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Crepey wattle and daub

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herbaceous · 13/03/2015 10:30

At last! I get to use my thread title.

Over here, my hags.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 25/03/2015 17:06

help a little lamb born with no eyes! Sad They aren't going to eat him, they are going to keep him and his Mum as pets.

Parcelforce have managed to deliver a parcel of mine to completely the wrong address. They are going to "try and get it back" but if they can't, it will be recorded as theft and I will have to get the company to send me another one and they have to claim from Parcelforce. I am not sure I want it if it has been opened... it's a duvet.

MrsSchadenfreude · 25/03/2015 17:07

I blame the student accommodation, BTM. They have it too cushy, with en suite bathrooms in smart flats, no sticky patterned carpets and crappy furniture.

motherinferior · 25/03/2015 17:41

I am slowly surfacing back to a new workload, in between writing brutal fiction that has caused MrsS to stop talking to me because I keep denying people happy endings. Grin

Rosebag · 25/03/2015 17:47

Ah lovely skipping lambs…. Envy QQ

Throwing eggs….what fun! I didn't do any of that but I did march against The Corrie Bill , chanting loudly about "a woman's right to choose…"

…and we did occupy the admin corridor (can't even remember why…no one could get their grant cheques as a result…) I agree with MrsS about mollycoddled students. Bring back the freezing cold shower blocks, I say…and let's have students running down the droughty hall corridors shivering in towels….
Grin

I am off to DS2's Spring Concert. My blinking email is down again
Angry Angry Angry

motherinferior · 25/03/2015 18:19

I marched - you will be not entirely surprised to learn - a lot.

I have hopes of the Yoof of Tomorrow. DD2 gets particularly incensed by things and has been known to write to the Queen and to David Cameron about them. DD1 will probably end up accompanying the marchers with embarrassing street theatre.

motherinferior · 25/03/2015 18:23

DP is going to hear DD2 in her swing band. DD1 is at youth theatre. It's quite the performing arts show round here, especially with DN1's circus skills.

Auriga · 25/03/2015 18:28

Hi all. Reading your updates & thinking of you. Sleepless nights brought on migraine, which I should have anticipated but didn't. So struggling to keep up.

Crem, hope DD will benefit from a break soon. Good that you could go to her, no doubt at a heavy cost to yourself. All the best for surgery Thanks

Well done on your appraisal Stropps :)

QQ I'm ready to watch a bit of gambolling, even if I'm not yet up to taking part.

DD had a mini melt-down on Monday, brought on by GCSE stress and teacher pressure. She copes remarkably well most of the time but the strain is showing a little. Some bullying has broken out in the year group, directed at someone she's fond of & I think it has shaken her up a lot. Friend was going to leave the school as a result (and I wouldn't blame her) but is having second thoughts and feeling a little calmer.

Managed to deliver DM to her train at King's Cross for 10 days with my sister. It would have been easier to drive her all the way. I set out with the best intentions but I find her constant martyred neediness intensely exasperating. She is utterly unable to say please or thank you to me, so she can't ask for anything but has to make me guess what she wants & pretend she didn't want it. Etc etc...I kthis is boring.

Ah well.

I'm having a book purge. Any requests? Happy to post stuff. If you're looking for anything in particular, try me.

bigTillyMint · 25/03/2015 19:12

MI, DD gets incensed by things too. Mostly at schoolGrin

Auriga, sorry to hear about your DD and her poor friend. Hope it gets dealt with properly.

Has anyone been watching the Back in Time for Dinner programme on BBC2? I was (sadly) getting very excited at the programme last night on the 60's - all the kitchen gadgets/meals, etc just how I remembered themBlush

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herbaceous · 25/03/2015 19:15

I have yet to watch it, but am going to catch up with 1960s one, partly because my hairdresser is on it! Easy to spot, as she has long red hair. Apparently she does the beehive.

I love a gambolling lamb, though it puts me right off chops for a while.

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bigTillyMint · 25/03/2015 19:19

Oh, and the mum is pretty clueless in the cookery department!

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herbaceous · 25/03/2015 19:21

Oh, and the family lives in Walthamstow!

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wilbur · 25/03/2015 19:24

Grin at tales of marching and egg throwing militancy - love it. My Uni was not very radical in a political way, but if you didn't have a sexuality crisis while you were there, you were definitely Not With The Program. For most of my third year you could barely move without a closet door being banged open in your face. We marched for gay rights, mainly, with an embarrassing additional sit-in to complain about the cost of parking on campus Blush. But I was not much of a participant, mainly because I had an earnest production of The Normal Heart to put on.

Now ladies - I have a work trip to New York in a couple of weeks' time. I will have some time to shop while I am there and want to know what you reckon is still cheaper to buy in the USA. Was thinking Skeechers maybe for the kids, and Converse? Levis? Also, my wardrobe is currently hopeless and I want to buy a couple of things before I go that I can wear to meetings and plays. I thought this jumper might be good as something a little different but still smart with black or grey trousers, or a skirt. Am quite nervous about the trip, as although I know NY pretty well, having lived there for 6 months many moons ago, I have never been there for work or had to find my way to specific places at specific times. Eeek.

EmilyAlice · 25/03/2015 19:28

Don't talk to me about bloody lambs. We have neighbours over the road who come to the house for one day twice a week. They have five sheep and as many lambs on an acre of ground with very little grass. They get hay to eat and bleat all day. There is a donkey and some ducks and now a flipping cockerel (no hens) that starts at 3am and crows most of the day.
My other neighbour says he is bored. Hmm
Bloody Marie Antoinette playing at bloody shepherds I say.

wilbur · 25/03/2015 19:35

We watched Back In Time for dinner last night - very funny, especially as they had recreated our current kitchen in the blue and white. Loved the Vesta noodles, but I'm not sure how much the mum is enjoying it - she has a permanent frown on.

Auriga - sorry about your dd too, that's such a difficult thing to handle. Hope that it has all calmed down and she's feeling less stressed by it. Last thing she needs with GCSEs on the horizon.

motherinferior · 25/03/2015 19:42

Gory thrillers? Commiserations re the querulous neediness. I know it all too well.

DP has just texted me to say he's reached the place where DD2 is performing. Having gone to the wrong place first.

bigTillyMint · 25/03/2015 19:47

Wilbur, I am wondering the exact same thing about NY for when we go in October!

And I loved the 60's kitchen - we had a table not dissimilar. And loads of other stuff was very familiar from our and friends' houses.

MI!

QueenQueenie · 25/03/2015 20:39

Wilbur, I've seen and -tried on that jumper - it's nice - lovely colours but I would say the silk front is very thin, not at all weighty or substantial. So nice but flimsy... this is different but really nice in rl in both colourways and Spring like.

Blackduck · 25/03/2015 21:05

MrsS I agree - where's the suffering and picking other people's hair out of the plug hole? Entitled that's what they are Grin
I was at a really radical uni, and we got locked out for weeks.....,.

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herbaceous · 25/03/2015 21:06

Ooh, I'm watching the dinner thing now! The family lives in the road where we went trick or treating last Halloween!

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bigTillyMint · 25/03/2015 21:10

Ooh Herbs!

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herbaceous · 25/03/2015 21:18

And v near my doctor, and a good friend's house! And where I used to conduct my lady jogs!

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herbaceous · 25/03/2015 21:30

And she went in our local butcher!

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lalsy · 25/03/2015 21:34

Just to reassure you all, my dd lives in pretty nasty accommodation, shared loos, tiny room, design reputedly based on successful prisons. She likes it though Grin.

beachyhead · 25/03/2015 21:54

Lambs were great.Saw triplets born, first one stillborn in front of a whole school group of Years R - 2, but the shepherd was unashamedly very matter of fact..... It's very hands on farm, not very elf and safety, which is lovely.

I have been living the week as a LP (dh is away) and it has been busy, but quite calm, especially with ds, who I now can see refuses to do most things if dh asks him to, so that has been quite enlightening.

I think I only cancelled my Barclays account due to apartheid - that was the sole demonstration I can remember.

I loved that dining through the ages....

MollyAir · 25/03/2015 23:06

I was on the demos, and am rather appalled by the lack of political activity in the yoof, although dd is shaping up well. My main Q these days is how are you going to save the planet we've fucked up for you?

Auriga, sorry about migraines, mum and bullying. Sad If you have any books on elementary psych ology you'd recommend for 17 yo dd who wants to study it, I'd take 'em off your hands. We've got lots of Oliver Sacks, which her teacher has recommended.

I'd love another Russell Square meet-up and can contribute expensive clothes which dd discards at a rate of knots. Some imported from the US. Hmm You wouldn't want ds' old clothes.