Poor Fiona! Try to get through the next week or so somehow; it won't be long until you're at university, where things will be a lot better.

It's not uncommon for mother/daughter relationships to hit rock bottom at around this time, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be at loggerheads for ever. I'm sorry that you and your mum seem to be hurting one another so badly at the moment, and hope the rest of the week passes quickly for you.


Oh dear, what a dreadful thing to happen! I hope no-one was hurt. You need to get the house surveyed by an expert asap, as there's no telling how much of the woodwork will be affected. How old is the house, and is your relative able to stay with family or friends in the meantime?

No one was hurt - it was covered with freshly layed laminate flooring which has held together and it's now a sort of square trampoline. The house is 1950s. The relative is elderly and might well refuse to move out while it's fixed.

I hope swimming's made you feel better, darling... xxxxxx

Today I have had my youngest off sick- she's had a temperature for just over 2 days and it's getting higher and it was her birthday yesterday.
And today, my husband has been in hospital having a biopsy. I felt split in 2. Thankfully, a friend looked after my youngest.... and I went to hospital- had to come back to teach a lesson mid afternoon. Husband had GA-I have just got back and feel tired.
Tomorrow is my heaviest teaching day and I have no-one to look after my daughter.


ARRRGGGHHH
I feel sorry for myself really....

(((Miss Ross)))

Sounds like you need a hug! Virtual one above

Know the feeling... much sympathy I hope tomorrow works out OK and your daughter gets better soon.

Oh Nicki

Sounds like you need hug too

((((((Nicki))))))

Hope things sort themselves out for you, that hubbie and youngest get better quickly and someone comes to the rescue to look after your daughter tomorrow.

Huge hugs to all who need them.

And more hugs from me too

You're dishing them out like confetti lately, Barry. You'll get a reputation!

It's a very huggy sort of place here

Have some huggies yourself!

He already has one.

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH my tooth is in small pieces I haven't slept for a week and I have had to cancel lessons for this afternoon

Poor Aunty Jane... *hugs* Feel better soon! xx

Thank you, I'm off to find a bottle of mother's ruin if that doesn't make everything better nothing will!!

Another long conference call where my turn to speak is no where in sight

My sleep is getting weird again. I shouldn't complain, sleeping too much is much more preferable to not sleeping enough (that makes me rather strange after a while). But 3 hours after getting up today, I ended up asleep on the sofa for 4 hours. Which is annoying as I have work set for each day, and I won't get all the work done today now, as I have orchestra later, and try to avoid working beyond 10pm...

(stops complaining about not being able to get the work done, and goes to try and get some of it done)

I'm starting to get very confused with all the name changes recently! As the sort of person who always looks for a replacement anything identical to the thing it's replacing, you can be sure that I'm most unlikely to change mine - unless we move to another county of course!!

When did Miss Ross become Celeste?

But Berkshiremum sounds descriptive, mine is just my first name and initial, how boring is that? Perhaps being Aunt Jane S do you think, or are you telling me that you think that plain Jane S is right? It didn't involve much imagination on my part!!! Am now seriously thinking of having a glass of muscadet, but will that clash with s blanc thingummy? I'm in no rush

I don't know

ooo, so she has.

Nice name Celeste

She's re-named herself after an organ stop - one that is slightly but deliberately tuned a little sharp (or even flat in a few cases )

Celeste, dear, is it "string" or "flute"

'tis to be hoped that Marie doesn;t come into it!

(Mind you, so have I if it comes to it)

Welcome, Celeste

I first spotted it at 2.03pm yesterday when she started a new thread 'Repertoire Help', to which I was the first respondee.

I'm sure she was still on her old username yesterday morning. I'll guess it changed around the same time she started that thread.

We've had a few name changes recently, haven't we!

I spotted it very shortly after f# minor did, as I read the same thread.

Any advance on 1400 hours yesterday???

Nope. But Celeste (or Celestial) is one of my favourite roses - very, very pretty

(and Celeste Holme was fab in High Society )

Hum, I now have 1 spare ticket for Tim Minchin @ Tun.Wells for tomorrow night as no-one else can make it...

I think I may invent an imaginary friend or something to come along and join myself and the other 2 friends

Forums, this is Bert.
Bert, meet the forums!

Hi!

Sol, you know how yesterday you asked me if I thought you were schizophrenic...

I didn't ask you that. It must have been the other me!

Yay! Someone realised why I'd chosen it.





I've been wanting to change it for a year now, but was always reluctant to cause any problems. Then I saw how easily 'Sandy Garrity' became Gorf and voila. I emailed a mod late on Tuesday night and by 10am the next day it had changed... Sorry for any confusion, but I was becoming wary of people from 'real life' recognising my name.

Tut tut tut, schizophrenia isn't a split personality disorder, but everyone thinks it is

You are technically right, but the symptoms can make it appear to be a "split personality" disorder, so I expect a bit of slack Episodes can come and go, reinforcing the perception.

Cool beans
Sorry, I'm in a bit of a bad mood, and when I'm grumpy, I tend to contradict/argue A LOT.

Celeste Holme was fab in ANY film

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Student has seriously p-d me off this evening.

Insert expletives of your choice......

Perhaps you should also change your signature?

Non-members can't see signatures though, and if someone has gone to the effort of joining to find out if it *is* me, well - they deserve a gold star.

Went to our nearest Garden centre at lunchtime to buy a load of bulbs.

'Sorry we are not selling bulbs this year, as we lost too much money on them last year !'

Had to go to a (normally) more expensive one further away.

I've had a bad week.... I have had children off sick all week and a husband having a general anaesthetic. Dear husband is also relocating his business to a much bigger premise- massive expansion and he has patients booked in tomorrow at the new place. It is no where near ready. He is very stressed - he also has the PCT messing him and other orthodontists around big time ! Just been to the new premises- it will be good but not tomorrow!! I have 2 very grumpy children- who I sent to school today as I help out at a toddler group other helpers had called in with sick kids- so mine had to go to school. They are now very cross with me.
I am supposed to be at cub camp but I am not as I have too many sick children. It's my eldest's house music tomorrow- I didn't get tickets as I was at cub camp- but I'm not there.... so I could have gone! I wanted to go to the Taunton play day but didn't book in as I should be at cub camp (which is in Taunton!!!)
Youngest daughter has done no practise this week due to illness- she has an audition for county youth next week. Eldest daughter has done no practise as apparently she has had no time but has watched DVD's- we fell out when I mentioned this.
and oh yes... I have lost my phone.
I feel sorry for myself.....
Rant over.... return to calm, loving, caring mum......

Thanks.... I needed that!

Aargh my shoulders/arms/neck STILL really hurt after the dog incident last week

And my wrist has joined in too!!! Too much clarinetting????? or something else Hope it feels better soon.

We have a choir at church, fully robed, 24 strong, of which 4 are Bishop's Choristers and 9 are Dean's Choristers. We practice every Friday and take things seriously. 2 of us (wife and me) are semi-professional singers. At least 11 others are well above average singers. We produce a great 4 part harmony sound.

And the vicar picks unison modern hymns!!

Poor Steve! It's so frustrating to be ignored like that. Could the vicar not be persuaded to choose some older hymns as well? If you don't have a music group, most modern hymns aren't very effective anyway.

The Lord moves in mysterious ways - the vicar is retiring later this year!!