Crepeys on the Verge of an Examination Meltdown

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Not sure if I should be starting the new thread as I'm the last poster on the old one - is this how it works?

Well done to BTM DS - future pro .

Stropps - I'm keeping fingers crossed for your DD and chemistry. I think we stress as much as them for exams. Often they haven't dome as badly as they think.

Does anybody have any views on HRT and wrinkles? ie. does HRT put off the inevitable? I know some women who've traversed the menopause relatively unscathed and others who have literally shrivelled up in a very a short period. I'm wondering if the former group are on HRT.

BTM, brilliant about ds. I am sure the good qualities he displays for his team will seep sideways.....and keeping his nose clean at school will free up time football - I think ds used to find that motivating a couple of years ago.

Thanks for all the congratulations - I will indeed keep it up my sleeve for school (HOY in particular) and great points about the CV too Molly.

Rudy, sending you strength to cope next week.
Rose g9 for it - bosoms are rp be admired!
MrsS hope you got on a train.
Stropps can you rent her out? Has she got to wait till Aug for results?
Hatty I am on HRT but not sure if it has lessened wrinkles. DM (84) has none, due to phobia of sun, high fat diet and very little makeup. However she has apparently been v rude to both the panic button people (they put the phone down on her) and the carer (who didn't want to clean windows)
Am hoping the Memory Clinic letter comes asap so I can book the train.

Had a lovely catch up with a friend this morning, now off to meet another friend for a Big Lunch do

Has been a stressful and shouty morning at Rosebag Towers. DD and I have just come back from the hairdresser with Big Hair. DH and DS2 have just left to go to DBIL's Mother's funeral. I am now going to start the filling job that is my slap. And then the scaffolding job that is my Spanx.

Hatty I haven't known HRT to be famed for preventing wrinkles…it's a bit better at dealing with hot flushes and undercarriage dryness though

Sorry about your DM, Tilly but being a battle axe beats shrinking into obscurity (which my DDad would do if left to his own devices.)

I was only worried about the bosoms because last time I was sat on the table where it wasn't so much a case of "Hello Boys" but "Hello Rabbi"

Sometimes when life is bit rubbish something comes along that puts it all in perspective. Just heard that someone I know from our old neighbourhood came home after a couple of days away at half term with her son, to find her partner dead on the stairs.

I am shellshocked. Son only a year or so older than Ds.....

Bloody hell, BD. That does put it all in perspective.

In assignment news, 300 words to cut. I've done 900. It's like removing my own fingernails.

BD.

Herbs, cut a 300-word chunk. Any chunk. Just slice it out entire. You know it makes sense.

It would indeed, but this is a very bitty, analytical piece, in five sections. Removing a 300-word chunk would mean taking out lots of my carefully chosen quotes, that I have to put in to show I've read widely. Or, indeed, just C&P'd a load of relevant-looking quotes at the last minute.

It certainly does put things into perspective, BD. A similar thing happened to a neighbour, he left three DC. So sorry to hear this.

Rose, "hello Rabbi", have I missed something there? I hope the funeral went as well as could be expected.

I took HRT for about 18 months, tbh it didn't make any difference to me in either the hot flushes or wrinkles department, Hatty.

Summer has properly arrived at last and the garden is looking cared for again.

BD - how dreadful and yes that does put life into perspective.

Thank you ladies for your views on HRT. I have had a blood test last week and see the gynaecologist for the results this week. I'm not suffering terribly with flushes or anything like that although I'm hoping my mind fog and forgetfulness are menopause related. I was just wondering what course of action was best: cold turkey or preventative HRT before anything more ominous (and of course wrinkles) manifests itself.

Good luck with the chopping Herbs.

I wonder what the French docs will say Hatty.

Had a nice afternoon in the sun outside the pub watching/listening to a really good jazz band. Now back to reality...

YES YES YES YESYESYES. FINISHED FINISHED FINISHED.

to everyone.

Cream that sounds grim. His horrible to 'meet' dd's bf like that.

Rudy, thinking of you. That doesn't sound pleasant.

Belated happy birthday MI.

Here, I resurrected the Swingball and it has been great fun today. Also sleep specialist has prescribed twice daily meditation for my horribly fragmented sleep which is seriously cutting in to my MN ing

Rose, I too like a teeny nose stud on the right face.

Awkwardly NU the funeral has been on the same day of a close friends daughters batmitzvah. There are actually 2 rabbis here but I'm not say with them this time....

Sat not say

Well done Herbsy

Brillo pads Herbs! Well done.

Well, it's just that assignment. I still have my formative teaching assessment on Tuesday, summative (pass or fail) complete with external examiner next Wednesday, and another 5,000-word assignment due in 9 July. But the pressure is temporarily lifted.

Now I'm going to have a few minutes spare each day, I'm going to start doing the Shred again. This has been brought on by seeing my arms in a cap-sleeved t-shirt.

LOL at "Hello Rabbi!" Rose.

Crem, have no advice for you and your DD (though others have ben helpful, I see). A friend of mine hooked up with a man during her first week at uni - he was about 15 years older than her, and worked in a bar. She spent the whole of her time at uni living with him and in his company - had no real uni friends, and he got very jealous of any friends. He dumped her two weeks before her finals. She is very bitter about it, and him (apparently he moved straight on to a new young student), and her time at university not being what it could have been. The more her parents disliked him, the more she dug in her heels. She was so sad when they split up, didn't know what to do with her life. Her parents were moving back to Israel at this point, so she went with them, met someone and got married within a year of going back. Has never really worked, and still looks back on "what might have been" despite being happily married, with children, and feels she has wasted her life. But she freely admits she would never have listened to any advice from anyone at the time.

Cautionary Tale Mrs S - so sad to miss the fun of uni like that.

Yay - go Herbs.

Yes, Hatty. She was staying with me for a bit in London, and said she didn't feel she had any choice but to go back to Israel - she had no uni friends and no real support network. I said she could rent/stay in our flat for a few months until she had sorted herself out, but she just got sucked into the "let's go home, everything will be wonderful once we're home" from her parents, and it wasn't. She hadn't lived in Israel since she was 15, and she found the culture shock huge.

Well done, Herbs. Have a .

Hatty - no idea on the HRT - I whistled through the menopause so fast (well, once I'd worked out what the hell had been wrong with me for the previous five years) that I never got around to trying it.

We popped to Matalan today, and bought a suit for DS (which he hasn't seen yet). It is black, but so polyester-tastic he will combust with static if he wears it. But it was £40.

DD1 and I are tapping our toes, waiting to watch the excellent and weirdly compelling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, once DH has stopped hogging the TV with his Grand Prix nonsense.

CV I fear DS would react in exactly the same way of I suggested a suit from Matalan, no matter what it looked like - fingers crossed your DS likes it!

DD is beside herself with worry about the second half of the maths and has taken herself to bed (amidst more screeching) I am praying she wakes up a bit more positive.

Ooh, we love strange and norrell, though missed last week's, so are waiting for an opportunity to catch up with both episodes.

I have wine. In fact it's ingestion gave me the courage to cut my final couple of hundred words!