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[Stropperella]

So there. :)

Wow, Rose, sounds like the read through was quite something. Must be amazing seeing your baby come to life.

Strops - as the saying goes, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. You have done amazingly well this year; just go with the flow with these opportunities and see what shakes out. I second what others have said - if the school have begged you to apply that is a ringing endorsement indeed.

No imposter syndrome for me; more like: "you could do so much better than whiling away your time in a job that's quite frankly beneath you. If you weren't such a lazy cow you'd find something more challenging." My job may be easy, but it has been mega-busy for the last month now, and not expected to let up for a while yet. DH and I are taking tomorrow off, just Because We Can. We are going for a long walk in Windsor Great Park / Virginia Water and a pub lunch. The DCs can get the bus home from school.

DS was supposed to be going on his DofE Expedition tomorrow but it's been cancelled because of the hot weather.

Windsor Great Park was our go to place for walking when we lived in Berkshire, CV. I used to love The Saville Gardens. Is the totem pole still in the Park?

Stropps, I thought that about the chocolate, too, but decided to man up and try it (I can't stand pretzels for a start), and couldn't believe how good it was.

Heh, no, you misunderstand me, NU - I mean I would happily snarf my own bodyweight in anything involving pnb, dairy milk and pretzels

CV at the long walk. Haven't been to Virginia Water in many, many years.

Stropps, as CV says, feel the fear - what's the worst that can happen? You don't get the job, but there are and will be more. If you are right for the school and the school is right for you, then you will just have to grit your teeth and go for it

Nice curry with the boy and the thought of not doing the commute makes me :)
Response to restructure is in - nothing more I can do now. It's our local festival this Saturday so a spot of singing and bar tending for me and acting for ds.... Mainly sitting in a field not doing much :)

NU - I'm pretty sure the totem pole is still there. I haven't been there for years either - I used to work nearby. I just don't want to be cooped up indoors and miss all this weather.

Will attempt a sweaty ladyjog tomorrow morning.....

Another glorious day: we have had breakfast outside and already have had an argument. I was downstairs ironing and DH shouted from the bathroom where he had just had a shower. He had forgotten his towels (in the airing cupboard on the landing) and wanted me to go upstairs and get them for him. As I was downstairs doing his ironing, I was not impressed. Excuse: he didn't want to get the floor wet. Aargh!

I am off to the dental hospital this morning and will take the opportunity to visit the sales.

Bad and CV enjoy your day. Slow off the mark there about the chocolate, Stropps.

Marital disharmony chez herbs, also. DP got in last night from a leaving do at nearly 3am. He collapsed into bed like a tranquillised rhino, then got up looking for headache tablets, then collapsed into bed, thrashed about, etc etc until 4.30 when I stropped off downstairs with my pillows to 'sleep' on the settee. When I pointed out this morning that a) he'd kept me awake and b) he smelled like the floor of a pub he got all "Oh I suppose I'm a bad person am I..." on me.

WIBU to say "no, I am merely pointing out some current behavioural deficiencies in an otherwise exemplary character", or similar? He shuts down any dissent like this, and it makes me MAD, and I'm not putting up with it any more!

It is still there.

BTM, great place for a bike ride, train from the junction, you end up cycling through the deer park and then water meadows with a special bike track and down to the river and back from a different station. One of my favourites. Takes in runnymede and the raf memorial too, as well as savile gardens and the polo pitch (which if they are playing is the most weird game to watch - hours of divot stomping, then a blur of hooves while they take whacks at random bits of mud. Then lunch.).

It depends how he deals with conflict, Herbs. If he's the confrontational sort you can have an unholy row and get it out of the system. If he's a passive aggressive....non starter. If he's the sort that gets all defensive
hard not to, when you've got the mother of all hangovers but stews, then reflects, and then apologises...I guess one accepts the apology with as much grace as can be mustered when pissed off and sleep deprived, and then moves on. Or you could just say no sex, until you get your own way...

Virginia Water reminds me of the way my parents used to drive to Bournemouth before the M3 was built... old gimmer I am

Did you go up NU ? I wouldn't have done, but then I'm a stroppy cow...

I am in an utter slump after yesterday and not least of all because I got home and had all the script notes to type up...and there they were, all three of them with their tongues hanging out waiting for supper. As a protest I boiled pasta, dumped on the table with butter, cheese ( all in their separate containers) and some stringy mange tout and refused to eat with them. Feckers.

tilly what did the doc say?

Ah. The 'W' in my 'WIBU' was 'was' not 'would'. I already said it! Usually I don't say anything, as he is both PA and defensive, and does the whole 'I suppose you're saying I'm a terrible person' if I suggest something minor, like maybe taking his muddy shoes off, or similar. So today I stopped putting up with it! And he's still talking to me, so that's progress.

I hope NU didn't go up. I wouldn't. And then suffered aforementioned sulking.

And good for you, Rose, re dinner.

Yeah, I've got one of those Herbs. It drives me to homocidal thoughts...

It certainly drives me to non-conjugal thoughts!

Low-carb diet has yet to shift any poundage, which is annoying. And will go out the window this weekend, anyway. And next week, when it's DS's birthday. His chosen 'treat' of cinema -> McDonalds -> cake is not entirely carb-free!

Blimey...I'm in the mall waiting for a friend. Just observed the one minute silence for the victims of the Tunisia atrocities. I'm gobsmacked by the number of people still shopping, chatting and stuffing their faces despite the announcement and the rest of us standing quietly....

Back from Newcastle where the One Minute's Silence was followed beautifully In the bit of the dental hospital I was in. I am the person the phrase "grumpy old woman" was coined for, so no I didn't go up. (I am still smarting from the throw away comment made on holiday to the effect it was my fault he had spent a fortune hiring a sat av - no, it ruddy well wasn't!).

I bought a pair of harem style navy and white spotted trousers, and a fuchsia pink top with a pleated chiffon back in M&S.

How are the knees, BTM?

Oh yes, the knees! The doc said no significant sign of arthritis which is good. Then she started to say it was just knee pain... but when I said I couldn't bend/straighten my leg properly and that it was really bad at the back of my knee, she felt it a bit and said it was a Bakers Cyst. So she has given me anti-inflamatories and has referred me for physio (so not for a couple of months!) It already feels much easier after only 2 pills

Herbs, YWNBU

Just putting head round door to say good luck for interview, Stropps and well done for getting it.

Work-related stress here. Interfering with sleep, life and MN-ing.

Oh Auriga. So sorry.

I am feeling hassled by life in general. And the state of my enormous stomach.

I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed my two days pottering this week and how much better I feel for it! I've achieved loads - five loads of washing today alone and a complete emptying of dd's room. But just being here, on my own, for two days (dh is off partying in a field until Sunday!) has been very, very cathartic. I feel quite bad saying that, but everyone needs a little quiet time every so often.

Sorry that was a very self indulgent post, especially as everyone is hassled and stressed .

Auriga

Beachy, how lovely. I am just enjoying a bit of quiet sunbathing on my own in 5he garden. DD has gone up West to buy Prom shoes and bag and DS is with his mates

Beachy - thanks for the interrail tips and you are absolutely right everybody needs some chill time.

BTM - baker's cyst - never heard of that one. Glad you got a diagnosis though.

Oh dear. DD couldn't find any Prom shoes on the whole of Oxford Street

BTM @ DD.

Will the shoes even be visible under the dress, BTM?
It is Dd's 17th today. She appeared in our bedroom at 7am this morning and got into our bed ready for her presents We went to Wagamamas for her b-day meal and I have made the same choc Victoria sponge with whipped cream and strawberries that she asks for every year. She is off out partying with friends tonight.