Mavis, I empathise with you about dc's, my two younger dc's were awake during night aswell (coughs) & ended up in my bed, one of them jumped on my back this am when I was in a comatose state & refusing to budge & am crippled all day. on full prices to x. I am a huge fan of bargains/sales too.

Mutha, you sly old dog sneaking off & abandoning us for online flirting... agree with beauty, you need to report back, some of us with sad old lives are reliant on these updates. to hear about your colleague. We've had terrible flooding here too.

Beauty, I have a painter who happens to be single booked to arrive on Tues .

Evening Dumplings, am depressed, worn out & bootless. Shopping expedition was a bit of a disaster, had granny & 3 bored as soon as they set foot inside mall dc's.

Abandoned all v quickly & brought dc's & granny for dinner & icecream (bribery for boot shopping). Each time I attempted to try on any boots all three dc's had shoes off in a flash & were tottering around in high heels, Granny was looking on aghast, I tried to go to the zone & block it all out so that I could focus on task at hand but by the third boot stop I could no longer pretend, dc's were barefoot, hollering loudly at each other, granny had departed muttering to self, so had to have a serious chat with self & say what is this all about, am in possession of about 30 pairs of boots of all description, quiet a few still in boxes, so much to the delight of fellow shoppers I departed.

Did manage to get matching outfits & boots for dd's for xmas. Again was difficult task as had to block out ds shoeless & leaping accross all the seats to see how far he could jump, all the while hollering loudly in delight, granny was crimson with look of complete despair at this point.

Following this granny quickly departed & I proceeded to drag dc's to tesco where I purchased 2 family sized tubs of trifle.

Mavis - yes, Workington and Cockermouth seem to have had it worst....though Kendal/Keswick is getting bad now. Thankfully I live right down south and nothing too bad as yet.

glad all your family are safe and well.

has stopped for now but more on the way!

MUTHA! You are not allowed to stay away from here when you are flirting. That is internet version of ditching your friends for a boyfriend. You have to come on here and share!!!!! Who are they? Where did you meet? (Match?) What have they said that's lovely and when are you meeting them??

So sad about your colleague.

Mutha - I thought of you today with the floods. Its west of where I used to be (and north of you?) Awful pictures on the news. If I move back the place I would go has been flooded this week. My family are all in the area but thankfully on higher ground. Hope it has stopped raining with you now.

Just having a quick skim to catch up with you all....and you are all doing so well!!!!

Reason I've not been on is I've been flirting outrageously with several guys online and may have a few dates lined up!

Beautiful - i did loads of decorating on becoming single.....my house is now looking lovely and not ashamed to bring anyone back should the need arise .

I probably work with a few people mentioned on uniform dating and am in fact on there myself but am too tight to pay for it. I work with rather a lot of guys in uniform but sadly none are either a) tasty enough or b) single....not that that stops some of them!!

Bit of a sad day in work as we lost a colleague due to the floods in my county

Hello all (should that be Evening All given the way this thread is going all policeman-y).

Much lol at booking a fire check, I believe they keep the firemen that appear on the calendars in a special station away from the public. Also rofl at not quite making the hot-in-uniform mark when dressed as a postie!

Had a horrendous night last night, both boys up and crying/screaming leaky nappies and awful coughs. Then, as dawn broke, ds2 revealed his first tooth! So all worth it then. Hopefully tonight will be calmer.

I am another lover of boots so very impressed with buying 3 pairs at once. I was one of the lucky ones who took advantage of the Fly London 125 quid boots for 40 quid offer and very smug I was too! In fact MN is wonderful for all sorts of reasons <bask in the glow ladies> not least because due to the discount threads on here I have cheap Fly boots and I have also got the boys Christmas presents for much cheapness (even if I have sent links of the gifts with the full price to their father).

RIght, off to drink wine and avoid children in need <Bah humbug>

My god Beautiful they are such fab boots I'm jealous

Yep I'm on fire we are doing bad thing, ie drinking too much wine, esating too much chocolate and dissing men !!!

Right, that's it. I'm so off men. I have just been looking around my house and I'm going to concentrate on making this place amazing, rather than stress about boring old blokes.

I want to turn the spare room into a student bedroom so I can get a lodger. I want to frame my old columns and have them on display in the upstairs loo. I want to paint pictures, and do illustrations, and have them over the walls.

I want to redecorate the kitchen, and my bedroom. I want to reorganise the boys' room and get them bunk beds. I need to clear the garden of a billion leaves, paint the bench, get a nice plant/tree for outside the house.

Sadly, I'm a bit ADHD and easily overwhelmed so I don't know how/where/when to start, and will probably just smoke 200 cigarettes and rock from side to side with the pressure of it all instead, until a man rings me up for a date.

Startingover: did you buy any boots?????
I bought these patent ones yesterday. They look clunkier in that photo than they do on my feet.