Crepeys Not Crêpes

[Cremolafoam]

Oi over here hags

CV He is Y9 like my DD? She started yetting boobies and pubes in Y5 (even though she is a petite tiny thing)
DS in Y7 is getting some teenager spots but definitely no pubes yet as he stills strolls around the house nekkid as much as poss

Herbs, what was it like? I could pop in tomorrow and see if it's instore?

I just bought myself an anorak. It is soooo cosy and warm

MI, does your DD1 let you see her nekkid? DD has been hiding away since the first signs, despite (or maybe because of) the rest of us being particularly unembarrassed by our own nekkidness!

Oh yes, DD1 is quite happy to flash any interesting developments at anyone who wants to look. DP blushes .

Herbs, I feel your pain.

That's a super offer, BTM, but I'm going to be 'up west' on Sunday so will investigate the various Oxford Street emporia. I have become quite obsessed with it, and Must Have It.

If anyone else is near Oxford Street on Sunday at 12, my choir is singing a rather lovely requiem for Remembrance Day...

DS as yet has no pubes. Thank god - it would be pretty freaky at 3. In fact I have concerns in the other direction, that his tackle is rather tiny. But he's getting a bit too aware to bring it up with any doctor...

Afraid I will be in Heathrow for a gym comp tomorrow Herbs

But pleased to hear your DS isn't sprouting hairs yet. I'm sure his tackle will grow too

herbs, what is the coat of beauty like??

Coat is wool on the outside, down on the inside, quite fitted with a standy up collar!

oooh. like a smart duvet? Liking the sound of that.

is this it?? smart duvet

That's it! Tho the coat version that has disappeared.

nice.... clearly the coat version was too good to be true, like a glimpse of the promised land...

liking this... winey and realy liking this a girl cant go wrong in navy...

OQ, I could go v. v. v. badly wrong in that navy jacket. I shudder to think what I would look like in that cut.

The good thing about That Coat was that it was fitted, unlike a lot of Uniqlo's stuff, which seems to be made for conical people with no boobs.

I'd been so looking forward to a restful Saturday, with some mild post-builder clearance, but they bloody well turned up this morning at 7.45. Who knew builders work on a Saturday?

BTM - no, DS has just turned 13, so I suppose I shouldn't be too shocked at the emerging hairiness (to go with his spots, his B.O and his ever so slightly deepening voice). But I was a majorly late developer, and was nicknamed "Fuff-Less" at boarding school for a time (oh, the shame).

Herbs - if you are still toying with the idea of a cosy purchase from Woolovers: I clearly failed to un-tick a box when I made my recent purchase and they have now started to fill my inbox with junk send me details of promotional opportunities, the latest being 10% off orders over £75. Order code FM2U, til 15th November.

And thank you Herbs for the bargain Superdrug make-up tip! I had to go out yesterday in search of a yellow eyeshadow for DD1's school play, and picked up all sorts of goodies on their 3 for 2 offer. Including some <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=mua+nail+caviar&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1366&bih=622&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=-0tuDy0jlDstXM:&imgrefurl=www.secretdiaryofafashionjournalist.com/2012/10/mua-nail-constellation-vs-ciate-caviar.html&docid=6ER64hgiZYbuAM&imgurl=3.bp.blogspot.com/-bCfXTN3OfAM/UILNqQppO5I/AAAAAAAAG84/zpDLB0hEgQ4/s1600/002.JPG&w=1600&h=1282&ei=8TKeUKSBAYXH0QXCvoGABg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=820&vpy=215&dur=30&hovh=201&hovw=251&tx=158&ty=107&sig=109823565285298078887&page=2&tbnh=140&tbnw=169&start=21&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:20,i:166" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nail Caviar (no, me neither).

Now, interestingly, that Nail Caviar provoked the same response in me as buttons do (say a jar of buttons, or a cardigan full, not the odd one), and I had to quickly close the link. My Gran used to give me her button jar to play with when I was a child and it was utter torture.

Nail clavier, now why would you want to put that on your nails? (takes look at own unadorned nails and realises she probably isn't the best person to comment on these things)
Am wearing woolover tunic - tres nice, but to get a roll neck under it as per pic I'd have had to have gone up a size.....
Yesterday was the school cookery book launch, and today we are swimming, and cooking (dp is in Belgrade..), and emptying dining room so painter can get started on Monday....

I can go wrong in navy . It makes me look exhumed. And not in a sexy vampiric way, in an extra-on-the-mortuary-slab-in-police-drama way.

Went out with a bunch of mothers from DD1's new school last night. A cheerfully crepey gathering of middle aged wimmin in the pub. And - such is the ubiquitous Power of MN - the reason I knew them is that one is a friend of a MNer I know, and another is a friend of Blu's...

Eeeuwww to the nail caviar! I will show it to DD, MrsS, to see if it is as awful to her (as she too has had a button phobia!)

Oohh, MI it must have been mums-night-out last night - I was out with some mums from the DC's school and we spotted a group of mums from our "rival" comp in the same pub! Will be seeing your tourguide and family tonight

I have just tried to go swimming. The swimming pool was SHUT. I went to the charity shop instead . I shall swim at godknowswhatoclock tomorrow.

DP's aunt has just emailed us about where will we be at Christmas so she can PLAN MEALS. I have a grudging admiration and affection for the woman, but (a) I can't be arsed to work this one out (b) I hate Christmas dinner and really do not want a repeat of the year we had three in the space of 36 hours.

I didn't realise the nail caviar would cause such a reaction! I just thought I could rock some wacky Christmas nails this year. My nails are unusually long and lush at the moment, something to do with my hormones, so I'm making the most of it.

My Woolover black jumper arrived; I sized up as I was after something a bit slouchy, but that may have been a mistake, as it's massive. Boo.

As you lot have firmly told me you think the other dress is probably not a goer, how about this in the Dragonfly? Or this in the mocca?

Yes to the first one. The second is like a big cardigan...not so sure, but that may have something to do with the buttons.

DH has gone off to London for the week. I am sorting out the hall cupboard (have unearthed currants, some ground almonds and half a hundredweight of glace cherries so far) and making a Christmas cake. Wondering whether to make my mincemeat now or later, and to make Christmas cake for friends instead. (I have insufficient dried fruit to do both, unless I do cherry and currant mincement.) DD1 has informed me that we are hosting more footballers this weekend. I groaned, I'm afraid. DH won't be here, which means I will have to schlep up to the school on the train to collect them. Am tempted to let DD1 bring them all back on her own, but other people are a little more restrictive with their children than me, and as these will be Strange Children From Brussels, feel I should do the Good Mummy thing and go and collect. Which will mean missing the meeting my boss has scheduled for 1700 on Friday...