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Crepeys Not Crêpes

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Cremolafoam · 06/09/2012 15:38

Oi over here hags

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motherinferior · 17/10/2012 19:29

DP would love to be described as a demon Wink

bigTillyMint · 17/10/2012 21:43

Just been searching through old photo's with DD for her "guess who the baby was" game at school. Feeling all nostalgic and can't get over how young DH looked Grin

Blackduck · 18/10/2012 08:38

dp was thinner :)

Parents evening was good - she is very happy with him, he has come on leaps and bounds. Main issue is his lack of confidence/independence but she thinks that is a combination of how he was taught before and the new school. She is pretty sure he will be fine :) :)

I am relieved....

herbaceous · 18/10/2012 15:19

I think DP would love the chance to be a demon in bed once more - it's me who can't really be arsed with the whole thing. Maybe I should get reading Fifty Shades of Gay. I mean Grey.

As for housework, he does more than his fair share really. Though has never cleaned the bathroom in six years. And has some kind of inability to finish a jar/bottle/carton of anything. So there'll be two bottles of milk in the door, one with half an inch left, one nearly full. Drives me mental.

We went to visit a school for DS today. It was the one I was worried about, that he'd probably get into, but I felt was 'wrong side of the tracks'. It was really nice! Lovely new building, loads of space, well-designed even with 'anti-bullying toilets'. The head showed us round, and was great. The kids seemed really happy, but well-behaved when moving around the school, and I got a warm vibe from the place. Amusingly uniform type of parent at the session - middle class, sharp-elbowed types, one wearing Pistol boots, I noted. She asked all the awkward questions about 'whether the EAL children hold the others back', while I sucked up to the head by asking how many male teachers they have. Seven, was the answer.

So, much relief. And tonight is my last meeting as chair of this arsing committee. Thank FARK.

bigTillyMint · 18/10/2012 17:31

Herbs, you see! Grin NOW DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THE SCHOOL PTFA!

MrsSchadenfreude · 18/10/2012 20:50

I have booked our half term holiday at last. I find it hugely stressful, booking holidays online. Anyway, we are all set now for Poland. Smile

Blackduck · 19/10/2012 13:42

Hello all! We're slipped off the 1st page, is everyone mega busy?? I am absolutely cream crackered and intending to have a lie in tomorrow....
We might actually have a phone line when I get home - one step closer to broadband - woo hoo!

herbaceous · 19/10/2012 14:29

I've been super-busy, with school visits, working preparing for the AGM of my charity, and having tradespersons in. A guy got here at 7.30 this morning to fit the loft ladder.

I've also had blinding headache for the past two days. I think it's heralding the start of Aunt Flo, but I wish she's just buggering hurry up and come along.

wilbur · 19/10/2012 15:25

Am sitting looking at the sheeting rain here and wondering how ds1 is going to manaage on Scout Camp this weekend. His kit is all packed and I have added waterproof trousers, but he is going to be soaking. Looking forward to the bag of mud he will return home with. ["with which he will return home" for the pedants Grin]

Not feeling very stylish or beautiful right now, just longing for my days away over half term, even though I have 5 kids to myself for part of it. Got hideous big meeting to get through first, which reminds me, I have to go and order sandwiches for that now.

Glad to hear the school was good herbs and that you'll soon be back up to modern communication standard BD.

motherinferior · 20/10/2012 10:20

FIVE CHILDREN? 'kinell, Wilbur, you must REALLY want time off work Smile

I am going to gussy up my CV this morning. Stressing the stuff I have done which is Quite Quite Marvellous and not so much the stuff which errr isn't.

I have lost my posh red lipstick Sad and am trying to blag obtain a new one. AND my posh uptight BIL is coming to stay for the w/end, from Singapore where he is now working. Neither he nor Mr Inferior will be drinking. I think I by contrast may be imbibing. PBIL also tends only go out briefly until they chuck him with glossy highpowered youngish laydeez, which is...daunting.

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/10/2012 10:28

I am going out to lunch in my favourite restaurant (where I am going to take you when you schlep your arse out here, MI). Unfortunately I have had a little nap and have just woken up. I need to shower, dress and buy champagne. Is an hour long enough to chill it? (Is this a particular Parisian dilemma? Grin) Have a friend coming round for drinks before we go out.

wilbur · 20/10/2012 10:46

Envy at your Parisian dilemma and lunch out, MrsS. I am about to write a List of things that must be achieved this weekend that range from sorting through dd's clothes to see if there is anything that is warm and still fits (I'm thinking there may not be) to attempting to make apple jam before the last of the apples get eaten by squirrels. I also need to do another hour on my taxes so they can go off to accountant. Woohoo. Not.

Am also considering a purchase of these as have been looking for black skinny jeans for a while and thought Great Plains might be a bit more forgiving for those of us with large arses. Not sure what size to get though - have only tried their tops and dresses on before, most of which were quite generous.

motherinferior · 20/10/2012 11:02

Wilbur, [[http://shop.uniqlo.com/uk/goods/073102 these] might appeal too? I have just updated my spreadsheet for my own (pricey) accountant. And had to dash round shops earlier this week to kit out DD2 in clothes that were not literally falling to bits (the downside of a non-uniform school especially for a second child). She is blissfully happy in a pair of leggings that don't have to be held up by a hairband Blush

I am NOT EVEN GOING TO MENTION MRSS's DILEMMA. Envy

bigTillyMint · 20/10/2012 11:07

Yes EnvyEnvyEnvy at MrsS dilemma. Although I am going to meet a friend for a drink this afternoon.

Am feeling about 190yrs old as I am soooo knackeredSad

Wilbur, I'm sure I don't remember you having a large arse. Gap always seem to fit me well. And Geeorge at AsdaGrin

motherinferior · 20/10/2012 11:26

these

bigTillyMint · 20/10/2012 12:29

THose jeans look great MI. But they don't do long Angry

motherinferior · 20/10/2012 12:40

Long is not my problem Envy

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/10/2012 15:06

They don't do fat either. Is 33 inches not long enough for you, BTM? I am boggling at what someone with a 23 inch waist looks like. DD2's jeans are 25 inch waist and she is 11, and there is really not that much of her.

Lunch was delicious, so was Champagne. I had beef and foie gras terrine to start, with little smears of chrain on the plate, then cod with chilli and garlic and parsley and a dish of mash, followed by strawberry soup served with warm "financiers". Washed down with a bottle of Brouilly and coffee. A nap now, I think. Grin

bigTillyMint · 20/10/2012 15:19

No, I need at least 34 or 36, but not a 23" waistGrin

Boasting, much, eh MrsS???Envy

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/10/2012 15:49

I don't get out much.

bigTillyMint · 20/10/2012 16:20

Yeah, right! Wink

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/10/2012 18:28

Now have early evening hangover. Wonder if DD1 would make me a cup of tea?

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/10/2012 20:21

Owwww, nasty headache. Sad

bigTillyMint · 20/10/2012 20:24

Just back from the pub with a friend - very relaxing. Just hope I get to bed before the hangover kcicks in....

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