The Shape of Crepes to Come

[hattymattie]

Here we are crepeys - Friday 13th!

QQ - liking your family food ideas. I usually ask for meal requests for the week before I hit the supermarket, get nothing but grunts, then they are guaranteed to moan at what appears on the dinner table.

This week's menu planning has been complicated by the fact that DD1 is now sporting natty turquoise train tracks after a trip to the orthodontist this morning. I didn't really think to cater for it this evening and cooked steak which she couldn't eat; the poor lass ended up sucking the innards from her chips, then attacking a tub of ice cream. Mash? Bolognaise? Omelette? Soup? Any other brace-friendly food ideas?

We are in the middle of the Y6 "talks" at the moment too. And yes, girls learn about "boy changes" and vice versa (although they separate boys and girls for both talks). I'm particularly hoping the Personal Hygiene talk has sunk in; DD2 is a bit of a Sweaty Betty but hates showering, which is not a good combination.

I'm very about everyone's exotic holiday plans. A week in Cornwall really isn't doing it for me at the moment.

Why is it cheaper to go to Greece for a week than to the Isle of Wight? I found a nice house to rent in Peacehaven but not cheap

Am very fed up at the moment... one of my uncles on my Dad's side died on Sunday and my Mum's elder brother has been given two months to live. I seem to be surrounded by death and despair at the moment. On the bright side, my cousin has finished his radiotherapy and chemo and seems a bit perkier. I am not sure that the prognosis is brilliant, but he is feeling much better in himself and a lot more positive. He, his father and uncle were all on the same ward at one point.

CV - your DD will find that she gets used to food that she has to chew after a few weeks with the braces. DD1's brace comes off next week (hooray).

Aargh lost my whole post. On overground having got chucked off the tube at Caledonian road due to the tunnel being blocked with a defective train. DH is now sullen ax he wanted to do some convoluted route on the Victoria line presumably via Timbuktu. I refused. Our car is of course parked near the tube stn. DS1 has refused to come and pick us up and drop us back at the car because he's tired. Happy families anyone? The show was great though. Love the theatre. Hate the effing tube and getting home after. Lol

CV - as an adult in braces you can adapt to anything - except sticky stuff and chewing gum.

Physics today .....

Good Luck to Hatty's DD!

MrsS, surely there are nicer places that that to rent at a better price? We stayed in a nice place on the IoW a while ago - here but it looks almost completely booked out for August. Sorry to hear about your family woes.

Hope you got home, Rose!

I feel that I'm running around like a headless chicken here. Too much going on and additional emergencies keep arising and I am knackered but waking up at 4.30 every day because I'm stressed. Can't come to meet-ups as work situation dire and am poor, exacerbated by having to purchase new fox-proof chicken run. One chicken down. Am spending spare time (ha) digging over area for new coop. Don't know what to do about work situation, but dcs will be on free school meals by Sept if I can't sort out some bread-winning (not exaggerating). No hols for us but we are quite used to that. Dd will probably go to France with another family as she has done for last 2 years. Which makes me a bit sad, but hey. So much has been going on. Nothing dramatic, just stuff that I have to find the time and energy to organise. Had huge and unpretty blow-up at dh last week re his uselessness. Left feeling that I'm stuck with carrying the responsibility for everything and that I should just get on with it.
It's my own fault for marrying an old bloke and not having a proper career, although it's not been as though I have spent the last 30 years sitting about on my arse either.
On a more positive note, dd finished her exams last Friday. I was invigilating that one. Lots of them clapped politely at the end, bless 'em. And then dd went to Weymouth beach with her friends. It was someone's b-day, so someone else had made cake and some other person brought their ukulele. No alcohol. We all ended up at a bbq that evening where the adults got steaming drunk and the post-gcse teens sat around primly drinking Fanta. Think Abfab.. There were other teen parties they could have gone to, but they declined, saying that "everyone will be drinking and smoking" . Long-term readers of the Crepey threads will know that dd has had all sorts of issues over the last 3 years, but none of them have yet involved drinking, smoking or boys. 6th form could be interesting.
oh crap, it's late and I have to be in school. Sorry about typos, lacks of paras and gloom. Can't blame the gloom on my phone, but typos and paras are phone's fault.

Mrs S, . I really hope your family gets some good news soon.

Hatty, good luck to your dd today. My dd was a pale trembly thing by the time she got back yesterday and doesn't want to think about how being ill might have affected her. She is almost never sick - that's probably the second time in five years. Onwards.

Stropps....and breathe. All sounds a bit much . I love the sound of dd's end of exams celebrations.

We are slowly footling through Owners Direct sites. I have convinced myself I'm not going to India for long enough - but actually it's cheaper to go there (if you take long convoluted flight) than to quite a lot of other places so I am in any case seeing this not as my last visit ever!

Stropps, huge commiserations re work. It's not your fault that DH is ahem a lazy bugger or that work is so pants. I do sympathise. And I have non-LB partner with proper job...

My life crisis continues. Headless chicken re work/priorities/writing. But at least I've Ladyjogged again.

Oh Stropps ... hang on in there. It's great to have non drinking teens - mine seem to be very prim at the moment. The chicken coop sounds hard work.

Lalsy [tha for DD (no cake on android version). It is so hard when everything is hanging on exam results. Has she any more exams or is that it?

Lalsy it's supposed be flowers for DD

Thanks, last one next week Hatty, she needs to find the oomph to revise for it as (reasonably) hasn't done anything yet. I'm sure it will be fine, it is just that niggling doubt when something goes wrong like yesterday.....makes you long for coursework so everything isn't hinging one day.

Oh Stropps big { } and and - sounds a bit full on there.

Here the Y6 revolt continues. I am trying to play it down as I really don't want to get on the bad side of the Head!

Lovely day and I'm in work with one sick member of the team and one on leave - so no early finish here!

God, exams are the pits aren't they. poor Lalsy's DD.

Having said that, coursework isn't everything either - despite having done the 2 GCSE's, the pressure is still on DD and her cohort - She has done half of a history CA (other half Thurs/Fri) and is now beside herself that they have a physics ISA coming up - she doesn't seem able to gee herself up to go for it

Stropps, big hugs. Very positive news about your DD, thank God!

I know, BTM, it did feel as if dd was always doing CAs at GCSE, but I think she got used to them and it was great starting GCSEs knowing some marks were in the bag whatever happened, so hope your dd feels that too during year 11. I am not sure they can gee themselves up for each one, or that that is desirable (too exhausting, you'd be geed up for two years!). ds will hardly have any cw or CAs for GCSE (combo of school syllabi changes and Gove I think) - and I am not looking forward to May next year - but will be interesting to see the differences.

Really feeling for you Stropps Are not men just the worst burden sometimes. But so glad the exam challenges are over, for the time being.Your DD sounds like she's got the right idea re drinking and smoking…nothing wrong with that.

Tilly everyone runs for cover in this house she someone has a piece of course work to do…At least exams are a short, sharp shock!

I got to bed about 1am. Wouldn't speak to DS1 this morning who refused to rescue us from the station last night DS2 has Maths calculator paper today. I am going for a swim

Rose - surely you've done your time picking up DS in his teenage years. I would point out that "what goes around, comes around" next time he needs a lift."

Good to 'see' you Stropps, and sounds like DP had it coming. Like a frying pan in the face.

I'm trying to find somewhere to go in the UK that is a) not booked b) near a beach and a town c) stuff to do, but not crazy mad.

I'm thinking Tenby.

Lots of crepeys seem to rave about the Isle of Wight, which would be nearer, but I imagine it to be all flat and dull. Is this the case?

Oh Stropps , so sorry to hear things are difficult at the moment, but great to see you posting . So hard to keep going under such pressure. I feel for you very much.

Herbs have you seen this site not wales obviously but some nice properties near beaches.

I love a bit of Norfolk, and have spent many a happy hol in Wells Next the Sea, but were thinking a bit further afield for a change.

Herbs - IOW is like England 20 years ago. Which may or may not be a good thing. How about Suffolk? Or the Dorset coast? Not Weston-Super-Mud, though. As a Midlander, that was always the nearest beach to home, so I got to know it far too well.

Rose - oooh, my blood would have been boiling if one of my offspring failed to rescue me like that. As Hattie says, make sure you bring that one up every time a favour is requested, for at least the next five years.

Strops - deep breath, you'll get through it.... Loving the image of the prim teens and the pissed parents. But if you ever read the Teenager threads you should thank your lucky stars that your DD, despite the many trials and tribulations, hasn't put you through drink and drug hell.

Hattie - you have braces??

Agree with CV re IoW. It is quite old-fashioned and relatively unspoilt. We stayed in Ventnor which has the Botanical Gardens and some lovely little beaches. There are lots of lovely pubs too Tenby is nice too (and you will feel like the thinnest woman in the world on the beach). And Saundersfoot/other bays nearby.

Cremo, that site looks lovely but will have to wait for a few years till it's just DH and I on our own - the DC are vehemently against another holiday in the UK

Thinnest woman on the beach, you say? < books holiday in Tenby >

I loves this site for (quirky) holiday lets

CV - It just so is Weston-super-mud isn't it? (either that or you get sandblasted by the wind whipping off the sea...) Actually the more I think about it, the more I don't envy ds....... :)