Planet of the Crepes

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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 .

well at least they know you're keen!

MI, join the club for Crepey Moments

Oh I had a moment of shame at work this evening. Was leaving, realised I wasn't going to get home without going to the loo first. Went in end cubicle (the cubicle of shame, as it were) and the world squirted fell out of my bottom. Heard cleaner come in, stayed very quiet, trying not to gag at the smell. He tried my door several times, then left. I thought he had left. Came out to find him by the washbasins with his hand over his face, saying "Enfin...vous avez fini, madame?"

And clearing out my purse, trying to find a receipt from the corporate credit card, I found yet another receipt for more drinks from my Groucho evening in October. Which put the bill at nearer 500 quid, and really, I don't know how we left that place upright.

'we don't have damp, we don't have damp, no work needed la la la'..........

Mrs S - that's the sort of thing that happens to me. Pooing in work toilets is always a minefield.

BD - glad to hear your underparts are dry. Is this the house you're selling, or buying? Sorry to be dense.

DS now telling the time, as well as reading his name. My sis thinks he's 'gifted and talented', and I should get him assessed by a psychologist. I saw pshaw. He's only two-and-a-half.

Herbs, bet yr sis is right. Telling the time at 2.5 is pretty good going. My ds (7) is currently on the G&T register (fwiw) and he still has a very idiosyncratic approach to telling the time. Although some of this is because when you ask him the time he likes to shout "Half-past nine. Hang your knickers on the line". My children often behave like they are in a 70s timewarp. Can't think why.

BD - woohoo - good house news. Does this mean things might be MOVING??

MrsS - sorry but . But I am only because I am relieved that I do not currently have to work out of the home much.

Herbs - house we are trying to sell.....
Stropps - who knows - the (ex) buyers had their own survey done on Tuesday (he took 40 minutes and I suspect will try to sell them a chemical damp course as he was not an independant), ours was today and he took an hour and 40 and is independant. Dp and I need to talk about what to do next, as, on one hand we have all forked out on this, and on the other hand they are so bloody sloooooow that it might be worth cutting our losses, but at least we have a report to show other potential buyers.

MrsS - oh, the shame. You'd think the bloody man could leave you in peace for a while without hovering outside the cubicle!

We don't have many women in this office, so the loo is usually a quiet sanctuary. However, the lack of women has its drawbacks; when a tampon was dropped in the middle of the open-plan office floor, and left lying there for 30 minutes while everyone politely stepped over it, it was pretty obvious who the culprit was.

Ha! I was just looking at the Sainsburys dress thread and thinking "I must mention this to Herbs"; then I scanned down to find you'd been there, bought the teeshirt dress already! Always ahead of the trend, eh?

I snapped it up on Monday! It's rather nice, though I have yet to try on the rather optimistic size 12 I opted for.

Mrs S - I should qualify my statement that DS 'tells the time'. This is only if it's an 'o'clock'.

Am swinging between depressed and murderous. Just lost the house we wanted to buy.

Oh BD

why? how? house buying / selling is the fecking pits. we moved 18 months ago. never again.... well not for 20 years at least. we ended up exchanging on new house a week before we exchanged on old house at dh's insistence as he was so desperate to buy new house and vendors were hard bastards with others queuing up behind us.... it was the worst week of my life. i was convinced we'd end up with 2 houses and bankrupt. dh still likes to say "i told you it'd be fine.... you should be more chiled..." feel v sorry for you bd.

Our buyers have delayed and delayed - no sense of urgency. Our vendor needed to sell. Someone came in with asking price in cash and ability to move in three weeks. I don't blame them for taking it, they have been on the market nearly a year (have lost sales before), it is our buyers I could kill. Dp wants to tell them to stick their (crappy) offer where the sun doesn't shine...

Oh BD, I'm so sorry, that is hell. I would certainly make your buyers feel very very bad about their crapness. Will you look elsewhere or stay put for a bit?

Various MNers have been very helpful on my thread about dh (thanks for bumping it oldqueenie ) but it does seem he has few rights (been there just less than a year) and is pretty much shafted on the money front unless he is prepared for a fight and we know it would be a very dirty one against his sociopathic boss. He is at least thinking about how to reframe the past few years and put some kind of positive spin on it - he will probably go for a few short term contracts now, and then put the whole thing down as a few years freelancing before looking for something permanent.

And dd has been vomming (neatly) tonight - clearly because I said yesterday how rarely that happens.

Aww, BD, that's just miserable.

Are you going to go through with the sale? You never know, an even better house might be out there waiting for you, and if your buyers (eventually) get their chequebooks out you'll be in a strong position. Although it is mighty tempting to do what your DH suggests.

well, you could do that or you could look around to find something else you like and when they want you to exchange / pull your finger out you can be the one's taking your time.... is there anything else out there?

and wilbur, how are you doing?

ones. not one's.

We have talked through the options.
A. We want to move
B. we would consider renting, but won't go into rented for this buyer, would hold out for a better offer.
C. There is a property we need to look at PDQ before we do the said sun doesn't shine....

So we will let them hang in the wind for now. Try to look at other property on Monday. Anyone know anything about grade II listed???

our old house was grade II listed and our new one is grade II*. what do you want to know?

What does it mean? Implications etc... I know there will be restrictions on appearance/changes.

Our London flat is grade II listed. Not entirely sure why.

It really depends what you want to do to it. Internal moving stuff around and alterations, not much of a problem. If you want to build an extension or a conservatory, you had probably better forget it.

BD, I volunteer to go round and stick your selfish, so-called buyers' offer up their arses (I'm feeling very fierce after spending a lot of time battering someone in body armour at circuits).

Wilbur, sorry to hear that the vom bug has come to add insult to injury. Hope no one else in the family gets it.