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Stropperella · 13/08/2015 18:27

Bleargh WAF, you poor thing. Best wishes for a speedy recovery and hope you can have some belated celebrations of your anniversary.

motherinferior · 13/08/2015 18:36

I appear to have spent the past two (2,ii) hours cooking. Slowly working my way through various things that were not remotely difficult, to be honest. The results will be both copious and delicious. I must remember to fish the raita out of the fridge and heat up the Hot Meat Curry leftovers from Mr Inferior's birthday...

Stropperella · 13/08/2015 18:36

MrsS

herbaceous · 13/08/2015 18:39

Remember Hot Bald (but hairy elsewhere) Lecturer? He's just emailed me asking me to take part in some research he's doing. Well, that's what he says. It's obvious he actually wants to ravish me.

Exhausted after spending a day at a friend's house with her boisterous boys, then taking DS 'swimming'. After years of refusal, he now declares he 'loves swimming'. By 'swimming', he means holding my hands while he kicks his feet and I drag him around. Still, it's a start. But what is it that's so utterly exhausting about 'swimming'? The noise? The way it's both cold and hot at the same time?

Mrs S - I think there's a career option for you right there. Sorting out malingerers.

CointreauVersial · 13/08/2015 18:49

Ouch, MrsS, I'm wincing at the thought of the finger smoothie. But I like the sound of that doctor. I always tease DH about the occasion, early in his time in the UK, when he went to A&E with constipation. He was sent away with a flea in his ear at least it wasn't a finger in the unmentionables

Here, I'm in the doghouse because I completely forgot about DD1's gym session. Then I completely forgot to tell DH that I completely forgot, and he drove all the way to the gym to pick her up.

CointreauVersial · 13/08/2015 18:51

Herbs - get DS signed up for some lessons. You can sit by the side of the pool with a cappuccino and MN while someone else drags him round.

Rosebag · 13/08/2015 18:52

Oh no WAF…did you eat something dodgy?

Oh no MrsS re. blended finger….I am cringing….

What a day. I do so loathe the education system. DS is now saying he'll drop music regardless of the re-mark and grit his teeth through Spanish. He's gone off to friends now.
Stropps Have you read the new about Universities being able to offer loads more places as the government has taken off the cap on the number of places they are allowed to offer? This might mean that if DD can pull up her grades a bit by the time she takes A2s, they'll be a lot more open to her, and I suspect they'll be some reasonable offers out there too….As my DS1(who got in to Uni with 2 D's…just saying') has been trying to say to DS2…they are only half way through. The D's aren't a disaster if she can perhaps retake some modules and concentrate on three subjects? Sorry if I've got it all arse about face….forgive me…

bigTillyMint · 13/08/2015 18:54

Stropps - it sounds like you are doing an admirable job. Sending strength vibes.

Rose well done to your DS. Fingers crossed on the re-mark.

MrsS at blender incident. You sound very calm and collected considering all the blood and guts. And go that doc - dying? What again?

WAF sorry you are with Brian. He gets a lot of use on here!

motherinferior · 13/08/2015 18:54

Second the lessons, Herbs.

CV, where did your DH come from?

lalsy · 13/08/2015 18:57

Whereas dh once went to A and E with a flea in his ear .

lalsy · 13/08/2015 19:00

Rose, maybe he will change his mind if the remark boosts his grade. He is, very sensibly, taking out some emotional insurance perhaps?

Hope all exam-wrung crepeys get to put feet up with big tonight.

herbaceous · 13/08/2015 19:09

Bloody lessons. Had DS signed up to some 1-2-1 lessons for the summer holidays. He went, had a great time. We turned up the next week, and one of the teachers had resigend, so he had to go in a class. All fine, however. Went the next week, and it was his teacher's last lesson. She was moving to the swimming pool next door.

Tried to paid for lessons I'd had, but receptionist said I'd have to speak to a Gabrielle. Emailed and phoned, but no reply to either attempt to pay or to arrange more lessons.

Tried to arrange lessons with swimming pool next door, but they don't reply to emails or phone calls either.

Sent a text to the nice teacher, but it was undeliverable.

Now have to find small or 1-2-1 classes for his age, yet low ability. Gnnnn.

cremolafoam · 13/08/2015 19:35

Oh m. g Mrs S poor child. That's awful. Sorry about the French class as well but I'd imagine dd will have to be very stoic to go from op into Verb declension in one day. A& E is fascinating unless you are vilely sick or broken, or with someone leaking. I have previous in this regard.

Rose I wrote you a long post about dropping subjects and remarking , but lost it. Sounds like ds is doing well in the circumstances.its not easy

I have achieved today. Washed all the windows. Did some admin.
Phoned round deck-builder style blokes to get a quote. Washed and brushed my stoop.
This is energetic for me

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/08/2015 19:56

Crem - I thought the French would take her mind off it.

Blackduck · 13/08/2015 21:13

MrsS :)
I am really not looking forward to the whole exam thing - strength to all....

But this too will pass.....

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/08/2015 21:19

Phoned my mother to tell her DD1's woes and she said "Oh that sounds sore. On the Asda bus last week..." I then got all about the chimney man not coming, the hairdresser running late, the light bulb has gone in the hall and she can't change it, and the boiler man being on holiday and "people make you sick, don't they?" Self absorbed, much?

The Paris-ites, who couldn't/wouldn't put us up the other week have had their house extended. They now have a huge kitchen and six (6, VI) bedrooms and four (4, IV) bathrooms. I do wonder why, as there are only two of them, and they are certainly not keen to have guests. In fact, I don't think I have ever heard them mention having people to stay, although their FB feeds always seem full of them going off to visit various people.

bigTillyMint · 13/08/2015 21:26

Herbs, could you just rock up at the pool? And getting ravished sounds good too!

Cremo, well done on the chores. I hate chores!

MrsS at French taking her mind off it!

I'm watching breakfast TV in bed and DH has made me a NZ breakfast TV is quite entertaining. Everything is somewhat less polished than ours

RudyMentary · 13/08/2015 21:41

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Stropperella · 13/08/2015 22:12

I have done 75 mins taxi duty to a party out in the sticks. Directions were dreadful and all the peeps arriving by taxi got left in the wrong village. I felt sorry for them as I passed them on my way back from dropping dd and 2 others, so I stopped and took another car load to the party. The drop-off point seemed to be a lay-by, then they all disappeared off down a track into a field. Hope there is a house down there, because otherwise they are all going to get a bit wet. Dd said she was staying overnight

Rudy, sounds as though your ds has a bone to pick with the school about his coursework. Well done to him on his results, though.

MollyAir · 13/08/2015 22:29

Huge congrats to QQ's ds, and well done to all the other dc - Stropps, given her absences, dd did do well, didn't she? I say this as someone who totally fucked up her A levels on first go.

A friend's ds repeated the first year of sixth form, and it worked out brilliantly for him; new friends were made, he was happy. Recommended.

Dd got good results, but she had an accident on hols which I'm still reeling from. No lasting damage, as such - she had six stitches removed from her face today. I kinda don't want to talk about it iyswim...still shocked...cried at the doctor's....so MrsS, you have my sympathy. Love to all.

bigTillyMint · 13/08/2015 22:59

Stropps that sounds positive that she's gone off to a party. Fingers crossed you don't get any calls in the night!

Yes Rudy, WTF about the coursework?

Molly well done to your DD, Re the accident.

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/08/2015 23:04

Oh Molly - have some . And congrats to your DD.

DH just said to DD1 "Night night, sleep tight, don't let the blender bite."

cremolafoam · 13/08/2015 23:07

Oh Molly I'm so very sorry. That must be a dreadful shock for both of you. Well done to dd on good results.

And well done to your ds Rudy. Seems bizarre that the coursework was graded like that. I'd get that investigated pronto and be pinning the teacher to the wall for letting it slip through if indeed it did.

Ach I feel for all of you who have been through the educational mill this year. ( you too BD)

MollyAir · 13/08/2015 23:13

I bloody hate results, re-marks and the lot of it. Dd didn't do well in one paper, and declared that she must have had her calculator on in the wrong mode for the whole exam. Duh. She'll re-sit that paper, appaz.

Rosebag · 13/08/2015 23:44

molly when ones child is injured, it's horribly harrowing. but good news about DDs results x
Rudy well done to DS. That is a bit weird about course work...I assume the school marks it and then it's externally moderated....seems to have been a breakdown somewhere in the process.
crem thank you. DS is a bit calmer and at a sleep over with friends. He's still wavering about everything. Actually I feel horribly drained from being positive when I actually want to cry....even though there's much to be grateful for.

All this not helped by the worsening situation at DParents. We were just about to go out to have supper with DSis and DBil when DM called all tearful. Not coping, can't get DDad out of the chair, he refuses to go to the toilet etc etc so we all went round, the four of us. Eventually got him out the chair to have supper...and then it took six (6 vi) of us to get him to the loo and to bed. I discovered that DM has been calling the caretaker ( who had to enlist the help of the other caretaker in the neighbouring block yesterday ), when she couldn't get DDad off the loo...I called the social workers duty desk and will call again tomorrow morning. Am trying to persuade DM that he now needs full time care and we need to arrange respite. God know if she's taking it on board. She still thinks it can be managed at home. Six of us couldn't do it ffs.

We're supposed to be going to the flat tomorrow. AIBU to want to go, and resent that I may have to cancel? What a shit day it's been...