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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 08:19

Morning!

I'm hurting today. Far too much running around yesterday with the Guides! They made me play ladders and thats not good when you're nearly 40! Not sure I'll be able to manage Salsa tonight now!

Kettles on!

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 17:13

couldn't There you go. You have to treat it as two words with an apostophy in the middle, so dash, dash couldn dash dash ' dash dash t dash dash

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 17:09

There, there! Get to bed early and draw a line under this week early. All this possible fag burns and freecycle, has caught up with you! Have a bevvie or better still, come salsa dancing with me tonight! Long way to come for an hour and half, but it sure gets all your frustrations out and puts you in a good mood!

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Shoshable · 19/09/2007 17:09

Thay sound like the children are just to much bother why do people like that have kids, have the foun another mug au pair yet?

looneytune · 19/09/2007 17:08

gosh, tech need to sort this out, hard to strike out if got apostrophe couldn't

looneytune · 19/09/2007 17:06

TBH, I couldn't give a fuck don't really mind if mindee is a nightmare for them tonight (although I don't want mindee upset of course!!), if they didn't want her sleeping all afternoon they should have collected early

looneytune · 19/09/2007 17:05

Oh thought you'd mis-read my bit about her NOT being a problem today and thought I'd said it wasn't my problem

[looney is too sensitive!!]

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 17:04

No, but I did!!!

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looneytune · 19/09/2007 17:04

saltire - will try and remind you, if i remember myself

looneytune · 19/09/2007 17:03

I never said that

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 17:02

I thought maybe it wasn't very childminder-like to say 'she's not my problem!'

Saltire - how could you possibly forget! You've been waiting long enough! We will remind you anyway.

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saltire · 19/09/2007 16:57

Ladies, tomorrow will you remind me that I have my Enrolment support thingy tomorrow night at 7.pm, as I am liable to forget

looneytune · 19/09/2007 16:56

yeah, i thought i'd leave her as she shouldn't really be here!

what was the for?

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 16:54

I'd leave her. She's clearly not the full ticket. (Especially if she's not your problem tomorrow!)

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looneytune · 19/09/2007 16:52

cheers, she's not here rest of week and today has not been a problem, just temp today. i am doing a newsletter over weekend and going to be VERY firm about all this.

now, mindee is STILL in bed and i told mum i would leave her until SHE wants to get up. but, do i wake her for dinner or let them give it at home?

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 16:47

I would say, keep her for today, since waiting an hour seems a bit of a waste of time, but tell them you can't have her tomorrow. Its just not fair on the others. You can't keep giving all your time to her and not the others, regardless of whether she has something infecious or not.

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looneytune · 19/09/2007 14:59

Oh dear

Just got back from school run and temp down to 98.2F and she's back in bed. Shall I just keep her? Parents would take about an hour to get hom anyway. It's the dinnertime I'm most worried about as if she's like she was yesterday, it was a nightmare trying to feed baby and prepare food at the same time whilst toddler wanted cuddles and cried

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 14:45

I believe you do, but since I've never had or will ever have pets, I missed that section!

I am famous round these parts for not looking after peoples pet very well. Two years on the trot, I killed next doors goldfish whilst they were on holiday and the year after, I managed to break the door key off in someones backdoor, trying to get out to feed the rabbit! This year, the family with the rabbit, left responsibilty to their oldest daughter. She came screaming down the road to me one day, saying the rabbit had died! All I could think was, thank god they didn't ask me again! I do children - not pets!

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looneytune · 19/09/2007 14:04

Quick question.....if you get a dog or another dog, do you have to inform ofsted? I think you do but not sure

Cheers

StrawberryMartini · 19/09/2007 13:44

Costco cost me £23.50.

looneytune · 19/09/2007 13:38

I reckon it's already going round but you're right. I've just emailed saying I'll give medicine and if not gone down in an hour then she'll have to go home. I told them last night, I told her this morning too. It's so hard though as this family have been with me for 1 yr 8 months and they've always been like this but it was always ok coz I'd just have ds or something. I hate this stuff!

Oh.....did I tell you what happened last night??? OMG Parents arrived to pick them up, I could see toddler trying to go so I said no, don't go out, stay will mummy and daddy and carried on putting baby in car seat (they just stand there whilst I get their kids ready ). I looked out of the window and shouted at them (sort of) 'your daughter is running towards the road' - dad had left door open and let a 2 yr old wonder off!!! His response was "well, your ds is out there so she's ok" - he's 4 FFS!!!

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MaureenMLove · 19/09/2007 13:33

I wouldn't personally. You've already warned her once and if you let her get away with it now, she'll try it again. Also, if she's got something nasty, she'll spread it to the others.

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looneytune · 19/09/2007 13:24

Yeah, how much and how do you do it again, forgotten!

Toddlers got a temp again (nearly 102F). She's fine atm, would you keep unless they play up?

Shoshable · 19/09/2007 13:20

Strawbs you can put all the cosco on (how much does it cost by the way) I joined Makro and was told as it is a business warehouse you can put it all on. ............... It was only a pound to join.

StrawberryMartini · 19/09/2007 13:15

Well the guy on my course said ask yourself this question: Would I be paying this money if I wasn't a childminder? If the answer is no then you can claim. But if anyone else is to benefit then you may only be able to claim a percentage of it - as long as you can defend yourself to the taxman I'd go for 100%!

looneytune · 19/09/2007 13:13

hehe, actually, I have a claiming question.......our house was double glazed before we moved in but the way the windows open is dangerous so we're getting the childminding nap room changed, the lounge, ds's room and ours. Just wondered if I'm able to claim for the lounge and spare room as these are being done purely because of childminding (wouldn't do lounge for ds as on ground floor and he's fine and spare room wouldn't need it if I didn't have kids napping there)