Maybe Yes, Maybe No, May Be Crepey

[QueenQueenie]

Unilateral decision... No space for consultation. Call me Dave...

MI - how did you not rant about how the country was going to hell in a handcart, and start singing the Red Flag?

Music at the disco was v hardcore - Sleater Kinney, Violent Femmes, Beastie Boys - which is kind of hard to dance to, unless you're a big fan and just leap about. By the time stuff like Blur came on, my companions were going home and it would have been weird to stay.

Bumped into a friend from choir there - it's very odd. She's perfectly well-spoken, and speaks plenty loudly, but I sometimes just can't make out anything she says. A lot of smiling and nodding went on.

I met a man last night who didn't know which constituency he lived in or who his MP was. And felt forced to move house because of the lack of secondary schools and, er, golf. I wanted to scream at him engage, vote, pester your MP you t**r.

Dunno BTM, I had a swingy sort of cardi on top which flapped open all the time but meant I didn't think about what was underneath.

BTM - may have exaggerated somewhat about DD1's heart beat as after conversation with DH - checked her medical file which actually said 58bpm - so she is not quite the superhuman I thought.

I have found myself weirdly drawn into the Korean beauty product thread and want to order some stuff but do not quite dare. Although I don't want to put snail slime on my lips.

Am very worried about the future referendum as an out will mean there is no way DS can go to uni in the UK.

MI - good on you on the charity frock and calm and collected attitude to the ex.

DH has his divorced friend round for lunch and they are now sleeping in deckchairs in the garden. We only have two - which is why I am inside on MN.

MI and Lalsy, sorry to hear of your political tribulations last night!

Hatty, it sounds like I am in fact more superhuman than her as mine is 50 (or sometimes lower) at rest Doesn't help with high BP though - I just don't understand how that works.
And couldn't your DS go to uni in Scotland for free?

Had a lovely long chat with Auriga in BP DS has gone off there with his mates, DH has gone to the gym and DD is still at school/library revising. Or something! Must relax in the garden.

Eww, Monty - nitty eyebrows! Vile creatures.

DD1 and I have just been shopping, to buy her new trainers and jeans. I tried on a pair of shorts and was horrified by the crepiness of my legs when I looked in the mirror.

CV, my knees are the worst bit, if you aren't looking at the cellulite on my thighs!

I just phoned my mother who has been on holiday for a week. Apparently I should have called her to wish her a nice holiday before she went - I did, I called her on the Thursday, she went on holiday about 1.00 in the morning on the Saturday. She is saying I didn't phone her. My phone says different. Next wrong thing, I should have sent her birthday card and present before she went, everyone else was considerate enough to do this, but no, mine was waiting for her when she got back (the day after her birthday). The children's card did not say "Nanna" on it, it just had some flowers on it. We couldn't find a Nanna card for love nor money (and it has to be spelled like that, apparently, not Nana) but All The Shops Where She Is Are Full of Cards That Say Nanna. I resisted from saying The World Does Not Revolve Around You. Oh and she is not speaking to my cousin Z (she thinks the sun shines out of Z's arse, and phones her all the time, but never calls me) as Z committed the sin of Forgetting Her Birthday.

MrsS...nope, words fail me.

Oh Mrs S your dm takes the matzo. I know we are supposed to be able to read people's glass heads, but seriously

I have just finished "All the light you cannot see" and feel bereft that it has finished. I just wanted the story to go on and on ( despite some very flowery writing)
Anyone read it? or can any of you suggest something else that has made you feel you cannot put it down recently?

I have never seems a card with Nanna on it, ever. Some with Nana, but they are very few and far between…. You poor thing MrsS
my MIL is like that Suspect she'd prefer a card with "Your Majesty" on it…like they're everywhere…. of course

"seen", even

Your mum really does trump all the others. Though mine ringing my sister with the "gift of a name" for her new baby - ie request that she rename him by adding this one on - always has a special place in my heart.

"gift of a name"

MrsS, I suspect that the expression "there is no pleasing some people" was crafted with your mother in mind.

Today I am wearing my "sod it, I know it's not a good look"-stripey trousers. Dh was trotting down the garden path behind me and said, "You know that question that women who are not you sometimes ask their partners?" Me: "What - does my bum look big in this?" Dh: "I think you need to ask me that." Me: "Feh."

MrsS, Stropps is right And she can't spell

And MI

And Stropps, your DH is a cheeky bugger. I guess he is God's gift himself?

Here I am feeling very nervous, but definitely not letting it show to DD who is snuggled on the sofa with DS, watching MOTD with DH.

Mrs S - you'll just have to scrawl "nanna" across her card next year .

Stropps - cheeky bugger DH.

Have had lazy day as the sun has reappeared. No news from DD1 today and the little green circle that indicates her (almost constant) online presence is off - there must be some serious revision going on. She did say she had 500 cases to learn by 21st May last time we a spoke.

Rose:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/adult_fiction/2375727-All-the-Light-We-Cannot-See

Friends have recommended it to me; haven't had a chance to read it yet though.

I am loving Her by Harriet Lane atm.

Nope, MI wins hands down on the bonkers mother front with "the gift of a name." Even my mother didn't go that far (although she didn't like either of the DDs' names).

Have just had Words with DD1 about revision for a Latin exam. I am going to be a wreck by GCSE time.

Molly, HL used to be a MNer. I got to know her - then she v suddenly wrote Alys, Always - it took her six weeks - and shot to well-deserved fame. I heart her.

Oh thanks for that thread Molly: and also for the recommendation
Dd has for the first time asked if she can Skype us. It's a miracle, as the general form has been to maintain radio silence too.Hopefully she has nothing momentous to announce ( wibble)

I'll see you the Nanna debacle and "the gift of a name" and raise you MIL who called up DH the week I was diagnosed with a life threatening illness and had a monumental tantrum that she was being ignored and that he wasn't being A Good Son…. I kid you not

She might just want to say hello..Cremo Hope its all ok xx

Yes a good blether with BTM in the sunshine is very sustaining

Rose - I second the idea of a north of the thames Crepey meet up destination, even though I probably wont n=be able to make it for the next few weeks, what with assignments, batty parents, etc.

I am thanking the lord for autocorrect. Went out with friends for lunch, probably had at least a bottle of wine each, and now cannot even cross a room without listing to port dramatically. typing is even more challenging. I suppose I should think about drinking less, but where's the fun in that.

Thanks Rose . yes , she's fine and looking slim, well fed and and of course flooded with the look of love,courtesy of The Unsuitable Boy. Ha! . Dh has set £50 away today for when the relationship crashes ( he's very pessimistic pragmatic) so that she can come home and be cuddled and eat ice cream.
One exam to go and then she'll be job searching for the summer and house hunting for next term.

I am dreading work tomorrow. more negotiations with the unions.
More grim and teeth gritting.

Is NU about.just wondered how she was

I'm amazed Harriet wrote Alys, Always in six weeks. But Her is much better, imo. (Have not yet finished, so no spoilers please!) I sincerely hope she's going to write a lot more. I did see/hear her on the platform at Blogfest, where she explained her story - which in part accounts for the fact that she is such a great writer.

I would travel to The North for walks if I was free. Am bitterly sorry not to have made today. But yes, it was worth it to reassure myself ds was OK. Crem, I'm sure dd will be too. Can you send chocolate etc? I trapped ds into letting us visit by offering cake; then once he accepted, clearly it would be quite impossible to send cake by any other means than a parental visit. And then we had to stay overnight in the area because we had been up all night for election results; hence we got two lunches with him, and a look at the house he'll be sharing next year.