Creme de la Crepe

[MrsSchadenfreude]

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lalsy I put the heating on this morning...

I'm bloody freezing too.

Also feeling intimidated by Proper Writers.

And must order lots of packed lunch/after-school stodge.

DD2 and DP also had a run-in about packed lunches. Once she gets into the swing of it, DD2 is rather good at packed lunches. DP can't see the point and wishes she'd stick with school dinners. But she enjoys the variety and she's quite creative. I've started her off with samosas and posh cheese pastry things.

And me (Proper Writers). Proper Money also seems quite hard to come by in this game.

at worry eaters, real and virtual.

Looky here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_campaigns/2460948-Refugee-crisis-please-take-our-survey-to-let-us-know-where-you-stand

I'm v. worried about which Worry Eater to choose. And about my Worry Eater getting Obese. Good luck to GGG, well done Versial ds, yy to personal incomprehensible filing cabinets, Rose....

My PFB has gorn (to live with other students, sob!) so I could take in some children. If they could bear to live with us and our filing cabinets. I expect they could. Apparently 10,000 Icelanders came forward to take in refugees - out of a teeny population.

I am in a rage. I took DD2 to get her hair cut tonight. Local hairdresser fitted her in at last minute. Asked DD2 how much she wanted cut off her hair, suggested about three inches, showed DD2. DD2 said "Yes that's fine." I said "Oh I thought you wanted it shorter than that." "No, just the ends," said DD2. So I thought she had got cold feet (her hair is waist length and she wanted it cut to shoulder length). Woman snipped away, job done. Asked DD2 if it was OK. Did she not want more cut off? No, it was fine. Got out of the place, walking home, and she said "I wanted it much shorter but didn't like to say. Can we not go back tomorrow and have more cut off?" No we fucking can't.

I think it must be their job to be fickle at that age, MrsS.

Hello there all.
Go Giddy Go! You know very well, they'd be lucky to have you.
Stropps, honestly you are brilliant with the problem eating thing. I am very impressed that you still have a sense of humour left.
BTM I do hope you've had a smashing birthday thus far and that your evening pans out beautifully.
CV very well done to Master Versial!
BD I got the dept external review by email today. It is favourable to us on the whole, and then in summary goes off at a tangent talking about swingeing cuts and staff efficiencies and my job is not once mentioned in the future projection. So, am one the wiser.Still. at the eleventh hour.

Can we think about our MU on 26th and get some suggestions as to where we can meet? Need a distraction from imminent return to on again off again job . [last few days of holiday dejection]

Ooh, that would make my blood boil too, MrsS. Is she known for not speaking up?

Happy Birthday, BTM (or was it yesterday?). Hope you have/had an enjoyable day, work notwithstanding.

Yes, DS's "B" was quite a triumph. Perhaps not for all children, but certainly for him. He is in one of the lowest sets, and was the only one in the entire class to get a B. He matched or outperformed several of his friends who were predicted higher grades. I just knew he could pull it out of the bag, which is why it's been so infuriating watching him do the bare minimum over the years - these were the first exams he actually took seriously, and I think he quite likes the result of his endeavours.

CV, that is really great, will set him up well.

Good luck with the interview, GGG! I have two (2, ii) job interviews next week. Predictably, the second one is the one I really want, the first one is the one I will probably get. I propose not to check my email after the first interview, until after the second interview has passed. The one I really want sounds very grown up, but if I dissect it, I can do it all standing on my head and it really plays to my strengths.

CV - A B sounds pretty good to me.

Molly - you are right. She is not known for being backward at coming forward, but now claims to be "shy" and refuses to talk to people she doesn't know - eg won't order food in a restaurant, was monosyllabic with the hairdresser. She wanted fish and chips tonight, so I said if she wanted them, she could go and get them, as we were having something else. And no, I wouldn't go with her, but would give her the money. She won't go, so is having what we are having, even though she would much rather have fish and chips.

I am going to buy everyone in this house a Sorgenfresser, Stropps.

CV, brilliant start to the year for your ds. Go him!!

GGGiddy, best of luck. You can do it!

MrsS, I have a mini Saggo Sorgenfresser to go on a key ring. His hair is almost as mental as mine. Good luck for both interviews. You can just use the first one as a warm-up! Commiserations again on the teenage nitwittery front.
I spent 1.5 hrs I didn't have this afternoon trying to "counsel" dd about her choices for this year. The school sent her an email telling her to forget chemistry and do French and she has - naturally - now decided that she must do chemistry or she is giving up school, going to the local 6th form college (a massive dump in the next town, which will require to get on a actual bus, which would never happen) and going to do "pointless, crap, easy subjects until I am 18 and can leave school and get a crap job, because there is no point because if I have to stay at school an extra year I will kill myself". I managed to maintain my composure and do all my teeth-gnashing during a loo break I awarded myself when it all threatened to get too much.

Oh I want a worry eater - but like Molly I worry about how fat he'd get :)
Cremo sorry about the email - it's amazing how monumentally crap they are at these things...

MrsS I am afraid DD sounds like me at the hair dressers.....

Oh good luck on interviews everyone! I am thinking about my 'task' ...

Stropps - DD1 veers between wanting to do easy subjects, and then wanting to do 4 subjects at higher level (they "only" need to do three). The latest is thinking about doing the bilingual diploma, which she can apparently get if she writes her extended essay in French. While I admire her ambition, it won't get done, and then we will have screaming hysterics.

DD2 sat at the dinner table with a face like a smacked arse, declined to eat anything and went to bed.

God they are all bloody infuriating aren't they!

I spent 30 mins with ds1 this pm. The 'task' was to begin a list of all the things he needs to take / buy / do for going off to uni in 4 weeks time. The moaning and sarcasm had to be heard to be believed. You honestly would have thought he was doing me the hugest favour in the history of the world.... GAH!

Many thanks for the kind good wishes. Will report back tomorrow evening -with a stiff drink in my hand.

Yes to a (cunning) plan for the 26th!
My vote is for drink and food. Somewhere centralish.

I think she'll go far Rudy and shows a good grasp of the priorities. First impressions are v important

I have cheerfully told DD1 I don't know where the plasters are (for covering her new ear-piercings for PE). Because I don't. I can't remember. She accused me earlier is always telling her she's thick. Which I don't. I have wobbled to you lot about her contemporaries' results but actually I spend a lot of time telling DD1 she's rather brighter than she thinks she is. And I can't be arsed to grovel and find the plasters. So ner.

Considering I keep telling the sodding child her teachers think she's an outstanding linguist, great at English, and so forth this "you always do it, I'm used to it, you can't really change it now" was a bit bloody much.

Well your DD1 always seems utterly charming to me, MI. I would gladly swap her for DD2 who is lying in her bed moaning that there is never anything to eat in this house (by which she means crisps, biscuits and chocolate). I have cheerfully said that there is Naice Polish Ham and salad, Nice Organic Bread and some Particularly Pungent Cheese. We also only have Really Dull Cereal, There Are No Yogurts and Eww, I Don't Want That Cake.

Man upstairs has been tap tap tapping at the door again. DH went to see what he wanted, and apparently he is too scared to go in his flat on his own. So DH obligingly went up and established that there were no bogeymen hiding there. He started to go on about someone stealing his mattress again, DH left and came back downstairs. He is now going to ask someone to accompany him every time he goes in and out of the flat, isn't he?

MrsS You and your DH are going to have to either play mean and nasty and tell him to go away every time he knocks, or end up being unpaid carers any time of the day/night, I guess.

DD came back from her first day full of it in a good way so that is a great start
And I can thoroughly recommend Beautiful - it was really fantastic. Even DH was enthused by it. And we were younger by far than 90% of the audience