Family Affairs

Teeny bit stressed. Friends and family coming round for supper. Shouldn’t be blogging. Kids being a nightmare. House a mess. We’re having cheese fondue very kindly brought back by mad friend who did the Cresta run, with large bruise in place of an arm. I can’t translate the instructions on the packet. Asked son who got an A* in French and he said:-

“600gm de melange de cheese rapes. 2 something de of maizena around 20 gms in 3 something of white wine or cider. Ajuter a little lemon juice and dunno the tout on the melange of cheese. Open at ebuluchon in remount continuing laissez mijoter a little for that the fondue something well liee”.
WTF? How do you bloody make cheese fondue? Surely open the packet and heat up???

Bizarrely, he had a talk today about the future of medicine, given by a leading light in the field – in the video my brother and his wife were featured!! Doing all their prosthetic stuff. He’s coming for dinner. He doesn’t know he’s famous at my son’s school. Small world. Clever brother. The film he worked on “Wolf Man” comes out this week. He did ALL the blood and guts – so any of you that find it revolting, just remember that it’s not real.

Daughter is freaking out. She has exams this week. “MUM CAN YOU CALL SOMEONE IMMEDIATELY – I NEED A PHYSICS TUTOR TOMORROW NIGHT OR I AM SO GOING TO FAIL”. Then of course, it’s my fault she’s going to fail because of course I can’t find her a bloody tutor by tomorrow. She told me her teacher fell asleep in class today, which is fairly impressive and she’s got Valentine’s day taking up a lot more space in her brain than science. “I’m thinking about sending a card to all the boys in the class – although when all the girls at our primary school sent a card to the same boy, he started crying”.

Youngest son is on a mission for a phone AND HE IS WEARING ME DOWN. All that, “I need it for emergencies, you know it’s all a good idea, I’ll pay for it, bla bla bla” and then he said “mum, if you buy me a phone, my life will be complete”. In the supermarket earlier today he put some non-alcoholic beer into our trolley – he didn’t understand why I wouldn’t let him have any….”but mum, it’s non alcoholic, what’s the problem? I’m meant to be drinking it”.

Good grief. All that stress about divorce and it’s all about a phone.

My kids had a good weekend with their father. They’ve been reporting back on how the progress is at their new house, which is being redecorated and they’re all sounding pretty pleased with how it’s going to be.

On Saturday, the children told me that my X and his fiance took all the children to watch the rugby at their local rugby club. Builder Bloke was also there. They were all downstairs (including his children), he was upstairs. My kids reported back that it was all a bit difficult. The kids all popped up to say “hi” to BB and then the fiance asked my daughter to get him to come downstairs to have a conversation. My daughter told me “I had to go and ask him and he said that he wouldn’t because he hasn’t talked to her for a month now and he prefers it like that.”

Perhaps somebody would like to tell me where the adults are here? Using the children as a go-between? Literally allowing them to be stuck in the middle? Not acceptable. Had I still been seeing BB, I may very well have been sitting upstairs too. With my children downstairs.

How bloody awful.

I am so well out of that situation it’s not true.

The party I mentioned that my son went to last week which caused a huge amount of damage was reported in the Evening Standard on Friday.
Unbloodybelievable:- “Gatecrashers invade £1m house after boy advertises party on Facebook”
My son said that he did know the boy, but they’re not at the same school. He [...]

HURRY UP!! Only a few more days to go before I close the competition.

Here is the winning prize from Rococo chocolates:-

You have to answer “You know your in love when….”

I’ve had some very good answers so far. Don’t be put off by having to go and collect the prize. I’ll go and get it for you and send it on (promise), at least I’ll get to be the one who gets the chocolate shot!

I’ve been on a course all weekend.  Brilliant.  So interesting.  I’m going to have to tell you all about it.  It is all about the mind/body connection to movement and posture.
In the meantime, because it’s late and I’m tired, here’s a picture of one of the injuries my friend came back with from the Cresta [...]

I had a lovely day yesterday – full of meetings that didn’t really feel like meetings and I managed to keep my mouth shut during most of them, taking the following advice from my father in answer to the email I had sent him:-
“I’ve got a very important meeting on Thursday this week with a view [...]

My friends are back from their respective skiing trips. My female friend had a lovely time overall, but in a “hated every minute” sort of way.   My male friend had a brilliant time. I just LOVE the comparison between the two stories. I know it’s not about being male or female, [...]