Ds has been on the phone to his "girlfriend" for 20 minutes now

[twentypence]

He's 4!

I'm keeping him out of kindy as he has croup and we are flying the UK on Saturday so I need him to get better. He's literally been counting the minutes until she was back so he could ring her.

Thank goodness for free local phone calls.

[MrsJohnCusack]

goodness me
20 minutes!
of UK trip. did I tell you the inlaws are moving here in 3 years. Apparently. We have been presented with a word doc containing questions such as 'how much do prescriptions cost for the over 60s', 'what can we buy for £100,000', 'what are the names of heart consultants' etc. and other such facts that I carry around in my head as a matter of course. Apparently it's easier for us to google them rather than them.

[twentypence]

In 3 years who knows, the prescriptions could be free, you might not even get an over 60s unit for that much, and the heart consultants will have fecked off to oz.

Eventually the girlfriends mother said they had to go out, after 30 minutes of discussing what he had missed at kindy, and her giving him a list of presents that would be acceptable.

[welliemum]

Aaaaaahhh, that is lovely! at the girlfriend.

Am also LOL at MrsJC's inlaws' google feebleness.

Also at UK holiday. How long are you away for twentypence?

[MrsJohnCusack]

if they do come here in 3 years, I may have fecked off to Oz...

lol at presents.

[mamama]

Aw, bless. But what on earth does a 4 year old have to talk about for 20 minutes? He sounds like a lovely little fellow. Now, if I were 20 years younger...



Hope he gets better soon

[twentypence]

I got bored after 5 minutes and came on Mumsnet - something about flags, how many sleeps until the kindy disco and crisp flavours (ds: "there is only 1 flavour").

In UK for 4 weeks. Have just packed the in laws 9kg parcel for my SIL with very gritted teeth. We've plenty of baggage allowance with ds's clothes being so tiny however I'm not sure that my very cheap and crappy suitcase will maintain handle integrity when it weighs so much. Of course parcel is too big for bomb proof Samsonite - and inlaws are taking us to airport so I can't lie about suitcase size.

[welliemum]

WHAT is it about people that they will cheerfully hand over several kg of stuff for someone else to haul halfway round the world??

(Can you tell this has happened to me too?)

I haver about for ages before asking someone to put a tiny parcel in their bag and even then, feel I'm imposing.

What's the "1 flavour" then?

[twentypence]

The one flavour is Freedom Foods unsalted. not sure that even qualifies as a flavour really.

The best bit of the tale is that 24 hours after dropping off the world's largest object they announced they were off the Europe in Oct. Hence why I feel okay about giving them half back.

Bizarre MIL story for today is her asking if I can take a letter for SIL and post it first class when I arrive, because she forgot to post it on Tuesday and they take too long unless you post them on Tuesday. I didn't say "it's not 9kg is it?" because she is doing some babysitting tomorrow.

[twentypence]

We are here - completely knackered, but here.

The delightful mancunian passport control officer who instead of saying (as I am used to from NZ version) "welcome to Manchester" said - "well I'll let the Australian one through this time (Dh has a kiwi passport ), but next time you could be asked to requeue in the other lane."

I think that it's better for all concerned if a knckered 4 year old has both parents present at all times to carry him, chivvy him along and stop him wandering off personally, but maybe she knows something I don't. We went with a 2-1 split and chose the British lane (queue was actually longer) and she had the right stamps so what was her problem?

Having a sign up saying you will arrest anyone who looks at you funny does not excuse you from smiling at people who smiled at you and asked you how you were lady.