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Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

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Auriga · 12/11/2013 23:18

Somebody had to do it Grin

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MrsSchadenfreude · 29/11/2013 16:27

I've worked out that if they were paying me for my time, this piece of work would have cost almost £4,500 by now...

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Auriga · 29/11/2013 17:54

MrsS, none of this sounds like a good use of your time. How is the novel coming along?

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motherinferior · 29/11/2013 18:19

Mr Inferior has found his phone but is now treating my suggestion that I go to Aldi after supper as something entirely up to me as a jolly outing I will enjoy. I do it to save money rather than relying on Ocado, ffs. And he hasn't even placed an Ocado order in the first place so if I don't we'll STARVE.

Don't even start me on the childcare he hasn't arranged for a hole in Thursday's arrangements - his latest was he 'couldn't read' my email with various telephone contact numbers on it. I bet he rings all the kids who've now gone to university. Hah.

hattymattie · 29/11/2013 19:46

MI - may I just take you back a bit - the magazine rack - was that where he kept his phone or did you leave too many magazines lying about without it thus hiding his phone?

bigTillyMint · 29/11/2013 19:53

I now have 3 huge teen boys in the house - sleeping over. DH is going to collect DD from gym early so she can be in charge - Ha Ha - and we are meeting friends in the pub. Am I being a neglectful mum? The pub is only up the road and I neeeeed a drinkSmile

Yes, MI, what has the magazine rack got to do with it? And DH used to think food shopping and cooking were my hobbies. It took a lot of shouting convincing to put him straight and I still think he thinks I enjoy themConfused

hattymattie · 29/11/2013 20:08

BTM - no they need to know you can trust them a little bit plus it gives them a bit of time off from supervision. Not neglectful at all, go to pub.

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/11/2013 20:22

I am going out tomorrow with Stylish Parisian Friend and her new Stylish Parisian Husband. I have this to wear in the brown. It comes to just sort of on/above the knee (too high for me to wear tights with it) - do you think I could wear some kind of jeggings/thick leggings and boots with it? I have considered jeans, which look fine underneath it, but don't have a pair that will stay up at the moment as I have lost weight. (I hate to admit it, but I suspect it is not drinking for weeks and weeks because of the blasted antibiotics that has resulted in falling down jeans - and they do fall right down as well.)

What think?

herbaceous · 29/11/2013 20:27

Why not tights? Of the thick and forgiving variety, of course.

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/11/2013 20:28

(My legs are large and muscular but not overly fat, if that helps.)

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/11/2013 20:29

What - like thick ribbed tights, Herbs? Yes, that's an idea. Psychologically I think I would feel better with some kind of trouser underneath though.

motherinferior · 29/11/2013 20:41

A legging (get me with the singular) would give the tights effect but still reassure?

I think the magazine rack was invoked because he was looking in a pile of (his) Stuff and I vaguely remember he used to bung Stuff in a collapsing magazine rack. Thus the rack gave, allegedly, a chimera of tidiness...

...except DD2 points out he did actually destroy the rack himself, in a huff. I think it was falling to bits - he's not usually given to gratuitous violence - but in any case that was about four years ago.

Poor old DD1 is v sad because they're not taking her braces off yet after all.

CointreauVersial · 29/11/2013 22:05

Footsore and weary, but I survived my day at Bluewater. Actually, there was quite a convivial atmosphere about the place, and the shops were awash with Black Friday sales. A fair number of people on my Christmas list have been ticked off, thank goodness.

But is it so wrong that the item I'm most excited to have come home with is this. Two revolting black patches of persistent mould in the corner of both DD1's and DD2's rooms, which had resisted repeated scrubs with bleach.....vanished before my eyes! Chuffed to bits. Grin

I was very tempted by this parka. Beautifully heavy and cosy.

No class hamster this weekend, because he escaped from his cage last night, and is currently roaming around the school. Shock

bigTillyMint · 30/11/2013 07:08

Navy thick ribbed tights or leggings, MrsS?

Lakeland, CV? A true sign of crepey-dom! And the parka does look cosy. And a lucky escape from the hamster, in more ways than one!

We came home not long after 11 last night to.... DD tucked up in bed and asleep and the boys snuggled up in bed together in the loft, watching TV! No sign of any damageSmile

beachyhead · 30/11/2013 07:29

Love that parka CV. Mrs S, I would have thought tights would be OK from above knee to boot top. Trousers underneath will feel a bit runchy. Lovely dress, BTW.

I, too, am in tooth hell. My failed root canal, which must have been six months ago, has re-erupted and I'm on metronidazole as well, which are making me feel beyond awful. They upset my stomach and make me very over tired. I was in bed at 8.15pm last night. Still, I may get huge trouser falling down weight loss like Mrs S, which would be a result.

I'm sorry about your cat, Herbs. My dog was 'rolled over' last weekend on the beach, and she's dislocated her knee cap. Ouch! She's on bed rest (impossible) and may need surgery. So between her knee cap and my root canal, I think Christmas is going to be VERY frugal this year!!

I'm very behind on Christmas shopping... I need to get going!

herbaceous · 30/11/2013 08:32

I'm no doubting the cat is blind at all. He seems perfectly normal, apart from the oddly swollen head. Well, as normal as he ever is.

I'm rather vexed. The way the vet was talking, I could quite easily have opted to have him put down as he was going to lead a miserable life. Instead, he's got another five years in him of driving me to distraction.

motherinferior · 30/11/2013 09:40

That's the thing with cats. They drive you to tears of different types ALL THE TIME.

Cremolafoam · 30/11/2013 12:05

Lovely parka cv

Yes to cats making you weep .
Small grey cat brought in a half demolished robin last night and laid it on the pillow. Shock the cat was drenched and the robin flapping.
What a delight. This morning ( after ignoring the middle of the night ruckus) there are robin feathers all over the carpet , and the grey cat is sleeping like a baby on the duvet, her fur all crimped and pretty from the rain. Sigh

MrsSchadenfreude · 30/11/2013 15:06

I made the mistake of going to Oxford Street with DD1 this morning. We got there early, but nothing went right. I tried on about 15 pairs of jeans in M & S and the Fat Shop and none were quite right. There was one pair in M & S that Would Have Done, but they didn't have any long fitting ones, and after great scrutiny, I decided that the medium was just a bit too short. Lovely tights and thick leggings in John Lewis but either none in my size or none in the colour I wanted. So I went home in a rage, and went to Tesco, which put me in more of a rage. I have tackled half the kitchen and am having a Nice Cup of Tea before finishing it. Have shouted at the DDs (why do they never do anything unless I shout) and they are sorting through their piles of crap, which should give us a bit more space. DD2's drawer seems to be entirely full of odd socks which can't possibly fit her any more, so I have told her to throw them all out, and am robustly ignoring pitiful wails about making sock puppets and craft stuff.

I am also due on, and lunch consisted of pork pie and custard doughnut. So much for the gourmet.

bigTillyMint · 30/11/2013 15:31

Oh yes, MrsS, that was a mistake - Oxford Street in the run up to Christmas, yuck!

I had a nice leisurely catch-up with a friend over a few cups of vanilla tea in our local tea emporiumSmile

And the whole day teen-free as DS is paintballing and DD at gymSmile

And the back wall is finally going up! I am soooo happy. The gardener who did a quote about 9 months ago (and must have thought I had given him the slip) is coming back tomorrow to do a new quote as I have changed my mind a bit about what to do and everything will cost more now anywayWink

CointreauVersial · 30/11/2013 17:16

Ooh, having your garden wall back will make all the difference, BTM. They aren't cheap though.

More shopping today, believe it or not. I had to take DH's car for a service, and "kill time", so the gaps on my Christmas list which I didn't manage to fill yesterday have now been taken care of. This included the annual trip to Bon Marche (a.k.a. the "Pensioner's Primark") for MIL.

Meanwhile, DH and DS had a touchline row at football this morning, and are now not speaking. I have sympathies with DS in this case; DH gets very fired up, especially when the team are losing, and takes it upon himself to offer helpful tips at full volume as to how DS might play better. DS does not take this well, on the whole. Grin Unfortunately, both of them are very stubborn, so this one could run and run........

bigTillyMint · 30/11/2013 17:31

Its London stockSmile Looks lovely - their wall, they had to get party wall agreement and tear the back of our garden down. That's where the quote/compo comes inWink

Sympathies to your DS - DH is very hard on DS about his footy, and gets very fired up too. Not a good combo!

DS is still not back from paintballing. Hope he is not lying in a puddle of paint in the woods!

motherinferior · 30/11/2013 17:37

I have still done no more Christmas shopping Grin

QueenQueenie · 30/11/2013 18:06

I am confident I will win the prize for least christmas shopping done so far:

1 pannetone
1 cushion
1 shower gel
1 fountain pen.

QueenQueenie · 30/11/2013 18:07

Do I win a mince pie?
Or maybe a trip to Oxford Street on 23rd December?

hattymattie · 30/11/2013 18:11

Wow CV - sounds like the sort of Dad you see in various TV films. Luckily DH hates football and so does DS so I don't have to suffer this sort of problem.

I do think your DH, as the adult, should maybe climb down. Smile