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MMXV (2015, twenty fifteen) : Here Come The Crepeys!

996 replies

CointreauVersial · 28/12/2014 18:21

More crepey wisdom.....

OP posts:
wordassociationfootball · 07/01/2015 14:28

Hello crepeys, regards to one and all.

Wilbur - just wanted to say I nodded muchly at your monthly sadness and desire for torching (house), divorcing (dh) and passing to better mother thing. Very well put. Haven't had AF since June here but still get pain and the moods they still swingeth.

DD is doing well with her one good arm but DH saw her on way to school this morning with friend who was sherpering dd's bag. He said sherpa looked a bit grumpy so we must appreciate her with a gift (not back support or hand weights obvs).

Found out yesterday that £2,000 of work I was counting on is going away. Attempts to rationalise it as a good thing are ongoing. They were strange people so it isn't all bad but this has been a low earning year so it's a big chunk. More time for my novel though, which is going to get so utterly finished this year.

motherinferior · 07/01/2015 14:38

Oh WAF, been there done that re work chunk, is GRIM.

NUFC69 · 07/01/2015 14:40

Hatty, fingers crossed about the next lot of tests. I am just watching the awful news from Paris: everyone seems stunned.

I hope the results don't take long to arrive, Rudy.

I rarely let DH near the washing machine since he put a new purple cashmere v neck jumper on a 40 degree wash. And even something simple like giving him the washing basket with already sorted washing isn't simple. How could he not put the cap back properly on the fabric conditioner? The contents of a bottle go a long way when it is dropped from a height (voice of bitter experience).

We had a good night's sleep and the baby didn't wake us up. DS has disappeared to the office and we have been round to the new house with DDiL. They have bought the house to do up, but my goodness is it dirty. The bathroom can best be described as filthy - and the fluorescent pink toilet seat has got to be seen to be believed. Some of the walls appear to have been used for bouncing a ball. Oh well, at least the DC are young with boundless energy.

beachyhead · 07/01/2015 14:48

I do completely see that MI, we have a similar situation with Youth Theatre, which dd2 is due to start next year in Y6. However, ds is thinking about doing Drama GCSE and as he doesn't have the confidence to do the School Plays, he would feel more comfortable at Youth Theatre. The school has auditions on Sunday, but apparently the whole play has to be done in a Welsh accent, so he has decided not to go for it! The Youth Theatre has always been the 'thing' dd2 is going to do.

So the thing you have in your favour is that dd1 doesn't mind, which is great. Would they be in the same session (ours seem to be done by year group)? Would dd2 be better at it than dd1? THIS IS A BIG ONE Grin

I would be tempted to let dd1 have another term or so on her own there and then introduce it to dd2.....doesn't solve it but gives everyone a bit more time to get used to the idea.

Rose - love that range - I've often lusted after Alice Temperley, but always assumed it was out of my range. Those tops are great....

Glad you are hunkering down, Crem. I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to my two non-working, non-children days tomorrow and Friday. I shall skip through my jobs in whatever order I choose.....

Rosebag · 07/01/2015 14:57

MI DS can be similar about him and DD being part of the same theatre company, but the saving grace is that they were always in different groups divided either by age; or when they're doing a show, by different character groups…so different rehearsal times. Also, DS has gravitated more towards the music, bands and vocal groups than DD at this stage. Once or twice they have been in the same group which is easier for me as it's half the number of rehearsals but it hasn't gone so well. DD's better with her friends rather than her DBro…definitely! DS can be a bit horrible to her when they're in the same group. Maybe its because he thinks it's his thing?

Sorry about the lost work WAF

bigTillyMint · 07/01/2015 14:58

MI, re your dilemma.
I made the decision early on that DS wouldn't do ballet (DD did it before she started gym) or gymnastics as he is naturally good at physical stuff (had a ballet tryout once and was so cute and not the hulk he is now in her PINK ballet leotardGrin which he liked to wear all the timeGrin) and very competitive. I wanted DD to have something that was all hers.
It was the right decision for us, but your two sound very different to mine!

I have done some work! But I have loads more to doSad

motherinferior · 07/01/2015 14:59

I don't think DD2 would be better at it but she's surprisingly good at acting. The annoying thing is that DD2 is also good at dance - she does a Saturday contemporary dance class - and music: she spent years in her sister's shadow but in fact has carved out a nice little niche of her own, and can mine that very successfully. (DD1 is fine at dance but really not at music. Really not. No.)

bigTillyMint · 07/01/2015 14:59

Hi WAF! Sorry about the lost work. Does that rule out you coming on the 6th?

hattymattie · 07/01/2015 15:16

MI - I've had a lot of this with DD2 wanting to do the same activities as DD1. DD1 hates this. I have tried to keep them separate where possible although not always with success. Very difficult to manage as I can completely see both points of view. (No help whatsoever am I).

NU - you were ahead of me on the news there - I just caught up - I'm not sure what these people hope to achieveSadSad

Rudy - good luck with all these tests - I'm following on your heels next week.

Rosebag · 07/01/2015 15:54

I am horrified at the news from Paris. Hatty I trust all you and yours are safe? I am listening to LBC…I can't believe some of the justifications I'm hearing….

hattymattie · 07/01/2015 16:03

All safe here Rose but all this does is help Marine Le Pen.Sad

motherinferior · 07/01/2015 16:27

Yes, exactly, Hattie Sad. I have to say I'm very glad DP isn't in Paris at the moment.

bigTillyMint · 07/01/2015 16:28

Oh God, I wondered what a French friend was posting about on FB (managed to miss that line of NU's postBlush) How awful. Glad you are OK Hatty.

lalsy · 07/01/2015 17:22

Sad. I can't believe this has happened.

NUFC69 · 07/01/2015 18:27

Sorry to hear about the work, WAF, it's awful when you're relying on something like that.

No advice from me, MI, about your DDs, although I do understand your concerns. I think that you will just have to play it by ear.

Glad to hear that you're ok, Hatty. So worrying that the gunmen are still on the run.

MrsSchadenfreude · 07/01/2015 18:40

Also glad not to be in Paris. Sad

I do think that we, in London, are a lot more geared up to terrorism, after all our years with the IRA. Not saying that nothing will happen here, but I think we are a bit more on our toes.

NUFC69 · 07/01/2015 19:06

I agree with you, MrsS. We lived in Essex in the 70s and DH worked in Central London: it was quite common for the trains not to be running because of bomb scares. And, of course, no mobile phones so no communication either. We were in Washington DC a couple of weeks after 9/11 and the atmosphere was entirely different. I was very proud of our British phlegm. Actually it was quite an interesting experience as people were falling on our necks and thanking us for travelling. Hmm

We have had a few interesting experiences in DC as we were also there at the time of the riscin on the subway, and when the Washington sniper was active.

MollyAir · 07/01/2015 19:22

MI, that Youth Theatre issue is very difficult. If dd2 takes to it, how can it remain dd1's thing? OTOH dd2 shouldn't be restricted in her life by her dsis' choices. (Except possibly choice of life partner, ie don't nick your sister's.)

I was going to suggest that teens can be very mature in finding the "fair" solution to problems themselves, but then I took off my glasses and found they were rose-tinted. I dunno; but am acknowledging that it's very tricky.

Am as shocked as others by the killings at Charlie Hebdo. Does not seem real.

wilbur · 07/01/2015 19:40

Agree about awful news from Paris Sad, have just watched news. NUFC - must have been quite something to be in the USA so close after 9/11. I am probably going to New York in April and will hopefully have time to visit the memorial. Such sadness in all these attacks, so many lives ruined.

Sorry about the loss of work, WAF - that's tough, but yes, use the time to write other things.

MI - that's tough about youth theatre. I try hard to make sure that ds1 and ds2 do different things as competitive brothers can be particularly corrosive but luckily they are very different boys. They do, however, play cricket at the same club and I think ds1 will give up cricket at some point (the only sport he's half decent at) as ds2 is just so much better Sad. Dd and ds2 do a lot of the same things, piano, drama, but they are in different groups so there's no friction. I think the idea of giving it another term with dd2 not doing it is good. Then if she joins in the summer, dd1 will hopefully be immersed in plans for a summer show and won't notice so much.

lalsy · 07/01/2015 19:42

I agree Molly, tricky one. dd and ds have mostly done different activities but for the one they shared, dd was not allowed to have anything to do with ds (she was teaching it though and the nature of the activity was umm, quite discipline focussed)

I am not sure about preparedness - the editor had said before he knew he might be murdered and the offices had police protection - one of the protection officers was killed. I agree again Molly, so hard to believe.

addle · 07/01/2015 20:39

Viking wool, MI? and that would be? Lovely, lovely slippers though

Rose - I really like that black temperley top you linked to, lovely and understated

Have absolutely no beautiful underwear, must put that right

DS loves to see DD when she comes home but now makes it clear that he no longer considers her to be a full-time resident. He and he alone is the full-time child and he likes it.

addle · 07/01/2015 21:02

sorry everyone, missed a whole page of posts somehow - completely out of step.

MrsSchadenfreude · 07/01/2015 22:21

I am so pissed off. In an attempt to "reclaim" my work/life balance, I have said that I will work from home one day a week. This will enable me to start and finish early, and pick up the cat's prescription food from the vet, and do other useful things like that. This week it was going to be Friday, but now I have been asked to cancel as there is a meeting on Friday that I "must" attend. I can't dial in, due to the content of the meeting, apparently. I could go in for the meeting, and then come home again, but that sort of negates the whole WFH thing. And the fucking meeting is right in the middle of the day.

Re bras, all of mine are brightly coloured or black. I feel that if I end up with a beige one called "Doreen" I will have lost the will to live.

Blackduck · 08/01/2015 06:09

MrsS Grrr on your behalf.
My WFH Friday is in danger due to lack of team members - sigh - not been a good start to the year.

I am a two pack of bras kinda girl.....

lalsy · 08/01/2015 07:11

BD, I was till last year but a passing crepey comment made me investigate Bravissimo and buy properly fitting ones - the joy.

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