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Beware the Crepes of March!

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QueenQueenie · 16/02/2015 12:36

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

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Auriga · 11/03/2015 22:54

MrSS's post looks blank to me. How are you MrsS?

RudyMentary · 11/03/2015 22:58

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QueenQueenie · 11/03/2015 22:58

Puking Auriga!
Anyone reading this thread would think you can catch hideous lurgies just by hanging around on here!

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hattymattie · 12/03/2015 05:52

God Mrs S - the combination of gastro and nits would finish me off. Hope you're feeling little better.

I am going to reattempt the hairdresser (I didn't make it last week) as I'm starting to look like a grey eccentric old lady.

Blackduck · 12/03/2015 07:04

MrsS mucho sympathy - Wasn't me - honest!

I have a 'difficult' meeting today so may pour myself a large g&t tonight and wfh tomorrow.
However 5:2 is definitely working and I am going to hunt out my ToTs to see if I can get into them.

RudyMentary · 12/03/2015 08:58

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lalsy · 12/03/2015 09:05

Oh MrsS you poor thing. I hope it is a bit better today.

I can't see any nit mention either - are we all seeing different posts?

QQ Smile, yes, the biological weapon that is the crepey thread.

Good luck, BD.

bigTillyMint · 12/03/2015 09:09

Oh my, are bugs travelling through the internet ether now?! Hope it's not what you ate last night, MrsS!

Well done on the 5:2 BD, and I'm sure Brian/Walter has helped too!

Rosebag · 12/03/2015 09:24

hatty that's good about DD. Another one hopefully to tick off the list.

Has anyone heard from poor MrsS? I have to admit my twitchiness over all this barfing is causing me to make like QQ... hand sanitizer, fumigation and no bodily contact EVER and no breathing near me either. I need my mum when I'm sick. I need someone to hold my head and tell me I'm not dying.

Good luck with the difficult meeting BD

Having emailed in times when I could meet the Drama teacher and also emailed to the TA asking wtf is going on...no one has replied. And then DS came home yesterday totally stressed about school , his subjects, whether to go ahead with the Oxbridge programme or jack it in entirely and get his life back.
He's upset because he's not going to get a high mark for his AS music composition unit.....it's not his forte in the same way as performance and music theory is. It's all bound up with subject choices for A2... He hates the Spanish teachers so much that he wants to drop it after the AS year, ( he got an A in the Spanish mock and the evil cow told him he didn't deserve it.... Shock ) and continue with French, music and RE. But he's scared he'll get the better grade in Spanish, thereby forcing him to drop music which he loves. Frankly I resign. I dunno what to do for him, other than to give cuddles, nourishing meals and see he gets some sleep. Hopefully he's going to have a one to one with his form tutor to talk it over...

motherinferior · 12/03/2015 09:53

Oh, Rose, what a nightmare.

I have sent a text to MrsS enquiring if she is still alive. Should I hear back, I'll let you know.

I don't get very fussed about lurgies. I am madly neurotic about many things (I have tedious phobia of heights, for instance) but not illness. Or eat-by dates Grin

bigTillyMint · 12/03/2015 09:57

Oh dear Rose, that sounds tricky. Does he really want to go to Oxbridge or is he kind of being pushed through hoops?
A friend was telling me of a girl who dropped out of med school after 4 years despite being (obviously) really bright, etc - she had kind-of just got onto a treadmill at secondary school and ended up doing that because that is the way she was directed IYSWIM.
What does he want to do in the long run? Does he know?!

motherinferior · 12/03/2015 10:30

I am happy to report she is still with us.

Blackduck · 12/03/2015 10:52

Glad to hear it MI - send her my best (but tell her to keep it to herself as I don't want it again)

Rosebag - sounds stressful, and no advice really.

Rosebag · 12/03/2015 11:12

He's definitely MFL....he wants to do French as a major, and German from scratch. He has no idea what he wants to do with it but has been thinking about taking a modules in film as well...I think even Cambridge has this option, or possibly even a third language from scratch. He adores music but currently not thinking of doing it at Uni although many have the option of doing French and Music joint honours type thing.
He put himself onto the school Oxbridge programme...I am very ambivalent about it and so is DH even though he is an ex Queen ( college Cambridge) I think he might be a lot happier at somewhere like Birmingham or Exeter which are high up on his list but there you go.... He was happier this morning after a decent nights sleep. He'd stayed late at working on his composition with the music teacher and came back very despondent about the predicted grade. He's off on the MFL Cambridge open day tomorrow. Maybe he'll be clearer after that. Meanwhile I dunno what we're going to do about the Spanish teachers. DS says at the moment not one of the students in the class wants to take it forward to A2 next year!!!!

Blackduck · 12/03/2015 11:13

Although I have to admit I very much for going with one's heart on this stuff...
(friend's daughter has just dropped one A level because she doesn't enjoy it despite being predicted good grades and will now pick up another in Sept meaning she will be in 6 form for three years - but at least she has made the decision now and knows what she wants to do...)

lalsy · 12/03/2015 11:17

Rose, loving a subject is a really big deal IMO.

Stropperella · 12/03/2015 11:28

Gah, don't talk to me about A levels. Dd is having one of her epic anxiety doodahs. Completely refused to do any work last night, much shouting of "I'm not talking to you about this - EVER" and slamming around. Then at 9am this morning she comes and says she can't cope with the stress of school, she's going to fail everything and there's no point in her going to lessons. Have spent 2 hours trying to get her out of the corner of her bedroom. She says she needs to drop French, but doesn't want to drop it because she will feel like a failure, whilst also saying that she's not going to lessons and will get Us in everything anyway. Have now got emergency meeting with HoY at 12.50, but essentially have no clue where we're going with this, really. Aaargh. I have work to do....

Rosebag · 12/03/2015 11:39

I couldn't agree more re loving a subject. But DS has got to come to the decision himself. He can be very single track sometimes. If he gets a poor grade for something it's the end of the world, he's very driven. There seems so much going on....all this school stuff, driving lessons, being 17, the theatre ( which he only has a minimum involvement in, at the moment as school is somewhat taking over. )', organising open days, the Oxbridge sessions which are all after school, his grade music lessons which aren't done in school at all, work experience for the summer, But if he won't let anything go....tonight he's going to the other side of London to see a friend in a YT production...another late night.
I have spent the morning traipsing around looking for a birthday present for one of DDs friends, and an anniversary present for DH. Thanks heavens for the Body Shop for the former. I have bought DH Ugg slippers...they were quite satisfactorily reduced ( although still a stupid price) in a local dept store. I tried on a pink Ralph Loren trench coat which I've had my eye on, particularly because it was one of those rare breeds with a hood. Sadly I looked like a pink slug tied around in the middle with pink ribbon. Back to the drawing board. Hmm

Rosebag · 12/03/2015 11:40

X post. Oh god stropps who'd have teens......HONESTLY....

bigTillyMint · 12/03/2015 12:22

Oh God Stropps, good luck! What a load of stress you don't need. I so feel for you (and know this could be me at some point in the future)

Rose, I think they do get completely over-loaded and can't see the wood for the trees. And lack of sleep doesn't help. You are right, he needs to decide for himself - he is almost an adult in the eyes of the law (if not in realityWink)

MontserratCaballe · 12/03/2015 12:36

Stropps, I hope you are ready for your meeting and that your HoY fellow is productive and manages to think of a strategy to help DD. Poor girl, she must be terrified. I appreciate that this doesn't make the situation any less difficult Flowers

Rose, I loved languages and was going to read them at Uni until my parents talked me into doing Law. 25 years on, I don't mind it but it went completely against the grain at the time. I also think that I would have been much happier at Bristol (my second choice) rather than Oxford. The Spanish teacher sounds like a complete cow. Is there any possibility of private tuition for it or would that be completely out of the Q, especially with all his other extra curricular things?

Poor MrsS sounds unwell. How are you today, Auriga? I am ok now, though my tummy is still not quite there and I don't think food is sticking around in me for long.

I am feeling very virtuous, as I scraped a car (quite badly) on my way to school on Tuesday, so did the decent thing and left a note. Was resigning myself to a £500 spend so as not to lose my huge NCB, but the owner rang and said the car was a bit of a heap of junk anyway and he wouldn't be pursuing it. He also said he admired my honesty and it had restored his faith in people that I had left a note. Feel hugely relieved. Will take him flowers and wine at the weekend to thank him for being so kind.

beachyhead · 12/03/2015 13:18

So before we manage to expend another thread, thought I'd better re-mention the meet up on Saturday 25th. I can't work out how to cut and paste, but there were a fair few on the list.

I would like to announce my survival of one weeks of dh's retirement. I'm not sure I'm entirely enjoying it.......he's very noisy, keeps asking me what I'm doing, asks what's for lunch and is complaining about his hip! Apparently the new job starts at the end of April - rock on, that's all I can say.

Rose, this choices thing is so difficult although it might be mentioning to the school that Senorita Spanish teacher won't have an A2 class next year unless the school addresses the problem. If he's going on to MFL at Uni, it must be better to keep up Spanish, isn't it?

Stropps - strength to you.....

bigTillyMint · 12/03/2015 13:48

beachy, I am definitely up for it, especially as the GCSEs will be looming and stress levels will be high!
AndShock I didn't realise your DH had retired! Or is it just a break between jobs?

Stropperella · 12/03/2015 14:34

Update: Dd reluctantly attended the meeting and the HoY was very sympathetic and constructive. Dd actually did most of the talking, which was excellent. Going on past experience, she may well have re-written the whole thing into something negative by the time she comes home, but I feel we're all doing our best to support her. She elected to stay in school this afternoon, which is good. Now to try and catch up on what I was supposed to have done...

motherinferior · 12/03/2015 14:59

YAY!