The Crepe Escape

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New thread!

Title can refer either to our upcoming holidays, or our upcoming fleeing from the Bojo-led charabanc of doom.

I knew JH when he was a child . I'll just say that he was not the sort of child you warmed to!

I just feel so depressed about this mess - it's such a fucking shambles.

Dave did not have a big enough mandate to tell the tory eurosceptics to shove their referendum.... the laugh is that this is probably the only manifesto promise they have kept, to have a referendum that the people weren't clamouring for....... Loss of the Lib Dems did him no favours....

I am finding it very very hard to get past all this and like GGG have no sympathy for the leavers who now feel everyone is being mean to them...

Today someone on the train suggested a snap GE but on In/out lines, not party lines (bit like crisis govt in the war...) - kinda like that idea....

BD, I agree, have no sympathy. There wasn't much between the two main parties at the last election anyway - I'd vote for a Remain coalition govt to handle national crisis for a fixed term. It trumps everything, IMO and might mean they stop reforming health and education for a bit and let the professionals get on with it.

At least we won't have G. Osborne in charge.
Meanwhile in Labour news, which is mainly bad news, Jezza is holding his ground. I honestly don't think the problem is mainly the leadership of the party. There are deep divisions within the party which need solving as well.

And €1=83p

GGG , those leavers made me very cross indeed. Such smuggery.

and ignorance. What the F was all that shit about Muse ?

And not one of them could really say what they'd actually achieved with their vote.

Watching the news last night, it seems that a lot of Middle Englanders voted Leave simply because the government and just about every figure of authority was telling them they shouldn't. A misguided demand for change without any regard for whether it was change for the better or not.

Magi - I was at university with JH. I found him to be a nice chap; friendly but a little bland.

Yes, CV, and I think that applied to the Welsh especially - they have had shedloads of EU money and got lots of lovely new roads and things.

Crem, I think people and groups felled under Kinnock and Blair are back, with the superb organisation, ad hominem attacks, aggression and scorn for those who want to win elections (which is the stated aim of the party, after all) that I remember from my youth. Diana Abbott was silent this morning when asked if Corbyn could win a GE and then said the question was Westminster-centric. FFS.

Yes , not a peep from DA this am. And I guess she is JC's biggest BFF.
I hope the pre-Blairites are back Lalsy. Where are all those people I met during Red Wedge??

And how come Scotland has such great women leaders? Sturgeon, Davidson and Thingy all rocking it.

Ooh, Red Wedge. Them were t'days.

In career news, the school where I volunteered with the EAL pupils (the one from Educating the East End) is advertising for a high-level TA in its EAL department! But the closing date is tomorrow! And I slightly feel that if they wanted me they would have contacted me, but maybe it doesn't work like that.

AND I'd have to be interviewed by the same personnel woman who I was a bit rude to after she didn't give me the website editor job there. Awks.

While I would prefer to do home tuition, I probably do need some teaching mileage under my belt, so this would be good for a few years at least...

Oh I am Brexit-weary. I have buried myself in trivia so far today including dealing with the decorators who have come to sort out the damage from the leaking shower through the kitchen ceiling, a singing lesson and taking DD to the beautician for her pre Prom gels and pedicure.

DS2 is doing his little "job", which is boring audio typing for which he is paid an appallingly low rate per minute, and is therefore complaining NON BLOODY STOP....

DS1 is, as I type, aboard the first leg of his flight home from Aus, to Singapore. He pitches up here tomorrow morning after the second flight to London. He's been away for 6 months....I am looking forward to seeing him

I feel like I am jabbering on "Lalalalalalalala" with fingers in ears to avoid the gloom that is our Summer of Discontent....

DD is now plucking her eyebrows and trying out my BB cream and my foundation. Is nothing sacred?

Gah, the dcs have suddenly remembered that Stroppdog likes to sing along when anyone plays the harmonica. The racket for the past couple of days has been horrible. Now he only has to see someone touch the bloody harmonica and he starts making a little "arooooo" sound.

I'm doing my job application. Another one. It's not very good. Mainly because I have about five seconds to do it in, and I keep looking up Brexit stuff with morbid fascination. And partly because I sliced my thumb on the mandolin earlier. Merrily slicing a courgette, thinking 'this mandolin thing is a piece of piss, don't know what people were..... AAGGGGHHH'. Serves me blasted right.

Aw Herbs, sorry to hear of bloody finger.Those things are bastards. Cut+Paste for application if you can.
I am doing the same thing here but have now got morbid fascination with sore wobbly tooth ( same one as before, that got better and has now got wobbly and sore again) I must not wiggle it. I have until Versailles starts to finish my application of the week. ( at last one a week since February )
Must get off Mumsnet ......
Stropps -love a musical hound!

Aww....I love a singing Jack Russell. DGPs had one who would sing along to the Grandstand music. Or if anyone sang the Grandstand music to him. He was such a character.

Is Versailles good? I am dearly in need of something thoroughly absorbing and distracting.

I used to slice my thumbs a lot, Herbs, in the days when employers were foolish enough to issue me with scalpels...those were the days. Made everyday life bloody painful.

I had a crisis of confidence that worked out for the better today. Got into the office, saw an email saying "We need to come up with some ideas for this." Yoorup office had been in two hours already and had sent a list of ideas. My boss had emailed me saying "It's important that we engage with this, please come up with some ideas that can be deliverables" (because this is how we roll, obv). I had a look at the list Yoorup had sent, and couldn't think of another thing to add to it. Boss would think I was a bit thick and clueless if I went back and bleated this to him. So I sucked my pen and thought a bit more (bearing in mind I had 15 minutes to do this in) and finally stuck something down on paper and said "Given the short deadline, this is my one idea for a deliverable. We have funding for it, which can be directly transferred from something we're not doing." Boss liked it, Yoorup loved it, Head Office liked it, and it went through as number one on the list. So think I have gone up marginally in people's estimation.

I love a singing dog too. I went to a very smart garden party once, where there was a Scottish piper. The host had two red setters. One sat next to the piper and sang along, the other sat with his nose in the piper's sporran growling menacingly. It quite made up for the row of the bagpipes.

Well done MrsS!

Herbs, I was forever grating/cutting my fingers, but have not done it in a while - must be due a bleed. Hope you are OK now and managed to complete the JA.

Rose, how lovely to have your DS1 home.

"Sausages!"

Rose, have a wonderful reunion with ds1....you must be so excited.

Well done, MrsS! and good luck, Herbs and Crem with applications.

I have to say, I am getting a bit tired of the Young Alpha Male environment I am working in. I get shouted down in meetings, or at best talked over. I got so pissed off with it the other day I got up and walked out. One of my colleagues said "What was all that about?" They don't see it at all. And no, they don't talk over each other at all or shout each other down (apart from the two who are vying for the role of Top Alpha Male).

I often feel I get "talked over" but just about everyone, everywhere. The invisible woman of a certain age ...

Ouch Herbs Cut fingers/thumbs take ages to heal. And ouch for Crem's hurtie tooth too.

DS1 is at Heathrow having landed at around 7.30. He's messaged to say he's trying to work out where he can get an Uber from...apparently they're not allowed to pick up passengers near the terminals...

And in other first world problem news, DSis has posted such an unflattering photo of me on FB. I shouldn't mind but I'm obsessed with it.

Pmsl at Auntie Gladys.!!

Aw Rose, hope ds has arrived by now. I'm sure you are relieved and happy!

Rose - if it's the one of you all together you look nice.

Well done to Mrs S. Maybe you should rule the office in a sort of Peggy Mitchell matriarchal style. When she said jump everybody moved.

I'm the office mother, with an office of Betas. Nobody dares talk over me they can't get a word in edgeways

Rose - have a lovely day with the prodigal son.