Forever Autumn Forever Crepey

[cremolafoam]

The summer sun is fading as the year grows old,
and darker days are drawing near,
the winter winds will be much colder,
now you're not here.
I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
and one by one they disappear
I wish that I was flying with them,
now you're not here

MrsS, I am so sorry for your loss. Please be kind to yourself

Thank you for booking the Mulberry place. It's where Dh and I had our first date. Right opposite the London Studios so there are sometimes celebrities in it, although it is very much a traditional pub and hasn't been poshed up. It will be lovely to meet you all.

Hatty, your day sounds perfect. I agree with the Scottish vote bring a worry. All my Scottish pals are in the no camp but I see today for the first time the yes vote is in the lead.

Hope your week is not too stressful, Rudy. I discovered wool overs last year and love them, although I find the sizes very generous.

How are you felling today, MI? Thinking of you.

BD, the bathroom looks fab. Have you christened the bath yet?

Just sent dd1 to the shops for papers and Nutella. She is 9 and has been going for a year now. It's very handy not to have to go myself. She was muttering Guardian, observer, guardian observer as she left though so goodness knows what she might buy as no guardian today. Hm.

Is that right monty? First date, wow!
And the possibility of bumping into Eamon Holmes. Oh dear.....

Love the chunky cardi Rudy . Very nice indeed.

Rudy, that cardi is lovely one might have slipped into my basket when I wasn't looking

Monty, how lovely - first date, awww! And possibility of celebs!

I have two Scottish friends - one is panic-stricken that they will go independent, the other is convinced they won't

Cremo, the zoo! Have a lovely day I caught a bit of the Carole King thing when we got in from the pub - my old boss used to love her!

Rudy - cardi is lovely (resists placing order)
In S&B news despite my adversion to the word I recommend these jeggings. They are very soft and forgiving! I have lived in the slate for the past week...

Bath and shower have been used.... I cannot tell you how nice it is to have a loo that doesn't leak with a seat that doesn't wobble and a bath you actually want to lie back in

And ohh discounted too

I too have been perving over the Woolovers stuff. Quite tempted by the new fair isle - I love a bit of fair isle....

Hearteningly, thought carole king looked better snd better as she got older.

Went to see streetcar yesterday. V good and gillian anderson absolutely fantastic, but my word, teenytiny.

So sorry, mrs s. was lovely pic of your uncle you posted on fb. Dm apart you seem to have a fantastic family.

You temptresses!

Now have this and these calling to me from their baskets...

Kitchen 95% finished and ... useable! Very exciting. It's lovely even if it has taken two months (2 ii) and counting

Rudy, I got that cardigan in Sage last year. I kept it but I sort of wish I hadn't. I got it in Small, but it's huge and it makes me look like a bit of a porker. Maybe it's because I'm short and shouldn't do chunky knitwear.

So sorry to hear about your uncle(s), MrsS, you really have had a horrible year.

MI, just do what you feel is right. We all have to play to our strengths in these situations and personally I am completely crap at hand-holding and much better at getting practical tasks done, including liaising with med professionals and/or ferreting out information.

BD, congrats on the lovely new bathroom. Ah, the joy of bathroom fittings that are pristine.

I am still busy hacking through the to-do list that includes things that have been on it for 15 years (I moved into this house the day before dd's first b-day). Dh is on board and is currently sanding and painting the doors from the very large cupboard on the landing. Which were in a hideous state when I moved in and remained that way until yesterday.

Dd has finally passed her Gold lifesaving award and can do the RLSS lifeguard qualification. I have been taking her to swimming lessons since she was 5, dragging her there for the last 2 years. She's bloody pleased now, though.

Having spent 2 days despairing about being "too thick" to do A levels at the start of term last week, dd came home much happier on Friday after having her first day of proper lessons. All good on the teacher front aside from one duff biology teacher, allegedly. All the teachers spent the first 2 days just banging on about how hard her A levels were going to be (Maths, Bio, Chem, French) and poor old dd was immediately convinced she was not equal to the task, but feels better having actually had some of the lessons and realising that she can give it a good go after all. She is also now talking about sorting herself out some work experience, as our vet has said for Vet Science, apart from actually seeing what goes on various vet practices, she needs to spend a few days in a variety of farms, rescue centres and an abattoir. This is when living in a rural area is very handy.

Oh god I just ventured onto a Real S&B thread about frumpiness (on which Rudy, hearteningly, said firmly it's all about posture and attitude). I actually like clothes and my own particular kind of style and think I look fine most of the time, till I realise that most of MN clearly thinks I am beyond the pale (not least because I always wear flat shoes). I find it v depressing even if I suspect the look being advocated is a very safe suburban one.

One of the tasks on my to-do list was doing a thorough clothes and shoes audit with an "if in doubt, throw it out" attitude. I took a lot of stuff to the dump and charity shops. But there were a few things that I thought I should give a second chance, but only if I wore them this week. I managed to age myself 20 years and make myself about a stone fatter by wearing an A-line calf-length denim skirt with mighty strange Doc Marten dolly shoes. I think we can safely say that is an über-frumpy look.

Mi, having watched gillian anderson teeter across the young vic stage in a variety of high heels yesterday , my 15 year old ds said wonderingly why would anyone do that? Surely it's very old fashioned now ... And although i used to love them i now prefer to be able to move but you're right - instantly wipes out most s&b threads.

Errrrryes.

I am v tempted by a chunkish Woolovers crimson fair isle. Or possibly a sage green. Both of which would be roundly condemned but I like them, dammit.

Oh and I have also got rid of the mirror on the landing that cost me about £3.50 12 years ago and, I suspect, made everyone look slightly fatter than they are. It also had a bit of a wibbly effect towards the top in a Hall of Mirrors kind of way. Have now got a full-length mirror with no wibbles, which is, I think fairly truthful. Can't get near it though, as dd is monopolising it.

Am also v tempted by the Breton-style sweater....

As I unearthed far too many stripey things during my clothes audit, I'm not even allowed to look at anything "Breton".

As for the Scottish referendum - dh and his brother are clearly on opposite sides of the fence. Dh is of Scottish stock and grew up in Glasgow (well, he moved there at the age of 9). He's a No, but his brother is a Yes.

We need to do a Freezer Audit. The Potato Products of Shame are only rivalled by the Anonymous Containers of Shame.

I cannot tell you how good it felt to donate all the contents of the Anonymous Containers of Shame to the compost daleks in the front garden. And now I have only carefully labelled containers carefully lined up in rows. And a bread drawer and a milk drawer. And a dedicated puddings drawer

I too am of the flat shoe school and think that I still don't look grown up when compared to other women I know. I am sure I'd be laughed off S&B threads, but whilst I like clothes I also want to be comfortable and bnot have to spend hours getting ready and then feel like I'm on 'show'

Stropps I am at all that productive activity.
Here the main gripe re secondary is the extreme shortness of the lunch break.....

BASTARD MOTHS

flat shoes here too, unless the heel is miniscule and the shoe well padded. I blame two decades of doc martens. Once you've been there your feet wont revert.
I am attempting to write a budget for dd so she can work out her cash in hand as it were. I am so bored with it ( hate sums) and would rather be examining my Tupperware of Horror in the freezer.

and avoiding phoning mother re Trip Of Recklessness without fuming.

stropps I have 7 Bretons

I want a dedicated puddings drawer!