And from me too

Meerkat, that was a brilliant thing to do - his face must have been a picture!

Are you even overweight? If you are, I have to say you don't look it at all!
Ignore them they're idiots.

(Ps, if you fancy a real life rant and a cup of tea, give me a text I'm in York til Tuesday, though I ought to be on campus for some of that time!)

Awwww, Celeste, you have to take pity on these poor people struggling through life with just the one brain cell. Unfortunately, that's evolution for you - it doesn't create perfect creatures, just ones that are good enough to reproduce. Hey, maybe these ones will be sufficiently dim-witted to everybody that their genes will leave the pool.


My argh is the most horrendous cold/flu/thingy that I can remember having. Definitely fail the ?10 note test (laying on sofa, you see a ?10 note on the ground outside. Do you bother to go and pick it up? If yes, you don't have flu ) I haven't felt this "spoonless" in years and years, although this is hopefully an acute thing it's a reminder of what chronic illness was like. Going downstairs to get something to eat, what are all the other things I might want from downstairs, because I'll do that all in one go as after coming back upstairs I won't have the energy to go back downstairs for a goodly while.

Just take heart in the fact that one day, they'll say something abusive to the wrong person and they will hopefully need crutches themselves afterwards

The Garden Centre are putting out Christmas stuff - Santa hats and tinsel. It's August 23rd!

The left-hand lens of my reading-glasses fell out and tumbled to the floor! I picked up a magnifying glass to see whether the tiny screw had also become dislodged - it was missing! Fortunately, it had popped out and onto the newspaper in front of me - phew!

A quick hop. skip and jump into town, to my optician and they're as good as new again! Yippee!

Good grief! There are still four months to go - I know the weather hasn't been all it could be, but it is still summer!

Maizie, I hope you feel better soon

ARGH.

And BAH.

There should be a law against this. Ridiculous.



Get better soon, Maizie...

Feeling ill in very many different ways - none of them self-inflicted this time. I think I've had the misfortune of catching two unrelated bugs, so I have a cold at the same time as a headache and a tummy bug. Great. And I have to get some work done today...

Celeste/Lucky/Maizie,

Sorry to hear you are all suffering in some way or other, not nice at all.
Hope this helps

There's a certain large department store in London that has had its Christmas shop open since the 6th August ...



, and the same goes for lucky045...

at least let's get Halloween over first!!

I agree, especially since that's my Birthday!

Actual Halloween is your birthday?!?

Well, yes! Isn't every day someone's birthday?

I might have the stature of Frankenstein's monster, but I don't have a bolt through my neck!

No trick - it's a treat for me!

Fair play Halloween is the best day of the year, purely for the dressing up!! (I imagine you have other reasons to think so, too )

Hopping mad having spent the last 2 weeks preparing an application for an M-level course run by Uni and posted the application (after twice being in e-mail contact with the module director) only to be contacted this a.m to be told that due to some constraint or other they are no longer able to offer places on a free standing basis.

They only advertised it 2-3 weeks ago! If it is done by independent learning, directed reading, assignments and on-line tasks, what's the problem? They don't even have to find me a desk!

Bah. I've no excuse now not to do my piano LTCL in December - there was to be a 3 day block placement on the same week as the diploma exams.

Grrrrr.

More a moan than a scream, but my foot hurts!! Just when I thought my leg was starting to slowly get back to normal, and I could walk without limping!!!!! Back at Hospital tomorrow, fingers crossed its just due to overdoing it, and not anything more serious again... Dont know what the treatment would be for a second DVT if you're still on treatment for the first!!!

Grrrrrr....

Just had my Tesco delivery and it was minus all my frozen items. This was due to their freezers in the van packing up. Now I know that this can't be helped but here am I now absent my frozen stuff. Waiting to get their email to confirm that they have refunded the money and also see if they have refunded the delivery charge as I still need these items!

I know it's nothing compared to some people's worries, but after being reassured by our biology teacher that two of my closest friends and I would almost certainly be in the same classes for sixth form next year, it turns out I'm not I'm in a different class to them, and it sounds silly but I'm not really looking forward to sixth form anymore

Oh sorry to hear that Fran, is there any way you can speak to someone about getting changed? If not, I am sure that you will make new friends in the new class.

Thanks Eldatom. It's not that I won't know anybody, that doesn't bother me that much, it's more than I've been building up the idea of how good it'll be that we'll be all together (we've always had classes together since year 7, and it's been great cause any time anybody's stuck there was always someone to help them with it) and now that we've built it up so much it's not even happening I don't think the school allows changes until there's a timetable clash, but I suppose I could try.

Yes I know what you mean, mind you I am surprised that the school has allowed you all to stay together for so long. Usually they like to mix you up a bit so that you don't rely on eachother so much,

Who knows, on your own you may bloom more and I am sure that you will see your friends in breaks and still be able to liase with your work. Don't let it get to you, instead look forward to the start of term.

Once you go out to work, changes are made all the time, sometimes with very little notice.

From what I have seen of you on here Fran, I don't think you will have any problems accomodating the change.

Good luck for a new school year. After all being in the 6th form will make you feel very grown up.

I sympathise. I work in a school system where lfriendships are often very difficult to maintain on account of changes of class and frequent changes of school. I would have hated it. At the grand old age of 66 I am still friends with my best friend from grammar school days.

Try to get it changed, and if you can't try to find ways of keeping up the friendships. There may be someone else in the other class who would like to swap with you. If all else fails try not to let it get in the way of your studies.
Look for new friends - like eldatom I am sure your are an easy person to be friends with. Bon courage - as they say here.

Ouch : hope it's better soon...

Sorry you're disappointed Fran, but remember (unless you do many more subjects than is usual) you'll have frees, and presumably a common room to hang around in. Friendships with people in different classes are much easier to maintain in sixth form than earlier on in school.
Xx

Sorry to hear that, Fran. You can get together and study after schools and help each other with revision and things - I always found that 'fun'! *hugs*

I have just clumsily dripped nearly a whole toast's worth of marmalade onto my keyboard. I hate things being sticky and now my whole day's work is going to be uncomfortable.
N

Oh dear, was that a musical keyboard or a computer keyboard ?
It reminds me of an incident (reported on another thread) when I started to play at a concert, and the piano keys stayed down because someone had spilt some brown sugar in the baby grand.

Yuk!! Hope you manage to get the sticky out.

It was my lovely Macbook.

N

Our choir conductor for this week has made me sing soprano (I normally sing 2nd in SSA, or alto in SATB), while the people who'd prefer to sing soprano were put onto alto because 'they have a richer tone'. That's true, but I'd still rather not be asked to sing top A!! I can only just get F, which occurs in almost all of our pieces!
Also, there are only five boys in the chamber choir:
On bass - one bass and one tenor
On tenor - two tenors and one soprano/treble

I just got an SMS from my on line car insurance company INEAS. It said that my car insurance runs out on 1st September and I must find another insurer.

It looks as if the company is in difficulty but I was unaware of this. I understand that even if you don't pay you have a month's grace. So I thought they had just left it until the month was up when I assume they are legally obliged to inform me and it was my hard luck that I only have until Wednesday to organise another insurance.

However, when I checked my bank statements I discovered that the yearly payment due had been debitted as usual and they have, in fact, sent me the green sticker you have to show on your windscreen. Obviously I want to know if I am still covered or not and if not when they are going to refund my money.

Trying to contact them by telephone is impossible. Trying to contact them on line has wasted two hours and I have finally got a reply from Amsterdam (seems they don't operate in France any more) telling me they will pass my query on and contact me.

Has anyone else had this kind of thing happen?

Sorry, I can't help, Aquarelle.



MEH.

You okay, Celeste? xx

Er.... I dunno really. Going to stay with my parents for a few days from tomorrow and am terribly stressed and scared about it all.

I still have my cold/flu/thing. Getting much better and I am back at work today, though having got up, got here, and waded through 79 emails, I'd quite like a nap now

My argh is that my left ear is blocked. When I got the cold/flu/thing my ears ached for the first couple of days, but was then fine. Friday (day 5 of the illness) I got water in my ears in the bath. My right ear cleared fine, my left ear blocked up (used to happen sometimes when I went swimming, would clear same day or day after or at most day after that). I got some eardrops to see if they helped. Initially I thought they did as Saturday night my ear 'popped' and I could hear. But I thought it might be good to carry on with the eardrops, to clear any blockage. So putting eardrops in later on Saturday night re-filled my ear...and it hasn't unblocked since

I will go and see the doctor on Friday (one week) if it is still a problem, though I'm not sure what he can do other than say 'keep using the eardrops and be more patient' (but at least that'll assure me nothing is Properly Wrong, I suppose)

Awww Celeste! Hope it goes better than you think....

Aaaaaaaaaargh, - Squirrels are now appearing carrying horse chestnuts. They proceed to excavate a hole in my back lawn, drop in the chestnut and fill it in again. They leave a mess.
My first inclination is revenge, by going out and taking them all out again and chucking them in the bin, but that will only mean they will dig more holes when they cant find them !

Awwwwwwww how cute!!! ill take them from you fsharpminor!!!!! I dont care if the gardens a mess, and i think squirrels are amazing!!! lol

Yes, fsharpminor, think past the squirrel and your lawn - think TREES! Habitats for wildlife, long after we have shuffled off this mortal coil! Conkers for generations of school-kids - what a potential legacy!

(Unfortunately, it was going to feed the squirrels (Sciuridae) when I was 10, that led to me being hit by a car! Maybe you are right, after all! )

Darn American Tree Rats, as my mum would say...

Why is there not a sobbing hysterially smilie?

Sometimes things are too upsetting to try and type down...

[Edit: Just realised how silly 'sobbing smilie' sounds; if I wasn't hysterical before, I definitely am now! Also, so no-one worries, I am mostly okay and finally free of my bullying housemates-of-this-year. The last few weeks have been truely horrible, and I seem to have a lot of pent up emotion. At least its all over now, but I think its going to be a while before I get back to my usually happy self. ]

Really sorry, hope things get better soon

Aww Tamsin, hope you're feeling better soon, sometimes its only when you leave a horrible situation that you realise how much you had been keeping pent up all that time! Hope you're back to your usual happy self soon.

Hope that happy self is back really soon, tamsin

No words, just

Me too tamsin

And another one from me...