Creme de la Crepe

[MrsSchadenfreude]

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Ooh - anyone watch Dr Foster? Gripping stuff.

Alvin was the right one to go. Dreadful soggy bottom, and hard plums.

Arf at poor Alvin's plums.

Yes, caught Dr Foster too, by accident really, although I heard Suranne Jones being interviewed on R2 about it. I also love Bertie Carvell, aka Miss Trunchbull in Matilda.

I have a cold and am going to bed.

BTM - they are only 8 years old - the girls said he couldn't play because he's a boy.

at hard plums.

We missed Dr Forster as we were loftily watching the Ascent of Women on BBC2 (and we are incapable of watching a series now unless we watch it all at once, every night for weeks).

I am applying for another classroom assistant job - but as English speaking jobs are few and far between here it will probably be taken by a qualified teacher. I really don't see why they need to know my O level grades (have written can't remember next to them - which I can't!)

Ah Hatty, sorry - not so good at 8. Good luck with the TA application. Can't you just make them up? I have never, ever had to show my O'level certificate. Or any others for that matter!

I only saw the last 30 secs of Dr Forster and I doubt I will be able to watch it on catch-up as DH's bloody TalkTalk box doesn't seem to work for anything other than Netflix He is supposed to be reinstating the Humax recorder so that I will actually be able to set it for things I want to watch. And so they can watch MOTD on a Sunday morning.

We had a Humax box with our BT TV thingo, and it went wrong so many times I got well stroppy with them until they upgraded the box to a new, non-Humax one. Maybe you too are due an upgrade?

Re O levels, it seems to be a default question on all application forms, which seem to be used for every job from school-leaver minion to CEO. Ridiculous waste of everybody's time. If I've got a PGCE, then I'll have a degree, for which I would have to have A levels, and for which I would have to have O levels. Innit.

Agree Herbs and BTM re O levels - I'm not even sure where the certificate is - in a dark corner chez my parents.

We upgraded our Humax about a year ago, but can you use it with a TalkTalk thingo? Think that might be a bit much for DH to fathom and I am NOT doing that as well!

Hatty, I'm sure you got a load of top grades - just put them down and don't sweat it

BTM, you can watch netflix through consoles - does your ds have an X Box or PS? We bought a Smart TV but it regressed after a month of living with us.

Stropps, sorry to hear about dd's migraines? ds had abdominal migraines (a young boy version). He was often very emotional/moody the day before they kicked in.

dd is back from her travels, and has to get sorted for going back to uni. Urgh.

Ah poor Alvin and his fan of plums. I did actually fill up a bit for him...he's got that sort of face...like it wouldn't take much to make him cry. I also caught the tail end of Dr Foster...I do like Surannne Jones. I wonder if it's going to be along the lines of 'She devil'? Hell hath no fury...and all that.

Our TV doesn't support certain applications so we have to watch ITV player and now Amazon prime instant video through a console...PS-3 that DS1 left when he moved out, its quite annoying. Dont have trouble with the Humax Box as yet.

Welcome back cremo the Mil sitch sounds like a Corrie storyline. gosh!

Good luck with the job application hatty! I never list my Olevels.. I just say something like 9 olevels, details on request. No one ever asks. As herbs says, they're irrelevant if you've gone on the FE, or if you're a ...erm....mature applicant.

Right...must get some stuff done. New class starting tonight. Still trying to sort out annoying director colleague. Had a brilliant effing and blinding session with ConS about her last night so have lightened the mood a bit.....but we're no further on yet.

BTM - I'll gloss over my O level maths then .

Rose - did you never manage to contact your director colleague - how frustrating. Good luck with the new class.

By the way - have been having physio for my Achilles tendons - a very nice young man massages them twice a week . They are still really stiff in the mornings though.

Oh my word, Crem, good luck with the PiL difficulties. Good on MiL, I guess, but I hope you and dh won't be left to shovel up too much crap. Tricky.

I have had to state my O level grades many times on applications over the years, but I'm not convinced anyone has ever really scrutinised them on job apps. I'm afraid I am the sort of person who has all (and I do mean ALL) the certs she has ever been awarded (although I may have ditched the one I got in 1970 for swimming my first width ). But I have had to show the O level certs (along with A Level certs and various other bits) several times to various academic institutions.

Lalsy, thanks so much for mentioning your ds's abdominal migraines. It caused me to recall that dd was in fact diagnosed with the same when she was a toddler. The clear trigger for her at that point appeared to be grapefruit (what kind of 2 year old likes fresh grapefruit? She's always been a bit perverse, to say the least). I had completely forgotten. We were seeing a paediatrician about another issue at the time and dd's father was also there, unusually, and the doc quizzed him about his history of migraines - which was extensive, but he stopped having them in his 20s. I have rather lost track of the various odd ailments that dd has been diagnosed with over the years, so thanks for jogging my memory on that one. Am also now wondering whether that was ever put on her medical records. She went to the GP yesterday and was told that due to her age there are very few meds that they can prescribe for her, but presumably this will change when she turns 18. She has cluster headaches, which are rare, do not follow the typical migraine pattern and are also known as "suicide headaches" ( :( :( ) They would usually treat these with an injection, but this treatment is not licensed for under-18s. Now I've read up on it, I'm thinking she needs a referral to a neurologist.

BTM, a Google Chromecast can turn a modern non-smart TV into a smart one. Ds set up our secondary tv with the Chromecast (someone gave dd one as a present ages ago and she has never bothered with it) last weekend when he had a friend over for a sleepover and they wanted to watch some crap on YouTube.

Rose, hope the director starts communicating with you more efficiently. Very frustrating when someone who is key to an important process is being such a flake.

Stropps, that sounds like a very good idea. Most meds are unlicensed for under-18s (but common ones are prescribed by GPs because their safety is established).

Crem, welcome back and good luck!

Dr F will be on i-player and watchable on a laptop. Oh, THAT??S where I saw the husband!

Yes we became totally engrossed by Dr Foster ( Suranne was very good I think) and unfortunately I fell asleep just at the bbq bit. Will more than likely watch it all as we are also of the 'I've started so I'll finish' school of drama watching.

So dmil has flounced this morning, and fil phoned while I was at the dr for a blood test. Huge diatribe on answer machine, to which I intend not to reply.dh can get involved if he wishes; he is resigned to the fact that he'll have to call in and check on him every week. This sounds normal, but Dh has not spoken to his f for years. Coronation Street here we come.[rolls eyes]
I am off to Pilates.

Btw I player no longer works on any platform -as the bbc have removed the app. We usually stream via the wii but are reduced to Netflix and plugging the computer into the telly to watch Iplayer and all4. All to do with licensing I think, but jolly daft. It it wasn't for Dh and his tetchy wYs, I would sitting in the dark with a candle knitting bedspreads.

Streaming through the wii? Chromecast? Smart tellies? No idea what any of you are talking about - all I hear are a series of beeps and whistles.

I have just done a pilates class in a park! In a bandstand! All free! Though my arse will pay for it tomorrow.

Right. Back to dispiriting job search.

MI - Husband from Dr Foster was also Jonathan Strange in the recent JS & Mr Norrell adaptation. Also fabulous.

Ooh, I knew why I loved him. Loved Jonathan Strange. Temporarily named the cat after him.

Last week he was Mellors.

This week, Alvin.

He's deaf, so it doesn't matter.

Cremo, good on your MIL, but sorry for all the fallout.

Herbs

Well the calm has broken - text to say DS was (2min in his words) late despite leaving on time and DD rang having a melt-down. Hopefully I can get DS out earlier, but I'm not sure quite how we help DD.

Herbs - we had a deaf cat when I was a child. He was called Deafy.

If I got a chromecast would it override my now not-smart TV's attempts to be smart, or would they compete?

I saw Bertie Carvel on stage this summer and he wasn't great, IMO. Enjoyed Dr Foster even though Beeb had put the audio described version on its main iplayer page, so I thought at first it was some trendy new narrative technique, with Suranne Jones acting out the voiceover "An attractive woman lies in bed....."

Sorrt BTM, crossed. Do you know what the meltdown is about?

Cat wasn't always deaf, but has become so in his dotage. DS asks 'so why does he still have ears?'

New wheeze - looking into teaching English to nurses. Seems to be a need...

Not exactly, but she said the teacher keeps "putting her on the spot" Hopefully I can find out more tonight, and maybe we can contact that teacher (and maybe others, if necessary) about it. Surely schools/teachers should still make reasonable adjustments even if the child is doing A'levels?