Crepeys in the Long Grass of Life

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Thanks Beachy for the frisky title suggestion.

Well, here we all are!

Oh Herbs, that's awful; I hope that they can sort it out for DS - it sounds pretty miserable to me.

Wow, Stropps, I only wish I was as dynamic. Well done for making the decision.

It sounds really off Herbs. Follow up with head before end of term if you can. Always better to get it nipped. School/head will want to too.

Rudy v sorry to hear about mum and NU is right.

Rose hope you get a better night tonight.

MI - Didn't dare stop to say hello last night as dd2 homicidal for her dinner but - your dd was vg in the show.

What, her "I'm dying of mustard gas" act? Was yours in it too?

Herbs, deffo follow up.

V glad both exams are over. Think she is too. When on form, DD2 is also a delight.

Now trying to think constructive work-related thoughts when all I really want to do is lounge around with a book in a shadier bit of the garden with the cat.

Yes Herbs, go in and get to the bottom of it.

Stropps, have you booked your ticket?!

I feel like such a nagging parent. I'd brought it up a few times before (and was told once that in fact DS had hit back so hard the victim needed an ice pack), and last week at parents' evening. At that point the teacher said she'd sort it. But obviously hasn't, which is why I brought it up again today.

Amazement and respeck from me too, Stropps.

No, MI not in play but she composed some music which was recorded and playing in the exhibition bit. She phoned me as I was being blow dried at school chuck out time (I went for gamine: I got mumsy) and said she would go home rather than meet up with me, dh and dd2 because 'otherwise it's too confusing' . DH did point out that if he took time off work to come to something he did rather expect her to manage her host/guest confusion and, errr, be there.

So he 'hit back' the key word there being back - so he was hit and retaliated. Frankly that's not good enough (we all know you shouldn't hit back blah blah, but someone shouldn't hit you first!) and if there is a 'gang' mentality then it needs to be stomped on hard...... gets off soap box and sits down

and at ice pack. They all need some seeeerious circle time, man.

Slap me and take away my router. I've been goofing off all week whilst also worrying that I don't have as much on as I'd like and doing nothing to find more commissions. What's the betting I re-find my work ethic just as both school's kick out.....

#ownworstenemy

I don't do Twitter, I'm just trying hash tags for size....

One of these 'friends' in the gang was the one who said he looked like a monster when his eye shell turned around. The same little darling is in DS's drama class. As DS says, sadly: "M is my friend at drama, but at school he just wants to fight me."

Bastard kids.

I have blisters on the soles of my feet. (Think my new sandals aren't leather-lined.) This obviously terribly sad, isn't it, but I shall have to take it easy. Possibly even on Sunday.

@BTM - I have now. :) I have taken a later train than usual, so will make it to London just before 6pm on the 25th. Will have to bring my rucksack with me to meetup - pls could we meet somewhere around Waterloo again?

I have realised I need a new CRB/DBS check as my old one is about to run out. I have to provide proof of name changes etc. I cannot find my 1st marriage certificate. Am suspecting I may have shredded it in a fit of rage (although I don't think I would have been quite that daft, even in a state of high emotion. Destroying bins - yes; destroying important paperwork - not so much). I hate it when my filing system fails so spectacularly.

One of the problems at his school is a language barrier. The parents of a lot of the boys in question speak very little English, making it hard to make casual acquaintance and jolly playdate kind of situations.

DS seems to idolise drama 'friend' rather. There's another gentle type of boy in the class that I'm trying to engineer DS being friends with. I had been hopeful, as he's got a birthday around now, and I know he's having a party at which some school friends will be, but DS hasn't been invited.

I can't keep up laydeeez.

Wrote a long post on my phone yesterday in a few idle moments and then my bastard phone wouldn't post it so gave up... was mainly about Legoland indeed being one of the circles of hell and being described by Dante if you read the text closely... There's got to be Another Way MI!

Many commiserations with your bad news about your poor Mum Rudy, very complicated and upsetting for everyone involved and affected. Am just reading a brilliant but horribly sad memoir called 'Iceberg' and it talks very compellingly about how such a diagnosis 'affects everything'.

Wishing your ds a safe and uneventful trip Rose.

WELL DONE littlest CV. Brilliant and a real confidence boost for secondary school. Be very proud!

Stropps, you're doing fantastically well with all these bold plans. Look forward to toasting you on 25th.

Apologies in advance for all the other stuff I've overlooked.

Off to Latitude Festival tomorrow - have volunteered to stay at home with the dog in an assumed spirit of selflessness but which in fact suits me v well indeed - shall be lolling about on the sofa reading rather than tramping around a field listening to various bands I've never heard of and being avoided by my dcs as too embarrassing. Result.

You're all heart, QQ.

Stropps, that's splendid re meet-up. Rudy, keeping everything crossed for you.
Waterloo should be fine for everyone, but where to? MI's fave or the B+K? Or somewhere new? Cocktails first? It is definitely woo woo weather

QQ, we can never go to Latitude owing to our jobs/DH refusing to get time off for anything. But half of the DC's school will be there. Tell your boys to watch out!

Herbs, poor mini-Herbs. Some schools are brilliant at dealing with bullying/rough play, etc, some are not. Keep on at them till you get the result you want. Will he be with the same children next year or do they mix them up?

A vote for Taz from here. (is it called that??) And Woo-woo first.

Definitely woo woo.

DD1 says the hair on her legs embarrasses her a bit. It's not a major issue for me if she de-hairs them - her friends mostly do - but should I suggest she try cream rather than shaving?

Great! Shall we meet at the usual cocktail haunt first at 6 and then on to Tas? MI will you book Tas?

MI, I didn't suggest anything to DD, in fact I tried to put her off (was successful until Y9) but then she just pinched my razor! I buy her her own now.

Tas at 7pm?

She'll be in Y9 next term...

Booked for 7.30 in my Real Name.

So Tas (is that the mezze place?) and the cocktail place where I first met BTM?

Tas - excellent!

Have been up since 5.30 as had to get DD2 to airport at crack of dawn for flight to the States. It's a ten hour flight - she should be there in the next hour or so. It looked as if there was another girl of around her age flying to Houston as well, as when I checked DD2 in, there was a girl behind us saying in a loud whisper "Dad! Dad! Houston!" DD2 said the Unaccompanied Minors lounge was "too cool" and I should have dropped her there early, instead of taking her to Carluccio's for breakfast. (huh)

Had a meeting with Muslim colleague this afternoon, and suggested we meet in dreary meeting room, as didn't want to have tea in front of her, but she suggested the caff, as she had come on and was no longer fasting (and was delighted about this!). So we had tea and cake and a bitch, which was nice.

Yay, Tas and woo-woo [grin Thank you, MI.
Hope yr dd2 has a great time in Houston, MrsS. I'm hoping dd has managed to avoid any disasters in London today. No news is probably good news.
Ds is off back to school shortly for the traditional end of yr 4 sleepover in the Celtic roundhouse (girls last night, boys tonight). They are making pizzas first, apparently.