In Crepey Remembrance Of CremCat Past

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Hope that's an OK unilateral decision!

Not me cocoa, that for sure

Addle yes I'm here then for soothing lunch or pub

So far this morning I have spilt 2 ( two II ) cups of coffee. Clutz. Ruined new wall paint completely. Frustration tears. Now am LATE!!

Cocoa, no thigh high boots no....

for your family. You made me laugh about the Lidl spray though.

Size 6 AaaaaaHAHAHAHAHA. I don't think I've ever been a 6....even when I was a toddler... Love swishy hair though....One thing the posters on this forum have got is style, which I'm sure you have too, Cocoa.

One thing that does worry me though, is when I foray away from the safety of the Crepeys..and dip in and out of the trending discussions....is it my imagination or are some MN posters getting nastier and nastier? In the last few days I have read people lambasting one OP for being anxious that fireworks were let off from a bucket in the public road outside her house.....she was apparently ruining the community spirit and yesterday there were posters telling a poor new mother with a baby, who had by accident clipped the side of someone's car to MTFUP because she was intimidated by how the owner's relatives cornered her in the carpark and were yelling at her menacingly. There are some truly horrible people in MN.

I am working with Lucrative Private Client this morning and then taking DD to the orthodontist. Both of us getting gels done this afternoon for forthcoming do...

I struggled with £5 Rudy I mean, finding something nice for that...might have to over spend by a couple of quid! Thanks for setting it up.

Rudy, how about £8-10 for SS? It is difficult to find anything for less than that, I find. And thanks!

Huge incident here last night when I was out - managed to get a sort of solution but v little sleep so it will be a v quiet morning.

Cocoa - you have described be very accurately, as I'm sure other crepeys will attest. I am size 6, have swishy hair and am exceptionally languid.

Right. Have to take DS to his 'sparkle' before-school club. It's to improve his handwriting from 'illegible' to 'discern every third word'.

I'm in for SS, and concur with proposals for a slightly higher 'price point'. £5 is too tricky in this post-Brexit inflationary times.

Forgive previous post about decorators, which had many spelling errors. I'm a grammar and English teacher, innit.

Herbs, DS was asked to join a handwriting club in Y7. He refused and continued to write illegibly like his father but has suddenly at the start of Y11, begun to write neatly

Rudy - how fast are you?!

Happy Birthday Addle - hope it is calm and you have

Cocoa - have you been spying on me?

Sorry you are on such an emotional roller-coaster at the moment - definitely look up the counselling.

I'm getting another bloody cold. And I'm supposed to be going up to Edinburgh for a couple of days (work). Saw the weather forecast last night and there's a socking great white area with snowflakes on covering central Scotland. Brr....

tilly hope things have calmed down and you get nap a little bit today xx

I think 8 sounds about right, SantaRudy, if that's OK with everyone else.

Sorry, missed loads of posts. Ten is fine! Do we know who is in? Newish crepeys, we have done this for a couple of years and it is most joyful

BTM, oh no. Hope today is quieter - so glad you got signed off.

[It isn't addle's birthday btw].

Rose, I agree, I got in a ruck when an OP asked for help (not in the Education section) about unis using a non-MN-approved form of words. Clearly in some distress and anxiety. She faced an absolute barrage of criticism of her parenting, instead of pointers to some useful websites and a bit of gentle support and advice about the best way forward. Think the specialist sections tend to be better.

BTM Hope you get the chance for a snooze today.

I'm sorry but I won't be able to join in Secret Santa this year as am off to Tenerife before the middle of December and won't be back until mid January. So won't be here for parcels etc.

There are a few lovely bits of Mumsnet where advice is freely given without criticism - vaping vipers being one place I also linger. But so much of it is either really nasty or just plain dull.

PS I am a size 2 with long blonde hair and an amazing sense of fashion

Hello all and have a good day. I'm on a train to Brighton to a day long meeting which I now see I'm supposed to take two ideas to. I had about four hours sleep so... Bleurgh.

What are your ideas supposed to be about, WAF? I'm sure we can come up with something by the time you hit Brighton....

Cocoa - I am on the "If you are old and fat" thread in Style & Beauty. I think that tells you all you need to know about me...

I'm in for Secret Santa.

I am having a massive work confidence crisis this morning. Having left the office around 6 last night (which, given I was in at 8, was later than I would have liked), I looked at my emails this morning, checking for details of a meeting, and find that the two bright young things (male) were pontificating about very important things until around 9. I didn't join in (obviously) and feel that this gives my boss yet another stick to hit me with. My job is much busier than theirs, and they have time to trawl the internet for "interesting and relevant" articles and email round commenting on them, which makes them look SO CLEVER and me look SO DIM AND UNINTERESTED. And one of them is all over my stuff like a rash, commenting, and it makes me look even more stupid. I just feel that as I don't look like them, act like them, that I am becoming more and more irrelevant. I've been asked to go to a meeting next week overseas, and have had a huge grilling about why I need to go, what I will get out of it, what the "big picture" is, the "blue skies thinking", why it should be me and not someone else etc etc. One of bright young men simply announced that he was going to NYC for two weeks and wasn't asked any of these questions. Diversity, my arse.

Mrs F - sounds awful and very sexist. Is the meeting somewhere nice though? Where you will get actual blue skies?

Yes to SS although I have, of course, forgotten to put my MN name - will try to go back and amend although I'm not sure I can.

As if the US election wasn't enough M&S have announced they are once more closing in France - I don't know why, their food shop in La Defense is always full.

BTM - sorry to hear about crisis last night - hope things are better today and that you can get a little sleep this evening.

Lalsy - I only move between the Crepey thread and the Higher Education boards - which I've always found really helpful and supportive. I have never ever written anything on AIBU - far too chicken.

Cocoa - love your view of the crepies. Am trying to develop swishy hair (as was very jealous of Rudy's at meet up) and have failed - just have a longish nest that goes in lots of different directions. Have no thigh length boots. Knee length is the highest I get. Also, on tights - hate them which is why I am always in trousers and only venture into a dress in summer when my legs are a bit tanned.

I have thigh-high thighs. Which aren't very high on account of being a Notorious Shortarse. My hair sort of swishes but in many different directions as I am growing it out, and it's rather....hair-do.

BTM, as ever, please do get in touch if you need to.

Cocoa, try a tubing mascara (I'm so S&B).

I tried to put my name on the SS but failed. I'm the one with the two unspellable names from different continents. (And, clearly, the one who reaches new depths of technological ineptitude.)

I'm trying to chase a potential client. Was asked to send in a tender for a piece of work to be done by the end of this month. It'll take a minimum of 10 (ten, X) days and probably more. I really need to know if they want me to do it...sent an email yesterday and will wait till tomorrow but I need to know!

MrsFP, I really feel you should go out in a blaze of swearing and glory.

MI - tubing mascara - that sounds intriguing - please tell me more.

Just rung the GP practice to see if I need referring to local hospice for counselling. Apparently I do... so asked when the next available appointment was with my GP.

Second week of December .

Held it together (just) and stated that it might just be too late at that point. Begrudgingly given one for tomorrow with a GP I last saw when she failed spectacularly to reinstate new coil. I spent an hour on her rack of torture bed.

Gotta take what you can get!

Thanks for message of support.

Promise, Colly - I won't be a snivelling mess. Far from it.

Cocoa, try ringing the Macmillan helpline? There are some phone counsellors. Though I have to say the one I talked to wasn't amazing - I think I'm quite hard to counsel, though.

Tubing mascara is the sort that wraps round your lashes in little waterproof tubes: it shouldn't budge till you get it off with warm water plus pressure. Only type that doesn't smudge on me. Rose uses it too; I'm more fickle than her and have tried most types. No7's gold tube one is a good one to start with - my main divergence is wanting a v small brush for my non-Scandi paws.

Haha, MI, you are rising to the Crepey S&B challenge - now I will have to get tubing mascara. No time to get my lashes dyed atm. No fecking time for anything, am bonkersly busy and should not be here. Which means that I'm skim reading - Cocoa, I don't mind if you are a snivelling mess - you are welcome to snivel if you need to, and my shoulder will be there for you. Both my parents died of cancer, my mum many years ago, my dad more recently. I felt both deaths most acutely.

BTM, so sorry to hear about last night. I am often up in the night if it would help to post on here - generally this thread goes to sleep quite early for me. OTOH of course I can't guarantee which of my nights will be sleepless. Dh is being particularly troublesome atm, although for the moment the dc are precariously fine.

RudySanta, I'll PM you - I opted out of SS last year because bonkersly busy but would like to do it again this year.

BTM, so sorry you had a major upset last night and consequently didn't get much sleep. I hope things are better today?

Cocoa, better than nothing, I suppose.

I am a bit as about a fortnight ago I rang my consultant to say that my knee was a lot more painful: his secretary rang this morning and the operation is arranged for 19th December at a different hospital! Just spoken to DH: as he says I will be out for Christmas and this year I wasn't hosting anyway. Have definitely got a case of the jitters.

BTM, I'm certain you could get some short term sleeping pills from the GP if you wanted them. Usually possible in a crisis, and sleep helps so much.