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Planet of the Crepes

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DukesOfTripHazard · 17/02/2012 12:51

New bowl of crisps, tuck in Ruby!

I am thrilled at this Pixi lust. Another of their things wot I like is the cheek gel in natural. It doesn't stay on very long but while it does it's well pretty.

I felt a bit rubbish yesterday and spent much too long hunched over the computer looking at not very edifying things. Today is better. Have shredded, spot cleaned the stair carpet, written a letter to DD who will be at an outdoor pursuity place with school next week and am now going out to buy some fabric conditioner at Wilkos. When the mice are away the cat does rather boring things, it would seem Blush.

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Blackduck · 29/02/2012 14:32

I hate the Cos website - find it really unfriendly. Can't get any idea what those jeans might be like.

Wilbur, we are back on the market as our buyers are just mucking us about here. They had a second survey done (5 weeks after the first one), this was two weeks ago - yesterday, after some pushing, they asked would we pay for the remedial work, err which bit of 'we will not negotiate on the price' do you not understand? Today they have said they now want to do a damp and timber survey (something we were geared up to do four weeks ago), at which point dp said 'put it back on the market', tell them they can do whatever surveys they like but we are not discussing money. To put it in perspective we took a rock bottom offer on the principle they were ready to move (this was two and half months ago....), so we will not drop any more, or take anymore of a hit. (If necessary we will do the work, but put on market for higher price).

Dp got up this morning and siad 'where on the scale between depression and anger shall I pitch myself'. I told him I was settling on resignation as it took less effort. So here we are living in a house which is half packed and no closer to moving.......

Hope it goes better for you :)

TheReturnOfStropperella · 29/02/2012 14:37

Oh dear. Jeans without stretch. That was the Bad Old Days Grin

I have several cottage loaves' worth of inner thigh dough. I could feed the five thousand..

TheReturnOfStropperella · 29/02/2012 14:39

BD, that is sooo frustrating for you. My sympathies to you and wilbur and fingers crossed for sensible buyers to come your way soon.

addle · 29/02/2012 14:56

hello

i am longstanding(sitting) and distinctly crepey, highly educated, under-achieving lurker who likes these threads in particular and i've found these high-waisted jeans really becoming (many, many compliments):
freddiesofpinewood.co.uk/products.asp?cat=6&pg=3
hope it's not too creepy/crepey having a stalker

Blackduck · 29/02/2012 15:21

Hi addle, why not delurk and stick around?

Yes Stropps it is frustrating and I suspect we will lose what we wnat to buy too, but I feel gutted for them as they have been at this for 9 months now....
It is just the total lack of a. communication and b. urgency that gets us. We are not sure if this is all a deliberate tactic in the hope we will crumble or they just have no idea that other people have lives and deadlines and all that. They said to the EA we really like the house to which she just rolled her eyes :)

bigTillyMint · 29/02/2012 17:41

OMG CV you have made it onto Mumsnet Swears By Shock Grin

Not that I am at all surprised to see a Crepey on a S&B thread - we Crepey's sure know how to dress. (Well some of us obviously do!)

wilbur · 29/02/2012 18:54

Yes stay, addle! That is definitely the other way to do high waisted - having definite wide-legs on a high-waisted trouser is v good. I used to live in a pair of black, high waisted trousers in a heavy jersey fabric, they were totally brilliant with my pear shape. What shoes do you wear with those jeans? Brogues/sneakers?

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/02/2012 19:10

Oh yes, happy days of youth - lying down on the floor in the changing rooms of Jean Machine or Cheapjacks in Reading, trying to do the zip up. And having to carefully ease my foot through the very narrow opening at the bottom, because it wasn't enough to buy straight jeans, we had to run them in a bit more too.

I am stressing about a number of things at the moment: sorting out orthodontic appointments for the girls, getting the Kitten neutered, working out whether to do another year here (two would be better from the point of view of the Grosse Schadenfraulein's schooling, as then she could just miss GCSEs and go back to UK (or elsewhere) to do IB. I also have a Funny Rash on my arms - little blistery spots that itch. I have also lost: DD's repeat prescription for her asthma meds, the letter to take to the dermatologist to get my moles checked, the letter to take to the clinic to see if I have more gallstones in my bile duct... logically, they should all be in one place, but where?

wilbur · 29/02/2012 19:27

Do you have somewhere that you keep school paperwork and have accidentally added dd2's asthma scrip there, MrsS? I keep finding important things threaded between school quiz invitations and permission slips for educational trips. I'd suggest the funny rash is Stress Related.

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/02/2012 19:36

I suspect they may be in the office, Wilbur, or in the drawer where I stuff paperwork, before it gets filed. I need to be more organised.

motherinferior · 29/02/2012 20:04

I love those! Thank you, addle! Stay!

Aargh. Got in at 6.30, DD2 announced that it's a cake sale on Friday for her form and 'I want to make cakes with YOU, Mummy, I never do anything with you at the moment' (instant working-mummy guilt) so we made brownies while I wodged together kedgeree (DP is out) and DD1 asked 'why are YOU worried about my secondary school, mummy, it's my school' and I secretly convinced myself DD1 will end up (a) massively undereducated (b) so deprived of male company - given her first two schools listed are girls-only - that she runs off with the first unsuitable boy she comes across...

Now I'm going to write about artificial corneas. Why am I not drinking this week? Why?

(Actually I did drink on Monday as Edam and I went to a toothpaste launch - so glam, health journalism - and consumed curiously blue cocktails. Time was when I'd have downed four. I did have two Blush [lush].)

motherinferior · 29/02/2012 20:15

Do I care that DD1 has 'hurt her hand and it really hurts and hurts and hurts' (she looks fine to me) or that DD2 can't find her copy of Tracy Beaker for world book day? Do I?

bigTillyMint · 29/02/2012 20:23

MI, only 21 hours to go..... Any nerves (not that I should have any worries, just crossing fingers about sibling policy) about school places have been completely overtaken by the spectre of Ofsted looming - tomorrow and Fri, gulp!

motherinferior · 29/02/2012 20:27

Rumour has it that we get emails in the morning, but I'm not sure I believe those rumours.

bigTillyMint · 29/02/2012 20:30

Maybe Loo are different to Suth (You are in Loo, aren't you?) - pretty sure ours is 5pm.

TheReturnOfStropperella · 29/02/2012 20:32

Best of luck, BTM (although I'm sure you don't need any!). Hope you get some nice reasonable inspectors.

CointreauVersial · 29/02/2012 20:32

MI - Blue cocktails at a toothpaste launch? Were they minty? Were you in fact quaffing mouthwash by mistake? Did you have suspiciously fresh breath all afternoon?

BTM - I didn't know MN Swears By even existed, and now I'm in it! Dammit, I'm going to have to buy that scarf, aren't I? It is lovely (and I can easily convince myself that I need another spring/summer scarf).

BD, Wilbur - deepest sympathies on the house buying/selling trauma. I'm so relieved we have all that behind us.

bigTillyMint · 29/02/2012 20:36

CV, I have to confess I am looking at that scarf too...... 25% off today....

Thanks Strops! Only one, who apparently sounds nice on the phone, but as we are currently outstanding, there is a fair amount of pressure to maintain although we are all realistic as they have massively upped the ante on lesson obs, and ours can go pear-shaped quite easily!

wilbur · 29/02/2012 20:42

Wandsworth Secondary school admission says "evening of 1st March" for the email, think it's the same for all London Boroughs. Gawd knows what ds1 will be offered as he didn't finish the Tiffins exam and had a minor meltdown in the middle of the Wandsworth test as he wasn't expecting "so many questions". He did finish that one though.

motherinferior · 29/02/2012 20:47

Given that the very nice but quite vague mum who said 'we'll know at midnight' is nice-but-vague, I shall go with you lot.

BTW I tried those jeans on this lunchtime and, well, no. I like the Addly ones though.

bigTillyMint · 29/02/2012 20:49

Oh Wilbur! Fingers crossed for you.

DS had a mate round last night and I felt desperately sorry for him when he said that he didn't really know which school he wanted - he would just be happy to get one Sad He is a really nice, polite kid - so horrid for them to have to go through it. As DD was also remembering at tea time.

CointreauVersial · 29/02/2012 20:54

Aparrently Surrey will be revealing the school places at 6pm (as soon as the last employee at the county council switches off the lights and leaves the building). We should be a dead cert for DD1, but I'm still a bit tense. And she's desperate to know where her mates are going.

motherinferior · 29/02/2012 20:55

I am now absolutely convinced we've chosen wrong for DD1. Whatever she gets.

bigTillyMint · 29/02/2012 20:58

Oh fingers crossed for you too CV!

MI, stop panicking! Friend has just had parents eve and is very happy with her Y8's progress. And, if DD is anything to go by, you are better off with single sex!