The Greatest Crepe

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I hope I have remembered the chosen title correctly - I have used Crem's title (think it was Crem's) as the old thread is full.

Herbs - will be fab to have lots of time en famille in the summer but eek re new job on horizon.

Inspired by CV and Rose I have put 10 things on Ebay. They range from size 10 to 16. WTF.

BTM, oh dear, hope it can be sorted.

No meltdowns this end but a lot of Coming and Going involving complicated arrangements and much packing. ds is off to his camp involving lots of uniform and a list of random items from old-fashioned hardware store ; dh merely requires a small suitcase that doesn't have fungus growing on it which we don't appear to have.

And great stuff, MI, so glad.

Oh Crem, I am so sorry to hear that you had a tough w/e with dd. I am with you in spirit and may well soon be seeing my own dd trying to manage her worrying health probs while not living at home. As she has yet to manage to even request her own repeat prescription, it's not looking hugely good. Many big hugs for you from me.

Herbs, kick db into touch and go on hols. As BTM said, if he can hold down a job, he can help out with the aged dps.

MrsS, I have very much enjoyed some of your latest FB updates. They have even cheered up dd after a dreadful maths exam today.

Dd is pretty convinced that she will do v badly in everything. I suspect she is right. But she is currently just sighing and saying, "Oh well, it's my own fault." I sadly also suspect that regardless of what she says now, she will not be so sanguine come Results Day, but at least she is booked to go to a festival the day after RD, so perhaps will have some times get her head around it all before deciding whether to visit her wrath on us

Good for you, Stropps. Well done, that woman.

BTM, so sorry to hear about the drama. I can't tell you how much I hate exam season.

Thank you, Molly!

And well done, MI. Much braver than I would have been under your circs.

I have finally booked dd1's travelling plans for the summer, phew! I can't believe that she got home a week ago, she has found work (with the help of me), booked travels (with enormous help) and now can actually look forward to the summer...... I look on in envy at all the parents who told me that their dc just 'did it' and weren't involved! I don't have those children.... But as Addle will testify, she is Mrs Sensible and she will cope with the strange itinerary I have planned for her.

Well done MI for going, even if you didn't realise until too late and well done Stropps for standing up.... I know you don't really realise how far you've come, but I'm just reminding you now, ok?

BTM, thoughts with you on melt down. We are in the midst with ds, but it will pass, maybe 3 months, maybe 3 years, but we are on a 'journey' as Simon Cowell would put it....

Early doors for all in the Beachy house tomorrow. Dd1 waitressing at Royal Ascot, dh going sailing all day on a corporate do with one of my best friends , she asked me but I'm full up of family commitments and I'm off to see ddad to sort out stuff! Such is life!

Three weeks to go until I leave work

MI hope it wasn't too awful

BTM sorry to hear about DD. likewise Stropps.

Here ds is off to dive in a quarry tomorrow as part of his PADI - lucky him (not)

I shall await fallout at work....

BTM and Stropps - hope DD trauma is now a bit better.

Glad the FB updates amuse, Stropps. A former elderly neighbour who has retired to California emailed me the other day to say that she never posts on FB, but the first thing she does every morning is to look at my FB updates as she misses the British sense of humour.

And LOL at the thought of Addle being under Mr S. (Poor Addle.)

Mrs S, do you want to come to the concert too with us tomorrow? There's still a seat right next to us all - £30 - if you want it? If you do I'll send you the seat number etc...

Thanks for the hug Stropps.

Sorry about dd BTM. Poor you.

Herbs , put away that future-stress prediction guide. You have so much on your plate at the moment. If you take a holiday, things will right themselves in your poor addled head.

Have a lovely MU tomorrow night RH fans!

BD it will be ok. At least someone's got your back. Thinking of you tomorrow. Ps well done ds on the diving qualification!

Dd hasn't phoned, texted or sent a pigeon since she was left to the airport.
Just makes me sad is all.

Crem

Stropps, well done on dealing with out-of-line colleague.

Thinking of you, BTM and Addle and others with teenagers in exam melt-down.

DD got through the exams with no drama but is drained. Today she felt unwell enough to ring and ask to be collected from school in the middle of the day (almost unprecedented) and lie on the couch all afternoon and evening.

Thanks everyone! Not an exam issue here (all finished 2 weeks ago) but it seems a bit more under control now and the girls are off to Open Days at Manchester and then Leeds, leaving later, so hopefully a calmer couple of days at home!
Sympathies Addle - yes, looking forward to that drink!

Stropps, so pleased to see how far DD has come - you have done a fantastic job of KOBO and I have everything crossed for her. And well done you (major achievement!) - what a twat!

Auriga, glad your DD is finished - this AS year has been so fast and so pressured.

BD

Gosh what a difficult time of year this is for so many Crepeys.
tilly glad things are quieting down....was it over a boy?

She'll rally crem Do what you always do. Give her space and things will improve eventually. Meanwhile do lovely things for yourself

Well done Mi that was a huge thing, and massively supportive to these wonderful organisations that are breaking barriers in cancer treatment.

Well handled stropps It's awful when a colleague lays into you for any reason. I hope he was suitably shame faced and will keep his gob shut in future. And encouraging news about DD. Fingers crossed her results aren't as bad as she thinks they're going to be. However there are always options...I firmly believe that.

bd

herbs book your holiday, my love. It's just learning to live with the uncertainty from here on in, I'm afraid. Feeling all this with you xxxxxx

I'm with molly Hate this exam experience. Thanks, all for the supportive words about DS. He has rallied a bit, but is incredibly grumpy and as usual takes it all about on DD. He then goes to his piano and plays feverishly for what seems like hours. This seems to help him a bit. I am really enjoying his current piece, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Grieg) although to begin with it felt a bit "Bobby Crush". It's really grown on me....

Have a lovely time tonight, Crepeys who are going to RFH. My world feels very small at the moment. However....DH has managed to get us invited by corporates, to Wimbledon. Court 1 in July, I'm really looking forward to it. And I am leaving DD to her books and revision today, to go and see lucrative client and then out by myself for a bit. Feels very much like the greatest crepe...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVra2IotK-M

To brighten everyone's day xx

oh Cremo so :( for you

Hugs for those coping with difficult DDs. The teenage years are so difficult (and beyond sometimes).

Stropps, well done for standing up to the bully - that will learn him. BD, thinking about you. Herbs, anything resolved re your holiday yet?

I have just found myself nagging at DH because he wasn't doing the hoovering like I do (just plug in different sockets). I have lost it, haven't I? Lunch out with friends today, then we're all coming back here to watch the England match.

Cremo

Rose, no boys involved.

Cremo, you will all get through this, you really will. It is absolutely horrible at the moment, and being her punching-bag is awful, but you're wonderful and she will eventually realise that.

Oh Crem . How very hard for you. Wise words from Rose.

Stropps, that is brilliant. Another bin saved. And crossing everything for dd - it must have taken such courage to keep going into those exams when she has missed so much, and to have to recognise it is her responsibility. Brave girl.

Bd, this all just sounds so crap. Glad someone has your back.

Rose, what a slog.

Eventful morning with stand up fight and lots of screaming and shouting in the classroom next to ours. English teacher said some of these kids would not be in the school in the UK. I think the French teacher is going to crack.

NU does that mean he could only go so far with the Hoover , so that only part of the rooms were done? If so then your Dh is my Dh.

BD how's it going today. Hope not too much muttering going on.

MI, I meant to say last night that I think it's wonderful that you went to the meeting. You are amazingly strong, in the face of all that has gone before. As others have said I don't think I could have managed it.

Rose , the Grieg was sublime. Listened to it in the garden ( waiting for peonies to explode into bloom) and felt 'at one' momentarily!

DM is nagging me to call over and tell her what is 'going on ' with dd. God I do not want to have to explain about her gender changing boyfriend and her MH issues and her life choices. And yet I can't out her as gay, as that is. Something she has to tell them herself. Achingly difficult as I don't want them freaking out or worrying about her . Ddad simply couldn't handle all of it. Sigh.

That is tricky Cremo. Could you just say that you don't know - that she isn't confiding in you? Shocking for them (and you) ATM, but it will come right in the end.

Jo Cox. I feel sick . Horrified.

God Rose - just Googled that - I think the world is falling apart. Thank you for the Grieg.

Came home at lunch and DD2 was feeling positive and dancing round the house to Wham. Came home at tea time and she said "it's not easy being dumb". She has plummeted over three hours.

The world is terrifying at the moment. Climate change, Brexit, Trump, Isis, water, oil, stupid people being in charge rather than us.

I'm having a wardrobe crisis. What does one wear to a 'gig'?