Hello again
A short lull in work so I've had time to construct a proper (based on last pages) post, hurrah!!
Marsha thank you so much for the Outnet heads up, unfortunately I started looking and then it all crashed on me. By that time I'd convinced myself I don't really need anything anyway [gasp], so have avoided.
Foxy, love the sound of your SR outfit, but silk in this heat - yikes (would be terrified of sun cream ruining it, or sweat, or DC's ice creams, or....you get the picture 
). Lovely to have a compliment too, I have to say, I've been getting lots too of late, from quite a variety of sources, it's such an ego boost . I'm wearing a dress today which I'd consigned to the give away pile as I didn't feel it was very me, but when I wore it last week, I was stopped 5 times on the SR. 5 times! And then twice today (and I've only seen 3 people [rofl]). Tricky isn't it, sometimes you just don't feel "you" in something, yet everyone else seems to think it's amazing...
Foxy as for the Whistles dress, I like the shape, but worried about the material and the dry clean only tab, especially when in India (sun cream, sweat, ice creams etc...)
Shop nice work on escaping TK Maxx. I'm finding myself doing this more and more now, especially when I've been buying more stuff online (chiefly M&E) - the things in store just wind me up - bad fabrics, over-priced etc.
Anni, your poor DS. My two have gone into "fun school" (holiday club) this morning with their Ipod Touches, and I'm v nervous they'll be coming home empty-handed. I'd much rather they'd taken in our battered Monopoly. My DS adores his one (it's a Cars version, much shorter than the traditional, but still tedious after the 1000th go).
Not much to report purchase wise here: some Gap boyf shorts (been wearing loads) , Havs (likewise), bargainous maxi from M&E archive, and these in black and white.
Seem to have sufficient summer stocks now. Haven't bought the children anything (except next year's uniforms ), so feel a bit bad about that, but they did have some new stuff over Easter when in US not as much as me.
Don't know if I mentioned H broke his leg 4 weeks ago? It's been a total PITA, tied in with problems with our car (currently in garage AGAIN), super busy commitments with school PTA (I'm treasurer and we had 2 massive events in June and July), and the decision to start looking around for a new job (applied for a good'un last week, closing date Friday for interviews on Wednesday, fingers crossed 
). We go off on holiday a week on Saturday - 2 weeks in the Dordogne, and H has his cast off the Wednesday before (hurrah). Hopefully, we can catch our breath then...
Back soon. x