Crepeys of a consistently high standard

[Stropperella]

So there. :)

Hatty, I agree, my dcs friends nearly all seem very polite and friendly (in ds' case, time-consumingly so, they used to be round here all the time, thanking me for glasses of water and air .

Blimey about proms. dd felt she had to wear a dress and that was bad enough.

Tho obviously my two perfectly capable of being rude to me.

Other people's teens are inevitably more lovely than one's own, though. Kevin & Perry and all that.

Inter-railing - eek, Beachy, I'd be nervous too. Having said that, I went off for four weeks straight out of boarding school, and those were of course the pre-mobile/pre-internet days when all DM could rely on as assurance that I was still alive was the weekly crackly phone-box call and the odd postcard.

Lovely weather, though, eh? I was planning to wear my most breezy summer dress to work (a ten-year-old Tesco black and white wrap number) but changed my mind at the last minute; good thing I did, as we've had a visitor in all day wearing the exact same dress.

DH and I will take Friday off from work and Do Something. What, I don't know. I might start a thread.....

I'm yearning for a breezy summer dress. Even though my wardrobe is stuffed to bursting with dresses, I haven't got quite the Right One.

Today's quandary is which bike to buy DS for his birthday. He shows little interest in riding his current one, which could be because it weighs half a ton. And also that he never see us riding. I'm tempted by an Isla Bike, as they're so light and well-made, and hold their value, but not sure if I'm just buying into the whole middle-class hype over them.

I am also now writing my final assignment. Honest guv.

Oh yes, which Thursday are you in central London, Herbs? This Thurs, 2 July, is easier for me than Thurs 9 July, but both are manageable. Can you make it too, Rose, if it's one or the other?

Ah yes. Meant to answer this! It's next Thursday, 9th.

I am wearing a Tesco or Asda breezy dress today which is many years old!

Herbs, I think DD had an Isla bike. But it may well have been something else!

Ooh, 9 July is a bit trickier...I'll watch to see what others can do and if I can fit in somehow.

Thanks for all your thoughts... I now wish I'd surreptitiously turned on 'Find my IPod' before she left so I could track her every living, breathing step (and zoom in on Google Earth to see what every building she was entering looked like!). Not anxious me, no not at all

Beachy, I think it is probably best if you can't track her every living step

Nah, thought we'd decided we crepeys would make excellent spies! Hope she has a wonderful time, Beachy.

I am trying to work out if this in the yellow spot would suit me...

I have an irrational hatred of collars on garments with no sleeves. But don't let me sway you!

I like the shape, but in the spot, it is Very Boden. I actually prefer the zany seventies prints and I think you could carry them off!

It's my Anniversary, crepes.

Not my Wedding Anniversary.... it is 20 years to the day since I first kissed DH.

Aaaah!

(The down escalator at Bond Street tube station, if you're interested. It was hot and so was the weather ).

Happy Snoggiversary!

DP has returned home poorly. DD2 has announced she has to play at a memorial service on Sun - it's a war thing she does every year. I can take her but also wanted to take my cousin to get her train. Am also guilty because I'm out singing on Sat afternoon. DP seemed to think cousin would bring kids to my concert. I have to find DD2 a black shirt (not T shirt) for concert. DD2 keeps crying. DD1 huffs and tells me how out of order I am all the time. I am fed up with all of them.

Why does his t'ai chi take such bloody precedence? And if I ask him, he'll allege he never, ever does it and/or sigh heavily and look aggrieved as he cancels it. Not that I can mention any of this while he's ill as I'll never hear the last of how I "never let him be ill" etc etcetera.

Mi that's the jolliest dress ever in the yellow spot! I love it and can see you in it with your lovely hair. I wish I could wear yellow and sleeveless and jolly. Feel like donning a black shroud at the minute.
More fruitless meetings at work. More angry sunstricken customers. It's been a confidence draining day. One customer told me that I was all "that's wrong with the world". I thanked him for calling in with a painted on smile. Bastard.

Come home and the house feels like a tandoor. Phew

Aw CV

Cremo, can you find his address and let us know?

I must pull together supper. DP informs me he has a temperature but no ibuprofen please as it's Necessary to Fight Infection. I suspect this is outdated bollocks but hey, I've only been working as a health journalist for 12 years, what do I know?

Aww CV, must have been a good snogger

Mind you, I am still with DH nearly 20 years after our first kiss... I was VERY drunk at the time!

Our first kiss was 21 December 1991. I dropped him home after a party, and he was very drunk, so I jumped on him. I had to take his car back to him the next day and wondered a) if he would remember and b) if it was a one off and that was that. He did remember, and it wasn't.

Our head honcho has more or less admitted to the union that he believes keeping staff in fear is better for productivity than high morale ....... I kid you not. I thought that management style went out with the ark.

Yes to the dress MI.

Cremo hope things are bit better there.

Yes Mrs S , I did the drunk caveman approach with Dh as well. Seemed to work quite well. Dragged him home ( the only thing I remember clearly was that I was wearing leather trousers) and he never moved out . And reader, we married after a mere 4months of shagging courting. Well you know, like you know about a good avocado n'est ce pas?

Sadly BD , I could have written that very sentence with regards our HH. It seems ensuring a lack of knowledge ( in spite of dogged and relentless questioning, emailing, visits to HR) is power.
I empathise I really do. I am actually a bit giddy- too much going on, I think my heads going to explode. Please ignore me if my tone is a bit off or I start babbling.
bD I was about thinking your post last night. Hope you're surviving ok and not to down hearted. Do PM me for a rant if needed.