It has got to the point where the pain is virtually unbearable. My eyes water and my ears are filled with an anguish that is impossible to accurately describe.
It has been going on for weeks now and no one can help me. I feel so alone but yet I know I am not the only one enduring this relentless agony. I see other parents at the school gate and they way they rub their temples reassures me that I am not alone.
Today, today I thought I was safe, I thought the stabbing in my head was at rest. Then as I collected the children from the school gate it hit me, literally like a tonne of bricks, I clasped my hands around my head and staggered into the house in the hope I could find a dark room to lie down in.
When you have three children, dark rooms are in short supply.
I can’t go on like this much longer. I cannot take it anymore.
I want to cry in frustration, bellow in anger, I want to sob at the sheer horror of it all.
But mainly….
Mainly….
I just want to grab those bloody recorders and snap them in two.
That will stop the pain.
Recorders for twins: excruciating.
Could be worse… Could be the trumpet. I have a piccolo they could borrow if they’d like?!
Trumpets are better than recorders Molly! (I have 3…) not nearly as piercing. Piccolo on the other hand – living next to a piccolo player at uni wasn’t a pleasant experience!
It all sounds horrific x
Go away x
AHH hahahahahahah!! I was reading thinking, OMG what is this poor woman going through!
My boy starts next year, a year later in scotland. Then my girl starts the year after.
I have all this joyousness (is that a word) to look forward to
Good luck (drink gin) x
Encourage them, think Britains got talent. There hasn’t been a novelty twins with recorders act. Has there?
Probably x
Oh god so not looking forward to this when mine start school – I used to inflict this sort of agony on my parents too.
Recorders aren’t really even real instruments – no one actually wants to hear them. They exist solely for the purpose of torture 🙂
and to unblock blocked ears….
I had a Trumpet from age 5.
I also had 3 different sizes of recorder & a cornet (of the brass kind, not an Ice Cream…..)
Needless to say, there is a LOT of glossing over the subject when one of my 3 suggests leaning to play an instrument……
Your poor parents. x
My eldest has joined a new after school club!
Tin Whistle club! Starts next week….Eek!!
Go quick, head to the off license!
Hahahaha oh this did make me laugh, poor you! My sister in law gave my daughter a Peppa Pig recorder when she was about 18 months, so all she did was blow into it and make that horrible screeching noise, not even a tune, needless to say it is hidden away somewhere now… xx
I remember us getting one of those – not seen it in forever *whistles innocently*
Don’t let them take up violin!
Never
This time you really did frighten me!
Recorders will frighten anyone.
I’ll see your recorders and raise you a violin. I feel your pain 😉
I am sending lots of virtual wine….
…..just think yourself lucky they haven’t experimented with playing the recorder with their nose! Still makes a hideous noise, but soooooooo much grosser!
ew ew ew
We are not starting music lessons in this house until I’ve had my ears surgically removed from my head. Fab stuff as always 😀 x
Thanks you x
Oh I am with you on that one- we have a Peppa Pig recorder. If it wasn’t bad enough that we have to have her on our television every day, she is branded on to a recorder that Mads likes to brandish and play near my ear constantly. x
…. I was laughing so much before I could actually type anything. Yes, recorders – nightmare. I had one, I was awful. Here’s a paracetomol…..
At first I thought you were talking about records, as in you had recorded them??! No idea how I came up with that!