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Here!

I think we'd definitely be in the paper!
MI can write a column "Despatches from Crepey Towers".

Herbs, that's crap. Poor sweet ds. What do hospital say? What do you think the problem is?

Sorry to hear of medical / ill worries...

OPM and NU, yes I had the helicobacter pylori a few years ago before hiatus hernia dx'd. Yes that pair of ABs are.... what's the OPPOSITE of the dogs' bollocks.... they were that anyway. AB's as bad as Mrs S's Arse Boss.

I think we all need to apply mayonnaise generously: to taunting children, rubbish workplaces, remiss partners but mostly to chips which are nicely wheat free.

Have finally turned in a first draft which is good going as have spent a lot of today googling low platelets and best proton pump inhibitors. Have spent about two seconds outside in this glorious weather .

I'm sorry to hear of your health woes, Was, but I am so glad you're back on the Crepey threads. I too hanker after a lovely swan-like neck, rather than the turkey one I have. I didn't think I'd have a wattle for at least another 10 years
Oh Herbs, I do feel for your poor ds.

MI, sorry to hear you're feeling rotten. There seem to be a surprising amount of nasty germs around, given the time of year.
MrsS, why are your employers wasting you in that department? Can you not move on to better things now AB has provided you with a glowing reference? Or does that not make a jot of difference?
I am again feeling quite cheery a) because it is Friday and I have been at the Cava and b) because I finally got my act together while at school today and went to see the SEN dept and managed to have a useful convo with a very important person, who provided excellent info and was very encouraging re: getting into a different line of work. It has taken bloody months for me to alter my mindset sufficiently to go and have that conversation, so I am quite proud. I followed it up with a couple of phone calls and emails to various people afterwards and am feeling there might be a way forward after all.

Gah, that should be WAF in the first sentence. Am posting from phone.

NUF, sorry to hear about your dh's worrying news from the doc.

Go Stropps!

We appear to be out of mayonnaise. DP has finally come home and we had a flaming row about many things. Apparently the reason he doesn't tell me if he is going to be late is that he doesn't dare because I am so unreasonable about his work. And so on and so forth.

Thanks Stropps! Sounds like you stormed it on the career front today. Bloody well done.

Sorry MI but that made me

Stropps how brilliant that you were able to 'get in the zone' today . Very proud of you.
MI - oh dear. Hope you feel better soon
NU I hope things will be ok with dh. Am crossing fingers for you.x

That does sound encouraging, Stropps.

What more can we say, MI? It's so difficult when you feel you might as well be a single parent as the other half of your pair isn't around a lot.

Herbs, your poor DS. Children can be so insensitive (quite often because their parents are). School must address this problem, I think, although I appreciate it's not so easy with random children. I presume that you have tried to describe the shell in a positive way so that he thinks it's something exciting and special to have. (Not trying to be patronising here).

I try to tread a realistic but optimistic path: he has a 'special eye', and isn't it simply super that he gets to see his lovely eye doctors and their toys, blah blah blah. But in the past few months he's been saying 'I wish I didn't have a special eye', etc, so it's getting harder.

It's an awkward age. Once he's older, I think he'll be able to handle it with wit and aplomb, when he was younger he didn't care, but for now he just wants to fit in. I'm trying to think of an empowering phrase he can use, other than 'eff off you little shit. I'll get my mum on to you'. I may consult Changing Faces.

I just thank Christ for the NHS. Each shell would cost £800' plus consultant time, etc...

I cut his fringe today - he refuses to go to the hairdresser - as him constantly sweeping his hair out of his eyes might have been turning his shell. Maybe.

Junior version of
Did you mean to be so rude

Well done Stropps! Keep it up

Oh Herbs Come on MI/other crepeys more witty than me, think up a good retort or two.

MI, it infuriates me that I am left to do the lions share with the DC (although now they are teens this means more verbal stress than actual jobs IYSWIM!) and I shout at him regularly about it. I have now made him take responsibility for poor DS's toe as he encouraged him to play in a school match today and it is worse than ever He will have to take him back to the GP on Monday unless some miracle happens before then.

Haha crem! Perhaps I can teach him the < head tilt > too...

And yes, stropps - keep it up!

I've managed to find a literacy teacher to shadow, as per IoE instruction, via my choir. No thanks to any LA options, all of whom just did the telephonic equivalent of 'computer says no' to my requests.

I was at school with a girl with one hand. If people were horrible to her, she used to take her fake arm off, chase them waving the stump and hit them with it. They used to run off screaming. She was also very good at spitting and could make herself burp.

That's the very thing, Herbs, can you teach DS to spit and make himself burp?

NUFC sorry to hear of worry about DH. If it is cardiac, we've BTDT so can offer a shoulder as needed.

Stropps, well done! Delighted for you.

Herbs the school needs to have absolutely zero tolerance for any kind of teasing and bullying of this nature. After years of trying to be grown up about it all in relation to my DD, who has a disability, I came on really strong with the school if they didn't impose strong sanctions on any pupil who teased her. I played the disability card. To begin with I felt a bit guilty but that soon wore off! Outside of school, well I didn't object if the law of the jungle prevailed and I know she walloped a few kids who called her 'retard'' and so on. I also found it great to choose supportive, inclusive environments when we had the choice, ie outside of school. We are members of an inclusive theatre company and it's great there, because they embrace difference. Dunno if that helps. A hug to you and little DS.

Herbs - am seething for you, simply seething

MI - what?! So the reason he didn't tell you and thus added to your stress was you are unreasonable that's a nice blame game.

MrsS - find another job soon! Seriously what a waste of your talents.

Stropps fab news

NU - hope all is well.

Here it was the pub and bed. Did I mention I'm dog tired? I am so not looking forward to next week (dp off to Dublin on Sunday)

Auriga, I was puzzling over the acronym BTDT and wondering what strange ailment it was ... slaps head. Thanks to everyone for their good wishes for DH.

We're just about to go off for a cycle up the Derwent Cycle Way - there might be red kites! At least with me around DH won't be tempted to push himself too much.

Then it's an early Italian meal at five with DS and family - back in plenty of time to watch the England game.

Sorry you're so tired, BD - it does get better eventually and I suppose we're now reaping the benefits of DH's long hours and good salary. I hope your reward comes earlier!

Thank you all for kind words re DS. Rosebag - the school has been pretty good. I told them about the 'monster' comment, and they took it very seriously and made the 'circle time' the next day about difference, everyone being special, and all that.

It's strange - when he doesn't have have his shell in, so his right eye is v small and grey, he gets teased less. But that isn't a long term solution.

Mrs S - time to get the hell out of Dodge. You've given it your best shot, but you're being wasted and life is frankly too short. I bet that once you've left, you'll discover that 90% of the supposedly 'really happy' people hate it too.

Herbs, they are crawling out of the woodwork. One of the women I work with said to me "If you jump ship, it will give me the courage to do it too." The only people who love it are the remote workers, as they would struggle to get a job anywhere else.

But MrsS they are remote so not dealing with the day to day crap....

Without giving too much away can you hint at what department it is?

Here work took a downward turn as the boss above my boss resigned as a matter of principle (I don't blame him) and it became clear from the interview questions of the job I didn't get short listed for that we are about to have a major review with redundancies....

Rosebag - have emailed you btw.

Oh BD.