Mumsnet Talk

I'm wearing my kirby grips flat side out, today's dinner is in the slow cooker, and I've just re-dyed DH's blazer black.

And it's all because of MN . Tell me things that you've done because of MN too.

What?! Kirby grips are wavy side out no?

Shit... I cant even put in a hair grip right

what is all this kirbygrips go flat side out malarkey?? Sorely the bumpy bits dig in to your head??

surely not sorely (although that may be more apt!)

Squirted breast milk in the conjunctivitis eye of my baby. It worked but DH thought I'd succumbed to fatigue induced madness.
Fecking love Mumsnet!

I bought a slow cooker

What is the benefit of putting them bumpy side down? I tried it and it didn't seem to make much difference.

I service wash appliances,
Meal plan,
Shop at Aldi

This is what Wikipedia had to say about kirby grips:

There are different ways to use the pin: flatside up and wavy side up.

Flat side up:
provide a better hold
neat appearance on straight hair
ability to decorate pin

Wavy side up:
easier to slide into hair with the wavy side up
adds texture and dimension
seamlessly blends in with curly hair

I didn't know either ! I like flat side up, mainly because it looks neater.

Ozma, meal planning is the next thing that I have to start to do...

Bought a slow cooker last week (and have actually used it. Twice.)
Washing machine currently running a maintenance wash.
I now always cut pizza with scissors. Love this one the most.

Ooh, and a Mooncup, of course.

Yep, there's a mooncup in my drawer as well, Cake. I haven't quite clicked with it yet, but I might try again.

Shop in Aldi.

Bought a slow cooker.

Spend less time on Facebook - but more on here

Keep meaning to get the MN scarf and sit in public wearing it and eating pombears!

Ordered a dermaflannel.

Asked my husband if he'd heard of Adult works!

Put my bedding inside one of the pillowcases to keep it all together.

5:2 diet (keep falling off that wagon but read about it first on here!)

I now know what a gymbalow is

Wow didn't realise how much until I got going!!

Still wont google dragon butter though

<just turned my kirby grips over to smooth side up>

ItsAll yes, do try again. Loads of advice on here if you need it.

Fold my duvet, pillowcases, etc into "sets"! So much easier on bed change day!

Never to go to Centre Parcs or up the OXO tower.

I have a slow cooker
I have an mn haircut
I have an mn scarf
I eat and offer pombears in an mn manner
I put my bedding inside a pillowcase
I put fabric conditioner on my radiators
I service wash my washing machine
I meal plan
I shop in waitrose AND Lidl
I put tin foil down the back of my radiators
I lined my curtains with fleece
I am a slave to MN and if anyone suggests anything I do it baa

What has Mumsnet taught me?

That there is a way of wasting your life away while feeling that you're actually doing something.

That some folk could fight over which way up a kirby grip should go.

That it is actually possible to make friends on line with people who aren't totally creepy. (A bit creepy, but not totally)

It has also taught us that there is a right way up for weetabix

Thay baby vests are designed to be taken off downwards <stares at DS2 poonami monster>

I have read lots of things that I ought to do.

Unfortunately I spend so much time on Mumsnet I never get around to doing any of them.

But the weetabix thing was very important.

Tell me about the weetabix thing.

Weetabix

You really need a bottle glass of to make sense of it.

That brain bleach does exist

I decided to not care that the only way I can get through supper time with my preschooler and toddler without carnage and bad tempers all round is to let them watch nursery rhymes on the computer while they eat.

Soon enough they will be 6 and 4 and we can have "proper" family meals then, once they are old enough. We will all sit around, eat politely and make intelligent conversation.

Until then, the wheels on the bus go round and round ...

There's a right way up for weetabix???

MN has taught me, I'm not a failure because I couldn't breast feed.

And then soon after, they will be 16 and 14 and on their phones while you all eat

Think I will finish that thread later after a or 2

I hate these threads. They always show up two things:

1. That I spend waaaay too much time on here
2. That I am very easily led!

I have...

Babylis big hair - love
Waitrose baby bum butter - meh
Steam mop - love
New Dyson animal cleaner - love
G-tech sweep - did love until it stopped working
Slow cooker - love
Making a chicken last 5 meals - not love but close
Stretching meals out with pulses and beans - like
Home dyeing hair - love
Red lip stick - love
Hot cloth cleansing - love
Clarisonic - love
Microfibre cloths for household - love
Microfibre cloths for skin - love
Wearing lip stick - love
Moon cup - love
Mattress toppers - love
Making own bread - meh. I'm rubbish at it
Veg box delivery - love, love, love
Own brand nappies - love
Career change - love
Run a hot wash through my appliances - love
Part substituting washing powder for soda crystals - love
Mineral make up - meh

There are more but I forget

Oh crikey. I spend Sunday immersed in RL and Weetabixgate happens.

Thanks a bunch Maryz, I think I would rather not have known.

<cries>

Yikes, I don't like the sound of going up the OXO tower FunSized, although I am going to Center Parcs soon ...

<heee heee centre parcs> your DH does know what he has to fo there doesn't he

Have fun at Oxotower Parcs, ItsAll

That a nest of vipers can change the world. In a good way.

I'm going to offer a revelation now. Hold on to your hats...

Wine boxes. These have changed my life. Your wine keeps fresh for 6 weeks so you can have the odd glass now and then without having to use a whole bottle (I know I'm losing some of you now but for the lightweights, breastfeeders and co sleepers this is Very Good News) and it holds 3 x bottles. We can make one last 10 days a month and save a fortune.

That I needed more folic acid and that Vit B6 might sort out my cycle.

<reconsiders holiday plans >

Not quite as light hearted but just as useful: how to recognise that my H was having an affair and to have the courage to call him on it.

And I've bought a slow cooker.

katemiddleton I am not understanding what you mean by wine boxes? Can you or someone else please explain so I can buy one!! Loving the idea of being able to have a glass or two and the whole bottle's not wasted!

Katie, I hate to tell you but wineboxes are a disaster for me.

Bottles have the distinct advantage of being empty after a reasonable number of drinks. And when they are empty, I stop drinking.

Unfortunately wine boxes don't get empty quickly enough.

It's wine that comes in a box with a little tap with a valve that you fit to use. I'll find a link.

I can remember my parents "getting a box of wine" for parties in the early 90s but it was mostly undrinkable pish. Nowadays you can get some decent stuff. I have done extensive testing!

And I do not understand the use of the words "wasted" "unfinished" and "wine" in the same sentence [baffled]

Can someone please explain the conditioner on radiators? Do you wipe them with conditioner or put a tissue with conditioner on one or what?! Need it for our smelly boys/cats (oh for a minimalist, clean house...).

Surely wine boxes need no introduction- they've been around for years - at least these days the wine in them is slightly better than it used to be. Marvellous invention...!

That's a good point, alterego, MN has taught me about lots of useful things, both small and big. I hope you're okay.

Had my boobs hefted by Rigby and Peller after reading the bra interventions and realising it was needed. Have gone from wearing a 38B to 32F <eeeeeeek> and now have bras that fit instead of digging in.

Bedding in pillowcases

112 emergency number - didn't know that before at all

Boostapak child seat for travelling - genius product

Katie, you've caused consternation with your wine boxes post . I did the same once by asking about freezing leftover wine to cook with.

Yeah it won't work for the lushes some Maryz

Wine in a box I've tested this one. It's reasonable. Not amazing but it's wine in a box for a glass of an evening and cooking with, not wine out to lunch at Michelin starred restaurant.

Can someone please tell me about 112 and Boostapak childseats?

112 is universal emergency number. So if you're in France and need emergency number dial 112. In Spain? Dial 112. In UK, dial 112.

Each country has it's own emergency number but they all vary. So they have 112 too in most countries.

Thanks Katie, that's good to know. I'm guessing that you don't know about the childseats then ?

I just added to my MN list by buying Stardrops, because they (it?) was cheaper than sugar soap.

It hasn't taught me much that's practical (unlike so many of you ) but then I'm a stupendously unpractical person.

But I did get some nice kitchen stirrers from taking part in a stock melt survey, and a SatNav from a Mumsnet auction - so we have nicer meals & we don't get lost and/or argue in car quite so much

And it's taught me how to be friendly with a nest of vipers and other stuff like that

Thank you katemiddleton. I will have to look into these boxes!
I too took the advice on the bra intervention threads and have gone from a 36B to a 32D and it fits perfectly.
So you wash the bed linen in one of the pillowcases and then what? Take it all out to dry and then put it back in again for storage, am I right?

I do I think. They're made by Trunki. A booster seat in a backpack.

<all knowing>

Boostapak suitable from age 4

TwoBits, you wash the bedding as normal, then fold everything and store it inside one of the pillowcases.

Thanks Katie .

Mostly that there are a lot of people with a lot of time on their hands......Me included!

Thanks it'sall!! Will try this out this evening as I have been getting the odd cleaning fit today!

Been rubbing vicks on my toenails for a while but they still look horrid and I feel daft doing it !

Do not understand the pillowcase thing at all, whats the advantage and surely bedding doesnt clean as well all bunched up in the case ?

I am such a saddo. I cannot do anything if I don't check it on here first.

I have:
Bought a mooncup, Merrell Wakefield coat
Mumsnet scarf, tied a la Wendy's online tutorial
Looking at Mr Bloom and other CBeebies presenters in quite a new way
Used the baby name finder and started a thread for DD's name
Had a live birth thread
Started using the oil cleansing method

It's part of my culture now, innit?

I blame MN for the fact that my toddler is currently running around the sitting room yelling "Woof to you, my lady!"

I have:

Maintenance washed my w/m
Bought a Big Hair
Shopped at Ald
Used the oil cleansing method
Spotted an abusive relationship
Bought a Clarisonic (fab)
Put coconut oil on everything (hair, skin, wok, door hinges, pregnant SIL... )
Avoided Centre Parks
Bought Revlon lip butter
Tried EL Double wear light

So far!

I do agree with MaryZ about the wine boxes, but Asda has a satisfactory compromise; they sell wine bags which contain 2x bottles.
So they are still empty after a "reasonable" number of drinks.
As long as you have "sensible" huge sized glasses

please please what with the fabric conditioner and the radiator ?
and can I add
love for the Babyliss Big Hair
Oil Cleansing method though have now progressed to the Sanctuary Oil Cleanser
Slow cooker
Bread maker
and the immortal phrase "this too shall pass" though not strictly a thing

katie middleston can i just inform you that a 3litre wine box actually contains 4 bottles of wine, not three. That is all.

I made the microwave cheese sauce last night! I really thought it would come out lumpy and horrible but it didn't at all. Was lovely and smooth and a million times easier than doing it on the hob. No scrubbing melted cheese out of the saucepan afterwards, either.

I now wear kirby grips flat side facing out too.

Tried the rice thing but I think i did it wrong...

Bought the Big Hair thing recently. Not felt brave enough to try it yet.

Went up a cup size and down 2 back sizes in my bras. Have managed to convince my mum that it is unlikely a size 10 would need a 36" bra.

I'm sure there's more... love the wisdom of MN.

I got a bra that fitted.

I got a slow cooker but I never use it.
I got a babyliss big hair but I never use it.
I have a mumsnet scarf but I never wear it.

I'm not buying anything else because of mumsnet ever again

I took the plunge and emigrated and also realized DS was showing signs of SN I'd have missed if it hadn't been for MN.
Thank you MN.

I already knew about Mooncups though; it was one of the reasons I hoped I'd feel at home as nobody I know in RL had ever heard of them.

Thanks janek i am aware. However, what I don't know is how the most recent one we bought that was 3l was so much smaller than the 2.25l ones we had bought previously. It cannot be that we just drank it much more quickly. Oh no!

The boxes have a pouch inside. I know this from ripping apart the cardboard to squeeze out the last few drops

microwave cheese sauce - I need that recipe.

I haven't been here long, but my previously limited vocabulary has already expanded to include fanjo, wankbadger, and (latterly) wankfrippery. For this, I am grateful.

You don't wash your bedding in the pillowcase, just put them in when clean and dry for storage.

It's brilliant to be able to grab the whole set in one go, especially in a middle of the night d&v situation.

Sainsburys' own shiraz wine box, is also decent, but we have stopped getting them after noticing they only lasted 2 days!

Lol. If I wasn't breastfeeding and co-sleeping I reckon we'd go through then much quicker. We actually drink less now because we don't feel like we have to finish the bottle to avoid it going to waste.

I think you win, Trucks - emigrating . I'm still too scared to try OCM, let alone emigrating.

I sometimes think that MN is teaching me lots of things that my parents should have taught me when I was younger.

I need to be able to make cheese sauce in the microwave, can someone please write it out?

washed my dogs covers adding vinegar to the wash bloody fantastic who knew

I was very warm all winter in my Merrell Ellenwood coat.
I now know what disingenuous means.

How do you do a washing machine service wash?

I'm currently googling everything on this list and buying all some of it

put it on at 90 empty and let it go through its cycle, husband used to work as a plumber that is what bangs on about to people who have phoned him about smelly washing machines

thanks I'll do that tonight.

Does anyone know how to clean the inside of the little drawer thingy? Cos mine's all manky.

Sorry hijacking aren't I? Should I go away and make a washing machine related thread of my own?

I just take it out and rinse it there should be a little clip thing when you pull ir right out.

I've cleaned the draw but the inside of the washing machine where it slots in is manky too I can't fit my hand in to give it a good clean

drawer*

hopefully your boil wash will sort it or put some white vinegar in your fabric softner bit , but tb I guess most peoples is a bit manky

Fingers crossed. Thank you mrsjay

forget the bleedin' washing machines. What about my cheese sauce recipe?

here you go Kew

There there. All better now?

OY! Conditioner and radiator combo! What's it all about??!

Right you fuckers... I managed to actually use the Search function and am off to wipe conditioner on the radiators <slightly obsessed now>



Oh and I purchased and use every day the Babyliss Big Hair - wouldn't be without it

And I now want another baby just to try the vest down method, instead of my previous method of cutting off poo-tastic vests

Oh god. Because of mumsnet I..

Breastfed DD3 until she was nearly 1.5.
Used washable nappies.
Got DD2 diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.
Go to French campsites.
Refer to self as pescetarian instead of a vegetarian that eats fish.
Think before I type mostly.
Try not to be too judgemental.
Tried the mooncup and got terrible thrush, apparently the opposite of most peoples' experience.
Tried oil cleansing method and got terrible spots.
Do a maintenance wash.
Put fabric conditioner on the radiators.
Ended a crappy friendship.
Get far too opinionated about baby names.
Bought The Equality Illusion. Made DH and Dsis read it after me.
Bought How To Be Woman (for 50c at school fair, sorry Caitlin).
Spend too much on Boden kids clothes.
End up on the Daily Mail website.
Now think I need a Big Hair.

How To Be *A Woman

So you actually put fabric conditioner itself on the radiators or is it in a little pot or something?

why are you putting Fabric conditioner on your radiators you loons

Yes apparently you wipe neat conditioner on the radiators... I've had a go and the house does smell fragrent - but I can't tell if that's cos I probably got half a ton of it on my hands when I did the wiping - need to go out of the house and back in again [again].

I've only done the hall radiator and one other though - would be fairly mental to do them all I think... I've stuck cotton wool with geranium oil on down the back of a radiator in the past - that works well and I think I prefer the smell..!

I used to put essential oil on light bulbs kim and aggie told me to do it

I LTB!

I have the scarf
I am now 100% sure I don't want a slow cooker. (Hate all stew-like foods)
I'm intrigued about the radiator thing.
I'm way more confident about how I parent DS.
Have just realised I used parent as a verb - I shall flog myself immediately.
I really want a BBH but fear I would cause a tangled mess.
I'm massively more educated about SN and AS than I ever have been before.
I feed my dog a whole egg instead of cracking it.
I'm a lot gobbier

What is this left over wine of which you speak, and where can I get some?

We've said for years that wine boxes should have a clear measurement panel on the side (a bit like a kettle). Many unfortunate situations could be avoided.

<<seriously considers dragon's den>>

what is with the tin foil down the back of the radiator? i really really need to know... it sounds odd!

mrsjay you can still do the EO on lightbulb thing. i do it when i can be bothered

am so doing the fabric softener thing

How to spell "naice"

Is there anything, anything at all, more distressing than that awful feeling when you are happily pouring from a wine box that you think is full, and suddenly it starts to splutter.

And then cutting off the corner of the inner bag and turning it upside down just confirms your worst fears

What is the MN scarf? Should I have one? <confused>

Which big hair thingy to buy? The 42mm one or the other one or do they both do the same thing? Thanks

How to swear really badly and not give a fuck!
I bought a slow cooker.

I meal plan & batch cook
I bought a slow cooker
I have a babyliss big hair
I make my own bread
I make this face a lot in RL

Help - re mn scarf. Am very concerned am inappropriately dressed and coiffed.

Already had a slow cooker <smug>
How to take a screen shot on iPhone
How to recognise threads that will turn into bunfights.
That no matter what the time there is always someone to chat to.

I learnt MN is seriously addictive, and not to log in when I ought to be working. Look, it's nearly lunchtime!

Also to imagine my real name is showing and to temper any comments accordingly.

This is shameful, but I can tell how much is left in a wine box by weight. Measured in half glasses.

But enough about the boxes. I would like to stick up for slow cookers. They don't just do stew. Mine does excellent duck (confit and a l'orange), rice, gammon, curry, soup and mince based stuff. Get one with a dish that goes on the hob too so you can seal meat and fry off onions and veg. Otherwise things can taste a bit boiled.

I like that one thatsmygirl.

Ah yes, I learned to swear quite inventively thanks to MN. Sometimes, when I'm particularly inventive, DH asks whether what I've said is from MN .

Of course my real name is Sanctimonious Cow. What? Nobody thought that? You are all very lovely. Actually, how about 'Sanctimonius' as a boy's name? Quite a nice, sorry naice, ring to it.

Hmm Kate, the browning thing does make them a bit more appealing I suppose.

Empty wine boxes are just heart breaking, I'm always fooled by them. They're surprisingly weighty when empty!

I have learnt so much about SN, and as a consequence have been able to help DS. Already downing fish oils and sitting on a wobble cushion in class. Ed psych due to visit imminently.

That domestic violence is so prevelent, i honestly had no idea of the hideousness and it's just not enough to assume its easy to LTB.

That complete strangers can help with terrible events. I'm humbled by the kindnesses shown by posters on some threads.

I have just spent the morning "doing a Debka" on my kitchen.

That some odd people experience the trauma of leftover wine.

I have just fabric conditionered my radiators, I am sniffing the air like a bloodhound.

Naice post TSS - but what is it with all this fabric conditioner on radiators, I missed that one ? Does it just smell nice ?

Isn't it all a bit gloopy and messy ?

The MN scart is floaty and chiffoney and huge, with something like a leopard skin print, but not necessarily in natural leopard colours.

Mine came from New Look.

And btw I think it was me who came up with using scissors to cut pizza <takes modest bow>

Phew, thanks DeepRedBetty, I already have one. Now to find out more about the Babyliss Big Hair. <utterley pointless of course because I'm lucky if I get to brush my hair let alone apply gadgets to it>

for DeepRedBetty for consigning my pizza cutter to the bottom of the drawer for evermore.

Is the fabric conditioning radiators literally just wiping it on the radiators and when they heat up it smells nice? I must have missed this gem!

Does it not just make the house smell of damp washing?

Have done my first service wash with white wine vinegar today.
Already had a slow cooker.
Tempted by Babyliss thingy too Tubegirl.
Lemon drizzle cake recipe - best ever.
How to deal with candle wax inside tumble dryer.
Mumsnet is wonderful!

Lemon Drizzle Cake mmmm

<wanders off towards kitchen to see whether she's got ingredients or not>

Baby vests are designed to be taken off downwards?

That's a needed revelation after dd2 is the biggest poo monster I've ever met. Seriously, poo up to shoulders on back or tummy. Such fun.

Lemon drizzle cake you say? Linky please.

To do I need a poxy stew cooker? (I had a think about the meat browning, I'm not convinced)

It's over there --> Randal, recipe of the week, again.
It is bloody good. Nice and big too

Thank you for bringing this into my life! I bloody love lemon drizzle cake but always presumed it was beyond me.

you need a slow cooker that has a "fry" option like mine so you can brown in it first then slow cook afterwards. Mine also makes great cakes and caramelised onions/peppers.

It can also do rice and pasta but tbh I don;t see the problem with cooking them in a saucepan.

very new to mumsnet - only joined today. I am amazed. I have laughed, cried and comforted. I have learned some great tips (love the bedding tip). still learning the lingo, but I will get there. My top tip re wine boxes is never try to open the cardboard box with a knife. You can easily puncture the inner bag and will have to down the contents very quickly!

like this one... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/COOKSHOP-VARICHEF-MULTIFUNCTION-COOKER-FREE-24-HR-POST-/271172274101?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_Steamers_Cookers_PP&hash=item3f232087b5

Why would you ever have need to deal with candle wax inside your tumble drier

Cakes Kewcumber? Tell me more please

Lovingly make sponge mixture from scratch whisk oil and water into cake mix pour into multifunction slow cooker, press cake option.

Decorate as required.

the inner tin in the multifunction cooker I linked to is non stick (worth oiling though)

Discovered the Mooncup
Used real nappies
Mineral make up
Liz Earle stuff
Washing machine gets a clean wash
Bedding in the pillow case
Made Soupdragons flap jacks - yum
Doing the Shred
Shopping in Aldi
Freezing milk to take camping

Oh my fucking god, baby vests are designed to be taken off from the top. I have 3 dc, I have been a mother for almost 8 years and I never new that. It totally makes sence, that's why they have those envelope type things at the top. Does everyone know this ? Am I the last ?

That faddy diets become fashionable and then vanish without trace

Marsladys Drizzle cake natch

Flexitol is the dogs bollox for dry hooves

Lilylolo mineral makeup is brilliant

The words fanjo and norks ( now I don't even notice I'm using them)

The joys of watching telly while chatting about the programme on mumsnet

Putting vinegar in with your towels makes them soft

Crap. I meant take off baby vests from the bottom. It's simply amazing !

I did wonder, DeskPlanner!

I learned that re-heated rice may give you D+V. With hindsight, I think it did give DH and I D+V once. I told DM yesterday, but she didn't believe me.

My use of white vinegar has increased exponentially since joining MN - I'd been using it in nappy washes before but had never considered using it for anything else.
The thing that was a real revelation though was the push-in tabs on cling film boxes, never noticed them before!
What's the foil/radiator thing about?

Welcome, familylawmum, though I feel a bit presumptuous saying it as a relative newcomer myself. Welcome! It's bloody brilliant. Cackle.

llamateur the push-in tabs was a revelation to me too, and I have a little chuckle to myself every time I use them now

foil behind the radiator helps retain/relect heat in the room rather than 'soaking' into the wall...

Oh yes freezing the juice box to keep the pack lunch cold. Geeenyus

Blimey, that's an intimidating piece of kit!
I thought they were just gigantic plug-in saucepans.

I still have much to learn.

Oh yes freezing the juice box to keep the pack lunch cold. Geeenyus

I did that before mumsnet I may have even invented it not really I also used to freeze frubes in the summer

I freeze 1 pint plastic bottles of milk when we go camping - keeps things in the cool box chilled and slowly defrosts for cuppas and cereal over the next day or two.

That's usually my contribution to Mumsnet camping threads!

Actually, thinking about it, going camping is something I've got into via the power of Mumsnet...

that is actually genuis frozen milk who knew

Genius*

Cleaning my kitchen bin lid in the dishwasher
Liz Earle
DH bowed to the powers of MN when faced wth a hard avocado and I announced that he should put it in a paper bag with bananas ... and it worked!

Oh wow. I'm another one amazed that baby vests come off downwards. I thought they were designed like that because some babies have really large heads in relation to their bodies!

Freezing freshly whipped cream -who knew eh?This is so handy at christmas time or anytime really when some whipped cream is needed .It saves having to buy it fresh and whipping up a big bowl and throwing half it away 2 days later.I freeze it now in little yoghurt pots/plastic containers and its brilliant.

Why would you freeze whipped cream?

That's a bit like having left-over wine. Surely no-one has left over cream they just eat it with a spoon

Woah. You go too far with throwing away whipped cream.

Thanks for the cake info * Kewcumber* unfortunately my low-tech slow cooker comes with no fancy options. There is one pan that goes inside and can also go on the hob, a glass lid and a dial switch for high, low, medium and off. I'll have to stick to making cakes the old fashioned way.

Now I really do have an excellent tip to share. It must be good because St Mary of Berry said on GBBO she does this too, although I thought of it 10 years ago: Write the size of your cake tin on the bottom with marker pen so you don't have to guess and risk getting the wrong size out by mistake or find a tape measure every time you fancy a Victoria sponge. I know which are 7" sandwich tins, which are 8" etc because they all have it written on the bottom. I also know that old flour of raising agent can make your cake go wrong so buy fresh.

I didn't know about the flaps that hold your clingfilm securely in the box, until I read it on MN.

MN also taught me that you can be allergic to sanitary towels, so I binned my Always and became a Bodyform girl - no more itching.

My DM used to freeze little rosettes of whipped cream. Then when we had a sponge tart she could just decorate it with a few artfully placed whirls.

I already had a slow cooker.
I don't have radiators to put a smear of comfort on.
Currently I don't have a functioning washing machine to put a service wash on in - can't/never seen soda crystals either.
DD knows more swear words than i thought possible. I clearly use the term wankbadger a lot when I'm driving. she shouted at another road user the other day. She called him a squirrel wanker.

<gaffaws at squirrel wanker> !!!

Is that really so "Baby vests are designed to be taken off downwards?".

That it is dangerously wrong is to put breast milk into baby's eye (confirmed later by "eye doctor").

That HVs are often rubbish and you don't need to have your baby weighed at baby clinic.

That I am not the only Georgette Heyer fan under 75.

That I am not alone.....

dangerously wrong??? What will happen chisle ??

eyes get infected - doc really told me off. friend of mine is a gp and I asked her too and she said "that it was wrong and I should not do it".

That the most important thing to take to a festival is 15 bags if wipes and a whole roll of bin bags.

I'm in about the vests downwards. I had no idea, I've changed three kids FFS, what good is finding this out now! I'm rushing off to tell my sister as she is gaving a baby on Monday.

Squirrel wanker - I am so using that at the earliest opportunity

I've learnt to stay well away from Pantene products. Nasty silicones and parabens were making my hair greasy.

How to bookmark threads instead of marking my place.

Someone should include that vest off downwards tip in a nappy advert .... could have a Mum showing another Mum "didn't you know ...?" then she can say "mind you I hardly ever have to do that these days since I started using X Brand"

< should have gone into advertising and made my millions ! >

I am pleased to have shared my MN wisdom re vests with so many of you. I thought I was the only one who didn't know when I found out. Squirrel wanker should be the new word for Mnetters who are on TV

I have learned

How to make lemon drizzle cake and chocolate brownies.

Veet to unblock hairy plug holes

Bedding in a pillow case

Greggs sausage rolls and fruit shoots are the work of the devil.

That I NEED a babyliss big hair.

That I should have seen the red flags in a crappy relationship.

Postnatal depression is an illness, not a failure.

It is possible to really, really care about people you have never actually met.

I love MN

Lots of things! Most recently: How to find your real bra size.

just about to wipe my radiators with fabric conditioner

have a mumsnet scarf and big hair

Can someone tell me how to find the right bra size?

RE: keeping lunchboxes cool - DD takes a frozen frube or two in her lunchbox.
She also eats them frozen at home out of choice - cheap ice lollies.

Hmmmm...
I did the vest thing when I had my DDs, but didn't realise it was a 'thing' - just did it out of desperation after a particularly impressive poonami.

downwards? babyvests? it's so clever it's ridiculous. I'm going to text my sisters right now.

I swear alot more

and everyone has goat envy esp the ones that can get a special Mother and Goat car park close to Asda

I blasted the vest thing across my facebook, it has proven extremely exciting to lots of mothers of small people!

I have learned to say <hoiks up my judgy-pants> and "Oh do fuck off"

Some truths about myself. I am a narc. I have been able to parent one of my children with love and care but it was too late for the others. What I put them through was appalling. I can never make up for it.

Sorry, highjacking thread. As you were

Now have:
slow cooker
Babyliss Big Hair
Mumsnet scarf
Correctly fitting bra
Service wash my machine
Use vinegar in towel wash

My top tip is to put the mouldy washing powder draw in the dishwasher. It comes out all sparkly.

I have learned that there is an approved MN way to tie a scarf but I don't know what it is.

And that MNers don't approve of bootleg jeans although I wear them anyway

<rushing off to put the powder draw through the dishwasher>

Powder drawer through the dishwasher??!! I thought I was on top of things, so back to as I was......

But I bought and used soda crystals this week!

Re dishwasher- you can also do this with drainers, plastic dustpans and bin lids.

Not to mention wellies, rugby boots and pretty much all your bathroom fittings, plastic toys, lego and various other random crap

Oh wow. This dishwasher stuff is such a revelation to me - I can't wait to get started!

MN Has taught me alot...the MN haircut (scred of hairdressers) and toask myself AIBU fromt he other side of the fence. With my AS that is a lifechanger really.

A quick slightly offtopic thought on the 112 thing....if we all taught our children to use 112 instead of 999 so they didn't have to remeber other numbers also, wouldn't the use of 99 eventually fall out of use and we and the world could just natuarally shift to one universal number....it seems to make perfect sense in my head but I might be sleep deprived

natuarally? oops

Sorry, I just realised just how typoriffic that actually was.

To be empowered and to grow a pair.

I was at a work training session where the instructor said octpuses and another trainee corrected him an said it's octopi. Thanks to mumsnet I was able to chime in and say actually the correct plural would be octpodes as it is derived from Greek not Latin but octopuses is perfectly grammatically correct. Everyone just gaped at me in wonder. Later when someone asked why the week starts with Sunday I was able to explain that it is because the Sabbath is on Saturday in Jewish culture.

Everyone thought I was a know-it-all twat awesome!!

Ps I haven't RTFT so this could be totally irrelevant.

My list

I now have a correctly fitting bra.
Ibuprofen messes with Ovulation.
MN Haircut
To ask AIBU...from both angles.
To take something with you when you leave a room.
Some MIL's are batshit crazy.
The ins and outs of the conception process, and just how hard it can actually be.
If I ever have children, not to give them Greggs sausage rolls or Fruit shoots in public.
With hair brushes and make-up, you get what you pay for.
Property Porn and Parking Wars.
Catgate and Gymbalow and to Love thy Neighbor.

I'm sure there are more I've missed.

When you have finished all the wine box wine, you can take out the silver bag, blow it up and make a balloon !

Mine don't have silver bags inside. We are clearly buying the wrong ones

I shall remedy that forthwith, then there will be fun for all the family - wine for me and dh, balloon for ds and baby dd... she can sit in the box and think herself lucky.

I now service wash my washing machine.

I love, and use, the term brain bleach.

I have an MN scarf.

What is the MN haircut?

Don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but taking baby vests down makes the necks all loose and gaping - so okay to do in desperate times, but wouldn't recommend doing it all the time..

I've learned that however rubbish I'm feeling or however frustrated I am with my kids, there are other people going through the same things or worse.

I have a correctly fitting bra
I planned my work outfits on Sunday for this week, and it's been great
I learnt that 0.0000012% of the population of Britain is immigrants in council houses, not the 98% that the Daily Mail would have you think.
I did a service wash on the dishwasher

chisle Im pretty sure breast milk is sterile? Certainly nothing that could cause an infection! My HV and GP both recommended using breastmilk fr a

Oops posted too soon.
They recommended using breastmilk for a variety or things and it cleared conjunctivitis, baby acne and nappy rash from my DD2.

And Greenleaftea, to add some more knowledge, Sunday in Hebrew is Yom Rishon (First Day), Monday is Yom Sheni (Second Day) and so on.

Yes, BM has anti viral and antibacterial qualities (i think that's by EBM last so long in the fridge) so works well for eyes. FFS its milk, what on earth is it going to do?

Sorry, that should read - what on earth is it going to do that's harmful?

Lazy The mumsnet hair cut is the one where you make a pony on the top of your hair and cut it off, and it all miraculously falls in perfect layers. There are youtube videos and things.

How to recover deleted shows on Sky+. I accidentally delete DH's shows all the time and now I can restore them without him ever knowing! I will be forever grateful to MN

How the buggery fuckery do you do that then calamity??

Joined Mumsnet today, can't believe what I have discovered.

What have you discovered?

I learned that my husband was abusive to me and DC
I learned how to make a safety plan and get out
i learned how to say no, and not mind what people thought of me (well nearly anyway)

I cook in a slow cooker, make bread, read "dog", learned how a nest of vipers can be as good for the soul as rl people when you're isolated and scared.

And a host of acronyms that make my everyday letters incomprehensible

Thanks Absy, writes that down.

Oh, what's that oven cleaner called again? I need to get some before we move house (the oven was cleaned by a very nice man from oven4u not that long ago, so I think I can face sprucing it up ).

Oven Pride

to take it philosophically if I get cut off

Thanks, Tube Girl!

Oops, Tubegirl .

Libertine depends on the box you've got but works on mine and now I have a much happier DH who doesn't think I delete the last programme in the series out of spite (I don't BTW I call myself Calamity for a reason!)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1693412-To-think-Sky-Plus-Planner-should-ask-if-you-are-sure-you-want-to-delete

"In your planner cycle through the sections, all progs, movies, doc etc. the deleted section will be the last one."

Our local Sainsbury's was out of OvenPride when I looked yesterday, so I bought a Mr Muscle product instead.
Shall I give it a go do you think, or use the fact they'd sold out as a good excuse to put it off longer ?

Not a fan of Mr Muscle. It does not love the job I hate. I imagine it to be a stroppy teenager who cba when I apply it to the oven as it does about the same kind of job.

Juggling if you're cooking in the oven this weekend put the pan or tin you use back in the cooling oven with some water in it. the resulting steam should help you get stuff off. obviously wait for the water and oven to cool down so you don't scald yourself.

whats this about fabric conditioner on your rads? and you sound totally organised. i feel less than a proper women now. i seem to phaff alot thru each day but i sort of get there at the end, with loads still needing done, and some stuff having actually got done!

You wipe neat conditioner on your radiator when it's on. Works for about an hour I reckon - so I wait until just before I know we're having visitors. Must get some geranium essential oil though - much nicer smell and I put a bit on a tissue or cotton wool and tuck it behind the radiator - smells amazing!