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The Crepe Papers

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motherinferior · 05/10/2013 18:40

Did it!

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CointreauVersial · 09/11/2013 20:52

QQ, I'm very much an advocate of "saving to draft" and then revisiting the email after a cooling-off period. It is then much easier to strip out the emotion.

originalpiratematerial · 09/11/2013 21:39

QueenQueenie, how hurtful of them Angry

MrsSchadenfreude · 09/11/2013 22:18

Oooh! Oooh! A friend of mine has been nominated as Most Stylish Male in the Scottish Style Awards! Keeping my fingers crossed for him!

hattymattie · 10/11/2013 09:19

Does he wear a kilt?Wink

motherinferior · 10/11/2013 10:13

Can he give us style tips?

QQ, hugest of sympathies.

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motherinferior · 10/11/2013 10:17

I am getting far too embroiled with stupid MN rows I won't go into here. Am a twit. Also getting perturbed by new possible thread titles. Will the next one cover Christmas, or is it too early for 'have yourself a merry little Crepey'? Alternatively Life is Crepe?

I spend a lot of the day job/s thinking about headers and sub-heads, in my defence.

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bigTillyMint · 10/11/2013 10:18

QQ, I just can't believe grown women can think it's OK to treat a friend other human being like this. You poor thing.

I am currently drafting a couple of emails...

Linkie to the style-king?!

bigTillyMint · 10/11/2013 10:39

MI, just noticed we were in the 900's too!

Like both your suggestions - you are soooo much wittier than me!

MrsSchadenfreude · 10/11/2013 10:40

No - but I will message you, BTM.

bigTillyMint · 10/11/2013 10:45

Oh yes, he looks like he could rock a wee kiltSmile

Just watching Sir Gareth - why does he think that beard is a good idea? (What is it with young men and beards???) It doesn't even match his hairConfused

QueenQueenie · 10/11/2013 10:48

Sir Gareth?

motherinferior · 10/11/2013 10:51

As threads last about a month I think go with a nonseasonal title... Am also fiddling about with something along the lines of Crepes and Mulled Whine.

(I honestly do have to do this for a living, is not solely personal weirdo preoccupation.)

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motherinferior · 10/11/2013 10:54

QQ, I also wonder if brief email along the lines of 'please don't be so silly: I think it's perfectly obvious why I have been hurt by this, and really you should have thought of this before; I am left with the conclusion that if my feeling mean so little to you there is really not much more I can say'....

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Blackduck · 10/11/2013 11:02

Oh MI fab email - will save for a suitable time!

Gosh are we nearly at the end of the thread already?! Chatty lot aren't we Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 10/11/2013 11:12

Oooh, what MI says, definitely, QQ.

motherinferior · 10/11/2013 11:25

You want to get above their squirming self-justification. The fact is that they have behaved very badly and, er, that's it.

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QueenQueenie · 10/11/2013 11:32

Ooooh, so I can send one more pithy reply is the consensus? It pretty much says that... but has a bit of an edge. I am upset by all this but also bloody cross. Thanks MI. Thanks crepeys.

MrsSchadenfreude · 10/11/2013 12:00

I like Crepes and Mulled Whine!

DD2 says she wants to "do something today." What? "Go out and do something." She refused to come out yesterday and spent most of it talking to her BFF in Houston on Skype. I have offered to take her up to Uniqlo to get her a new coat, but she has now said "Naaah, it's OK, I don't think I'll bother." So I have offered instead a trip to a museum, an art gallery or a walk along the South Bank. No to all of them. Angry

DD1 has stayed over at school this weekend as she had a full day of rehearsals yesterday. She asked if she could come home yesterday early evening, and I said yes, no problem. She then said she had no money to get back as she hadn't drawn down any pocket money. Suggested she asked her room mate to lend her some, but that fell in the "much too difficult" category, so she is sulking at school and sending me periodic texts saying she hates it there and wants to leave and go to another school. Any school. Just not this one. She hates it (bizarrely, apart from the boarding, which she loves) - she is bored with all the lessons, isn't learning anything and has had enough. The thing is, she is like this at first with every school she has been to, so not entirely sure how much notice to take of her. Will raise her boredom with the school when we go for Parent/Teacher day later this month. On the plus side, she is giving the Thanksgiving Address in French, as she is the best French speaker in the school!

CointreauVersial · 10/11/2013 13:07

DD1 has to be at a dress rehearsal for the school play (Bugsy Malone) in less than an hour, and has just informed me she needs a costume for one of the numbers ("Down and Out", dressed as a homeless person).

DH was unamused by my suggestion that she just open her Dad's wardrobe and select anything from there. Grin

bigTillyMint · 10/11/2013 13:07

Yes, send one more QQ (MI's was short and to the point) and then delete all contact with them. Life is too short.

MrsS, that sounds fairly typical teenager stuff re both of them! DD is still going on about how she wanted a laptop two years ago, but DH wouldn't get her one for Christmas and gave her his work one (which she had/has exclusive use of) and how it's not fair that she now has to have one this Christmas as it's not what she really wantsHmm Frustrating, aren't they! Congrats on your DD1 getting to do the TA in French.

QueenQueenie · 10/11/2013 13:54

'Tis done. Ta lovely crepeys. Off for brisk walk with dog. That should help.
Mrs S all sounds par for the teenage course. I should ignore, but sympathetically, for now at least. When ds2 says he's bored I say "And...?"

Blackduck · 10/11/2013 13:58

Ds (not yet a teen) will frequently (despite lots of suggestions) come down at 4.00pm on a Sunday and say 'can we go somewhere?' Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Partic as we are in the middle of me where and the world stops at 12.00 on a Sunday!!

Stropperella · 10/11/2013 17:58

I think we may have broken the record here for "Most strops in any 24hr period by a 15 year old".

Also: how annoyed would you be on a scale of 1-10 if you informed your significant other that you needed to get to bed early as you had to get up at 5.30am and then he/she went out on the piss and forgot to take their keys, neglected to answer their phone or check their messages and came back at 1am, so you had to stay up to let them in?

Bah.

MrsSchadenfreude · 10/11/2013 18:11
  1. And shouty and stabby.

I am home alone - a rare occurrence. I have dimmed the lights, put cheesy Christmas music on, and have little Christmas trees glowing on the mantlepiece. I have also done a lot of tidying and re-arranging in the kitchen and the place looks almost habitable. DD1's bedroom is still awful. Partly because it has become the dumping ground for things we can't find space for, and partly because she is the most terrific hoarder.

Stropperella · 10/11/2013 18:18

Indeedy, MrsS. Grin I hope you are enjoying your home aloneness. I am trying to rouse myself to produce another meal for the ungrateful f&*%£$s in my house and will then retire to bed very early. I wrote a long post detailing the many and varied joys of my weekend, but writing it made the veins on more forehead stand out even more, so I deleted it and had another glass of red instead.

One day I will look back on all of this and laugh. Hollowly.

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