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A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

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oldqueencrepey · 30/01/2013 08:43

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

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oldqueencrepey · 15/03/2013 00:38

hey crepeys. Have followed the lot of you and purchased these...

dark denim

"coated""

they are surprisingly good aren't they. The coated ones are vair mutton modern. Ame expecting my teenagers to point and laugh...

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oldqueencrepey · 15/03/2013 00:40

posted without catching up first...
Ruby that all sounds completely awful. Much sympathy.

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Blackduck · 15/03/2013 06:12

Oh Ruby :( :( that is rubbish - hope you get it sorted soon.

OQC - they are surprising flattering aren't they? -still haven't dare show dp the orange ones :), the olive ones I am currently wearing to death.

rubyrubyruby · 15/03/2013 06:33

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Blackduck · 15/03/2013 06:39

Ruby for £22.50 they are a bargain, and I bet you'd find a colour you need ;)

motherinferior · 15/03/2013 10:06

I read that as 'modern and transsexual'. Which would please my friend R who used to be a gay man and is now a lesbian laydee Grin

Rubes, do let me know if I can be any help; it's unlikely, but I could allege I was doing a story on it and ring some of the GP organisations...

motherinferior · 15/03/2013 10:08

ooh and they do those jeggings in shortarse 'petite' (shudder) too.

herbaceous · 15/03/2013 10:22

What do you wear your jeggings with, ladies? Are they like leggings, and need a long top, or short dress, over the top?

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2013 11:10

I wear all sorts of things with mine, but mainly jumpers in this cold weather!

I noticed Uniqlo also have bright skinny jeggings in a rainbow of colours.

herbaceous · 15/03/2013 11:20

I mean, are they similar enough to jeans that non-arse-covering garments can be worn? I know the young people these days seem to treat leggings as if they're trousers, but I'm not sure my porridge thighs allow that kind of carry-on.

Stropperella · 15/03/2013 11:46

Am on 1.5 hr train journey to Southampton hospital for drug allergy testing. Will have 2hrs + of nasty things and am expecting to end up red, puffy and lumpy. But who knows?

Blackduck · 15/03/2013 11:56

Herbs they are more like jeans so a bit more, erm, robust. I think would work with shorter as well as longer tops.
Oh Stropps that sounds like fun (not) what's the problem?

I had another hideous night coughing (and a whispered argument between dp and ds at 1.30 - don't ask) so ended up drinking honey and lemon at 2.00. So I am wfh today and sod everyone...

Stropperella · 15/03/2013 12:16

Hope you feel better soon BD. And poor Ruby. I think you should go to A&E and make an almighty fuss, Rubes.
Was told 30 yrs ago that am allergic to penicillin and have now reacted to several other anti-bs, and gp feels my/his options are too limited so wants to find out what exactly I'm allergic to. As I've had anaphylaxis and carry an adrenaline syringe with me always, I'm a leeetle bit nervous.

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2013 13:18

They are reasonably thick - I wear shorter tops with mine. I am so over the tunic and jeggings lookSmile (though I do wear a couple of longer woolly ones with leggings!)

Oh dear, you poor sick and ill hags (and those who have allergy testing)Flowers

Have got an evening of ferrying DD from revision classes/gym, etc before I can go out tonight - am hoping she will agree to be picked up early so I can go with DH to meet our friends rather than join them later. And not looking forward to tomorrow morning as she now has to coach from 8.30!!! And then do 6hrs trainingShock

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/03/2013 14:29

May I have a moan? I am trying to sort out some potential schools back in UK for the DDs. DH has shown no interest in the process, beyond vetoing several schools because they are "too posh for the likes of us". He has had no helpful suggestions about where we might look instead for DD2. The school that DD1 wants to go to would require a substantial commitment to fees for us - we have the money saved up specifically for this purpose, but he is now saying that he doesn't want to touch the savings, and we should save more money from our regular income to cover the fees. Why can't we use the savings? Because we might need them for something else. This is a pot of savings/investments which was set up 12 years ago specifically to cover the possibility of school fees.

I know this sounds just like a "First World Dilemma". DD1 will be, I think, too late to slot back into the UK system, which is why we are going for an IB school where she can do the MYP and IB diploma. DD2 is less of a problem.

bigTillyMint · 15/03/2013 14:43

MrsS, I think Dartford Grammar does the IB - definitely in the sixth form - would that be any good?

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/03/2013 14:46

BTM - no, unfortunately they only do the diploma - we need a school that does the Middle Years programme too, and they are few and far between in UK.

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/03/2013 14:47

Hope your allergy testing goes OK Strops. It doesn't sound fun.

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/03/2013 14:49

I am clearing out the DDs' rooms before they come back from their holidays. DD1's is terrible. I have sourced a large pile of the younger Schadenfraulein's clothes for the larger Inferiorette, MI, and ask myself, as I often do, how many pairs of skinny jeans does a child need?

Blackduck · 15/03/2013 15:43

MrsS surely if you have specifically saved the money for this purpose there is no issue Confused
If he can't offer alternative suggestions why not just make appointments with said schools and go ahead? Are they 'too posh'?

Blackduck · 15/03/2013 16:26

Sorry, that wasn't helpful, I mean I'd be annoyed if dp did this. You clearly planned ahead for exactly this eventuality so why the change of plan - keep the money for what? Surely you can save up again (and the whole lot wouldn't go straight away would it?). And then just not offering alternatives, well I'd probably think 'sod you' and go ahead with it.

herbaceous · 15/03/2013 16:45

Speaking entirely out of turn, but I think I'd be thinking a lot more than 'sod you', from the stories Mrs S has told of her DH.

motherinferior · 15/03/2013 16:53

Tell him to pay for them, innit.

Cremolafoam · 15/03/2013 18:18

Mrs S its just robbing Peter to pay Paul. It makes very little sense unless the savings are tied up in a very high interest account( remember thoseWink)
Well deserved rant I think.

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/03/2013 19:56

DH needs a good slap. I think he is probably depressed, but as he won't go and see a doctor (he admits he probably is depressed) there's not much I can do about his being an arse.

I will just make appointments with the schools and book me and DD on Eurostar.

I guess the schools are posh-ish - they are boarding schools, so the main criteria is ability to pay for a start (and hopefully, as far as DD2 is concerned, not so hot on the entrance exam). I have asked him to find us a school to look at that falls into his criteria of "not posh" but he hasn't. My main criteria is a) that they have a place and b) that they will take DD2 to fill it. To be frank, these places are businesses, and my guess is that they would rather have a child in, paying to fill it, even if said child is not Oxbridge A * material, than to leave it empty and deprive themselves of the fees.

Yes, the school fees will take a substantial chunk of our savings, but this is what we saved for. DH is now wittering about university fees, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it (like most other people, I would imagine).

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