Crepe And Stormy

[Cremo]

Over here Crepemunks!
Hope no one else has started one

Hatty - how about Nuxe tinted moisturiser? Or any tinted moisturiser? I find bronzer too sparkly and orange for me - very 1990 Ultra Glow, even Guerlain.

I am currently having a love-in with Nuxe eyeliner and GOSH lippy and eyeshadow sticks. My other permanent S & B love-ins are with my facial epilator and Root Touch Up. I'm all about the glamour.

Is bronzer still a thing? Definitely not used by the young or older girls I know!

Where is Molly? Rudy, I think she was up for a Dark and Stormy too.

OK ladies - I'll step away from the bronzer. BTM - I know the young don't need it and the girls go for a very pale creamy look. I can however recommend Benefit Air Patrol Eyelid Primer, in Sephora she put it under my eyes and it is brilliant, goes on really well and hides bags (well a little bit).

Will investigate Nuxe Mrs S - not sure I've seen it here though.

Crem, so sorry about your dm. agreeing with everyone about A&E, and thank you so much for responding to my pm with so much else going on

MI, continuing to think of you and thanking god for all of us that there's the internet/mnet/iphones ...

baukjen - love the idea but when I tried one I'm with CV it showed every lump and bump

does any of you ever think that although you have makeup you prefer you're not absolutely sure it really makes a difference - think that's why I still draw thick dark lines round me eyes a la 1979

Addle, I moved to brown or taupe eyeliner quite a few years ago, and I think it works better for me. Currently rocking Nyx in "Golden Olive", which I love. And a fairly neutral eyeshadow and nude lippy. So sort of natural me, but better. A bit. I'm not that deluded. I have days when I look in the bathroom mirror and think, I look OK, but then see photos of myself and it's an ageing, bearded woman with a wonky eye who bears no resemblance to the person I saw in the mirror.

I think I have something wrong with my eye. Largely because I can hardly see out of it. Will try and book optician next week.

Hatty - Nuxe is French and available in most parapharmacies.

I just don't do make up and don't get it. I never have. I feel like a clown with it on. So take me as you find me :)

Convo with aunt today - probably one of the few who makes me cry re mum. It's crap,

MI hope things are okay there.

I have been to the pub round the corner (literally - it's 30 seconds away) and drunk several very fine gins.

Mum increasingly delirious (this may be the buildup of opiates in her tiny body). Had a conversation with her this afternoon about a wedding, which she thought might be Jane Austen's: just now have had quite long conversation about an exhibition of some paintings, asking me quite penetrating questions about where they came from.

I made it up. Said to my sister I am disturbingly good at talking total bollocks and sounding authoritative. Sis points out that well, so is our mother (she had a bout of telling me off for similar remarks but this lasted about five minutes).

MI, I'm sure it will be the drugs. As long as she's comfortable....

Blusher, bronzer....nah....never mastered either. I don't even use a proper foundation, but I probably ought to. I have really big eye bags. I love Nuxe, though - look it up if you can, Hattie. The dry oil smells divine and keeps the scales at bay on my lower legs.

MrsS - I'm off to the optician's too this week. I have virtually given up on my contact lenses because my new(ish) pair is so uncomfortable and impossible to read through. Then I thought, hell, I paid £100 for these, I should at least find out if there's anything wrong with them.

DM is coming to stay tomorrow, as DSDad is off on a golf trip. The fridge is empty, so I've booked the local pub for tomorrow night.

MI, it will be the pain relief, that makes dmum ramble.

Hattie, I like a bit of bronzer in the summertime and use a basic Rimmel bronzer that has been around for yonks added to a tiny bit of my usual Clinique foundation for extra glow. I also use a L'oreal CC colour corrector on its own if I'm in a rush and don't want full makeup. My cheeks are very pink naturally ,so I need a bit of coverage to even tone out a bit. ici I use the purple one as it's quite bronzy.

Dear oh dear BHS.More jobs lost. And where will I get light fixtures now?

Mum to have GP to bedside this morning. Dad to chest clinic for a review . All go.

She just said - and I don't know how conscious she was: "I think I just want to give up and go to sleep."

And then "you know, I don't really know where I have been, just where I am now" (not her quite exact words).

I said: "I think that's true for most of us - we only realise where we are at the end of the journey".

She's snoozing in darkness now.

(Mind you morphine shot at 2am for new pain has probably driven her right off her trolley, rather than this being touching profundity.)

I like the thought of it being touching profundity, MI. I think to accept the proximity of death makes it easier at the end. My aunt said she was tired, had had enough and was ready to go. My Dad fought to the last.

Some people ramble a lot without the help of morphine.

Courage to you and Crem

MI - hope today is not too bad. Have you decided how long you will stay?

Cremo - hope dmum and ddad get sorted!

I have started a thread about going on a retreat

I would like a little break, it seems.

MI - wise and touching words from DM.

Mrs S - have never really looked at pharmacy make up (except Roche Posay eau mincellar which I swear by). Will have a little trip to investigate Nuxe.

Crem - DD swears by L'Oreal BB cream - will have to swipe a little to try.

We have gone back to temperatures here which are equivalent to late November - to quote the weather forecast. Just when I was thinking about investigating my summer clothes. I was musing about how I enjoyed the seasonal change from summer to winter clothes and vice versa - DH looked completely bewildered.

retreat beachy

MI

cremo do hope the GP can sort DM out. And Ddad improves too. I'm not as upset about BhS as I was about Woolworths or indeed C&A all these years ago, but it is worrying how we're losing all the high street farmiliarities.

addle I still love dark lippy although all S&B rules state I should lighten up at my age...

I have a crowd coming for supper tonight. Feel like hiding.

MI - she sounds at peace.

BHS - sorry to see it go, but I've only set foot in there a couple of times in the last five years - once to buy synthetic knitwear for MIL, and again when they were flogging their surplus Christmas toot for peanuts in January. Says it all, really. But I agree, their lighting was good. Maybe someone will step into the void.

Crepeys, I'm going to recommence my early morning ladyjogs. Starting tomorrow. Six months off is quite long enough, so I've joined a "Dusting off my Trainers" thread, and am hoping to get back into the old routine.

Stumbled back in from first day of teaching in too long. Lesson went well, but being driven to bloody distraction by the amount of bits of paper I have to print out, fill in, get the learners to fill in, blah blah. At the moment it's 18 (eighteen, XVIII). For all 12 learners. Most seem to duplicate each other. My boss has no idea what I should do, and cares less as he's leaving. But if I don't do it right, Ofsted will pop a cap in my ass.

Got home to find kitchen wall stripped of its plaster as builder is investigating the cause of water ingress left by previous builders. Joy.

MI - your mum sounds in a state of acceptance, which is a good thing to be. Makes me rather fancy some morphine, however.

Well, after that touching exchange she put her teeth in for the first time in days, got out of bed to sit in a chair and said she might fancy a glass of wine later.

I'm heading back to the smoke (in company of v old friend) for a night or two's respite. DSis holding fort. Has already sent text she wants to kill dad.

Goodness MI that's a sea change from your mum. Hope things are ok when you get home.

Herbs, that's bloody ridiculous. Who? Just who does that benefit. Grr. oYB

Dmum has perked up a bit this afternoon according to dsis. Able to get out of bed for 1/2 an hour and eat more barley soup without boking. Wobbly legs from lack of nourishment and mobility, but she looks more like herself and dsis got her in the shower on a garden chair. I'm quite sure she was completely humiliated by this but dsis probably had her Bossy Nurse voice on.
Dad still wheezing, but hopefully the chest consultant can help tomorrow.

Goodness MI that's a sea change from your mum. Hope things are ok when you get home.

Herbs, that's bloody ridiculous. Who? Just who does that benefit. Grr. oYB

Dmum has perked up a bit this afternoon according to dsis. Able to get out of bed for 1/2 an hour and eat more barley soup without boking. Wobbly legs from lack of nourishment and mobility, but she looks more like herself and dsis got her in the shower on a garden chair. I'm quite sure she was completely humiliated by this but dsis probably had her Bossy Nurse voice on.
Dad still wheezing, but hopefully the chest consultant can help tomorrow.

Apparently she's now drinking rasam (a South Indian soup her Tamil bloke who's been cooking for her brought round this afternoon, cue touching deathbed farewell - I had to go out of the room and cry, actually, was sure rasam would languish tragically in fridge) and ginger wine, totally away with the fairies, and dad chatting to her as if everything was totally normal.

DSis and I do realise this is no doubt final rally, but then we thought that with jaunt to loo the other day.

I have at least instructed our father to get in food that doesn't take any thought (fishcakes, stuffed pasta, garlic bread, soup) so DSis doesn't have to worry too much about that.

MI, sterling dutiful daughter service from you - hope you can do what the hell you like tomorrow, for a bit - it may feel odd to be out of the strange twilight world?

And you Crem, you must be shattered. Look after yourself and I am glad your dm is perkier.

BD, hope your week isn't too awful. I might be able to make a quick Dark and Stormy on Saturday.

Am in thick PJs, after getting caught in hailstorm.

Take care MI and Crem - it sounds exhausting and very demanding what you are having to do for your poor parents. BD - sorry work is still utter bollocks for you too.

I'm tired and it's only Monday - and unlike so many Crepes I have no good reason to be feeling so weary. Hoping Masterchef on player might revive me.

On another complaining note - Why is it so fecking COLD!?! How am I ever going to wear any clothes that aren't winter ones - had big coat and holly scarf on today and was still cold...