Hot town, Crepes in the city

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I think Jamie Bells ears are bigger! And DSs hair is lighter (though he is sporting a 1980s barnet!), and his jaw a teeny bit widea, but he looks a bit like him in the pics of JB aged about 18 which I am incapable of linking to

Scuppered on sundowner front as it is raining Though still hot However no we get to try the huge complimentary umbrellas! Not sure how we'll fit them down the street with the mad traffic/pedestrians

Having slept on it, I don't think I will apply for either job. The Europe one is where I spent the most miserable year of my life. And the other one, I think too far, too dangerous and too much of a shithole.

That sounds wonderful, CV!

NU, enjoy your day - hope you feeling bit perkier despite electrical issues.

MrsS, no. Don't. Is it the way your family are treating you that is making you consider it?

addle, could you keep your eyes open for similarly secure job and if/when you see one, do the thinking then?

Xed posts, MrsS. Good.

I can see the temptation to bugger off to Forren parts, Mrs s, but wonder if there might be a less drastic way of escaping your shackles. Like just going to live in a cottage in Wales. Alone

Off to the Roald Dahl museum today with DS's BFF and his mum, a good friend of mine. So much fun will be had.

Naturally it will be overshadowed by guilt re parents. Mum may be coming out of hospital today, and then the carer changes over tomorrow. Feeling I should be there to ease the transition, for some reason, especially as I'm off on holiday on Thursday (to Northumberland). But have another day with friends inked in tomorrow, with NCT chums that DS hasn't seen for ages.

Today and tomorrow, and the holiday, will no doubt be punctuated with calls re drugs, carers, raised toilet seats, etc, anyway.

And I've been given an extension on this feature, so have to write that. And pack for holiday.

Ok I've got to ask, what is the crepe thing?

Herbs, am I getting muddled or do you have a sister?

MrsS that sounds sensible. Out of the frying pan and all that?

Addle, hope you find a solution - have you been there long?

MrsS good on re-think..... None of what you described was in anyway appealing....
Dp is the biscuit monster here, ds rarely bothers.

I am back to work tomorrow for three days, then two days conference, then 10 days leave. Crisis at work as one of my admins needs to fly to Jamica to her dad pdq..... This will leave us very short staffed. My response? Tough. I am not cancelling my leave.

Too right, BD. Do not cancel your leave. It's just tough. If they've left you with a department that can't run when you're on leave, not your fault.

BTM, I do indeed have a sister. I'm going to try and persuade her to go up and see parents while I''m away, but it's more difficult for her as she's further away and has three children.

That sounds wrong. She does go, but not as often as I do, as I live closer.

Lalsy I really like that blouse. It's perfect for an interview with a camisole or vest underneath. It it were me I'd sling a lightweight jacket on also but probably take it off after arrival if the weather is hot.!!!! Good luck.

CV your perch in the Sierra Nevada sounds enviable. I love it when you get to that place in a trip after all the sight seeing, when you say...right I'm not moving from the side of this pool for three days... Enjoy.

What a stress, NU I'm glad you're switched back on again.

I'm glad you're not going MrsS to shit holes or otherwise. There must be something out there better than that?

Anyway thanks all....I think having two lots of results within a week is hard to bear. Even though both my two have unconditional places, I was trying to explain to Beachy at our mini MU that I can't bear the pushy, nosy community I have to be part of, and whilst I'm proud of how DD has coped with her exams and how resilient she is, I just want to run away from all the texts and messages and facebooking..."What did she get...what did she get...??...my amazing child got 35 A*'s...yada... yada... yada...." Doesn't help that DNeph is in the same year and is expected to do very well...DSis will be on the text to me as soon as the results are released. Lots of schadenfreude, eh? Ah well...I've made up my mind we're going have a huge celebration just the four of us, whatever the outcome...just for getting through it all without a divorce, social services paying a visit, or me ending up in The Priory

Mi you are not a wobbly hippo. No Ma'am. Just get your kit off and enjoy a bit of hanky panky...

OhCrepe - we are laydeez (not really) of a certain age (over 45 mostly). We are lovely and friendly, please feel free to jump in.

Rose - we get the two sets of results thing next year. Not looking forward to it. We went through the "Oh yes, 35 A*" last year and the year before with friends, and it made me thankful that DD1 wasn't caught up in it. A friend of mine said to me that her son had done really well to get the grades he had (Bs and Cs, mostly Cs), but felt a failure when he heard all of her friends boasting about their children's stellar results.

We trusted DD2 to go to bed at a normal time last night and didn't turn off the wifi as threatened. She was still up at 5.30 this morning, so that's it, wifi off at midnight tonight.

Thanks MrsSchadenfreude! Where does crepe come from though? Is it to do with pancakes?? (Like my username!)

God Mrs S - we have had the same problem with DD2 - the doos not the wifi. We don't keep anythimf in the house really since the legendary story of the kilo of M&M's that disappeared in 24 hours. She still buys her own junk foos though. She will refuse potatoea and then eat a pastry. I get really annoyed at cooking balanced meals which she then wont eat because she is either full or "on a diet".

Glad you've decided not to leave us

Think it originally came from crepey skin...... :)

Oh ok! Yep got some of that! Filled out at the moment though as pregnant!

Rose, yes, the pressure about results is a huge part of the problem. Boastiness. Smuggery. I was explaining at the mini-MU that we also got odd pressure about how correct it was that our dc had chosen STEM subjects rather than, er, anything else. FGS. So if they change their minds and go into something fluffy, we'll get, what, disapprobation? Engineers are better than artists?

Yes Molly and barristers are better than engineers. Cambridge is better than Durham. Durham is better than Glasgow. Trousers are better than skirts. Boys are better than trees. Clothes are better than shortbread. It's all rubbish and ears must be closed!!! Horses for courses. It's not set in stone. Things can change. How many of our careers are exactly the same as our degrees?
Sing lalala with your fingers in your ears Rose. And don't participate, if you can bear it. Maintain radio silence.

hello Ohcrepe, and mazel tov about the baby! We would love to have a Crepey baby to coo over. We do occasionally talk about style and beauty for our age, which is very much young at heart and mind, if a little fragile of body. There is a consensus about Ruby Woo lipstick though. And we mostly approve of Richard Hawley and regular meet ups.

I can't bear the ridiculous hoohah in the media that now accompanies the results. The mandatory pics of a line of attractive students jumping for joy while waving their bits of paper etc. It's all added pressure that serves no useful purpose, really. And Molly, yyy to STEM subjects snobbery.

But yes, I also admit that if I had a dc who had aced A*s in everything, got Grade 8 in three instruments, got gold in DoE, competed at national level in some sport or other and had an Oxbridge offer, I'd probably be guilty of being grossly smug and secretly thinking it was all down to high-quality genes and super-parenting.

Hatty, a kilo of M+Ms

Yes, MC competitive boasting is bullshit. Thankfully I haven't encountered too much - friends with offspring with top results in our circles don't seem to boast, and then you can be as pleased for the teen with 16A*s as the one who just scraped 5. I totally agree Cremo - we all have different strengths but sadly only academic intelligence/memory is valued in external exams

We have had a very relaxing last day. Chilled by the pool, smoothies for lunch and then we just went for a fantastic massage at a place where all the employees are visually impaired. The Vietnamese give a hard massage - first time for the DC and they loved it

No you wouldn't Stropps!

Oh yes, Stropps, me too!

We are lazing around. I'm reading a novel and not writing mine

Oh a crepey baby!! How lovely OhCrepe. Welcome. Hope you don't get put off by the menopausal ranting that tends to go on here!

molly mrsS cremo you talk a lot of sense. I am planning my escape but sometimes the DC kind of prevent you! They want to be in touch with their friends all wittering on about grades. I blame the Internet. Love it and all my devices and apps, as I do, I still find myself wishing us back to the days of just an ordinary landline with no ansafone, which you could just be out for.... And an self addressed envelope which came in the post.

stropps

BTM, thanks for having faith in me

MI, you're on your hols FFS!

BD, take that leave, missus, come what may!

Hatty, 1kg of M&Ms in 24 hours? I think we may have a winner in the Teen Junk Food Hoover comp. And she was up against some stiff competition...