Crepey Corner

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Where the cool and the discerning hang out. New one.

Chat now, innit.

oh MI. I am so far from pert that I am the anti-pert. Don't think I've ever been soignee and am in my very, very late 40s... so completely middle aged. Not sure i am riddled with insecurities... more a beyond caring what a lot of people think attitude...

Ruby, you deserved a medal for that! Bet the dog's been hoping for a repeat performance ever since, though.

OQ, I like the term/concept "the anti-pert". This is something I can relate to.

Does my bum look big in this?

I don't need telling. I am old but not deluded. I know it is VAST.

Dp and are crying with laughter at the cat and dog stories :) my bête noir is absinthe (don't ask) and I have a friend who can tell a story about his run in with tequila that can reduce a room to helpless speechless laughter.
welcome OQ and AP!

Martini bianco - haven't been able to face it since drinking two-thirds of a bottle of it before a youth club disco, then spending the entirety of it throwing up. I even had to ask my mum to stop the car so I could be sick, after she picked me up. The shame. AFAIK, no domestic animals benefited from my chunder.

Thanks for thoughts about DS's eye. Once it's in, he seems fine with it. But getting it in is pretty horrid. I tend to have him on my lap, while DP does the deed, but DS still whimpers 'all gone... nearly all gone...' while he does it, and thrashes about. Oh well, only another 16 years to go.

I'll put a pic of him with eye in place on my profile.

Morning all. Been out of touch for a bit and just caught up on news. Dukes - glad your mum is feeling better. Love all the nemesis drinks stories (although the cat one, bleeeurgh). Mine is vodka and orange due to my 17th birthday on a girls' holiday in Malta that still brings me out in a cold sweat when I think of it. When I think of dd possibly in a similar situation in 9 years' time... [gets huge padlock, fixes to dd's door].

Am intrigued by the perfume - I take it you can't achieve the same effect just by dousing yourself in gin?

It's all been chaos here - we have been half-heartedly trying to sell our house since August because dh (a bit like blackduck's dp) found a house on the internet and fell in love. He persuaded me to view it and I fell in love too, even though it's a bit of a state and we can't afford it. So we thought we would give it a try, as you never know, but it seemed very unlikely the the gap between our current house's value and the dream house could ever be bridged. But then last Thursday, some people we know vaguely from school suddenly said they would like to buy our house and the agents' fee saving and the fact that the offer was higher than we'd hoped and the dream house came down in price means tat it all seems to be going ahead. I am (a) very excited, because it really is almost the house I would have built if I were on Grand Designs and (b) completely stressed and terrified. It's only about 10 mins down the road (further towards you, MI ) but at the moment we live close to the tube and a great town centre, and this place, although quiet and close to a lovely open space, is going to be a bus to the station etc etc.

So there's a bit of a perfect storm of To Do lists going on at wilburville, not least because we are hoping to exchange by Christmas and ds1 also has the Wandsworth Test and the Tiffins 11+ to take before the end of this month, plus I have agreed to work an extra day a week starting in the New Year. Wibble.

It may all still fall apart as there are surveys and mortgage porting applications to be done, but please cross your crepey fingers for us.

Fingers duly crossed Wilbur. We put in a offer on house B but are not hopeful. Suspect vendors will simply use it to get cash buyers to cough up more. Hey ho, back to rightmove... I am off to London to meet college friends and see the folks which will be a nice two days away leaving Dp to handle swimming, piano etc.

Oh herbs, getting the eye in sounds really tough. Poor little boy and poor you. Hope it gets easier soon. Do the docs say it will?

wilbur - how exciting about the house. Best of luck!

Have a nice time, Blackduck.

I have just got a large job in that is all about chocolate. I have a feeling I may be somewhat heavier by the end of this month. I can't possibly sit all day writing about the stuff without significantly increasing my consumption of it.

Do you need any testers, Strops?

Wilbur, just wondering where your dream house is - guess you are moving easterly, so it could be somewhere near to me which is a lovely spot but not near to a tube, or that near to a station? Will it be an OK journey for your DS to Tiffins or whatever if you move?

Herbs poor all of you. It will get easier, won't it?

Tilly - it's on the Streatham/W Norwood/Norbury border, so a short bus ride to Streatham/ Streatham Common or W Norwood stations, but not too bad. TBH the Tiffin test is a bit pie in the sky really - I know from a friend who is a head teacher in that area that all the kids at her school are tutored for the Tiffin test from birth and ds1 is not having any of that beyond practising with those Bond books. Obviously he is a genius and brilliant and wonderful and they would be lucky to have him but we're not holding our breath. And if he's offered a place and it seems right, he could get the train from Streatham Common and be in Kingston surprisingly quickly.

Very enjoyable catching up this morning. Well done everyone. I give you Southern Comfort. Sick in a taxi up the sleeve of my gentlemans' charity shop coat, I was.

Delighted last night when a small Chums catalogue fell out of my Radio Times . On almost every page there is a little circle in which is printed DON'T GET CAUGHT OUT! 2010 WINTER WAS COLDEST FOR 31 YEARS! I was almost scared into buying a cosy dual thickness jacket.

MI, as someone who feels the cold, what do you wear in the coat department?

Love the idea of Mrs S Price is Righting it to Penhaligons.

Wilbur that sounds exciting and terrifying. Good luck.

Wilbur, there are some nice big houses round there. Hope it all goes to plan. Re the 11+, if he is naturally bright, he still stands a good chance. Would he be on a line to the Sutton grammars from there? What is the Wandsworth test? Banding? If so, no need to worry about that one!

Sick in your own sleeve, Dukes, classy!

I wear one of Lakeland's stadium squall coats for winter warmth - they are brilliantly windproof and very warm and lightweight. Not v stylish, but good for the job. Mine is here although they have changed the design a bit since I bought mine. Looks better now.

Duh - not Lakeland! Lands End!!!

I had that coat, Wilbur. It made me look like a blue whale, so I have it to my MIL. I did my usual trick of buying the largest size because I am fat and it was vast - we could have got the whole family in it. DMIL wears it in the garden where no-one can see her, to peg the washing out when it is cold.

I bought DH a bottle of Absinthe for his birthday and said "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder." He almost managed a very small smile. But not quite. Bastard.

Yes, the Lands End sizing is enormous - I have the medium and I can still fit a child or two under it with me.

I'm reading and posting on my phone, using my new reading glasses. What a revelation! I no longer have to make old-lady face. Means I can't see Frozen Planet, however.

Vomit, unsavoury pets, enormous anoraks and the faint odour of gin; a snapshot of crepey life.....

Wilbur - you have my sympathy; moving house (or trying to) is unbelievably stressful. A bit like trying to get your solar panels installed before the government shuts the door on the generous tariffs, after having dithered pointlessly for months (recent announcements have sharpened our focus, shall we say).

Hello oldqueenie, nice to have some new crepeys joining in. Do come again!

Ooh yes - welcome oldqueenie and the anti-pert (or are you one and the same?) Remember to come back now!

S&B news - I bought some of Gok's 'perfect fit pants' in Sains yesterday. They're trousers, despite the name. Have yet to try them on. I'm hoping they'll be a smashing mixture between jeans and leggings for going under tunics, etc.

En route to Sainsbury's DS said we were going to the 'bloody shops'. When we got back he told the cat to 'just bloody shut up'. And the other day he repeated the 'fuxxake' part of FFS (shouted at a transit van that just pulled out in front of us). I said he'd mis-heard, and that I'd said I had a 'box ache'. Moderation of language might be needed.

Herbs, you're going to have to wash your mouth out!

Mind you I'm not surprised about the "bloody shops" comment if it was Sainsbos!

Herbs, you can take the reading glasses off. Thereby being able to see Frozen Planet.