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wilbur ·
27/04/2014 12:53
Morning all. Love the Sportacus costume, herbs, you get a whole stack of mum points for sourcing that one 
. MI - hope your day goes ok and I'm sure you'll manage the May work deluge, at least dds are back in school and so there are fewer childcare issues.
Shoot yesterday was good and they were all very nice. We camped out upstairs a bit, playing Grand Turismo and eating stuff dh has brought back from Borough Market. It was actually quite fun. They're back tomorrow to finish off. AirBnB people also arrived mid-shoot and were a bit baffled, but nice about it. They are here for a whole week so I am stressing that they will go a bit stir crazy as the room is pretty small for two for a week. Praying for good weather so they can sit out, but not sure prayers will be answered. Ds1&2 both away all day at rehearsals and Mercedes World respectively, DD is revising, and dh is building the rest of my new garden seat. I am just heading out to do a spot of gardening before the rain starts again.
In S&B news, my major purchase this week is a pair of these beauties 
. Life may be chaos, but I will cope because I have Batwoman pants...
Cremolafoam ·
27/04/2014 13:28
Aw herbs is ds still being Sportacus?
We have the company who makes Sportacus coming to film at work in a couple of weeks.
Ddad is so much better. He has been given warfarin and the diuretics have him back to normal size. He's tired but better than I've seen him for months.
Mrs s , I'd be going to the papers about the rampant sexism at school.
Really despicable.
Glad the meetup went well. I was with u all in spirit as I met a lovely friend for wine on Friday night. Suffered through a 12 hour shift yesterday - horrendous hangover. 
MI hope the day progresses civilly chez parents .
Rudy , that's the one I was looking at re lavender mascara. Think I'm going to go for navy again though.
I think the colour might get lost on me.
Today I will be mostly : laundering
Auriga ·
27/04/2014 15:09
Glad to hear about your Dad Crem.
BD, you know you don't want that job.
BTM, excellent summing-up on reflective practice.
re: kipper - DD was telling us about a school assembly on Valentine's Day traditions in different countries. They mentioned Finland and she thought 'ooh, I know this'. She was thinking of the Monty Python fish-slapping dance 
. There are some aspects of her education that we haven't neglected.
motherinferior ·
27/04/2014 16:21
Auriga is spot on. BD, if it looks like a poison chalice think kipper.
I have survived my parents mainly through the ingestion of alcohol. Will not be working tonight as originally feared I would have to do. This is however not solely because of prosecco but because I spent this morning writing myself notes for another feature (because charity mag is not my only priority), and also requesting an extra hundred quid to buy in a bit of help with mag to handle the emergency. Which has come through. Hurrah
Cremolafoam ·
27/04/2014 18:15
I am now worried about cremolacat 1.
He was always a porker and now is getting thin and whiny. He's only really licking the gravy off the food.but ALWAYS is asking for food.
I'm worried he might have teeth issues? What do you think?
Blackduck ·
27/04/2014 18:27
I am loving the poison chalice = kipper
Makes me
Lovely curry here and ds ecstatic with his (cast off) iphone3 ......
Birthday is Warwick castle with a small group of friends.
Cremolafoam ·
27/04/2014 18:36
He's about 9 mrs s. No drool. He looks shiny and fit tbh. There's just something has changed about him. He is a bit bullied by cremolacat 2 , a proper little madam who is a bit spoiled due to her good looks and hilarious cute antics. Could he be a bit depressed ? He's very needy.
Bd move away from the Kipper job. I should know , I've had a few.
Auriga ·
27/04/2014 18:49
Aurigacat was always whining for food and not eating it. She did turn out to need dental treatment and she also had a huge hairball (sorry if tmi).
Don't think cats have much depressive capacity meself and even if they do, it doesn't put them off their food
Stropperella ·
27/04/2014 20:14
Dogs definitely have the capacity for getting depressed and can go off their food when miserable. Stropdog pretty much refuses to eat when left in kennels.
Today has been an exercise in keeping everyone calm. Dd is wound-up because her GCSE art exam takes place all day tomorrow and Tuesday and she is busy coating the entire house in little pieces of paper and cardboard in frenzied preparation. I might ask why this preparation is being done now, but that would be, er, counterproductive. I had to tell dh to wind his neck in this morning because he was going to rage at her for telling ds to "shut up". I could see that one false move was going to result in an almighty meltdown, so I got everyone to be busy elsewhere and leave dd to her own devices. I don't usually believe in walking on eggshells to avoid a confrontation (there's been a bit too much of that in previous lives), but it was undoubtedly the lesser of 2 evils today.
Ds and I took Stropdog for a walk into town, which never usually happens. This is because Stropdog is not a town dog. He is over-excitable and cannot walk in a straight line and is interested in everything. He rushes up to shop windows and stands on his hind legs to look in. This morning, he was particularly taken by a jewellers. 
He will also randomly wee on just about anything, including people he doesn't like the look of, so much vigilance is required. He also shouts at me when things are getting boring and grabs the lead in his teeth and drags me off in a different direction. This is him in late middle age (9) - so the much calmed-down version. And yes, he has had some training. He just chooses only to remember it when he feels like it.
We have had a whole bunch of client emails today. Does no one take a weekend anymore? I am feeling stressed as I had the week planned out workwise and suddenly it's all changed. A client's mother died yesterday, so the job I was supposed to do a part of has now turned into me doing the whole of it, as it was naturally incumbent on me to offer to do so. This is fine and doable (just). But now another 2 clients have come with other jobs for the end of the week and I have to work all day Friday in school. Dh has not had a weekend off for sometime, as he managed to cock-up by taking too much on and had to work through Easter weekend as well as the previous one. Something's gotta give. I also have to make a bunch of phone calls to make regarding possible work in other areas for long-term plans and I haven't been able to make any headway with that stuff. Grrr. Feast or famine etc etc.
In other meh news, dh has a large lump in the middle of his abdomen. Which he's known about for a while, but not done anything about. I'm telling myself (and him) it is most likely some kind of hernia-type thingy, but have made him a doc's appmt for Tuesday. It came to light because he had an uncharacteristic anxiety attack on Easter Saturday when he suddenly became convinced that he has an aortic aneurysm, thanks to a private health test flyer that came through the door.
Soz for mega-post.
motherinferior ·
27/04/2014 20:46
DD1 is on for intensive G&T art. I foresee major tantrums ahead...
I can't actually figure out DD1 academically, I must say. She's improved dramatically in maths and seems to be a bright all-rounder and in all the top sets but at the same time never seems to come top in anything. She is also socially competent and so far unwracked by angst and misery.
I suspect she is exactly the sort of person I wasn't at school
Stropperella ·
27/04/2014 21:06
Your dd1 sounds like a star, MI. There are, I believe, plenty of teens who do not specialise in angst and misery or crucify themselves with self-doubt. It may well be that she is one of them. :)
My CBT is currently causing me to feel that I have been stuck as a 15 year old for many decades. It would be rather fine to leave the angst, misery and self-doubt behind at some stage. Preferably before my dcs actually become more grown-up than I am.
Dh is adamant that he can deal with the two extra jobs that have come in today. I hope he knows what he's doing (doubtful). I think he has proved to himself a few times lately that his days of working until 5am ought to come to an end.
I'm also currently dithering about several jobs that need to be done to the house and we ought to get on with organising whilst we have the cash to pay for them. I have a to-do list about 3 pages long. I think I need CV to come round and sort it out for me.
Thanks to whoever suggested the hamper of goodies for the 80 year old I need to buy a present for. It's my uncle (I bet I asked for advice last year too, he's sooo difficult to buy for). I think I will be able to put together a hamper of all sorts of local specialities which will appeal to him. The book of family pics would be a great idea, but it's already been done.
SheherazadeSchadenfreude ·
27/04/2014 21:08
I am having a Sunday evening to myself, as DH has taken DD2 back to school. I took DD1 to Waterloo - she kept saying on the bus that she didn't want to go back to school, hated it, etc etc. Then spotted a friend from school at the station, rushed off, and that was the last I saw of her - the two of them chatting, smiling and getting on the train.
I called my mother - she was positively pleasant. Her elder brother has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. So that's two of my uncles and one cousin with cancer, none of whom have a particularly good prognosis. We need a nice new baby or a wedding in the family now - something cheering.
I have made a huge loaf of bread, and the cats are curled up together, sleeping prettily, which makes a nice change from fighting.
I have been stalking DD2's deviantart account on t'internet - found a raft of stuff I hadn't seen before, and she had commented "this is some of the stuff I am preparing for GCSE." Oh good. I worry that DD2 is a little too like me - coasting through, doing the bare minimum, although her teachers seem to think otherwise, thankfully.
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SheherazadeSchadenfreude ·
27/04/2014 21:22
Yes, Stropps, fingers crossed and thumbs held for your DH.
Class position?? Didn't that go out in the 1950s?
Stropperella ·
27/04/2014 21:23
MrsS, that is pretty shocking about your dm being pleasant Sorry to hear about your uncle, though. You are very overdue for some happy family event. Hope you are taking good care of yourself, too. How is your back?
I do hope that dd does alright in her exams, as between all the strops and drama she has actually done a lot of work. It would, of course, been better if she had consistently applied herself for the last 2 years and not just since about November, but at least she is taking it all very seriously. Dd's school doesn't officially give out class positions but the teachers have often told her how she is doing in relation to the rest of the class. She usually only mentions it to me when she is in the top 3. I have furnished her with Rescue Remedy chewing gum for use during the exam tomorrow and Tues (does that stuff actually do anything? I'm hoping for some kind of panacea effect...). On Wed she will be trying to get her final bit of ICT coursework done as the final deadline for that is Thurs.
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