We May Be Crepey.......

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.....but we are still Stylish (if not Beautiful).

Oooh ooh ooh but (S&B alert, well kind of) I managed a haul of Very Lovely Garments from neighbouring charity shoppes on Sat, including two jumpers (one a Maxmara) which will look divine on DD1 and two linen garments for moi: one an off-white frock from Jigsaw and the other a shirt from our favourite emporium of Sainsbury's.

I wanted to be a statistician :o But decided to study economics instead... !

Sun's been lovely here today. I came back from OH's house this morning and have been to the gym, bought and assembled an exercise bike, planned the week and wafted in the garden with my trug!

I am supposed to have a good knowledge of economics for my job. I got a grade C at O level and failed the A level. Fortunately no-one has asked too many questions, or appears to have twigged yet.

Just back from a lovely, lovely day cycling and on the beach and in the gorgeous 30's ice-cream parlour and eating fish and chips at the harbourside cafe - feel like the holidays have properly begun. And DS slept most of the way back, so no bickering to ruin the day

MrsS, my BF from school would have your guts for garters - she is a medical statistician of some note. And DH is an economics graduate

I had my eyebrows threaded the other day

i had my eyebrows and attractive moustache (or "upper lip" as they tactfully describe it) threaded this after.... brows were fine but moustache was fecking painful.... bloody hell it hurt. Think I'll just buy some moustache wax and cultivate a twirly handlebar number instead...

I haven't got a moustache (so far), but eyebrow threading is bloody painful enough!

the moustache came on suddenly... I tried to ignore it but my teenage boys teased me mercilessly until I was forced to take action. oh the glamour!

Cremola - rain?? You must be "oop north". It has been scorchio here.

Ruby - what's this HD brow thing? I have never paid my eyebrows the slightest attention; in fact, until I had an eyebrow shape for my 40th birthday I had never even plucked them. Luckily I do not have a tache.

Anyway, all is calm at Chateau Cointreau; the house has been cleaned in preparation for a visit from my mum tomorrow, who is here primarily for childcare purposes. DS finally breaks up tomorrow; he's convinced he's the only child in the UK still at school, poor lamb.

Don't do eyebrows (probably should) and don't have 'tasche (deluded!)
CV my administrators son doesnt finish until Friday...

CV, I think he is Does he go back extra late? Oops, just seen BD's son is still at school too They must get pay-back somewhere?

Not mine BTM - my administrator's. Not sure if they go back later, but they always half half term at weird times too! Think they finished earlier at Christmas though....

I am currently without a gas supply (gas meter on doorstep) and seething as the promised callback to let you know what is happening never happened....

Ahh, yes But it very early...

Got to take the DC for haircuts this morning (well, trims really) and the blind man is coming to fit a trial blackout blind in DS's bedroom (behind the blackout curtains which haven't blacked out all the light for 11+ years!) and then we're off to Hyde Park to meet friends for a picnic!

Ooh blind man. That reminds me of my favourite joke.

Nun in the bath. Doorbell rings. 'Blind man... blind man,' calls the visitor.
Nun can't find a towel, but opens the door any way to the poor soul.
'Nice tits,' he says. 'Now, where d'you want your blinds.'

I'm only just recovered. Had people round for lunch and al fresco drinking on Sunday. They left at 10. DP was sick, and I shouted at him. Then woke up drunk myself. Had to walk, not drive, to DS's music class, full of toddlers hitting cymbals. He then proceeded to be 'challenging' all day, emptying every item out of every box on to every surface. Gah.

Re facial hair, have a good sprouting on the chin, as per original crepey thread I believe, but no tache, as far as I know. I had my eyebrows threaded for the first time at Christmas and it hurt like buggery. Did make quite a difference to the saggy old visage, however.

Oh and we saw the torch, too, on Saturday evening. It went past the end of the road, so it would have been rude to ignore it. Lots of people turned out from our street of a very trendy nature. Beards, rolled up carrot-legged trousers, little trilbies... the area must be more up-and-coming than I'd thought!

Dh just nearly spat his coffee on his keyboard when I told him your joke, herbs . Sounds like you had a splendid weekend. Hope you are feeling much better today.

Re: brows - mine are very, very blond, so I tint them. Have stopped paying someone to do them as I got fed up with having scouse brow caterpillars for the first week. Would rather do them myself little and often. Don't really bother with plucking as the blond ones don't show much. Am having a bit of a grooming crisis anyway, as the saggy-baggy-ness of my face is now getting so extreme that I am beginning to feel rather "what's the point?" The ageing is now so apparent I think it might be better just to beigely blend into my surroundings.

My brows are also very blonde. Make-up girls are always trying to convince me to darken them a bit but I think it makes me look weird and you can't see them anyway under my fringe

snurk

I have been up working since the crack of dawn this morning, but am now going to take the dog for a walk and then go and then have a nice, soothing facial. So even if elderly and beige, I will be relaxed and smooooooth. And after that we are going to the park for a picnic with several other families with loads of small boys. This will not be soothing.

Have had row with National Grid, who only now inform me that I have to be there for my meter to be reconnected. So they can rip it out when I'm not there (neighbour let them in), but they can't put it back unless I am there...AHHHHH! I pointed out I was less than impressed by their communiction, and leaving two families with children with no gas for 24 hours is not really acceptable - still waiting call back. If I have to call again it will not be pretty

BD - sympathies on the gas front. A good shout at a hapless customer service clerk is always theraputic, though.

Hmmmm....this HD brow thing....I suppose, back in the day, brows were something to be minimised, not maximised. Mine are usually huddled under my fringe like random shapeless caterpillars. I shall inspect your brows closely at the next meet-up, Ruby!