Crepeys/Hagsnet - the moonlight beckons!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

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

The BFI was a great venue (and very handy for me) - wilbur!

at wilbur and the corduroy....

Thank you wilbur for sorting it all out at the BFI. I thought it was a great venue - though I was yakking so hard I failed to notice the women in the backless sequinned dresses. :) We should definitely do it all again v. soon. I am somewhat disappointed by my own lack of stamina. I clearly need more practice And yes, I need a re-match so I can talk to Tilly and Herbs. And Blackduck.

I am currently v. busy with marketing efforts, otherwise known as "scratching around for work" and am also organising our hols in Germany. Today I rang a friend I haven't spoken to for 22 years (she lives near our holiday destination) and ended up feeling most discombobulated. It was as though we hadn't spoken for 22 days rather than 22 years. We have now exchanged (recent) photos, but I fear the face-to-face meeting in a couple of weeks is still going to be a shock...

So when and where are we meeting next time?

Blimey, MrsS, there's no stopping you!

I just choked on a ricecake picturing your corduroy face, Wilbur. Designer wrinkles, you'll start a trend.

Yes, great bar, super duper evening. What was the grub like?

MrsS you are a star

Grub was nice. Especially as the bill didn't seem to come to as much as it maybe should have

I hope you are not saying you fiddled the bill (horrified expression!)....

Noooooooooooooo! Of course not! We are all upstanding members of the community!

But we did wonder if they had put all the drinks that we had in the bar on the bill!

I mean, come on, four bottles of wine on the bill; nine of us? Ssshhhome misshhhhtake, sssshurely?

Indeed. At, what, £20 a pop? Tenner each on the bill? I think we got away with it.

Tell you what ladies, just come back from Westfield Stratford. Marvellous. Something for all the family. Great big Primark and Forever 21, but also a carefully selected selection of mumsnet favourites in John Lewis from Phase 8, Whistles, Damsel in a Dress, etc. GORGEOUS dress for sale in Whistles, but still £90. Instead I got a jumper, a cardi and a tunic for a grand total of £28 in Gap's sale.

The environs of the shopping centre still oddly post-apocalyptic, however.

DS not a big fan of the experience. Liked the lifts and the constant feeding of raisins in overpriced boxes; disliked everything else.

I'm not surprised, Herbs, show me a small boy who actually enjoys shopping.

Come to think of it, show me any size of boy who actually enjoys shopping. DH tolerates it; DS1 would sooner stick pins in his eyes, unless, of course, a sports shop is involved, then he's a big fan.

I thought Westfield was all top-end stuff. Primark??!

Herbs, was it rammed? I went with a friend about 10 days after it opened, on a Tuesday FGS, and it was rammed.

I am hoping that this means that everyone is there and not at Bluewater

Not too crowded, no. I think the initial excitement has worn off.

I think the Primark and Forever21 are a nod to the, ahem, demographic of the area. Though then again there's a Wolford shop, and I can't imagine who's going to shop there for tights.

About the most exciting shop is Lakeland! Marvellous! Nested colourful measuring spoons, Halloween cake moulds, all that.

It's only 10 minutes down the road - I think I may be there quite a lot.

I am having my second period in about two or three weeks. Admittedly my last one was after six weeks but I am officially Not Impressed.

MI same here, there I was constantly in the loo on Friday and then at the weekend it turned up again (and of course I was unprepared!) but weirdly no raging PMT

Have also discovered I am SEVENTEEN years older than my immediate colleagues.

in the pub again, rubyrubyruby?

MI I tried to think of an appropriate (sympathetic) response to that, but failed....last job I was in that was the case and they were thin little things too.......

Stress in the BD household this week is ds has school trip (to do with a project they are doing), he doesn't want to go (would rather do maths! - clearly not my child), as I have to pay I haven't bothered - his choice I feel. He is now getting the heavy treatment at school. Now the money is not the issue, but if he chooses not to go then I feel I should let him make his choice and then live with the consequences (i.e., if I was the school I'd bore him rigid and make damn sure he never refused to go on a trip ever again). I am waiting for the phone call

Is it a residential BD? I am so looking forward to DS's after half-term

MI, some of my colleagues are 25+ years younger than me, and I am just about old enough to be the mother of one of my closest, and she has a daughter of nearly 10

The woman who now has my old job is 15 years younger than me. I'd spent my whole career working towards it, then she gets it by being in the right place at the right time. Bitter? Yes! And she's beautiful. And really nice.

Oh God... I've got all suckered into a pus-porn thread. I vowed I wouldn't after the last one. I'm at work watching youtube clips of all sorts of vileness.

BTM - no not residential, just a trip to local Art Gallery and Cathedral (they are studying some artist whose work is on view in both places), cost is to cover transportation. Not sure why ds is resistant, but, I think it is a learning process and as I said he needs to make a choice and then understand the consequences of that choice - I suspect a day at school on his own with the year above or below will do the trick!

Ah, I can see why a maths-brained boy might not be so interested in a cultural trip He should be warned that they might be doing follow-up work though, so that could be another "boring" day if he doesn't do the trip!