Shiny Happy Crepeys

[Blackduck]

Over here all........

This is my FB friend you've spotted already! She was escaping her own demons by being at your school. FH.

I have been pondering shirt dresses but am worried would look matronly, or possibly even like a Giles Grandma, what with being a bosomy shortarse.

Ah, I hope she was successful in escaping her demons. I met mine there head-on. I still have the most dreadful nightmares where I'm back there. I've had a fair few "interesting" times in my life since, but with one exception, none of the "interesting" times give me nightmares the way boarding school does. I fully realise that this says more about me than it says about the school, but hey...

I can't do shirt dresses for exactly the reasons you mention, MI, although I'm not particularly bosomy I do have a shortarse weightlifter's physique and the shirt dress looks better on the taller person, I feel.

I think I might explore shirt dresses. As long as they're very fitted, to avoid the 'sack of potatoes' effect.

And perhaps I'm coming round to loafers. These are rather fetching.

I assume all you flat-shoe crepeys have seen the En Brogue blog?

Ooh Herbs, I like those! Might have to get some myself - I do need some shoes for work meetings now it is too hot for boots but not yet sandals weather

I love shirt dresses, but it's always a problem finding them long enough.

Got DS's options evening tonight, oh joy!

Cannot do shirt dresses as I'm straight up and down so they don't cinch in nicely at the waist.

Cannot do loafers (did we not discuss this before?) as I have skinny ankles and long floppy feet - think gollum - the resulting effect being ridiculous.

Herbs - I do love the pair you have selected.

I've been looking for a shirt dress for ages, one with a more 50's vibe. Fuller skirt to balance out my thunderous shoulders . Very hard to come by - there is one at La redoute, but very few sizes left. here
There are indeed good loafers
And bad loafers

Oooh, I like that one, Cremo. If you come across one in smaller sizes do let me know.

Am still sluggish and a bit weird today. Feature has come back to be changed and I nearly snivelled about it.

Still not feeling the loafer love...

I fear I may have DS's lurg. Bloated painful tummy, no appetite, and occasional feelings of nausea. Could also be too much booze of late, I dare say.

Perhaps we can put all our ailments down to the air pollution...

Lovely dress Cremo, but you have not got thunderous shoulders!

Why are we all so paranoid about our bodies - you all look perfectly lovely to me. Some of us are tall/short/thin/better covered/well-endowed/flat-chested, etc, etc, but we all look absolutely fantastic

Another one feeling under the weather; nothing like poor Herbs, just a bad head and a slightly queezy stomach.

Question of the day: at what age should you throw away things from the food cupboard? DH and I have been tidying cupboards (well, he's been removing and I have been looking). I obviously haven't done this for years because I have found things at the back, bbe 2006! These are mostly cans and bottles from Aldi of "exotic" things I fancied trying.

MI, don't let it get you down.

Love the La Redoubte dress, by the way.

Hello crepeys may I join you? Am late 40s and deploying a fringe to hide my wrinkles. I am a fan of loafers but too apple shaped for a shirt dress, sadly.

Wrong - La Redoute.

Looking at all the stuff out of the cupboards, I am struck by all the bits of baking stuff, a few grammes here, a few grammes there. So I am now throwing away: walnuts, pecans, ground almonds, semolina (no idea when I used that), mixed peel, etc. I am appalled at the waste.

Hello, Polly, I am sure that one of the older (long term) posters will be along soon, I am a relative newby. They have made me very welcome.

Hello, Polly! Do stay.

NUFC - I also have elderly nuts in my cupboard. I figure if squirrels can bury them in the ground all winter and still eat them, it should be ok. They probably don't taste of much though. Can you mix them all together and make some weird scones?

Greetings, Polly. Do stay, we are nice and sometimes even well-dressed. Although not me today as I am wearing sweat pants and a baggy scoop neck t-shirt that proudly shows my bra straps .

Right off to the dentist with ds1.

Wilbur fingers crossed.....
Hi Polly.....

Good luck, Wilbur. I am also off to the dentist with ds shortly, but just for a check-up.

Hello Polly!

NU, the trouble with elderly nuts is they sometimes go a bit bitter. Speaking from bitter experience. Ha. Maybe the birds will eat them? I have a theory that mixed peel actually last forever, though.

I am slightly furious with dd's ICT teacher. He has spent 2 years saying she will get an A or A, including when I saw him at parents' evening a month ago. Then today I get her "final review" in the post with all the damn predicted and potential GCSE grades and her ICT sticks out like sore thumb with a predicted C and potential B. I emailed to find out why the sudden downgrade at such a late stage and he emailed back to say she hadn't completed loads of her controlled assessment. Now, I know for a fact that various other students in the top set of the other year half (massive school, year groups divided in 2 for timetabling purposes etc) were told about these issues at the February parents' evening and therefore got an almighty kick up the arse. Whereas he mentioned nothing about the controlled assessments At All and just burbled on about her doing excellently. Except apparently she wasn't. Gah, things have been better with dd the last few days and she has come home quite happy after getting As in several science exams in the latest round of mocks (gosh yes, no longer only the one round like in ye olden days) and now I am going to have a narrrrsty evening. She will have 1001 excuses as to why the CA isn't done and why it's all his fault. And I will have to be calm and firm and I'm not feeling particularly much either of these today.

And teech wants to phone me after school, but I'm not available as will be at dentist - see above. And as I am single parent in these circs, I am feeling Cheesed-Off. Bum.

'kinell, Stropps, that is PANTS.

Welcome Polly, do stay. You learn all sorts, how to make weird scones, do school projects, which editing style guide is best......

Stropps, that is rubbish - but seems to me the A* in science mocks are much more important, and there is maybe no point in disheartening her now if she is getting on track? Would it be outrageous to say to the ICT teacher that she won't be sitting that exam as (if she is predicted better grades in other subjects, seems pointless to drag down grades with ICT) and please could they withdraw her?

Wilbur, hope it goes OK, it is horrid.

Yes, Stropps, if she is doing a good spread of other subjects I'd be inclined to tell the ICT teacher to eff off that perhaps she should stop here...

Stropps, my sympathies. Similar stresses here sadly.

Good luck all dentist go-ers! And hello Polly.

Stropps that is indeed wick as we used to say . Your poor dc.
Wilbur bonne chance !
Polly good afternoon and welcome

Dd is devastated after refusal from Edinburgh
We are now pursuing Leeds and Glasgow.
Dad now been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. No wonder he was feeling shit. The hospital were withholding jam from him He couldn't understand why. They must have assumed he knew he was diabetic. I despair. I really do.

NU feed the birdies- non? The tits wil love you.

Cremo, for your DD but Leeds is a great place. Never been to Glasgow, but I have a friend from there and she loves it and would move back in a heartbeat.
Weird and annoying about the hospital not saying about the diabetes.