Crepe Oddity

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Sorry.

Hi all - sorry been busy with work and stuff. If the Indian suits everyone go for it as I really don't know how Saturday is going to pan out at the moment and MI was in need of an MU too I believe! If someone could PM details - link time etc I will do what I can. And perhaps a phone number of someone who will be there so I can text?
GGG my folks are Norf London. But it's all doable depending on what happens.
Meanwhile work situ not great as I am moving towards having to micromanage a member of staff - something I really don't want to do.....
In other news it looks like I might have a job interview on the cards...

Have a great time on Saturday everyone. I'll be in wildest Northumbria singing and walking. Getting excited now.
Good luck with the job interview BD and sorry about the micromanaging task - usually time consuming and unpleasant.
Hope all as well as can be btm
Hope to see crepeys galore at next MU

Fingers crossed for the job interview and time to escape for the MU, BD. I know how difficult it is to fit stuff into a visit like that.

MU sounds like fun, hope you all have a lovely time & great food.

Molly, are you sure re not coming? I know I've directed an aged Indian uncle there from Twickenham and he only had to change trains once (he arrived saying cheerfully he loves London Transport). BD, are you also sure? If so, I suggest we meet there at 12.30. I have booked. I will give more details to BD and anyone who needs them: BD, also let me know where you'll be with your parents, as I can adjust route if necessary.

I am now going to rewrite a crucial chapter in order to make it fit in with historical accuracy. Historian says gloomily it's all a bit vague. I point out that for me this is an advantage.

Thanks all. I tend to withdraw when things are really tough. Grappling this week with DS1s departure ( thought I was OK about it but feeling tearful, somehow) and DD having gone down with a lousy virus...really, really poorly and crawling into school as she's scared she'll miss something important. I don't think I've even started the proper grieving process for Ddad and there's trouble at mill which I can't post about. Having horrible times at the dentist at the moment, which I'm always a big baby about...one more appointment to go and struggling with one course being cancelled after another and the theatre still haven't paid me from October. So there's my moan for the day. Ugly, really. I am half heartedly searching for my mojo amongst the detritus. Gutted not to be at another MU but it sounds lovely xx

Rose, that all sounds awful! What a lot to be dealing with. I have got a link I could post you later, to the Latchmere Theatre and their events for writers - if that wouldn't just be more pressure??? Don't want to add things to your plate - getting in touch with them would obvs be entirely optional, just a bit of info you could have, to put up your sleeve.

Don't worry about Saturday, MI. Our area is not well suited to the overground, because all trains have to go through Clapham Junction, which is complete hell, and unspeakable at weekends. Appaz it is the busiest train station in the world for train movements - the Gare du Nord is busier from the point of view of people movements, but Clapham Jnction takes the prize for train/platform chaos and passenger distress. So Clapham Junction - no. Other MUs will be available!

I love Clapham Junction [I know I am odd]. Love Overground too. And would love to come on Saturday (possibly via both) but will have to see what family up to, sorry. Haven't had a proper conversation with dh since, erm, 2015. MI, could you PM me your mobile?

BD, good luck with interview, crossing many things for you.

And Rose, that is such a lot. I think grieving will have been happening in the background perhaps, while everything else is going on...Look after yourself.

MI I would love to pop along for a drink if I can - I will text you if I can sneak out!

Molly, Northern line to Clapham North and then Overground from Clapham High Street to Peckham?

Aargh. DDog has disgraced me again. OT finally arrived to see DM after 8 (eight, VIII) month wait. While we all examined the shower, DDog stole a biscuit from the pocket of her rucksack

Apparently LA would have paid for a stair lift but we might have had to wait another six months . She (OT) did have one or two helpful suggestions - DM dismissed them but I can work on that.

More Kipling today he's growing on me.

Rose - sounds like you're juggling too much coupled with the grief from your DF. Try to take it easy |flowers].

BD - positive news on the interview - fingers crossed.

Auriga - can you not claim the stairlift in arrears?

Have headache today - I think the overheated classrooms contrasted with the freezing temperatures outside. Have scrabbled around the house for tablets and have had to make to with junior paracetamol - I suppose it'll take the edge off.

Have bought chicken for tea so I can just bung it in and forget about it - with baked potates surprise surpise.

Auriga at your dog!

Rose, darlin, there is no timetable for grief. I think you dip in and out of it sometimes, or it all comes in a whoosh, or sometimes not at all. Is your rabbi helpful in any way? I can completely understand that you want to weep because ds is going away. Of you course you want to weep as he is another person moving away from you, as it were. It sounds like you need some time for head space. Or as we in NI call it ' gettin your head showered' it's perfectly OK to feel low. It's a process that encompasses al kinds of sadnesses and feeling down and overwhelmed is horrible. You have all my best wishes and I want to give you a big squish. If you are up to it fire the theatre another invoice with overdue written on it. It would be good to feel you had done something about it. With minimum effort.
Also build some little things to look forward to into your diary. Markers in the sand. It helped me a lot.

Re LT, in the Independent today that Boris is taking over the Overground and all the train routes within London area with a view to making everything being a bit more modern and less labyrinthine. My old route from Greenwich to Crystal Palace with a bicycle, was like going on an expedition. Had to bring snacks and all weather gear.

Hmmm, Boris...

Rose, missed the non payment. I recommend forwarding the invoice again EVERY DAY.

MI

Oh Rose, I too would give you a big hug if I could reach you through the screen! And YES, definitely send another invoice - bloody cheek to think you can wait indefinitely to be paid.

Auriga, that is just dog behaviour within normally expected limits I think... my ddog on the other hand is a walking embaressment. She once threw up on / in a visitor's bag that was in the hall

When is this interview BD - the Crepey massive will be cheering you on.

Rose, can you have a holiday or just get away for a bit? I'm sorry you're having such a shitty time.

I have so much work to do and no time to do it, plus a crazy travel schedule over the next month. I don't think there's a week when my arse isn't on a plane. I have refused to go away on my birthday.

Re badly behaved animals, the shitten once pulled a friend's scarf off the radiator and peed on it.

Fingers crossed for the job, BD.

Oh Rose, take the time to grieve. Plus it's January and everyone's worst month

Just had an email from DM's carers, apparently she insisted on taking her sewing machine to her opticians appointment as it is broken
But on a more serious note, she's not looking good, is she?

Gah, BTM, I am sorry to hear you are having to bear the brunt of probs with dd and your dm at the moment. It never rains but it pours.
Sorry to hear you are feeling so down, Rose. Send an invoice with a furious covering email. It usually works to make me feel better. And often yields results.

Best of luck for the interview, BD.

Sorry to miss the chance of a MU. I am doing birthday duty this w/e, as it was ds's 11th yesterday and we have to entertain several of his friends on Sunday. This will be a minimal fuss arrangement with the guests enjoying the delights of an inflatable assault course in the pool at the local leisure centre and then a visit to Pizza Express. And then they all get a light saber full of jelly beans and we taxi them home. Job done. At least I hope that's how it's going to go because I haven't got any energy for dealing with any excitement.

I am bursting to post about work. But I can't. All I can say is that in internet and telecoms terms I spend my working days like I did in the late 1980s: there is no wifi, no phone signal and no going on t'internet.

Job thing is weird - refs requested and online system where you can check the status of your application (all very modern) says 'invite for interview'.... But no email, no date, no nothing....

Rose {{}} and BTM....

Rosebag, that sounds like an awful lot to deal with, and more especially a lot of loss. Take care of yourself and agree with everyone send scorching email with reminder invoice.

BD, sounds most peculiar - hope gets sorted

BTM, although I cherish the idea of taking the sewing machine to the opticians, no sorry, doesn't sound good. I don't know if I've missed an update about DD but hope that's ok

Stropps - are you getting withdrawal symptoms? or is it restful (or both)?

It's mos def not restful, addle, , but during the school day I don't get any time to think about it. It's just when I get home and see the pile-up in my inbox that I notice it. It is quite nice not to spend my day doing anything other than being immersed in the here and now. But it's odd for others, who now can't get hold of me until I get home in the evening, when I've been available for comment 24/7 for many years. Especially as when I get home in the evening after a day of 1:1 lessons and 2 hrs of driving, I am just mainly cooking supper, walking the dog and going to bed.

Sorry I have been busy (but not sure doing what). Ah, Rose, it's no time at all since your loss, please give yourself time. BTM, sorry about DM and DD; I hope you can sort them both out.

Addle, will you be anywhere near me, up in wildest Northumbria? It's very cold and damp, by the way, so bring plenty of warm clothing (the one daffodil and one wallflower which were coming out have now retreated, so we will not having an early spring).

I have been to a talk on "Wild and Worthy Women of the North East" today: such fun. I was rather surprised to hear that centuries ago we had our own Witchfinder General up here who was responsible for burning hundreds of witches. And also interested when I discovered that it was the Normans who put back women's rights by generations, our Anglo Saxon forebears had all sorts of rights which were taken away.

BD - DD1 has been dealing with lots of online applications like this. The indignity is being rejected by the computer! Normally "invite for interview" should be followed up be a personal email - at least that is how it worked for her.

NU - I think I'd have enjoyed Wild Women of the North East

Rose - hope you're feeling a little better today. Agree - you need a break and some sunshine.