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Creper Roses

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SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 26/05/2014 08:49

Here!

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Stropperella · 03/06/2014 13:06

See, I am a squashed Mr Potatohead. Sad Sad

herbaceous · 03/06/2014 13:11

You're not a squashed Mr Potatohead! I can't see any wonkiness in your face, in either photos or real life. Honestly.

bigTillyMint · 03/06/2014 13:20

No you are NOT Stropps!

Stop putting yourselves down crepeys!

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 13:33

Nope you are not Stropps - like Herbs said I don't see what you describe! Love that photo of you and dd.

motherinferior · 03/06/2014 13:43

OK, what's the betting that I can force get DP to do the parents' evening at the end of DD2's secondary school induction day? I went to DD1's, and I've been to all her subsequent parents' evenings (admittedly, to be fair, he was wrestling with some techy stuff of mine last time). How much are you prepared to put on his going?

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 13:54

I take it he's not big on this stuff MI? (Dp has probably done more of ds's than I have due to timing/logistics) ..... So I'm not betting a lot :). I'll buy you a drink next time we meet if he does :)

motherinferior · 03/06/2014 14:05

He will do it if he can, I'm fairly sure. It's the sorting-out, though. He tends to feel that noticing things like this will be done by the Noticing Things Like This Fairy. He didn't know DD2 had SATS, for instance.

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 14:09

Ahh yes the 'Noticing things fairy' like the laundry fairy and the card and present buying fairy....

I tend to find a 'parents Eve is on blah date and you are going' works.......(sometimes)

motherinferior · 03/06/2014 14:13

To be fair, DP is our Laundry Fairy.

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 14:18

Calendars work here - I write everything on it and dp can check it (packed lunches, dentist, SATs, trips.....). Hangs in the kitchen - no excuses!!

cremolafoam · 03/06/2014 14:45

I am fed up with being nice and not commenting on state of bedroom.

yes that about sums it up. I may order a skip for June 20th ( when its all done Lalsy)

Right officially the use of old boiler is banned on this thread- Herbs : catch yourself on! You are fucking gorgeous you loon. So are you Stropps. We may wear our life history on our faces but we do so with pride.

Osteo-Chiro Man has almost taken all the pain away. Look ! I can stand up straight. I can touch my toes. I can sit without yelping.
Leg feels bruised but not like its on fire with a knitting needle sticking in it. Praise Be. Please please please make the snake oil last.

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 14:51

Cremo Grin

herbaceous · 03/06/2014 14:51

Hurrah for snake oil man crem! Long may his cures last.

I do like an osteopath. Though burn with shame every time I remember going to one particular guy who was TOTALLY HOT, and having to bend over in front of him in my ancient greying pants, then getting into an intimate rocking arrangement as he loosened some spinal knot. It was mortifying.

bigTillyMint · 03/06/2014 14:57

Cremo, that's fabSmileWineCake Well done addle for finding him!

Yes there is a Noticing Things Like This Fairy in our house. Me of courseHmm

lalsy · 03/06/2014 16:11

Ooooh Crem, fantastic news, so pleased for you! Hurrah for addle's networks. Don't MN while walking down the street in case of crepey injury will you? Smile Wine Cake

23rd for skip hire here Crem. dd back from her first A2, looked tempted at though of recycling moral philosophy, but has decided to fester in it a little longer [wouldn't a tired of teens emoticon be more useful than a tennis one fgs?]. We went out to lunch and it was lovely though.

Word, glad it is useful to know what awaits.

motherinferior · 03/06/2014 16:15

Lalsy, if she does want a Sat evening off let me know Grin

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 16:47

I am loving the skip hire idea - have to admit really not looking forward to the stage of school.

Here we half the loooong half term to the summer break which seems to be jam packed with stuff(all on the calendar MI) but I'm :( that I can't get to choir tonight.

On job front the third I was waiting on has been put on hold subject to restructure - ho hum.....

RudyMentary · 03/06/2014 16:52

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wordassociationfootball · 03/06/2014 17:01

Great photo theory Rudy. I was thinking earlier that we are our words, and the words we use to describe ourselves might as well be kind ones. Anyway, as I've said before, it's the sizzle not the sausage that's the thing.

Crem it is not going to be snake oil. It's mechanical, physical. (nearly a Supertramp song) You'll be stiff and sore tomorrow maybe but you are on the mend -yee ha!

Am cock a hoop as boy I do reading comp stuff with at DD2's school had huge breakthrough today. Just got over his fear of being wrong and went for it. I floated home buying pombears and mini cheddars and dishing them out hither and yon.

Blackduck · 03/06/2014 17:12

Waf that sounds like a fab day....

Actually you are very right about the words thing. I constantly tell ds not to call himself stupid, or fat or ugly and yet what do I do?!

Time for a re-think

CointreauVersial · 03/06/2014 18:11

Echoing what that wise bird Crem said - stop doing yourselves down, crepeys! You gorgeous bunch. Although I'll come clean and admit to a nose job in my youth, as alluded to earlier. In my defence it was a spectacular hooter, and the NHS very kindly covered the cost.

Chuckling at Herbs in her grey undercrackers getting up close and personal with the chiro. Grin

Yes, the whole Y6 party thing is still under review....it's about 50 kids, presuming all can make it, and there are two sets of parents and a couple of teens for crowd control. I just figure, in for a penny, in for a pound, as it will be the last time they are all together (they split between two main secondaries, with a handful going private etc). I suppose at 11 they don't need quite as much attention (memories of a stream of demands for drinks, nose wipes, toilets, plasters and more cake at parties of yesteryear). And they're not at the snogging stage yet. Hmm

DS went off to school for his Calculator Maths exam, and, as he reached the school gate, realised he'd left his calculator at home. Hopeless. Fortunately DD1 lent him her pink one. Grin

motherinferior · 03/06/2014 18:35

I always look at photos of myself with terrific hope. Then recoil in horror. Every time.

We have a calendar, BD, but it requires noticing.

CV, your lovely boy does take the biscuit.

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Blackduck · 03/06/2014 18:39

Well yes MI it does require 'noticing' Grin . I see it as my life's work training dp :)

I don't think it looks that bad Rudy ...

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