Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

BD I would hold out hopes for next year. School will likely follow NQT teacher with one that's far more experienced and can juggle the further needs of more able children with those of everyone in the class.

DD1 has had a hit and miss year with her NQT and I have posted for support several times. Sooooo crap when they don't like school. Just 3 weeks to go.

Wilbur have fun with your shop. What is your plan, apart from navy crops?

I have just ordered a leather jacket from All Saints and waved my hair all tousled-like with my magic wand. I am clearly ovulating

All Saints clearly you are not worthy to be on a crepy thread

Ha! Hopefully not too much of a mutton job, BigTillyMint.

It's a classic biker style www.allsaints.com/women/leather/belvedere-jacket/black/wlg010-5 so not one of those wag-like mullarkies with asymetric hems and whatnot.

Been wanting one for years and have had extra commission that I should be able to do quite quickly so thought go for it.

Have actually ordered brown and black with view to sending one back. Any prefs anyone?

Oooh likey! Both colours look good - you probably do need to see them both in SL to compare. Not muttony at all

Yes is tres frustrating. DS's teacher knows he is bright and capable yada yada but also knows if he doesn't 'catch' him in the first five minutes of a task being set ds will follow all these amazing and interesting ideas in his head and not put a damn thing on paper. Yet at home I get given books detailing Aztec 'History' with contents pages, drawings, maps, the works....

Love the jacket....I was thinking of getting a denim one until I realised how much train fares were in Japan and decided that every penny now has to be saved!

Shopping trip will hopefully yield a sundress with a waist (I cannot do empire line, I have small boobs and then wide hips so empire line just hangs in an unflattering triangle), some espadrilles that will make me feel 18 again, some cropped trousers I can wear to work and a bikini that will perform beach miracles. Too much to ask?

Good call on the leather jacket - I got my first one ever last winter (total result, dh got it free from work) and I feel Fierce in it.

I want to feel Fierce! It had never occurred to me before that that was the feeling I was going for.

Wilbur that is an ambitious exciting list. Might it need to be one of those mad ones where you scoop up loads of stuff and try on at home? Repenting at leisure kind of thing. Seems like a good idea until it's Taking Things Back day.

I have a black leather blazer-style jacket which is rather useful. (From the local Red Cross shop.) God I hate the word 'blazer', it reminds me of school - it's just a straight unstructured non-biker jacket iykwim.

I have several suede jackets, some biker-style, some more "blazer" style. Perhaps I need a leather biker jacket too......

On a different subject, anyone here on HRT - have been taking it for a week and am finally feeling a bit better. But that might have nothing to do with the HRT

I have a biker jacket, which is pretty fierce, but is also in the loft, which DP is refusing to go into. And I'm to scared to go up the not-a-proper-loft ladder. Annoying.

Sent into party catering quandary by neighbour pointing out that she reckons people will want 'proper' food, especially if they've come quite a way, and thus missed lunch.

How about:
Roast ham
Cheese
Nice bread
Pickles
Salad
Cake

and

Crisps.

That sounds fabulous. Especially the last item.

Sounds like my ideal menu, herbs. Yum. And those who want only crisps will be happy too. Perfect.

Am v. of you lot in your luvverly jackets.
I had a biker jacket a long time ago, when I also had a bike. And, briefly, a big biker boyfriend with a Harley . I eventually realised that both the boyfriend and the jacket made me look a bit silly. I am short with hugely broad shoulders and have come to the conclusion that if I ever want a jacket that fits properly, I will have to get it custom-made. (which probably isn't going to happen) Also, I shouldn't go out with giant baldy men with long beards.

The day my sister was born my dad asked me 'So what happened today, then?'

And I said...

'I had my favourite lunch of ham and crisps.'

In my defence I was three and all three year olds are maniacs.

And will that combo look ok for interview? Not a madly formal organisation but I do want to look fairly respectable!

Sounds perfect MI. And good for whatever the weather will do. Will the interview necessitate going on the tube? Have to account for the extra 20deg of heat in there, and consequent state of deshabille upon exit.

OH god yes, that is a thought.

"And will that combo look ok for interview?" Thought you meant combo of ham and crisps, MI. If it was a press job at House of Gaga would be spot on.

Herbs can I come as you have mentioned crisps? (No party is complete without them IMO). I have a very old leather jacket, more blazer style than motorbike - I inherited it from my mum and I love it (must dig it out, but maybe not in this weather...)

MI - sure you will look fab.

Herby, how on earth did you end up with so many people at a 2nd birthday bash? I think people will eat whatever you put in front of them, regardless of the time of day, but your list sounds perfect and won't involve you running about like a blue-arsed fly all afternoon.

Blackduck - I can't help with the "reluctant schoolboy" but he does seem to be seriously bright. Definitely hold out for a better teacher next year.

Fashion-wise, I'm feeling left out, because I don't have a leather jacket, in the loft or otherwise. Today I am rocking Boden after I had a rush of blood to the head and bought a few items in the sale last week. I bought an Everyday Jersey dress, which fits so perfectly I was prepared to overlook the "kiwi-vomit" colourway (anyway, DH liked it).

MI, your interview outfit sounds just fine. I love the style of the trousers, but I don't get on well with side zips myself; always end up with a baggy crotch. Maybe I need to grow the gunt a little.

Tilly - do keep updating about the HRT. I keep putting off a trip to the docs to discuss strategies to deal with monster periods/extinct libido etc. and HRT might well be suggested. I read somewhere that the Pill can be good for over-40s (not as contraceptive, precious little bedroom activity at the moment...) so I might see what he thinks of that.

Numbers... hmm. Don't quite know how we ended up with so many. Last year it was a kind of 'crikey, we managed to have a baby, against all the odds, and he's the best one ever' kind of celebratory party, so I suppose we asked all the same people again. Family and old friends. Mercifully few children.

In some ways I'd much rather do this than the inevitable soft play party torment ? or , even worse, a kids party at home ? that I'm no doubt going to have to endure for the next 10 years.

Herbs, we did a 1st birthday bash for each of ours which sounds a bit like yours - I don't remember what was eaten (apart from brthday cake, of course), but lots of alcohol was definitely consumed. To go with the crisps, of course

CV, I tried the pill (progesterone only) for 3 months and while it dried my Noahs Flood-like erratic periods to a daily drip (yes, most days), it did nothing whatsoever to improve my mental health, etc. So I'm hoping the HRT might get me back to normal.

Ds's first birthday was similar, lots adults, lots of booze, very few children (if any) and pass the parcel with ds as the 'parcel' :)

I am feeling very weird at the moment and not sure if it is menopausal or what. Feeling sick and not wanting to eat. Also mentally in a strange place - I appear to be doing some kind of spring clean in my head - midlife crisis anyone?

Ds said school as 'okay' yesterday and then quickly changed to it was 'boring' although they appeared to do very little apsrt from make a musical instrument so we did a quick canter through some maths to cheer him up!

Blackduck - did that bitch Flo turn up? Could she be accounting for odd feelings?

I too am a bit mad at the moment. Small things matter massively, and big stuff - money, career, aging parents - is too scary to contemplate.

DS driving me mental today. Everything pulled out of boxes, swept on to the floor, insisting on 'telly' but not whatever programme happens to be on CBeebies so presses lots of buttons and cries when it turns off. I'll take him out for some exhausting park action.

Nah Herbs, no sign of Flo, but recently I wonder whether you get all the symptoms of the visit without the actual visist IYKWIM. So with you on the big stuff - long chat with my mum about getting old - she is in weird place too at the moment.

I alternate between thinking must be sensible, keep job, build (crappy) pension and thinking 'sod it' lets chuck it all up and bugger off somewhere. Feel very restless and very unfulfilled...hey ho. Think I might just take a day off, pull ds out of school and go off somewhere nice.

Have fun in the park!

I have had non-productive PMT for over a week now And like you am in midst of mid-life crisis.