Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

[Auriga]

Somebody had to do it

I know, ruby! I've been wondering at which point you stop falling over, and start 'having a fall'. As if it is an outside force.

I asked my mum about this, and she said it was because 'having a fall' is because of coming over all queer and dizzy, rather than tripping over a paving slab or whatever. Not convinced by that explanation.

I shall take this opportunity to reiterate that for any of us once we get past ahem cough 50 if we fracture a bone we must get our osteoporosis risk assessed. Did loads on this a few months back.

Obviously this doesn't apply to those of you leaping around gazelle-like in your 40s

Hope your mum is OK, Ruby.

Neither the scanner nor any other medical equipment, Ruby.

Sassy, like the hair, but I fear mine would look like a bush in that style!

Sounds like your mum's lovely ruby - mine wouldn't be running up any stairs (I don't think she's ever run in her life!) or making cups of tea for random blokes!

The wind is whistling here - the heating has never worked in the 9+ years I have been here and I am glad I put on my extra-warm knitted dress and thick cardi!

Our office is always toasty warm, especially as I'm wearing my lovely fluffy pink Gok jumper. It's the only garment I have bought in years that actually has lingerie straps to stop your bra-straps wandering.

It's like Santa's Grotto behind my desk, following successive deliveries from Amazon (hamster cage and pressure washer), The Book People (err... books) and Warehouse (a couple of little goodies for me - this and this). I just have to work out how to get it all into the car.

Love the dress, CV! I have unsubscribed to the Book People as the DC no longer read

Not at all, BTM? How very annoying of them. On so many levels.

Well, TBF, DD's English teacher is making them read for 20mins at the start of each lesson, so she is reading then!

They used to both be such very avid readers, and as a result are both good at English. It is very sad and frustrating. And as DD (or both) may possibly take English A'level, she needs to get back on track.

Love that dress, but have you read the reviews, CV? Scary!

I've placed my book order for stockings already - they may or may not read them, but I can but try.

Thanks for the tip on the T shirts earlier...Bought my scientific godson this. Otherwise chugging along with the shopping! Need ideas for dh, so off to google a mattock.

I love that fringey haircut, but I always ask for a 'growing out fringe', so it roughly comes down to my cheekbone, so I can pin it back. I always feel fringes are quite high maintenance, in that I might have to go to the hairdressers more than I can be bothered

I have my root canal booked for 5 days before Xmas..... Is that stupid? Just not sure I can wait until the New Year.

I now have a 'proper' fringe, straight across. I'm hoping it gives width to the top of my face, balancing out my odd and jowly chin area.

I trim it occasionally, which isn't too difficult and saves going to the hairdresser.

I find if I have a sideswept fringe, it does crazy things with my calf-lick and I look like I did when I was 15. Which was pretty grim.

Oh god. I've just heard the cat being sick. Despite his ordeal of last week, I still find him highly irritating. And now he's irritating AND ugly, with swollen bits on his head and randomly shaved parts of his long fur.

Herbs, that made me ROAR. Of course he's irritating. That's what they do, irritate. Our largest cat has taken to snoozing in the bathroom, and watching you on the loo. Which makes him, as the Inferiorettes point out, a perve and a murderer.

Sassy, I reckon go for it. Go on.

Haircut BOOKED. next thurs. Will report back.

Fugging cats. Mine has been feeling v sorry for himself the past few days following a fight at the weekend. £44 poorer, we coddle him and look after him for a few days, then when he goes outside for the first time yesterday, he promptly eats a load of grass and yacks it up all over my white bed linen. Git.

He is obsessed with me. As soon as I enter a room (if he hears me, as he's stone deaf) he gets up, miaowing. Then follows me around, or walks, really slowly, in front of me. If I stand anywhere near a surface he jumps on to it, then picks at me with his paw. If I sit down, he's on my lap, but not before walking backwards and forwards across it approximately a million times. Then he drools.

I end up standing in the middle of the kitchen to read my iPad or recipe books, with him purring furiously, teetering on the edge of the worktop and staring at me.

When I'm at the computer, he sits on my lap swiping at the keyboard.

If a cat's purpose is to irritate, he has reached the highest plane.

But, I do love the scrawny old git.

Off to take DS to his second drama class. Reader, I booked him in. £160 for 10 sessions! Is that outrageously expensive, or should I get used to this kind of daylight robbery?

I may ignore the presence of the cat sick, depending on its location.

Herbs, I don't know as the DC have never done a drama class!

DD's gym works out at about £3.50 an hour (but she does do 8 !/2 hrs a week), plus the £££ leotards, and DS's footy about £2 an hour including matches and 99 different kits!

IIRC, swimming was about £5 an hour.

DD2 indulges in a number of breathtakingly pricey musical activities - all heavily subsidised but boy they add up - plus a dance class at the Laban.

Music is evil.

Arf at cats herbs and wibur. A murderer and a perv just about sums it up in this house too. We are not permitted to enter the kitchen without the preparation of some tasty morsel.
Grey car is so painfully picky that when she gets crunchy food she only eats the ones she likes and sieves them so that only the red ones are left in the bowl . Black cat is just a pain in the proverbial. He is currently down the duvet because I put the electric blanket on. Ffs

Dress lovely cv. It will be lovely on you.
Tomorrow is my work do. This will be the first time I've been out socially since September meetup/ operation/ mrsa infection.
I think one whiff of wine and I'll need an ambulance. Anyhoo am having a style crisis. Have bought this sparkly number but am prevaricating over wearing it.

Cremo, that top'll look lovely - get it on

DD is having a moan over learning her Spanish for an oral CA tomorrow#shouldhavestartedaweekago!

Do you think BTM ? It's q long more like a dress on shortarse me. Planning leggings and a heeled ankle boot.
Seem to be wibbly thinking about going out. Some of my confidence has been removed with womb
Probably thinking about what the team have been up to in my absence.
It'll all come out over the Guinness tomorrow.

That will look great. They will all be dying to see you and fill you in on all the gossip And Guinness is medicinal. Right?

Thanks BTM

Great top Crem. Bit of war paint. Have good evening.

Dress / tunic is lovely, Crem. Very flattering, I imagine.

I hadn't noticed the reviews for my Warehouse dress! It certainly fits me nicely, but I shall be carefully inspecting the seams before I wear it. I saw it on a blog and liked the look of it, then was lured by the 20% off deals earlier in the week.

I managed to get the hamster cage home, but I fear that putting it together will pan out like an episode of The Krypton Factor - there is a huge bag of plastic tubey bits and not an instruction leaflet in sight.