Crepeys who try not to look like creepy clowns....

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Would that be OK?

Must try to avoid a thread switch on a Friday night

Oh yes, re teens!

I started telling people a few years ago that I/DH and I would love to do x, y, z (if we did) but that I didn't know what the teens were up to, so not to plan for them.

re DD and PIL, Rose.

I am enjoying a morning home-alone DH dashed into hosp to be with DS and I dropped DD to coaching, went to gym and am now enjoying a leisurely breakfast. Needless to say, DH has already text asking DD to bring his ipad and phone charger in when she does her shift at lunch. I am going in this afternoon. Phew!

I'm seriously dossing....it feels good. We have a walk planned as the weather is beautiful...

Magi. It's an old problem we've been grappling with since DD was born. Mostly with DMIL. Many words have been said by DH to her. We have had many "situations" over the years. DD just doesn't conform to DMILs ideal.

X post. You need a break too tilly ! Here's hoping DS is making progress xx

So sorry for your DD, Rose. Hope there is a sensible way forward...

I have found that the attraction of a small cash incentive to work with teens seeing their grandparents. More often than not, it never materialises - which is absolutely fine, but occasionally it does. Keeps the teens guessing.

My DM is such a pushover with DS, anyway. He is such a charmer. It's like a mutual appreciation society going on. I stand back and let it happen.

Feeling slightly more in control and have made soup. Something about soup that does it to me. I've included last nights casserole to make it look meaty, then added the contents of the bottom of my veg rack.

Off to check out nursing homes with DM tomorrow. Oh joy.

However, I'm so bl**dy tired. See my previous post at stupid o'clock.

Rose that's horrible for your DD - hard to believe people can be so insensitive.

DH is trying to fix the tumbler - there is water all over the floor.

MI - what BTM said re teens cannot pin them down.

Now turns out DD1 got the day wrong anyway. And apparently they've been trying to text but clearly have the wrong number and are saying 'where do you want to meet'. I'm cancelling them. Can't do this.

Good luck cocoa. Due to the distance and rapidity of my DM's decline in Jan, SS took her on and put her into a suitable Nursing Home. Thankfully it is good and she is well looked after. Hope you can find something that suits your DM.

Rudy, I have just split my coldsore scab open laughing at your post (TMI?).

Rose, how awful, truly.

Cocoa, good luck - and get thee to the sofa afterwards with soup and MN.

Exactly re DC. Mine usually want to see family (we don't have much) but it is just their arrangements are on a different timescale. So having as an added bonus works best I think apart from big events.

Am not really here... Just want to ask Hattie: recreational pole dancing or 'spectated'?

It's been on my mind :)

I missed the pole dancing - what, what, what? I have a colleaguest who does it/teaches it!

Cancel away, MI and do something you will enjoy/just for you.

I have bought a coat - the lighter version of your one Hatty, so thank you for that tip.

BTM, glad you got a bit of a break.

dh and I were first in line for the municipal dump today. And have collected a very happy ds back from the US trip. Talked solidly for ages and fell asleep.

Yes I was wondering about that....hatty...pole dancing...should we give it a go too? I mean, it makes a good Crepey exercise opportunity what with the pole to hold onto, an' all....

split my cold sore scab... ouch...

cocoa you might be surprised...there are some lovely nursing homes out there. It's good you're going with your DM. When we started looking for a home for Ddad, DM didn't tell me and went on her own to one, came out crying and swearing that Ddad would go into a place like that over her dead body. The next day I went with her to another one and the experience was so much more positive. Good luck

Mi there gets a point where you can't take all the fannying around. Perhaps it's for the best.

Have has the most lovely morning walking with DD in gorgeous, sunny autumn weather. Also checked out a new golf club locally, which seems to have bowling, adventure golf, a climbing wall and a restaurant...very clean and uncrowded. Now having a late lunch on the seafront. This is why I come here.

Beautiful here as well, DH took me out for a drive (still can't drive) & we went up Beachy Head. Checked for Rudy but didn't see any likely suspects!

Rose Where are you, if that's not too personal? Assume you are the other side of Beachy Head to me (inland a wee bit from Eastbourne).

I'll PM you Magi

MM if there was a woman with a bra on her head, then that was Rudy

With DS - constant stream of visitors - his mates plus teachers from school. Awww.

I am doing some serious loafing today. CBA to do anything, really.

Poor DS was robbed during his stint at the bakery today. Two women came in, bought a couple of cakes then, while the till was open, thrust some £20 notes at him and demanded he change them. While he was fiddling about trying to count out ten pound notes, one of them reached over, grabbed the money out of his hands and walked out with £130. It took him a moment to realise what they'd done, and he's mortified. In hindsight he knows he should have just said no and shut the till, but he was trying to be helpful to a customer.

He called the owner who effed and blinded at him (but eventually calmed down), but isn't bothering to call the police. To be honest, if you leave a busy town centre cafe/bakery in sole charge of a 16yo boy and a 15yo girl (on only her second shift!) then you can't be surprised if they don't always get things right. As I may have mentioned on here before, it's an enormous responsibiity for DS, and he's had no training on things like fire safety, food hygiene, safe use of equipment (bread slicer! expresso machine!), beyond another 16yo showing him what to do on his first day. Maybe someone older and more cynical would have been better prepared to deal with the situation - who knows?

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Oh BTM, how lovely is that. Especially the teachers, who have been with the other little darlings all week.

I asked ds earlier if he had thanked the staff who took him on the trip properly. He said yes but he had also done so the day before and was glad because by the end of a turbulent flight - passengers crying and screaming - with news of alerts in London, "they were a bit fed up of us, Mum". I bet they bloody were.....

Poor DS, CV. Is he OK?

A friends DD who was working in a cafe with a slightly older teen had a similar situation only it was their own bags that were stolen as there was nowhere safe to put them. The owner was vile to them, as if it was their fault.

Pole dancing strictly recreational (I hope) it is great for the abs. DD1 did it for a bit and filmed herself. It was a bit - ahem -risqué.

Have been to gym and walked around Paris so am going to slump in front of Line of Duty which we have been binge watching.

DH has admitted defeat on the tumble drier so that is our exciting project for tomorrow.

So pleased about the coat Lalsy.

CV, that's awful. And I don't see what anyone else could have done unless they were prepared to risk a punch or worse. I wouldn't risk getting injured for an employer. Mind you, the last crime I witnessed I stood there yelling trying to work out how to take a photo on my phone while two tiny, ancient women threw down their zimmer frames and put their bodies between the fighting people .

at not getting proper training - employer will be in hot water if anyone gets injured.

Yaaaay, MI.

I guess it is maybe a safe way of being a bit risque? I know someone who does that dancing you do in very uncomfortable looking underwear - she is terribly hearty about it.

Yes, am very pleased, Hatty. Feel there is now room in my life for a purely frivolous coat should charity shops or sales offer up such a thing by chance but my main quest is over.

I loved Line of Duty. Have also started Ordinary Lies - who recommended that? - watching both series at once - excellent.