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Just checking in Crepesters...
Having a bit of a mad rush of a day - too many different things to do, too many different people to deal with. Brief pitstop and refuel at home before heading out again...
Stropps and Herbs! Enough already with the self loathing. You are both lovely - as are we all .
Ds1 has one (1, I) more AS, on Friday. Hoorah!

CV, it's at moments like those that you are so glad they are at the same school!

We have a calendar too, MI

WAF, am loving "it's the sizzle, not the sausage" And it's great when kids get it, isn't it

Rudy, if you feel it will make life better for you, go for it but you look great anyways

Hoover man came to work (to much interest!) and fixed the Dyson. And it didn't cost a penny as it's still under warranty! DS's toe requires anti-biotics and anti-biotic cream and if it doesn't clear up will need a surgeon to cut it

Ouch, BTM, is it an ingrowing toenail?

I like WAF's theory too. It would explain why I look a lot less like a boiler better in video than in still photos, as video captures my 'bubbly personality'.

BTM boy toe sounds v painful, and vomit-inducing.

In ToT news, I seem to have put on the three pounds I lost over three days in Harrogate. This is not entirely fair.

Yes

Tis true that you have a lovely bubbly personality, Herbs

Eek grown in toenail agony. Poor ds BTM. Very painful poor kid!

I have had a 2 hour power nap, and have woken feeling great. There is a bit of shadow pain but I stood to make a lovely green veg noodle broth thing. Stood! Couldn't have done that yesterday.!!

Rudy I honestly can't see what you mean. However if it's bothering you that's what is important. It doesn't seem to be a very dramatic image changing procedure either but could just subtly improve on perfection

The term 'old boilers' rankles with me because I had a boyfriend once who used it as a term of abuse to describe some of the more feisty women who frequented his pub.
It sets off my alarm bells a bit. He was a pig, but it took a long time for me to realise that.
Soz.

BTM, god knows if this will be of any comfort or merely put you off your grub, but my family seems peculiarly prone to toe infections, and they have always cleared up without surgery. We once came back from holiday with three (3, iii) between three of us. GP tried very hard not to laugh as this job lot shuffled in.

Crem, that really is excellent news - he must be very good to turn you around like that in just one visit.

BTM, that sounds horrible - fingers crossed that the ABs work.

Rudy, that's an interesting theory re photos. I hate seeing photos of me because I think I look nothing like that, but I did notice recently that when I took a photo of someone I met on holiday that whilst in real life they looked pretty and vivacious, in the photo they looked sort-of flat, so you could be right.

Cream crackered tonight after waving off the GC: we went to a museum this morning (lots of things to pull and push), and then played in the garden this afternoon. DGS's interest in all things to do with bottoms is alive and well: "what colour is wee when it's in your bladder", and "why is bird poo always white?" being the latest offerings. And I just know from my DS that it's not going to get any better.

Lalsy, DS has some form. When he was about 6, we were on hol, camping en France with friends and he cut his foot (teeny cut on sole) on the rocks at my favourite beach. It was about 5 days later when we realised that he was hobbling and his foot was swollen and infected He hadn't said ANYTHING to us about having a sore foot.
Cue gruesome visit to French GP who cut into his foot to see if there were any bits in therewhich was gruelling, but I convinced him to let us out with some Penicillin and it cleared up fine.

I actually hate the sound of my voice - listening to the ansaphone message is torture. I actually think it sounds a lot like one of my old schoolfriends, but I have never thought her voice sounds awful

Final episode of happy valley

Dh has just rolled his eyes and said
Thank fuck for that

Well DH seems to be watching CSI. Again

I have just done a neighbour's passport form for him. I am a saint, I tell you, a saint. Those things are incredibly stressful and I'm sure I've messed it up. He's the oldest son in a big neighbouring family - I actually went to school with his mum- is now 33 ( again - she had an arranged marriage at 16) and came round ostensibly to ask me to sign but clearly leaping at the chance to fe me to do the whole thing. I don't think anyone in that family is particularly great with literacy and those forms are murder.

MI you are indeed a saint. I loathe those forms and because there isn't a form filling fairy in this house I seem to be in charge of that as well:
Ghanaian visa
Application for student accommodation for year 1 at uni
Registering dd and dh at gp surgery online
Don't even mention UcAs or the black hole that is DVLA in NI

Magic we are I tell you.

I get to do an awful lot of friends' children's passport applications too, mi. The Passport Office actually followed up on a recent one but I was somewhat gobsmacked that they contacted me by post (second class) rather than emailing or telephoning.

Bird poo is actually wee.

I unfortunately think ds might have an I growing toenail too. Very inflamed big toe (around the nail) and some lovely warts/blisters/varuccas (sp?). Ds has the sweatiest feet known to man and is prone to fungal infections sigh
So guess who will be making that dress appointment?

You is a saint MI :). (My brother once worked with a lot of individuals who struggled which such forms and used to spend most lunchtimes helping them fill them in)

Dress?! Drs... (Blinking auto correct)

Snap on the Passport front OPM (are you a teacher?) - I was followed up some years ago on one by telephone! Agree, they are very stressful.

BD, good luck! But it's MY DS who has the sweatiest feet and most fungal infections

I just sent my passport renewal forms off yesterday. I'm wearing my glasses in the photo and though there's no glare and they are not obscuring my eyes etc etc, the woman in the post office who checked the application seemed to think they would get rejected. I will be well cheesed-off if so, as I had them done by a photographer who claimed to know his rules and regs.

Crem, brilliant news about your back. Hope you are not too sore today and things will improve quickly.

Off to school for more invig this morning. Well, now in fact.

I was told categorically, no glasses in the passport photo, Stropps. The woman in Snappy Snaps also wanted to clip my fringe back from my face. I refused this, but did shove it back a bit.

I think as long as your eyes aren't obscured/covered glasses are fine, but they prefer them off......

I think no glasses. I don't even know quite why I had to witness this form in any case as he's an adult and looks just the same in the previous pic. OTOH is a Sikh, so may fall foul of someone assuming he's a Muslim terrorist as does happen sometimes .

In other news, DP didn't tell me or I wasn't listening that he had Extra T'ai Chi last night and was also miffed when I said I'd left him supper and could he please deal with putting it in the fridge. Apparently syncing with the kitchen calendar would involve dealing with his office outlook. Or something. I couldn't be arsed to find out .

I think it may be no glasses too....

DD's bed has arrived, but as planks and screws. I wonder who will be putting it together???