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

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BeachysSandyFlipFlops · 14/10/2016 20:34

Would that be OK?

Must try to avoid a thread switch on a Friday night Grin

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MontserratCaballe · 01/11/2016 19:35

X post sorry.

I think a lot of my friends in the country clock up 000s of miles every year, esp ferrying DC as public transport can be a bit rubbish. At least here we have many wonderful buses. And uber for nights out. All night tube. And the convenience of being near one's folks as they need us more counts for a lot, esp with work etc to juggle.

herbaceous · 01/11/2016 19:58

I am not, NOT, going to move to the country. It has to be a large town or city, with plentiful public transport, choirs, plays, music, an community that does Good Works, left-leaning and preferably which isn't too 'Brexit'.

Folks are too far away (1hr 20mins) for mercy dashes as it is, really.

I'd be up for Secret Satan. I'm still getting emails from Elfster!

Rosebag · 01/11/2016 20:00

Grin Grin Grin at concern that someone will put something down the back of the dress....what...like a naughty little Just William with a slimy frog??? He he. Grin Hopefully that will not happen with the crowd next Wednesday night. I am much more worried about doing a Hatty Jacques, if I'm honest.

Oh Monty.... Sad Virtual hugs... Loved the Secret Santa the last couple of years....

As a dyed in the wool Londoner, I would find it very hard to leave. People keep asking me if we play to retire to West Sussex where the flat is....not really. I mean , then I'd have nowhere to escape to... Hmm

You wistful Crepeys could all have a lovely evening frock opportunity if we had a Crepey Ball... just saying'...

hattymattie · 01/11/2016 20:00

Sorry things are difficult with DH Monty - exacerbated by the recorder! I must admit I am the horrible parent that hid the recorder so much did I hate it.

Herbs - The Royal Grammar School in Newcastle is supposed to be good.

Rosebag · 01/11/2016 20:01

Plan to....

bigTillyMint · 01/11/2016 20:03

Herbs, when you put it like that, there's no contest really, is there?!

Monty, so sorry you are having a tricky time at home. And recorder playing on top of that!!!

I am up for SS if we decide to do it.

addle · 01/11/2016 20:04

Monty - I am playing the descant recorder tonight. Is v difficult not to have visions of school concerts and squawking passing before one's eyes.

Moving away - think if I were to do it, outside Newcastle would be a fantastic place to be - culture, beach and countryside (!) but would second everyone else's points about the wonders of London.

BTM - thanks for asking about DD. hard to tell at the moment - what she says and how she feels aren't necessarily aligned or in sync. But she needs lots of space and time to rant and work out her feelings. And possibly lots of posh macaroons. She was awake from 5 coughing but said she couldn't off ill ever because you just can't. She ranted at me all the way down Brixton Hill into work but did an observed lesson today which apparently went well. We'll see.

Blackduck · 01/11/2016 20:10

BTM so sorry re ds.

I don't want to think about the lonely thing.

bigTillyMint · 01/11/2016 20:11

She's right about the not being ill. Ever. (I am feeling v guilty about that) I got pharyngitis (no voice whatsoever) just before Christmas of my first term as an NQT 30 (XXX) years ago and the HT said I could not be off because of the Christmas show Shock I survived and have probably had less than 10 sick days off in my whole career of almost 30 (XXX) years!

Well done her for doing a good observed lesson - she is clearly a natural and should KOBO!

bigTillyMint · 01/11/2016 20:12

BD, how are you? Is DS still away?

herbaceous · 01/11/2016 20:21

I'm being observed by Ofsted tomorrow. A two-and-a-half-hour lesson with scary inspector, and a boss. And learners who don't turn up, and a somewhat sketchily completed course file.

No pressure, then. Oddly, as I'm so woefully underprepared, I'm quite blasé about it!

Lalsy · 01/11/2016 20:29

Mmm, OK, Herbs. If you want all that (and quite see that you do) then you also perhaps get noise, dirt bus stop battles, and possibly a complicated educational landscape, as in London? We tried to move twice when dc were little, and got stuck on that contradiction. I know people who have moved out of London for the schools and things have changed and their dc have ended up doing long journeys or whatever (partly because of what BTM said - lots of news stories recently about London schools doing well and buzziness)....and think the friends thing is a real issue. So I think your strongest case for is the financial one, which is pretty compelling I can see.

Monty, so sorry to hear all that. You sound like a break is needed....hope something comes up for your dh soon, that must be such a worry. And poor dd1.

Stropperella · 01/11/2016 20:34

Good luck, Herbs.

BTM, sorry to hear today has been a tough one for ds.

Monty, I'm sorry that things are less than joyous on the domestic front. Thanks for asking about dd. Things are sadly not going very well. She's miserable, but can't seem to manage to do anything about it. She simply doesn't appear to have the tools to be able to rouse herself to move on in anyway at all. She is just sitting in her room at university, watching tv on her laptop and crying. She says she is too stupid for all the science careers she wanted to do, and needs to "live on her own" and do nothing. It's not looking good and there is, as far as I can see, not much I can do. She has just spent an hour on a FB messenger phone call saying that all my suggestions are wrong or she "can't be bothered" to do anything about anything. And crying. A lot of crying. I said I didn't know what else to suggest and she has put the phone down on me and is now refusing to answer it. Have sent info about applying for apprenticeships. And jobs. No idea what else to do. She refuses to talk to anyone.

She should not have come off the medication, but refuses to admit that the meds did her any good at all. She says she has no friends and is homesick. Again.

Would really like for her to just be able to pull herself out of this. But I'm beginning to feel even more hopeless than she is.

Empty nest? Yeah, right.

Lalsy · 01/11/2016 20:46

Oh Stropps. I don't see what you can do unless she goes back on the meds either - she can't think or engage in that state. Has it been like this the whole time? Am so sorry.

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hattymattie · 01/11/2016 20:51

StroppsSad so sorry things are so tough.

Stropperella · 01/11/2016 21:42

Sorry, don't mind me. I should be used to it now after all these years. I just keep hoping she will get better, but she is actually getting worse. It's driving me mad with worry, but there is nothing I can do. And she's so horrible when she comes home. I am just so sad. We can't win.

hattymattie · 01/11/2016 22:00

Oh Stropps - keep on talking to us. So sad she can't seem to pull things together.Sad

MrsWobble3 · 01/11/2016 22:01

Stropps, I am so sorry to hear your update. I had hoped that uni might give your dd a chance to reinvent herself and start afresh - a shame she doesn't seem to have been able to. You do know that you can't change other people - only your reaction to them - so maybe you do need to step away and leave her to it. But I realise how difficult this is - I'm not sure I could do it. Good luck to both of you.

Cremolafoam · 01/11/2016 22:13

Stropps im so bloody sorry.Sad

Just jumping on to say Cremcat died last night.
I will be back soon, but need a while to process.
Night night.

MrsSchadenfreude · 01/11/2016 22:22

Stropps, so sorry to hear your update. It must be exhausting for you. But like others have said, she has to take her meds (not that anyone can enforce that). I think we would all quite like to live on our own and do nothing, unfortunately, as a functioning adult, we realise that it's not possible (not least financially).

DD2 has informed me that she is going to have three sessions of counselling for social anxiety. I would have thought the school might have mentioned this to me? And I am not entirely convinced she needs it, as have seen no evidence of it at all of late - she took a friend's dog for a long walk the other day and said so many people stopped her to ask about the dog, and it seemed like a nice way to meet people. Confused

I still can't do anything right at work. I don't know if I am stupid, can't think quickly enough, or that my job is harder than anyone else's (and the fact that I am covering for two other people too). Or that they keep moving the gateposts (there is a lot of that too).

Monty - an ex boyfriend of mine plays the recorder professionally and is supposed to be the best recorder player in the world. Grin On your DH, so many of our friends have split up for a variety of reasons in the past few years. There is some of men going off with a younger woman, but for a lot of it, it is that women simply not putting up with the shit from their H any more. Hmm.

MontserratCaballe · 01/11/2016 22:26

Darling Crem - so very sorry. Sending love. XXXX

Stropps, I'm sad to hear things are still pants. You have done so much. We are here to offer whatever support we can. Huge hugs.

MrsSchadenfreude · 01/11/2016 22:29

So sorry to hear about CremCat. Sad

IDismyname · 01/11/2016 22:30

Strops You have my full sympathy. Agree with others and see if disengaging for a short while helps you. Are you able to contact uni GP practice and explain her situation? At least that's a positive move on your part...

Crem so sorry about DPuss. Hope it was pain free for her.