Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

[Auriga]

Somebody had to do it

I suggested I give up work and dedicate myself to educational enrichment and fruit intake at supper today. The Inferiorettes looked horrified and pointed out they're at school every day and it's not that hard to get them to eat fruit.

You could offer to home ed, MI.

I use that as a threat.

DP has sourced teenage childcare! Wow, you'd think he'd won the Nobel Prize from his air of exhausted triumph.

Yep ds's piano teacher says he is wonderful and coming on magnificently - so if he sodding practised 20 mins a day as she says he'd be bloody concert level by now .....

Feck... It's so bloody frustrating...... :)

Must be in the air today....I felt like the lynch pin that snapped, after much asking everybody to do everything, then collapsed in a sob fest, while everyone else ate sausages downstairs....

Combination of meds for toothache, PMT and TOO MUCH TO DO....

Quite exhausted now, and gagging for a glass of wine, which obviously I can't have (due to the hideous tooth meds!)

Might just go to bed....

Sorry to hear of crises of confidence, teeth etc.

Can identify with dietary worries - DD lives on shed loads of chocolate, biscuits and sweet drinks and she barely picks at meals.

DH is diabetic and never managed it himself, so I had to. We eat healthily and don't buy junk food but DD buys it for herself and eats it in her room. I don't know when she last had a piece of fruit and she barely touches vegetables. I just keep providing good food and hope. I do buy her some treats but she just eats those and leaves the good stuff

She's had two concerts this weekend. I was stuck in South Ken for 3 hours this morning between her rehearsal and concert but couldn't face the crowds to do much shopping

What is it, ruby?

I am watching the laptops incase of any price-drops. Fingers crossed they don't go up!

GAP has 40% off everything online today, with free delivery.....

lalsy, I've just spent £75 - it's all your fault

Ruby - I have this helmet. It's quite bright - I would look more cool in a dark coloured one, but at least it adds to my visibility. And it matches our Brompton .

Much sadness chez wilbur at the moment as MIL had to have her big dog put down quite suddenly (pulmonary embolism). Dog was slightly younger than dd so dcs cannot remember a time without her and she was a lovely gentle soul. Ds2 who adores the animals was very quiet when we told him, and then about an hour later I found him sobbing his heart out in bed . I would so love to be able to get them a dog - they would love it.

Lalsy - thanks for the Gap tip - will go and take a look.

Wilbur, ahh, poor little ds2.

BTM, what did you get? I am dithering while writing very dull copy, can't quite decide.

Oh wilbur :( See that's exactly what I am dreading when our hound shuffles off this mortal coil......

ds cries at the drop of a hat as it is.....

GAP - hmmm.... no, musn't.....

Oh Wilbur. Is a dog really unfeasible (I can quite understand if it is)?

I would like it on record that an interviewee - v nice obstetrician - just told me I was a very good interviewer. I am Replete with Joy. Seriously. V happy. For once.

Oh wilbur I remember when DA&U's labrador died - the DC were really upst despite rarely seeing her.

lalsy, I got a cable knit jumper and a hoodie for DH (although I might give the hoody to BIL or DS) and a navy polo neck for me. I love polonecks!

Well done MI!

MI - we do hope to get a dog at some point, but as we are still planning to do some building work on the house (which is unlikley ever to happen based on our current workloads, but still, we dream) I don't think we can get a puppy while that is on the horizon, however distant. I have hopes that maybe, maybe we might be able to get one next summer, as we will have a much less stretched family timetable come next Sept. If I make it that far.

DH presents, top idea, mine is impossible to buy for (tho not as bad as my grandfather who used to return the pen we usually gave him, the following year).

MI, excellent job!

And the report I edited is in the Guardian (Jackie Ashley likes it) which is clearly all to do with the excellent editing, obviously.

Here endeth the upbeat showy-offery and I will return to my usual levels of gloom

About to place massive order with Friend Who Works At Posh Scent Shop and zap most people that way in a fragrantly Christmassy manner. I did consider giving them all Chanel 19....

I am thinking about putting a skin peel and dermal fillers on my Santa list to go with my new root canal

I am fearlessly venturing onto Oxford Street tonight! Wish me luck!

MI - fab news all round!!

Beachy, are you mad??????

CV, I know you can't resist a bargain....