The Creped Crusaders - new thread!

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New thread for chatting. Oh and swapping S&B tips.

Having a manic day here - INSET day at school and I have 7 kids (inc my 3) over for lunch. While also trying to "work from home" and talk to removal people.

Sage advice, not safe

Do you think we should book the BFI bar/table? If we're deffo on for next Fri?
Beachy, would you like to join us?

Go on Beachy, take my place! But you have to drink as much as I do...

Actually I didn't drink that much on the first Crepeys Meet as I had got utterly hammered the night before and had about three hours sleep.

So that's next Friday, right [dur-urrr]? Beachy, please do come.

My 'beauty bag' from work for my birthday contained various anti-ageing products . (Not v glam ones!) But it was kind of them to consider my advancing years

MI, um, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Many happy returns and all that jazz. Or am I being a bit previous?

Oh I would so love to come and believe me, the would not be safe....But, and this is going to sound v. crepey, I am taking my dd1 to see Julius Casaer, as its part of her GCSE course (she's only Year 10, so I'm not scraping the last minute barrel!)

But next time, certainly.....

I'm always in London on Monday nights, as work dictates, but am happy to come up for a jaunt on Thursday or Friday.

Think of me in my toga, while you are quaffing.....

I am going to have a look at these here although I don't think they'll ever be my favourite shoes.

I need a pedicure.....

Birthday is on Tuesday

Beachy, I think those shoes need a certain amount of self-conscious irony. Poss with cropped jeans. I cannot find my cropped jeans. I am most bewildered...

Oh happy birthday MI!

I have monumentally screwed up at work and am now going to spend the next four days chewing my nails...damned bank holiday.

On cropped jeans I like the ones in seasalt here but can't decide if they would look dreadful on a shortarse....

I have a pair like that (which I CAN find!) from WS but they require massive belting. I need new, lightweight pref stretchy belt, can anyone recommend one cheaply?

I would do cropped, as my ankles seem to be behaving themselves still. It's hard to find work cropped trousers, though! I think the shoes will release my inner Euro trash.

Way too cold for cropped anything today, but who cares when you're with your bezzie
What are you all doing for the jubilee? The flotilla looked like it was a bit of a washout. Just off to our friends neighbours, with fingers crossed that it's an indoor bbq. Brrrrrr!

We went to a jubilee party, which had the whole shindig blaring out from the Beeb on large screens. I am awash with Pimm's and there was virtually nothing to eat there, so am in the fun position of feeling slightly sick and being hungry. The rain held off here, but it looked pretty wet in London.

I have just sorted out a large bag of the Schadenfraulein's clothes for the Inferiorettes as well. The younger of the two seems to have vast amounts of clothes as she gets hand me downs from another friend, from DD1 as well, and has her own clothes. I noticed when we were in Gap trying stuff on yesterday that she has suddenly sprouted bosoms and really needs a bra now. We tried on a weedy cotton thing in Monoprix, but it was evident that she needed something a bit bigger in the cup - will measure her and pick up a couple from M & S next week when I am back.

Advice please on DD2's bra size. I have measured her, and she is 28 inches round the back and 33 inches around the boobs. I have looked on all of the "calculate your bra size" websites and they have offered the following if you put in these measurements: 32A, 32B, 32AA, 28DD, 28C, 28D, 30B. All a bit random, I think. No way is she a 32 back, as DD1 who is much broader than DD2 is a 32 (albeit with an F cup).

Any idea what to go with? All of the baby bras (as DD2 calls them) here are either flimsy bits of cotton (which were too small) or heavily padded. She is adamant she doesn't want padding.

I haven't a clue on bra sizes, especially for teens, as DD1 is still as flat as a pancake.

Having said that, I did finally decide that the time had come to replace my own sagging, greying and frankly too-big smalls, so today......I bought some new undies!

Pre-weight-loss I was a 36B, but I couldn't be arsed to get measured, so I just took a load of sizes into the changing rooms and ended up buying a couple of 34C bras (eh?), one a very fetching purple. Matching knicks, of course (I must have been French in a former life). I feel boosted and uplifted altogether.

I'm soooo glad we didn't hike into town to see the river pageant - it did look a very damp affair. And I hear the Hyde Park do was rip-off central. Tomorrow we have our village picnic, and it should be dry-ish. And only 100 metres up the road if we get bored and want to come home.

Good party last night with plenty of eye-candy as well as food and wine

Re bra sizes, without seeing your DD its difficult, but DD age 12-13 or womens size 6 clothes, measures 27/31? and is a 28B. Well they seem to be the best fit. But she seems to need a 32 in gym leotards

Re Fri meet-up, do we think we need to book?

We have our town arts festival this w/e as well as the Jubilee stuff. So yesterday we avoided all this and went over to my mother's as it was her birthday (db was there too with his family) :) . Dd had decorated a cake for her (I baked). We also took our goldfish and put them in Granny's pond, as a) they had outgrown their tank and b) I am sick of nagging dd to clean them out. Of course dd is now moaning about the absence of her little orange friends (I hope they survived their first night in the wild), despite the fact that we still have a tank of subtropicals downstairs for her to be useless at cleaning. She has a holiday job looking after someone's chickens and cat, but has to get up early to go and let the chooks out and collect the eggs. So far, this means that she is going to work in her PJs .

Re: bra sizes - I would guess at 28C or D. We had some luck in M&S when dd was that size. Now, nothing there fits except the sports bras, which she is not happy with. She is a 32D and I think she has stopped growing (although she did just wrong-foot me by growing 2 inches height-wise, when I thought she had stopped growing ages ago).

We are attempting to tidy the house for my birthday non-jubilee party. Thought we had finished. Then I contemplated the junk-filled room I use as an office which is our front bedroom....

Our house is a complete and utter tip and is so dusty that even the cats are sneezing. I was planning to blitz it today, but so far have achieved:

Taking the quilt that the kitten shat on to the dry cleaners to be cleaned (again).

Had a coffee with a MN friend in a caff round the corner.

Had a little nap.

Did one load of washing.

Brushed the cat.

Ate the rotting strawberries.

Wrote two paragraphs of a short story.

Tried on contents of Boden parcel and put in wardrobe.

Loaded the dishwasher and switched it on (it was already full, I think everyone else thinks the dishwasher fairy turns it on, or you can miraculously find a space for a few more bits).

So not terribly productive on the housework front.

I dont think M&S do bigger than B cups in 28 - you might have to size-up to 30. In Angel range anyway.

We are staying at our super-tidy friends house and off to a jubilee party in the park. There is even a glimmer of sun

HaPpY BiRtHdAy MI