The Crepey Buds Of May

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Err, how did that happen with no one noticing!
It's because we're all on the dark and stormy, sloe gin and prosecco innit.

Sorry for the not v inspired title but I panicked.

Crem - sorry - seem to completely missed your PM - reply has been sent.

Have been to gym with overly energetic replacement teacher. Lots of what she calls "African" dancing. Great fun but I am wiped out for the rest of the day.

Herbs, sorry the feedback was so harsh, but it sounds useful if you haven't killed yourself already

Herbs, there are websites selling that sort of thing. I will see if I can find one. Maybe on Amazon too?

Stand down - I've git it. A new did player. Theirs hasn't worked for yonks.

Herbs - DD missed out on something for exactly this reason. It's obviously a biggie.

Off for early evening drinks with friends - arranged before DH decided to come back and work from home for the afternoon!

So anyone on for a small snifter in my neck of the woods temerror? was thinking short trip to pub or suchlike.

I have fed back to my feedback that it is conventional to say at least one positive thing. There go my career prospects at that school!

Would love to snifter with you MI, but shall be living it up in Tunbridge Wells, at a bbq chez NCT friends.

Herbs - it does sound like useful feedback, but it's always so demoralising. Have a Friday evening and forget about work.

I've come home to find our joiner busy banging, screwing and erecting (fnarr) at our rear gable-end. So far he hasn't uncovered any nasty surprises (this has to be a first where our jerry-built house is concerned). It will be lovely when it's done - we are replacing peeling/warped poo-brown weatherboards with some rather lovely and maintenance-free Hardieplank in black. It's gorgeously sunny, and I'm itching to get outside and plant up some pots, but my patio will be under scaffolding for the next few days.

Pity poor old DD1, currently slogging up the west face of Box Hill under an enormous back pack. She refused to take sunscreen. The rest of us are off to the footy BBQ later (another one on Sunday), which will probably be totes emosh, as we are saying farewell to the team DS has played for since he was five (they don't go beyond U16).

I feel her pain CV - after the memorable Box Hill Hike with DH last summer!
Will your DS move to another team?

MI, need to check with DH - will text you if I can

I suspect DD1 has acquired a boyf (!!!!) Rather sweetly, it's the lad who was her best friend at playgroup...

Am charmed to hear about your joiner's superior erection. Just what one should come home to on a sunny Friday, I feel.

Oh he's very good at what he does.....

BTM - I don't know what he is going to do next year. There will be U18 teams he can join, but last time we talked about it he claimed to be "over" football.

Oh no! Over football? If only

Arf & snigger @ MI.

Have just done all the pot plants on patio & realise I need a few more for a couple of the pots. Damn.

Magi - I picked up some stupendously cheap bedding at Lidl the other day.

Bedding plants, I mean, not duvet covers!

I have an aversion to bedding plants. If they can't last the year, there's no place in my (rock-like, clay) garden beds.

I agree Herbs - perennials or whatever the ones that grow/flower year after year are much less faff!

I like my patio overflowing with pots full of bedding plants, but the garden borders are usually shrubs and perennials. DH grows begonia corms which are spectacular and which he keeps overwinter wrapped up in bubble wrap in the garage - they are currently shooting on the windowsills in the conservatory. Atm the greenhouse is 'growing' bikes and trailers from DS's house.

When it was my birthday in March I suggested to the family that I would love a rocker/glider bench for the garden: they searched everywhere to no avail; today DH and I went to Boundary Mill and they had exactly what I wanted. It is now half erected in the back garden!

Herbs, you are clearly better than the feedback suggests, and you didn't really want to work there, did you?

CV, enjoy your football parties.

MI, how are you doing? I hope you manage to have a pleasant weekend.

I am rehoming the Shitten next weekend. The downside is that her new home is in Scotland, so we are going on the train next Saturday morning.

Herbs sorry about the job and rotten feedback.

MrsS :(
Birthday dinner with dad including a champagne cocktail (gratis) for him. Would love to meet tonight but heading home this afternoon.

Morning all.... I finally sent my cv over so hopefully the new place will arrange the 'informal' chat in the next couple of weeks. I'm dreading a formal interview like you had, Herbs. I haven't interviewed anywhere since about 2000 and certainly pre 'competency based' interviews oh well, what will be,

Let me know if you would like to camp and bbq a la Beachys on the 11th? There's normally a fine array of SE Londoner's from our previous life, so it won't be all bumpkins....

Hope this weekend is peaceful, MI. And good luck to all Crepey offspring starting exam sitting next week.

Beachy - get a list of standard competencies off the internet and try to think of a couple of examples where you have demonstrated these. This is what we did with DD1 and it helped a lot.

Have finally booked the Lake District for late August - please let it be nice weather so I can demonstrate its fabulousness to the French side of the family. Now I have to find a couple of nights in Cambs en route - not an easy task in August.

Have found a physio who swears my Achilles Tendon will be better after 4 sessions of "electroshock" -

Beachy, thanks so much for the camping offer, but we have our street party the next day, so I won't be able to make it. LOL at bumpkins!
I haven't interviewed since 2003, and it was pretty informal then. Luckily I don't want to change jobs ATM!

Beachy, I would love to camp but ds still has exams and dh is away for some of that weekend....if a last minute window popped up could I change my mind?

Of course. No need to reply really, all are welcome....