Crepes, Galettes, Pancakes and Brian the Bucket!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Here you go...

MrsS, nfw would I have blow that amount on Normandy.

I am drinking red wine. What a nice thing wine is. But we have no limoncello. I must remedy this in Sainsbury's tomorrow.

I think it is a ridiculous hike, and no way will we pay it. No wonder it is not booked, really!

Will look around for something else.

My children are winding me up

I've made a lovely dinner (cannelloni) and planned things and everyone is grumpy and not listening to each other. Dh is out on the town. The Euro railing teenagers have got distracted and aren't coming back until 9pm but I won't feel like helping them then....

I may crack open the wine

I bought a map and everything!!!

Oh Beachy crack open the wine. Teenagers are just being their usual thoughtless selves.

My thoughtless teen asked to borrow a fiver, complained about dh having taken ds for a haircut because she was late for a 5 o'clock rendezvous in town (er, about 10 mins walk to the town centre, so scarcely a big deal) and she couldn't cadge a lift and then stomped off without bothering to say when she would be back. So I cooked at the usual time, she didn't show up, I rang, she didn't answer her phone or a text and so we ate anyway. Then about an hour later, she texted to say, sorry, she'd had her phone on silent and she'd be back later, was that ok. I am feeling peeved about the rudeness. I take time out of my day to do the shopping and cooking and she can't be bothered to let me know she's not bothering to turn up for the meal. I have texted her in a none-too-friendly manner, stating my grievances. I dare say she won't answer and won't bother coming back for quite some time.
And I've just done the washing up, the hoovering, various other jobs and now I am back to study work. Whereas she who has mock re-takes next week and has done vvv little towards this, is nowhere to be seen. Grrrrrrrr.

Grrrr indeed Stropps. On her own head be it, though, and all that.

Had relaxing evening last night avec curry, so was going to do course work tonight. Sadly, a friend emailed inviting herself round. What could I do? Coursework will wait until tomorrow...

Car service - "£160 plus vat, love" - ended up being £426. Gulp. It needed two new tyres, and retracking of the wheels. Apparently they were way off. As if I had driven up a kerb. As if...

Ow, Herbs, £426? That stings! Meh to course work on Fri night. I'm trying to do that and I think it may be having an adverse effect on my mood.

Update on Little Miss Rude: she rang me and apologised for "not knowing the time". Is now eating a congealed stir-fry. It remains to be seen whether any revision will be done. Still, at least she said sorry.

Beachy, I hope somebody has turned up to appreciate your map!

Having the phone on silent/ignoring texts drives me insane, given how glued they are to their bloody phones. DD2 told us she would be home around 5 last Saturday, as the skating finished at 3.30 and she would come straight home. She turned up at 7.45, not answering her phone as it was on silent and then ran out of battery, and having decided to go shopping after the skating. Which would have been fine, if she had let me know. Grrr. She is 13, so I was a bit worried, as it got later and later.

We have hysterics here from both as this is GCSE and IB subject selection week.

Just nipping in quick to say Happy Birthday to Rosebag!

Teen girls, eh? Dh and I are debating which of us have to stay up after midnight to collect dd from the station following yet another concert. Does keep her happy, though.

Well DH and I are on the bus home from seeing Scotsboro Boys. It was soooooooo good nothing to do with the cast of buff young tings So eat your heart out DD - she went into meltdown on arriving home late from coaching and screech that she was too tired to come. So pissed off with her But I managed to forget about it all as the performance was gripping and we were at the front of the stalls. Definitely recommend it

Teen girls, eh? Grr?rrr

She's home, on her own, and no one is appreciating my new map.... I love maps though, so I don't mind. If I was on a desert island my one book would be an A to Z..... Hours of fun!

There was a crime committed in my kitchen earlier - a full raid and empty of the dog treat tin! Guilty face from ddog1 who has a conscience. Nothing from newdog2, who doesn't give a monkeys...

I love maps too Beachy. I can while away hours in the car with the road map never mind maps of the world!

Another map lover here and I get so irritated when I read/hear that women can't read maps. I navigate us all round the US without getting us lost. DH often tells people how good I am when they query the fact that we never pay extra for a sat nav on a hire car.

Ah, teenagers ... I found that when they left home and became more responsible for themselves, they also became more thoughtful.

Going to do half an hour on the exercise bike when I get up; not sure what else we're doing.

My administrator threatens to either go and get her son if she knows where he is (I.e. Full on mother embarrassment) or ground him - he answers his phone or calls her within 30 mins of her contacting him! Also recommend life360 if you want to know where they (or at least their phone) is! Ds's is usually flat and on the bedroom floor......

Ds and I love maps too..... Wistfully recalls days of planning long trips with dp....

Mine are currently (I am all too aware that this can change at a moments notice) pretty good on keeping in touch about where they are/what they are doing (it is our one main rule!) And I am so used to cooking in advance/plating up/warming up in the micro due to sports/other events on a daily basis that I am pretty relaxed about whether they are actually there at the time the rest of us are eating!

Have been to the gym (seemed very hard work this morning) and am off to meet a friend for coffee later. Am gritting my teeth to be grown up and not snap/make snidey comments to DD when I go to pick her up from coaching if she isn't ready to apologise

I think I was lucky in that my dc both had friends whose parents were perhaps just a tad more on their case than I was (perhaps living less centrally) - though dc would never admit it - so they have always been quite good about it, but I don't flatter myself that it was anything to do with me! Just luck of the draw in the mates' parents who have a disproportionate influence I think.

BTM, dd has done that to us too. Makes me . Now, she won't go to theatre unless it is Greek tragedy or Othello so quite a niche market (she seems to feel these won't make her anxious for some weird reason whereas everything else will), but at least she enjoys it then .

Lalsy, that make me feel a bit better! Did you ever dock her any money for the ticket?

Tilly She has already had her punishment….when we churlishly decline to do something nice, we cut our noses off to spite our faces…(I am a key offender… …if I was very pissed off in your place I might have made noises about a contribution to the price of the ticket out of pocket money…probably too weak to see it through though. Really glad the show was good…it's on my list.

Ach at the egocentricity of teens, honestly. to stropps beachy MrsS and tilly

Re. mobiles and not answering, DS1 was by far the most wayward of the boys…but always stayed in touch…clever on his part. DS2 is a pain and never replies, giving the usual excuses. One day I overheard DS1 telling DS2 he had to "play the game", when I'd kicked off yet again about failure to text back

I love maps…we have a SatNav which gathers dust…I don't trust it somehow, especially if I have a vague idea of where I'm going. I love my A-Z but can't bloody see it sans specs these days, but then I can't see to drive (please don't anyone says "Bifocals"…)

I am up and about…still working very 'ard on "acceptance"...

DS2 is playing "Make You Feel My Love" on the piano…it's nice.

Rose, you are indeed, too nice!

And I can't see anything without specs (and a bright light) either. I used to have perfect vision

I can see why you can forgive DS2 - how lovely to have an accomplished pianist in the house

I have to look at a map to know approximately where I'm going and then use a sat nav which I find useful for about the last half mile when I'm trying to locate a child in an obscure village or housing estate.

Rose, you are indeed too nice.

I have never had perfect eye sight and it's not got any better. I need to have a check up in March as I was asked to come back in a year so that they could assess the cataracts which suddenly appeared last year. Everyone I know who has had them done has thrown away their specs afterwards. I love my varifocals, Rose.

I did an hour on the bike so am feeling self righteous. I look (and smell! ) disgusting afterwards.

Have registered to do the RSPB Bird Watch this weekend.