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Stropps, very good luck today, I hope dd lets you help her in positive way and recognises that you have done so. And that you get sofa and wine today.

Respect, addle.

Cloud, I can't even hear what instructors running gym classes say.

Stropps - with you in spirit today. I have a long weekend coming up and can't wait....
Sorry I haven't really caught up, dealing with friend whose mum is terminal and it's dragged a lot of stuff back to the surface

Addle, that's the way to end dry January

Here I'm a bit worried about DD who seems to be having some ongoing issues with friends at school and is feeling left out. Hope it doesn't blow up, but I fear it will.

Oh BD, that's hard - how lovely that you are being supportive, but put your gas-mask on

Stropps, strength and gasmask. BD ditto.

Addle, perhaps skip yoga?

My PFB is 16 today!

Morning all. Joining the others in wishing you strength for today Strops. There's a strange generational shift taking place in my house at the moment - my uncle died at the beginning of the week (peacefully in hospital at age 85) and my dad emailed me and my siblings to let us know. My dds keep reminding me to call grandpa as he must be feeling sad as that was his last brother. it's normally me nagging them to remember their grandparents so it's odd to be on the receiving end. I suspect it also says something about their own sibling relationship which is really rather a nice thought.

PS. For London theatre crepes, Art at the old vic is very good.

MrsW - my parents are the last siblings left too - it makes DM so sad (she's only 72 - today, in fact).

Addle - I find alcohol makes one fall aslepp swiftly, but then wake twitching in the wee small hours.

Thinking of you today Stropps. Remember to look after yourself as well.

And you BD

Glad you're feeling better by the sound of it, Addle !

Tilly I hope it blows over and DD is ok. It's hard to have that,sort of worry knowing also that they have to sort it out themselves.

beachy I hope you can get DS back to school today. I will be in touch...am coming to the goat twice this month xx

Rudy hope you're ok. I'm happy to mail you those samples if you PM me your address.

happy Birthday to MIs PFB! Sweet 16 and clearly has been......

I am off to another study day in town shortly and teaching tonight. this has been the week of my review and I am so sleep deprived I can't think straight. This was quite the least comfortable review I have ever had and I feel quite depressed about it. Maybe I'm just not at the top of my game any more. Maybe I never was.

Rose darling, you are having a bad day. You need something to affirm you and lift your spirits.I do know that feeling horribly well; being freelance is so knife-edgy.

I am having one of those torrential periods and have to go to this 'informal interview' later. I narrowly avoided absolutely drenching the place twice in the night - have pinched some of DD1's Bodyforms to back up my moon cup - but am a bit apprehensive about this morning...

Wear black MI.. and good luck. Thanks for your words. I'm just feeling a bit too long in the tooth to have to jump through all these wretched hoops... 😠

Good luck at the interview, MI, and second wearing black (do not, however, sit on a light coloured fabric covered chair - voice of bitter experience). Salutations to DD on reaching 16 (so many birthdays in February, DGS1 will be six shortly and DH - ahem - 69). Rose, I think you are just generally feeling down and then, whatever is said, I would just take it the wrong way. Good luck today, Stropps. BD, how lovely that through your pain you are able to support DFr. BTM, hope DD can sort out her problems.

Beachy, you asked about squirrel evidence: we have put hazelnuts in the feeder (which is about 6 ft off the ground) and the nuts are being gnawed and remains left. CV, you asked about my pain: it's not so bad now most of the time and properly under control.

I was so pleased to read about all the possible job offers: things are definitely looking up for some Crepeys.

Cleaning this morning (not my favourite pastime) and a bit of food shopping this afternoon; I lead an exciting life.

Pain clinic appointment was yesterday. Sensible advice, more medication, a steroid injection into the sacro-iliac joint & another appointment for an epidural soon. Hoping for some improvement before too long.

I'm fed up with not being able to drive & worried about losing my nerve (predictive text suggested 'mind' there ) as I had a grim struggle to overcome driving phobia in the first place.

Stropps and MI, all the best for today and BD,

Amadeus was almost overwhelming. Glad to remember that Mozart's end was not as wretched as portrayed here, though. Salieri is magnificent. It's on NT live tonight, I think.

Arrived at dd's accommodation at the pre-arranged time (9.30) and she is nowhere to be seen. No one knows where she is. The accommodation manager has been in her room and says her laptop, car keys and purse are there. Her phone is going to voicemail and Fb messages are not delivering. Last contact with her was via Fb last night, when she ok'd the 9.30 arrival time. It's now 10.30. I have no idea what to do for the best. I'm not allowed into her room or her accommodation, obvs, so....????

Stropps, the sensible thing would be to leave a note on the door with precise directions to a pleasant local cafe where you will be ensconced.

But that isn't always the easiest...

Oh no Stropps.

Crossing everything that she turns up soon.

Ah shit Stropps. Do you think she spent the night in a friend's room there somewhere? Try not to imagine some terrible scenario. It will be mundane and she will have forgotten to tell you or her phone or something. ( that's what has happened before)
Infuriating!

BD, sorry stuff is appearing round dark corners. Can you limit amount of support you are providing? Have you anything planned for long weekend that might improve sprits?

Rose, you keep so many balls in the air , not surprised you are feeling a bit meh. Hope it's not too long until you can get to the flat.

Happy Brithday Inferiorette! 16, 😊.

Stropps - I would be exhausted with just half the amount of physical and mental stress you undergo. I do hope DD has made an appearence by now.

MI - good luck for interview and happy birthday to Inferiorette.

Rose - We all have good and bad days depending how knackered, hormonal we're feeling. Don't beat yourself up about it.

Here DH and DS have gone off skiing so am home alone - will do some cleaning and organise myself for England;

Auriga so about Amadeus.

Managed to avoid major flooding only by frequent loo trips...heading home to make birthday cake and buy self booze

Stropps - how utterly maddening, and worrying, both at the same time. I hope you've tracked her down, and given her a piece of your mind!such a shame she's abandoning the uni thing - she seemed to be doing so well last year.

Rose - I too am having an 'I'm shit' day. Yesterday, after what I thought was a good lesson, I had a meeting with my manager and discovered I'd been running my non-accredited course wrong, hadn't been gathering evidence correctly, doing the ILPs correctly, blah blah blah.

Teaching does seem to be mainly about getting told off for not doing tiny things right, while they ignore the great things that you do, and grinding down your self-confidence so you accept their derisory wages. "I must only be worth £40 a day as I don't really understand how to fill in a particular form correctly..."

My pendulum is swinging back towards option of 'nice local reasonably paid job that I can just leave behind at 5'. If only such a thing existed.

I have succumbed....

Just to let you know: she has now turned up and there has been crying and swearing. Both on my part.

HB to your dd1, MI.

HORTUS - is that a variation on the POTUS acronym? Horrific Orange Racist Terrifying United States?

Glad DD has turned up, Stropps. I hope your swears were of the rude variety.