The Crepey Cube

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Addle - nightmare interview - I hate it when I get all flustered and tongue-tied, and the more self-conscious I become about it, the worse it gets.

MI - I also receive the Hotter catalogue regularly, along with Damart and Land's End. I think it all dates back to DH and his Chums purchase; we are now firmly on all the mailing lists as OAPs-in-training. I did have a good thumb through, as I do like a comfy shoe, but....no. Just no.

BD - Ohhhh, that primary homework that requires your little darling to construct something. Gives me the rage. It wasn't so bad with the DDs, who are fairly good at getting stuck in by themselves, but DS needed my help with everything. One that sticks in my mind is the papier mache model of Bough Beech Reservoir (bet you thought it couldn't be done, didn't you, eh?). That one filled my kitchen for several days and took two of us to get it in and out of the car.

I was supposed to be going for a girl's night out this evening, to belatedly celebrate my birthday, but it has been cancelled - one friend phoned to say she has now been diagnosed with ME and can hardly get out of bed at the moment, another had a court case on Tuesday which may lead to her losing her house (bankruptcy complications) and I'm feeling a teeny weeny bit gyppy, tummy-wise. DS is off school today with the runs, and I am just hoping he hasn't spread the love......

LOL MI, you old crepey

I can't bear the thought that there's going to be more strife with university applications. The stress of GCSE's is doing DD's head in as it is

I think I might start grooming DS for an apprenticeship in carpentry, or similar, to avoid uni entry stress. Shame he's absolutely hopeless with his hands, but disturbingly brainy.

CV where's the photo??!!

Herbs I was going for premiership footballer - shame he hates the game..... And wants to be a historian, a historian for godsake! Well that's hardly going to keep me in my old age is it? And he wants to find a nice female historian with whom he can discuss the Samuri and whether, in a fight, they could beat the Spartans......

Talking of comfy shoes, my nice Timberland ones inspired Shoe Envy in a friend today. I didn't tell her about the Hotter catalogue.

Hangs head in shame and tries to avoid looking at her black Hotter shoes which are so comfortable .... To be fair, when you have broken three ankles (if you see what I mean), plus one chip; oh, and a fractured big toe, you take what you can. I probably regret the lack of elegant, or sexy shoes more than any other aspect of ageing.

I now have a nice head of highlights and the start of a new hairstyle; just wished my hair's default wasn't messy and windswept. I do not have grey chin hairs (yet), mine are either black and thick, or white.

I've never been able to wear sexy/elegant shoes at all....

I've never done sexy or elegant on any part of my body, let alone shoes, but for the moment am sticking to 'quirky' (fitflop hi-tops, birkenstocks) before going all out for comfort.

Just done another ladyjog. Am sticking with week3 until I can do it without hurting my knees. Experimented with avoiding 'heel strike' today, and with heftier orthotics in my shoes. So far, so good. I just climbed the stairs without pain...

I thought you were doing 'trollop' on your ahem @rse, Herbs?

I have scheduled a haircut for Saturday. Just realised DP is doing more hippy t'ai chi for most of Saturday. May need to take girls and make them sit QUIETLY in the corner.

Ah yes, trollop skirt. That's probably more 'slutty' than sexy. Though perhaps my Viv Westwood dress counts as elegant....

I need a haircut. My bob is now distinctly mumsy.

Lord alive. A house is for sale on our street for 2.5 times what we paid for ours, eight years ago. Madness.

Herbs, a house on our street is for sale for just under 6 times what we paid nearly 15 years ago Only very high wage-earners can now move into our area

Wow those house prices are bonkers - guess that is London for you!! Hence the reason I know I could never move back home......
Rather than the timberlands you went for MI (which I am sure would not have gone round my calves) I bought a nice pair of CAt chukka boots - tres utilitarian tres unsexy/elegant..... Neither of which I do ...

I own one pair of heels and don't wear them often anymore...

Actually, I'm delighted that low heels and flats are currently "in". There was a time when I simply couldn't find anything in the shops with a heel that wasn't six inches.

Actually, I'm delighted that low heels and flats are currently "in". There was a time when I simply couldn't find anything in the shops with a heel that wasn't six inches.

So pleased I said it twice.

I love sensible comfy shoes.....

BD: KIS data was mildly useful but probably more so for single hons I think and was not available for half her course at many universities as the numbers are too small. But our current problem is the content of the course and there most websites had major errors, contradictions or omissions, in three or four cases serious enough that I wrote to point them out (I am like that). Many emails were exchanged trying to pin down what they meant.

Crem, sorry to hear you in similar boat, I hope it gets resolved soon,

I think the largest intake for her course in the country is 8, with most being 2 or 3, so I wouldn't want to scare others - the info on single hons for the two halves is fine. And one half of her course is organised and named differently everywhere. So Herbs and BTM, don't start quaking just yet.

I think GCSEs have extra stress because there are so many and so many bits, making it less likely that at any one time you are on top of everything.

I have just realised I have an unpaid invoice of £650 from last APRIL.

And that, my friends, is why it is not enough just to keep a smug spreadsheet of outgoings and incomings - you actually have to check the bugger too.

Thanks Lalsy

MI is that one due to you or that you owe?!

Lalsy now I'm curious as to what she wants to do :)

Due me. They allege it's paid. Will track down.

BD, I know, I have made it sound far more exciting than it is just aware that it is her privacy not mine....it is pretty traditional.

Anyway we now have another email saying it is OK, and the website is incomplete....

I hope that means the problem is resolved, Lalsy.

I am feeling rather good about myself: I visited the GP this afternoon and decided whilst I was there to register for on-line prescriptions. For some reason which I cannot fathom (bearing in mind that I had just seen the dr and have been going to the surgery for over 30 years), they needed photo id. Did I have my driving licence with me? Well, yes, but bearing in mind that (unlike DH) I have never had points on my licence, I still have a piece of green paper with no photo. Then, brain wave, I said I had my bus pass with me, would that be ok? The receptionist almost reeled back and then said, "you don't look old enough!" She called me "young lady" for the rest of our interaction.

Well, I would like a parchment scroll written in the blood of the vice-chancellor NUF, after all this! It is particularly annoying as these universities could employ some of us crepey editors to sort.
Young lady - fab.