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 .

Childfree arty nap-filled life, huh.

[sulk emoticon]

I personally have been on childcare watch since yesterday lunchtime as DP had Deadlines. Mind you we went to the Muppet movie (triffic) and generally lounged around. And I have made further purchases from our local charity emporia.

Blimey. Just heard from baby friend - baby stopped breathing over the weekend, had to be resucitated, and is now in intensive care. Lots of blood tests, so far totally inconclusive. Might be something 'metabolic', whatever that means.

My poor friend :(

Oh Herbs that is scary. Fingers crossed - hope it is all okay.

Oh no, Herbs, that's dreadful. Hope the little mite is OK.

I knew I shouldn't have gone to DS's football match on Sunday - he lost - and I realised that whenever I go and watch he always seems to lose. Had a nice weekend apart from that, though.

MI - I love merguez sausages; they are on my list of "yummy foodstuffs that you can rarely find in England so have to stock up on when in France", which also includes fresh haricots verts, fruit compote, macaroons, lemon mayo and those peanut-wotsit-type crisps.

Nooo. That's not good news Hope they are able to do something positive as quickly as possible.

CV, DS lost too. Against a team (from Croydon) whose parents were absolutely vile, by the sound of things (DS was very upset that one of the dad's was smoing weed ) - DH had to be a linesman and apparently they kept shouting obscenities at him, so he told them to shut up Glad I didn't go!

3 days to go MI. Do you have to wait till 5pm too?

Oh dear, Herbs, how horrible for your friend. I do hope that the situation improves soon.

Fingers crossed for your friend and her baby, Herbs.

Mine crossed too, Herbie.

No news since yesterday morning. So, could be good or bad. I dare say she's got more important things to worry about than texting me, however.

Have hideous cold. Lost my voice for two days - which made toddler wrangling rather tricky - and now just have that 50-points-off-IQ bunged-up head feeling. Gnnn.

Ha BTM - we were playing a Croydon team too! We have one or two....erm....gritty teams in our league. It makes me laugh, because our lovely middle-class village boys are going "no, after you!" "Oh, I'm terribly sorry!" while the other team are shoving them off the ball, swearing and spitting.

Mind you, one of our dads struggles to keep his opinions to himself, and when he ran the line recently he told one of the opposition kids he was "a little sh*t". Needless to say, the kid's dad came over and squared up to him, and they had to be pulled apart. Aaah! Kid's football......

OK. S&B question...

I tried on a nice pair of jeans today in Cos (was going past, thought I'd step in)...two per cent lycra, stretchy, fitted well, comfortable BUT....

they were high waisted. Not trendily extra-buttoned just errr gloriously tum-covering. Muffin top did not escape.

However, however, being as I am 48 and all does this make them Mum Jeans and thus to be eschewed???

(THen I went to M&S and looked longingly at Big Pants )

Any chance of a link, MI? As a general rule, I have found high waisted skinnies work ok, but high waisted straight leg jeans generally make me look, um, more elderly than I actually am.

I think they were these. Am also convinced I should not be spending money...

Hmm, not sure about those (sorry). Are they cut so they give you a nice flat front or do they do that heinous mum-jeans thing of pulling in at the waist and giving you a football tum, even if you haven't really got one?

They looked flat, not curved over a football. They looked fully like lower-rise jeans but went up slightly higher, iyswim. And they were from a Proper Trendy Shop.

Ah well, they are probably properly trendily cut then.

There was an article singing the praises of Cos in one or other of the w/e papers recently, but I found the pics made the clothes look a bit utilitarian. Would you say that it is, in fact, deffo worth a visit?

I would say if they are high waisted AND flat-fronted, then you are safe from mum jeans syndrome.

I rather like Cos, although not everything fits me in there. Got DP a jumper there for Christmas, and rather fabulously bumped into another MNer (Blu) in the queue...

Yes, I would hesitate with higher rise jeans from another shop as am worried about matronliness. I really was quite taken aback at how...normal, yet comfortable they were .

I know that curved look. Ahem. But would also like not to brim out muffinily over the top.

Aah, memories of jeans zips that went on....and on.....and on.

MI, they sound like proper kidney-warmers, but, let's face it, if you are wearing a hip-length top, or longer, who's going to know how high the rise is?

YY, MI. You don't want to be getting a cold in your kidneys, do you?

I remember having to lie down and struggle and grunt on the floor to get jeans done up. I also remember taking them in all the way down the inside. Then then would explode and extrude inner thigh dough

ROLF at inner thigh dough. I have loads of that still, although fewer pairs of exploding, lie-down-to-get-on jeans. Chelsea Girl was my turf - lay down on the floor of those (communal) changing rooms plenty of times.

Herbs - I hope you get good news about your friend and her baby soon. Such a worry when they are so small, even though they usually prove remarkably resilient.

MI - the Cos website is not very helpful - I need to see them on a person, hard to tell on the hanger. I think Strops is right - if they are slim fit otherwise then a bit higher in the waist will work.

Blackduck - hope you get somewhere with your house this week. We are back in the viewings mode for ours, so having to keep it tidy and duck out when people come over. So far the feedback is "nice house, dodgy road" which is a bit unfair but understandable in some ways. It's a brilliant location from an ease of living POV, but many of the other houses are down on their luck and the neighbours are not the PLUs that so many people insist on these days. We had a police raid on the drug dealer who lives 2 doors down last week. That was exciting! Clearly we are not judgemental enough when buying property to weed out those without a quorate of front doors painted in Farrow and Ball.