discovered that the cats have made a nice little nest on the shelf where we keep the single sheets (which we don't use). The whole lot are absolutely covered in fucking fur and will have to be washed.

DD2 also informs me that she has no pyjamas.

We don't appear to have any decent towels left either...

Will hit the gin shortly. I am going here to unwind tonight with some work colleagues. DH is not impressed.

Order PJs online for delivery to London? Johnny Loulou is good for PJs. I speak as the owner of a 10year old who would wear them all day of she could.

I have just made a truly disastrous cake

What went wrong with the cake? We just found The Muffins That Time Forgot lurking in a cake tin in the kitchen.

Cone to London, buy pj's and bedding and send new to school...slovenly but easier!

MI, what would you like to borrow from Beachyboy? Or would you like Beachyboy himself... Happy to oblige

I tried doing it all in one with extra baking powder...it sank spectacularly and tasted of baking powder. It's not the end of the world.

MI
Beachy
MrsS, make the most of the p&q next weekend and save your energy and get drunk with your mates
Next is the preferred choice for PJ's here, seem to last really well, despite being worn all day at the weekend!

Cremo, for your DD for getting job of Head Girl.
None for you for not kitting her out appropriately

Teens are back, and after an excited hour or so of telling us all the gossip, back to bickering and bitching at each other What I don't understand is that DD had DS sleeping in her (double) bed at the caravan for 4 nights - why would she do that if she finds him sooooo annoying

Epic fail BTM
Actually I'm seething a bit as she's not come home yet and has just phoned to say can j come and get her as she's not sure where she is.

and her room is a sty.
I like to start the year a bit organised .

Cremo, join the club, I am a bit seething too as DD was shouting earlier (in a horrible whiney voice) that she couldn't find her ipod touch and that the cleaner had moved it. I tried to look for it, but there is so much crap in her room.... I then sent a text to our lovely cleaner who hadn't seen it. DD then found it in her bed

I am trying to encourage her to clear her room out with the promise of a new bed and decorating, but....

Lovely to see everybody back. Reminds me of old Guardian article about September: 'leaves are falling, phones are ringing...'

Would post more but mainly on iPad or mobile and driven mad by typos and predictive gibberish.

Struggling to strike a balance with dd - find my mother's influence coming out in me more and more. Fought it successfully during holiday but now that I'm getting anxious about going back to work, it's harder.

Would like to be generous with her but at the same time want to teach her to manage money and appreciate things. So I buy her a lovely new jumper, then flip out when I find it rumpled up on the floor. Pay a fortune for braces, then turn into a stalker checking to see if she's brushed her teeth (she hasn't. And has started sucking her thumb again.)

Y'see, Crem, if it was my dd in your dd's position, I'd struggle to bite back some nasty comment about how if she's responsible enough to be HG she ought to be able to pick up her own dry cleaning, or something similar that would spoil it for her. And I don't want to be like that, it's hard enough on dd having to live with my mother without me turning into her as well.

And...breathe...

Got to tend to casserole

Oh alto, thumb sucking is the reason I have said no to braces for DD. Plus she doesn't really need any.

Oh and I struggle exactly the same with comments, etc

1. I am never moving again, ever, unless it is to my dream, forever home.

1. I have a huge boil right next to my nipple. Doctor (but cannot get there till Thursday) or Magnesium Sulphate paste to bring it up and make it squeezable?

Both.

eek

Eek indeed...

Alton Towers water park....never again...
Dp silently grumped through the whole experience - it was grim... Ds loved it....

And I don't like to judge (but I am going to) why would you wear a costume that has/is stretched so thin (I think it was wear and tear) that it was virtually see-through. (I'd kill dp if he ever let me be seen in public like that...)

Well done, BD, you survived. We are doing the theme park in October.

Chin up, MrsS, you're on the home straight.....

Good luck for the move, Ruby.

Sympathies on the rowing offspring, BTM.

Crem - our blazers are machine-washable (smug). But Head Girl? How brilliant.

Well, we dropped off the DDs successfully this morning and had a lovely day in Portsmouth in the sunshine. I managed to get a good chunk of my Christmas shopping out of the way (I know, I know....), but didn't forget to pick up a few bits for myself, including some new work trousers from Ralph Lauren (not my usual haunt) and some cut-price jeans from White Stuff. DS scored some cheap footy boots from the Nike outlet, which kept him happy, and we spent a good hour and a half drinking beer in the sunshine, watching the boats, and waving at people abseiling down the Spinnaker Tower......lovely.

Back to 54 new dead wasps, and that sinking feeling that indicates the end of another Bank Holiday weekend. Boo.

Ruby good luck with the move - and you MrsS.
Is it interview week this week or next? Either way fingers crossed and keep us posted. Have you written that report yet ;)

CV sounds like a fab day!

Here we are in the fag end of the school holidays. Boiler man hopefully back today, so be good if I could off load ds on someone!

Hope the house moving/packing goes well today ruby/MrsS. And good luck for the interviews too!

CV, Christmas shopping

I have to do a Decathlon/Sports Direct dash with DS - no black shorts, footy socks or base layers fit him any more.
The uniform that I bought at the start of the holiday only just still fits (trouser/jumper length) They are age 15 and he is not yet 12 1/2 FFS. He's costing me a fortune!

I have given up with children's clothes for DD2, BTM. She has just outgrown her Gap jeans which have a 32" inside leg. I did get some Levi's age 16 for her in the sale, which appear to be longer.

The house is full of packing men. They have unfortunately packed all the cups so can't even have a cup of tea. DH has taken DD2 out for breakfast. I have one miserable cat cowering in my wardrobe and another more chilled one, on DD2's bed asleep.