School's out for crepeys

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

MI - I saw your article over at my dad's! Was great AND I got to tell my dad that you're a friend (didn't mention crepey/internet, etc). He's seldom impressed with me but that did it.

BTM, No , nothing like! Part of it is my delusion that over 18s have to unload dishwashers, tidy rooms etc....she bounces back very quickly these days from that; she has had other stuff this year that has been stressful (to do with other people) and waiting for results that determine what you do next year is never going to be fun I think. And part is just getting back from a week away of total independence and slotting back in to a small family home.

May I join you please? Inspired by that other thread, I thought I would say hello . I have been reading for a while but it has taken a while for me to summon the courage to post. I am a S London crepey with 3 kids, the eldest of whom is 9 with an attitude of a teenager. I am not looking forward to the real teenage years too much, especially as they are likely to coincide with my menopause.....

Magi, I love to swim as well as it is so therapeutic. Can't do it like the chap in that video though. I am more of the slow and steady breast stroke. Head in, but nowt flash.

MI, I am about to join you on the ladyjogging. I have done c25k three times but never kept it up. How far do you go? And do you enjoy it? I find it a bit of a trial but hope one day I will eventually get good enough to enjoy it.

Right, we have 3 children over in an hour to complement my own. Fingers crossed they all get on and I don't spend the day refereeing.

Welcome Montserrat. Love your name. In a rush, just wanted to say hello.

Ooh, excellent, another South London crepey.

I am hot and cross, the place is a tip and I have a friend staying tonight (will bribe DD1 to clean and tidy). Need to pack for holidays, I can't find my swimsuit, so will have to dash into town at some point to see what's left. DH has offered to take us to the station on Saturday (we have an early train) which is good. We leave London about 8 and get to where we're going at around 3. I am quite looking forward to getting some reading done. Must sort out waterproofs. And fleeces...

Morning all, and hello MC!

Well, I haven't Ladyjogged at all today (and I am still to learn to love it - Originalpiratematerial is the real runner!) because I am suddenly totally exhausted. Didn't help that I work up at 5 in a panic over the CDiff mag - not the client this time (though part of the exhaustion was I was v tense about yesterday's meeting) but the designer who has been resuming work two (2, ii) weeks after having a baby. She has started producing work but has clearly taken no notice of the order she should have been doing this in, I'm worried she will ignore some crucial stuff and above all I'm waiting for the reality to hit her. (I have said repeatedly that the only way to work with a baby is with childcare...and not two weeks post-partum, dammit!)

So I am sluggish and knackered...

Oh and DP - hitherto the one with a Proper Job - is facing possibly not having one. Will not go into details, and I have a lot of confidence in his ability to attract other work, but it is a bit of a Blow. He is v good at what he does, but like most specialist fields it's quite a small one.

I am also running in to say hi to new folk - Montserrat (can we call you Monty?) and MagiMedi. Not been around MN much for ages, but hoping to catch up with you all soon. Got another TV shoot at the house next week with proper famous people in it. They will be using our playroom as their green room. Need to go and check what disasters lurk in there.

Also, did you see that Tamsin Outhwaite is wearing a silver version of The Crepey Skirt on the cover of Good Housekeeping this month?

Anyway, as you were.

WIL-BURRRR!!!!!

Hey Wilbur! And MC!

Fingers crossed, MI.

Re skirt, maybe she is a lurker and we are trend-setters?!

Will we see her with her bra on her head soon?

Wilbur :) welcome back - and many thanks for the offer of tea on Saturday!

Hi all the newbies!

Here I am writing (yet another) presentation for the interview on Thursday....... (and buying things in the Seasalt sale - I must curb my spending)

Sniggering at thought of TV folk lurking and stealing our fashion Ideas - not that I have the crepey skirt - or even a skirt (I'm trousers with a couple of dresses thrown in).

Montserrat - hello and are you an opera singer?

DD 1 back from Italy with very sweet boyfriend. They are exhausted and have a ton of dirty laundery for my general delight.

Hello all. BTM - thanks, my phone is behaving but I have heard they can go rusty and play up down the line, so still nervous.

Hello all newbies...

Hatty, did she take him to Italy or just find a sweet boyfriend there??

Dd1 is lusting after the surf school teachers. Unfortunately, she doesn't look her best in neck to toe rubber!

Beachy - it's her long standing boyfriend but it's going to be traumatic as he's going to uni in the Netherlands and DD in the UK. I foresee tears ahead.

Beachy,

I have just remembered that it is our 42nd Wedding Anniversary - we have had so much to think about that we both forgot. My wedding day started when I went to the local park with my cousin and his dog at 6 am and we ended up going on the swings, roundabout etc. Needless to say I was a child bride!

Welcome to MC.

I enjoy swimming but find it difficult with my knee replacement - in fact it was the swimming which meant that I needed the replacement so early.

Thanks for the tips about dresses - will have a look at the weekend.

BTM, sorry that you're feeling exhausted, hope it passes soon.

Oh Hatty, that will be traumatic!

NU, 42 years that is some achievement - congratulations

I am actually feeling a little less exhausted today, and spent 2 hours looking through old photo's for a friends upcoming 50th (and also dug out some for mine!)
Now to start the slow process to extricate DD from her room/laptop to go paint shopping - doing her room on our return - and to buy a new microwave as ours has just stopped working.

Hello Montserrat! I guess you're a singer? Being a South Londoner you might get to meet the other creepeys sooner than me...I am in darkest North London....nearly Hertforshire. Defo in the minority!!
Magi that swimming vid...wow! amazing technique. dD and I have been pouring over it this morning.
Tilly I'm struggling to shake off the tiredness still!!! I think there's a lot in what you say about the adrenalin slump. But I'm so unfit and finding it so hard to break out of the cycle. That can't be helping, can it. Feeling fat and old, if I'm really honest.
MI you know what I do, and I have yet to meet a woman who is ready and competent for work at two weeks post partum. And those who think they are, usually take the full year off second time around whether they can afford it or not.
nu congratulations!!!wow 42 years!!

What is the creepy skirt btw?

Chilling at the flat after fitness challenge and long breakfast stretching in to lunch on the harbour with friends...got somewhat burnt, though....nevertheless plan to go to the beach later. Weather's glorious.

Rose, I am just waiting for this woman to clock that - she isn't doing too badly at the moment, and I feel a sense of sneaky relief in a way that she's dealing with this now, not in a month's time when the full reality will have hit her. I only took four months off with my two (and in many ways returning to work saved my sanity) but two weeks after....?? No way.

NU, I am very impressed by anyone who can put up with someone else for 42 years .

mother I was still crying at 2 weeks, and incoherent even to my close family, incontinent (tmi) and unable to drive on account of my bazongas being so big they created an obstruction to the windscreen. You'd think she'd wait til the 6 week check, eh. Still. Each to his (her) own. When I had DS1 we only got a few weeks pay on mat leave...we all went back early...I was still feeding. But not that early!!

I re-started work 10 days after I had ds, but I worked in my home office with him stuck to my chest. It wasn't fun, but I had no choice whatsoever. If I had had any kind of choice, I definitely wouldn't have done it. Frankly, being post-partum was the least of it at the time. Life was hellish anyway and having a baby on top of it all was the icing on the cake. However, by the time he was nearly 3 I was very ill indeed, mainly caused by trying to be Superwoman. Would not recommend.

I think she's in her home office with baby attached to chest as well, Stropps....I know people do it but I honestly could not function at that point at ALL.

Am going to go and feed curry to my lot.

Can't nb who asked but... this beauty is the "crepey skirt"...