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

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More crepey wisdom.....

Auriga, I know from bitter experience that bed really is the best place when you are feeling like you do - just give in to it.

Vet Sci admissions seem to be almost uniquely inflexible - so helpful when trying to develop a broad-minded, flexible approach to life...

Auriga, sounds like you're exhausted and ill. Bed-rest!

Lalsy, glad you've found your slippers.

CV, I dread to think what will happen with DS's GCSE's. Difficult in a different way to DD!

Just had a lovely relaxing facial thanks to my voucher from my lovely colleagues Off to see The Theory of Everything later with DD and my friend

BTM - sounds like a nice evening lined up.

I have cough too but not as bad as Auriga. I have remarkably got this far without so much as a sniffle so I can't really complain. I am going to snuggle up with Lemsip and watch a crappy Cameron Diaz film which I spotted. I could do with some brain dead humour?.

DD1 is safely to installed back at uni.

good news NU!

and congrats QQ!

and lovely dress Rudy.

look forward to seeing others of a crepey nature tomorrow, 2.00 at main gates, ready to go!

Thanks to your recommendation I have made a vast and delicious egg curry, most of which I will freeze in manner of proper MNer who batch cooks. Also I have beer .

I would like it on record that DD1 and I did longish and v companionable walk today, to pick up a picture from the framer in East Dulwich (I bought it in India and the glass broke on my way home) and back. We have always got on better in motion.

Fab news QQ really great!! Vet Sci is harder to get in to than medicine methinks?
NU also brilliant news re scan!
rudy lovely dress. Gorg. I'd look like a bag lady in it of course...
Predicted grades are awful... I believe they are partially assessed on post code too . I sometimes think schools use them to decide whether to allow kids to take the higher papers at GCSE. But I can see why they also work so badly for your DD Tilly.
CV maybe wait for the dust to settle a bit? It's hard to have coherent talks with DCs when emotions run high.
Will post more later. Am at the theatre after a full six hours of teaching solo. Nice class but I am wrecked. Was grateful to dH for doing all the schlepping.

Which day are we meeting up again?

Rudy we must have the same DH. I always make something in advance that can be reheated in the microwave as I never know she. he will roll up.

Four Weddings sounds just right - unlike Highlander which DH had fond memories of and inflicted on the DC''s last week. Even he had to admit it was truly terrible and very dated.

...I never know "when" he will roll up.

Which framer, MI? And tomorrow in BP

Rudy at your DH and his cycling and your "welcome to my life" scenario!

Well, The Theory of Everything was fab. Got a bit emotional. Would have been even better if the maturity-challenged hipster males beside/in front of us had not spent the first half hour munching, crunching, slurping and fidgeting What breed of girlfriend sits beside and lets them do it? Eh?

Hiya all and many thanks for all the kind words of congrats to ds1... It's still sinking in I think but am very pleased indeed for him and very much deserved.

Went to cinema with dh this afternoon and saw Birdman - thoroughly recommend it. Having a quiet evening in on a sofa with a large glass of here.

QQ I thought he was doing medicine, did I get the
wrong end of the stick?

I have finally, after a long search, managed to contact an inspirational music teacher from 40 years ago and thank him for the huge positive difference he made to my life. I'm delighted to find him still immersed in music, performing, teaching and living happily in a lovely place. As a bonus, he remembered me straight away.

Back in bed. Haven't been dressed today. Chest less sore. Will get stuck in again tomorrow. DD happy to be back at symphony orchestra, loves the programme

No, Auriga, you are holding the right end
Hope you are feeling recharged and that your dmum is being less infuriating...

Belated congrats to Young Master QQ. Our health service is safe in his hands.

All this talk of music is rekindling my desire to get DS into the piano. My trying to teach him isn't getting very far. He can read the rhythm, but refuses to believe that E comes above C and D.

Auriga, that's just lovely about your old music teacher. I'd love to do the same and find a gorgeous hippy teacher I had at primary in the 70's who just set my creativity gene on fire. I still think of her fondly and hope she has some clue about how influential she was.

QQ what can I say? - your clever ds has done you proud. I am so delighted for him and you. He'll have that extra little feather in his hat come exam time. And we will all have a point of reference for poorly cats and hamsters in the years to come is it straight veterinary or equine?

Here we are the house of lurgy again. Dh has THE WORST manflu ever known to, er , man and I've got a kidney infection. We've just hung a red rag on the door.
Dd delighted ( in last message) by the Arrival Of Snow. Us, less so.
Back to hibernation .....

Nooo, that is the wrong end of the stick you and Auriga are holding Crem... It's people (medicine) not poorly animals (vet science) for ds1. I think what started the confusion was Stropp's post re her dd (who I think would like to be a vet) which got muddled up with her congratulations...
As you were

Sorry QQ , I'm a bit bleary eyed.

Just back from a very convivial evening in the pub with the football parents. This is the Sunday team, who I don't know as well as the Saturday crowd (DS and his Saturday team mates go back as far as preschool).

I had to apologise to the parents of the boy who was dared by DS to swim across the millpond in the park yesterday. He did it. Meanwhile, several of his mates apparently stripped to their undies and did chest-slides down a muddy bank. Oh, to be a 15yo boy. DS, who is a mud-phobe, stayed safely behind his iPhone, recording the action.

Congratulations to Mini QQ! (Should that be PP?)

DD1 is getting into a complete panic because "all of her teachers" are apparently on at her all the time because she doesn't know what she wants to do when she leaves school. She is 16. This is not unusual, is it? Most of her friends want to be doctors or lawyers or architects. DD1 is feeling very pressured by the whole thing. She thinks she might like to read history at university, but has panicked again as King's apparently want at least a 6 in history in her IB.

Of course it's not unusual, MrsS. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up, let alone a 16 yo. I think for most people, unless they have a real yearning for something in particular, they just fall into an idea. It's not easy, mind, when all your friends appear to know what they want.

Crem, sorry to hear that you're not well again - you do seem to be having a bad time of it.

NU is right - very few teens have any idea of what they want to do as a career. Is she likely to not get a 6? She has another year yet? Is she set on going to King's? Surely there are loads of places where she could study history if she wasn't to get at least a 6?

Cremo, sorry to see you are ill again.

Here DS and DH are getting ready to go off to a match miles away. I think DS is a little, uncharacteristically, nervous as this is for the team he is currently trialling for!