right, have speed-read something like 15 pages of thread and have vaguely got gist of where we are at.....
Was out last night, school christmas shopping evening and then on to dinner. Massively overdressed (natch) and had some quite sniffy/snotty looks as result but hey-ho, like I give a XXXX.
Wore grey tweed short shorts (H&M), merino opaques, ash wedge ankle boots (like Fritzi's), actually found a silk chiffon round neck blouse with tiny gold buttons down back (last year's monsoon sale) which I'd never worn so wore that with cream lacy edged camisole under and grey short buttonless cardigan with gold chain edging and pockets (H&M). Topped off with huge gold multi-strand necklace (as worn on meet-up). sound s a bit of a dog's breakfast but actually very chic and ladylike (well, maybe not the shorts 
).
House works coming along but please could it stop raining? We are now two weeks behind and have had 4 leaks into the bedrooms upstairs.........aaaaagh
Bloss - I had same idea as you and WIT re belting coats. Actually I had my idea pre-WIT so ner ner ne ner ne WIT-lady
this and this arrived today and I am keeping both. Mine are to replace a very annoyingly crap belt on my new pale khaki coloured padded puffa/trench hybrid (can't link, bought in Spain).
Only thing is I ordered my usual S but forgot about the bulk of the coat (doh) so may need to exchange for a M so think about sizing up.
God there was so much stuff I wanted to comment on and now I can't remember, oh yes
thanks to all of you who suggested lk bennett for my cream cowl blouse - it looks perfect
Cake - I had my eye on that sleeveless leopard blouse ages ago but it sold out in an S - I see it is back in 
. I wanted to do a whole D&G glamourous young Italian widow thing in it 
and now I can, yaaaay!
MM - still have not made it to Uniqlo - although I see someone said it is free p&P at moment.....but am trying to cut down on post office visits at moment....
Am off to look at the mumsy thread and find these naysayers 
Tracey - thank you for missing me and thank you for your PM - had coffee with (wise) friend and mother of 3 (older) dc today and think have got knickers in twist over dd1 perhaps unnecessarily. Am taking chill pill re school stuff.
Just feel like not enough hours in day at present to juggle dc, house, shopping, school, looking after self etc. Have huge ASOS box waiting upstairs and not even tried anything on yet as just too cream crackered from the day!
Am a bit peeved with DH as due to his eye rolling at H&M last week I failed to buy the ribbon tie statement necklace which I then posted about on here (I think it was me that first mentioned it no?) so I'm the only person who doesn't have one yet . If they have sold out by the time I get there I am going to be so 
!!!