"Oooh" the Wise & Avid sing, "could we want another thing? Joseph shearlings, Maxmaras, handbags covered all in stars..."

[LetThemEatCake]

following on from bunny's festive lead ....

email addy Hark!!! prontissimo!

Cake have PM-ed you

Tracey - well I thought the gilet size 8 was fine for wearing over a thin blouse or dress but was a bit unsure as to whether I could get a jumper under it so have ordered the 10 to check. It is meant to be fitted and short though so it may look all wrong a size bigger iyswim.
Free delivery and returns with ASOS though so worth a whirl
Zembo - I think you'd look good in it too

Am out later this week for girly dinner at local restau that's a bit WAG/Only Way is Essex (Mumsnut will know where I mean I am sure!) so good opp to dress up a bit. Rather pleased to have found a black silk long sleeve mini dress which I plan to wear with black opaques, beaded belt (I already have) and black suede heeled booties. Planning to wear gilet over top if it all comes together.

Outnet have still not despatched my parcels - am now so over what I ordered that I think I may cancel if they are not here by Tuesday.

Snow has completely melted here as temps were much higher over the w/e but think they are set to plummet again.

Did anyone else see in Sunday Times Style mag that they featured the UGG biker boots (that noone else liked) that I linked to earlier this week? I swear there is someone from Style lurking on here..... there was something else I noticed too but can't remember now.

eshermummy it was the Reiss Katerina dress. I have it in Black but the Sunday Times advertised the kingfisher blue colour.

let me tell you all about STS next Sunday esher ....

It's not YOU is it LTEC , are you the STS mole?

Everyone please skip this epic post. It's just a description for Christmas Eve for cake The 24th is our main Christmas celebration. The night before I do the tree and in the morning DD gets to open her last bag of her advent calendar, which I fill with stocking fillers to keep her busy until lunchtime. We'll do some last minute food shopping at the market in the morning, take some Christmas cookies to friends from our old neighbourhood. We walk to church to go to a children's Christmas service at 3:00. After that we go home have Gluhwein (for the adults), more Christmas cookies, Stollen cake or Lebkuchen (sort of soft gingerbread). When it's dark outside we light the candles on the tree. We don't have Santa but a Christkind to bring the presents. I secretely put the presents under the tree, ring a little bell and leave some fairy dust on the windowsill and then DD gets to open her presents. And we listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio. We don't have a traditional meal on Christmas Eve I just cook something special we all enjoy. Some people have traditionally a simple meal of sausages and potato salad, On the 25th/26th we go and see our families. The traditional meal for one of these days is roasted goose with potato dumplings. Some people spend Christmas Eve with their extended family but we prefer to have some quiet time as everything is usually so hectic in the run up to Christmas.

fritzi Ich liebe dich.

Vielen Dank.

und Froliche Weihnachten!!

Pleasure cake, mwah!

Haven't been able to catch up with the whole thread, nor the last one fully but saw your q re: red drop waisted dress ABO- I have washed it on a handwash cycle but didn't spin it and it is fine.
I hadn't realised that it was dry clean only until I had already sprayed stain remove on the area where DD had been rubbing her snotty nose! I then looked at the instructions and though sod that! Fortunately, the risk seems to have paid off and sorry I didn't see your post earlier but haven't had a chance for a week or so!

Will try to read the rest tomorrow!

I think I need some of that floradix and some acupuncture as a pick me up too- feeling particularly exhausted and dying for a bit of respite! Might try the former so thank you for the recommendations!

Fritzi , quick have you seen this ???

Eurostar bloody chaos this morning, the 2nd train cancelled so everyone turned up for the first one. I have this weird OCD thing about always having to sit in the same seat, but they reallocated everyone so I'm facing backwards, which I hate, at the front of the train, which I also hate. Am fretting about my boys too. Ds3 gutted that I'm going out of his line of vision for so long, and I'm missing ds1's christmas concert this Thursday .

German chortles sounds lovely fritzi, I love lebkuchen. Yum

Chortles????? Christmas!!!

Nightmare Romana. I'm the same regarding parking spaces to DH's amusement - always have to park in the same space in car parks

Hope this week whizzes by for you and you're back home with your boys soon.

I think Cake's HH dress was on the inside page of Style mag, too.

I think I know where you mean, Esher! (Snow has mostly gone, indeed, but heck it was icy on my first school run at 8am. One side road in particular quite scary).

nah mine is this one.

If I ever get it

Hope you get there ok Roma!

-10 here at the moment. Soooooo cold.

That dress is gorgeous LTEC. There were quite a few nice things in this weeks Stle I think.

Am awaiting the arrival of the Gap coated skinnies with baited breath (or perhaps I should say with permanently held in breath to allow me to fit in them...it will be a close run thing!) The post is all delayed though, so there are few things we are expecting.

Stay warm all.

Coldest I've been this morning too. I could barely breathe. Getting mightily peed off with my lack of deliveries. I'm awaiting the Pure polo necks and a Boden wool mini in purple.

Morning. Snow has almost gone but very, foggy now. They closed a motorway here cos it started raining ice and turned it into an ice rink apparently - not nice.

After reading Fritzi's Christmas post, I think I am going to just turn up at her house on the 24th Dec! All sounds so lovely and gezellig (Dutch word for cosy).

DH's family don't celebrate Christmas (just as well, don't think I can store anymore teatowels thank you MIL) so we have made up our own Dutch style Christmas! On the Thursday, we are going to a big Christmas circus (took DS last year and he loved it - no animals just lots of people-based acts including the funniest clowns I have ever seen!). On Christmas Eve afternoon we make popcorn and cookies and usually all sit down to watch a Christmas film - something gentle like the Snowman (DSs got freaked out last year by the hobo in Polar Express!). The village centre where we live has a special Lantern Festival in the evening - all the lights are turned off along the main shopping street and the kids hold paper lanterns and there are stalls selling hot chocolate, gluhwein, sausages etc with choirs singing and a living nativity scene in the church. It has a really festive atmposhere. Boys leave reindeer food out (muesli with glitter in it) and a cookie for Santa.

On Christmas Morning we do the stockings (left in the lounge fireplace) - I usually make 2 footprints out of glitter and sprinkle some outside. Boys open a couple of pressies before we head off to church. Lunch is usually scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and bagels (bubbles for DH and I!) and then we open the rest of the presents in the afternoon. May go for a walk depending on time, Playmobil assembly (!) and weather and then we have turkey with all the trimmings at dinnertime. Oh yes, am going to do a treasure hunt around the house with clues for the boys to find various books - my Dad used to do this for me and my sisters and we loved it.

On Boxing Day we are going to an ice festival at the beach where there is a ice rink, ice mountain to slide down and ice sculptures etc.

There are usually some good threads about Christmas Day traditions on the Christmas thread.

Hope your week gets better Roman - I'm like Tracey re parking in the same spot - drives DH mad.

Thanks looby.

Sorry to hear people are cold; DS1 still feeling rotten so I feel justified in having the heating on good and high all day

Hello...

Happy Birthday Master C!
Glad he had a good day...

Marsha - party sounds fab. H Park would be fabbo...

Excitement over this house, but millions of people interested in it. We shall see. {hmm}

Roam...I am going to order all presents on-line too...good idea...then will pop out for the odd stocking filler.

Had lovely weekend full of christmas things, fayre, christingle service...nerve-wracking with 3 year old holding candle!

Right, still looking for faux fur jacket etc dark please...and lace fitted round neck top...liked the one in Sats times but designer and £££££...hate the Next one in the Times....to wear like the model 4th from left I think with cropped trousers and ankle boots.....

Roma...not Roam, sorry dear!

Oh yes, several kids in DS1's class have headlice. Thought I would get some stuff in in case of an outbreak here - will use the chemist direct website so I can read instructions etc properly rather than cope with Dutch stuff. What products should I be buying?

Sorry about your week Roma

Dh away in Dublin ( have told him to look for cashmere swathed star bag toting lovely stylish lady) and mum also away am quietly delighted to have my home to myself once the dc are in bed

Birthday dinner booked at nobu. I realise I am about 10 years too late with this but have always wanted to go.

bloss thinking of you with lots of salmon this week. Hope it is peaceful as possible

Hello dolce meant to say big thank you for your lovely kind comments the other day, made me feel much better

Right at the gym so dc can bounce some of that energy off on crash mats catch you later