All I Want For Crepemas Is Youth

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Phew

BD, you are always welcome!

:). MI many thanks....

Oh don't start, about the mould. Our porch and bathroom both suffer and no amount of dehumidifying or drying out seems to have Any effect.i just get up on a stool and scrub with light bleach water mixture. I also have anti mould paint , but it's one of those jobs I never get round to .
CV you are brill, getting on with all those wee jobs. I need to go around with a paint brush/ needle and thread/ magic eraser/ steam mop and fix stuff.
I have instead spent hours idling on the net looking for bikini shorts to go with boden tankini. Hours I tell you. I can't go commando ffs.even in Paradise

Gwan, Crem, I dare you.

We use a dehumidifier very liberally, which works for us. Plus bleachy stuff.

Thank you, NU: I haven’t spoken to her today (the guilt) but will ring tomorrow. I honestly, though, can’t get a picture of how she is and I’m not sure DSis can either. She does this Determinedly Brave act while dad does this Mournful one. Between them they are maddening.

I was quite worried about DSis. She isn’t able just to nip down (ha! It’s an exhausting day trip but YKWIM) and see them like I am.

Crem, go nudey. You know you want to.

I spiralled into bitchery earlier. DH's eating set me off followed by dd2 telling me off for making PA faces about it. I self-fladged by putting Christmas away and doing another hour's work. Loathe self - havent felt this horrible in ages. Will an apol note to fam be in order do you think?

Btm whoever scheduled your course today knew what they were doing!

Wither Herbs?

Do I mean whither?

It's me that's withering. From over-use of the dehumidifier.

I think wither refers to me, WAF!

DH has just been out to the garage and thinks it's at risk of being flooded. The rain is unrelenting, I can hear a continual stream coming off the roof and hitting the bay window - the gutters are obviously blocked with this autumn's leaves. Interesting how after having had nothing but the floods on the news, it's now been super ceded by the new Jihadi John and the weather isn't being mentioned at all. We are forecast to have heavy rain until midnight on Tuesday.

Your poor DSis, MI.

Which humidifier do you all recommend?

Back at work today with a bang. Was slightly awkward initially with colleague, but we had resumed our usual flirting banter by the end of the afternoon. Think we will now move on. My boss is driving me mad, due to her inability to be able to explain anything with any sort of clarity. She is on leave next week. Hoorah.

I live on a hill, it's damp.....that's life :)

MrsS, I got a De'Longhi from John Leiws. No idea how that compares with others but it fills up pretty frequently without reducing us to dust .

Oh goodness WAF bitchiness to DH is my default setting. I only apologise if I've been particularly vile....

Have got little dark mould spots in locations at the flat, around window frames. Lack of ventilation and condensation is the cause. I haven't done anything about it....

Stressful evening last night. DD came home in tears as miserable witch of an RE teacher gave her an after school detention for forgetting to bring in her homework. We looked up the school's "reward and consequence policy"...and the consequence for this hanging offence is an "in class sanction" ...presumably standing in the corner with a dunce's hat on or some such similar humiliation. Cue one of my well written, somewhat cutting but polite emails pointing out the policy and that the required 24 hours notice to parents had not been given...These things are so silly in the grand scheme of things but always cause such a bloody drama chez nous.

Then,I sat alone eating my lovingly cooked chicken casserole ...having called everyone to the table multiple times with no response. DH and DS2 arguing about somethings that's gone wrong with the latter's iPhone and DD sulking upstairs because of the above.

The evening was however, rescued by the new Silent Witness two parter..I just love all that gruesomeness...

What ho crepeys. I am here. Yesterday wasn't as traumatic as I'd feared, as my class was postponed until next week, due to lack of enrolments. So it meant I had plenty of time to fanny about sorting out admin, course file, etc, a tedious challenge made more so by the labyrinthine and inefficient IT system, and the fact that we now have no administrator or co-ordinator to tell us where things are, how many hours courses run for, etc. Chaos.

Rose. re chicken casserole. I go Hog Wild if DS ignores my calls to dinner even once or twice. I hope you put the rest of it in the bin. Or somewhere equally inaccessible, but less wasteful.

Frantic dash to school this morning, weighed down by PE kit, book bag, class elephant, class elephant's diary and a massive tudor house that DP DS made as part of the class Christmas project.

We have no humidifier, but we do have mould. But only on the aluminium window frames. I may go and deal with it, using a wipe. I love wipes.

I'm thinking about Stropp dog in the staff meeting today

I don't think I have mould. I have a very draughty house, so maybe it doesn't get time to grow.

Beachy - that's what my Dad said about his house when I commented about the lack of mould. Too drafty.

Rose - I am always yelling multiple times for dinner - I find it really disrespectful. Silent Witness was good though as usual.

Glad to have got back into the routine here although DD is still here and working for her exams and being generally pissy with me. We had been to the optician for some glasses (which she hardly needs). It seems that Chanel and all the big makes of glasses are now turning out frames resembling NHS 1970. We haven't bought Chanel frames by the way!

Oh lord yes, calling them repeatedly for dinner

And then, in our house, getting everyone to reassemble in the sitting room after once they've sprung off, for episodes of Modern Family. There's always someone being given a pissy countdown from ten

Beachy I am so glad your dad had a good surgeon. Wot u sed about him listening to the Goons over Christmas made my heart go a bit big and wobbly.

Mrs S re banter/flirting.

Just had a call from the carers. DM has cut the flex off her microwave and put it in the garden. She thinks it isn't working but has forgotten that she has to swap plugs with the washing machine. I am not going up till the end of Jan. No idea what to do

tilly oh dear. It may just be a one off but....is it worth getting the Geriatric consultant and the memory clinic to see her again and reassess the level of care she needs, which can change very rapidly? If the carers keep calling you all the time one wonders if their duties are adequately hitting the mark. It's so stressful for you having to deal with this remotely when you're trying to work and take care of your own family. And poor DM seems very anxious too.

beachy lovely news about Ddad

hatty you're right...it is disrespectful. Mine don't even acknowledge the call with "in a minute..." they just ignor me and carry on regardless. herbs I felt like binning it, but it would just backfire...and I'd put a lot of love into the cooking of it. (There's something about casseroles...) It's like a rejection. Another scene for Project 2 I feel...being ignored when you offer up a labour of love. What do you think?

A glimmer of nice news re first script. One of the actors from the first rehearsed reading whom we just approached, is keen to take up our offer of directing a second reading, ( he has directing experience) and playing his part as well. We are going to take him out for a slap up breakfast to discuss further. For molly addle and mrsS it was the tall, somewhat delicious one, with an pechant for Ali....

OH, BTM, that's all such a worry. I had that awful distance from my Mum when she had dementure & it made everything so hard.

Don't forget that carers often feel they must tell you about all these things because they are worried you will be annoyed if they don't. I am sure they realise that you can't do anything from a distance & can't drop everything & race up to see her.

No news from me - it's wet & boring & am just longing for next week when I go & see PFGD.

Rose, you ROCK. How on earth can you diss yourself when you are both an authority on social care AND your script is progressing so well? I mean, of course I know why you can and do, but please don’t. For the sake of those who feel Small and Inadequate by comparison

BTM, I second Rose’s suggestion (given that she knows what she’s talking about and I don’t).

Talking of glasses, I have more pairs for trying-on wending their way over from Glasses Direct. Will be consulting on FB when they arrive!

I think our dehumidifier is an older version of this:

www.meaco.com/proddetail.php?prod=DD8L

So difficult re your mum, BTM. How often are the carers going in now? I remember with my dad that that horrible time when no-one knew what would happen next in terms of random weirdness DID come to an end eventually - when the carers got the message. And maybe when dad relaxed into letting the carers and us take care of things.

Lots of x posts there. I also wonder if the carers are giving you an indirect message that they think they should be going in more frequently, but don't want to look like they are just trying to make money out of you gratuitously, iyswim.

'If the carers keep calling you all the time one wonders if their duties are adequately hitting the mark.' Good point, well put by Rose.

Have been thanked by text by DH for putting Christmas away

I'd love start a trying on glasses hobby. Not sure Glasses Direct would be able to manage my astigmatism

Pilates tonight in new Sainsburys sports leggings with crazy pattern (not on website) Have realised in good time, that my excitement about wearing them relates to memory of THE MANNEQUIN IN THE WINDOW WEARING THEM, not me trying them on. So glad I spotted this before being smacked in the eyes my own plumptious hams.

Thanks! I am going up at the end of Jan to take her to the next Memory Clinic appointment. I couldn't go up sooner even if I could get another appointment and anyway I think it is all down to me - I have organised the carers and so it's up to me how much support she gets I guess At the moment it's only 1 hour twice a week which she is very resistant about. She doesn't need help with personal care at the moment, so it's a bit tricky.