CV - I salute you for lowering the soaring drama bar with DD2's 'charmingly amateur variety show' 
Hatty - DH and I turn off the internet at night... slippery slope?
Rudy - have a lovely lunch with DC. Are you planning to introduce your cupboard hiders to doing runners?
BTM - I would so feel like 'what is the f-ing point of anything?' re the worktop.
Stropps - good luck today.
I have two more years of school runs. Although she'll probably be fighting us to walk herself at start of year 6. It's a mile there up a hill, which is why I turn into a blob over the summer. Regarding freelance trumpet blowing, when jobs go well I ask them to write me a recommendation for my LinkedIn page. When they don't go that well... I don't. It's a selective trumpet situation.
Herbs - I would be wringing my hands raw in your position. Doesn't sound like new head is massively on top of things, although with deputy gone that could change. Change of class might help, I do agree. My school wasn't going to change. In fact it sauntered into special measures over the following 3 years. Yours could be on the up. What do you think of the head? If they were blaming the dep, that sounds a bit dodgy - they're in charge. Again, FWIW I dillied and dallied for a long time about what to do but the only thing that stopped me feeling powerless and stopped the hand wringing was calling the ed auth and putting dd put on list for a school I knew was excellent. I had not even been to visit it prior to them offering us a place! They called in the first week of September.