The Crepe Papers

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Did it!

I've just polished off some rather disappointing chocolate caramel things, needs must. Avoided the parma violets though. I keep forgetting to cut my chin hair off, must be in denial. Why is half term so long and wet?

Oh yes, chin hair... I have come up in hideous lumpy great big spots on my chin, forehead and cheeks. Like mini boils. I am hoping my double strength amoxycillin will do for them as well as the abscess.

Lalsy - I have just eaten some revolting Pepperidge Farm cookies for the same reason. DD2 is ploughing her way through the Trick or Treat bounty and would like to do it again next year with the Elder Inferiorette, please, and when can the Elder Inferiorette come round again?

What ho crepesters. Weather here in the algarve is uncommonly idyllic - bright and sunny - but only between the hours of 9am and 5pm, beyond which it is blasted freezing. Have just spent the evening having a Halloween 'party', hosted by the owners of this gaff. The other guests currently only comprise a lovely West Country couple and their super 6-year old boy, with whom DS seems to have formed a strong and unshakable bond.

Hosts seem to be Daily Mail-reading dipsomaniacs, which can mean a trying evening. But they laid on trick or treat sweets, and teenage daughters behind every door.

I am exhausted. I have a houseful of children, all tanked up on Trick or Treat sugar. I have spent the last two days ferrying them to and fro (with a brief interlude at Costco, where I somehow managed to spend £500 on some loopaper and a few tins of tomatoes). Tomorrow I will go to work, and DH will deal with the aftermath of sleepover hell.

Got home too late for the T-or-T-ers, which is a bit sad as some were apparently very cute, DH and DD were quite misty-eyed. But the carved squash (with brains leaking out of its head wound) was still glowing in the porch. Dd apparently answered the door dressed as a witch, in glamorous black lace (concert dress) and lots of gory face paint

We cried laughing over a game of 'in your pants' (all intellectuals here). Dd's best was 'A Series of Unfortunate Events in your pants' mine was 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in your pants' but we also liked 'Much Ado about Nothing in your pants' and 'A Walk in the Dinosaur Graveyard in your pants'

Auriga, what is the in your pants game (I don't dare google it)?

I'm embarrassed to say, all you do is add 'in your pants' to book and film titles etc. but it kept us amused for quite a while...

(The Enormous Crocodile in your pants )

Sounds good .

Good game auriga!

We play a similar intellectually stimulating game called "up your bum".

Q. "Where are my glasses?"
A. "Up your bum".

Q. "What's that film with james McAvoy called?"
A. "Up your bum".

I'm not really selling it am I?
Night.

Night QQ

We went up the pub so avoided the T&Ter's but I do have a lovely new floor and a (blemish free) dishwasher.

Thank god it is Friday as this has been the week from hell in lots of ways - trains screwed, crying students blah blah...... And next week I have to manage everything sans dp.......

Pinch punch first of the month and no returns!

I have to do it to you lot as I have woken up in a house devoid of children. It's amazing!

Due to ruralness, all children have been shipped off to local urban areas for trick or treating sleepovers

Tempted not to collect them!

In S&B, I am searching for the alternative to jeans... I'm tempted by velvet jeans or maybe cords? Any ideas? I'm not really a tights and skirt person, although I'd like to be.

I must instigate 'In your pants' here. Have just had slight ahem altercation with DP; yes, I know I haven't listened to anything about his work this week and he is stressed out but I have been zookeeping on top of my job, dammit....

Bank Holiday in France today - only realised at the last minute as usual. DH and DS exhausted having had a father son bonding trip to Disney for Halloween yesterday. DD's absent on sleepovers. We don't have too many trick or treaters here and they are usually quite early. I think I missed most of them by driving DD's to far flung villages in French countryside. Thank God for Satnav that's all I can say - I even needed it to find my way back home in the dark.

I've done something to my neck and shoulder which means I can't turn my head and I cannot lie down on my right side. Really sore.

I too am a master of the grumpy middle aged woman expression and apparently I puff out my cheeks when annoyed or thinking deeply which embarrasses all the children.

I am not joining the debate re jowls, gunts or anything else or I will get depressed.... suffice to say QQs description re being 'twice as deep' resonates strongly with me.....

Beachy, I like velvet jeans. Am a hippy, though.

[[lwww.johnlewis.com/jigsaw-velvet-jeans/p715361 these] are nice

www.johnlewis.com/jigsaw-velvet-jeans/p715361 these

Is there something wrong with velvet trousers? I didn't know and I have two pairs - the JL ones are nice but very expensive!

Auriga love the in your pants idea . Will file that for future ref( I know my nephew would love that)
Our Halloween games this year involved a quiz devised by dmum to suit all ages ( 10-85) with a books theme. Dh excelled at ridiculous answers:
What is the country behind the wardrobe called in the lion the witch and the wardrobe. ?

A. Oak Furniture land

What are the names of the 4 sisters in little women?
A John Paul George and Ringo

Beachy , yes to velvet strides. Those ones are lovely MI.

Cremo,

Velvet trousers are lush. I don't think I have ever owned any, though I did have a lovely black velvet skirt at one time.

I am happy because our lovely cleaner took my bags of old DC's clothes for her lovely little girl (and others) and I don't have to lug them to the charity shop!

Twelfth Night in your pants

Finding Nemo in your pants.

Snort at in your pants. Dcs will love that. We have a similar game called Grandma's knickers - you have to answer any questions with "Granny's knickers" and not laugh. What did daddy wear to work today? Granny's knickers. Kids getting bit old for it now, although I still larf.

Silent Running in your pants. Brief Encounter in your pants.

Beachy, I have black velvet jeans which I wear a lot during the winter - good for going out or parties with a pretty top and also for work when it's cold (my office has heating ishoos). I would like a coloured pair, but I don't look good in the burgundy shades, so am looking for dark blue or chocolate.

Smaller two dcs did v well on candy collection last night, so I will be tucking into that later. I complained a bit that they specifically went for finger of fudges when offered a selection so they could bring them home to Daddy (his fave), and didn't seem to look out for my favourite sweets. Dd then pointed out that no one gives out chocolate raisins as they look like poo. [makes note to inform dcs of top 5 fave sweets in time for next Halloween]

Have friends for all dcs over today, the six of them are playing The Hunger Games. Most of them are already dead .

Makes for a quiet afternoon Wilbur