The Crepey Cube

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Dd is over- subscribed by grandparents as she has her dad & my parents 70 and 85 , her mother's parents 77 and 75 and dh's parents 78 and 79.
Both mine and dh's are at a handy 15 minute jaunt in opposite directions. This can be advantageous and , not ,in equal measure . I suppose that's why we bought the cottage actually.

My head is addled with honed info for this blimmin interview. Giving up now and going with what I know.crepey brain can recall.
May have a small glass of Guinness with call the midwife.

Good Luck Cremo - they'd be fools to not grab you, even with a pirate eye-patch

The DC have DM - 5(V) hours away, and DPIL 2(II) hours away.

Beachy, glad your DD had a great time in NY

NU, footy match?! DS won his too, all the sweeter as his two schoolmates were on the opposite team!

Stropps, you would be great in skinnies - stop thinking you're the wrong size - you have a great figure!

Best of luck for tomorrow, Crem!

My dm is 83 and my dad would be 105 if he were still around (died at 97).

Ha, I suddenly feel rather young.

Beachy, glad to hear the trip to NY went well (despite germs). Dd has yet to work out that she is someone who needs loads of sleep. She seems to need even more than ds, but doesn't like to admit it. Now, those UO jeans - they look painted on that model. What is the sizing like? I may have to plan a day-trip to Exeter for me and dd, as I know that there is a branch of UO there and there are doubtless plenty of arty things to look at too... (Am liking this justifying trips out by saying she needs to go and look at stuff for inspiration for Art GCSE )

Interested to see the HoC dissing thread. I'm glad I did the colour analysis thing last year because it got me seeing a few things differently, but I decided a while back that some of the stuff that we were told was a load of dogmatic drivel. I nicked back a jacket that I had given to dd because it was the "wrong" colours, wore it and got several compliments.

Aww, thank you BTM :)

Yes, Stropps, DD is exactly the same as your DD (again!) re sleep. Tricky when they can't get to sleep/are awake in the night yet have to be up for school

Re grandparents, the DDs have DH's parents, who are fab, will have them to stay regularly and do lots of interesting activities and outings with them. To balance that, they also have my DM, who has never shown much interest in them, beyond competitive grandparenting with her friends and told me when they were born, not to think that she was ever going to babysit. She has never offered and I have never asked. She won't even play a board game with them, ignores them completely and then complains that they have no manners and won't speak to her. I overheard her saying to DD2 once, when she was about 2 "Mummy says you're her sweetie, doesn't she? But you're not a sweetie, are you? You're a nasty, manipulative little girl."

MrsS

That is truly nasty. But shouldn't be that much of a surprise, given all the stories we have heard

Your mother's vileness is the stuff of fairy-tales, MrsS.

I have survived a day chez my parents. Even told them I was going to India and had civilised conversation about various people who could put me up, places I haven't gone to and want to (funnily enough they've just been to a place called Tranquebar I want to visit) etc. Am now trying not to think about what I need to do tomorrow. A whole other set of deadlines looms

Blimey MrsS i am - your mother is vile
Ds has both sets of grandparents - I had two grandmothers, and one grandfather growing up (until he did a bunk..,)

I am I need early bed - I now know this and can't bear late starts to evenings as I like to be tucked up by 11.00 :)

Bad sentence there - I mean I get where Wilbur and Stropps dds come from. - I'm always first to bed....

Yes, but MI, it is usually the wicked step-mother, not the one who gave life to her DD and hence DGD's

BD, 11pm is a late night for me

Well BTM you and I are one of a kind :)

Wow, MrsS, that's almost unbelievable. How incredibly cruel.

BTM, with DH and DS I am a season ticket holder at St James's Park and things haven't been good since the New Year.

MI, how exciting for you to be planning your trip. Will you go for long?

I am like various DDs, I need my sleep, too. I might occasionally

manage 10.00 pm, but usually it's not long after nine when I go to bed. We are awake at six, though.

Two GC tomorrow as DD is doing a KIT day.

Good luck with the interview tomorrow, BD.

NU, I am a footy widow. They support both the local team and Brentford (don't ask!) as well as Arsenal (DS) and Liverpool (DD) I have been to one match (Liverpool -v- Sheffield Wednesday, in my youth!) and several of the DC's. I can't stand watching with DH as I can't relax!

And you go to bed even earlier than me

Mrs S they broke the mould when they made your dm, I hope. I have this ridiculous mental image of her as The Wicked Witch of The West complete with scary monkey cohorts.

Stropps , BTM is right about your figure. You could wear anything you like, as you look great to me.

I am most definitely not a lark perhaps after years of training myself to be an owl - working evenings and nights has taken its toll on my ability to scrape myself out in the morning. The idea of being fully functional at 8am makes me puke. 2am no bother.

Ah, BTM, I decided many years ago if you couldn't beat them, join them. I think my Ddad would have liked a son; I occasionally went to matches with him and always liked competitive sport (hated to lose at Badminton! ). When I met DH I just went along until I became hooked, too. When I go out for lunch with my girlfriends it's rare that football isn't mentioned.

Now it's past my bedtime.

I'm a shocker for going to bed at a sensible hour - I'm usually still faffing about at 1am. Although I made a NY Resolution to be in bed by midnight on a "school night" and have stuck to it about 80% of the time.

My DCs still have six GPs alive and kicking (my parents both remarried), and until a couple of years ago had GGran, who died at 101. DM is the closest, only 50 miles away, so easily day-trippable.

Strops - that sounds like a lovely day out with your DD. Nice to find something you really bond over; it's lovely just to spend time with a single offspring.

I'm watching Bridesmaids with a glass of red wine and a pile of Raffaello (yummy coconutty chocs). A good a way as any to finish a week.

Oooh, and KLAXON to Herbs - Sainsbury's have 25% off clothes at the moment. I may or may not have bought a stretchy stripy tube skirt for work, a pair of khaki jeggings and a really nice grey sweatshirt with a cream lace panel on the front; all for not very much money.

I want to go to bed but I'm being introduced to TOWIE while watching dd1 do art......

Ooh CV - I fingered that very sweatshirt, then decided I didn't need it. But at 25% off, I may need it after all.

Have decided on Museum of London for my day off tomorrow. I love it, and this time can actually look at items of interest for more than one nanosecond, as is the case when being towed round by DS.

Just watched Bridesmaids too, CV. What larks. I was at the same kids party in Victoria Park as Chris O'Dowd, so now count him among my dearest friends.

Herbs, DH comes from the same town as C O'D (and where Moone Boy was filmed) and went to school with his older brother.

beachy, I was introduced to TOWIE by DD when it first started

Herbs, I can tell you don't have a teen yet - watch your use of "fingered"

Back to school - wonder what meltdowns today has in store....

Herbs, have a good day out getting some culture; it sounds lovely.

When DH went downstairs this morning he found a strange cat lying on top of the CH boiler with our cat! Cat belongs to a new neighbour and arrived last year; up until a short while ago cats were at claws drawn, so they may have become friends. My one worry is that it will stress our aged moggie - I think it's a case of "watch this space".

good luck with interview, crem! i hv one tomorrow. gulp.

(and lovely skirt)

have a lovely day Herbs - make sure it's full of small (large) treats

back to school but at least the mornings feel distinctly lighter...

Yes, Crem, good luck with your interview.

Herbs, have a lovely day out! V envious. Or well jel as the teens might say.

Yes, she is horrible (my mother). She is currently not speaking to me because I told her it was none of her business who got what from my aunt and uncle's house, and if they had wanted her to have something specific, it would have been mentioned in the will. (I found out subsequently that she did get some of her sister's substantial jewellery, but it seems that the TV, dining room curtains and some pictures are of more interest.) She is not speaking to my cousin either because Z told her the same thing.