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 .

We went to the Isle of Wight at Easter - very easy to get to and lots of cliffs, bays, botanical gardens, etc, great chld-friendly pubs, loads of cafes and tea rooms, plus stuff to do with little ones inside if necessary! We found a gem of a beach too

I have friends who rave about the IoW as well. Crackington Haven is lovely. We stayed here a few years ago - lovely countryside and not far to drive for some fab beaches.

We have managed to achieve nothing regarding going away for part of the second week of the DDs' holiday next week, so they will be stuck here bored for another week. I might manage to get two days off, but not sure what I will do in these two days. I did think of going to London but Eurostar is $$$ (more than the vet's bill!). I think they get a bit of a crap deal regarding school holidays when both parents work. Their friends have all jetted off to the States, Dubai, Israel, the Maldives. And all we will have managed is a trip or two to the cinema and possibly a day at Disneyland.

BTW, S&B note: I went to get measured for some Levis yesterday in order to place an order with Mister Jetsetter. Naice Young Mayan assessed me as a slight curve, ie no hips or waist. Tell me, lovely fellow-Hags, would you say he was right? Have I simply got so fat round my middle that this is the case??

(I ended up fitting a demicurve pair of straight dark classic fit ones, rather well.)

No hips or waist sounds good MI - I have more and more of both

I think it just means 'straight up and down because you have porked out to the point where you have no waist at all'.

Am off for thuggish haircut later as am increasingly resembling the love-child of Jenni Murray and Beaker from the Muppets.

C haven is indeed lovely. We discovered it last year, purely because we thought the name amusing, and drove there to check it out as a rainy day activity. But I'd like to explore another part, perhaps.

MI - I can imagine the same kind of scenario with my 'curves'. Since da my formerly huge arse has flattened and my formerly trim waist expanded. Sigh.

I felt quite suicidal, tbh. V sorry for self.

MI, I think it's our age - as Herbs says, it's droopy flat bum and gunt all round

Herbs - how about Lyme Regis or Whitstable? Both cute, beachy, lots of lovely shoppies and cafes......and a damned sight closer than Cornwall.

I love St Ives too, although it is absolutely mobbed and a seagull stole my ice cream last time I was there

Oooh! Oooh! I know - how about Robin Hood's Bay?

DD1 has bold curve Levi's, picked up from TK Maxx for 25 quid a pair. She has rather a luscious bum and a waist.

St Ives is mobbed, but we're going the last week in May, when hopefully it will be more sane. A seagull stole my ice cream too! Well, took a big bite. I carried on eating the rest, it was far too good to bin!

Mrs S - Robin Hood's Bay looks lovely, but I'd kind of committed myself to going west, and pop in to visit a friend in Bristol on the way. And stay, to break the journey, thus making St Ives less hideous.

Is Polperro nice, or a bit small?

And Lyme Regis coming in on the inside... Crikey, when the world's your oyster, it's kinda hard to choose...

Well, haircut would be quite chic if I weren't knackered and covered in Tippex-like layer of sunscreen. Am going to take various clothes to be altered, and then attempt small sleep although DP will- -assume horizontal-position -is invitation to sex--.

Sunscreen, MI? It must be significantly sunnier in Sid than it is in Ed

I need to attempt a nap later as I have a party tonight!

And my DH is likely to assume the same!

I am a health hack. Am trying to wear facial sunscreen from March to October - mostly in Last Ditch attempt to fend off wrinkles. It is nice stuff, but I should have upped the proportion of tinted to non-tinted.

Anthelios by Roche-Posay, mix of the non-tinted fluid and the tinted cream. You can get a tinted fluid, too.

I think I need to get some factor 50 for DH - he cycles to and from work and even in the rain this week his face is beginning to look like a bit of old leather!

And I know I should wear it myself. My moisturiser is factor 15 - is that too low for this time of year? I only buy factor 50 - 30 for suncream.

I reckon it probably is but then am pinning Hopes of Youthfulness on the stuff . Dermatologists have recommended the Anthelios and also this to me.

My DM has the most fantastic skin - probably better than mine and she is 81! And has only ever been milk-bottle white - she NEVER goes in the sun (to the point of phobia)

Sadly, up until I had the DC, I was less than careful - remember Hawiian Tropic Factor 2? So there is no hope for my skin!

MI, how do they feel on your face - sunscreen feels like you have a rubber coating on your face - are they better?

The anthelios fluid feels a lot better than those rubbery creams that bobble. Haven't tried the other one. The anthelios can feel a little...minerally on your fingers, though. Argh.

Helloooo, helloooo, feel like I've hardly been here for weeks, been quite astoundingly busy and somewhat stressed by house moving plans. Thank you for asking BD and CV, we have basically been counting the days as out mortgage offer was due to expire and we can't get another due to dh's recent, ahem, job change. 3 weeks ago we were literally about the call it a day when an offer came in on our place which was good enough to make it work. After a lot of "no, we will only sell if you exhange by day X and complete by day Y" and having to say that to about 20 people involved in the chain until they all realised we were serious. So we have had a ghastly week of chasing solicitors and paperwork (one missing bit of paper my fault which is v unlike me as I am the queen of paperwork - need to see a guarantee of any sort? I've got it) but we did it . We exhanged at 3.30pm yesterday, the last possible day that we could do it and still give the tenants in the new house the right amount of notice before our mortgage offer expired. So we're moving . Tomorrow I will start making lists....

So there is hope Blackduck, just when you think it's all over. I think you're right to unpack though, and just live as normal in the house - it's too depressing for you to be surrounded by boxes.

And while this is all going on I seem to be doing a full time job in 3 days a week and I'm not supposed to work in the school hols (not paid to, anyway) but have been worked from home a few hours every day in the hols and still have over 300 emails to work on. Hmmm, time for a pow-wow with boss, although problem is there is no one esle to do the work, everyone has taken on extra during colleague's mat leave. MrsS, sorry you've got similar work problems, but I would def show uberboss the selected bit of your annual assessment - it was clearly meant to undermine you. What an arserama!

Oh, and instead of getting thin with stress and worry, I have taken refuge in choc refrigerator cake and have put on half a stone. Grrr.