Crepeys in the Long Grass of Life

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Thanks Beachy for the frisky title suggestion.

Well, here we all are!

I must find and scan the pic of me, aged nine months, on the boat to India. I look v sweet.

Go Stropps for tomorrow! Sending powerful crepey vibes to you!

Herbs you have made me laugh

MI, as others have said, enough with this appearance-dissing - you are a fox! Sorry to hear about DP and possible redundancy though. I'm quite discontented with my lot, workwise, atm, but not confident about ever doing anything about it .

BTM I hope you've given them hell over the ill-fitting cabinets

Rosebag - poor dd - hope she's better soon.

I have cheered myself up with this skirt

I am such a hippy.

The builder and I were very polite and restrained, but there was such a catalogue of mistakes that the manager was covered in shame! I wonder if the girl who is at fault still has a job. We got about £200 off the total cost

LOVELY skirt, MI

Arf at twigs and pebbly shit Auriga. That house was so like mine it's uncanny

You sound in great frame of mind Stropps. Mrs S - v comforting re recruiting.

NU - cuddly strategy sounds good but no garage/loft space limited as converted..... everything not sold is in car for now. Trout/apples/cream/calvados? Yummmmmmm.

Yes Stropps you do sound very positive - Keep it up!

And lovely hippy skirt MI.

I am not going to look at any more clothes!

I am writing a piece about a report investigating older people with sight problems, and the barriers to exercise. There's someone who's 97, is generally falling apart a bit quite separate from losing sight, and does serious amounts of exercise. RESPECT.

MI, I am always amazed at the 90+ers who do exercise - they deserve serious RESPECT. Has this person always been fit?

Must have been. It's relatively rare, I think, people who've built up serious levels of exercise at 70+.

You need to talk to my dad, MI. Sea swimming and sea kayaking for a blind 85 year old!!!

Your dad makes me feel a bit, er, inadequate, Beachy.

It's based on a report. A good one, mind.

DS and I just saw les velos! Just turned up, thinking we'd probably missed them during school pick-up, and two minutes later they whizzed by. Very dramatic, but glad I didn't wait an hour, as some people had done.

DS has his school report. 'Expected' in everything, 'exceeding' in communication and literacy. Yet I still feel Miss doesn't quite appreciate his true wonder. Amused by bit saying he needs to do his work with 'less chatter'. Can't think where he gets that trait from.

well done mini-Herbs! be prepared for many years of reports complaining abut too much chatting (IMHE anyway) it's what humans do - I'm not sure why teachers bother to complain about it

That is why he exceeded in Communication.... More chatter makes mini Herbs a good communicator

As he's been only four all year, I'd be more worried if he didnt chatter. He got docked a 'dojo' point today for singing songs from frozen, rather than doing his sums.

Right. Just filled 30 party bags for handing out tomorrow. Thank heavens for pound shops.

DD1's report mentioned "too much chatter" on every single page.

Ds is always told off for talking too much :)

Crepeys some advice. One of the girls in ds's class is being a tad unpleasant. Her current line is 'piss off, no one likes you' (said to ds and at least one other child) when challenged its 'it was a joke, can't you take a joke'. Today it was 'ds you are my bbf - bitchy fucking friend'. Ds didn't respond.

Any ideas on a nice come back or how to respond? This is wearing ds down a bit even if he knows it is rubbish.

She sounds vile - are they going to the same secondary? In any case a "good luck with that one in September" might be worth a try....

That's hateful BD. I've never been good at clever retorts but hows about "Talk to the hand..." type thing? Otherwise I'm afraid I'd tell the staff. After all do they really want to condone 11 year olds in their school using piss off, bitch and fuck? Sorry if I'm too goody goody!

MI no they aren't going to the same secondary and I have pointed out that she is likely to come unstuck very quickly if she carries on like that.
Rosebag - yes I had thought about going in and mentioning it as it isn't just the sentiment but the words as well.

She is a bit of a madam as my mum would say!

BD I love MI's September one. VGGGGGGGGGG

Dd2's report came home with a cut and paste error. 'refusing to participate in PE will have to stop.' Poor dab. She LOVES P.E. and participates to a fault. Teach will be v apologetic I'm sure.

I have worked like a demon with its arse on fire today. If I every day was like that.... I'd be rich. And bored. And knackered. Have talked myself into a corner there.

Am realising end of term bears down on us. I must book a massage and a shopping trip to shore me up for the hols.

Stropps, how's your breathing? In for count of 5 out for 7

BTM kitchen cabs update? Glad to hear your in better health.

Oh, by the way, yesterday my mum said in an urgent kind of way 'I want to tell DD1 she doesn't suit yellow.' To which I replied. 'Oh just think it. Don't say it.' And lovely mum nodded as though I'd been very wise . She won a bottle in the raffle at her do. Cripes, but they had to keep the applause going for a year or two while I helped her dodder up. Then she waved her winnings for a photo and I was sweating: Could just see bottle of good stuff smashing all over the concrete but all was well.

WAF, builder went to showroom (round corner) at 7.30am. They were here at 7.40, the manager cringingly apologetic. The girl who did the design admitted that she had chosen stuff which she thought would look good, but not what we had told her we wanted! £200 off and free mugs and pan stands plus some credit on my builders account. They are coming tomorrow to take away the wrong stuff and replace with the right, but the fitters can't come back till Sun.

Still, plumber has been so we have running water and a cooker amongst the bits of wood! My builder is very frustrated as it should have all been done by Thurs but will now be nest Wed or Thurs. We have friends coming for dinner on Sat, so I have warned them it will be a BBQ and ready made stuff!

Stropps, am thinking of you! And WAF, your DM sounds much like mine especially doddering and potentially dropping stuff!

BD, how unpleasant that young "lady" is. No advice to offer but my DM would have said, she'll get her comeuppance.

Herbs, you deserve a medal - DS will be very pleased. Good report for him, too - and when do they ever stop talking?

MI, commiserations about the visa - an appointment sounds the way to go. I hope your day improved.

BTM, am aghast at the kitchen going on longer. And appalled at the kitchen shop.

Stropps, in case I don't get time to MN in the morning, my very best wishes for your interview. You sound very calm and collected and I am sure you will do well.

I am slumped on the settee after seeing the 3 older GC today. DDil has been told that she needs to be in hospital more often so that new baby can bf more. Difficult with a 2 yo, so we'll be coping for longer. We're hoping that this is preparation for baby coming hime.

Rosebag my DS2, and a friend's DS2, have both found "And you have the brains of a ham sandwich" to be a very successful putdown as it makes the bystanders laugh! I realise in light of your religion that your DS might have to think of a different sandwich filling though!