A Very Crepey New Year

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Will this do ??

Can someone please remind me when we are supposed to be meeting up?

BD I could murder one too!

MrsS on your behalf. Deffo follow that up.

Beachy only half an exam missed is fantastic - tell him well done from me
CGP was popular with DD who has actually done quite well in her mocks despite saying she would/had flopped them as usual

My childhood home was a betweenbthe wars with pelmets snd a mixture of not very fashionable even at the time,1950s/60's furniture plus some flat pack 70's stuff and the odd "antique" item. DM was never fashionable in any way, and also was (still is, even with dementia) a terrible snob (from an upper-working-class family) so the decor was a strange mix I guess. Lots of books and no net curtains - "how common!"

MrsS 11th Feb for lunch then 24th Feb for D&Ss?

I'm around weekend of 17/18 Feb as well..

24th I will probably be travelling back from Forrin Parts, but shouldn't be too late back.

DD2 has art scholarship interview on Friday and has texted me to say that she has left most of her sketchbooks here. I have a late meeting tomorrow. DH has kindly offered to take them up.

I am still very angry. Men just don't understand these things. My boss said he was sorry I didn't get the job, but didn't understand why I was so angry. FFS.

I think in part at least it's just good old fashioned sexism Mrs S - if you were a man he would understand and expect you to be fuming - but women are expected to suck it up and say things like "oh, I wasn't expecting to get it anyway, I expect Mr Arse was more experienced than little old me..." Be angry, be very angry Mrs S.

Because he doesn't accept that a less qualified man got the job - or he doesn't understand why that would make you angry?

He didn't understand why I was angry as "the better candidate would have got the job". I feel that my years of experience are completely wasted - what is the point of doing all of this stuff, when they are just going to give the job to someone else who has no experience? And when I have applied for jobs that I have no experience in, I get turned down, because, err, I have no experience.

Because they don't see 'jobs for the boys'. Same here - we get told 'the right person got the job' (with no interview let alone advertisement/shortlist) and it's PATENTLY NOT the case...

. Can you take it further?

Looking on the bright side, the friend I met up with tonight told me that after 26 years of marriage, her husband decided he was gay and flung open the closet doors with, err, gay abandon. At least that hasn't happened to me.

MrsS, agree with GGG. Be angry. Tear the place up. Make the same points you've made to us. Look at the grievance policy. Talk to the Union. We are crêpey enough to be thoroughly sick of sucking it up.

Also if you can, go to Wild Honey at Hampstead Theatre (be quick, it ends soon). Gorgeous to look at, sexy, and laugh-out-loud-not-a-figure-of-speech funny.

I went over Christmas Auriga - it was great wasn't it - we really enjoyed it - although I must say I didn't really "get" the apparent endless desirability of the ne'er do well lead! Good fun.

Mrs S that's a vexatious look re your job. Or non job. They can't get away with it.

Complain. Kick up a fuss. Whateva...

Oh, GGG, he was exactly the kind of man I used to fall in love with, only with more self-knowledge. To women less sorted than what you are (grammar) those men are glorious flames and we are boring old moths .

Funny as it is, there is so much truth in it (maybe that's why it's so funny) for example the alcoholic's cheap apology "you want me to be sorry? Okay I'm sorry, I humbly apologise, are you happy now?"

We only went because DD had seen it and was desperate to see it again. So she had the fun of anticipating our reactions.

Oh GOD that sounds JUST my sort of bloke. Did he trail a clutter of commitments behind him and tend not to turn up for things? Oh yes.

MrsS, please take this further.

I cooked dinner last night (pasta, a sauce using up various things like tinned tomatoes and tinned tuna and frozen peppers, plus lots of garlic and chilli and wine and black olives, and salad). The rest of my fellow-inmates have fed themselves quite adequately in my absence but they were touchingly grateful. "It's much nicer than mine," said DP. "You made salad dressing".

We're seeing that show on Saturday night...

Another cancellation this morning...sick client. What a week of no shows. I will go and get my hair done, I think. Hopefully the sky won't fall in when I have to teach tonight otherwise that will be a full house cancellation -wise

I've booked to see Wild Honey tonight. I need a treat, so I booked a good seat too. I would usually scrape about for the cheapest seat. Have plan of action for today.

Good luck with the plan MrsS - share later?

Give 'em hell, MrsS. You have been treated appallingly and they need to know that it is absolutely not on.

Good seat at Wild Honey sounds like a great plan Mrs S. What shitehawks your workplace is full of.

Sorry to be so absent. Am keeping up but not posting. Juggling loads of projects, and feeling exhausted by the evening and eating a very careful anti reflux diet and feeling crepey. Was equally heartened (and saddened) to find on confessing to glam young assistant the need for potential boots to have space for orthotics I didn't have with me, she said she had the same thing! Also her equally glam young colleague showed me a bit of her foot that caused her huge discomfort and I chivvied her to make a doc appointment. We're all wonky

Cloud - I like the sound of your footwear. I like chunky but I find it hard to make colourful/patterned work. I will endeavour before the end of the sales.

LOL'd at Roman/remain and all of that furnishing flurry was fun.

Also, I'm chasing down a dress which I'll link to if it works out. I have become a smaller size but do not look any smaller. I don't really understand it. It's probably to do with flab and the gym would help. I will ponder that from a chair.

Anyone marching on Saturday ?