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I just bought s new handbag and it's too small to fit my tablet in.

I ordered some earrings as a present for a friend, from a shop in NYC. They arrived today, with another package containing another pair of (different earrings). I've been charged once. They both have the same invoice/order number in.

I now have the hassle of sending them back or keeping the beautiful morsels for myself.

DP only booked one bag onto our flight to Paris tomorrow meaning I can't take as many pairs of shoes as I wanted to.

I hurt myself scraping brie off the panini maker

I have found a recipe that calls for fennel pollen and I'm jiggered if I can find any.

I have found a recipe that calls for fennel pollen and I'm jiggered if I can find any.

This has to be an early contender for the winner of the whole thread, surely

I have received my section 8 this morning, 4 kids and myself looking at homelessness again in less than a year

Bought a swanky bottle of wine as leaving gift for ds teacher. Said bottle was too squat for the gift box and wouldn't fit in. Had to substitute it with a more mediocre (thought thinner) bottle. So I've got a posh bottle of wine on my hands

My new Toast blouse bled dye when I handwashed it. This means I cannot put it on the delicates cycle with my woolies and am doomed to handwashing the bastard forever.

There are no tea bags left and DD is asleep so I can't go out for at least an hour.

MrsSJG that's not good...

(On a lighter note)
The espresso maker seems to be on the blink and the coffee is not coming out at the right temperature.

You can get fennel pollen on Amazon! Who knew. HTH.

MrsSJG I don't think that counts, because it is an actual problem. Hope it gets sorted soon.

I need bread, but the naice baker is shutting at 2.45 today and I can't be arsed to go out early, so we will have to have sliced white from the corner shop.

Steph you just delicate wash once worn dark tops with the blouse.

Startail all my naice delicates are lighter than this dark blue one. It's a Real Problem.

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i broke the strap of my fave handbag which fits all my junk in. it literally fell apart. i am slightly gutted it was my fave that my mum bought me and the shop isnt open anymore. im worried if i try to fix it ill arse it up.

I've run out of sugar so can't have a cup of tea. Sat here with a coke before the school run but it isn't the same

I walked to the naice cheese shop to get the goat's cheese rolled in ash, and now my feet are sore, even in my moshulu slippers.

The berry pannacotta I just purchased in Asda is not nearly as nice as the M&S one I usually get, far too much vanilla and too sweet. Supposedly it's from their Finest range too. Finest my a*se!

My iPhone 5 is being delivered between 12:30-4:30. I'm doing my head in checking hopefully out of the window every 5 minutes.
Also it takes too long to get a new life on candy crush.

I can't find the TV remote so I am having to stand up to turn the volume up and down (the channel can be changed with the sky remote, just not the volume).

Saying that, I am almost 41 weeks pregnant and waddling so I don' think I'm that unreasonable.

I've just remembered that rather than spending my evening in my pjs, fluffy slippers and fleecy dressing gown sat on the sofa MNing I will be spending it at my DD's option night at a school that she doesn't start at until September.

I cannot decide what colour my hair ought to be.

I've got to do 1-2 mile walk x4 for school pick-up and parents' evening because I don't drive and can't afford taxis or buses today. And I'm lazy and have already done it twice this morning. Gahh.

Some of these are Premier world problems.
Why do you roll goat's cheese in ash?
It sounds like an Easter dish.

Ninaheart I vote pink.

Some of the pieces of grilled steak in my steak burrito were under-cooked so I had to chew them for ages.

My face aches

I can't reach my mothers' day chocolates because they're on a side table next to me and I've hurt my neck so can't twist to get them. I'd have to actually get up off the sofa in order to turn around and reach them

<weeps>

i just burnt a lemon drizzle cake

I got guacamole on my burger when I specifically said to leave it off. Made it too slimy, but I was brave and ate it.

Dopeysheep - The ash is helpful in mellowing the acidity to promote the affinage and produce a more delectable cheese. It also helps make the cheese surface more hospitable to the growth of molds that add to the complexity of the overall flavour.

Apparently.

My apple had a massive brown slushy bit in it. It was the last one until my delivery tomorrow

My Molton Brown freebie isn't as nice as I hoped it was going to be. It's the saffron and patchouli body wash, and it doesn't smell very like patchouli to me.

They've skimped on the patchouli, LRD?

The only chocolates left in my box of Milk Tray from Mother's Day are the honey and the strawberry ones. I hate those.

Someone annoyed me on Mumsnet.

My jar of olives is so tall and narrow that they keep falling off my fork when I try to get them out.

The men installing my lovely new walnut floor are too noisy

I can't decide whether to dye my hair Real Red or Hypnotic Red.

I think so beer.

thingie wins.

I don't have much to do at work and I'm bored.

I had a M&S fuller for longer toastie at their cafe today. It lied. 2hours later I am definitely hungry again.

(I do have tea-bags though so have just put the kettle on)

Fennel pollen

Tee I LOVE the strawberry ones, er where are you?

My steam cleaner is still in its box. I promised it a trip up to the bathroom today.

Take it up there then! You don't have to actually get it out of the box and use it though!

My kettle has boiled on the aga and doesn't switch itself off so now I have to get up again.

And I love the honey ones. Sorted

I have to decide..... We have a titchy mortgage - and a savings account matures this week - if we pay it off, I can give up my part-time dinner lady job for a while, use my time to decorate the house properly and look into setting up a business ... if we use the money to buy a new kitchen, I have to carry on working... but I'd have a nice new kitchen

Oh middle, you have reminded me that I'm out of Method cleaner and Sainsbury's don't do it so I'll have to go to Waitrose which is further and the parking spaces are tiny.

Thanks Pelvicfloor! I like that bit of knowledge even though I don't like goat's cheese.

DS3 has lost the Batman for his batcave and I am annoyed as I may have to buy a new one.

I forgot to put the recycle bin out this morning. I will now have to go to the dump tomorrow.

I hope you can sort your housing issues out, Mrs SJG

I think I've drunk too much coffee.

Me. I was going to order some of that new Jo Malone perfume. Bitter Orange and Chocolate and it's already sold out after only a week or so. And it's a limited edition so won't be restocked. Well it was probably not that nice!!

I cleaned my dyson and now my eyes are stingy from the dust

aka and toby come on over!

Excellent idea Um. The steamer is now in the bathroom (boxed).
I'll quickly check the housekeeping thread, scan the paper, feed the dog, have a cup of tea, then I'll think about using it

Im really stuck on a puzzle in professor layton
Woe.

There aren't enough umbrellas by the pool so I'll just have to sit in the sun all day.

My dog needs his hair cut but I can't get him into the groomers for a fortnight!

Thanks to barking weather conditions in France, i'm having to entirely re-think my packing spreadsheet for when we visit the in-laws in a few weeks. I was hoping for warm, sunny, springy weather, but it's not looking good.

Someone nicked my parking space outside the computer shop --cos i was late--and now I keep loosing connection on my phone so keep having to refresh

Vivienne that perfume sounds like cheap chocolate with a horrible aftertaste so don't be too disconsolate.

DS has just eaten two oranges and a banana for his afternoon snack. I want him to have vegetable sticks

Our bread maker is broken and Currys dont have the exact model i require. I need to bake bread for DH's birthday meal tonight and wont have time when i get home from work, shop bought bread simply will not do <sigh>

got another now as I cant decide which top to wear for my two days away at a posh hotel

My Roomba is misbehaving and ignoring the thing that tells it not to pass an infrared line so it's not staying in the kitchen.

I can't work out how to download a video.
And I'm stuck on Candy Crush Saga!

I do love Cider's Norty Roomba, I must say

They are all pretty heartbreaking though

I need to top up my gas and electric and my chocolate stash but I can't be arsed to go to the shop.

Shop is probably less than 100 yards from my door.

I have a couple of redecoration projects on the go and I don't have enough secret boards on pinterest to organise them effectively without my friends seeing that I have no original ideas what i'm planning.

Oooh,Cider I used to have a naughty roomba, but I bought it from Lakeland and they replaced it with a new well-behaved one

Chelvis you can teach your Sky remote to do tv volume as well...

Its not normally norty. I think it might be the battery in the lighthouse thingie. Told it off and it did the kitchen ok. Then stopped dead in living room as had done hallway and messed about in kitchen so is now due a nap. Sigh. I now have to move it to recharge.

My other first world problem is an addiction. To wasabi peas. I cannot stop eating them.

That I can't get a mascara stain out of my beautiful White Company duvet cover.

After my DS sobbing with jealousy over a friends DD's Ben and Holly wellies, I have been searching for hours for his some bits for his birthday present but discovered that they do bugger all in a Boys range. The only pair of Ben Elf pyjamas that existed in Mothercare went on stuffing sale 6months ago and are sold out. Raaah! shakes fist It may be first world problem but it's giving me a ruddy headache...

Derek the Decorator is coming tomorrow to paper the living room and make it look spiffy and not like we decorated it with a budget of four and eightpence ten years ago but he only told us this today, so I have to spend the rest of the day getting all the books and CDs out so that DH can move all the furniture and unplug his ridiculously overcomplicated stereo system. I wanted to spend my evening sitting down with . Meh.

Can't he have the girls' ones he liked, Wibbly?

Not me, but DD1 is distraught as I will not buy her a new top for Red Nose Day at school. She has a wardrobe full of lovely things, including a couple with the precious that is red on for RN mufti day.

I am getting the evil eye and much huffing and puffing for not going shopping tomorrow and buying her a new proper Comic Relief top. My heart bleeds for her, it really does.

I've run out of milk but I cba to go to the shops. I'm drinking tea with a spoon of formula in and it's not the same

the chocolate on my magnum has cracked....

For the RN Day problem, you could do what my DM did once (though she mentally scarred me in the process, but whatevs). There was going to be a Teddy Bear's Picnic at school, and I wanted a new white teddy bear like everyone else had, rather than skanky (admittedly third hand by that point) Mr/Mrs Bear* that we had at home. DM then said that if I didn't take Mr/Mrs Bear, he/she would be given away and not have a home, and would wonder the streets. I relented (out of sheer guilt) and took Mr/Mrs Bear. Tell DD she can get new RN shirt if you get rid of all her other red shirts.

*Bear's gender and outfit changed depending on which child was the current owner. It was Mrs Bear for me, in a pink dress, Mr Bear for my brothers (weirdly, dressed in blue y fronts).

I feel like having a snack, but I don't know what, and I'm not even sure if I'm hungry, or just bored.

at absy's packing spreadsheet

Boomerang doesn't series link, how am I & DC supposed to indulge our love of Hanna-Barbera now!!!!!

Good idea Absy, but as her majesty is 11, it won't work. She'll survive...maybe.

Got to love these hormonal years. I've just said she can borrow a red top from me. Cue face at the thought of my cast offs. (Don't actually have one myself, just said it for the reaction)

I am totally and utterly tockled by the fennel pollen problem.



I do really need to know what poncetastic fare you are creating, though.

Whilst MNetting Just dropped my smartphone under chair of train as coming into my stop, had to get on floor with bum in air to retrieve it, causing a man to delay disembarking unless he clambered over me, he was politely british and waited, both just got off in time, but left my latte behind

I thought as dp was away I would treat myself to a bottle of wine. In a rush I picked up a bottle of the non alcoholic stuff.

My friend started me on the packing spreadsheet, and it worked so well the last time (I was so well dressed the entire trip, didn't end up having to wear weird combinations out of sheer desperation or bringing 20 t shirts and 2 skirts) that I'm doing it forever now. Problem is - I now feel very badly dressed at non holiday time.

New First World Problem! I want Fennel Pollen, after reading this description
"Fennel Pollen has a flavor that is incredible--like taking the fennel seed, sweetening it and then intensifying it a hundred times.

In an article for Saveur magazine, Peggy Knickerbocker wrote, "If angels sprinkled a spice from their wings, this would be it."" www.thespicehouse.com/spices/fennel-pollen

How can I not want it now?

They are hot pink and baby pink with just Princess Holly on Toby. I passed the idea past my DH and he was not impressed... I had enough of a fight getting him to agree to let DS have a play kitchen and toy buggy. There's no hope on bright pink wellies...

Oh memphis

Ooh I wonder if you can get goat's cheese rolled in fennel pollen??

Horry - just to add to the 1st world-ness, my sky remote won't work with the TV volume, believe me we spent weeks trying!

I have just eaten a whole box of Rococo salted caramel eggs and now feel somewhat nauseous.

Well, there's your mistake, Wibbly -- you shouldn't have asked him!

Mine is so terribly first world it's embarassing. My living room is too big for my Wii to work properly when I am sitting on the sofa.

Haha very true Toby... My lesson learnt .

Oh Memphis that's a real disaster. I think that faux alcohol is the worst, I once mistakenly bought pretend beer to take to a BBQ. It was about as popular as the salad bowl.

I really want a frozen margarita from the pool bar but cba to walk the few steps to get it. I suppose I'll have to force myself. Sigh.

I feel like I need a holiday somewhere sunny. We decided not to go at half term as it seemed extortionately expensive, but now I am regretting it.

The tumble drier is making a really bad noise so I had to hang all the washing on radiators and a clothes drier rack thing.

Some of these have really made me laugh!

I went to Bicester shopping village today and they didn't have the Anya Hindmarch maxi zip bag in small in the colour I want.

Instead they only had the (real) python version which I didn't think was hard wearing enough to spend £395 on it.

My car is filthy, and the car wash was closed.

My work course had warm Danish pastries at break time but I'm doing Slimming World and had to have a Hi Fi bar instead.

The specialist light bulbs I ordered for my picture lights (installed by the previous owners, who had a penchant for hard-to-find light bulbs ) are a millimetre too wide and won't fit. Ones that are 10mm wide rather than 11mm just don't seem to exist any more.

Oh dear God Chelvis - shall we call the Red Cross?!

Oh, Life, I sympathise. My car is covered in salt and I couldn't find a car wash person in Sainsbury's car park today.

Kyrptonite did you get your iPhone 5?

I love mine.



Anyhoo, my first world problem is that I have to pop in the shop and I can't decide what chocolate to buy.

And as I just wrote the word pop my autocorrect changed it to poo. So than sentence very nearly read poo in the shop. Which would have been a much bigger problem. <snort>

that sentence, autocorrect stop it please.

I didn't make enough white sauce for my lasagne.

My MacBook is running slow and it's taking me ages to finish my Ocado order.

I can't decide what steam mop to buy.

I don't know which new laptop to buy

I think my personal trainer may have a crush on me.

My Zara giftcard(s) from Christmas are burning a hole in my pocket & I can't find anything I want in there

Whoever mentioned the Jo Malone orange and chocolate perfume upthread, sorry I have it and it's lovely . . .

I ran out of kitchen roll. How can i survive without kitchen roll?

I need new Havanias for my holiday to Florida next week, so many nice pairs I may have to buy 3 pairs. Such hardship

And another more pressing first world problem is that an interior designer lent me a cushion when my house was being photographed, months and months ago and now wants it back. And I've LOST it! It's really annoying because I didn't ask for it and didn't want to offend her by saying I didn't want to borrow it. I am 98% sure it went to the charity shop by accident.

I went to about 20 different shops today looking for a red scarf for a Charlie Bucket costume (belated World Book day). Could I find one, NO!! I have resorted to buying a white one and tomorrow I am on the hunt for red clothes dye to try and dye it, that's dedication I tell you.

I've only gone and bought patterned kitchen roll instead of white and now it doesn't match the decor. Also, I can't say fennel pollen without thinking about it.

Oh no.

I've just realised DH didn;t put the shopping away properly on Sunday.

I now have to walk past 2 fridges to get to the wine in the third fridge.

Sadness.

Oooo, where to start?

DH has downloaded a virus onto the laptop so it cannot be used, meaning my novel is sat there.
Debating just buying a tablet instead (all work backed up to the Internet so safe).
I cannot decide where I want my utility room in the house I am somewhat jointly designing whilst consulting an architect friend (am thinking next to the bathroom rather than the kitchen).
We have a house covered in green glitter thanks to dd.
DS added red glitter to the mess.
There is paint (red, orange, blue and white) on my cream dining chairs.
My dyson has burnt it's motor out due to dc turning it on and off at the plug socket in penance for daring to interrupt cloud babies and/or octonauts.
I am all out of wine.
Think I am just about done.

Oh blast, I need to put petrol in the car in the morning and take it to the car wash man. All after a school drop off but before playgroup.

The voice over dude on my husband's Xbox game sounds like Lee Mack, but is not Lee Mack and it's making me bonkers.

i have run out of and i am dp is being lazy and won't make me one

I can't decide how to best use the 5 reception rooms in the gorgeous double-fronted house we're buying....

My sofa is no longer as comfy as I would like so the only thing I can do is order a new one

I was really chuffed as I got to peg 12 week old DS's clothes out for the first time. Lovely teeny babygros blowing in the sunshine and it started to fucking snow all over it . Surely snow and sunshine together is not allowed?

Just back from a lovely 5* hotel in Dublin. There were 6 bottles of l'occitane shampoos/ conditioners left for us yesterday. This am the bastards have removed 3 when making up the room, so i only have 3 to take home. < devastated> .

I want to know more about the packing spreadsheet. My holiday packing skills are crap.

My first world problem is that my replacement ASOS code didn't work, after i had already complained that the first one didn't work. Now the coat I wanted is sold out.

I have two, I cannot decide which is worse.

I have a newish car, and the aerial doesn't screw off so I can't take it through the automatic car wash

Or

The spangly new fancy washing machine I won was delivered today and I am too scared to use it. It looks too complicated.

Chelvis - my sky remote wouldn't do the volume so unless you had both remotes it was a pita to change the volume - but - my DH threw the sky remote in a strop the other day and the volume button now works!

I am gasping for a cup of and sent DH to the shop for my milk and they don't have any....may have to resort to the skimmed milk powder I have for bread making (yuk face emotion)

Ofsted and potholes

Which remind me of a record I played a lot as a very small child,
[[http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/bernard-cribbins-lyrics/hole-in-the-ground-lyrics.html RIP BC)

Sorry link

My hotel room (away for work) is too not and I ate too much at dinner...but it was yummy.

Me. Me.

I picked up my jacket from the arm of the sofa this morning before 6 (ready for my commute into London), and the iPad underneath fell corner down onto my foot.

I have bruising

It's my chauffeur's day off and I don't know how to get to the corner shop without her. Congratulations, by the way, to all those who still have mother's day chocolates on the go. You do know it is Wednesday now and you were allowed to start eating them on Sunday? What have you been doing for the past few days?

DS2 is really depressed and I have spent the whole day chasing CAMHS to get him treated . I didnt get any work done. I now have about 2 hours of report writing to do before bed.

My lovely cleaner has gone on holiday so I also have to clean the house. The dogs have left muddy paw marks all over the floor and on the sofa. I have 3 loads of iorning piling up downstairs

I have a stomach ulcer and have been drinking gin because of the stress, so am also feeling sick

I got a shitload of mothers day chocolates

All the Lindt Easter bunnies I saw in the shop had torn foil, couldn't buy any of them.

Whether to book a parking place and pay for it in advance or whether to just turn up on Saturday morning to see the Bretiling air display team at our local small airport.
TBH, I may not bother going. They've been practicing over our flats all morning so I reckon I've seen what they can do! They are pretty spiffing...

I've just moved to a new house with a beautiful new kitchen and none of my pots, which I acquired over YEARS so's I could have really nice ones, work on the fancy induction cooktop. So I have to go out and buy a whole new set of mid range pots

I ordered some yogurt made with only coconut milk from Ocado because it was delicious and yummy, but it arrived broken and leaking, so they took it away. Then I went to do another order - I don't think they are stocking it any more. I'll probably never get to eat it ever again.

I only had the one pot when I discovered it. And I shared that pot with DH.

I have run out of S. Pellegrino and am having to drink local, still water <sob>

The tea boy hasn't yet brought me my morning coffee. I had a late night last night and I've been here an hour and 10 mins so far.

I have broken my thumbnail and had to cut it really short. Tragically this means that I can't peel shallots at the moment

Waitrose didn't have any spelt-and-oat-cakes, so I am having to make do with rice cakes today

My orcado delivery was 20 minutes late and there were no pomegranate seeds for DD

My wedgewood plates won't go in the microwave because they've got a 22 carat gold trim on them.

Plus

My cleaner has gone on holiday so I will have to clean the toilet myself.

I have a bit of quinoa stuck in a gap in my teeth.

My nail colour is too bright for the current weather and I can't get to the nail salon until Saturday.

It was sunny yesterday and I was too hot in my new conservatory.

My plumber is now going on holiday and won't be back for a week which means my new bathroom won't be finished for what feels likeaaaaggggeeeeessssss. He's also moving the flue on the boiler to stop the fumes from blowing at said new conservatory.

Bah.

I want to go to John Lewis now but have to wait for a parcel that I requested to be delivered today.

I am also waiting in for a parcel (new steam mop) and it's stopping me from going out to buy the new Radio Times.

DH is working from home and tapping really loudly on his keyboard while I'm trying to MN.

Not me but dp send me a message via Gmail chat: "My fork has the wrong curve to scrap the last of the couscous from the bowl!!!!"

One from last night, but i was too upset to type it out...

Game of Thrones Season 2 set has a faulty 3rd disc. Will have to print out Amazon return labels and walk to the post office and wait a week to get a replacement

New day, new first world problem. My amazon delivery went to a neighbour on Weds (as he arrived the only 30minutes I was out all day!) and now said neighbour is never in. Ruddy hell no.38, open the door and give me my new nappy pail and oxo training sippy cups back!!

One from last night

I went to a gig with DH and the band didn't come on till 10pm. I was absolutely shattered by the time we got home.

I've got chicken pox!!! Came out in spots this morning!!
Cheers DS

Chicken pox is not a first world problem, it's an actual illness.

My first world problem is that I can't decide if I want to go to the pub this evening or stay in and watch TV and eat lots of food.

I just got some Moroccan chicken soup and some sea salt and cider vinegar crisps from Pret to take away.... and they forgot to put a napkin in my bag. I may have to use a tissue instead.

The facebook app on my phone only works when I have WiFi.

The Facebook app on my phone is rubbish - it always requires SO much data that it's pretty slow to show anything new even when I do have wifi.

Amongst other shitty problems...

I just opened a letter and got a paper cut between my fingers.

Alright then. How about this: I can't decide whether to cut my nails short or not... I probably should, seeing as I've got chicken pox and find myself scratching without even realising.... But I quite like them long... What to do...

I've just bought my usual Chanel Foundation, but somehow I've ended up with the wrong shade (too dark) but, I've used it so I know they won't take it back

And, just heard that our best friends, who we're going on holiday with in July, can't get a visa for their nanny, so we're not going to have any child care in the evenings - bugger

I like snowflakes - take your broken handbag to a cobbler, they can often work wonders

Today i am decluttering. Has there ever been a more first world problem than having so many possessions its become inconvenient?

I purchased lovely Japanese/flowery type curtains for my living room and now can't find anything else to match them, their gonna have to come down

dash, I am totally with you both on the first-world-ness of that and on the feeling.

I've just moved approximately 89.5 tonnes of books and assorted cooking stuff into my new house, and my back is killing me. Also, I have a cold, and the landlord's taste in paint (sort of yellowish-grey and yellow) is not mine, so I will have to repaint things white soon. Life is hard, I tell you.

LaQ - did they advise you on it at all, or did you just buy it? Because if they told you the shade it it's wrong, they might well take it back, especially if you take it in and show them it's the wrong colour.

DH bought the wrong Bomaby Mix, and now I have to concentrate on it.

Raisins.

There were no tomatoes in my organic veg box delivery. Bugger.

Look up on the Internet how to tune sky remote, it's easy if you know what model your telly is. Hope little person is here safe.

My first world problem is being an android user in a family of iphone users ....oh the inconvenience.... And the flack....

Cleaner called in sick, I had to find where the heck we keep use the hoover myself.

My stylist has unexpectedly left the week of my next appointment. I can't even think. Try a new person? Find somewhere else?

I have 3 weddings to go to this year, all unrelated people so I can technically wear the same outfit 3 times. So I started looking at expensive clothes as I'll get the use out of them. But I have now seen 3 expensive outfits I want...

I've nothing to dip into my Sicilian lemon houmus

i'm making croissant from scratch and they are taking ages to prove

I don't want to turn the other spare room into nursery because my shoes live there at the moment. And I would not be able to display them so neatly if I moved them out. Too many shoes, basically.

There are three programmes I want to record on at the same time. Sky+ will only let me do 2.

too many shoes HazleNutt ? I don't follow your meaning

I have a wedding to go to when I will be four months pregnant. Have no idea whether I ought to buy a maternity dress or a standard, if forgiving, dress as I don't know whether I'll have much of a bump by then.

true Try, more like lack of space. Shoes need their own room.

DD2 is off to France with her school group and when she asked what souvenirs she could bring back for us our minds went totally and completely blank, so if any of you can think of small and cheap yet nice and clearly French items I am open to suggestions. Chocolate is on the list anyway, just need a few more prompts..

They are not allowed to buy plonk or alcohol of any other sort per school policy.

Not-too-maternity-ish clothes recommendations from one of my favourite bloggers.

I was so overwhelmed by all the buttons and functions on my new washing machine that I forgot to put in the fabric conditioner and the clothes have come out slightly 'crispy'

Ooh, thanks Trills! I see one that will do very nicely...

trills I love her! I've been following her blog for ages

Both the adults in the house had to get up today as DS's new phone was being delivered anytime from 8.30am

A Facebook friend today posted that she was "really angry" and upset as Nespresso had not delivered the coffee pods she'd ordered for her coffee machine. She'd apparently ordered them a few days ago and they had accepted the order but are now saying her order is too large as she's ordered 1600 coffee pods. She's really upset about it all and is considering buying a different coffee-machine as Nespresso "don't care about their customers". Honestly, it makes world famine and climate-warming pale into insignificance!

If you love Esther and have a kindle she has a book out today - I am hoping there will be a decent amount of stuff in it that is not already on her blog.

I've bought the book! There's some new receipes in there, and some new ramblings

ive hurt my ankle and it looks peculiar, i have no painkillers

I forgot to carry a Waitrose bag when DD and I went to look in 99p shop for Easter crafty bits.
The other customers looked like they came straight off the set of Jeremy Kyle...

I have a family event to go to Saturday night and am struggling to find the right accessories for with my dress

The ridges on the soles of my new Gant boots are so wide apart that pieces of gravel from my in/out crunchy drive get stuck in them

I've just bought £150worth of clarins face cream (one day cream, one night cream and one under eye cream).

Need a poo, but the cleaner's doing the landing outside the bog. Tempted to nip to the pub up the road.

I decided to have a Cadburys button dessert thing for breakfast, which I now regret as I really need chocolate now and there isn't any left. And it's pouring so my plan to nip up the road is scuppered.

I have a fasting blood test tomorrow so can't eat or drink after 7.pm

No caffeine for that long is going to kill me. I think I might cry!!

On my blood form it says fast for 12 hours, but the receptionist said no food or drink other than water from 7pm. My blood test isn't until 9.am so surely I am ok to drink until 9.pm? 14 hours seems like over-kill.

My DD has come back from her friends with PINK hair. I am simultaneously obviously it will wash out (food colouring) but WTF do I say at nursery tomorrow?

Samu2 if you think that's bad, I hope you don't ever have to have a colonoscopy. I had my last proper food on a Wednesday night, ate yogurt and soup with no bits all day Thursday, clear liquids all day Friday, a small glass of water Saturday morning and had the procedure at 2pm Saturday. Didn't eat proper food again Saturday night as I was so weak by then I went straight to bed when I came home from hospital .

I spent over an hour trying to figure out where to hide a large Xmas present for DS1

Eating lunch - houmous, salad and pita, naturally - forgot I put coriander in with the salad. I quite like coriander I just wasn't expecting it.

My Sky Box has broken. I can still watch but can't record anything. They can't come till 13th to fix it .

My first world problem today was realising I'm bored of afternoon tea and can't think of a suitable replacement for it, after going pretty much every other week last year when both me and my husband were finishing early once a week on the same day as the cleaner was in. To avoid getting in her way, we would go for afternoon tea with champagne at a 5 star hotel. Every other week for about 6 months. Now, scones bore me senseless.

Whatever can I do with my afternoons off now

Yes, I have got very dirty power-hosing my patio.

I want to go to an exhibition in Ireland but can't afford the ferry or flights. I live almost as close to Ireland as its possible to be without actually being in Ireland and one of largest ports in the country is right around the corner from my house but it just costs too much. Not fair.

My smartphone hasn't back some photos up to Google Plus and now I have to email them to myself so I can print them to enable dd to complete her homework project.

I don't like the smell of my new washing liquid that DP got as our normal one was out of stock and now I need to use a whole bottle of it

i've just come back from town and sat down with a lovely sarnie and thought i'd do a spot on MNing, only to be reminded by bubbles's not very nice WUL that i forgot to get some for us

and i like to use the one that has a refill pouch and is very kind to the environment if not my purse

I'm convinced that my favourite character in a tv show is going to be killed off but we won't find out for another 3 episodes!

My iPod keeps deleting my playlists.

I can't decide between two hotels to stay in, in Cape Verde <sad face>

Which show GreatGretzky and which character. If it's GoT then the safest course of action is just to not have a favourite character.

I am in bed as working tonight and DH has just bought me up a very small cup of tea which I have now drunk

Louboutin don't do cases for iPad mini, just regular iPad.

Yes have one here - washed my iPhone. Granted a first world problem - but I'm gutted and desperate to try and make it work again.