Where were we? Flipping those darn flat pancakes again

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Hello, damn quick work there by MNHQ

Sainsbury's has ribbed cotton ones!

I slightly yearn for some linen T-shirts but they're all either very thin or very pricey!

Herbs did you know that there is a tu app? Very exciting. I am keeping an eye on the top conversation. Am off to h and m tomorrow on a recce so will report back. Uniqlo is an excellent suggestion too.

Dd1 has gone trampolining and then off to Westfield with her friend. I have pottered to the post office and to a couple of chazzers. House is much quieter without her.

Am in garden with the papers while the kids have a water fight. Very restful.

Right i have dunged out the cats room dds room for her imminent arrival.
I am about to make a spinach and ricotta cannelloni for celebrating homecoming of prodigal chile.

Monty, where have they gone trampolining? Is it one of those huge places?

Mmmm spinach and ricotta canneloni! Spinach and ricotta lasagne was one of my go tos for veggies - might have to do it again!

It's flip out in earls field.

Cannelloni sounds ace, Crem. Hope it all goes well

A lovely and delicious welcome Crem. Good luck with it xx

I feel like giving up with clothes at the moment. It's not that I haven't got anything, or anything that fits. I just don't like myself in much at the moment. Boo. Gah. Will look at H&M. It's just such a rubbish shopping experience. Mad sizing, clothes heaped everywhere like a bazaar and huge queues with only one person on the tills.

DH is being the buffer between me and DD today. I just don't like her at the moment. Trouble is, they press each other's buttons...and I have to exit the house to get away from it. DH is off across the pond for work for the whole of next week.... Boo.

Oh Rose, that might be difficult. Poor you. I hate having to be on my own when dh clears off to Doha or wherever. I go a bit potty even on my own in the house, without a stroppy teen.
Are you out of the house much next week for work?

Rose, I just had accidental mirror glance. I am out shopping in Bromley and toying with the idea of a nice niqab in linen...

Come on crepeys! What is the first rule? (actually I have forgotten it but you KWIM).

Rose, getting out and away sounds like a good plan.

dh and ds both working/revising mopst weekend so Pah. But I have been to gym and had a nice lunch so feeling less grumpy than yesterday.

Honestly, MrsM, I was trying so hard with the positive thinking but I am now never EVER going shopping again.

yeah, well, shopping rarely brings joy (apart from bookshops, Oxfam and Lakeland I find) or a boost to self esteem....But go easy on yourself.

Agreed re rl shopping. Usually [email protected] and leaves me v bad tempered. On line much more satisfying even if have to return a lot.

Crem my Finery haul mixed success. Lovely skirt. 2 X dresses going back. Jersey one smelt v odd! Other one beautiful print but hideous shape...

MI stay well away from incidental reflective surfaces....windows, changing room mirrors, rear view mirrors and glassy ponds. Although in all honesty I don't think the niqab does much for anyone's S&B.

Crem this is the week that DD has her second maths retake and her English retake. I have to stick around and be very available. Of course DH didn't know about that when booking, and tbh, I am really fine about him travelling for work on the whole. I just need a bit of distance between me and DD on rare occasions and this is one of them. . We have stopped her allowance for two weeks because of her rudeness.

I did however, have a lovely walk on my own to the garden centre and have bought and planted loads of cosmos, antirinums (sp? bunny biters, we used called them when we were kids...) trailing nasturtiums and having a go with sweet peppers.

Love Finery is getting a really mixed reception. It all looks lovely when it pops up on FB, though and I am tempted.

Can I just point out that the reflection in the coffee machine in my office is an exception to Rose's rule. There is something about the curvature that has a very flattering effect. Otherwise I am in complete agreement that as one ages and spreads perception lags reality in a most upsetting way when confronted.

Oof. Day out to Ramsgate, checking it out for potential relocation. Well. Absolutely beautiful harbour, and street after street of amazing houses, but... rough as all hell. The town centre was all boarded up pound shops, life-threatening boozers, and loads of very fat people with tattoos shouting 'shut the fuck up' to their kids. I mean, there's a Waitrose, so I wasn't expecting that kind of thing. Apparently a recently built out-of-town shopping centre has sucked the very life out of the town centre.

Not quite sure where all the residents of the beautifully interior-decorated houses on Right Move hang out, but we didn't find them.

I searched for signs of artisans and hipsters, and thus that change was just around the corner, but only saw one man with a beard, one bar selling Aperol spritz, and not a single flat white. So I think we're too early on the curve. It will no doubt one day be lovely once more, and we could no doubt make a long-term killing, but in the meantime could be a bit miserable.

Broadstairs is looking more appealing. Or Canterbury. But DP has his heart set on the seaside.

On the plus side, I now feel very slim.

herbs We used to go here a lot when DS1 was little. I always liked it

MrsW one of the worst things for me is looking at myself before leaving the house and thinking, 'ok' ...and the getting the glimpse of the lumpen monster in a shop window. It's the let down of thinking I looked alright....

Ooh I know. A couple of years ago I stepped out gaily in white linen trousers and a striped t shirt, thinking I looked a little bit Bardot, a little bit riviera. I went past a shop window and there was a fat nan there, looking like the woman who put the cat in the bin.

DP's new accurate scales have arrived.
Make that an outsize niqab.

Oh God, I'm glad it's not just me. I thought I was the only person who could delude herself that she looked ok, only to catch sight of a strange-looking Worzel Gummidge-type figure glaring back at her from a shop window later that same day.

Of course it isn't just you...I thought this was completely normal. I scared myself today catching sight of myself doing sit ups in a gym class....jeez. I adjust myself before I deliberately look in a mirror - doesn't everyone?

Herbs, sounds exhausting but conclusive. Hope you are now outside a classy drinkie.

You are so not alone any Crepeys feeling self-appalled . I saw myself in Neros window earlier and saw the shape of myself. 😱😨😳
Am very unhappy about it.

Herbs, come to Eastbourne - a vair civilised seaside town.

Have just admitted to DH how fucking parlaysed I am with anxiety - it's really buggering up my life atm. I am off to 'forrin' parts early next week for a couple of weeks & I know that that will help but I know I have to go & seek some proper help when I get back - I can't carry on like this any more.

And admitting it here is a good step forward.....