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

996 replies

CointreauVersial · 28/12/2014 18:21

More crepey wisdom.....

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hattymattie · 15/01/2015 16:51

Stropps - that's really tough for your DD Sad.

In fairness to the doc - I can confirm that it works this way if you're gynae is female as well. He did all the bits down below whilst I had my top on and then I had to remove my top for the boobs bit, rather than dressing my bottom half first. I guess it's all in a day's work for him. Nobody seems to have chaperones here.

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/01/2015 17:57

Ugh, Stropps, that's so unfair on your DD.

I didn't see a gynae in Paris, but I can confirm that Austrian gynaecologists are very thorough. I went in for a repeat prescription of the pill, stripped naked, trussed up with stirrups, good feel of the tits, then in the front door and the back door. Shock But didn't bother with blood pressure, bizarrely.

The Slav word for five is very similar, MI.

My periods are still monotonously regular, although the beard is coming on a treat.

I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed that I had just met a young man (well, all things are relative), and the electricity between us was amazing. He had just kissed me, when I was woken up by DH telling me the cat had been sick in the hall.

hattymattie · 15/01/2015 17:59

The back door Mrs SShock .

Grinat dream.

Rosebag · 15/01/2015 18:06

Shock Shock Shock at invasive foreign doctors. Hope he did the front door first MrsS

Well done to Stropps DD for acting with dignity…what a bummer. My DD would have had an awful tantrum. She doesn't do "when things don't go to plan" very well.

bigTillyMint · 15/01/2015 18:21

MrsSShock I am never moving from the UK!

Rose - hope he did the front door firstGrin

hattymattie · 15/01/2015 18:24

Rose Grin Grin Grin Grin

lalsy · 15/01/2015 18:32

Nor me, BTM.Grin

Stropps, how rotten for dd but well done her for rising above.

I am not sure I have seen a doctor for me since the dc were little and they got chicken pox and I did too. Hideous - no doc would have wanted to be thorough then.

Auriga · 15/01/2015 18:43

That's awful about the trip, Stropps. Arbitrary, unfair and a dreadful example to set to teenagers.

I'm slowly getting better. Have taken most of today off, after three long days of non-cancellable commitments & cold train journeys. Could have gone back to bed but walked dog, practised music and made soup instead.

DH has retrieved car and got it repaired, which has saved me hours and hours Smile. He sees journeys to obscure places as a challenge and ended up getting a train and three buses to the Sussex garage where I'd left it.

The fire's on and the soup's warming up Smile

Stropperella · 15/01/2015 18:54

Rose Grin, but also Shock for MrsS. Is that thorough - or just ... odd?

My periods are not as regular as they were but still turning up on a more or less monthly basis. In general, however, I am more wizened and beige every time I look in a mirror. Dh and I are a matching pair.

Stropperella · 15/01/2015 18:55

Good to hear you are feeling a bit better, Auriga. And well done to your dh for getting the car.

herbaceous · 15/01/2015 18:59

Shove over on the stress couch, MI.

The blasted presentation of our assignment was merely the beginning. Now I have to construct a detailed scheme of work, with curriculum reference points and everything, and a 1500-word draft of all the learning theories and literacy points contained therein. In 10 days time. Which of course would be managable, but I have to plan a lesson from scratch for tomororw, and another one for Tuesday, in partnership with someone who is ill and unavailable. And there's masses of reading to do for Monday. A day full of lectures that I'd forgotten.

By half term I also have to have somehow found two new classes to observe, for my reflective practice, at a time when I'm not doing anything else. But there is no time that I'm not doing anything else. And I've got to get the car MOT'd and serviced, and can't actually see any time that I can do it. Ditto a hair cut, which hasn't been done since September.

The cat has also sicked up in the kitchen. Fortunately, I'm not doing dry January, or I might just have to take up heroin.

Much cheered, however, by gynae fun. My favourite 'joke' is when they start investigating your front door, say 'tits first, I'm not a slag'. Maybe I'll wheel it out when/if I have my smear. Which is overdue by a number of years.

NUFC69 · 15/01/2015 19:12

Well, apart from being wizened and a dry husk, it was a relief when I eventually stopped - 11 to 57 must almost be a record. I don't think I am emigrating either. Rose - front door first. Grin

Stropps, that really is very bad of DD's school: well done to her for rising above it.

A very lazy day today and I still haven't done my charity admin work. DDil arrived mid morning with the DGC, complete with a load of washing as their new machine is waiting to be installed. She announced that it took her 20 minutes to walk here from the new house - not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but I am pleased that she felt she could just drop in.

Auriga, glad to hear that you're a little bit better - take care of yourself.

hattymattie · 15/01/2015 19:14

HerbsGrin - not sure how that translates. I think the French doc might be baffled.

NUFC69 · 15/01/2015 19:15

Cross post, Herbs, am aghast at the volume of work you are doing. Wine Thanks

herbaceous · 15/01/2015 19:25

My default setting when faced with sudden barrage of work is to panic and feel put-upon, which of course isn't productive. I know, really, that in fact I'm perfectly capable of getting through it, and just need to calm down and plan.

But the panic does mean I can't remember a single thing that we've been taught in our lectures, or anything that I've read.

Right. Whinge over.

Stropps - sounds v unfair on your DD. Bin treatment for the school methinks.

Blackduck · 15/01/2015 19:34

Funniest story I heard (and it wasn't me) was friend went for exam but needed a pee before hand. No loo paper so rummage in handbag for tissue.
In for exam during which Dr peers at something then picks up tweezers and removes something. Doesn't say a word. At the end he pops out to get something and she checks kidney dish to find a ..... First class postage stamp.......

Rose Grin

Blackduck · 15/01/2015 19:35

Stropps I would complain bitterly to the school - vastly unfair...

beachyhead · 15/01/2015 19:37

I don't think I've ever seen a gynae. Am I supposed to? Also when do mammograms start? I feel like I've missed a memo Smile

My sister has told me very firmly that I can't have the menopause as she hasn't had hers yet and she's five years older Smile that told me!

Bummer about school trip, Stropps.

Dd2 (who is 2ft nothing) had her first double bass lesson today.....

cremolafoam · 15/01/2015 19:37

Poor dd StroppsterSad

Sorry to hear about unreasonable workloads. Miserable I know, but our Crepey Learners give me enormous hope and inspiration.

BD so sorry I missed your birthday, but I loved the date idea, and of course Happy Belated.ThanksThanks
We've had no power for going on 36 hours. We did have 3 hours ON this morning, when all the lights, telly and tech all turned on at on once and scared the Bejaysus out of me. Managed o get things charged up briefly .
We have lost our lovely eucalyptus tree in the high windsSad dh grew it from a cutting we took in the Whitsundays on honeymoon so I am very sad about it. Could be a lot worse I supposeConfused

cremolafoam · 15/01/2015 19:39

GrinGrinGrin @ postage stamp btw

All my gynae stories are, comparison, grim.Biscuit

herbaceous · 15/01/2015 19:52

I've never seen a gynae either. I thought it only happened in America, or similarly forren parts.

How sad about your eucalyptus, crem. These things do matter.

DS has just had a bedtime snack of pickled onions and gherkins. I suppose they count as vegetables.

hattymattie · 15/01/2015 20:08

Rose - at least it was a First Class stamp Grin.

DH has gone for a boys night out - well one of them's cooking lasagne at his home. Half of them are now divorced so should be interesting. I'm not very pleased as he gave a lift to Mr Bigot whom I have not spoken to for a year as his views were not far from those of Mr Farage. DH says I'm intolerant - I said I am intolerant of their intolerance and given the state of the world I feel bigots should be called out rather than treated as harmless idiots. DH has a long list of subjects he is forbidden to speak about - I think he's feeling a bit oppressed.

NUFC69 · 15/01/2015 20:15

Shock at the lack of electricity, Crem. I am really surprised that you managed to grow a eucalyptus tree - we planted one when we lived in Berkshire; I think it only lasted a couple of years and the frost finished it off. Sad for you, though, when it's a memento.

The rain is hammering on the windows - possibly a touch of snow tomorrow.

bigTillyMint · 15/01/2015 20:53

Hatty, are they French men? Can't imagine any of DH's friends being able to cooking for other men - you go down the pub, innit?!

Cremo sorry to hear about your weather woes. Have you got the candles out? I have fond memories of the power cuts in the 70's and little gas-powered lamps/heaters, etc!

Well DD's sixth form interview was fine. And quick. The teacher who interviewed her looked like she could also be a Y11, but was very sweet and offered her a place conditional on her meeting the minimum course requirements. It's not her first choice, but phew!

hattymattie · 15/01/2015 20:58

BTM - yes all French - except bigoted one, who is an English guy they take pity on.