Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

The DDs have quite poncetastic unusual names too and are easily googleable. DD1 found someone with the same name as her on FB, but spelled differently, and DD2 is yooneeek.

I went into Ulla Popken yesterday and wished I hadn't. I would really like to know who wears their stuff. They had t shirts with Thumper and Tweety Pie on, and one with Mickey Mouse with sequins - huge, voluminous things with no shape. I was looking for a denim skirt, knee length, quite plain. They had some, but plain, they were not - embroidery, contrast stitching, random "interesting" stitching and a frayed hem. I found a long black crinkly skirt which I quite liked, but nothing smaller than a size 28, and I'm not there yet. Ditto a plain khaki hoodie. Oh and the most hideous thing on offer was a beige pinafore dress with a high neck and a zip up the front (just the thing if you are large of nork) which looked as if they were made of plastic. Shiny plastic. Unsurprisngly, they had these in all sizes. I think I am going to have to go to New York again for a shopping trip and drag out my friend who works in fashion. Karl Lagerfeld usually designs her clothes for her, although she does like a bit of Oscar de la Renta, so fat fashion will be a new experience for her.

Ulla Popken?? Never heard of it, but if you asked me what the clothes in such a place would look like I would have described exactly what you said. The name conjures up images of primary colours, spotty prints and big skirts.

Tell us about your scarves, Ruby - I have a bit of a scarf fetish myself.

Oh yes, I love a nice scarf! I cannot resist!

Have dropped dog and boy at in-laws for the week so very quiet here. Dog is manically humping sil's rather posh pedigree dog (its all a bit 'Lady and the Tramp' rated 18) - luckily ours is snipped (I bloody hope so anyway as sil would probably sue if their dog popped out a few lab-ginger-hairy-manic cross puppies!!) Ds has announced to his nana he is a 'pescatarian' throwing her into a state of panic (I am sure she thinks this is all down to me - it isn't - I am a pescatarian, but have never forced it on him or dp)
I spent last night reading Caitlain Moran 'How to be a woman' - anyone read it? I can't make my mind up really. Occasionally I think she is spot on, but I find it all a bit too right on, and rocking and may be (whispers) trying too hard?

Well, I have tried my very best to be more social than the norm for the first week of the holidays and had many more people going in and out of the house than usual, but I am having a grumpy quiet day today filled with work panic. dcs are also looking rather wan from too many late nights and an excess of friends/cousins. All or nothing round here. We are not very good at finding the middle way. dcs will spend most of today lying slack-jawed in front of the TV, methinks.

Re: hair - mine is a frizzle of many colours. Fried blonde ends, a half-head of dull mouse and a lovely grey badger streak in the front. Curly Wurzel Gummidge. Is very, very stylish. I used to have straight white blonde hair as a child, but I now have grey/brown mad curls. After each baby my hair fell out in great handfulls and grew back curlier and curlier, so I am still not used to having curly hair. And the greyer it gets, the frizzier it gets. Woe, woe and thrice woe. I only started to go grey at 42, but it's progressing at an alarming pace.

Caitlin Moran? Meh. A few years ago, I read some of her articles that made me laugh till I cried, but I find most of her "funny" stuff too try-hard these days and, I'm sorry to say, a bit... childish. The excerpts from her book didn't make me want to buy it. Nothing seemed very revelatory to me. And I get mightily fed up with her banging on and on about drinking in a lot of what she writes. So her book is not currently on my Amazon wish list.

Yes Stropp, childish does sum it up actually. I was expecting, I don't know, something more incisive I also strongly disagree with her women have done nothing line, which doesn't even look at the possible reasons why
precocious is the word....
Although I do like her knickers have got too small rant...... :)

I have to say my most comfortable ever pants were HUGE black M&S ones in my early 30s. If I get some more leggings, I may purchase some again...

Could one allege retro charm in these?

I think so... :) (they look quite comfy actually...)

I only wear BIG pants. These, in fact. In grey. Big, grey pants. Oh dear.

I love how they've used the word modern twice in the description of Strop's pants, just in case you were reminded of your granny. I am coveting both those types of knickers as I still quite miss my maternity pants that I could pull up to my neck. And Kelly Brook (dh watched Pirahna with her in it the other night, on his own, perv) definitely wears big 50s style pants. Mid-century modern is having a moment, so go with it.

Right I have no children now for approx 60 hours. Am going to make a blind for the bathroom.

Jeepers, Strops, those are B-I-G pants. In my schooldays these would have been referred to as "kidney-warmers".

I do like a nice boy-short myself, but I try and keep them below armpit level if possible.

Wilbur - no DCs for 60 hours and you are going to make a blind??!

Oh my stars. They make me feel much better about my choice of knickers (equally large and hideous, but plain, no lace).

DD2 is not going to the saaaf of France. They have visitors until she goes back to school. She didn't seem particularly bothered. DD1 has been foul today. She and DD2 went swimming on their own this morning, but had a huge row and came home early. DD1 was asked to do some maths - she was set some as holiday homework by the school and she hasn't even looked at it. We had screaming, shouting, stamping of feet - she did it, but it was like having a very large 3 year old in the house.

They are both moaning about having nothing to do for the rest of the holidays, not going anywhere. I have said that they are Ungrateful - they had 4 days at Disneyland, staying in a hotel, and 2 weeks in a cottage near Bordeaux, which had its own pool. But 10 weeks is a long time. I was hoping that DH might take them back to UK for a week, but we have the Parasites coming to stay (I have vented to MI about these guests) for a week which effectively puts paid to that.

Has anyone else noticed how H-U-G-E M & S knickers have become? I had to run for a bus the other day, and mine slipped right down. If my thighs weren't so fat, and able to grip them on the way down, they'd have been left on Bd Haussmann as I heaved myself onto the 94.

MrsS - I'd thought the falling down pants was due to me losing weight. Damn you. Then again, I haven't bought any new pants for about three years.

Tell you what: either everyone in the world has suddenly got more annoying, nobody really does love me, and DS has upped his irritation levels to previously unattained heights, or I've got the most RAGING PMT. Had it for more than a week now, and not due on until Friday. Is wine the only answer?

Been moping about feeling sorry for myself, trying to arrange stuff to do in August, when all the toddler classes aren't on, and lots of people are away. Taking every 'can't do that day' as a huge personal slight. Ah, the joys of hormones.

I like to keep me kidneys warm, I do . I also like pants that do not cut into my squidge and create an extra roll and these are just the ticket in that dept. Bought another 3 pairs only yesterday. And they don't fall down, because I have an enormous arse to keep them up.

And I would just like to point out that I am rather fond of my enormous arse. It is one of my good points, if getting a little droopy these days. I don't care if my bum looks big in anything.

stropps I am currently wearing those knickers in black with cream spots.....we clearly are linked in some way...

Herbs - big un MN HUG - you are fine, ds is fine, the world is fine, it is the summer holidays when people don't see each other for WEEKS because holidays and all such crap doesn't coincide...take my word for it (and the rest of hagsnet will surely back me up - won't you??) I am stupidly missing ds after ONE DAY, what the hell is wrong with me?

Oh Herbs, I know that feeling. There is a mass exodus from Paris in the summer - all the shops and restaurants shut, and most of the DDs' friends are away for the whole 10 weeks. DD1 has been trying unsuccessfully to hook up with a friend who is in Paris, and lives nearby, but is repeatedly told "not today" or "I can't come to yours on my own" (about three stops on the bus - they are nearly 13), and she is very sad because she thinks she is just being fobbed off.

I have nothing - and I mean nothing - to do at work, but have to go in, as "somebody" has to be in the office. Today I checked a budget spreadsheet, wrote confirmation of job offers for two new staff and made a pot of coffee. There is no-one here to contact, everyone is on holiday, so if we do get a query, there is no-one to follow it up. I usually get 200+ emails per day, and today I got 4, all internal. Am I really expected to go into the office everyday? Is this not "presenteeism"?

And my three friends here (yes, three) are all on holiday too! One is back next week, and said, if we can find somewhere open, shall we go for a drink!

Herbs - I know what you mean about the hols, they can be wearing, and it's hard when people are away and you're fed up with your own four walls. Try not to take it personally, although I know it's difficult not to feel like a spare part when everyone else seems to be busy doing fabulous things. I burst into tears at how few people could come to ds2's birthday party at the end of term because they had aready gone on holiday - his little voice saying "not many people came to my party" pretty much broke my heart. I have an August birthday too, and have got used to very few people around to fuss over me on the day, but I can't bear that he does't have loads of chums to celebrate with. Next year, I'm going to have a party for him in May. Or maybe I should have a Halloween party or something, that he can invite friends to.