Autumn Term At Crepey Towers

[QueenQueenie]

I did it!

at MI. I would not fancy a baby at 47, but obv different when it's your first.

Cremolafan - speedy recovery. Although they're quite 'straightforward', they're big ops nonetheless.

MI - wow for your friend. My bf is currently in 2ww for same scenario, although she is a few years younger. It is not possible for me to cross any more body parts/light any more candles/say any more prayers than I am at the moment. Esp after the depressing article about IVF in Grauniad yesterday.

Crem - glad the op went ok, sounds like that pineapple really needed to come out!

I'm heading upstairs to get my winter clothes out. God knows what moth-shredded piles of unflattering crap I am about to discover.

Shopping in Covent Garden yesterday I discovered this little gem. I now need to see how much of the stuff I can wear without looking like as Swedish bag lady. I am already eyeing up a parka, several dresses and some tops. Boden is so yesterday.

A friend of mine had a baby at 50. It was a real shock - it was conceived naturally following years of failed IVF. She thought she was menopausal and was about 4 months gone when she discovered she wasn't.

MrsS, I nurse affection for that shop too....

And wow to the pineapple....

Looked at Swedish shop - a bit big and baggy looking for me - not sure I could pull off the pom-poms either.

If I got pregnant now I think I would just sit and cry. I have assumed I'm no longer capable so fingers crossed.

If I got pregnant now I assume the resultant offspring would have an extra chromosome at the very least and would glow in the dark.

Crem, bet you're glad to be shot of that pineapple. Get well soon!

BTM, hope your DM has calmed down and that was just an interim moment of confusion. So hard to know what to do about these things when you are so far away from them.

MrsS, I reckon those Gudrun Wossname clothes are for tall people. I would look like a children's entertainer if I wore them.

I do like a nice pom-pom, though

I am talking Gudrun in moderation, not the full on whackeroo bonkers look. So a nice patterned dress pulled together with a jacket, plain opaques and boots (or a cardigan if I can resolve the button problem). Or a top under a dull work suit. A tunicky thing over jeans. No pompoms, no clashing patterns and no tents.

We should take them by storm, MrsS. You and me together. I'll be the shortarse one

Steer clear of the hats

Emerging from flat-pack frenzy here. Dd's teenage paradise in the attic now has a wardrobe, dressing table with stool and chest of drawers. Looks wonderful.

Garden, otoh, looks no better at all. Definitely need to plant something before it's too late, don't want another barren spring (though spring didn't arrive till June this year, now I come to think of it).

Frantically swotting for choir as well. Really don't have time for work just now.

Posts about late babies made me wistful . I'm ready to be a grandmother, but am probably at least 10 years fast by dd's clock.

Hmm, yes, alto, be careful what you wish for re: being a grandma :)

Have a Monday 9am deadline for a job I didn't want to take on because I knew it would be more trouble than it was worth, but dh thought he knew better. Turns out I was right and he wasn't. Have enjoyed brief moment of smugness, but now still have to do the work. Bah.

Hi Crepsters! Drank a little too much last night, but had a great evening with cousins family - we don't see them that often, but DS hit it off really well with my cousins son (despite him being 4 years older than DS) and the two girls also. Spent this afternoon in Camden - it's like going back in a time-warp - most disconcerting!

DS is now having a mare trying to do homework that DH should have made him do yesterday, as he is too tired

Haven't heard any more from DM, but I will call her tomorrow and check that at least the bed has arrived.

zzzzz... Feeling highly crepetastic after trying, boozy weekend. Got to bed at 1.30 last night, after girls' party in Tunbridge Wells, then couldn't sleep, so knackered today. Kids' party and park 'AGM' haven't helped.

On the plus side, I've ordered these little beauties from Brand Alley, for £60. I think they'll become a wardrobe staple, replacing my Tesco pleather ankle boots that have been so useful. But so sweaty.

I tried on some of the Gudrun stuff - I think you need to be tall, or small and less busty than me - I looked shite. Also think some of it is terribly overpriced considering the fabrics... But having said that have a fabulous velvet dress from a charity shop (20 quid) from there....

Am nervously eyeing this skirt www.marksandspencer.com/s?ie=UTF8&node=43094030&sort=-product_site_launch_date&forceNoKeyword=false&rh=n%3A1322910031&size=12&pf_rd_r=131J3J92TFNYCTBSFHN6&pf_rd_m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=43094030&pf_rd_p=216456187&pf_rd_s=related-items-5#ie=UTF8&node=43094030&sort=-product_site_launch_date&forceNoKeyword=false&rh=n%3A1322910031&size=12&pf_rd_r=131J3J92TFNYCTBSFHN6&pf_rd_m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=43094030&pf_rd_p=216456187&pf_rd_s=related-items-5&page=2 . I don't really do skirts, but am assured that with thick tights and chunky boots, this would be ok on me. Um.

Oh whoops you can tell I don't normally post on here . No idea how to make that work properly. Anyway it's an M&S moleskin mini skirt.

Go for it - it does work! I reckon as long as one avoids the instructions to wear tactful ladylike clothes along with nude courts, late middle-age can be negotiated...

Out of stock!

Oh well. I have my eye on a nice tunic in Monsoon.

Herbaceous - are you in TW? I'm starting a new job tomorrow nearby. Still looking for faster routes to get there.

The Gudrun stuff is quite artistic. It wouldn't suit me. Not sure whether :) or :(

They must have all been reading this thread, Pirate, and thought "Oooh, good idea."

It has taken me over an hour to take a shopping trolley full of crap china and glass to the charity shop. I had hoped to blithely dump it there, but no, I had to unpack it all and put half of it on the shelves! I am now about to head out to a bric a brac shop to see if the man would want to buy my Polish crystal for the right price. Not all of it, just the more, ahem, excessive stuff, like the bowl that I once made a trifle for twenty in.

Wilbur - is there any chance you could pick up the microwave this week, please?

MrsS - is this how your charity shop operates? I mean, do the full service, man the tills, make the tea, fill in the tax refund slip.

Good grief, MrsS, our shops just grab the stuff with tears of gratitude.

Though I did get told off by a woman today when I stopped in at our local Age UK shop on my way back from a fruitless trawl for work lunch, when I wanted to try on a bias-cut velvet frock that was on a mannequin and she kept telling me how 'absolutely tiny' it was, with reproving looks at my porkitude.

It was an M&S 14, dammit, which given that I am a notorious shortarse is not exactly tiny. I tried it on and ostentatiously handed it back saying it was far too big. (Granted, I would have done that even if it had been too small, obviously. I do have some pride.)