to expect mothers who come to collect their children from playing after school to look as frazzeld as me

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and not to come to my house looking all serene and perfect, while I running around like a headless chicken with all the dcs and cake mix in my hair?

mmm... cake mix.
what cake have you made?

well i suppose if you've had their kids

if oyu like, i will call round looking like a heap , as long as you giev me cake !

if i go to work i am not allowed to look like a heap. i could out rank you on eye bags though!

cake mix is nothing. I once got to the till at the supermarket only to realise I had bird seed in my hair. I scratched my head and out it came. A little shower of millet and sunflower hearts and other birdy morsels. And I didn't have any children to blame my absent-minded frazzledness on.

but in answer to OP, yes it is in fact downright bloody rude for people to turn up at your house looking better than you do.

How very dare they

exactly how very dare they

snigger @ bird seed

fairy cakes (mostly from a packet, add egg very easy)

I can't even get cakes out of a packet to work -

My mum had a pair of knickers escaping down leg of her jeans in shop the other week.my dc found it hilarious watching me quickly help her hide them!