Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Crepes in this petty pace from day to day

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Anything but the C-word!

Aww GGG, I know exactly what you mean. If you lose your keys or purse in the next few days, check the freezer. Be kind to yourself, it gets sooo much easier. x

GGG, have some and some and watch a crap film.

CV - I find it quite bonkers that your DS's ex wants to pursue a friendship with you. I wouldn't go out of my way to piss her off, in case they get back together, but I do find the whole thing odd, given how young the children are.

I am feeling Sundayish.

GGG big hugs.....

I feel very odd - can't work out what to do next.

In a way would hope GP signs me off in two weeks or so...

Oh GGG, I know exactly what you mean. I lost my car in a multi-story this time last year. Started crying. Got cross with the man trying to help me and then found the car two floors down. All I could think was so , is that it, with the parenting then ? Clearly not.
Aw. Be good to yourself, go slowly and lavish extra love on ds2, Dh and dawg.

Crippling week coming up. Two more of my colleagues have decided to leave. I am torn felling sad to see them going, and really jealous as well. Feeling sort of abandoned.

Are you seeing her/him tomorrow, BD? Make sure you tell her/him how it is - no saying you're OK really.

Cremo, sending you positive vibes.

BD, I suggest time off.

Much sympathy to all.

BTM - nope GP in two weeks - couldn't get anything earlier...
I think, like Cremo, it's my team member goes this week - we all know that it will be hard after that. She is labelling everything and leaving notes and it's just mega crap....

GGG give yourself a bit of time. Maybe some of it is this huge build up followed by a bit of an anticlimax and "now what? I supposed we'd better get on with things..." And then getting on with things goes a bit awry as we're feeling a bit at 6s and 7s!

Nice news on the school front Beachy !

tilly it's the adults that do more spilling of coffee on the carpet than the DC in our house for some reason. Go for cream if you love it...just keep the name of a good carpet cleaning firm handy....We furnished our sun,lounge/den entirely from Next. Love their stuff.

monty well done to DS. Poor mite must be worn out!

Lots of walking and eating today as is the normal habit when at the flat. Weather still lovely. DH is still a miserable cold infested git. DM has texted me today to say that she needs a bit of time to do things so she's arranged the original carer they had at home, to go in to DDads home and be with him on Fri mornings so she can get a bit of time off. I give up. I absolutely do.

Time for Downton.

[grin]@miserable cold infested git. Rose .

Lovely BD, so sorry to read the latest development. You have so much on your plate. Don't forget you can self certify for a week. Would that give you a little bit of breathing space? You could then get the doc to sign you off for longer when you see him. It's not ideal but would at least reduce the 2 week wait for your appointment. Work stress is ghastly and all consuming, I find. So sorry. Thinking of you

I find this lengthy wait to see a GP very frustrating. I have some kind of eye infection, got drops from the pharmacist, who said, if these don't clear it up in a week, you will need to see your GP. The drops haven't cleared it up, no appointment for three weeks. So what am I supposed to do in the interim?

Three-week wait for the GP is utterly outrageous. Suspect that is for 'routine' appointment. All it means is we have to re-classify 'things that need seeing to sooner rather than later' as 'emergencies'.

That's ridiculous about GPs. We've always been able to get appointments on the day or next for 'urgent'. And they now have phone triage by the GPS, which works really well and you get seen on the day if you need to be. I would complain.

BD and Crem, strength for this week. I so wish we could all do something to help.

I have a long list now, ready for my next appointment: gummy eye, hurty knee and elbow from when the 159 slammed its brakes on to avoid a cyclist and we all fell in a heap and lumpy rash on my left elbow.

DH said he was in pain last time, and got seen within a few days.

It is ridiculous about GP appointments - it's at least three weeks at home as well. Oh, and when DH made his first appointment about his chest pain on 30th November, it was the middle of January! In the end he just turned up at the surgery. And don't get me started on flu jabs - they set aside two Saturday mornings to do them and the queue stretches way out of the door. We now go to a local pharmacist. I hope Crepeys feel better soon, with or without the GP.

Still lovely here, temperatures in high 20s - I am going to be cold when we go home on Saturday.

Our GP will only do one ailment per appointment.....
I probably could get one 'on the day' - might try that on Friday - busy week this week so can't really WFH before then.
MC - regulations - the food of my day!

Here we go, another week...I have been for a Ladyjog and must fling self in shower, resisting urge to go back to bed for the rest of the day.

I think I've misread the weather. I'm wearing three quarter length trousers, it's raining and I'm freezing already!

It does look a bit dark over Will's Mother's, Beachy.

DH has had a rant and gone to work. If I count up to 50 the neighbour will appear.

Can I ask Crem and GGG for Copenhagen hotel recommendations? Think we might go and do the pre Christmas twinkly light thing?

3/4 length trousers Beachy? Madness. Can you buy some woolly socks?

We stayed in one of these in Copenhagen - very nice.

The link would help maybe....

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Are you feeling a bit more chipper today, GGG? Hope so.

BD, WFH on Friday and a drop in sounds like a plan.

Back to my regulations......zzzz......zzzz.....

Do I want to go on a press trip to the Algarve for a weekend in November? Ooh, that's a hard one to call....

Hello - I'm back after a majorly frantic weekend. GGG - surprised we didn't bump into you. DD, as I may have mentioned had already gone back and was working so it was just DH and I bringing the baggage. It all started off badly as the Tunnel was closed and Calais was a bit chaotic. We had friends driving behind us who decided to try for the ferry and we decided to camp at the terminal. By some miracle - they suddenly opened (having said minimum four hours delay), we texted our friends and got on the first train to leave that day. Our friends, who had gone towards the ferry port, apparently witnessed quite shocking and sad scenes of desperate people trying to jump into lorries.

Anyway, had a nice if exhausting weekend in Cambridge, where the weather stayed beautiful and warm. I even got my foundation matched by that machine in Boots and it seems to be great.

Giddy - I always find that if they are happy where they are, I feel happy. DD1 is so in her element that although I miss her I know she is where she should be. I'm sure you'll feel the same once the initial wrench is over. Also the very short 8 week term goes quite fast.