Crepey Corner

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

Chat now, innit.

Okay, but it is really the comparison that is the issue.

House A - detached, on a hill, stunning views. Small, cottage style and is subject to very tight planning regs so no real scope to develop/extend.

House B - semi detached, down the hill from House A, same views, but not quite as stunning (due to fact down the hill a bit). Bigger house (room size), very usable space. Potential to extend (not hugely, but enough).

We have an (unaccepted) offer in on House A, but are in weird position that owners are no longer actively advertising it, but still have our offer on the table - they haven't actually withdrawn it from sale (as dp said if they had we probably would not be in this dilemma).

I am trying to think about how I would feel if House A didn't exist!

Dukes, great news!

BD, from your description, I would go for B. But only you knows which one belongs in your heart!

I think B, too. But having watched many an episode of Locationx3, it's not always the sensible choice that wins the heart!

Housa A is dp's dream. House B is a practical, liveable, affordable alternative......

Mmmm. Sounds like you know what you want.....

MI for you!

MI, there are other things too. I had a very nice fair isle cardi back in 1978...

thank you lovely, but it's not wool. I get very, very very cold in winter.

Am in bad mood mostly on account of exhaustion. Also managed NOT to send myself (at work) the features I wrote from home on Friday [blus]

BD - House B for me too. Small and cottagey would drive me mad, and I don't spend a lot of time looking out of windows.

CV :) I want to spend time looking out of windows...:)
I think we are going for B, realising that A is a pipe dream, unless we get a small win on the lottery, or come into a bit of money (all unlikely....)

BD - house B. We had lovely views at the last house we lived in in UK - we said, oh won't it be lovely to sit in the garden and look over the moat to the church, with a glass of wine in the evening. I don't think we ever did.

We have a lovely view here of, err, the sushi restaurant on the corner of the street.

BD, I would definitely plump for house B. It sounds like an excellent compromise - as long as your potential neighbours in the other half of the semi are well-behaved.

Dukes, fantastic news about your mum.

I am still feeling a tad post-holiday peculiar. I went to a new hairdresser (been to same one for 7 years) and had a long-overdue radical haircut yesterday and am no longer frizzy, but I find having sensible, rather short hair quite strange. In fact, I think I look too sensible. Dh said "That's the best hair you've ever had", but I am not convinced he knows what he is talking about. The children are rather dubious as they are used to me looking like I touched a live wire. Had to have several glasses of wine last night to get over having less hair. Actually, now I come to think of it, this is a hangover I've got, not post-holiday blues.

Now I have to do a load of admin and catch up with 2 weeks of coursework. Oh bum.

BD, it sounds pretty unanimous - tell your DH the crepeys have spoken

I just found out that DS, who is 10 1/2, has always thought that you go trickle treating on Halloween. WTF did he think trickle treating was?

LOL at "trickle treating"!!

I had my hair cut last week. Took in picture, radically different from last time I went in (we went from over 40s mummy haircut, curled under chin and flicked out to short curly bob). I came out looking exactly the same as last time, although this morning's downpour seems to have turned it into the curly bob I was after... I have been too scared to have it cut really short as I think I would turn into my mother (who already tells me I should dye it the same colour that she does).

Ooh, new haircuts all round. I'm not brave enough; I'll stick with the long. limp layers for a while longer, I think. Strops - we won't recognise you without the curls.

Not many trickle treaters came knocking last night, thank goodness, although there were loads about. DH took the DDs out for a quick blast up the road; DS and two mates went out dressed as He-Man, Spider-man and Batman, in teeny tiny padded lycra costumes borrowed from our five-year-old neighbour (the boys are 12 ). It was the funniest thing I have ever seen, although I fear DS's future reproductive capacity may have been compromised. He said people recoiled in shock when they opened their front doors.

Oh the Hags have spoken :) I shall tell dp....although I think he's alreday accept it.
No Trick or treaters here - very quiet. The image of 3 12 year olds in costumes for 5 year olds is now stuck in my head!

CV, never fear - that whole hair sensibleness thing was a false alarm. I have just been out to walk the dog, got rained on and my hair is now reassuringly ludicrous again. (although not frizzy, just curly) I am, I have to admit, ferociously prejudiced against blow-drying. I have not had my hair blow-dried for about 20 years until yesterday. It will probably be 20 years until I do it again. I see it as a monstrous waste of time. Feh. One day I will find a hairdresser who can actually cut curly hair properly...

LOL at the big boys in teeny tiny costumes. Now that is scary... ds went off partying again last night which let me off the annual argument about going trickle treating as dd now considers herself above such things.

Fed up with cleaning up dog sick as the dog is revenge-puking for having been kennelled for 10 days. I thought he was over his separation anxiety, but clearly not. He is now on the White Diet until further notice.

If you find a hairdresser who can cut curly hair and knows how to dry it properly, please let me know. They either want to straighten mine (which seems to be the preferred option at the moment) or turn me into Bruno from Fame. (You lot are the only people, being old, who will know whom I mean!)

CV - do you think your neighbours thought that the sight of the boys was their treat?

Strops, isn't your DD 13? I am hoping that next year DD (who will finally be 13, being a baby of the year group) will also think she is above such things, but I am guessing that it may take afair amount of bribery in the form of chocolate!

CV, am loving the thought of your big boys costumes Hopefully they will be above it all next year too!

I love getting a blow dry at the hairdressers. It must look infinitely better than my usual blasting at home as people always comment on how nice my hair looks

What are we all doing for bonfire night?

Haha, MrsS, I have spent years looking like Bruno from fame. Mind you, I quite fancied Bruno and my first husband also sported this hairstyle. We were a matching pair.

Ahem, re trick or treating and my dd being above it all - I found out this afternoon that in fact she and a friend did a quick sweep up and down the next street dressed as witches between 6 and 6.30pm yesterday. I thought she was wearing an extraordinary amount of eyeliner when she got home... and I thought that she and said friend were just hanging out round at the friend's house whilst the little siblings were taken T'n'T-ing. Hmmmmmmm. I must go back to being more untrusting.

Ruby, I know what you mean. It does feel strange and like the end of an era.

I've booked a haircut too . I am feeling, frankly, a little worn and...crepe. Think I should stop cruising fair isle and splash out instead on haircut, new bra and Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser.

I quite fancied Bruno too . Also I have a tester phial of the new Mothers' Ruin scent and it is divine.

Herbs - hope the boy is okay and it is all going well
Strops - precisely why we dont put hound in kennels, hope dog is okay soon
House - they have had two offers both good to go, we are not. Bugger, bum, bitch as a friend would say...