A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

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It had to be done.
Phew that feels better.
Over here crepeys. All very welcome (but only if you're crepey).

Wilbur it looks good - I would go (and very poss DD) but I doubt it would appeal to DH and DS OTOH, I am looking at Cornbury (which we could poss go to for the day from out-laws) - really wanted to go last year but it clashed with something else... Actually, I guess I could go to Wilderness for the day if it is nearby (is the location a secret? Can't see it on the site!)

Beachy, how exciting - a ball - I have a picture of myself looking young and glam in a ballgown - over 20 years ago!

Actually, just realised we will be away when Wilderness is on anyways - durrr!

BTM - shame, that would have been fun. It's actually also at Cornbury Park, but is a different Festival - lovely location though.

MI - have been trying to email you, but it has bounced back (am having 'pooter problems, grrr). Can you email me so that I can reply and see if that works?

Oh Tom Odell - tempted :)

That looks great, very tempted. Might talk to dh about that one...

We are booked in for this one....Shambala DH went last year with the girls, he ended up wearing a dress and they all ended up in a hot tub with two naked men... It's a bit out there...

The ball is James Bond themed. I don't mind my boobs or legs, it's the bit in the middle that bothers me, so empire line is very good. I don't mind long or medium, but I think micro is out..... Don't mind a bit of bling...but not too Shirley Bassey.

My tooth makes me feel like I've been decked by a cage fighter... I'm off to the Year 3 play now, hope I don't go to sleep.

We could have a mini crepey meet up
I'm off out to dinner with some old work colleagues despite the fact I feel rubbish (thanks ds for the cold)

Dress ideas for Beachy's Ball (see what I did there....):

At the casual end of things but could be dressed up with bling.

Very pretty but maybe too much arm on show, and might worry about the lack of shape?

Love this and very James Bond.

oooh, nice. I am starting to think about getting a decent dress for my ahem 50th later this year. I really don't want to appear a shabby old boot at my own party, dammit. Any suggestions?

Love the James Bond-esque one - would that be considered ball-wear these days? I am still stuck in the 80's prom-stylie dress

www.imdb.com/media/rm472810496/ch0000275
Vesper lynd like this

Other inspiring frocks here-m.wishwantwear.com/

Can't see the monsoon ones Wilbur - my phone is denying me....

BTM - it is a bit short but if it's Bond themed, then a bit of leg would be ok, I would have thought. Beachy could always paint them gold .

Oh I love the Bond one.....and the gold leg idea. It's in mid June - can I wear black? Or should I be lighter??? But it looks very comfy (or I am not supposed to be thinking comfy!)

this

I quite like this one but it's a bit expensive....

I love that one.

My dd and I have decided that the pricing has gone a bit skewiff on the Noa Noa website

grey drapey one

long flowery one

beachy, I don't think you're thinking "bond" enough. Dahlink, you need glamour, you need gold!

vair vair slinky

shorter but still slinky

herbs, did you mention stripy stair carpets? We have this one... 'tis great and you tea and dog wee don't show up at all. we got ours from jonny lulu's. type crucial trading "mississipi" into google and you can see all the colours / similar things...
stripy

Nice carpet OQ, but a bit pricey. Do they do one in a red wine and cat sick colourway?

I am a bit pissed off with DH. He goes back to UK Saturday week, leaving me with some convoluted pickups for children post holidays, but I was looking forward to a week on my own with the DDs. I got an email this evening from the parasites some friends who tell me they are arriving on the Thursday after he goes back and staying till the Tuesday. DH will see them for all of one day. This was news to me, but apparently he had agreed it, but forgot that he would be away.

Beachy you can hire a similar Alice temperley one on the site I mentioned for £60
m.wishwantwear.com/dress-hire/alice-by-temperley/889-lottie-gown.html

The noa noa ones are divine btw.

MrsS q cross on your behalf re unwanted visitors .

Crikey Mrs S. I'd be faking a communicable and fatal disease, such as ebola virus. What a bloody cheek.

As for the carpet, I did rather soil myself at the price of Queen Crepey's carpet. I'd been looking at a discount site doing similar numbers for £200 for the whole stairway. Plus landing. Plus fitting....

Oh there you all are looking at posh (expensive) frocks and I'm smug about my 22.50 jeggings (there I have actually typed the word - It makes me wince) from M&S - was it cv or BTM that mentioned them? They are lovely.
Nice evening with friends but food was rubbish.
MrsS I would tell freeloaders friends it's not convenient for you. Actually I'd get DH to tell them pronto

Love the Biba dress most

Love the carpet Am wishing we had carpet in the sitting room instead of stripped floorboards (a true sign of crepeydom wanting warm carpets?)

BD, what colour did you get? (Yes it was me!)

And yes, MrsS, tell your DH to tell them that as he has to go away on business, it's not convenient!

Have a lovely friend staying over - good night out last night with a mutual friend catching up on kids and life in general!

I am fairly sure the aptly-named Inferiority Complex can rival any House of Horror you care to mention. We have floorboards of utter mankiness, though at least the rugs covering them (OQC ) are quite nice as are inherited from Mr Inferior's various Bangladeshi antecedents. We strive for decayed gentility with a boho-intellectual gloss on it (which works till you actually check out what the books on the shelves are. DP's entire Fantasy/SciFi section and my penchant for gory novels rather trump the very ancient Anglo Saxon texts first used by my grandmother in Madras University in the 1920s).

MrsS, tell them to piss off that you're dreadfully sorry but will be rushed off your feet as Single Parent this week, and think they'd be much better off booking somewhere ELSE, really it's a frantic week etc etc so piss off make other arrangements.

BTM I wanted grey but they didn't have my size so I bought olive (I don't do bright colours ;) ) I also tried the Eva jeans which fitted really well - but I felt one trouser purchase was enough...
MI - sci/fi!? Who does he like reading (I am a secret sci/fi fan..)
Yes MrsS tell them to sling their hook....

Oh god he is a most prolific reader in the genre. I will confess I am myself now familiar with some of the better fantasy...

Do the jeggings stay up? Uniqlo ones also v good..:

Am knackered. Have yet another fluey cold thing and have worked insanio hours for the last 2 weeks and held the fort on the domestic front whilst dh pretends all that is nothing to do with him. dd has been off school all week with the squits and the school kept sending me menacing texts asking where she was (on the bog, mostly, just like she was when I rang you to let you know she wouldn't be in. Grrrrr.).
Today I have spent most of the day at a party that ds was invited to. Party out in the countryside, involving archery, followed by unsupervised swimming and 11 eight-year-old boys and a couple of parents who thought that a 3m deep swimming pool, said boys and no lifeguard was totes not a problem. 3 of us "paranoid" mums turned up to watch over the bombing, pushing in, running round the pool etc that ensued. Yeah, paranoid. However, mum friend and I did sneak off for lunch in a nearby town whilst the archery was on and had a nice browse in a NoaNoa shop we found.

My mother is coming round tomorrow for lunch, so I should go and at least scrub the loos. I suppose. Although I'm pretty sure it's time I had .

I like beachy's Alice Temperley dress. You would look luffly in that, beachy. Although also like OQ's goldies. Vair nice.