Someone left a Crepe out in the rain

[BeachysSandyFlipFlops]

Here we go, ready for the Autumn.....

Teenage party not going so well

BTW, NU, your holiday sounds amazing. Can you post an itsy, bitsy pic? Just of a nice stagecoach, perhaps? :)

MrsS, bloody hell, your work sounds like No Fun At All. And sorry to hear about the immensely expensive extra help for dd. Damn swizz that you're having to pay for any extras at the school, really.

I'd don't fancy a colonic, must say. I think the problem is more deep rooted than that... But BTM - three poos a day? Ain't no one got time for dat.

DS and his BFF issue has been sorted. Lots of misunderstandings...

Well done on your perseverance, MI. That would deffo make a good feature and I'm amazed it's taken 15 years for someone to agree with you!

Oh and MI - that sounds a brilliant idea for a feature. An old boss of mine kept threatening to start a magazine about funerals, as he foresaw consistent demand for its info!

A PR friend of ours asked DP today 'does herbs do freelance copywriting? And what's her day rate?' As he works for a posh law firm, my day rate would be £££££££. Esp as I got paid today, and it's already got swallowed up...

Glad ds and bff are all sorted again, Herbs!

Thank you so much for all your good wishes, been a tiring few days.....

All quiet tonight (apart from the monumental thunderstorm currently crashing around).

Did a further meeting today, off all meds, apparently new therapy planned being considered and 'crisis' team conspicuous by their absence and complete lack of communication. They are currently called the 'crisis, what crisis' team in our house not in earshot of ds. Playing the wait and see game here....

Can't believe this storm

And dd1 is off to uni on Saturday....

Thunder & lightning crashing around here too. Love it.

No storm here!
Beachy hope it gets sorted - was dhound1 under the table in all that thunder?

MrsS work sounds rubbish and I'd be a bit miffed having to pay she'd loads to sort DD1 out - aren't you already paying shedloads?

MrsW hope the results are what you/DD want.

Cremo glad to hear about Ddad - onwards ever onwards!

Friend who does home checks has sent me lots of useful hints of what to say/what not to say (don't mention Bakers which apparently is McDonalds for dogs....)

TGIF peeps - hope it's a quiet one...

DS is rejoicing that it is Friday - end of first week of work experience and he has been working very hard! I can't believe that he is up and ready to leave at 7.15 without any fuss (note this, DD) every day.

Beachy, sounds like you are all keeping a much needed SOH

MrsS, I want to know what the tutor actually does for the money - checking her deadlines and standing over her with a stick? Let me know if you find out - sure Stropps would be interested too, given our jobs!

Beachy - hope it's a quieter day for you.

MI - I had lovely Irish midwives for DD2 (in Paris) - I was so happy I could have cried after the rather brusque French ones for DD1.

Mrs S eek at colonic irrigation story - I do not want anything stuffed up my bum for whatever reason. I would feel it terribly humiliating.

On another note - would be mad as hell to have to pay more out to already expensive school - sounds like a money making scheme to me. They should be able to get things in hand. Sorry work is so shit.

Still raining but no thunder here - off to meet a very old friend and her DS today. DD2, who is same age as DS is coming with. We're going to try to talk him out of giving up his place at Warwick Uni this year to reapply to Oxbridge next year.

MI forgot to say the funeral director who dealt with us was fab - including big hugs. I too wondered how she did it everyday - she was so lovely and supportive.

Florists, MI. I have twice, (thirty years ago and six months ago) walked into a florist and suddenly been incoherent and sobbing. Both dealt with it magnificently.

Oh Auriga. Florist story very touching. Some for you

Woken at 5.15 by rain but drifted off again. Working Very Hard this week, and next and one after. At desk by 6.45. Thank goodness the dd's got up. I didn't think about them 'til 8.00!

How lovely that ds is into his work experience btm.

Pilates last night very hard. Foolishly didn't go for a month. Started to feel ten years older in joints. Why I allowed this not going to happen, I don't know. I distinctly remember saying last year 'not going to Pilates = false economy.' (Crem, on your own or plus one last night ?)

Hope that all troubled offspring - and everyone - have a gentle end to the week.

Plus one last night WAF . Pilates Mistress upped her game and poor Dh staggering by the end of it. He is aghast that you can work up so much of a sweat whilst lying flat on a mat. stretch those inner things. It's the cross abdominal X that hurt me most. I feel a bit twisty today, it must be said. Dh could not move his neck this morning.

Mrs Wobble , thinking about you and The Result today.
Stropps , hope no news is good news, although if she is off her meds it may be the calm before the storm. Fucking hell @paying off dds debt. I dread this sort of thing. keep breathing while you can IyKWIM.
Beachy, poor ds. I'm glad this episode is over for now. It tends to do that though Beachy. A big dramatic few days followed by period of calm. He will hopefully learn to predict these and develop a strategy to deal with it. Appalling reaction of Crisis Team. Although I'm sorry to say I've had the same experience.
Should be that once they are alerted, you are on their radar for the future. You should have a list of phone numbers to ring in the event of ds emergency. And someone at the end of a phone to talk to him. Here it was charity based help as its not deemed important enough for health service to pay for it. this , in an area/ where historically ( The Troubles and all that) of course no-one suffers MH issues.

Colonic a v bad idea. Not supposed to happen IMHO. Hatty you are living in the wrong country if you do not want to feel humiliated regarding bum. French like to shove things up there willy-nilly.

I would like a nice day today. Sadly given the state of the office and impending meetings, I won't count on it.

WAF, why are you giving Auriga when she's just explained they make her sob?

I agree, random kindness when sobbing is very touching. It's a very necessary part of human interaction.

Ds at school.... Dd1 is doing full university pack this afternoon. She's been larking about with friends all week, so I fully expect swearing and tearing around until late.

This thread now too big for mobile data to handle so leaping quickly on a friend's wifi without time to catch up....

Rudy, great on pub lunch .

But Poppy, sorry you are having such a tough time - you are not whingeing!

And Crem what a relief. Hope the next week goes smoothly. It is an awful lot for your dm to take on board quickly given your descriptions of their impressively if alarmingly gung-ho approach to travel and so on before.

MI, both the hospital registrar and the funeral director cried when we tipped up in their offices after my df died. The reg because she had just had to deal with a terrible tragedy, the funeral director because he was at school with my df. I felt rather peeved with both. Good stuff on feature.

MrsS, that support should be part of the package, and should have been offered before now, that is shocking.

NU I have always wanted to go to Tahoe!

Beachy, that is awful re crisis team, so glad you can be there for ds. And Stropps, really hope she can get back on her meds. Thinking of you both.

And, before I leave you to go back into my comms black hole, a final thought: I once touched chilli and then my mooncup...so not recommended.

The cat has just peed on Mr Inferior's t'ai chi shoes.

MI that is hilarious......

Now to be known as t'ai wee shoes

That cat is definitely making a statement about t'ai chi.

Here there's a week to go before dd goes off to uni, and then I will have an empty nest, with ds going back to the Midlands the following weekend. At Crem's party I was blithely stoked with denial, saying I was looking forward to using all the rooms in the house currently monopolised by dd (ie pretty much every room in the house).

Crepeys, this week I am devastated. The denial has lifted and I am distraught that dd is going.

Yes, it's a wrench on both sides, however necessary and longed-for (and for me, at the moment, almost impossible to imagine).

But what's the alternative?

Having an awful day today, head seething with black thoughts. Trying to work it off.

Hello Crepeys! Much joy in the Wobble house - dd1 has called having scored 78% in her resit. To say we are relieved is an understatement. At some point there will have to be a discussion on the relative merits of pre and post exam revision but for now it's a post Falklands style Rejoice.

Many thanks for all the good luck vibes - I hope everyone else with dc issues can get similarly positive news. Happy weekend all.

Congratulations to your DD, MrsW! So what is in store next for her?

Auriga, hope working it off helps.

Molly, I guess I will feel like you when/if the time comes next year. But at the moment, I can't wait I even left the house a bit early this morning to avoid an argument/her whining in my ear!

Well I've had the come and get me NOW call. And an admission that she has not taken her meds for some time. She says she "cannot cope with anything". I have told her to go (next door!!) to the medical centre. She refused. She said she hasn't registered there. Which is neither here nor there just now. I said she can't come back unless she sorts out the meds and gets help. She told me to fuck off and hung up. I have been in touch with the university and they are now aware of the background.
I am currently waiting for my appointment at the muscular skeletal clinic at Weymouth hospital and feeling really sick.