Crepes, Galettes, Pancakes and Brian the Bucket!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Here you go...

She loves the course NU but I think she's just a bit shaken up. Normally her essays get pretty good marks. She is certainly not used to set backs.

... and NU - she said "I've only 15 weeks till the next exam".

Hatty, sympathies for your DD.

MI at your dream. Eeeuuuuwwwww! Mind you, it could have been worse. GOVE!

Poor girl Hatty…she'll be ok after a bit. And if she has a high average generally, it'll just be a blip. I got an F for my first clinical obs in the first year of my degree (the wretched baby was asleep every time I went to observe it…) but A's for every other one…once I'd cast aside the sack cloth and ashes of course and had a few drinks in the union…

Why don't I have dreams like that?

Yes Rose - she is still going out to a party tonight. I am wondering if there's a little too much partying.

I never have dreams about snogging anybody.

Always important to learn how to pick yourself up after a failure - a key life skill, I think. Hope dd bounces back soon, Hatty.
NU, goodness me no, dh really couldn't give a stuff about his db's b-day and completely forgets it usually. When he divorced his first wife, she rang his SiL and told her that they would never get any cards again, because she'd always done it for him. She wasn't wrong. I told him to ring his db this morning and he said "Oh he'll just go on about lutes and pensions, do I have to?".

@ vision of dogs and scattered shredded loo rolls. Dd unwisely left her maple syrup pancakes unattended for a short while this morning and ddog helped himself.

Bloody dogs - give me teenagers over terriers any day. Ddog is in the doghouse (see what I did there?) after refusing point blank to let the lovely new dogwalker - who I have found for her, carefully carefully introduced her to in little baby stages for she is a most sensitive soul etc etc - put her lead on and take her out this morning. She curled up like a hedgehog on the sofa or maybe an armadillo, but a growling loudly one. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Stropps - lutes??

"pick herself up after failure" is the phrase I'm looking for. Apparently it wasn't exactly failure it was a low 2.2 - failure by DD1's standards.

Dylan ate a whole apple sponge last night it was in the microwave queue, but never made it.....

QQ, my other dog would be like that too. She wouldn't let the electrician in one day ( who she'd met loads before). He's lovely too - looks like Jamie Cullum, but more useful.....

Aw, poor dd Hatty. The first time is quite a shock I think if you have always done well - best to get it over with, like chickenpox.

What repulsive exciting dreams you lot have.

QQ, my dd used to behave just like that!

Auriga, glad you are feeling better.

LOL at "lutes and pensions"!

MI, I hope it wasn't one of those dreams where you have an unexpected orgasm in your sleep as well? Just imagine how dirrrrrty you would be feeling.

I had a dream last night about my DDad who died nearly 16 years ago. We were all going to America, but his passport had expired in 2008 (which probably would have been about right) and he couldn't go. Very strange. And my mother wasn't coming with us.

I think a dog must be fun! All my cats do is deposit little furballs everywhere, or the occasional bodgy nut and pee on the bathmat or DD2's abandoned pants from time to time. A regular conversation in our house goes like this:

DH: Is that a turd?
Me: No, it's a hairball.
DH: How can you tell?

Dogs sound ace. I've never had one, but would rather fancy one now. Apart from the requirement for regular walking, and picking up poo in a bag.

When I picked DS up from school he was all tearful. Apparently, he'd been given a 'gold award' (the tippy top of the 'traffic light' behaviour management system) for being a good scientist, but then 'Miss' took it away again.

One minute he tells me it was because he didn't know the 'hometime prayer' (which would be utterly outrageous and cause a flea to be put in the ear of the school), and the next it's because he was making faces during said hometime prayer (which just made me smile).

The whole issue of there being a 'hometime prayer' (and, it turns out, a lunchtime prayer), is another matter. There's a whole lot more God in the day than we were led to believe.

Herbs

Stropps, you do have an interesting family - lutes and pensions?!

Sorry to hear about the Ddog woes, but if you will insist on them....

DD is curled up in an exhausted ball on her bed having had a stressful week, coaching this evening and to top it all, time of the month.
DS is in DH's bad books having eschewed footy training for a sleepover at his mates.
DH is in a bad mood because of the above and a disagreement with the school about whether DS can do triple science
I am enjoying the peace and quiet!

Oh and I have just put in a large order for new school trousers for DS as this morning he had to go off in the only pair that still fit him, but we're still very damp from the wash. He needs to stop growing NOW!

Yes, lutes. And he is indeed very, very dull about them. :)

Dogs, super-brilliant pets, but require more time than most people realise. And they easily become neurotic and destructive.
My old dog (I miss him still) was a special chap, i.e. not everybody's cup of tea , but his name was the first word uttered by both my dcs. And he would have laid down his life to protect them, but generally loathed other children, unless they had biscuits. Dd spoke fluent dog by the time she was one. She growled at and showed her teeth to people she didn't like (this obvs went down well at toddler groups - just as well MN hadn't been invented then) and by 14 months was running to the door to bark at the postman.

BTM, how tall is he now then??

It's not just the height, he's a 32 waist (DH is only 33 FFS!) And not an inch of flab.He split his age 16 trousers getting on his bike

lol, he's going to be towering over all of you by time he's 15.

Arf at Polite Conversation in the Schadenfreudehaus and at Stropps's DD being raised by the dog.

Herbs, a bit of God will do your DS no harm (says the atheist daughter of two (2, II) missionaries).

QQ, my DDog is getting more delinquent every day. She still loves everyone but she's on a mission to get on the couch, go in the bedrooms, steal food and wallow in mud, every waking moment. She's nearly seven. Where did I go wrong? If she were a child I'd have to refer her to the Youth Offending Team

Your dog, otoh, is being a madam. Like our cat. If you try to get her off her favourite chair (or do anything she doesn't want to do) she loses the use of her legs

Still on the subject of dreams, it seems my unconscious has packed up. I dreamed I was in bed with DH. I was. How sad is that?

Shall we do this, Crepeys?

www.mumsnet.com/special-events/everything-you-need-to-know-about-comic-reliefs-danceathon

I am kind of considering it. I am not fit.

Hmm, sometimes I have these crepey moments of monumental idiocy. As you were.

Molly, I loathe dancing, and getting sponsorship, and the darned chirpiness of Comic Relief - but if even one of those things were not true I can see how this would be fun.

Happy Saturday crepeys, I am off to meet dd at a mid-point so I can reassure her about her minor ailments and buy her a family pack of loo paper, as you do. We are also hoping for good charity shops and a pub lunch . And dry January officially ends today [more gavel banging].

Auriga, I'm not sure my subconscious has even been up to much....

Happy Birthday Stropps!!

Here it is hunt the missing phone.....

Happy Birthday Stropps .