Crepeys are an August bunch

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Here ya go...

I can't really stay put, as at my sisters house in surrey and she's now gone out. To get home means driving through central London, and dP is away so can't look after me. If I go to t wells friend, DS can be entertained by his friend, and I can loll.

Herbs you poor soul. Hope you can struggle through the visit and collapse later .

Lalsy < links arms> yes t minus two days til results. I am feeling sanguine about it tbh. What will be will be.
Dd is quiet and unusually subdued. I am taking this to mean the tablets have kicked in. She is toddling about with reading matter and green tea.

MI result! Mucho congrats. A long lunch is def on order.
X

Ps has Hatty vanished?

Hi Cremo, glad to hear things are calmer.

Is Hatty on hols?

Crem reading matter and green tea here too. And kit kats am glad things are calm.

enjoy a whoppingly large lunch mi with damb big glass of wine. Sorry on phone scuse typing

MI I am thrilled to hear of the safe arrival of IT!

YY to nice lunch to celebrate.

When do you go away?

Poor you Herbs. Immodium and paracetamol, I guess. Wish you better.

Crem and Lalsy all the best for Thursdays A level results!! My DNeph is also awaiting, with a provisional place at Med School. I will suggest green tea and chocolate to My DSis but suspect she's already on the vino. With DS2s A level results…my god, was it EIGHT years ago?…we sat up watching the UCAS site which was still a blank screen at 2am, so finally went to bed. At 6am he wanders out of his room…says (grunts) "I'm in" and then goes back to sleep for the rest of the day. He'd got the university site up on his phone that said 'accepted' He didn't know his grades until a lot later…and didn't much care by that point! We will be in Canada for DS2s GCSE results with an 8 hour time difference…..

MI lunch at somewhere posh, I should think. Well done for holding it together. You shall go to the ball…(hol)

Stationery and school uniform today. Very pleased to announce that after a try on session, DD only needs trainers for PE and Nothing Else!!! I am doubly pleased as I always coveted her pink Clarks trainers out of which she claims to have grown…they fit me perfectly and are so comfortable. (Crepey alert). Have managed to get the stationery bill down to below a tenner too. That's, of course if you don't count the GCSE Art material pack which had to be purchased via the school for £££s. DS will be in 6th form so no uniform and only needs file paper and ring binders. Just slightly with DH who has gone off to work with the 20 percent off voucher for WHSmith (why?) which I was saving to use for his folders...

Yay MI! Definitely go for that lunch

Herbs, poor you. Fingers crossed the others dont get it - last thing you need on hol.

Cremo, glad to hear DD is calmer. Dont know how she can stomach green tea though!

Good luck to all the Alevel results waiters - no doubt DH will be hovering over the ipad imminently to check how his students have done.

Rose I am hoping all the uniform still fits/is fit to wear! I am refusing to buy new school "shoes"as the Vans I bought them in the spring are still fine and they both have Kickers. Both are threatening to wear their all-black Air-Max's

Erk...have another feature coming up for which I may need to request to exploit my lovely friends: if so, please feel free to refuse if you'd rather.

What is it about MI?

'Should you give in to pester power'...a for and against. I'll check age ranges. I need to find someone in particular who's prepared to ahem work up a 'for' position - in terms of feeling it's OK to say yes to a particular thing that they really really want...

Ahem

We are firmly in the no camp. DH especially so!

IMHO this is pretty easy when they are small, pester-power becomes much more difficult to fight once they are teens!

I know. I don't find the 'against' one too hard to find someone for...

I do know the odd person who I always felt was in the "for" camp. Their DC always came across as a bit of a pita, IMHO!

I must admit, I'm a 'pick your battles' kind of person. So I'll let them pester away for something, on and on and on, then give in, on the basis that I wouldn't have had a problem with them having that anyway. I am then one point up and I can stand firm on the ones that really count.

All mind manipulation, this parenting...

I may throw myself on your mercy, Beachy.

I'm in the Beachy camp....... :)

...throws self again....

Sounds like you've got an article!

Hmmn, have PMd you, see what you think. May be too much Naked Revelation.

Not his birthday suit, I take it!

We are waiting for a reply to our air bnb reservation, but we only finally completed all the hurdles at 8pm last night (what a complete palaver) and they have 24 hours to reply. Meanwhile checkout here is 11am!

Also of the "pick you battles" variety. When I'm really anti, no one can move me. But I'd freely admit, I sometimes cave in just to get some peace. (Not proud of that) And I think a lot of parents do, but won't admit to it.

Tilly my kids have got this silly thing…re school shoes. They start complaining when their toes can feel the end of the shoe. (I blame Clarks, personally with their 'growing room ' obsession)…my rule now is…only if there evidence of mangled toes.

DDs feet havent grown for at least 3 years, so she has mountains of trainers! DSs seem to have stopped for the last 6mths, but he is still getting taller - DH looks titchy next to him now!

I try to pick my battles too, but the DC always knew that no meant no IYSWIM