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Anyone interested in a STAFF ROOM today?

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MaureenMLove · 30/10/2007 09:45

Whats going on, its 9.45am? This facility will be turned into something else if we don't use it, you know!

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VooJu · 30/10/2007 21:47

Hi all.

Crikey we all have launched back into work after half-term big time!!

Hope everyone is all right, busy day tomorrow chez Ju, start at 7.30 finish 5.30.

Trotting off to see what's been happening elsewhere on MN

MissInvisible · 30/10/2007 21:31

LOL thanks Mo, ill try and sway her into using some nice smellies ill buy her for her birthday, ill say sharpay from HSM wears them or sumat!

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MaureenMLove · 30/10/2007 16:46

MI, its a tricky thing. The trouble with 10 year olds is that they are still too young to care how they smell tbh! Its not until they realise that boys are interesting that they really care. You just have to guide really. DD has just turned 12 and sometimes I worry about the state of her clothes or the slightly unsavoury wiff she has when she comes in from school! I have to tell her outright or she'd just sit there and not care! I called her 'swampy' tonight!

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MaureenMLove · 30/10/2007 15:57

Just so you know, I'm not ignoring anyones posts, just haven't got time to read and digest! I will take note of it all when I come back from Maths class tonight and reply or comment then.

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MissInvisible · 30/10/2007 15:45

quicky for me!, been done before, but i have n almost 10yr old mindee who has a prob with body odour, her birthday soon, so i can buy nice girly smellies, but what else can i do to gently help?
other day i(quite bluntly!) said oh who's got smelly feet?..mindee said its me, ive had my new trainers on, so very upfront, but how to help her understand something can be done?..always clean and clean clothes, just poor girl developing earlier?

bloodsuckingLOONEY · 30/10/2007 15:05

dmo - yeah, trying not to. Well done on those tickets, can't wait to hear the grand total at the end

dmo · 30/10/2007 14:45

poor you bloodsucker try not to worry!

sold tickets at £7 per head and sold 150

stealthsquiggle · 30/10/2007 14:29

Mo - Thanks. That's what I thought - I will stick to making them for friends for now, but at least I have an idea of price as other people are starting to ask...

bloodsuckingLOONEY · 30/10/2007 14:12

Mo - I'm not quite on the ball lol Oh, good luck with the maths, I'm SOOOOO not looking forward to this school stuff!!! Oh, it will be a laugh seeing your OLD teachers though!

Oh.....did you see my update on other thread about BBC news reporter???

bloodsuckingLOONEY · 30/10/2007 14:10

Can I just have a moan actually.......as a lot of you know, I had the scan on Friday. My friend (got to be careful as a mumsnetter) looked after ds. I went to pick him up after the hospital and was a bit overwhelmed by her having friends and their kids there - I just wanted to get out (bit embarrassed as clear I'd been crying). Anyway, I emailed my friend later that day as was worried because they go to toddler group and may chat to double pay baby's mum who goes on a Monday. My friend said don't worry, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything. So there's me thinking, great, she told them what it was all about . Guess what....went to toddlers yesterday and one of the ladies was there and started talking to me - turns out she knows my dh from old work. Anyway, next thing double pay baby's mum arrives and because she's chatting to me, she was chatting to this other lady. Now I know I'm probably being paranoid but I'm worried they will get talking and this will get out and then if baby is not ok, she'll know I'm clearly planning on a baby DH is fuming about this and I don't blame him, there was no need for my friend to say anything......oh.....i feel bad now, my friend has just emailed saying her cat was put to sleep this morning

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MaureenMLove · 30/10/2007 14:09

Don't panic LT, there was no thread! I was being sarcastic! I'm perfectly fine and dandy. If a bit panicy that I'm going to learn Yr7 advanced maths with dd tonight at her new school. Which btw, just happens to be my old school and half the teachers are still there! They must be soooo old, I left in 1984!

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bloodsuckingLOONEY · 30/10/2007 14:04

dmo - I really hope your neice continues to improve, how long is she expected to be in for? Gosh, you've done great with those ticket sales, well done you!

bloodsuckingLOONEY · 30/10/2007 14:02

LMGs - well done

Mo - you ok hun? Who and what thread? (not with it so maybe it's obvious and I'm just being a bit slow )

Hi to everyone else.

dmo · 30/10/2007 14:02

hi guys
sorry not been on for a while was off last week but spent most of it visiting people and places.
niece is getting alot better now (still in hosptal) took a bit of a dip on saturday health wise but seems alot better today

also on top of hosptal visits and work i am organising a charity night for friday night (been in planning for months) for scope. already raised 2k in ticket sales and donations so feeling very pleased will report back to you on how much we raised on monday.

aggggggggg what a morning first week back after a week off and my 2 two yr old boys come today one of them runs in at 7am talking about vampires etc
anyway i new parent came to look around with her 14mth old son at 12.30 and 2yr old said to the mum i'm a vampire and procedded to body dive onto her son it didnt get any better as he then started to snach any toys the 14mths old had off him
mum ran (i think) saying she will be in touch

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MaureenMLove · 30/10/2007 13:59

OK, I'm sorry if I missed anyone off my list, it was a selection of things that need answering! No-one seemed to take me seriously though. When someone disappeared last week, she had her own thread!
Its a good job I'm not a sensitive little bunny!

Now then, Squiggle. Love the cake. I would charge £20 for one like that and £25 for one with more building in it, like the fairy castle. Although one lady insisted on paying £35 for the horses in the stable one and has paid me that for every cake I've done since. I think that unless you seriously want to do it full time and start buying in bulk, then you aren't going to make much from selling them. People just won't spend that much on a cake where we live, so there's no point in trying.

Pumpkins here for the rest of you ladies. I use this site quite a lot for my Rainbows, loads of things to get ideas from there.

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LoveMyGirls · 30/10/2007 13:59

Both are sleeping.ahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Anyone have a good choc cake recipe I can have please? Dd1 is coming home tomorrow so was hoping to make a home coming cake with mindee's this afternoon. Needs to be easy peasy as I'm not the worlds greatest at making cakes. I don't have an electric whisk either only a hand one, i've got a blender thingy though, will that work?

stealthsquiggle · 30/10/2007 13:46

halloween craft stuff

SpooKAYsamuels · 30/10/2007 13:46

Hi everyone! After my bad start to the morning everything worked out ok in the end! I have two sibling mindees (3 and 7) starting tomorrow, the other cm in my neighbourhood lent me two contracts - I was so relieved I could have hugged her! Came home from schoool, went through contracts, then dashed off to playgroup, then long walk home!

Just been looking at that craft site too - spooky!

MissInvisible · 30/10/2007 13:39

cool arn't they, ive printed the crosswords, word searches and the maze games off too!

mumlove · 30/10/2007 13:38

MI - Thanks for that, they are great.

MissInvisible · 30/10/2007 13:27

try these, not 'nice' pumpkins, but spooky ones

www.makingfriends.com/halloween.htm

mumlove · 30/10/2007 13:10

Afternoon, we have had a busy and noisy morning at music tots, now going to have a hot coffee as the one I had this morning enued up cold. People mention cakes adn I go looking only to find a giraffe instead. You can keep the bacon butties as I don't eat them but do have some nice gummy halloween sweets to share.
MI - I have been printing off the colouring sheets but cannot find a nice pumpkin one.

stealthsquiggle · 30/10/2007 12:41

Mo, when you have a minute - new cake on my profile and I would welcome the benefit of your wisdom on cake pricing/marketing. I will do my best to help with application forms in return

MissInvisible · 30/10/2007 12:30

wel ive got one mindee this afty till school pick ups, then have 5, so mindee having power nap and im filling up some halloween goody bags full of the stuff to make yer teeth fall oot!
lots of 'treats'!(which ill let parents decide what gets eaten or snaffled by mum and dad when kids gone to bed, wot me, noooooooo i NEVER do thaaat!), rings in shape of spiders, pumkins etc, straws with whitches, ghosts, pumkins etc stuck on, big fake spiders and dangly skeletons and now just ran out of ink printing off millions of colouring pages, wordsearchs, cross words, maze games, colouring bookmarks etc for tham all!
Then dont feel so bad as we're taking dd 'spooky' bowling to get away from "the skyyyyyyyyyyyy is bluuuuuuuuuuee, the graaaaaaaaaasss..." round the doors

MissInvisible · 30/10/2007 12:26

Ahermmmmmmmm..no dont care if you do or dont come back cos you left me out n ive been working since 6 and im tired and i want a bacon butty but theyre all cold n greasy now n im going to the garden to eat worms!

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