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Crepeys on the Verge of an Examination Meltdown

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whattodoforthebest2 · 02/06/2015 10:49

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?

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QueenQueenie · 04/06/2015 22:42

Herbs, when you've finished all your very hard work I will buy you a box of dark teacakes as a gift - perhaps I can give them to you over an omelette and chips in RS?

MollyAir · 04/06/2015 22:55

I'll have tea and oranges... I was at the British Museum just yesterday.

Mini-schnauzer/Patterdale cross, eh? My BT would like him, I think. Or like to wrangle a ball or other toy with him, anyway.

MollyAir · 04/06/2015 22:58

How about a shameful bad doggy meet-up?

QueenQueenie · 04/06/2015 23:02

Yes! Mine would win hands down!

herbaceous · 04/06/2015 23:05

Ooh QQ, you are lovely. I'm hardly ever in RS these days, now my lectures have come to an end, though have to be there to hand the last two assignments in, plus various bits of guff. 22 June, I think. Might be there, for example! Or 9 July - the very very last day, after which I'm going to get verr verr drunk.

cremolafoam · 05/06/2015 00:10

For Herbs and QQ x

Only just tracked you down.

Blackduck · 05/06/2015 06:18

I was on a 2 yesterday so Apple and some salad! D's has left his PE kit on the bus - are we mean to make him contribute to the replacement cost? He needs to learn to look after things.

D's loves Tunnock wafers!

Happy ADayou (as D's used to say) MI! Hope you are being treated well :)

NUFC69 · 05/06/2015 06:34

Last night's dinner was baked Spanish risotto: chicken, chorizo, red onion, cherry tomatoes, arborio rice, rosemary and garlic So easy and tasty, too.

I do not wear bikinis and haven't done since I was a svelte 20 something. I do still have a waist as my shape is hour glass - it's just not so curvy as it was. Joins fellow Crepeys in bathing box on the beach.

MI, DD was always very clingy and unsure as a child/teenager and wouldn't say boo to a goose, however she slowly matured and gained confidence and now holds down a very visible job in Law. Hatty, I hope you can sort things out with your DD .

Another nice day. DH is going out

NUFC69 · 05/06/2015 06:35

Sorry ... On his bike and I have housework and shopping to do.

bigTillyMint · 05/06/2015 07:05

NU, baked Spanish risotto sounds like one for Lalsy's recipe thing!

We had a horrid evening with DD all because of that bloody Edexcel maths examAngry She has said it's not worth revising for any more exams and doesn't want to be woken up this morning, but has Biology this afternoon. I predict a torrent of abuse when I go in to wake her. At the bestSad
Feeling wrung out.

Happy Birthday MICakeWineFlowers

Blackduck · 05/06/2015 07:10

Oh BTM :( hope a good nights sleep will change her mood!

hattymattie · 05/06/2015 07:36

Happy Birthday MIWine Wine Smile .

BTM - Good luck with the awakening (sounds like a horror film). I do remember many parents saying after exams last year that they had their children back and a lot of the untoward behaviour was due to exam stress.

I have never heard of Tunnocks tea cakes - will have to look for them next time I'm over. Maybe they haven't breached the north east.

Stropps - a puritanical DD is a good thing. I think they're pressured into so much when they are not ready for it. I remember DD1 saying at age 15/16 that she was still disgusted by the whole concept of sex. I was very relieved - I suspect things have changed now as she has had a steady boyfriend for two years. She is quite shocked by the behaviour of some of her uni friends and gets very annoyed that it is virtually impossible to have a platonic relationship with a male.

hattymattie · 05/06/2015 07:39

Have come back as I'm sure MI will be desperate to know that she shares her Birthday with Angelina Jolie who is 40 today.

bigTillyMint · 05/06/2015 07:59

Thanks! DH woke her before he went out and she has had a shower, so it looks like she's going in.

In S&B news, I'm wearing this dress in a bid to cheer myself up!

Blackduck · 05/06/2015 08:10

oh loving that dress BTM! I am slobbing in yoga pants and a (light) jumper as wfh today.

CointreauVersial · 05/06/2015 08:21

First GCSE paper this afternoon. DS off early doors to an "exam warm up" session.

Happy Birthday, MI!

CointreauVersial · 05/06/2015 08:22

Pretty dress, BTM. Just needs a bit of sunshine. Woken by thunder at 4.30am - I thought we were supposed to have sunshine THEN thunder? Hmm

lalsy · 05/06/2015 08:25

Happy Birthday MI! Hope it is a good 'un.

Ooooh yes please, NU, that sounds delicious.

BTM, hope she cheers up. ds hasn't been worried by exams that everyone found hard - but there were a sticky couple at the beginning which he found hard and no-one else did (and they got different answers, Mum Smile). It must be horrid to see her so upset when you know she has to KBO the next day.

Stropps, your dd sounds like she knows what she wants and won't give in to pressure easily. A Good Thing.

motherinferior · 05/06/2015 08:31

That dress is GORGE.

I am about to rewrite a case study who got v upset and angry and felt I was stereotyping her as a single parent. I really wasn't, but feel awful she feels this way - rang her at 10pm when I clicked on the email. She's also black, and I'm sure that lurking in this is her - rightful - sensitivity to the even greater stereotypes about black single mothers. (She runs her own business, sends son to private school etc, as she pointed out.) I was rather worried she'd tell me to eff off but actually we had a very constructive conversation and she was vv pleased I'd rung....phew.

And my mum is in hospital. GP was round there when she had a racing heartbeat. They think it's anaemia again and she'll need another transfusion. DSis says mum sounds remarkably chirpy and wasn't too worried (though as she pointed out if the woman would EAT enough to make her own red blood cells...)

bigTillyMint · 05/06/2015 08:49

Oh dear, MI. Do you think the doctors/anyone will take notice of your DSis? I hope they do.

Sadly I foolishly went in to wish DD good luck and got screaming and shouting at me, which I no doubt deserve because I got frustrated last night at 10pm when I went in and she was being rude to me, and said that everyone else was in the same boat... Yet another reason why I am a crap mother.

Rosebag · 05/06/2015 09:03

Happy Birthday MI Cake Wine Cake Wine Cake Wine Here's hoping you don't have to spend all day working and the others have some nice birthday treats for you. xxx I think it's ever so hard not to be defensive when you're a single parent. That was a big thing you did…calling her. It will smooth things over but also force her to reflect on herself a bit.
Hope your DM's anaemia gets sorted out Flowers

Flowers Tilly Sorry about the exam angst. Poor DD and poor you. The grade boundaries will be lower though, and I do find with the DC, when they have a bad'un (as they all do at some point) they calm down and move on. Somehow there has to be a reaction…the stress is a lot for their young minds to cope with, isn't it. Lovely dress, btw.

Best of luck to CV's DS too!

BD we have recovered all manner of lost and forgotten school items that the DC have left on busses (including DS2's bloody course work once…I nearly expired with the stress) but phoning the depot. I just checked what bus company it was (Arriva etc) and looked up the numbers on the web.

I am having issues with DH over my potential paid work at the theatre. It's with him being a trustee…having got him to see that there was no real conflict of interest for him, he now is trying to email all and sundry including the CEO, company secretary etc to cover his back. I really had to put my foot down last night and forbid him to email them until I have set something up. I am also trying to find a way to open up the discussion once again (following it having failed miserably a few years ago) about me really needing to do my MA, and when and how. Do any of you find there's such a huge elephant in the room sometimes and keep putting off dealing with it?

On a happier and S&B note, I tried on a size 12 much loved bright red cocktail dress in anticipation of a function we have this weekend, and it fits beautifully once again. I am most pleased and there's a bright red bra on it's way on special delivery from Bravissimo to wear under it… Grin
No Tunnocks tea cakes for yours truly ..oh but they are lovely...

Rosebag · 05/06/2015 09:03

x post…no you aren't Tilly….

MollyAir · 05/06/2015 09:05

Not a crap mother at all, BTM. My state of total obliviousness to dd's exams is to be recommended - I feel very lucky, if excluded.

That maths exam - I think it's the one? - featured on BBC Breakfast Time - they showed us a question and asked viewers for ideas. It was that hard - the presenters were laughing at their own hopelessness - not a clue. Apparently it's all over Twitter? It might be another one, but I thought worth mentioning.

MI, so sorry about your mum. Although is it in some ways reassuring that she's in hospital, where she'll be monitored, and indeed lectured on eating?

Happy birthday in spite of it all. At least the sun is coming out here...

MollyAir · 05/06/2015 09:11

The worst thing is that it's the anxious students that suffer the most from these cock-ups. The uber confident will just tell themselves that grade boundaries will be so low, they'll deffo get A*.