Crepes, Galettes, Pancakes and Brian the Bucket!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Here you go...

I too was wearing Woolovers while reading that thread, MI, and snurking up my Guernsey sleeve. I do so hope she gets a clingy non-sleeper, who constantly regurgitates milk on to the shoulder of her dry-clean-only frocks.

Brel! I'm with you MrsS!!

And heels - ha..... First 'date' here is next Sunday - Julian Cope which should be interesting

Birthday dinner with dmum who is disappearing before our very eyes - I am finding it really hard ....

MI much strength for tomorrow.

Oh did any one get the IOS today? Is there anything in the business pages about DBAs (doctor of business administration)?

Yes I have used Air bnb - the place in Nicaragua was fab!
My friend is currently researching a place for her hols.
Hatty, you know it's no good leaving it to a man

MI, I like the sound of that thread! We do go out on our own occasionally, but the DC are there, waiting when we get back.

DS fell fast asleep in his bed an hour ago Sadly I fear he will be awake in the night as a result

MI, glad it went ok yesterday and I have my fingers crossed for your dmum for tomorrow.

Crem, so sorry to hear you have double dad trouble. Hope they both feel better soon.

Herbs, wishing you much strength in forging on with your mammoth assignment.

Here, I am feeling very demotivated about my prospects and fed up with things in general. I feel a bit hopeless about finding work after a rather demoralising meeting with the HT of ds's school on Friday. He just clearly assumed that I gave up teaching when I had dd because I was married to someone who earned enough for me to doss about for nearly 17 years. No, I gave up teaching because my then-husband reacted to fatherhood by turning from a latent alcoholic to a blatant one, and managing him, motherhood and a tough job with no bloody support wasn't something I could do, so I opted to stay and home and live with holes in my clothes and various other unfortunate things until I could get enough money together from my own business to strike out on my own and divorce him - is what I felt like shouting.
I appreciate that going back into PAYE-type employment after over 15 years of self-employment isn't going to be a doddle, but I seriously resent people thinking I've been sitting at home doing the dusting (ha!) and making jam for all that time. Especially as nothing could be further from the truth. Aaargh.
Still, I did get introduced to someone on Friday who has done the course I'm doing (if you are in post, there are places to do it locally) and the next level up and I can go and observe her and maybe there will be the option for some voluntary next term to get a bit of experience of SpLD stuff at KS3.

In other news, I have spotted someone on the site who I know for sure is in my tutor group on my course. Note to self: say nuffink contentious.

I like this one www.airbnb.co.uk/wishlists/47084210 hope the link works - I'm crap at this.

Sorry - totally obsessed with apartment searching.

MI - all the best for tomorrow.

Stropps - you may get all the gossip .

Ps: I am happy to see that Brian the Bucket has achieved immortality. What with Brian and the Brabantia test, I feel I have made a splendid contribution to Crepey culture.
Pps: I am not sure I like opera very much and can't imagine paying actual cash money to go and see it.
(sorry, struggling to keep up)

Stropps, I hope you did put that HT straight
Good news about your possible work experience and at recognising someone from RL on here.

Hatty your link doesn't work for me.

Brian is ensconced in the loft

I bet you gave the HT a Paddington Hard Stare, Stropps.

Dusting. Huh. I have found that if I leave it long enough, DH does it, so that is what I am doing now. Also pleased to report that the flat is looking a bit less student hovel-like now. The sitting room, at least, is passably respectable.

I have just drop-kicked half a bottle of red wine across the living room floor.

DH, who is doing Dry January, sniggered and muttered something about "karma". Smug git.

Stropps, on your behalf. And HTs as much as anyone ought to know not to make crass stereotypical assumptions.

MI, strength .

I have just seen Testament of Youth. Wish I wasn't having a dry January.....

Hi there all,
Just found you all over here scoffing pancakes as it were...
Really hope all goes as well as can be hoped for your mum MI.
Laters...

Sending you strength for today, MI. Thinking of you all

Need to conduct a ladyjog but it's not looking very welcoming out there. Still, taking DD1 for a tooth out first which should give it a bit of time to warm up I hope.

I hope it all goes well for your mum today, MI. We'll all be thinking of you and the family.

Stropps, I hate it when people just make assumptions: silly woman. I know we say it a lot, but we all so admire what you (and Herbs) are doing. It takes tremendous strength of character.

Very cold here and snow is forecast later.

Agree with NU, Stropps Herbs Studying/career change and trying to manage a family and juggle existing work takes monumental effort. But people always make silly assumptions…I get it all the time these days, and some of the things people said when I had 8 years as a single parent….ignorant fools.

MI all best for today…sending hugs and xx

BD also re your DM

Hatty any chance of a MU when you are in Cambridge? DS2 has decided he wants to apply there…who knows…he might be lucky. He's gone off to start mocks week.

I am staring down the barrel of a dull and uninspiring week with my birthday at the end of it. I am feeling I would just like to go to sleep the day before and wake up the day after.

ConS is coming here this morning…we are intending to have the scenes all over the floors and the table to try and assemble an order…..I'd better tidy up….it's a pit after the weekend.

Hope it goes as well as possible for your mum, MI

And for you too BD and Stropps

Rose - hope your week is much, much better than you fear. Are you doing anything for it?

Good luck to MI's DMum today.

Your comment really resonated with me, BD. My dmum literally shrank away over about six months. Horrible to watch

Good luck with the carpet CV...

I'm on the train and there are two women wittering away, disturbing my peace. I'm going to be super grumpy by the time I get to work. I'm not being anti-women but there is no way I would know so much about every aspect of their personal and office life if they were men.... And it's so early

Sending my best wishes too MI.

Very cold here - just wondering if the heating will be working at work.

So glad I don't have to commute at all Beachy - a 15min walk is all I can handle in the mornings!

Thinking of you MI.

Beachy .

Will link later to apartment - I stupidly linked my wish list. For now need to concentrate on making house vaguely cleaner, finding some food and making a spot for DNephew who is coming back to Paris for a job interview and needs somewhere to lay his head tonight.

Stropps you are amazing and the HT is just a total twit. Have faith it'll all come good.

Off to meet old uni friends and think about the one who is no longer with us - it would have been her birthday tomorrow.

MI - fingers crossed.

BD, wishing you strength.

Stropps, do you also get the delightful people who assume that you Fit In A Bit Of Work round the kids ? (And yes I am feeling guilty that I haven't scheduled time to go to the Inferiorette's Achievement Assemblies this week but I have to work, just as if I had a Proper Job. More so, as do not get paid hols etc.)

I really, really appreciate your good wishes. My concentration is shot to hell.

MI and BD,

I have just done another 30 minutes on the exercise bike. DH is going to pop into the local leisure centre when he goes out this morning and pick up leaflets, times, etc, so I can see what else I can do.

Horrible outside - a thin covering of melting snow. The birds are desperately attacking the food I have put out for them.

I have performed a Ladyjog. This was a Good Thing.