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 .

you have to click on purple colour box to see them in their full glory...

Mmm, you are not wrong when you say the purple ones look minging in the pic, oldqueenie. Still, I believe you when you say they look good in rl. Thanks to MI pointing me towards Uniqlo, I now have a number of pairs of trews in a not dissimilar style which are v. nice. I got one pair and loved them and then they very kindly had a sale Am not convinced by v. bright trews being a good idea for me, but love them on other people. Although I have been very daring and purchased some white ones. I have never, ever had white trousers or jeans before. I feared they would make me look like a manatee and also get dirty quickly. I was wrong on the first count, but right on the second.

Meant to say that is v good news about DH job and gratifying he has such support from that colleague.

Hmm, I think the pink ones might be too fuschia for me (one has to be careful when one dyes one's hair a not entirely natural shade of red ), I was hoping for more raspberry. I like the cut though - might see if they do them in other colours later in the season.

Thanks for nice words re dh - it is good and I'm very grateeful he doesn't have to sign on again. He's had a lot of time at Streatham Jobcentre in the last couple of years, so it's good not to have to go back. Although after a number of months unemployed first time round, he did get a gov't Topshop voucher towards interview clothes, with which he bought an entirely unsuitable pair of pointy brogues. We refer to them as his DHSS shoes.

Wilbur glad to hear good news on dh.
Ruby can you teach ds to ride? I'll ship him over for a weekend.
Old queenie I have those trousers in red...I think they look good too..but waiting to be able to wear them with sandles as have no appropriate shoes...

Wish me luck, crepeys. Today could finish me off.

I have to set up, run, and clear up a play session at my play centre charity thing, including leading the singing. Break for lunch. Three-hour choir rehearsal. Break for tea. Two-hour choir concert. Break for death.

Tomorrow: drive to Bracknell for lunch with in-laws at Harvester-type place. Drive back. Happy Mother's Day!

Phew Herbs! Still, leading the toddler singing should be right up your street

Re: the coloured jeans, anyone know where they do long length ones? They only seem to come in regular, and ankle swingers are not a good look on a crepey. Or anyone, come to that! The cropped ones come half-way up my shin which isn't quite so bad....

I endured two hours of childish song last night, buoyed up by booze from a leaving do. Sign me in for the bear's arse brigade today

Wilbur, I am SO pleased for your DH.

Herbs, my thoughts are with you. I must practise my own singing too this morning (Inferiorettes out at another gig, with their father) as we are once again woefully unprepared for a concert this Thursday. And I mean woefully.

Ah, Mother's Day. Following a prodding from me reminding dh that ds2 will have brought something home from school that should be presented to me tomorrow, hs and dd have just sloped shamefully off to the corner shop. Sigh. Lovely and useful though he is, I'm not sure Mr. Amin stocks sumptuous bouquets or smoked salmon. Should have printed out the MN guide and left it on dcs' pillows.

The rainstop jacket looks good, ruby, and I can vouch for the effectiveness of Lands End's rainwear - I live in one of their squall coats all winter and have been caught in some major rain and stayed nicely dry.

Oh, and ruby you deserve several medals for buying nothing this year, that's amazing!

Wow ruby - you have bought nothing I thought I was doing well till I bought a cheapie colour block dress from Asda and a top (from DP I think) on offer as I was having to buy DD some high-waisted shorts....

No idea what if anything I'm getting for Mother's Day, but DD met DS in the park after school yesterday (very odd!) and they came in together later, with DS rushing straight up to the loo..... plus he was counting out his money in the morning. Hope it's not chocolates (ungrateful cow that I am!) as I can do without any extra calories, especially as we are going out for dinner with friends tonight and with my DM tomorrow!

I don't hold out much hope for Mother's Day, although DS1 hasn't got a match tomorrow, so I expect a cup of tea in bed and the Sunday papers at the very least. Then we are off to my mum's for lunch (Buckinghamshire).

Hebs, your day sounded positively hellish.....hope you survived.

Gah. I'm alive. Just. Got back from concert, and post-concert drink, at 11.30, then couldn't sleep very well. I'd been hoping for a mothers-day-related lie-in this morning, but no. DP came in cheerily with a cup of tea at 7am. I'm so uselessly passive I didn't dare say 'can I have a lie in, I'm shagged'. Mainly because he spent all day with DS while I 'gadded about'. So, now only the four hours driving and sub-par meal to look forward to.

I made my own cup of tea, got jammy toast made for me, a card sans envelope, a book (that I had read) wrapped in birthday paper.......doesn't get better than this :)

Ruby are you deliberately ignoring my request to teach ds to ride a bike? As I said I could ship him over for a weekend ;)

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

I got a gorgeous big bunch of fleurs yesterday, but as DS had an early KO and DD is at her BFF's for a sleepover, I am waiting on a card having a lovely peaceful morning! So, Herbs, commiserations

It's not mothers' day here, so I didn't get anything. Have had a friend to stay for the weekend, and had a nice day yesterday mooching around Paris. We went to the fabric district with DD1 who wanted to buy some fabric and then climbed up to Sacre Coeur. Had lunch in a caff called the No Problemo and I cooked us an African dinner last night (groundnut stew and spinach with suya spice). We are out early evening to school drinks to "meet the other 7th grade parents!" Which doesn't exactly fill me with glee, but I am sure it will be fine. DD1's lovely teacher is the guest of honour.

Do they have Mother's Day in France, MrsS? Your African dinner sounds delish, as always!

Oooh! The DDs have just come in clutching the most enormous bunch of flowers!

I went down and tiidied the kitchen, how can two slices of toast make so much mess? Went to buy work trousers tried on two, neither fitted but caught sight of self on mirror and went a bought a pair of trainers instead. Need to reaquaint self with jillian and c25k. Need to tell dp meals out and takeaways are off the menu for some considerable time.
MrsS how many calories in that stew?

Can I just ask - can I just ask, eh - how and why it is that I appear, constantly, to be the Keeper of Information About What Is Going On? With the exception of dance and swimming, granted (these are Saturday morning activities, which I cunningly divested myself of about 18 months ago). I have just pointed out to Mr Inferior that I have singing tomorrow (extra emergency rehearsal) and the following Monday. It is on the calendar. We have spoken about it several times. But still, dear fellow-Crepeys, he says in perplexed way that oh yes he must text the Monday teenage babysitter to say he won't be back till 7pm. This should be fine, but clearly he has no contingency plans about what to do if, say, it isn't.

It's not necessarily the execution - he took the girls to sing at yesterday morning's concert (it fell under the heading of Saturday Morning). He dropped DD1 at this afternoon's party. But I was the one who's sorted all this out and bought sodding presents and cards and works out who can collect and drop them when we're still heading back from work and it is GETTING ON MY NERVES.

Calories, Blackduck? Lots and lots, I imagine. Negated by the spinach and the calorie-free white wine (DH claims that white wine has no alcohol in it).

MI - at least Mr Inferior doesn't forget to be at home for the Inferiorettes, though...

[cat's bum face]

MI sounds like dp. I was collecting Friday so took a half day, he kept saying 'so you are taking the whole day off?' NO, I will drop at activity club in the morning and then go to work - ahhhhhh! And I bought two mothers day cards and stood over him whilst he did his mothers.... (which reminds me we must be due the 'is it my mum's birthday, or her wedding anniversary' conversation)

MrsS I like MrS's thinking. Dp said I'd need to drink gin (less carbs....)