Crepey continuum

[Cremolafoam]

Over here!

Hello Mrs S - hope you're feeling better. It's difficult the expat life in that respect - I think it's also much more difficult to break in once you don't have gorgeous babies anymore to pave the way. Teenagers don't work quite as well - I'm more or less banned from turning up at school.

That said DD1 has a mock bac in French this morning (yes on a Saturday). I've send DH on the school run for once - yay.

Yes, I think you are right - once the children are beyond primary age, you can't make friends via the school gate (although my school gate experiences were not entirely delightful). I help out a lot at school at weekends and in the evenings, on occasion. It has put me off mass catering for life (especially if chilli is involved), and didn't do much in the way of making friends either.

Oh yes - we have chilli - I steer well clear of that one. I am however a dab hand at gingerbread houses now. .

MrsS, I have no personal experience of private schools on London, but friends who have DC in them seem to have all sorts of social events organised (not sure if it's the PTA or schools themselves) often involving money-raising for charities, so maybe you would make some bosom-buddies there? I am just relieved that there is no PTA whatsoever at my DCs comp!

Anyway, you already have a load of 176 friends - how many more do you need?! And your girls will be able to bus it round London for free with their Zip cards

ruby, did you tell him to rub toothpaste on it?!

BD, DS was very pleased with his shorts (chino stylie) from Primarni and Asda, but as he's now in mens sizing, i don't think that is of much help to you!

I was conned into buying DS some shorts in Hollister earlier in the week. They were 25% off, though, and DS had to make a financial contribution towards them, but honestly, that place (ditto Jack Wills, Superdry etc) is an absolute con, and a 46yo mum is completely invisible to the 15yo beach babes stacking the shelves. Even though it's the 46yo mum who's waving the credit card.

The teenage boarders have departed, leaving behind a living room littered with discarded soft furnishings and empty crisp packets. DD1 got up to be sick in the night, but seems a little better today. I'm just wrestling with the idea of carrying out Stage Two of the repair of the giant hole above our kitchen window - I need to cut off the excess solidified expanding foam (and trust me, there is a lot of excess), then plaster over and sand smooth. While upside down. What could be simpler?

CV, the DC are hoping for some genuine fakes in Bangkok!

Thanks all for the ideas - unfortunately ds likes the soft jersey style shorts and is less keen on the chino cotton style which limits the options still further....I will have a look on Monday on the way to work.
Meanwhile I have bought dp his first pair of slippers because I am sick of mud being trailed through the house!
MrsS I just you are on the mend.

BD, DH loves his slippers! He has indoor-outdoor slippers so he can go out to the bins in them

BTM :) dp put them and looked at his feet with a 'well that's the beginning of the end' look :)

DH and his best mate have been wearing them since they were flat-sharing in 1990 and he was 22

DH and his best mate have been wearing them since they were flat-sharing in 1990 and he was 22

Bad holiday news - my call to Tesco bank yesterday to lift the block on our cards cost £44.58. They'd better effing refund it

Good holiday news - I had a pedicure at sundown on the beach for £4

Oh ffs...DP now suggesting we change holiday dates.

In S&B news I too had my brows done yesterday.

We are en route back from my parents' in Norwich. I drove us there which was surprisingly fine except for the bit where I nearly crashed into another car on a roundabout. Want alcohol.

LTB, MI.

My temperature has shot up again, having been normal-ish for most of the day (but held in check by Lem Sip and Nurofen). Not impressed.

It must be time for surely.

Cv I walk past the triple hell that is Hollistet, Jack Wills & Superdry every day and there is ALWAYS a puce faced parent and a stropping pre-teenager.
Dd and I had one major war about Canterburys or whatever you macall them and that was it with the so called designer wear.

I so wish I could tell you about the day I had but it would out me so badly I'd have to move planets .
Suffice to say I had a showdown with an octogenarian customer who called me a ridiculous cow.

I am so not looking forward to when ds realises there are labels and stuff... I can cope with his 'soft trouser' fetish but dealing with superdry etc .....

MrsS get better soon!! Hope DH is pulling his weight and looking after you.

Oh go on Cremo - we won't tell....

Yy Cremo, it's not as if you're on a public forum where lurkers laugh their heads off at the online admissions

Yes, Crem, gwan, gwan, gwan.

I bought DD2 some shorts from Emma Ness today, in the children's range - "angel" or some such tosh. However wide are children in the UK these days? She had to have the XS ones, and there is no way she is extra small. DD1 went shopping with a friend at La Defense and bought some very loudly patterned jeans from Uniqlo. And they fit.

Crem, you can't keep us hanging!

On the subject of slippers, DH luffs his. He wears them until they fall apart and start to whiff, at which point I "lose" them and he is forced to replace them.

MrsS, hope you get better soon.

DP has slippers that reminded a friend irresistably of the residents in her mum's care home

I feel fat and in need of a haircut.

BD, not all of them become label-followers. DS is (and always has been) obsessed with brands, whereas DD1 and DD2 couldn't care less. I am aware that may change, though.