Crepe And Stormy

[Cremo]

Over here Crepemunks!
Hope no one else has started one

So hard, BD.

Am running round getting everything ready for imminent trip to France. Keep getting requests for marmite, HP sauce, baby bodies....................... you'd think there were no shops in France.

Oh, BD.

I have run round the sunny park and am sorting work into a manner that is ahem portable. Mad Friend of my mum's continues to be utter pita re The List, reducing my aged aunt to tears re mum eating, etc. On the other hand CDiff and others all being supportive and stalwart re work and the possibility I may need to drop everything.

BD.
My DM also has good/bad days - she knows she isn't firing on all cylinders but she HATES having lost her independence.

MM, when do you go?

Friday if no emergency.

Slightly fed up with people telling me to calm down

also, frivolously, do I want this dress?

Step away from the bargainous but plain and rather flimsy looking dress MI!
They've even called it plain FFS...

I agree with GGG, and would step away from the dress. I think the colour would be draining.

I have accidentally spent £££ on fabric on eBay. Anyone want a cushion cover? Got a bit carried away...

BD, so sorry you are feeling so low. Am thinking of you and sending love. Hope work is behaving decently to you as that is yet more stress that you don't need. Huge hugs.

Welcome home, Mrs S. Hope first day back but as bad as feared on FB.

Bon voyage MM. How old is lovely baby now?

Crem, that sounds exhausting re garden. What sort of exercise are you going to do, over and above garden labour (which is too much for me at moment)? I too am trying to get fitter. And thinner, as I have rather let things slide lately. Had to buy 2 new bras to avoid 4 bosom look. Trousers if truth are back on outside of wardrobe. They are nut currently able to go round my bum so I have them out to remind me not to be a piggy.

Have out heating on and need to work. If you see me on here before 7pm, tell me to get lost.

I was thinking of adorning it, GGG. I rashly placed an order as there was only one (1, i) left but can return it easily enough. Or indeed just cancel it now...

House of Fraser helpline has Vivaldi four seasons playing. V civilised.

Frock cancelled. Consider it Moment of Madness. Will buy black leggings (which I do need, and DD1 informs me I should wear with my Pleasing Tunic) instead.

MI, I liked the dress and colour!

DD has gone on her Uni Fair trip after thinking she would give it a miss and apparently has "bare prospectuses!" I am hoping it will help her focus her mind and encourage her to book some Open Days

Frock vote: I like the cinchy bit at the waist, but not the colour or the neckline. So all in all it's a 'no' from me.

Still wrestling with planning lessons for next week. Annoyingly, there's a book that contains all lesson plans and resources for the whole course, but it costs £400 so the council won't buy it. Even though it would save the teachers about five hours work a week. Each.

Still not even sure my classes are going ahead - not many enrolments. Or that I'll have a job - a colleague found a spreadsheet on the photocopier detailing all the possible areas for cuts, including my job!

at "bare prospectuses". Love it.

I liked the dress on a white screen but think IRL it could look draining and muddy [sits firmly on fence].

Rose, I have ordered some Great Plains tops, and will return what I don't like and carry on working through your list - thank you so much. I am a grumpy and difficult shopper and once had to beg a BHS assistant, with tears in my eyes, to help me get out of the store, so am very grateful.

Stropps, love the dc comments!

Lalsy, she was quite pleased with herself when loads of others were panicking at the thought of such high grades (all RG unis seem to want AAB on their easiest to get onto courses, up to AAA*), she had already clocked this from her research. AKA talking to her bf

Herbs at £400 book. Surely it would be an investment for the council?

Good for her, BTM. It is scary at this stage isn't it? They all make it sound so difficult but some of that is marketing I think - check the clearing lists this summer - it was very reassuring when dd was doing this.

Hello Crepies - have been absent a couple of days. A bit like CV - nothing much to report - just beginning of school holdays and a glimpse of nice weather.

Monty and Auriga, hope you are both bearing up and MI thinking of you as well. Very stressful times.

Stropps - hello and completely agree about random photos on FB - luckily most of my friends are crepey and don't do selfies.

In the marriage stakes - DH and I will have done 21 years married this year and knew each other 5 years before that.

I have been to the doc about my possible blood pressure and am wearing a mobile blood pressure recorder which swells up every 15 minutes - I will get no sleep tonight - I think I better go in the spare room as well as it beeps.

Lalsy, how do you do that? Check the clearing lists, I mean!

Hatty, that is so French! Here you just go along to the GP and they test you and then tell you to come back in a month - if it's improved, then great. If not, then prescribe tablets

BTM, they are listed come August - think on UCAS/newspapers websites, they weren't hard to find anyway and I saved a screenshot to cheer dd up with later in the year. It varies, but we have been told that again this year there were good courses in clearing (tho obviously ones wouldn't want to be counting on it).

DD1 has finally sent off for some prospectuses too, and is showing some interest in a) what she might study and b) where. It's interesting to see what IB scores universities ask for, compared to A levels, and is clear that some universities don't quite "get" the IB - interestingly most of those that don't "get" the IB are non-RG universities (they are asking for around 38-39 points - out of 45, but ask for ABB, or lower, at A level, whereas the RG unis - some, not all - ask for around 34 points, and ask for AAA, or higher, at A level). DD2 is thinking of Warwick or Bristol, with Aberystwyth as her back up, as they only ask for 28 points.

BD - sorry you are having such a basinful of it of late.

Have been told not to yawn during meetings at work. If we didn't have so many, and I didn't spend so many hours of my day in meetings, it might be easier.

Which side is your droopy eye, Rose? We should make sure that when we stand next to each other that we go for symmetry.

Can't do 30th, as have very old and glam friend's 70th birthday. Any ideas what to buy her? It needs to be small as she doesn't live in UK and will need to schlep it home with her. I was thinking along the lines of a gently subversive scarf (I have an Alexander McQueen one with a razor blade print on it) or some slightly funky jewellery.

Morning all - have survived night in DD1's empty room. Only two hours to go with accursed machine.

Mrs S at yawning in meetings. Maybe this is a message that they should rethink their meeting strategy!

It looks like another simply glorious day here so I may go for a small wander round the shops in the town next door.

Also, as it's Spring I am feeling the urge to take the duvets to the dry cleaners.

Hatty, that sounds like a lovely plan for today.

Lalsy, thanks - will look out for that!

MrsS, that is quite a difference in entry requirements. And I think she has made a good plan going for low entry requirements
Scarf or jewellery sounds a good plan too!

I can't stop laughing at your comment about yawning MrsS . How are they going to measure it? Will it be part of PRP?

Unis - dd knew exactly what she wanted, obscure course that most don't do. Nightmare tracking down which did. ds doesn't know, isn't sure about any of his A level subjects, uncertain of his ability/inclination and won't hear of a new subject. What he needs is a league table organised by football.....

Mrs S - your restraint amazes me. I am sure I would have told work to F off long ago.

I defy anyone not to yawn during a meeting that is three hours long! And yes, I possibly am not looking terribly interested at that point, as no doubt I am thinking of all the other things I could be getting on with.

BTM - yes, I think both Warwick and Bristol ask for 34 points for the courses she wants, which should be achievable. Interestingly, both ask for an A at A level in French, yet only a 5 (out of 7 - a 4 is a pass) for higher level IB French. Some distinctly mediocre unis ask for 38 or 39 points - she could go to Oxford with that score (not that she wants to go to Oxford).

Must get dressed and go to work...