Shiny Happy Crepeys

[Blackduck]

Over here all........

I don't envy you, BD, nothing worse than seeing your children either in pain or having to undergo some kind of treatment. And it does always fall to the mums to do the taking, etc. .....

The sun has been out for the last couple of hours so hopefully DH will not come back looking like a drowned rat. And it's reached the heady heights of - ta da - 9 degrees C.

Wilbur, no , it was a model of the earth, with black pepper as something in the crust. The labour intensive and occasionally dangerous creative geography homeworks stopped after that bit of chemical warfare. dd made a lorica segmentata for the Roman thing, and then developed a bust before submission, so we had to glue her in and cut her out; ds made a model of a bit of Pompeii - a bit that had been destroyed by a previous earthquake so no-one knows what it looked like. Thank goodness for worksheets.

Top definition of good parenting in your post.

Oldest child has just come home alleging Debilitating Exhaustion and Illness, "but at least I haven't lost my appetite". Or, I note, the ability to watch the Vampire Diaries in her pjs....

We have choir tonight and can't park ds with the usual parents so we are going to take him - this could end badly couldn't it?

Wilbur - don't envy you the dentist.

MI - your post made me .

Hope the dentist goes ok tomorrow, Wilbur.

S&B query: when are loafers "old lady loafers"? Plus advise!

Hmmm, I really don't like loafers on anyone....

I like loafers, if they are the right type! My friend has some that are nice, but some look either too old lady or Chelsea tractor driver for me!

Hmm, I suspect that the answer to my question is: "when they have my ankles sticking out of them" I tried some on recently when I was feeling like this => and one look make me feel like this =>

NU - what was the Lidl pecan pastry like? we are just about to acquire a bakery in our branch

Love loafers, esp. with cut off jeans/shirt 1950s thing going on but suspect they can't have comfy sole or too much fuss. Can't find any nice ones in my (v. low) price range, not even the children's ones.

good luck at the dentist, wilbur

Addle, we enjoyed the pastries very much, would definitely recommend. Back to the diet tomorrow.

Rudy, your day sounds lovely - glad to hear that you enjoyed it so much.

Loafers = old lady (imho)

Easter bonnets - are but a distant memory, thank goodness, but we had to produce one per child throughout preschool and infant school. The whole school donned said bonnets and paraded through the village on the last day of term.

I had a huge box in the loft, containing random hats, chicks, fake flowers and shredded tissue, and every year I would dig out last year's sorry effort and revive it by glueing on another layer of tasteful bits and pieces. For DS we generally went for something resembling an Aussie cork hat, with eggs or bunnies dangling from the brim instead of corks.

Either way, prepare to be utterly outclassed by the crafty mums who will have spent weeks perfecting their bonnets. The one made entirely out of fresh daffodils stuck in my mind.

I quite like loafers but they don't like my feet.

So it's foggy again this morning; it's always bad news when the Beeb weather mentions Northumberland particularly. I think I might try to do some housework today as everywhere looks grubby.

In s & b news I managed to buy my DNephew's wife a lovely scarf in TKMax's clearance - very tempted to keep it for myself.

Loafers? Remind me of the 90s, when I had a Patrick Cox rip off pair. Now they just make me think of sloanes or Americans.

Re Easter bonnets, I thoroughly expect to be outclassed, though am hoping the judges discount those evidently made by milliner aunts, etc.

I fear a horrible dental trauma is in the offing. Years ago I had a crown fitted on a root-canaled tooth, and it wasn't done very well, meaning I've been suffering from bone loss above it. This hadn't been too troublesome, but is now beginning to hurt most of the time. Any intervention is likely to be a) horrific and b) expensive. I'll have to be sedated, also...

CV, that fresh daffodil bonnet is both deranged and hilarious. Do people have nothing else to do with their lives?

Have mentioned you to Our Mutual Friend btw - Stropps, did you know my friend who went to school with you then shared a house with CV at university?

Herbs, commiserations - I have a full set of rotten teeth

Fog is the least of our worries - have you seen the warnings not to exercise outside because of the pollution?

Ah, no, hadn't seen them and have just returned from Ladyjog....

Oh CV you reminded me of my other easter bonnet affair (I had forgotten it) - it was the Aussie cork idea but they were mini Cadbury Crème eggs ! - ds is was mighty popular.......

Here I feel meh - not sure why. Might take Friday off in the hope it'll perk me up (and I could do with a lie in....)

I'd quite like a hat made of daffs for myself, it would be very cheerful.... Herbs, I thought your hat bunny was impressively creative and very sweet, if possibly afflicted with early stage myxomatosis . We have a set of straw hats that have been used for various Easter, book day, school plays etc, with appropriate tat attached each time. I was very proud of the Diamond Jubilee hats though - kids made a collage of all the monarchist photos in the colour supplements, and then laminated it into hat bands (I won a laminator in a raffle once and it's been weirdly useful). I may try and dig out a photo.

Crem - forgot to say that brill about your dad coming home. Hope he's enjoying his freedom.

Loafers don't work on my triangular feet as I just walk out of them. I am the girl you see running for the train and losing her shoes en route. In brogues news, there was a woman at the bus stop yesterday wearing a denim shirt dress to the knee, with bronze brogues. Shirt dress was unstructured and she had a bosom, but although the effect was a bit boxy, the brogues evened it out and she looked great. I throw this possible brogue use into the Crepey fashion ring for discussion.

My shoe choice is limited by both having flat feet that require orthotics, and the puffiest cankles you ever did see. So, they have to be flat yet ankle-flattering, something you don't often see. I love the brogues and bare foot look, but fear it works better on gamine bony ankles than two bags of rising dough.

Jubilee hats.

BD, I'm intrigued about how you got the eggs to hang from the hat? I have tried to attach eggs to hats with no success whatsoever. Did you make little hammocks for them?

Oh and thanks for bunny props, Wilbur. It was in fact part of an Easter Hat Kit from Hobbycraft, so a bit of a cheat. But I did find myself rather enjoying it...

Right. Going to attempt one of the two new Davina DVDs that arrived through the letter box yesterday. Thought I'd try a new regime - 30 minutes exercise a day, no snacking, more water, one day fasting.

Though I'm feeling a little ropey, with stomach ache. Hope I'm not coming down with DS's lurg...

I must get myself a laminator! I've always wanted one, and now it has become a hat-making necessity.

Wilbur - needle and thread through the middle and knotted..... he came home with sticky thread and no eggs (surprisingly)

I can't actually remember whether we've ever had to do Easter bonnets. I remember it being a thing when I was at school, though.

MI, is this someone I was at school with at the dreadful place that I hated with a fearsome passion while everyone else seemed to think it jolly nice? CV is, I think, somewhat younger than I am, so any contemporary of hers probably wouldn't remember me. I do hope that is the case anyway. I was a fat, miserable fish-out-of-water. At 18, I was more than 4 stone heavier than I am now and was busy reacting to that school by developing a pathological hatred of "The Establishment" and a correspondingly disturbing interest in Baader-Meinhof. A barrel of laughs I definitely wasn't.