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It's up and down here, JM, thanks. I'm not impressed with my new blood doctor and am trying to decide if I should contact my GP and fight the hospital or not. I'm tired of medical stuff ruling my life.

MrScout just got home five minutes ago and is stressing me out. I should have gone to bed ultra early.

Men. Some days, I tells ya... some days...

Just keeping admiring Mellors the sea view, ladies. Just keep admiring the view.

Unfortunately that particular view doesn't do much for me, Maud.

Ok, then, let's distract ourselves by dancing on the beach.

Dancin' in the Moonlight It makes me think of jamboree/the summer I met MrScout. I can't believe that this summer it will be ten years....

<<Tops up for everyone...>>

<<Hands around and joins in the dancing>>

::Throws shapes::

10 years already? Wow. Mind you, because we are Very Old, we have been together more than 20 years. No further comment.

Maud - may I join you in the Very Old Club? We have been married 15 years this year and together for 19. I can't quite believe it - in my head I'm still about 26 .

I like that song Scout

JM sorry things are tough.

Mistlehound has been barking at me this evening (she was basically mute when we got her... so this is quite a change) but she had everything she needed and wasn't telling me what it was she wanted to do (if it was playing, she wasn't bringing me anything to play with). So she got told to be quiet and has gone to sleep on her bed not next to me... Don't want her to think that she rules the roost though!

MC is learning that, if you concentrate and listen at school, you get praised and rewarded... and its more enjoyable.

Bean - In an almost-Groucho Marx kind of way, you may feel that if any club has me in it you don't want to join, but if you are really qualified for the Very Old Club of course you can! But perhaps you were a child bride?

<<Gives Maud her best Paddington Bear stare>> You are NOT Very Old.

I have had an email asking if I would like to join someone's jamboree team. I haven't decided.

We just wanna have fun.

::Busts some moves::

Release your inner goddess

I am Very Old indeed, Scout.

<<Stamps foot like a petulant toddler.>> I refuse to believe it.

SmallBoy is going to his first birthday party this weekend. <<Sobs>> My baby has friends who like him enough to invite him to their parties. (Okay, to be fair, he would have been invited to his BFF's party in November had we not been in the US but this just feels different/more momentous some how.)

A thick layer of Max Factor hides a multitude of sins, Scout! ::wink::

A birthday party? What a landmark.

::Joins you in shedding a tear::

I've been feeling quite maudlin in the last few days about how big and grown-up The Girl is getting.

How is the Lovely Girl, Maud?

Bean, in my head I'm still a kid. I always say my inner child is a five year old. At five I was a big girl in that I knew the important stuff like letters, shapes, numbers, colors, how to share, etc., but I was still young enough to play unencumbered and let my imagination run free.

Today my inner child was free to run along the path from town with SmallBoy, pretending to be trains and birds, to pretend we were stomping on biscuits and making them go "CRUNCH!", to play tag ("I'm going to catch you, Mommy! Hahahahahahahaha!"), to go on squirrel hunts and to listen to the birds and say "SB, they're talking to you but I don't know what they're saying -- what are they saying?"

Does anyone have a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales that they can recommend?

Scout, SB will have a lovely time! And trust me, it won't be long before you find yourself moaning about 'yet another birthday party interrupting the plans for the weekend'

Small Bean's party is on Saturday, I am stupidly quite nervous about the whole thing.

bean, I already think that about MrScout's family and birthdays.

Ooooh, Small Bean's having a party, too? Are you having it at your house?

Just realised the irony of moaning about birthday parties and then hosting one.

She's still officially lovely, Scout. She just isn't my rosy-cheeked toddler any more. ::sniff::

There's a beautiful version of the Grimm's Fairy Takes with illustrations by Arthur Rackham - you can find images if you google - but I don't know whether anyone sells modern reprints of it.

... And then when they get a bit older there's all the politics about who's invited to the party and who isn't. But maybe that's more a Girl Thing.

<<goes all faint at the thought of a party in the house>>

No, we are using a local leisure centre. It is hopefully probably the only time we'll do a whole class party but with Small Bean joining a school where most of the children knew each other already from the nursery it felt important to include everyone until he had established close friends.

I will be ready for a large at 6pm on Saturday...

Like this one, Maud?

I remember my brother's first school friends party -- it was just the boys in the class invited. One of them was a PITA and my brother didn't want him but my mom was the "you can't invite all but one" sort. Said little boy punched me in the stomach (I was helping my mom with the party since I was 13). Fortunately I was wearing my scoliosis brace at the time and didn't feel a thing but the little twerp had a red hand.

I have a big birthday next year. I want a party. I haven't had a party since I was a kid.

On Saturday MrScout is going to a Guiding event that I am not. SmallBoy and I are going to go to the cool independent toy shop not far away from Guiding event to pick out a birthday present. He's already told me that G wants "Train tracks presents." Does that sound familiar?!?!?!

You see Scout... that birthday was several years ago for me so I don't know what you're complaining about!

MC is 8, yes 8 !!! soon.

And the Tearoom Tshirt was a 4.

This is the first one we're going down a size and aiming for a select handful.

How can MC be 8 already??

I suppose the same way that JB can be 5 in two weeks...