The Crepe Papers

[motherinferior]

Did it!

I am, amazingly, keeping all of the stuff that arrived in my Boden parcel. Dress is a bit dull, but can be jazzed up a bit with a loud scarf. Now all I need is some jeans that stay up and I am sorted.

Unless we are all going to be wearing something from Woolovers at the next meet up?

What Boden stuff have you got?

Two "Emma" tops (like last year's Emma dress - have three of these and they are a work staple, tops not bad but not as good as the dresses) another top - Titchfield, I think, and a patterned Lydia dress, which is not as nice as the black one, but will be useful for work. It's not a dress to pull in. Although as I envisage working from home quite a lot in my new job, not sure how much use they will get.

I liked the Lydia dress but thought there was a weird bit at the front where it hangs longer than the rest of the dress (I think this may be deliberate). Is this the case Mrs S? Mind you I have to wait for the Christmas sale now.

I have ordered in their preview a Darcy jumper (navy) and a navy cardigan - as you can see I'm really up for fashion risks!

MrsS, I will take you shopping. And refuse to let you leave with jeans that fall down. This Cannot Go On. You will get arrested.

QQ, I audaciously abandoned Laura for my own music today, and trotted round the park to the ahem sound of Johnny Cash. Felt like that first drive without your instructor after you've passed your test. (Though in my case that particular experience was heightened by the fact that I'd had a baby in between (I passed fifth time, at 37 weeks pregnant, after spectacular failures for, among other things, going over a zebra crossing while a blind man was on it) and I was about to have my first post-natal period so was psychotic with hormones...)

I had lots of lovely cocktails last night (well three...) and am in a 'couldn't give a damn' mood which bearing in mind what I have to deal with today may not be a good thinng....

however I will be going home to a new floor (woo hoo) and hopefully a dishwasher :)

MrsS jeans that fall down are for the yoof - go with MI - she'll see you right.

Just been trying to persuade my DM to go to see her GP for a check-up on her speech/memory - it has got noticeably worse (as noted by my friends DM and other of her neighbours too) But she wasn't having any of it. She is obviously not losing the plot completely - still doing machine embroidery, knitting, other crafts, going out with friends/on coach, etc. Maybe I'm worrying unnecessarily

I have sort of slightly had enough of half term.

Pack them off on a trip out, MI!

DS has gone up to Camden with his mates and is sleeping (ha) over at his mates house tonight. DD is off round to a mates later for a horror film watching party and then on for a sleepover. She may even go into school for a maths revision session tomorrow

So DH and I will be home alone. Result!

Sadly, it's DD2 - DD1 is now home with the younger Schadenfreulein (a Crepey exchange of kids) and is happily doing something pointless in her room. DD2 has been weeping miserably at the indignity of being made to do her homework.

I am dispatching her EARLY to a Halloween party this afternoon. Like straight after lunch.

Jowls (wails)

That is all.

... and bingo wings [weeps] [waves to Crem with wobbling arms]

Gunt

My bingo wings trump all yours put together!

Am getting excited at the thought of a party for my 50th - not for 10months yet though[happy]

DS has text to say he has spent £20 on lunch/treats for tonight's sleepover and a shisha pen. Yikes!

Floppy tits.

I am writing an obsequious advertorial. I feel dirty. And not in a good way.

And I've just found the trick or treat sweets and ate the mini crunchie bar. Will I go straight to hell?

I know how you feel MI. I had to write a press release the other day which was basically putting a positive spin on a very dull meeting between two Important people which was hindered by a) a crap interpreter and then b) the crap interpreter being dumped and the meeting conducted entirely in French. Unfortunately the Important Brit did not speak French (although claimed to understand it) which quite shocked me. So the meeting lacked, shall we say, substance.

You can take me shopping when I have lost some more weight. The size 18 jeans don't stay up now, either. DH says they must have stretched.

On non-style and beauty front, I have huge antibiotics for my abscess and the joyous news that it will probably have to come out at some point but we agreed to "see how it went" to start with. Also managed to register with NHS dentist which I think is an achievement.

I see your jowls and raise you a permanently grumpy jowly look

plus I just ate the peanut choc trick or treat(s) on the grounds it might be risky for others ...

plus MI when I started driving lessons the instructor asked me if I really wanted to learn and when I asked why he said he'd never before seen anyone get into the driving seat and then cross their legs

Mrs s you are disappearing !
Dh is a cad

I might remove all the mirrors in our house so I can no longer suffer the indignity of catching a passing sight of a wobbly jowl. Or a rogue chin hair. I would go about in a purple shift

and a pointy hat, cackling.
Happy sodding Halloween

Yes. Happy sodding Halloween to all.
I win. I have the bingo wings, gunt, chin hair, jowls, grumpy expression and more... the worst thing was when I realised that standing sideways I was about twice as "deep" iykwim than I was in my youth. I have recently lost weight (all that swimming and running staggering) and am a bit narrower sideways on but it's made my jowls worse. My face was better fatter. Ho Hum, choices choices.

Am not feeling the Halloween spirit. About 500 people have rung our doorbell. Every time the dog barks like mad. Then in the intervals between ringing people are letting off fireworks (WHY??) which drives the dog into crazed hysteria. I feel very sorry for her but also want to kill her / tape her jaws together quite badly.

Oh yes, the depth.

I have removed all the mini crunchie bars for further - or perhaps immediate - consumption. Am drinking cava as all my fellow inmates are out and nobody can look at me reprovingly.

QQ, I am feeling a bit jealous - only one group banged on our door (the bell doesn't work!) but that could be because we didn't have a pumpkin out (as the DC weren't going to be here, I didn't bother to get one) NO fireworks here - obviously a better class of TrickorTreaters in SarfEast Landan!

Still, I managed to eat a few Refreshers lollies and DH and I watched Unfaithful on DVD

I am getting fatter, not thinner

The fat is coming down the 185 bus route to you, BTM.

I do seriously need to lose weight before I hit menopause, as all of my friends who have gone through the menopause have absolutely ballooned. Every single one of them, without exception.

Hatty - re the Lydia dress, there is a bit that hangs down lower, but because of the style of the dress, it doesn't look odd - it looks like a swishy tie thing that hangs down - the waist is slightly gathered in the front and it comes down from there. It's a very easy dress to wear, although I did think that some of the prints were a bit "old ladyish."

Am contemplating getting my roots done here, but worried it would cost me an arm and a leg. Possibly cheaper to go back to Paris for a couple of days and get it done there...