Crepeys of a consistently high standard

[Stropperella]

So there. :)

OF COURSE WE MISSED YOU, YOU SILLY BILLY!

I have conducted a Ladysplash and had my eyebrows done. However, am getting really worried about sorting this scan - still no news, GP surgery chasing, then not getting back to me - not helped by nurse friend saying yesterday but that sort of things should be done immediately. I sort of slightly want to cry.

I have realised what the problem is in this house (apart from the cats). DH actually wants an old fashioned housewife (as well as my salary)...

MI :(

MrsS - tell him where to shove it.....

Rudy - of course you are missed.

MI - can you go and camp out in the doctor's surgery until they Do Something? DH did basically this - he waited until they printed out the letter that they had allegedly emailed/faxed/posted to the hospital, hand delivered it to the hospital himself and waited while they made him an appointment, after nine months of inefficiency.

on your behalf.

I do believe the surgery that they've refaxed the letter and the hospital has 'acknowledged receipt'. But I just want to know when my appointment is. I'm really worried. And now if I ring back AGAIN won't they just think I'm nagging?

(I do realise how pathetic I sound, btw.)

Can you ring the hospital, MI, or is it not possible to get through to the right clinic? You could say you can be flexible so they can offer you last minute cancellations and give them your mob. It is horrible when things like this happen.

I am not absolutely sure which department. DP assures me radiology. So I assume gynaecology.

Maybe DH would like to take on the housewife role, Mrs S, if it is of such value and prestige? No?

MI - give it a couple of days, then when/if nothing is forthcoming you can go nuclear with justification, thus more likely to get action.

Today - finishing off job application, writing reflective bollocks and a trip to sains to purchase food for tomorrow - we're having chums round for an early dinner - and no doubt some threads for me. Now MI has alerted me to its wonder

Talking of food, does anyone have a veggie chilli recipe that has the same depth of flavour as the meaty version? Or is it in fact the meat that is the essential ingredient...

Try a small amount of dark chocolate in it. It also works well using puy and red lentils in it. Not the same as meaty, but definitely depth.

I now just don't know what to do re hospital and GP. Tried ringing hospital unit and can't get through. Do I nag the hard-pressed staff at the surgery? I can't focus on anything and definitely now want to cry.

MrsS, do you have a cleaner that also will do ironing? I could recommend mine. The best thing about working full-time is having a cleaner!

And yes to the chocolate in the chilli. Cocoa powder works too.

Nag MI

Application done. Well, I think so. I had to do it online, via a clunky, non-functioning web page. So I sent it by email. We shall see.

MI - you may have to nag, just to make yourself feel better!

Now, about to clean bath (a la BD) rather than write a reflective essay.

RESULT: I have thrown wobblies of a most impressive nature at All and Sundry - directed my hysterical weeping at numerous people on the phone - and it's tomorrow morning (after initially being on 6 July).

Result indeed MI!

I haven't cleaned the bath or written my essay. Spank my bottom.

Now then, experienced crepeys. I may have mentioned a Horrid Friend that DS has at school. His mum calls him a 'live wire', while I'm tempted to call him a 'little sh1t' (LS). He used to overtly be unpleasant - forbidding DS to play with his other friends, telling a dad 'I'm going to follow you home and shoot you until you're dead', and the like - but now it's just a kind of low-level bullying. For example, this morning LS was prising DS's fingers off his bag and throwing it on the floor, then saying 'why did you throw your bag on the floor?'. And the other day got DS's hands and was making him hit himself in the face. He always gets right up in DS's grill, and kind of chest-bumps him away from his best friend.

His mum just stands there with a weak smile on her face, while I do as firm a telling off as I can under the circs. i.e., not very firm. And DS just puts up with it as he considers LS a friend. I tell him he doesn't have to put up with stuff like that, and to tell LS to stop it, but he insists he doesn't mind.

LS sees DS as one of his best friends, it seems. I think he may have issues of some sort or other...

Herbs, consider yourself spanked.

Can you get any tougher on LS/his mum? I do see it is more complicated if he has issues, but is there a way of saying to his mum that sorry, you're worried about him HURTING DS?

I may have to. I may indeed have to invoked HIS EYE. The other day LS asked if it was true that DS has a glass eye. I said yes, well kind of, and he said 'can I touch it?' As I was saying 'nooooooooo', in slow motion, he had already done it. I gave him a proper telling off, saying nobody touches his eye except me or him, and he mustn't touch anyone's eyes, blah blah...

I could have a word with the teacher, too. She knows what he's like.

Done essay, BTW.

And RUDY! Of course we've missed you. We just didn't say so, because we're British.

Well done MI!

Herbs, have you spoken to the teacher about it? If not, I advise telling the mum in a matter-of-fact way that you are going to speak to the teacher about her DS as your DS is getting upset/fed-up of hers doing these things to him. And then tell the teacher all your concerns and ask her to do something.
If that doesn't work, then plan B

Rudy, of course we have missed you! What has been keeping you so busy?

And Auriga, where are you?

Howdy Rudy!

Phew, MI, good thing you chased up.

What a pain, Herbs. However, if DS really doesn't mind his behaviour, try not to get too involved (other than the eye-poking, obv - ouch!), as it's best he can fight his own battles to some extent. His teacher will know the score. And it will help him learn that Little Sh1ts exist at all stages in life, and he will need strategies to cope by himself.

There was a girl in DD2's year in primary that couldn't deal with any argument with another child, however minor, without involving her mother. And said mother would get stuck right in, remonstrating with the other child in the playground or rounding on the nearest teacher. It got quite nasty a couple of times, and it did the girl absolutely no favours in the long run.

Anyway, here's a good one....while sitting in the school hall last night listening to the German teacher droning on about the forthcoming Y7 trip to Germany, the dad next to me and I were idly looking up the reviews of the hotel they'll be staying at on our phones.

The first one that appears in Google Reviews went thus: "Excellent service and lost my virginity there, so happy times! Also enjoyed the soup". Should I be worried?

Soup and shagging CV. Sounds like quite a place.

And indeed - he does need to learn to fight his own battles. I just want to ensure he doesn't feel he HAS to put up with LS's attentions. Just because he's a 'friend' and that I'm in his side should he need it. Like.

Mercifully they're not taught together much, so he has respite most of the day.

Am awaiting my lunch in Sainsbury's cafe. All glamour. Once again.

I have now found a letter on the doormat inviting me on 6 July. Am v glad got things moving earlier. Sorry about earlier panic. Having spent so much of the past year in consultant meetings with DM about sodding ovarian sodding cancer, I lost the plot.

Agree about soup and shagging. Mr Inferior appears to believe a night away in a Premier Inn will be similarly conducive to Romance. You have to give him a gold star for Optimism.

Premier Inn MI. Not so much overly optimistic as seriously deluded!
Tell him you are a crepey of a consistently high standard and suggest he amends either his hotel booking or his expectations accordingly.
You deserve better MI.