Toast the Third

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Just in case we want to continue to share how we wear our sale gems!
Previous thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/3946605-TOAST-2?msgid=98452456

@Countmeout that is really lovely, lucky you - I’ve looked at robes for the past few sales, may well succumb in the Christmas sale 😊.

@AuldFox I’m testing my crossings out to see if i can make it work 🙄

Lovely, count. And so aspirational on the peg 😁

@Countmeout that’s just 💗

Thanks all, I never buy short one. No one wants to see my legs.
The rail is the only aspirational part of my house 😬 I wonder would they send me clothes just to hang on it. - -It could be a thing - what’s on Counts rail today - - Now did that strike through work?

Who said upthread they were putting the Gabi corduroy on their wish list, I can’t find it. What colour will you get? I can’t see how any of them would work for me with most of what I already have for tops, but on the other hand navy would be very boring.

Nope strike through fail.

It was me that wanted the Gabi cords. I bought the spice last autumn and returned them, and regretted it after. I thought they’d work with navy, black, bone, cream etc. I have the twill gabi in storm blue, and love them but would like something a bit more purposeful than that for the cords.

@AuldFox

My strike through doesn’t work —ever—

Your dashes seem to long, mine look like this - but I can’t see what other ones you could be using 🤷🏻‍♀️ -sorry not very helpful-

@Countmeout, I’d definitely buy beautiful things from that aspirational rail!

Talking about shopping experiences, M&S rewarded me with a £30 gift voucher for the squillions I have spent on my Sparks card (surely THE most pointless customer loyalty card scheme ever devised) so I was thrilled to be able to purchase a Neom three-wick candle for £16. The kicker was that I had to drive the nine miles to our nearest M&S to collect said candle (and, incidentally, a giveaway and really smart and useful hessian tote too. Thanks, M&S!)

Well, the number of men I saw who were ‘pretending’ to wear face coverings ie ripping them off as soon as they got in the shop, or leaving their noses uncovered (hello, sneezes!), or, my personal favourite, wearing them as attractive chin bras. It seems that saving the world from a second wave of Covid-19 is the sole responsibility of law-abiding women because men are too macho to wear apparently emasculating masks. The wonderful thing though is that I have discovered that when I am wearing my face covering, I can get away with (not very discreetly, in fact extremely passively aggressively) mouthing my favourite obscenities (and I’m the daughter of a docker so I know a fair few) at the worst offenders. It’s surprisingly liberating and maybe now I won’t need to spend a small fortune on ‘calming’ candles because I can now externalise my angry-peri menopausal-lady displeasure at idiots with impunity. I bloody loved it! 😂

@AuldFox

My strike through doesn’t work —ever—

Ignore my last comment, I’ve realised yours are longer as it’s two dashes 🤣🤣 I wish mumsnet would let you delete Or edit your comments!

I do two dashes as advised —doesn’t work—

Thanks for trying Squiz!

-one dash-

Ok that doesn’t work either. Why must you try me so, O Mumsnet?!

Strike through never works for me either, surely there’s a less clunky way of doing it?

I’m joining in the aspirational rail and dressing gown love. That’s a beautiful garment.

Auldfox On the icons below this box hit the I inthe round circle then from the list hit the 'hello' on between the four dashes ( next to 'delete' the bottom of the list.. you will get: four dashes with the cursor flashing in the middle of them.. Type whatever you want to have struck out in between those 4 dashes leaving 2 at start of sentance with no gaps between them and start of first word and 2 at end also with no gap at end of last word and dashes.. hit preview and it should be struck out.. like this

@Laska2Meryls

Auldfox On the icons below this box hit the I inthe round circle then from the list hit the 'hello' on between the four dashes ( next to 'delete' the bottom of the list.. you will get: four dashes with the cursor flashing in the middle of them.. Type whatever you want to have struck out in between those 4 dashes leaving 2 at start of sentance with no gaps between them and start of first word and 2 at end also with no gap at end of last word and dashes.. hit preview and it should be struck out.. like this

Reading these instructions gave me the same anxiety I can remember feeling when turning over my Further Maths A Level papers many years ago! Mind you, I’ve been on Mumsnet for about a decade and I’m really proud of myself for (finally) working out how to bold people’s names rather than @-ing them! Is it just me, or do Mumsnet make it harder than it really needs to be?

omgdidthisactuallywork

I didn't even pass O level maths !!
Funny that my job turned out to be mainly statistics

Yahoooo! Thanks O Teacher @Laska2Meryls

👍Auldfox

bold works too!

weeeeeeeee!

ok I’ll stop now

You now have the power... Use it Wisely ..💫 👩‍🎤

Haha! That was a super heroine on my phone icon... But MN couldnt cope !!

Is it just me, or do Mumsnet make it harder than it really needs to be?

Not just you at all. It’s so 20th century, it does my head in.

Serves me right for feeling so pleased (if not a little horribly smug) I’d managed to bag the last pair of Japanese indigo denim pleat front trousers in a size 10. Only I’ve just managed to get around to opening the parcel and they aren’t...they are a size 16. I’m normally the world’s biggest JL fan, but, as my four-year-old says often when she is frustrated, Oh, Come On! Anyway, there will be a lovely pair of size 16 indigo denim trousers winging their way back to JL come Monday morning - I guess it’s trouser karma for wasting any of the universe’s time worrying over the Jude vs. Jamie debate!