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?

Another crepey love-in! Have What and Where disappeared off into the sunset?

Biff her on the nose, BD. In your mind, not in person, obv.

OOOH, I'm not so sure she doesn't merit a small biff in rl Mrs S...

What and Where have gone to find Who?, When?, Why? and How? and are going to come back to drive us all insane with their names...

Hi Crepeys, just another wretched week in Cremolaville, not least my failing to keep posting
Dd situation grim( has signed lease with boyfriend) I am practising deep breathing and zen-like patience.
Dfriend's father killed in car accident- so appallingly sad and sudden.
I have broken my foot ( random gardening accident which was quite funny and involved a cat and an orange bucket)
oh oh And (drum roll):

I have finally been made redundant. It has been a long time coming but it is still like running into a brick wall.

I am trying to keep up with this thread ( probably will be easier now I am back on crutches and about to be unemployed. ) ha.
I miss you lot and value this thread enormously. Please let me apologise for dumping and running again. I just wanted to let you know that I'm helicoptering,

Crem, only seen your post and not read anything else today. How terrible for you. I am so sorry. Sending you strength and love

Thanks Monty

I can only say, thank heavens I have actually met most of you or I might come across as the most attention-seeking disastrous f-up you could possibly hope to come across on the Internet, like evah.

Hi MrsS and QQ - I'm here I've been doing piles of laundry and chores and trying to remember everything we need for a week in Dorset... and trying to keep up with the thread.

Oh dear, Crem. All sorts of bad news, I'm sorry - the job, dd, your foot - all happening at once - and a car accident too - how awful.

Nah, Crem, I wear that crown, surely

Really sorry to hear about all the horridness. That is very much Not Fair for it all to happen at all, let alone all at once.

Oh Crem, it never rains but it pours.... You poor love. How long do you still have at work? Hope you're not in too much discomfort foot-wise. Dare I ask how the cat is?

I been given my 90 days today CV.
Yes the cat is fine. The 99p bucket, not so much.

Crem , so sorry, please post as much or as little as you like. Redundancy on top of everything else is just pants. Look after yourself as much as you can.

Sitting at the gate in Edmonton, couldn't read and run. Crem, what a time you are having. I would suggest but you might have too much and fall and break something else. So awful for you.

Having a bad day, final straw was missing our last connection so will not get to our Airbnb pad until midnight.

Oh God Cremo so very very sorry :(.

Big {{ }}

NU - hope you are safely installed and and sleeping..

Crem - too much worry and bad luck all at once. I don't know how you manage. You need to bury yourself in a good boxed set of DVD's and forget about RL for a while. I fear your DD is going to learn the hard way. . I don't think you're a f-up by the way - you seem great.

BD - Likewise - binge watch something good (works for me). So frustrating - there was a quote by Will Smith of all people on FB which I actually thought was quite good - something like - don't let people who don't count control so much of your energy and emotions. Thought it was quite good for Will Smith.

Today - joyful trip to the gynae who is going to look at my blood tests (and other stuff) and tell me if I'm officially an old lady.

Oh Cremo, you poor thing You are really getting the shitty end of the stick at the moment, aren't you? And poor old Brian! Will you get sick time off for your foot? Make the most of it if they are chucking you out anyway And sorry to hear about your DD and the car accident. What a lot of horrid things.

NU, glad to hear you have arrived - hope to hear about your trip as you go.

BD I saw that Will Smith quote too!

And in other news, Stropps is coming up to stay with me on Friday 26th June, so if anyone fancies a mini-MU potentially in my neck of the woods, let's do it!

queen You can't turn your back on this thread for a minute as it moves so quick. Not been poking my beak into Mumsnet as much this week so just trying to have a little catch up now.

crem I really feel for you I echo what everyone else has said. What nice things do you have coming up this year that you can tell us about? (Just trying to get your mind off things!)

what hello [waves madly] I love Dorset!!! Where are you going? Lyme Regis is an absolute gem of a place you must go and visit!!

bigtilly where are you again? I'm sorry I'm loosing my marbles track of where you all are...

Crem oh no, that really is pants. I do hope that the redundancy eventually turns in to an opportunity for something new and better. I guess with DD calm patience is all that one can practise....assuming she continues with her studies in spite of the BF? And I wish your poor foot better xx

BD that is also pants but maybe this has taken the lack of clarity out of things...now you know this so called friend....isn't. I'm appalled at her juvenile behaviour. So sorry for this extra blow. And involving the DSs as well ps I can't remember if it's you that used to live where I grew up and your DParents are still there? Do let me know when you visit and I'll come and see you....it's not a long drive and DS goes to school in the area xx

NU do hope you have reached your destination....and it's lovely, to make up for the crap journey.

Today I have physio for my ankles, followed by a singing lesson. I have not practised for the latter very much. Not good but struggling with no time alone in the house....I'm not good at practising with an unappreciative audience of sour teens. I am working currently on Porgi Amor (marriage of figaro) and No Good Deed from Wicked. Have any of the singing Crepeys done either of those? Tra la la

Oh Cremo. What utter pants.

Ditto BD.

Am up for 26th as will need bracing snifter before DM's 80th.

I have attempted a Ladyjog and am cautiously pleased with the results - Magi, I also love the fact it gets me out. Although have a posh lunch at the Ivy today (a rare freebie).

My own minor blow for the week was also a conversation with a historian who told me my entire novel wouldn't work. Friendly novelist friends have pointed out solutions but at the time I was not at my jolliest .

I am trying to shift myself out of bed to go to work with little enthusiasm.

Crem - that is shit, so much all at once. I was going to ask if the bucket was called Brian, but I see BTM beat me to it.

Need to book a holiday...

So sorry to hear of all the troubles at once, Crem.

MI - after this chat re swim v run I thought I should do some other exercise as well & went for a 'power' (!!) walk yesterday up & down hills. Only a couple of miles & whilst the aerobic bit was fine, my legs ached quite a bit. So I have decided to do that a couple of times a week as well as swimming as swimming obv doesn't exercise everything!

Enjoy your lunch.

I can probably make a little MU on 26th .

Hills. Urgh.

Well - I am sure everybody will happy to know that apparently I am not yet on menopause . My hormone levels and lack of sufficient night sweats indicate I have all those delights to come. Not everybody has night sweats do they or is this absolutely a rite of passage?

I was going to celebrate this by hitting the running machine but the temperature has shot up to 30 so need to be up and out early tomorrow if I'm to achieve any sort of useful exercise.

Bloody hell crem. What an avalanche of ordure. AS others have said, you need to take it as easy as you can, and not worry about everything all at once!

Re DD, if she's anything like I was at her age, this could well be a rather misguided attempt of her psyche to show she 'can do stuff on her own, I don't need you, etc'. It will inevitably go tits up, but she will then have realised she can't in fact do it all on her own, and as she's worked that out herself, will be more amenable to listening to you in the future. Does that make any sense?

I am getting my summer clothes out. This is less depressing than normal, as there are quite a few that I can now get into that last year I couldn't.

26th - not sure, will have to consult.

Hatty - well, that's good news. I never had night sweats, but as I'm the sort of person who wears bedsocks and takes a hottie to bed in midsummer, I think I would have welcomed them.

Lucky you, MI - posh lunch, eh? I'm at my desk, as usual.

BTM - yay for newly-fitting summer clothes! I've gone the other way, alas.

Anyway, busy weekend ahead....DS has his last GCSE tomorrow, and will be hot-footing to GF's house, as he hasn't seen her all week. Then DD1 is 14 on Saturday; she's having a birthday dinner and sleepover for seven friends on Friday night, heaven help me. She originally wanted to borrow a tent and sleep in the garden, but forecasted thunderstorms and the (not unexpected) refusal of the tent-owner to lend a large, expensive hi-tech tent to a group of dizzy popcorn-spreading, sweet-munching, screeching teenage girls has put paid to that one. They'll be raising hell in our living room instead.

Into London on Saturday afternoon for a family dinner (we have booked here....then on Sunday DS has a football tournament, and DH and I are on BBQ duty. Traditionally, it always rains for this particular tournament which just adds to the joy....