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All I Want For Crepemas Is Youth

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MrsSchadenfreude · 24/12/2015 09:15

Phew

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motherinferior · 11/01/2016 14:58

Do not start me on the death of Di. I was running the comms for one of the charities of which she was patron. One of the weirdest weeks of my life ensued.

Actually both Pratchett’s and Ian Banks’s death shook me a lot.

Stropperella · 11/01/2016 15:45

Oh likewise re: death of Di. I was in a permanent state of "eh?" for weeks after that.
Radio: I love Radio 4, but I also listen to Radio 1 and our local radio - which is so bad that it's occasionally good. Radio 2 is too much Nursinghome FM and every time I eventually find Radio 6, it seems to be Cerys Matthews playing a bangin' choon by the National Chilean Gourd Orchestra or similar, which is not my bag. Radio 3 sometimes, but only if it's not dreary - which it often is.

hattymattie · 11/01/2016 16:13

Radio 4 in the morning radio 2 in the late afternoon. My DH must be the only Frenchman who recognises The Archers theme tune.

hattymattie · 11/01/2016 16:14

Radio 3 has fab jazz Saturday evening.

Collymollypuff · 11/01/2016 16:16

I'm with Stropps et al re Bowie RIP. The Beeb is just so up itself it thinks "Entertainment" is the only Thing in the world. And all who sail in her are, appaz, heroes, excepting when they're occasionally found out to be child and woman abusers.

I wasn't offended by your Waitrose comment, Herbs! Have you ever tried parking in Waitrose Raynes Park, eh? You takes yer life in yer hands to do that. Although otoh there is a fab charity shop bang opposite, now full of our old tat following Xmas decluttering...and a shop with amazing jewellery perfectly located for Waitrose parking survivors, of which I am proudly one.

Collymollypuff · 11/01/2016 16:18

So far. Truly I am blessed.

Blackduck · 11/01/2016 16:21

For me the Bowie thing was/is the shock - wasn't expecting it.
Di - I just didn't get it. I was in Java and felt very disconnected from it all and people telling me how sorry they were and me thinking 'she was no relative or friend of mine'. It was bizarre being away and watching all that mass out pouring from a distance.

Here day one over but I predict it will get more difficult as one of my team really doesn't get it......

hattymattie · 11/01/2016 17:06

OK - getting slightly fed up of only David Bowie on the radio. Typical overkill!

bigTillyMint · 11/01/2016 18:01

I can happily say I am also a Waitrose parking survivor - I have never parked in a Waitrose carparkGrin

Capital, Heart, Absolute, Smooth, Kiss here. I agree, the ads can be a bit jarring, but I can't find a BBC station that I like. Actually, Radio Merseyside is quite amusing when I am home. I can't believe Billy Butler is still on there - he was my dad's favourite back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid.

NUFC69 · 11/01/2016 18:54

Our Waitrose is full of Chelsea tractors and the people driving them invariably don't know where they end. Evidently the Waitrose staff get fed up with telling people who have had their cars pranged that the supermarket isn't responsible for their idiot customers (but phrased more politely than that). Oh, and BTM you should really try their marmalade ham - delicious.

I think we had just about our last holiday with the DC when DS was about to start the Upper Sixth - we started off in Minnesota visiting friends and then drove to South Dakota where we visited Mount Rushmore (and saw Keystone Cops on the way), plus buffalo herds. Wonderful holiday, great memories.

Rosebag · 11/01/2016 19:04

A bit Confused...I've never had any parking problems at the Waitrose car parks around here....except on the Eve of a festival....

Radio 4 was my saviour during my illness and treatment. When I was confined to barracks, and ready to put my foot through the telly...Radio 4 was a great comfort and always interesting. Have to admit, these days, to listening a lot to LBC, especially James O'Brien whom I usually want to punch but kind of like him as well, strangely... If I want music it's Radio 2.

MI I have one of those...a passive aggressive. I'm sick to death of the way books and articles on this type of personality make such a huge thing of how a passive aggressive has been criticised a lot as a child and we have to be compassionate them as they sublimate their anger into apparent compliance whilst quietly going off and doing the opposite. Well, I was criticised a lot as a child...I just learnt to Deal With It. LTB's Grin Angry

Can anyone help me..on a another matter. I had 30 minutes of heel at the dental hygienist today.Nice man but he carved my poor gums to utter shreds.... Now my mouth is on fire....Waaaaaaaaa

Rosebag · 11/01/2016 19:04

hands not heel

hattymattie · 11/01/2016 19:15

Gosh is that normal Rose? We don't have dental hygienists in France - the dentist just does a quick detartrage from time to time.

magimedi · 11/01/2016 19:41

I'd LTB - the hygienisit that is - you should not be in pain post a hygiene appt. Maybe a little tender, but not in pain.

Rosebag · 11/01/2016 20:22

My dentist whom I trust, always used to do the scale and polish himself. Then he sold the practice to [[www.southerndental.co.uk these people] and it's all changed and the dentists no longer do the cleaning...they just advise you to see the hygienist...which a while ago I didn't, because I didn't want to see someone unfamiliar. So there was a heck of a lot of tartar to scrape off. I do so hate going to the dentist anyway.....

Cremo · 11/01/2016 22:26

Oh sympathies Rose pet. My dental hygienist is My Nemesis. I hate what she does. I hate the pain( I have an ultra sensitive mouth) I hate that she tells me off like a schoolchild for drinking sparkling water.
meh! At least my lovely dentist knows I am a tender thing.Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/01/2016 22:29

I had a dental hygienist in Paris, Hatty. And it wasn't a quick scrape either!

Re radio, we have Radio 4 in the bedroom, I have FIP (French radio) on in the kitchen, or 1.FM Always Christmas if I want to piss off everyone in the house, and DH listens to Resonance. DD2 also listens to French radio - FGR (stands for Fucking Good Radio/Remix, and they say every few minutes, in English, "It's a Remix. A fucking good remix."). DD1 just listens to the sound of her own moaning. Grin I leave FIP on for the cats when I go out, as they enjoy the eclectic mix, and hearing their native tongue. GrinGrin

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Cremo · 11/01/2016 22:37

[grin]@mrsS. Especially for you. :

Lalsy · 11/01/2016 22:57

He's not the messiah....

Apparently people are leaving flowers at our local department store (he was a local boy but not sure he particularly spent time in bedlinens or whatever).

addle · 11/01/2016 23:21

It's against a really not very good mural of the great one as Aladdin sane, Lalsy. In fact, such a poor mural DH hadn't realised who it was.

it's not doing broadcasting standards any good either. Some r4idiot intoned today ... Song on his new album called lazarus. Of course Lazarus came back from te grave. [pause] David Bowie won't.

Ffs

Loved Bowie and wept quite a lot this morning but this is silly

GiddyGiddyGoat · 11/01/2016 23:27

I'm all for having an immersive Bowie memorial fest and a bit of a weep over him. He was truly fab and the first music I was passionate about as a teen and ever since. Watching Channel 4 and sniffing along right now.

Collymollypuff · 11/01/2016 23:45

I'm with your dh on Resonance, MrsS. Surprisingly good radio.

Stropperella · 12/01/2016 06:50

Argh, I am so tired. I have been awake since 2.30am worrying about all that I have done wrong (whatever that is) in my parenting and Wtf I should do now. Dd is not bothering with lessons or mocks and categorically stated last night that she is not attending the appointment with the consultant psychiatrist tomorrow. This means she is turning down the MH services last offer, so that's it and if she changes her mind later on, she will have to ask to be re-referred. No one can do any more. Dd is of the opinion that the school will still pointlessly enter her for exams and she now doesn't need to do anything until her 18th birthday in the summer, when she will get some kind of shop job, apparently.

I'll be honest: part of me thinks it would be healthier for all of us -including dd- if I told her she has to find somewhere else to live once she's 18. She apparently thinks she can do a little job a couple of days a week, continue to treat us like dirt, expect me to clean and cater for her, pay no rent and finance a car and party lifestyle out of her inheritance, having now given up all ideas of further training or doing anything much at all.
She states that there is no need for psychiatric help, as all her problems are down to the fact that she "hates school", and once she is able to leave school/education, all her problems will disappear. All the many millions of times over the last few years when I have asked her what she would rather do instead of school, she usually just shouts "I don't know; leave me alone" or "nothing. I don't want to do anything."
Dammit, crepeys, I'm trying so hard to get myself sorted with the new job, but I am on my knees. Have packed a bag and aim to stay with Dm tonight, as I'm barely fit to drive this morning, never mind this evening, but now ds is upset that I'm not coming home tonight. Seriously, I have tried very hard to be upbeat for the last few weeks. But I'm faltering badly now. Sad Don't know which way is up at the moment.

hattymattie · 12/01/2016 07:07

Stropps - you have my sympathies - difficulties are always made worse by not sleeping. Maybe if you suggested to DD that she cannot live there for ever (even if you don't mean it) it might spur her into action and make her go to her appointment. You are right to go to your mother's, get a good nights rest and focus on you and your job for a bit. Is it worth you seeing a counsellor for your own sanity as you seem to be the punching bag here and taking so much on that it may help to have some coping tactics. Much strength xx

bigTillyMint · 12/01/2016 07:18

Stropps, big hugs {{{{{{}}}}}} You must put your oxygen mask on - stay at your DM's and get away from it for a night. You can't keep going like this. I know you are worried about your DS too, but you need to be in a semi-fit state at least.

I know of a few DC who have dropped out of Y12 here. No-one seems to be following them up, and it seems that they can and do get jobs if they want to, so there's nothing holding your DD back apart from herself (as you know)

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