Crepe Fear!

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Ta Da.

Actually, Rose, that is something I struggle with, to my cost. My brain gets stuck on trauma and my Strict Baptist upbringing won't allow me to take a break from it to dance. Your brain is much better adapted.

Maybe, Molly but my upbringing won't allow it without the subsequent, crippling guilt....Always gets me in the end.

Rose - sounds like a great playlist. I haven't danced enough this year.
That's 2 mentions in about 48 hours for the Macarena (hope you had fun with DD2 Monty)

Mrs S - hope job and peeps are good.

Stropps, thanks for your advice re: reunions and facebook. I am ignoring 3 fb requests from people I didn't know at school and barely spoke to on Saturday.

I'm going to say adios for a bit. Have to disappear back into my own black hole and deal with three different lots of made up 'people' (bees, dogs, birds, pandas, octopus's - really) in my commissioned script work and two sets of made up humans in my hopeful, book work.

In the meantime... Don't go near the work trousers BD

Rose, I did find, however, that when my df was close to death that some kind of survival instinct kicked in, and I became much more hard-nosed about keeping myself going by having jokes with the carers etc. It was a sort of "Get real and stop being maudlin" response to the extremity of life and death. Clearly it's healthier. Clearly torturing oneself does no-one any favours, and having time out to recover is much more sensible. Sorry you are going through this.

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For Rose and other Crepeys - check out the Liars League which Auriga and I so enjoyed recently. Anyone on for the November 10th event?

I am riveted by the discovery that my English great-grandmother was an opium addict.

So how was your first day, MrsS?

Rose, it's the partying that keeps you going

Couldn't sleep last night for fretting about what I was going to teach my literacy boy this morning, then he didn't blasted turn up! So I sat in with a couple of EAL students instead. With VERY limited, i.e. no, English. Was at a bit of a loss as to what to do...

It's a bit shit, being a volunteer. Don't know essential things, like how to make tea (who's mug, where to find kettle, is there a tea/milk supply rota I'll be buggering up), how to get lunch (they have a fingerprint payment system, and I'm not on the system, so had to run to Tesco, buy some horrible sushi and eat it in the street), and where the hell I'm going. And being surrounded by boisterous teenagers is so very exhausting!

Rose - loved your countdown of hits last night. I'm late catching up but I'm more like Colly in mentality - strict RC upbringing this time. I have brought my DC's up as strict heathens so they are unburdened by religious guilt.

Am awaiting report back from Mrs S as well.

MI - how fascinating about your great grandmother - was she based in the UK?

Tomorrow DD2 coming to London on her uni tour. Watch out for small, fiery, curly haired girl crepeys.

Herbs, IMHO, just ask

Which uni Hatty?!

UCL, Imperial and Kings BTM.

Herbs - yes just but in and ask although fingerprint payment system sounds like the sort of thing you'd have in a dystopian world.

er "butt in" and ask.

3 in one go - that's good planning Hatty!

I like small fiery curly girls. I have two of my own.

She was in the UK - I was trying to find out why she got divorced in about 1907 when it was really quite rare. Then my mum announced that my grandmother had told her this. Mind you she said it in an airy "opium or laudanum or one of those" way so as my sister points out she may be making it up. But there certainly was a divorce and my grandmother never saw her again - both her parents abandoned her to an aunt, I think, possibly in combination with a Bachelor Uncle - and she swore she didn't even know her mother's name.

She's staying overnight with a friend at Kings and Imperial tour is Wednesday so I think it must by UCL tomorrow (maybe I ought to check ...)

MI - sounds like you've got the makings of a good family scandal there.

Today was OK, though I am still suffering from this hideous cold and was really flagging in the afternoon. Fingers crossed that I can get my act together quickly. I am feeling really pooped tonight - still snotty and coughing.

MrsS you will be fab.

Today walk over hill, wardrobe clear out, cooking. Off to see friends tomorrow.

And thinking about jobs/future

Well done MrsS - first day over, and with a cold too.

BD, that sounds like the kind of time off you need.

Rudy, house plans? But your house looked gorgeous in the photos What are you planning?
And what was the deal with work?

I went to bed and fell straight asleep at 9, and woke back up at 6.30. And I still feel tired! And achey - very hard circuits session yesterday.

4 more days.

Dh arrived back from the family funeral yesterday full of fascinating stories about that side of his family, who he knew about, but didn't know personally. Tonnes of discussions about tractors, price of cows and agricultural supplies (all of which he and his brother know very little, not surprisingly!). They've been trying to sort out the affairs of an elderly uncle who farmed on the moors up Norf his whole life and died in testate.

I suspect this will be a saga that runs and runs!

Well done Mrs S. Hope you feel better soon.

And well done BD, you're doing exactly what you are supposed to during this time.

Up early for work. Tonight we have ddads appointment with the skin slicing doctor, can't wait

Hey lovely newbies - you still there?

No - only the old grumpy ones .

DD2 boarding the Eurostar as I type - look out London. Will now be permanently stressed until she is recuperated by DH in Gare du Nord tomorrow evening. Praying there are no tunnel invasions.

Morning all,
Hatty I hope dd2 has an edifying day. Can be very overwhelming. I am impressed that she's doing this on Her Todd .

WAF good luck with the writing and concentration and everything, but come back soon

Herbs I can only imagine how frustrating yesterday was. Grr.

Rudy I am v interested to hear about plans for house

Here, time moves inexorably towards the meeting at which I must sign on the dotted line. But I have had yet more advice from Expert Employment Law Friend, which is interesting yet means I have more fighting to do. All to do with TUPE transfers and job descriptions. I am at the end of my tether with this, but unless I fight I might end up in another perilous situation. So tired with the cold. I was up half the night searching the Acas website and am feeling dizzy this morning.
I hate this And just want my life back. More team members leaving at the end of this week. One wonders constantly if they know something I have completely sleep walked into

Yes, well done to Hattys DD2 - surely this shows that she is up for the challenges of a London uni?

My own DD expressed some amazement that parents go with children on their uni visits and told me she would go on her own I will just wait and see

Cremo, it sounds like you need signing off too. What a crappy situation.