Crepeys Not Crêpes

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Oi over here hags

Oh BTM, I'm so sorry; how worrying for you.

I saw Orangina for lunch and she enquired about a meetup

Oh no, BTM, what a worry. Fingers crossed for you.

Hmmm, yes, meetup. Anyone got any dates in mind? MrsS, when are you next channel-hopping?

Holding thumbs for you here, BTM.

Strops, I am back in November (date as yet unspecified) for IoL exam in Franglais. I think we should have a pre-Christmas meet up at some point...

Oh BTM hopefully it's just a couldn't get a good enough look and want to run them again appointment
Yes to meet up!

Thanks for the support! I too am hoping it is because they couldn't get a good enough look as they are so ridiculously small.

Yes to meet up, although some of us are going to the one on Sat night first - Beachy, Ruby, CV, shall we decide on a pre-meet-up time and place? I reckon Browns (which is just round the corner on the waterfront) would be good, especially as it is forecast to be sunny on Sat. But I don't mind where!

MrsS, oh it's the CIoL these days. They get very upset it you forget the C. Are you doing the interpreting exam?

Wotcher all
I am tired and fed up and going to bed early

I am drinking lo-carb g&t. Will probably have two. Quite bored with protein now, but weight is shifting so will keep being strict for a few more days.

I have, however, cleared my desk, totally and completely, everything neatly away in my new filing cabinet. I feel both saintly and cleansed.

BTM - so sorry about hospital recall, fingers crossed it is just about not being able to see everything.

I wrote 2,000 words on the train back to Paris tonight, which redeemed me slightly. Now over half way through.

Strops - no, just a French exam. C1 level. Not brave enough to do C2 because I failed it last time.

Hello

Hello Reddwarf! Welcome to Hagsnet!

I went to the theatre to watch Great Expectations - it's now going to be a long day as only had 6 hours sleep .....

Hi reddwarf, welcome!!

Oooh BD Great Expectations - DD had to study it last term (whilst the other 2 groups in her set were doing more modern texts) and found it rather dull. Her group are now doing Mr Pip whilst the other 2 are doing To Kill a Mockingbird. She is not impressed!

Hi reddwarf

Hello Redwarf....very happy with Browns, shall we say about 5.30? Do we need to reserve a table, do you think?

BTM - not my choice...ds wanted to go and see it. It wasn't bad, a bit overplayed in parts, Jaggers was good.

Anyway it is all part of our 'fitting in' programme ;)

BTM/Beachy - are you talking Browns Butlers Wharf?? Looks nice, maybe a reservation would be a good plan for sure.

BTM - mammogram call-back, oooh how stressful......I was summoned back after a smear test once, but she just hadn't taken the sample properly. At least I only had a few minutes fretting until they clarified the reason. Maybe they didn't clamp you in quite tightly enough last time. Easy to say, but try to forget about it over the weekend.

Grea! Browns. Butlers Wharf it is! I will book a table for 4 - Beachy, CV, Ruby and I, unless anyone else would like to join us?

Had an interesting text-conversation with DD this morning after I read the blurb on the back of Mr Pip and realised that I had read it - she now wants to read To Kill a Mockingbird so that she can compare the two - result!

This is after her babysitting last night and reading Peter Pan to our little neighbour - first book she has read outside of school in ages!!!

Yes, I am going to block out the hospital visit as it is surely a mistake on their part

Gah. Hairdressers. I have come to hate them. Why is it so difficult to find a decent one?
Dear hairdressing fraternity: All I want is a good cut about 4 times per year. And I mean a GOOD cut, not a bodge job because " curly hair is soooo difficult". No, I don't want colour. I like my hair with the grey bits in, so there. No, I don't want a blow-dry with lots of goo on my hair. No, I bloody well do not want you to straighten it and no, I especially do not want you to do that half-way house thing involving a rolly-brush wotsit because I always end up looking like Margaret Thatcher and that really isn't a good look. I do not care if all your other customers like it. And no, I am not "lazy" because I do not blow-dry my hair EVER. And please do not keep trying to sell me that snake-oil shite: you and I both know it doesn't work.

I am this far away from either going to the barber's for a No. 1 or giving up on hairdressers for the rest of my life, like my mother did at my age. She hasn't been to a hairdresser in 40 years and her hair looks very nice. Long, but nice.

Stropps, do you go to high-end hairdressers? I gave up on the expensive ones for those very reasons and now go to a cheap and cheerful one (frequented by the old ladies!) I have had more compliments since going there than I ever got before.

Stropps I agree with BTM, I never go anywhee up market - I find a local, make it plain what I want (dry cut - can't bear having my hair washed over those sinks, no blowdry or gel/mousse or whatever), I am in and out in 20 minutes ....

Nah, I don't really go to any "high end" hairdressers. Am not sure there are any round our way . It's not really possible to cut my hair dry as it's so curly. I tried the nearest "curl up and dye" for cauliflower-head grannies a few years ago and came out looking like them, just not as blue

Oh and I usually request a "rough dry", which is where they just wave a hairdryer about vaguely to get most of the dampness off. I usually walk out with it still v. wet, but that's how I like it. The bloke this morning just assaulted me with the bloody mousse before I knew what was happening. Grrrr.

Ugh, hairdressers. I go to one called "Tchip" and it is, indeed, cheap, for Paris. Cut, highlights, washed, dried, no messing, in and out in under 2 hours, all for 60 euros.

Contrast with UK: "You don't want a full head of highlights, do you? Only you've got such a lot of hair..."

"I'll just rough dry it, I don't have time to blow dry it" (but I'll still charge you for blow drying it).

And they either make me look like Bruno from Fame (remember him?) or dry it dead straight so that it looks like curtains. And charge me £££ for the pleasure.

Ah yes, Bruno-from-Fame. I'm sure we have discussed this look before, MrsS, and I have admitted that I too have suffered that "do". And possibly admitted that I would totally do Bruno from Fame if I had the chance.

Hmm, I don't pay for a blow dry if they rough dry. Oh no.

I stuck my head under the shower as soon as I got home and now have my normal shaggy sheep look. I would rather look like a shaggy sheep than a starched old boot, frankly.