Loving all the swaps! Judy is your DP all sorted for new job? Fingers crossed for you, you deserve some lovely new perfume good news.
Welcome back to fancy and aubergines and anyone I've missed, and any newbies (hide credit cards now 
) I will admit I am slightly struggling to keep up 
not entirely sure I am as recovered as I thought, there are a lot of blank spots and I tend to repeat myself and/or forget words so please do excuse any wittering which is more inane than usual One lovely side effect is I forget buying stuff and it's a nice surprise when parcels arrive
Totally forgot also about The Big Sniff and HOW COULD I FORGET Sarah McC thread?! (I do have a vague recollection of seeing it in hospital but have re-read it). I know I'm too late, but does anyone know, does she read these threads? That is what I wanted to ask Has it come up at any workshops?
I do remember that someone (was it MrsR?) liked Narciso Rodriguez Poudree? SOTD is a freebie sample of the (new?) NR Rouge which is absolutely gorgeous, IMHO. Smells like a mixture of posh department stores and elderly ladies on me (two of my favourite things!).
On that note, sad news about House of Fraser, our local one is closing which saddens me.
Sock hope MiniSock's exams are still going OK, plenty of stress here too with Love Island breaks and good luck to any other MiniPerfumistas with exams. I can't bear to think about how much I've spent on revision cards, highlighters, gel pens etc etc recently which apparently are all essential! God I'll be glad when they are all over!
Loving the festival talk, we tend to camp rather than festival (fest?) and I save my perfume sample cards from magazines for this - and lots of Avon Skin so Soft!