School's out for crepeys

[lalsy]

Ooops, sorry, I didn't mean to finish the thread.

Ooh, MI, I'm not a Torygraph reader - can you link?

Which thread on aibu? I'm curious now. Linky to your article MI? I only get a shortened version of the Sunday Times here (and for an exorbitant price).

Alas, cannot find it online. It was a supplement for parents of new students...

WWC has gone for cup of tea option.

Phew!

My DM may have read your article, MI. She is the only Torygraph reader I know!

herbs formal complaint called for perhaps? Only way to deal with such officious nonsense. If anyone took my chair away, or elderly relatives one for that matter, I'd have to hit them with it!!!
MI you are fab, CDiff is not. Can you link the article?
Hadn't caught up with Crem's troubles...feeling very much for her.
Hello Magi
Pleased with our swimming today ( fitness challenge updates on fb) and DD bless her, slogging through 20 lengths...she's got very low muscle tone and it took her ages but she battled grimly to the end. I've been eating only protein breakfasts which makes me less tired but late reward lunch of Mac and cheese ( delicious) on the harbour has knocked me out!!
NU mango has nice dresses still

Found the cliquey thread but got bogged down in the sorry thread. I always get sucked in on AIBU although I daren't post there very much.

Broccoli is the food of the devil. It's green & bitter.

This is the thread that lured me over here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2144502-to-be-frustrated-by-all-the-unexplained-long-running-insider-threads?msgid=48555491

Am not on FB - but Rosebag tell your daughter that that swimming lark gets better & better. I started swimming again in January & was struggling to do 8 lengths. Am now doing 35 - 40 with not too much effort. It really does improve quite quickly. Don't know how it lines up against any other exercise as don't do any other exercise!

I hate swimming. I can't master the breathing bit, so I gradually go blue from lack of oxygen.

I can swim for any number of lengths, but my style leaves a LOT to be desired

We have just been watching yet more DVD's of the DC - all very funny. We have started packing... Why is packing so tedious?

I used to swim for my county in my yoof. (Under 15s) The training was gruelling. I refused to do it any more after being made to swim with a chest infection in a competition and coming last spectacularly because I couldn't breathe. I was the one that came in after everyone else had got out of the pool and was dry and dressed.

It does get easier, Rose, tell your DD.

DH has just announced that he has been outbid on a clavinet on ebay. Imagine my relief...

A clarinet is possibly better than a trumpet, though, MrsS. Or the drums...

He really is having a mid-life crisis, isn't he?!

That reminds me that not coming out with you lot on Friday means I still don't know what MrS did to make you incandescent with fury.... or what your dd said to you that was so terrible Stropps. Harumph.

Hi to you MagiMedi and welcome. How crepey are you? Enduring Enjoying life with teenagers? Any male mid life crises going on round yours?

Missed you QQ. When can we have the next coven meet-up?

I'm just dragging a lot of boxes out of the loft cupboards to do an audit on our camping equipment before our holiday. We have a giant tent and a huuge mountain of equipment. I think we camped for 2 nights 6 years ago. This was at the time when I was really unwell (read: nuts) and I have absolutely no recollection of buying most of it, so I'm utterly amazed by what I'm finding. Which is a bit uncomfortable.

Magimedi, I didn't discover till I met DH that the only thing wrong with broccoli was my cooking. I was prejudiced against soggy veg & went to the other extreme. Just a little more cooking made all the difference (same with cauliflower). And some salt to sweeten it.

This I learned from the man who, the first time he cooked me a meal, opened a tin of curry

Missed seeing you too Auriga!
I think you're a fellow headache / migraine sufferer if I remember correctly. Are you sensitive to muggy / stormy weather? It really affects me.

Always good to have a meet up to look forward to in my view... Early September to celebrate the end of the school hols?!

Where are you going to camp, Strops? We only did it once but it was great. We were in an old (1950s) Scout tent of my PILs which weighed a ton but was fantastically comfortable. It fell apart soon afterwards.

Hi to you MagiMedi and welcome. How crepey are you? Enduring Enjoying life with teenagers? Any male mid life crises going on round yours?

I am v.v. crepey - My male has not quite got a mid life crisis as he is nearly 69! I am now fast heading for 60 & DS is mid 30's!!

For all the swimmers (or would be) have a look at this: I can't swim like that but trying to has made a vast difference to my swimming.

It comes from a site called Total Immersion - some great stuff there.

I am not vastly fit but I love to swim because it puts my head into a very good place. Going up & down & counting my lengths & thinking about how I am swimming blocks everything else out from my head for half an hour or so & levels me out a bit - which I need!

I'm a swimmer too - not a good swimmer but a dogged one. I love that slightly trance like state you get into ploughing up and down the pool and agree it's very good for the old mental health. I also do ladyjogging (™MI on this thread) but not so keen on being betroot red in the face as I stagger along.

Hello Magi. I love swimming but have some strange nasal thing that means if I get water up my nose, disgusting things happen.

BTM, we've had over 3 weeks of various buts of packing and unpacking. I am so bored with it I want to scream. dd is now back, with mood swings in full force, next couple of weeks going to be fun . After some fairly minor provocation today, I ran away from home and half an hour later was dissecting the joys of family life with friend and beer .

Noooo, Lalsy! Isn't your DD 18? Will it still be that bad then?

I have spent the last few days feeling absolutely exhausted and napping as well as sleeping at least 9 hours a night - end of term adrenaline slump methinks.

Oh, and WAF, how's your phone? DS dropped his down the loo on the weekend (was this a ploy to try to get a new one?) and I rescued it in a box of rice - was back to normal last night!