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

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Anything but the C-word!

Rudy, sorry you're poorly, THRILLED that your lot liked my curry suggestion!
Liar's League sounds a bit like the moth which is a brilliant idea. m definitely up for that one evening but can't make this Tuesday. Report back to us if you go!

Good weekends everyone. Ds1 will have been gone a week tomorrow . There's been a fair amount of What'sApping, phone calls and a bit of face time. He seems fine but v v tired and a bit overwhelmed - which is hardly surprising. I'm so pleased for him that he seems to be managing it all so well but miss him terribly.

Arrgh crepeys....just got back to find all electrics in kitchen blown and the breaker won't reset. All - lights, sockets, boiler, freezer, oven, everything. I thought they weren't allowed to be on the same circuit....anyone know anything about this?

Arrgh okay, scrub that, I have been grobbling around and switched everything off and it seems to be the dishwasher but they shouldn't all be connected should they [wails]? The oven is supposed to have some massive thing on a separate circuit I am sure.

GGG, I hope you can have a small maternal treat this weekend.

Crem, your post about your uni days was really interesting, and moving.

Are you ok Lalsy? Sorted or still all not working?? Have nothing practical or helpful to suggest - sorry.

Thanks, GGG. Leccy back on but all baffling and I am worried something is wrong somewhere (I have been told so many times these are all different circuits). Have switched off everything I can and gone to bed.

I went to the Women In The World thing at Cadogan Hall today, and it was utterly, utterly amazing. Lyse Doucet, interviewing Yeonmi Park just about finished me off, and I'm going to get Yeonmi's book now. Followed by Cara Delevingne who spoke so fast and without pausing that Rupert Everett could hardly get a word in. If they hold it here next year, I will definitely go again and take DD1.

It is four years today since our very first Crepey Meet Up. I only know this because FB has reminded me that it is four years since my wild night out that preceded the Crepey Meet Up, and which was definitely either a night to remember or one best forgotten.

I didn't go to university. I wish I had done so, not least because you need a degree to bath a cat these days and it is impossible to move jobs because everything needs a degree. Experience is of no interest, it would seem.

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Lalsy, as I understand it, your circuit board is protected by something called an RCD which will cut out and take everything with it in the event of a surge. This might explain why all your things went even if they are on separate circuits. My fuse board has fuses for all the separate circuits then this big mother on the end. I had this on Wednesday (DH away) and it is very anxiety making. My neighbour came round to sort it out as I was worried. She said that overloading a circuit or a simple power surge can cause it to go, but you just need to flick it back and only worry if it keeps happening. Can you get a look at it today or get someone else to? Hope you got some sleep.

BD, can you get some good rest in this weekend? Cremo how are you doing?

MrsS, your conference sounds inspiring.

Thanks for all your kind wishes. Brian is now put away, though I still feel a bit shabby. I shall forego my ladyjog and just take it easy. I do wish I could sleep in a bit though. I've been up since 6 just like a school day. As have the children......

Have a good day.

[santa] back at you Molly

Off to work today since leave has dried up . Trying to MTFU. Wibble. I have 4 choices over all this, and despite long hard thinking and usually being decisive, I still have no idea how to proceed with job
Will talk about it later, when fully awake.need help Crepeys ......

Happy to help Cremo.
My team member left at 2.30 (for an interview) and once the students had gone (around 3.00) I told everyone else to pack up and how... Been a long week.

Another admin is now contemplating applying for another internal post - my team is being ripped apart. Come back in six months and there will be no one left.....

We're here waiting to help, if we can, Crem. Hope it's ok today anyway. I think four choices can be a bit bamboozling.

Here we are packing ds off on his practice D of E weekend, rucksack at the ready. I'll be pottering around here, under Auriga's firm but steady hand. Dh and I are in a 'who's got the worst cold?' unspoken battle....Battle of the Sniffs.

Am very excited as a friend I haven't seen for six years is coming to stay for the night next weekend, while Dh is on dead uncle duty up north. She lives in San Francisco now, but we used to work together about ten years ago. Probably the best working relationship I've ever been in.... Strange, but unlike Mrs S (and probably others), I've never had work friends as 'home friends' IYKWIM, apart from this woman, and about two others, over the last 25 years. It's great that she's taking time out of her solo trip to come and stay

Monty, thank you so much. That makes sense. It was just the individual switch that went tho, not the big mother, and it wouldn't flick back up until everything was switched off, kept tripping in the meantime. I may try and get someone to check we are safe later today - why do these things happen late at night at a weekend?

Crem, hope today s OK and we are on standby.

Lalsy, glad to see you're still here this morning - sounds worrying. And yes, these things do always seem to happen on a weekend

Cremo, I'm here, and happy to be a sounding board

And for you too BD.

Rudy, my colleague (see below) and I both were rather snippy with a "client" this week - bit of an arsehole, but I guess you have to be if you want to be in senior management in an academy
I'd say it's my age, but I've never been one to suffer fools gladly (just like my DS!)

Beachy, how lovely to have your friend to stay (but don't give her your cold!) - I have some good friends from work, including my friend who I have worked with for 25 or so years (including a job-share) and who we are going out with tonight! Our DD's are friends too
And maybe you could get a return visit to San Fran (one of the places I most want to visit!)

In true S&B news, I am off to exchange a jacket which is lovely but too small (damn you Zara), so I am praying the next size (XL!!!) fits. I will post a link if it does.

Lalsy - hand holding re electricity - I hate it when things to wrong - agree it's always when DH is away or late on a weekend. I remember when DH went away for a weekend and the boiler broke down and we had no hot water.

Crem and BD - hugs.

Rudy - horrible when people think it is their right to be rude just because you are the public interface.

MrsS - your conference sounds really interesting - although am tempted by anything involving Rupert Everett.

Giddy - it always takes a bit of adapting when they go back to uni - but at least your DS is in contact. I asked my friend how her DS was doing and she said they had heard nothing at all . To be honest - I love my friend but cannot stand her entitled, lazy, rude son who is completely brilliant but wastes his talent.

Just had a lovely PM from a well known mumsnetter reassuring me about Uni grades - it's made my day.

Cold is abating, the sun is shining, and we're off out to meet some chums for a stand about in a park and then lunch in GGG's neck of the woods. Not sure where, exactly, yet. Feeling rather groggy after the near fatal mix of Night Nurse and Malbec.

DS has a new coat, delivered to next door, which is bright orange, as requested. Be safe, be seen, that's what I say. It's from Lands End, so will last years, even if hideous.

Thanks all.

I am in the midlands with friends.

Now even more confused about teaching as I've been informed there are lots of procedures I didn't even know about. Must draft some crisp emails on Monday.

God Rudy, I'm not sure I'm capable of learning 3 (three, III!) new things each week... well not reliably anyway.

Have a good lunch Herbs, give us a wave as you go past. Like the sound of the orange coat for ds - it can multi task as Pumpkin fancy dress for Halloween!

Glad you're still with us Lalsy - made me realise when I read your cry for help how spectacularly useless I would be in a similar position - completely inept which isn't good is it?

MI have fun in 'the Midlands' whatever you're doing... think about the teaching gig on Monday.

Crem, tell us about the impossible choices.

Hatty - how do your friends feel about the complete lack of radio contact from their ds? I would be cross but more than that very sad. But it also makes me think - have they tried to be in regular contact with him? It takes two to tango and all that... particularly at the beginning of such a big change for everyone involved.

Have lots of dullish things to do and no very exciting ones. May just read my book instead.

Orange coat absolutely vast. It says '5-6' on the label, but could accommodate two of him and a small dog. Back to the drawing board...

Herbs, is that just another excuse for your coat shopping addiction?

In S&B news, the jacket fits And I pulled myself away from buying a dress in White Company - I am going to NYC in 2 weeks, even if it is 40%off FFS!

Three every week. Sod that for a game of soldiers.

Apparently we are safe now as long as no one has a shower and we spend a small fortune having bathroom retiled. So all good.....

Hatty, I would be really sad about that. Giddy, could you step away from the dull jobs and do something for you? It is a big readjustment and part of that is a change in role for us, perhaps. I wanted to fight against a further step towards invisibility by going out for a lovely, noisy dinner or three with similarly afflicted friends.

Yikes! Just went to fetch laptop from DS's bedroom, and found it festooned in very fresh bird poop. He had left his window open, and clearly we've had an intruder. We've just spent the last five minutes searching the house in case it's still inside, but it seems to have been a "hit and run".

I'm slowly coming back to life, but have a stupendous smoker's cough and a weird rash all over my neck. I was supposed to be out with friends last night, and was very relieved when everyone else turned out to be under the weather too, so I was able to veg in front of Gogglebox sipping hot whisky instead. We are out tonight (dinner at friends' house) and she is the most divine cook, so I'm not missing this one.

Beachy - hope DS's expedition is more successful than my DS's.... as long as he resists the temptation to pop to a mate's house for a snack and a sit-down. Nice to catch up with old friends - I have only one "work" friend, someone who worked for me back in the early 90s. She and DH still work at the same company, so we see her fairly regularly. And coincidentally DSis's new house is opposite hers!

Herbs - I love a bit of orange. It's DH's favourite colour; he has an orange watch, gilet, hoody and countless checked shirts. Sometimes all worn at the same time (although he stopped wearing the hoody to football after everyone started calling him Easyjet).

Lalsy - hope you get the electrics sorted. Our RCD is very good at sniffing out dodgy appliances,, and will trip at any opportunity. Doing its job, really.

And I LOVE the jacket, BTM, despite the weird model pose. What a great price, too. Which colour did you get?