Mardy Crepeys

[SheherazadeSchadenfreude]

Done it...

Dishwasher broken down and leaked all over the floor plus the washing machine is making ominous noises. Everything is going to break down at once - I know it.

It has gone from freezing ie. windscreen scrape this morning to a beautiful sunny day. I'm going out to buy a housewarming present for DH's divorced friend who has just moved into his own apartment. Must confess to being at a bit of a loss as

• is a bloke and have never seen the apartment.

Very envious of all you singers - especially the Paul McGann ones.

MI, don't sweat the home alone - we were leaving our DC's on their own occasionally till 10ish at that age. They were fine!

Fingers crossed you can make it tomorrow, Herbs - playdate from school?!
Well done for sending off your PGCE application too!

Cremo, hopefully your DD will be fine with your DH - she could be coping with a temp away from home next year, so it's good training

I am very much looking forward to a glass of something calming.

Herbs fingers crossed with the application. I am waiting (and waiting and waiting) for a job here to be advertised... they are taking their bloomin' time....

We don't have first sopranos or any other that - we are just a gaggle of people - currently trying to learn 'I went down to the river to pray'

very tired here - feel about 103, look about 104....

I am writing today's feature while toying with the online supermarket order. Do I care? Do I even slightly care? That would be a no. OTOH I do sort of like to have a vague meal plan as otherwise I am faced with having to think in the week....

BD , yep having to restrain myself, it is possibly not a good habit to get into. But having always worn dull M and S white or black, I am absurdly cheered by it.

MI, agree with BTM. It is good to build up gradually and now be taken by surprise when suddenly they refuse to be babysat.

Herbs, well done on getting the application in, that is amazing given what you have been coping with this week.

Well, I'd been tweaking it and getting references and fannying about, and time was ticking onwards, and it probably wasn't going to get markedly better, or not so much that it would make the vital difference, that I thought if I didn't get it in now, rather than miss the moment and have to wait another year. It means I can now concentrate on DP a bit more when he comes in!

Well done on the PGCE Herbs, that's exciting!

Lalsy, I love a pretty bra - it's one of the perks (fnar) of not having much up top that there are all sorts of pretty styles to cheer the getting dressed process. My bra drawer is a veritable courtesan's playbox and it makes me happy just seeing them, even if they don't all get worn that often. I have to say that dh helps with this as Father Christmas usually buys me some scanties (although this year he got me a onesie ). Turqouise spotty bra sounds fab.

It's the matching pants issue that always throws me. I am prepared to spend money on bras (I have to, being the possessor of massive norks). But expensive not very comfortable pants?

I tend to buy cotton pants in a 'toning' colour with the bra. Can't wear nylon pants - unpleasant effects.

Must treat myself to a new bra that I actually try on. Buying them online has distinct disadvantages.

Not that I believe in this kind of balderdash, but the night FiL died the light on my long-defunct bike in the garden started to flash. Then, my electric toothbrush died and wouldn't work, then just turned itself on. And the telly in FiL's bedroom turned itself on.

OoooooOOOOOooooOOOoooo.

I also do toning cotton pants - my vast bottom is not friends with the thong. I have a v good navy bra from Victoria's Secret which came with matching nice cotton pants, and then I bought an M&S pack of navy knicks, some spotty some plan with a bit of stretch lace and voila, I was suddenly in possession of 6 days' worth of pretty lingerie. Broderie Anglaise is a good fabric for bras - looks perfect with plan cotton pants.

Herbs - the day my dad died, we came back from the hospital to find his grandfather clock had stopped - not due to lack of winding, just stopped for no reason and it was (and still is) v reliable.

Plan? PLAIN.

Wilbur.
I have resorted to plain underwear as I find lacy scanties v uncomfortable.
Think Bridget Jones' non-pulling pants. VPL is so 20th century.

Dd has rallied a bit; BTM you are right. I am consequently at the airport
trying not to feel guilty.

QQ - FILL THE SHERRY DECANTER AND GET THE PROSECCO ON ICE.

DP will be here tomorrow, thus freeing me for crepey action. There's a chance I may go slightly hysterical. You may have to restrain me.

I love saucy nice undies - always matching sets. My current set are luminous purple. A recent audit of my knicker drawer indicated I'm definitely in the market for some new stuff, so I might try that new bendover bra-measuring thing that's all over S&B at the moment.

I wear nice undies on the offchance that I might bump into Paul McGann.

Wilbur, that's like

Herbs and Cremo, that's great news!

Matching pants - is that a thing, then, for normal people not in films? Oh dear. I seem to have woken up from a long sleep. I got my new bras online from Bravissimo, sent them back till they were right, was fab and avoided getting tangled up in changing rooms.

I have become shamefully fond of my M&S Bridget Jones pants.

Though I note that Debenhams has some Enormous Pants that look positively racy. And might explore those.

Well, I don't have big norks, so no scaffolding required. M&S's finest do for me.

Non-matching undies? I might be hit by a bus!!

I have a sliding scale of matching-ness. I have only one matching pant per bra, so they have to be rationed.

Matching set of undies = have sensed high probability of 'action'.

Bra plus faintly related cotton pant = no worries about getting run over by a bus.

Entirely unmatching = correctly, don't give a toss re action or buses.

Cv any fule kno you only get hit by buses when the washing machine is on the blink and you have an emergency pair of dps y-fronts on

Damn, damn, I shall be sorry to miss the crepey convention chez QQ. However, I am a) still snowed under with work - even more so now, as I had to take time out this morning for my CBT sesh - and b) my tummy is behaving oddly and I have no appetite for anything very much. Will probably be working when you are downing your sherry and prosecco cocktails

We have 2 new chickens. They are called Pancake and Raisin. (Raisin is small and black) Pancake is a Waitrose hen and is already fairly popping out the eggs - as a good Waitrose hen should.

dd is all chuffed because she was wittering on Twitter the other night to the contestant on The Voice who shares my name. Apparently Kylie is very fond of making jokes about said contestant's/our surname. Well, meh, Kyles, you are just a crepey in denial. So there.

at lalsy's bra joy. I too have fairly recently started wearing jazzy underwear. Thank you, Debenhams.

I am still on the hunt for new glasses which will not make me look 20 years older and will also not break the bank. The Danes seem to have invaded all our local opticians with their swish but incredibly expensive frames. And they are all a bit too .. statement-y for my liking. I have a particular aversion to the look often sported by the plumptious and middle-aged round here: short, magenta hair and whacky glasses. Am sure it suits some people, but not many.

A Waitrose hen? They sell live hens now?!

Well I never - waitrose hens.

I have no matching knickers and bras except that sometimes I happen to be wearing black knickers and a black bra by coincidence. All my knickers are those packs of 7 shorties for a fiver from M&S strictly cotton only.

Could you take pics of crepey meet up for those of us absent.