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The Greatest Crepe

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MontserratCaballe · 27/05/2016 15:26

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.

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herbaceous · 21/06/2016 20:57

The worst thing about all the referendum-based nastiness is that DP has cancelled the Euroquizion for his birthday party. He thinks it would be in bad taste. I think it would be light relief and would have been hilarious. Am unreasonably cross.

Also have hideous cold. Blocked nose that is constantly running. Sitting here with tissue stuffed up each nostril.

bigTillyMint · 21/06/2016 21:17

Oh no HerbsSad

MrsSchadenfreude · 21/06/2016 21:47

I'd be cross too, Herbs.

I have just had to wipe the cat's bum. The next one will be shorthaired.

I am still really tired. I couldn't sleep last night, despite being knackered. I don't seem to be able to do anything right at work. It is deadline after deadline after deadline, and I am told I need to be doing "more strategic stuff". Sent a member of my team home after lunch as he looked so ill. Another one has cancelled his leave this week "as there is too much to do." He's right, there is, but he shouldn't have to cancel his leave. Boss is leaping around like Bugs Bunny on speed saying "you should be doing x, you should be doing y". So I have resorted to filling up his inbox with everything I'm doing so he can see we're under the cosh - got an email tonight, sent at 1800 and deadline is 0930 tomorrow morning. That is so not going to happen.

Colleague didn't go sick today but he is so out of his depth. I've had to put half an hour in the calendar tomorrow to sit down with him. He sits in my office, FGS, we should just be able to chat over the desk, not have to put things in calendars. But otherwise someone will come in with something more pressing and it won't get done again. I gave a read out of a meeting in bullet points, but apparently people wanted more detail. This is on my list as neither urgent nor important. I've suggested that people come and ask me if they want to know more, but apparently that's not good enough.

MontserratCaballe · 22/06/2016 06:27

Hello everyone ! Back from a lovely time in Spain. Sorry no posts - not much internet or signal in the port and none in the apartment. Now plunged firmly into a work crisis, so hard to catch up. I have a long bus journey later which I hope to use to read the thread. In the meantime, I hope you are all well and surviving the trials of aged parents, hideous jobs and vicarious exams.

It's great to be back. Love to you all.

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addle · 22/06/2016 08:27

Btm - holiday is girona and environs based largely on crems excellent advice w/ backup from dq but as at best dh will only just hv his cast off we may need to rethink approach. Will find out today if he can come home.

Hattie that's terrible abt dad's exam - so sorry

Cannot be to hear any more about ref and just don't think it's really yes/no. Liked article in guardian by Patrick collinson except that he tipped to leave and I'm remain.

Mrs s, sounds like hell. Are you perchance 'doing more with less' like us?

Dd left fr 'work' at 7.15 and his morning! (Teaching exp)

Blackduck · 22/06/2016 10:48

Natty so sorry about the exam - that sucks :(

Thanks all re support. I just need to up my game and find another role - easier said than done!

I too am sick of the ref and want it to be over now.

Have to admit I crumbled last night and have taken a days leave and am still in bed......

bigTillyMint · 22/06/2016 10:52

Addle, I'm sure you will find a way to sort your hol and have a lovely time Smile
Sympathies to your DD. She'd better get used to it WinkGrin

I can't bear to watch/read about the ref any more either Sad

I need a stiff drink - just come out of a meeting wirh a mad, rant professional who seriously needs to take a chill pill. Have got Carole King on my headphones to calm me!

Blackduck · 22/06/2016 10:55

Hattie - ruddy autocorrect that does things when you are not looking....

bigTillyMint · 22/06/2016 11:53

I don't blame you BD - maybe you need to be signed off for a bit?

Rosebag · 22/06/2016 12:41

Montyyyyyyy!!!!!! Smile

Addle, am glad DH is doing better and hopefully out of hospital today.

Hatty That is quite awful...about the physics. I guess there is some cold comfort in knowing that many others made the same omission. Will there not be some allowance made if the mistake is widespread? A friend of mine who has a daughter in DD's year is going quite mad...her DD who struggles very much with maths was mistakenly given the iGCSE maths paper instead of the regular one (I think she was doing Foundation, actually). When she protested in the exam hall, the invigilator said no, she must do it, and to her credit she did, but all hell has broken loose.... Shock

Flowers to BD Cremo and Herbs and MrsS too. Agree re collective support. Maybe we should have a Crepey job club or something.

CV good idea to let DS unwind for a bit. It's hard to make decision when they're so saturated and fed up with it all. I think the 4 vs 3 AS levels (or what ever they're going be) is a vexed one. DS2 really feel foul of it all, as his lowest grade of the four was in his beloved music and he had to drop it, as Crepeys will remember. Many tears were shed. Does DS have to do football for PE? Or can he choose another sport? Don't cry...it'll sort out. Flowers

I am having a strange day, very much the anticlimax. DS took his two final RS papers yesterday afternoon and said they we're ok. I agreed to pick him up as DD was out celebrating the end of exams with friends at Nandos. It took an hour and a half to get back in the traffic, and then we rushed like mad to DD's GCSE art exhibition her school. We saw the HOY and art teachers who were very sweet about DD leaving school etc, and then the HT who said it had been quite "a journey" Hmm Angry Actually he's the good sort, really...

Thanks for all the advice about EuroDisney, and MrsS's brilliant emailed advice sheet. Glad not to be the only wuss about scary rides (Get you, NU!! DH is a bit like that...) I'm going on It's a Small World Grin

wordassociationfootball · 22/06/2016 13:07

Sorry not to post much, but am reading and mulling over many crepey matters.

Hatty - that's such a blow for DD (and you)
Monty - glad you had a good hol and sorry for work crisis plunge.
Herbs - kept meaning to mention, did you see the Tracey Ullman/Samatha Spiro Angela Merkell sketches? Really funny.

I can't do scary rides. Neither can dd1 who has turned down a freebie school trip to Thorpe Park!!!

BTM am really impressed DD influenced a vote like that.

Did DH come out of hosp, Addle?

My mum's hip replacement has not worked out. We think it has been set slightly rotated as it's putting strain on her knee and she's in agony and v low spirits. Prob overall in worse state than before it was operated on. It's all very grim and slooooooow to sort out. First stop xray on knee. If I let myself think about it I would despair.

CointreauVersial · 22/06/2016 13:31

Oh no, WAF, how awful. Particularly as you would have assumed the op to have improved things.

I just took a call from DDad to say that DSM is in hospital following a flare-up of pancreatitis. She had the damned thing removed a couple of years ago, so I'm not sure what's going on. She's on the mend, though.

Rosebag · 22/06/2016 13:45

oh no WAF hugs to you.

Flowers CV

motherinferior · 22/06/2016 14:01

WAF, DD2 has turned down the same tripWink.

Let me know if I can help in any way re op?

motherinferior · 22/06/2016 14:02

WAF, DD2 has turned down the same tripWink.

Let me know if I can help in any way re op?

Blackduck · 22/06/2016 14:47

WAF that sounds grim - so sorry.
CV likewise. Blimey bit of a week on the Aged P front....

bigTillyMint · 22/06/2016 14:58

DS has always turned down that trip too (for the same reasons!) but seems to be considering it this timeConfused

WAF, sorry for your poor DM. And you having to help out.

And CV, sorry for your DSM.

motherinferior · 22/06/2016 17:45

I am tired and grumpy. Especially with DD1, who couldn't be arsed to get her sister a birthday present, had a look in Sainsbo's today and couldn't find anything so wants to (ie wants ME to) 'get it online with next day delivery'. I am fed up about this for a number of reasons including the financial ones.

bigTillyMint · 22/06/2016 18:27

MI, does she have a bank account with a card? I can recommend Barclays (comes with a debit card) for these situationsWink

herbaceous · 22/06/2016 18:32

Quite right too, MI. Lazy madam. Set her up a PayPal account, then she can use her own money for such last-minute solutions.

Told this morning that the lesson I taught this afternoon would be the last one of the course. Which I'd thought was running until 13 July. Cue hasty replanting of lesson to include plenty of revision. Said lesson was then observed by Arse Boss. Rather gratifyingly, at the end he interviewed the learners about their experience, and all of them said lovely things about me - friendly, helpful, professional, caring, etc - and bad things about the place - chaotic, drilling, bad communication, etc. Hahahahha.

It also means I don't have to do any more planning for the rest of the academic year, which frees up a lot of brain space. I'll be wheeled in to help other tutors, do invigilation, etc. Win win.

And I've sacked off my choir committee meeting due to cold, and look forward to spending it on the sofa watching Celeb Masterchef. For indeed! It starts tonight!

motherinferior · 22/06/2016 18:39

She doesn't have an account which reminds me (again) we should set them up for both of them.

She's a lovely caring kid most of the time, it must be said. Mocks and new boyf and social life have clearly preoccupied her. Harrumph.

Lalsy · 22/06/2016 18:43

ds has had excellent service from Santander on the (many) occasions when he has lost his card and rung up their special Dopey Teen department.

I am tired and grumpy too. There didn't seem to be any air today, especially in Decathlon.......

Lalsy · 22/06/2016 18:44

Herbs, result!

motherinferior · 22/06/2016 18:45

Have just looked up setting up kids' accounts!

bigTillyMint · 22/06/2016 18:52

Perfect, Herbs!

Well done, MIWink