Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

As the last thread is now full...

Lovely dress, herbs. Sounds like it will be a lovely evening too.

you all sound so glam and grown-up.

Snort! I just clicked on herb's link but before it showed me the lovely dress, the website did a pop-up of a less lovely dress with a lot of chiffon, bows on the shoulders and leg showing at the front. My brain was searching for something tactful to say about it, until I realised there a lovely maxi dress behind it.

I have made cupcakes for the school fair - very annoying to have to do it tonight as dh is out and I could have watched one of the stack of things I have waiting on sky+.

And my chin has broken out in leprous bumps - what are they, what, what?

Ooh, lots of glam socials planned.

I'm out tomorrow too, just a meal out with work colleagues, but it's "company-sponsored" i.e. everyone will get legless. I have a mate who works for a local cab company, and it always seems to be him that arrives to scrape me off the pavement. Needless to say, maxi dress not required in my case, but yours looks very classy and slinky, Herby. Does it need industrial strength underwear?

I have also been baking for the school fair, but thanks to a well-timed thread on MN I decided to make some mini rocky roads - melted choc, marshmallows, crunched-up rich tea biscuits and raisins. They took about 10 seconds to make and were pronounced a huge success by the three resident food critics (I think I had them at the word "chocolate"), so I'll be making those again!

Sorry to hear about your leprous bumps, Wilbur; I do sometimes get whopping great deep-down spots on my chin that feel pretty leprous. I was pretty lucky in my youth spot-wise, so mother nature is exacting her menopausal revenge.

Fab dress Herbs...Like Wilbur I did have a moment there when I saw the lacy number and thought wtf!

Nothing glam here - weekend at greenwich theatre festival thingy, meeting old college friends on Monday that I haven't seen for years (to reminisce about friend who died). Oh and viewing Bongo next week.

However, When I scroll down on that page 'Complete the look' there is a pair of sub UGG grey boots

Thanks for dress approval! And yes CV - it does require industrial strength spanx-style foundation garment. I have three pairs of varying ferocity.

I'm a bit nervous about the evening, in fact. For a start, it's 'going out', which I haven't done for months. Then there'll be strangers, and there's a danger either I or someone else will get paralytically drunk and I might have to deal with them. And the list of names in the email address bar has become very small - if that's to be believed there'll be four of us! Which could be lame.

Leprous bumps on chin are hormonal, Wilbur. Go and see your GP and ask for Dalacin T lotion, which is antibiotic cream and shrinks the lumps miraculously overnight.

Do they do Levi curve in plus sizes, Dukes?

Lovely dress. Must pack for holiday. Waiting for DH to go into office so that I can blitz house and pack for me and the girls. When I was a child, we used to have a next door neighbour who used to go to Ibiza for two weeks with her DH and two children and used to take everything in two carrier bags.

MrsS: I am finding the Roche Posay tinted anthelios v lovely as sunscreen/face cream/tinted moisturiser all in one.

I have managed a blazing row with DP including the fact that he is apparently 'shocked that I invited two friends round after DD2's party'. This is the man who arranged to be out on the night of her fecking birthday (he is now coming home for school pickup and heading out again) tonight (work do chez his boss with No Partners. V odd imo, not that I suspect in manner of more hysterical thread that he is having a wild affair, more that his boss is not a dame who knows how to have a good time).

AIBU to think that at 7pm the day AFTER your birthday, when you've had a nice time splashing in the paddling pool with your mates and have opened many presents and rendered yourself hysterical on sugary crap, you might feel OK about a couple of people heading round to see your mum?

And CV, do flag up that the rocky roads won't be veggie or suitable for Muslims - the marshmallows usually have pork gelatine in them

MI - sounds like he needs a smack in the face with a frying pan.

Cointreu, badger mascara to match greying hair - genius!

Quick get thee to the patents office and on the phone to Dragon's Den

You'll make fifty p £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

I've not found tinted anthelios here, MI - what is it called?

LOL at frying pan!

It'll be with the Roche Posay stuff - it's their sunscreen. There's also a tinted Avene but I found it a bit chalky when I tried a bit of it; and you can get a lovely-looking RoC facial sunscreen that's not available here

(I cannot hit him with a frying pan as I need it to make the ritzy chicken nuggets (Nigella-style) for DD2's birthday tea, along with oven chips and home made chocolate mousse. This is because I am such a Bad Mother that h felt the need to weep about it last night .)

I am pretty sure you are not a bad mother....does this mean Pizza is off?

Having friends round is fine, if this was AIBU the answer would be no...... :)
I am nursing a BIG headache and am as whilst I feel The Shred has tightened things up I don't appear to have lost any weight. I think the no alcohol/carbs/cheese diet is in order (damn)

I have seen the anthelios, but not a tinted one. Or are they all tinted? May look at the RoC one...

FFS, you are not a bad mother! I told the DDs that if they gave me all of their holiday clothes to pack, and got dressed, showered and ready, I would take them to WH Smith to buy a magazine for the holiday, and to their favourite pizza place for lunch. It is now 1230, and they are both still lounging in bed. So it will be sandwiches for lunch, chez nous then.

Am baking apple cake to take with us, with two apples just found in DD1's school bag...

Oh and I always felt the need for friends post birthday party, to partake of Gin with me.

One Anthelios is tinted, honest. Check the packaging.

Cheap pizza/crisps/ice cream sundaes for kids, followed by brownies (must make). Nice Curry and beer for grownups in the evening!

Special Birthday Tea today is separate. I partly offered it because I thought DP would be out. Ahem.

Ok, I just have to share. It's about dh's mid-life crisis and it will give you a laugh. Dh has recently turned 45 and is having a massive issue with it (I thought he was a bit feeble about 40, but he's taken it to new heights now). His issue is not with being older per se, just with the NUMBER. It hasn't helped that he has been made redundant twice in the past 2 years and is feeling a bit wobbly on the self-esteem front. Anyway, when he was first made redundant, back in the heady days when we thought he'd get a new job in a few weeks and we could spend his redundancy money on a nice holiday (ha), he signed up with an extras agency as he had always fancied standing behind someone famous in a movie. He did a few things (his left shoulder was featured heavily in a BT commercial) but has thankfully been back in an interim proper job recently and so hasn't done any extras work for a while. Anyway, yesterday, he got the call. Hollywood on the line. We need you to go and do a night shoot for a new Tim Burton / Johnny Depp film shooting in Berkshire. It was supposed to be playing a dead body, but in the end he had to act a bit - scrambling away from JD's stunt double who was flying above him on a wire. Sadly he didn't get to meet JD or TB which would have been uber cool. The icing on the cake of this oh-so-dignified-for-a-man-of-his-age story, is that they chose him because in his photo he looked completely bald - he is mostly bald but has hair round the back - so when he got there they asked if they could shave the rest off (er, no, I have work tomorrow) and then put a bald cap on him. So he spent the night scrabbling around in a field in the home counties wearing a rubber cap. And you know what? He staggered back in at 5.30 this morning with a massive grin on his face, said it was completely brill and then passed out.

So, crepeys, I have two slightly conflicting thoughts about this - the first is that we should all do some crazy shit more often. And the second, as always, is what do I do with the children while I am doing said crazy shit? If Hollywood had called me yesterday, I would have had to run home from work, pay the childminder, ask our lodger to stay with the kids until dh got home, apologise to the PTA woman for not making the cupcakes I promised, remind dh that ds1 had already made biscuits that were to go into school with him in the morning, etc, etc, etc. Dh gets the call and can say "I'll be there in an hour". Sigh.

MI - your DP is being an arse, I can't see what his problem is.

Thanks for the tip about marshmallows being non-veggie; I wouldn't have thought about it. The school don't seem to care about food labelling, but each cake has an obvious marshmallow on top so they should be easy to avoid.

MrsS, hope you have a lovely holiday, if you ever get your DDs out of bed. DH is currently on his way back from Paris, having been at some industry awards do last night; I'm currently compiling a list of French foodstuffs for him to pick up in Calais. mmmmmmm......

I think crazy shit is important, but, like you, have no idea how to fit it in. Dp, on the other hand, fits it in to his work. Remember I mentioned a week in a field in Finland? Well he went last year, and he tried log rolling with the Finnish log rolling champion (he had a massive bruise to prove it), this year he decided to hold a seminar on a boat on the lake - all well and good until said seminar had finished and they realised they had drifted down stream and none of the students knew how to row

Hollywood on the line!

You are right, crazy shit is good, but does require a lot of scheduling.

HOORAH! DH has gone to the office. I can now finish packing. The DDs are sulking - when are we going out for pizza? Oh, we're not, as you haven't given me your clothes for packing and your bedrooms are still untidy.

I love that story Wilbur. I would like to do crazy shit too. Packing the cool bag for tomorrow is about as crazy as it is going to get here though.

Mr Inferior has sent me some flowers .

Crazy shit, yep, childcare ishoos, I do not so much 'know where you're coming from' as I am where you're coming from.

If Hollywood calls, Wilbur, you give me a ring and I'll, er, ring your DH for you

I am trying to find a thousand words to add to a book chapter, and/or think of a new chapter to write. Ahem.