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

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CointreauVersial · 28/12/2014 18:21

More crepey wisdom.....

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NUFC69 · 11/01/2015 07:33

That is an early start for them, BTM. Is DS particularly interested in this club? It must be very gratifying for him, but possibly not for you and his DDad. I don't know how I would feel about it (and you know I am a big fan). I do think that they need good family support behind them, but the percentage of boys who make it is so small. Good luck to him, though - the time to worry about it is if something comes of one of his trials.

hattymattie · 11/01/2015 08:24

Mrs S - not unusual at all to be unsure at 16. DD2 will be a starting her uni applications in September and she is clueless. We have work that do. Also when she gets a good mark in a subject she says she will study that and then changes her mind later when she gets a bad markConfused.

Crem - reckon kidney infection trumps man flu. Get some rest.

We started watching Bad Teacher with Cameroon Diaz - I thought it might have been a sort it of amusing Miss Jean Brodie. It was dire - I didn't like her anyway - she is so contrived but this was shameful. On a par with those American puerile shouty films aimed at 16 year old boys. We lasted 10 minutes.

hattymattie · 11/01/2015 08:25

Cameron not CameroonConfused. You can tell I'm back on my Tablet!

Blackduck · 11/01/2015 08:36

No booze, first episode of 'Spiral' and an early night. The advantage of me being 'dry' is Dp is also drinking less. The disadvantage is my brain is very clear and lots of thinking is happening.......

Cremo :( take care - you really have been through the wars recently.

bigTillyMint · 11/01/2015 09:27

Oh, NU, very gratifying for DHGrin But he has only just started at this one, and this is his first game, so we will see. I am the voice of doom (well, I try not to say anythingWink) but they are both very realistic! I feel very sad that because his proper team are so strong, many of the boys are being scouted and this could leave the team to fail. But how could we say no he can't even try?

At least I went back to sleep when they left]smile]

NUFC69 · 11/01/2015 09:33

Well the day started well but has gone downhill. Sad DH has just taken Dd and DGD2 to a&e as the little one fell into the tv and her eye looks swollen. If she was older she would be able to say if her vision was ok, but at 19 months ... Her speech is actually very good: she did tell DD "I bumped tv, hurt, crying". Sad

DS had been in touch earlier to ask us to join them, plus his inlaws for lunch out - a thank you for our and their help.

BD, don't let the dratted dog back into your life, try to think of positive things.

motherinferior · 11/01/2015 09:52

Oh no, NU!

Commiserations to all with ailments.

BTM, I meant the evening meet upGrin. Am sneaking off to the flicks to see Paddington todayGrin. And the framer is the one by Dulwich Library. The picture is now hanging at the top of our stairs and I love it.

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Stropperella · 11/01/2015 10:21

Ooops, sorry if my post confused anyone re: vet sci. Confused

Crem, so sorry to hear you are poorly again. Rest up and get well soon!

I am molto fed up that I still have a ton of work to do today and must walk the dog, clean the chickens out and will probably have to do a Tesco shop. Not to mention the cooking and some laundry. Ds also needs some exercise as he is suffering from an overdose of his tablet, as it were. I shall drag him out with the dog to go up hill and down dale. I need more hours in the day! I am also a teensy bit miffed that I not noticing much difference in my mental acuity or anything else after being off the booze for 11 days. My mind still seems woolly and I still have trouble getting up in the morning. Dh is probably drinking more, as he is now slurping whisky in the evening as he doesn't want to open a bottle of wine if I'm not going to share it with him. He sees no point in giving up alcohol and says life is too short for that kind of thing. Hmm

NU, hope your dgd is ok.

MrsS, I think it's so harsh that the system expects them to be able to know what they want to do at 16 and they ones that don't have a straightforward idea at an early stage end up feeling massively pressurised. I think the ones who really know what they want at that stage and really end up doing it are probably in the minority. Dd is always getting her knickers in a twist about this. Part of the reason why she has held onto the vet sci idea for so long is that it is a nice, obvious ambition.The rest of this academic year is going to be all about her getting her head around what she wants to do instead, as like Hatty's dd, she will have to apply to university this autumn.

Stropperella · 11/01/2015 10:23

ooh yes, good luck to your ds, BTM.

MI, I am thinking of you and your dm. And keeping everything crossed.

herbaceous · 11/01/2015 10:32

I don't know how anyone can 'know' what they want to do at 16. Any certainty that they want to be a lawyer, architect, accountant, etc, is probably either parental/peer influence, or a desperation to cling to some kind of certainty. An idea of a career is so abstract, isn't it. You can't know what your day-to-day life is going to be like as a lawyer, architect, account, etc, until you actually do it.

Admittedly, I was sure I wanted to be an architect, and started A Level maths to that end. But the teacher was a total bitch, and kept telling me I was stupid and was dragging the class down. (I wasn't - I was just asking how on earth the square root of minus 1 can exist, another such questions.) So I gave it up. And still kind of wish I had been an architect.

bigTillyMint · 11/01/2015 10:54

Aww NU, what a little sweetie. Hope she's OK for the meal out.

MI, not my local one then! It's from 6 on the 6th at the MBWink

Rudy, yes it's a drag - lucky DH loves footy. I think that as he had a lot of sporting opportunities as a teen, he wants DS to have them too especially as school doesn't light his fire ATM But it means I'm a footy widow (all the better for BP meet-ups!)

Stropps, I kinda see where your DH is coming from. Especially as I am beginning to feel old and worn out too much of the time! But I am ploughing on with dry Jan!

I knew what I wanted to do from when I could talk. DD was the same, but in recent years has been trying to think of something different to the family businessGrin She is currently talking about law, but would be most interested in the no money end of it, and has no idea how much learning there is to do and how most of the job is boring paper shuffling...

Stropperella · 11/01/2015 11:16

At 7 I wanted to be a palaeontologist or an archaeologist. I totally should have stuck with that or something similar. I got derailed by ill-health and parental expectations in my teens and ended up doing what I found easy at A level, rather than what I found interesting and that stuffed up my career choices. Dd is very similar to me in terms of finding MFL easy but not interesting. She doesn't find science easy (although she is a bit of a maths whizz), but she desperately wants a science-based career as that is where her interests lie. She is currently perusing Zoology and Animal Science courses on the What Uni website...

NUFC69 · 11/01/2015 11:16

DD decided that she wanted to study Law when she was 16,,BTM, but not necessarily what she wanted to do after uni. In fact she went to work for a large law firm, then decided she wanted to do the LPC (Legal Practice Course) which the firm encouraged and loaned her the fees. As she did it part time it took two years. And that's not the end of it if you want to practise (and possibly the hardest part), they need what is effectively an apprenticeship, not easy to find. DD works for the government and does enjoy it, so worth all the effort.

DGD2 is being seen atm. Fingers crossed. Ah, just had a text - all ok and they're coming home. Phew!

I made Rachel Allen's fluffy blueberry pancakes for breakfast - can highly recommend, definitely will make them again.

bigTillyMint · 11/01/2015 11:27

I know, NU, one of my best friends was a lawyer. And I think it is possibly even harder now! Glad to hear the little one is OK.

Stropps, I took the A levels I found easy which I also liked. Foolishly I didn't take the other one that I liked and was good at because I hated the teacher I had at O level. Still, I only needed 2 E's for my courseGrin Those were the days!

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CointreauVersial · 11/01/2015 12:26

I wanted to be a chef when I was 11.

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CointreauVersial · 11/01/2015 12:38

Anyway, crepeys, your assistance is required with this styling dilemma.

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bigTillyMint · 11/01/2015 12:44

Well, if it was me, I would want long sleeves (given that it's winter) and maybe a fake-fur jacket. Was it you that bought some lovely sort of MaryJane shoes? Maybe they were green? What about getting a dress to go with them?

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/01/2015 18:21

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13, and am still doing it. Sad Two of my closest friends wanted to be an accountant (I know...) and an MP at that age, and both achieved their ambitions. The accountant is vvvv successful and CFO of some huuuge company. The MP's career stalled somewhat when there was a bit of scandal about him and his intern.

One of the reasons I had my heart set on this career was because everyone told me I didn't stand a hope in hell of being accepted.

CV - can you borrow Herbs's Viv Westwood dress? Grin

Blackduck · 11/01/2015 19:31

I am still not sure what it is you do MrsS (don't mean that in a bad way!)

I had no idea, but always underplayed myself. I recall saying to a careers advisor at16 'nurse' because I thought that's what girls said and if I said it she'd get off my back. She told me I lacked ambition and was clearly clever enough to be a doctor (didn't actually want to do anything medical)...

Instead I'd have a checkered career although all in the field of education, and as such have no pension to speak of....

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/01/2015 20:10

I frequently don't know what I do either, BD, so don't worry! Grin

I do have a pension though.

Blackduck · 11/01/2015 20:27

Well there you go :)
I will have bits of pensions that will add up to, erm, nothing....

bigTillyMint · 11/01/2015 21:04

Lovely walk this afternoon - thanks addle and MollySmile

Have managed to redirect DD's angst about her art project and get her to finally finish it off (with just a little help from me) thank God!

I have a pension, and can view it onlineWink

MollyAir · 11/01/2015 23:34

Thank you, BTM and Addle; I really enjoyed it, and my fat little legs feel exercised! As much as anything, it's such a joy to get to know new London parks, especially ones with horses trotting round them. Bliss.

Well done on getting dd to finish her art project. Result!

addle · 12/01/2015 07:24

And you, BTM and Molly! suddenly remembered the horse incident last night though. gulp.

Well done BTM!

At 11 I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau type person because of dolphins. Failed to pursue this in any way at all except for writing to volunteer at small wildlife place and having them point out that in fact they only had small Latin American mammals. And I was in my twenties then. Idiot.