MN vogue vol 17

[QueenCadbury]

Following on from vol 16

C'mon lurkers, come and join us and talk fashion/style bringing lots of links please...

Oh... The men one :o

Have a look at her jewels board too, it's fabulous.

Dry. 40 may be the new 30. Trouble is I am 47........Think that may be pushing it.

Queen ten out of ten to your DH for that text. Tell him 'That is the right answer'...You have your hands full don't you? >

Will look at your board Anni. I have been watching my pin YouTubes of Lou Reed and drooling over one with his lovely drummer called Fred Maher who I was very soppy about in the late 80's. Saw them about six times live and he still did not notice me. Good job I suppose seeing as I had a baby daughter and a partner.

I was neutered at age 27 after i had DS so my hormones are free range. I take Femergy, a brand of ginseng, Maca, Ginkgo and Cayenne and it is like rocket fuel. Sarah Vine recommended it.

QueenC your DH sounds lovely. In France I think you can have " un crime passionel" ( think its if you kill your lover because of abuse or something,pmt?...mig help).....perhaps we should introduce "Le spending passionel"!!

Oh yes definitely!

Hello Voguettes! Out with dh (well at table waiting for him!). Outfit dull - cowl neck top from warehouse, banana republic Martin fit trousers and kurt Geiger pumps. However on the accessories front....Chloe Marcie bag and super bling

Yes yes Dry
QueenC I feel your pain, I hate myself at the moment, feel like the worst mum ever, DS really pissing me off and he's only 2.5 so what does that make me? Some kind of horror!
I'm dreading this coming week. My MIL is lovely, but very 'busy' and a bit OCD. My FIL is suffering from depression and apparently I'm the only person he can talk to - I dread the chats. I suffer from bouts of depression myself and if I'm surrounded by negative people it can bring me down. I think that's why I'm dreading it..... I feel I have enough on my plate.
Amber have fun tonight.
DH and I have eaten crayfish tails with good bread and butter and a decent rose this evening - lovely.
Anni that board was just great. It made me laugh when I saw certain pics of men had been pinned multiple times - as though she'd forgotten they were hot the first time round.
Who bought the J Crew panama? How is it?

Waves to Novice enjoy date night x

Yes it is a Crime Passionnel and is used as a defence against premeditation En France.

Novice > Have a lovely evening. Let's hear about the bling. What colour are your KG's?

I am in an old Comme Sweatshirt, the one with the eye on it in faded red, long navy sweatpants and my DH's armadillo slippers. Lazy night in but the kitchen door is open, I can smell the Jasmine and I think I detect a slight hint of Autumn in the air. I like Autumn. Tuesday morning smelt Autumnal too.

Not to wish summer away it i love Autumn too Mig - my favourite time of the year. My birthday is around bonfire night - I love all the crunchy leaves, bonfires and fireworks.

Shop Can you build in some 'decompression' time for yourself amidst the 'informal counselling'? Leave the kids with them for babysitting and get away for a few hours? I wish I could help you more with some ways of enforcing boundaries with FIL that you feel comfortable with. It is draining to be around, depression when you are trying to keep it at bay yourself. You are not there to 'fix' him.

Your Mothering is good enough I am sure. You may feel like a monster for getting stroppy with DS but you are not one. Babies and Toddlers are hard. I haven't forgotten it and I do not look back on the past with rosy spectacles.

Anni I LOVE your new profile pic on Pin

Mig I am hoping MIL can be persuaded to babysit so we can have a date night. Fingers crossed....
I've PM'd you

OH MY GOD Shop You are my SIL!!!!!! ..... Missonni pumps, depressed FIL........

Shop and QC there is a myth that all mothers should love it all the time....baking, CK aprons (I have 2),uncomplaining, loving housework, it should all come easily and naturally....oh yes childbirth should be a breeze as should feeding the babies and we should all be having regular and ground trembling sex.............it's a lie! We are all just trying to do our best in our own way ( me i did it all the oppsoite way to most and just told anyone who tried to persuade me othervwise to go away).Once the sisterhood gets honest and accepts that we all do things our own way we'll all stop feeling so crap.

Pleeeeese don't be so hard on yourselves......

Love you virtually Dry - will I ever get to meet you?

Mig 47 is the new 27, don't you know?

Love that Shanghai Tang red bag too!

I am a v bad mother. DP has just got home after a v v long day and week and I have handed him DD2, left him with energetic DD1 and hidden myself in my study to write work emails/ make a call and mumsnet Oh and I just shouted downstairs that they were all whooping too loudly for me to talk to my clients. And although DDs fed, I have not cooked dinner yet for me and DP.

I have gone completely mental with my two.....may have occasionally spoken to teenaged DS using language he'd understand iykwim, screamed like a complete fruit cake, thrown objects and kicked doors ( that hurts!)... Children drive us to do things we'd never imagine ourselves doing because its HARD! Everyone does it, we all feel real guilt and failures at times....no one admits to it.
Today I accidentally locked DD in living room where she was happily playing One Direction medley on piano...then went to post office!!! received phone call "Mum why did you lock me in the living room?I had to climb out of the window!"......thank god no one overheard that conversation

Shop if not this MU at next,

I am a bad mother too. And selfish because I won't stop listening to music online and chatting to you lot so he can play his super complex game against the rest of the world on XBox (he complains internet slows up). We have crap broadband sometimes here.

Am tad resentful and disinclined to do so because he ignored my birthday then tried to claim the gift he bought us from Tunisia was my gift. Am ridiculously hurt. I never expected much, am not greedy but a card would have been nice. He knows what a truly terrible year we have had. I remember when I stood up and read the eulogy at my Fathers funeral he was really proud but he does treat us with disassociated contempt a lot of the time. Aaaah, that's 19 for you. Fast may it pass!

Good for you Negroni. My DH came in the door with some piece of shit useful stuff he found in a bloody skip and plonked it on my lovely newly waxed kitchen table. I chucked it in the shed while he was in the shower. He has now gone to meet clients for a thank you meal/drink.

Phew, dc in bed, in my pjs and enjoying a cup of green tea and MN. How very rock n roll for a Friday night!

shop that does sound draining. Does he know about your history of depression and what effect he has on you?

dry sending a hug straight back at you.

novice enjoy your night.

Whoever asked about havs, I bought some on recommendations from here and they haven't hurt me at all(unlike the asda ones last year that tore my toes to shreds).

Hugs to you QueenC - lovely bag. I can't offer any advise really but feel free to come on here any let off steam any time and happy to pm any time.

Shop you and my DH would bond - DD (same age as your DS) drives him completely potty some days and I get home to a very tired man. Wise words Dry - there is so much utter shit talked about parenting. We all get it wrong sometimes.

QueenC he knows I've been depressed, I think that's why he thinks he can talk to me, but the effect, no.......
Anyway, onwards and upwards, who bought the J Crew panama?

I think it was Grumpy who bought the panama hat...

I so want a hat, but by the time I get my arse into gear and by one the summer will be over :)

We have holidays booked for Lanzarote in Nov and Fuerteventura for Feb so I should buy some summer clothes and a hat but somehow just can't be bothered - I should get onto it or I'll end up in a panic in Oct and anything suitable will cost a fortune. Need shorts, bikinis, maxi skirt, a dress and couple of t-shirts and maybe sandals....I have bought for DD as she has really grown but can't seem to summon the energy for myself.

I should be going sales mad Liberty!!