We May Be Crepey.......

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

Well, seeing as dd has had an impromptu trip to France this summer, I am surely due one too.

I have now finished the wine, teh chocolate and the amarula cream liueur and looking th see hwat I can hve next.

Brandy?
Un e petite calva?
Oh wia,t. Hav foudn more cidre.

Snort @ MrsS - and it's a Monday night!

Link to checked trousers, please Stropps. And hope your wild activity goes well tomorrow - sounds fab, I love that kind of thing.

Top marks for procrastination, crepeys. Apart from you, BD, who is being far too active.

I did no chores today, as we went to a joint birthday party of old pals. Much cava/champagne was consumed, as was my body-weight of selected Italian cured meats, brie and pavlova. And chocolate mousse. I'm not entering any of it on to My Fitness Pal. The nosy bastard.

As for south-western pursuits, I can confirm with strops and wilbur that hive beach is just dandy, and the cafe is the tits. And strops - is the gut-churning vertical slide at the Escot centre? We went there on the way back from our holiday in Lyme. All jolly good fun. Got thoroughly lost in the maze. I know that's the idea, but I was really more lost than I wanted to be.

S&B news - considering some more fitflops. The superT sneakers, this time.

Herbs, you are correct: Escot it is. And we got massively lost in the maze last week. So are dragging six of ds's friends back to get lost with him this time. Should be entertaining and not very quiet at all.

Here are the checked trousers . As I am a shortarse, they will prob be full-length on me. Not sure about these new-fangled calf-length things. Do they not just look ... daft?

YY to naice uniqlo trews. V smart.

Had a last minute attack of energy so did a super clear out of clothes this evening.
Big pile for ebaying tomorrow. Also got my work shift covered tomorrow so I can photograph and list everything.
Dd back to school on wednesday

That means summer's officially over chez Cremola.
Night crepeys. Good luck for all tomorrow

I have sent off the application for the job I'm not sure about and am going to take DD1 to buy new school shoes. A Proper Mother would have done this a month ago. OTOH DD1 has grown spectacularly over the summer. She is almost as tall as I am, although she does point out this just makes her a normal 11 year old .

In echoing empty house waiting on money transfer....dp gone ahead with all our worldly goods...

Had row in shoe shop with BOTH children....

...and tell me, Crepeys, what shall I do with my hair?? Am having Crisis. It is still quite brutally short. Feel somewhat thuggish.

For those of you who don't know what I look like this (OK, a couple of years ago and covered in professional-standard slap) is me

why MI you are beautiful.
how short are we talking? You suit your hair in that photo, it has good texture and 'lift' and frames your face.
What way is it now.?

well done for the shoe shopping.Clarks is like the seventh circle of Hell at this time of year.(CF Ikea tills yesterday)

I had to return dd's skool skirt as it was franchement too damn tight, but she wouldnt admit to her womanly curves. Have returned it on the sly and said nothing . Am sewing in the nametape and she will be none the wiser in the fog of tommorows early start.
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You scrub up lovely, MI.

Get yer air done like that again.

AB is still being an arse and he disappeared this afternoon to "work from home." What he doesn't seem to understand is that we have an "internet presence" on our computer, which says if you are logged in. When he worked from home last Friday his internet presence thingy said "Arseboss has been absent for four hours." This afternoon it didn't register him as having been anywhere near his computer since midday. I am getting tired of this. I have asked for a week's leave over half term and am required to provide him with "a detailed plan of who will cover your job in your absence." He will also be unable to agree to my leave requested for next June "until late September." I asked why, he hasn't answered.

I confess to feeling slightly unwell this morning. I blame the Amarula cream liqueur. Not the wine or the cider, obv.

Mrs S
Monsieur ArseBoss sounds like a dick.
I'd be vv frustrated in your position:(
Makes me feel v lucky to work where I do.
Leave requests are encouraged because of high burn out rate

BD are you in yet? Thinking about you all day !

I can add to your Work Woes: am officially off, right? Am absolutely sure I briefed colleague to give various bits of information to people I'd commissioned to write features. Except she hasn't let them know. It was vital info, like how many words per feature. One of them just emailed me (this is fine, she's a friend, first person who ever commissioned me, in fact!) to ask about it, v apologetically...and now I'm wondering if it's me, if I went mad, if I didn't give colleague the info, it's all my fault, etc etc.

Have emailed her directly but I DON'T WANT THIS GRIEF. She'll almost certainly say it was me. I can't even get into the work email system to find out...

Grrrrr For you MI.

We need to go out and Get Drunk, MI.

I am recruiting a new assistant. I had an email today from someone who thought she would be perfect for the job. I had a quick scan of her CV and cover letter, no mention of competence in French (job ad says a good level of French required). SHe said she has basic French, and when would she need to use it? I said that she would be required to take notes at meetings that are conducted entirely in French, which can get quite technical. She said she could "give it a go." I said we would test competence in French at interview. She said she was going to withdraw. We have over seventy applicants for the job already and it doesn't close for another week. Why can't people read the job ads?

New girl on my team asked how we were going to pick an interview shortlist from so many. Longserving colleague said "Mrs S will do it in her own inimitable fashion: anyone who makes a spelling or grammatical error in their CV or application will be weeded out, followed by anyone who doesn't speak French or who hasn't stated that they are legally resident in France. Then she will weed out anyone who has done nothing but internships and that will leave about four to interview..."

Grrrrr for you too Mrs S

I have done no writing tonight but have finished something. Yes, that's right. Another bottle of cider.

DH going back to UK for a week from Friday, to attend funeral and for work, which will leave me on my own with the kiddiwinks. I am going to tentatively ask to work from home for a couple of days.

Agre re hair MI - I like it short, but maybe a little longer than tremendously short. I am also having a hair crisis where I flip between growing it to be like Emily Mortimer's in The Newsroom <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=incoherent.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/NewsRoomMackenzie.jpg&imgrefurl=incoherent.net/tag/emily-mortimer/&h=768&w=671&sz=82&tbnid=cNKotcYwSWpWPM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=79&zoom=1&usg=__WXr_pwJj8B1XipTSWL3DgircTe8=&sa=X&ei=GjM9UKfHNOqh0QXY-4HYDA&ved=0CCwQ9QEwAw&dur=434" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here which is grown up and groomed (although it would reqire me to get to grips with a blow dry) and reverting to a past hair colour and cut which was something like this which is probably like strapping a massive sign saying I'm having a mid-life crisis to my head.

The hair crisis has been exacerbated by my aunt dying a few days ago - I realise that sounds ridiculous, especially as she was definitely a shampoo and set kinda gal - but it's more that she was the last of that generation in my close family and I'm feeling a sort of creeping death myself as though there's no one between me and the grim reaper. Dh has gallantly offered to throw himself in front of the scythe, but I think that's just because he couldn't face the paperwork if I went first. In the most superficial of ways, maybe a siilly far-too-young hair style would help.

Blackduck - are you there? Have you found your kettle yet? Are you sitting on boxes eating pizza? Hope the move went ok.