Crepeys/Hagsnet - the moonlight beckons!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Because moonlight gives you a nice glow and doesn't show up your wrinkles or grey hair.

And my hair is making me very worried. Have emailed new job warning them I look thuggish.

Stropps bongo was good, though need to do something about condensation in pop up roof 'stop breathing ds' doesn't seem to be a good answer :) . We also have to buy him a sleeping bag to stop him freezing..... It did, however, garner admiring glances, and once we had sussed out how to do the bed, where to hook the dog to etc it was great (and dog, a notoriously bad traveller, is so much happier in it).
One more day and ds is back at school (hooray....), so last minute labelling and all that

I take a hideous photo .....

Oh dear, MrsS, I don't envy you your optician. Although my optician did chortle heartily when I told him that ds asked me if the reason I have to wear glasses is "because one of your eyes is smaller than the other". The optician said:"Ah yes, children - they always tell it as it is."

dd is trained to always be on "wine moustache" watch on social occasions. When I drink red wine I get a one-sided moustache on the ex-paralysed side of my face and generally forget that this will happen - dd sidles up to me and whispers "wine moustache"... See, this is why we never get invited to any glam parties a la herbs.

CV, sorry to hear about your school bus travails - it does seem extraordinary that whoever runs the school transport service is allowed to be so haphazard. Either you're providing a transport service for the pupils or you aren't. It surely shouldn't be on such a random basis. Is very peculiar and anxiety-provoking, really.

Snorting at "keep that look for Halloween, mummy". Also at warning new job of thuggish look. Bet your new workmates are all quaking in their boots, MI.

Blackduck, I am still suffering mightily from Bongo envy and now even more so. Glad to hear that it all went well.

Many people (including dh) have tried to take a good photo of me and failed. Just not possible. Admittedly my (two sets of) wedding photos were just taken by a random assortment of relatives, but I look like an extra from the muppets in all of them. Or a turnip in a fright wig. Although that is a look that I usually reserve for any family photos taken around Christmas, for some reason.

I get a wine moustache.

More worrying to me at the moment is the beard I seem to be growing at a rate of knots. Pse advise urgently.

Friend who ordered that Warehouse wrap frock informs me she is Most Disappointed . Am pondering http://www.johnlewis.com/265712/Product.aspx?SearchTerm=RecentlyViewedList this as a kind of White Company knock-off - or is it too boring?

this dammit

oh God... back from long weekend in Scotland and have put on 4lbs. I am mega fucked off by this.

I think I would have to see it on, MI. It looks a bit like a dress for Fat Days from the picture.

DH says I also get a Wine Smile.

Like the dress MI (but it could look like a maternity job on me atm as I put on 6lbs over the course of the summer), LOVE the colour!

I like it, as long as it goes in enough at the waist. If things hang straight down from the 'bust' (good word), I look about 15 stone.

I too look utterly hideous in photos. This could be because I'm utterly hideous in real life, or that I'm just not photogenic. I try to believe the latter, but feel it could be the former. I always gurn, much to DP's annoyance, so that when I look terrible, I can tell myself I was deliberately making a stupid face.

Feeling grim at the moment. Headache, scratchy throat, general 'bleugh', like the beginning of a cold, but it's been going on for about a week. Come ON already.

I have one reasonable set of photos (done professionally), but ds, dp and the dog still look far better in them than I do. My staff pass ones are ALWAYS dire - I look about 90 on the current one (feel about 90 at the moment). I have a annoying twitchy eye at the moment - no idea why (tired maybe?) and also feel I am coming down with something.

MI - hum, not sure about that dress - suspect it would look like a sack on me.

Stropps - I am thinking we need to name the Bongo, but maybe that is a step too far?

Ha, my dog always looks better in photos than I do. He is v. photogenic!

I would look like a hippo in that dress on MI's link. Or possibly an elderly water buffalo.

Blackduck - YES to naming the Bongo. Bruno the Bongo? Or is it a she? :)

Our hound is pretty photogenic too......

I think Bongo is a girl, and 'she' is quite classy, so will have to give it some thought. We do have a Japanese Good Luck symbol in her too :) and the guys who fitted her remarked on the nice colour scheme (thanks ds)

Hey blackduck, I have a twitchy eye too! The right one. If I blink, it takes a long time to open again. Think it's probably tiredness, too. Or that I need glasses. Tried on a pair of +1.5 things in the pound shop yesterday, and had to admit they made things a lot clearer. Oh lordy.

Regarding the dress, MI "it's a no from me", sorry. I'm not sure the colour is great either.

I'm another one who always looks grim in photos, particularly if I'm actually aware of the camera. I generally look like an inebriated horse.

I say to people "ooh, I look awful in that photo, don't I?" in a transparent attempt to fish for compliments, and, to a man, they respond with "hmmm....yes....you do look terrible" (after they've picked themselves up off the floor).

MrsS - a beard? That is a worrying development. Nurse, pass the tweezers!

Red alert, Crepeys, there's another London Meet-up being planned! Herbs, BTM and I were at the last one; it was a fun night.

CV - I saw! It's on my birthday! Would such a giant meet up be too scary? I sometimes wonder if we should have a crepeys mini-meet (or mini-meat, like a peperami) to ease us in...

And as regards a beard, I thought it was an essential part of the hags' uniform, along with gunt. I am certainly wedded to my tweezers.

Blackduck, I reckon you only went to Japan so you could visit the Bongo's ancestral home :)

Re: meetup - reckon we should do a Crepeys meetup because from the sound of things a group photo would be a splendid thing indeed.

I am honking loudly at the thought of a Crepeys meet up and group photo. I went to a couple of the London MN meet ups when I was working there. The first one was not a success, as I turned up a) late and b) drunk. They were all playing "I am so extremely richer than yoooowwwww." The second one was smaller and a little better. I met BIWI which was nice, but there was still quite a lot of the "I am so extremely richer than yowwwww" going on. I left early on both occasions to catch the last train to the arse end of nowhere, north of MK, which is where I was living at the time. A Christmas one might be a little better. I am very, very antisocial and have to force myself to do these things (otherwise I would never go out). I have been to a couple of Paris MN meet ups which were pleasant enough, but unremarkable.

Oh yes, at the first MN meet up I went to, I ended up sitting next to someone whose brother in law I used to work with, a hundred years ago. And BIWI and I had someone in common too.

Off to pluck my chin now.

I like the idea of a mini-meet.