Beware the Crepes of March!

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it as my last post was number 999...

OK that should read: I've just heard on R4 that MI5/6 are using Mumsnet to recruit middle aged women spies (it obviously got intercepted!).

I am currently an undercover agent with coach-load of Year 5s on the M3. Just heard the 2 behind me asking each other what the time is and then saying "Wine o'clock" and laughing heartily.

I think it's because we're supposed to be unlikely spies - bit insulting really ie. not gorgeous, glam James Bond girl types.

I saw that on the BBC website too!

DD has finally got her mocks back and it's not looking as bad as she would have you think. She now needs to focus on getting decent marks for her CAs!

Good news BTM

Plain Jane Bond, then, Hattie, rather than a Honeytrap.

LOL at Wine O'Clock, Stropps.

DH has just gone out for champagne and then we are going out for dinner.

More like Rosa Klebb, Mrs S - she of the pointy shoes .

Sounds like a nice evening chez vous.

I led a small revolt in the post office today (poor signage meant we couldn't queue properly) accompanied by vigorous noddings and mumblings of "well said" and "hear, hear". Will that rule me out as a spy? .

DS did amazingly well in his Science mock (for him) , and his paper was plastered with accolades from his teacher about pleased she was and how much revision he must have done. He is chuffed with himself. I've told him to "bottle that lovely feeling" and bring it out when GCSE revision kicks in.

Have pretty much got over the flu now, thank God. Sorry to have missed some discussions, but catching up now...

Rose, I am concerned about your dh - it is the most awful feeling to believe/feel you've been disinherited, even if technically you haven't, or some say you haven't (and yes, I'll tell you my story face to face at some point, if you like! A cautionary tale). Obviously I don't know your PILs, but if it were me I'd be on the phone to them saying "I'm extremely concerned about dh, he is very down because of having been DISINHERITED. It is the most awful thing to happen to someone. I don't know how he's going to cope."

MrsS, I don't know your dd at all, but could I very tentatively throw in a random thought (again drawing on my personal experience of traumatic events, so very possibly completely irrelevant here)? She isn't worried about you and your dmum having melanomas removed, is she? You know, feeling like she needs to be at home to make sure you are OK.

BTM, next time you're in my neck of the woods, come over!

Sounds like your card is marked as 'trouble-making pinko', lalsy.

CV - do you have a sister/cousin of Irish descent who works in a university in Kent? If so, she gave us a lecture on 'how to be inspected by Ofsted' today.

...and congrats on good reports, Herbs and CV!

Herbs - no I don't - what made you think that?? My only Irish connections are the ones I married into.

Up early to pack dd1 off to another portfolio day in London. Honestly art students must have one arm longer than the other due to lugging their portfolios around!

Xbox luck to your DD Beachy! Is it the one near me?

DDs iPhone touchscreen isn't working and as the on/off button is broken, this is a Major Disaster. I fear I may have to rush it over to a place that could fix it ASASP.

BTM is if frozen? Try calling it and see if it will let you unlock it (mine does this and the on/off is broken too)

Thanks, wise Crepesters! She let it die and then plugged the charger in (I think) and it rebooted and the touchscreen worked again! Phew! But I am saving those tips (and any others) incase it happens again, because it probably will!

House parent called back, having spoken to other teachers, and they all said they hadn't noticed any change in DD2's behaviour. I think it is probably, as Rose said, being 14. Will see how she is this weekend. She told me she hates coming home for weekends, because she never does anything. I have said that it is her choice to spend the weekend in her bedroom - she has friends in London, she just needs to organise going out with them. And when I have suggested doing something at the weekend, I get told that she doesn't want to. So back to square one. Molly - I would say, I don't think so. But good point. We are also going to do up her room, shortly, which should make her a bit happier. We would have done it months ago, but she keeps changing her mind about what she wants done to her room.

Would it help AT ALL if she had some kind of activity she had to do at the weekends - like an art class - so she had to get herself out of bed? And thus was free later to eg contact DD1 and hang around pointlessly in teenage manner?

I am in a bad mood. I am quite enjoying it.

MrsS, it does sound like it is just being 14. MI's idea is good. I know Dulwich Picture Gallery and Somerset House and the like do short art courses - would that appeal?

I would like it on record I have submitted six (6, vi) features this week and conducted four (4, iv) Ladyjogs.

I am now quite knackered.

That's great Rudy! We have to send DD's latest mock grades and then cross our fingers.

And similar here with deliveries now DD is working!

CV - it was only because she looked a bit like you, and made me think of you!

Had a very productive morning. Via our local Facebook swap board I have procured a voice-changing Darth Vader mask and a Darth Vader torch. They are for bribery purposes. DS is having a mould taken of his little eye next Tuesday, in the chair, rather than under GA as has happened previously. He is very scared about it, so I am lining up the bribery.

The bribery also comprises a light sabre. He requested 'a real one, mummy, not a toy one'. Not sure he's going to be fobbed off with whatever Amazon can produce.

Then went to Westfield to take something back to Tiger, bought a new casual frock in the Gap sale, a book on bodies for DS and some food in Waitrose. Now, lesson planning.

And yes, Mrs S, some kind of improving activity might be in order. I spent every Saturday morning at music school, and it was the making of me.