Sour Crepes

[QueenQueenie]

Well someone had to do it....

Rudy, I am exactly the same re perfumes! But DH doesn't buy me any (would be a waste of money TBH as I forget to squirt apart from some nights out!)

I like those two dresses, QQ - wonder if they'll last till the sales!

NU, I have just downloaded MFP app! Apparently I can have 1340 calories a day to lose weight Not a good start last night though - burger (gastro, of course!) and pink wine (Cremo)... but great to see my pals

Cremo was that the cyclist whose dad did/won it 27 or something years ago?

Re swimming in the Thames, I remember my ex telling me a sad story about somebody he knew larking about and jumping in at Teddingtonish when he was a teen. Not a good ending.

Ds after lucking five times yesterday seems fine but I'm knackered - there is a non specific thingy doing the rounds here so not sure if it is that.

I did well good foodwise during the day but bombed last night (fish and chips and wine - whoops - fed batter to the dog....)

I was brought up on army bases (think middle of no where) so summers were spent on my bike, I had a season pass to the local pool and a mate and I would ride there - down a mooosive hill - collecting other kids as we went - I was ds's age, no way would I let him do it!!! We'd go home when we were hungry/run out of Deutschmarks.

Or I was in London at my Nan's being dragged round every museum/gallery in sight and having the most wonderful lunches curtesy of my dad.....

Cremo I got a weird fixation on the tour the year ds was born and watch it avidly now!

Windy thanks for the advice!

Cremo, how exciting.

Rudy and BTM, same with me about perfumes. Although nobody buys them for me as they last decades. But, somehow I have finally got to the the bottom of a bottle and would like a new one. Beginner perfume ideas please? It is so long since I acquired one that I have no idea what I liked or ave had in the past.

I am going to Esher for lunch to meet up with DD1, who had stuff on last night and tonight, but wanted to meet up today.

Perfumes - it's all very personal. I would say, go sniffin' in a big department store and then order what you like from allbeauty.com for half the price. You can get some lovely classic scents at a very good price from there, particularly if they're not fashionable - eg Cabochard, Halston, Je Reviens, Arpege. Halston is apparently the biggest selling perfume of all time. I'd also have a look in M & S, as they have a good range of "different" stuff. Or go onto the Les Senteurs website and order samples of what you like the sound of.

Oh, I got my appraisal from AB yesterday... it was excellent!

Generally cheap perfume round here - I am another forget to put it on person....
Love penhaligons juniper sling though!
And wear a sandlewood cologne from Crabtree (which I think is actually sold for men) or the lemon l'occitane. So i guess that makes me citus and woody .....

MrsS! Result!! What an arse though after all he put you through.....

MrsS, great news! Does it mean more money/promotion?

I got a nice perfume on the way to Thailand last year - it's in a square pinkish bottle. Or maybe the perfume is pink Can't remember the name of it!

Sadly not to more money or promotion.

BTM - was it a Lancome perfume? La Vie est Belle? (Or something like that.)

After scrutinising the tiny print on the bottom of the bottle, I think it is Ralph Lauren Romance. Is that an embarrassing choice?!

Just tried to do a retrospective MFP for yesterday. Looks like I drank ate double my calories for the day It shows how many carbs are in the foods - looks like rose wine is high calorie but low carb. How does that work then, CV?

Regular readers will recall that I am probably the only woman in Catford with a Chanel 19 stash (courtesy of a DP who originally bought it for me and then, er, rebought on numerous occasions). I'll just look....yep, my current half-full eau de toilette, another in its box, same in eau de parfum in its box, and a nice little bottle of Chanel 19 poudree too.

I feel slightly guilty at yearning to smell different

Chanel No 19 IS lovely. I've never owned any but i have the occasional spritz as I walk through the big branch of Boots at Liverpool St .

I did my local Parkrun for the first time this morning - how much fun is that!!

used to wear arpege in my teens and loved it. got some half price a year or so back - had forgotten how lovely it is and what a great bottle. also madame rochas

can track my life from about 14 on by the perfumes I wore starting with charlie and moving on ...

I've been wearing Lancome Midnight Rose for quite a few years now. I keep trying and trying to find something new because I feel like a change but simply can't. I squirt every time I enter a department store. There was one; once and I have absolutely no recollection of what it was.

For holidays, oddly, I can always find a little something I like and am prepared to pay a tenner for in M&S. Is it that our expectations are lower and we compromise or are they just jolly good?

Anyway have to go shopping later for that frock and really not fancying it.

I started with Charlie too . I thought the advert was so swish. Have gone through: Miss Dior; First, Van Cleef & Arpels; White Linen, Estee Lauder; O de, Hypnose and Midnight Rose, all Lancome and really, fancy a change.

Oooh teenage perfumes seemed to be Le Jardin and Jovan Musk Oil. Graduating on to Love oil by Aveda, and one of the less hideous Body Shop ones - Ananya was it?

Oh! And my 20s were the Dune years. I still love Dune.

Tried Chanel no5 because I loved the bottle, but it just smelled of old ladies on me. As do most perfumes.

Thanks crepeys, excellent suggestions.

I always remember to put on perfume, it's just part of my make up routine. My go back to is Ysatis by Givenche, currently have Calyx and Aromatics on the go. When Dh travelled for business a lot he occasionally brought me those boxes with small bottles of perfumes which wss a great way to try things.

So we've been to the over 55s event and I am now wondering about joining the ukulele group - it sounds fun.

I hope that Crem is enjoying herself and that it isn't pouring with rain.

BTM, I am Gillieflower on MFP if you want to add me as a friend. I am already ahead with the day as I did an hour on the exercise bike first thing.

Oh god I am now having nasal flashbacks to Body Shop Dewberry!

I must explore M&S. I do have some other lovely smells courtesy of job on mag a while back - they're kept in a cupboard so haven't gone off - including a Hermes 'Jardin après le mousson' which I love.

I'm a bit of a tart, scent-wise.

Courage, Windy.

NU, my uncle (who is now 86) was in a ukulele group up until a year or two ago. He was the oldest, but they were all OAP's! They used to do gigs, including Old People's centres where he was way older than most of them there!

Will see if I can find you!

aha! you see windy's perfumes to me are mostly perfumes for blondes (esp. dior and e lauder) and smell horrible on me despite being v nice.

i moved from charlie to arpege,madame rochas, opium, paloma picasso, brief unconvincing foray into paris and ck1, then chanel 19, coco and now angel schlesser (which is NOT the v sweet theirry mugler item but a spanish perfume) alongside various M&S numbers

used to hate smelling bodyshop vanilla and dewberry everywhere

I started on Anais Anais! Still like Chanel no.5 (am an old lady now so that's OK!) and Calvin Klein. Not very exciting!

But my all-time fav smell is Kouros.