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peach I'm very fair and they're poker straight. So they point downwards if they grow too young and get tatty. I can tong them to make them look afro like though.

I fear the above revelation is a step too far and pan is currently throwing up his cornflakes.

fanny, you have straight pubes???? Seriously? How strange. No no no I cannot see a professional, the hideous piles would make the whole thing tooooo embarassing. Honestly, it takes me weeks to psyche myself up to a head haircut, it's just impossible!!!

peach if you'd have known me on here 2.7 years ago, my labour thread was comical re my bushette looking like a hedgehog with alopecia . I attacked mine with nail scissors the night before I went into labour and after DD3 was born, it looked like roadkill. DH pissed his pants. You see, mine's not curly, I'm abnormal, it grows like a wizard's beard. Sooooo, my advice is go to the professionals and get it all waxed off. I did Veet a few weeks ago but that's a whole other story....

rhet your mum sounds like a spoiled 6 year old. Best thing to do is suit yourselves and ignore her tantrums.

Rhet, at least it gives your mum something to complain about, sounds like she wouldn't be happy otherwise!! , re. Jingle bells run, will you be dressing as santa's little helper??? All this talk of Xmas themed races makes me feel quite festive! I want to run about with antlers on my head too!!! Perhaps I will...

Oooh spooky cemetery run cherry, you are most brave!

Right ladies,(look away pan) need some advice on best time pre-labour to do the lady gardening. Was going to do it today but can't seem to muster the energy. I think I will find it easier to be erm..bare.. What with possible stitches and all the giant maternity pad wearing antics, but don't want to do it too early in terms of regrowth. I should
add I am going to do this myself with cream. I have never had a bikini wax and don't intend to start now. I know they have seen it all before but really can't bear the thought. Any advice gratefully received!!

home schooling might work, too - it's quite a popular option in the US (although it has a fair share of cranks and creationists...) so I imagine you'd be able to find some good support - it might be a good way for you to put down roots and make connections too. Would you be home schooling all the kids, or just DS?

Now, I need to turn the house upsidedown looking find my running rucksack...

sfx - I am looking to do a 10K in December so perhaps we can find a local one to do together? 5K and 10K training starts in earnest next week. More pootling today with 6M easy with dog. Lovely.

Thoughts much appreciated on the school dilemma rhet et al. Am mulling everything over. Liking the idea of home schooling initially but need to feel I can handle it....

I am also looking for a local festive 5-10K for both of us really we need the incentive

hello all quick read of thread

Rhet result! guessing you will get over the disappointment of lack of presents
and regarding potty training, like most things to do with children they do it on their own time and they also pick up in the general mood and act on it like only little people can, we had a fair few false starts and general accidents, but when she was ready it was almost instant, followed day time with overnight dryness in a matter of days

cherry well done on finding the will, here we have cemeteries all around, in fact as far as I recall we have always lived near cemeteries

wave to vicar

peach you will get back to running in no time, just as soon as the zombie phase is done you will be so glad to get out and resume running that you want care about what you are wearing

moshi interesting info on training. hope home stuff is not stressing you too much and you are finding time for yourself

we had a mad Halloween evening dh went out escorting a gaggle of little girls, he returned home somewhat frazzled, and they have enough sweets to last them until Christmas at the very least

running a bit later, drizzly warmish here which I sort of like

updated list

05/11/11 - Glendalough Trail Run - rhetorician
06/11/11 - Lancaster Half Marathon - Fannybanjo
06/11/11 - Bonfire Burn 10K - Futurity
06.11.11- Tidworth 10k- Tulip27
12/11/11 - Ashton Court 10K - N4NNY
13/11/11 - Stebbing 10 Mile - bonkers20
19/11/11 - Maasai Mara Half Marathon - M&M
20.11.11- Gosport Half-Marathon- Tulip27
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
27/11/11 - City of Norwich half marathon: ibbydibby, MoshiMoshi
27/11/11 - Bicton Blister (10M) - RunningAllDay
27/11/11 - RNLI Reindeer Run Stirling Uni 10K - Squix
03/12/11 - Jingle Bells 5k Phoenix Park - rhetorician
22/01/12 - Four Villages Half Marathon (Helsby) - Fannybanjo
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
04/03/12 - Milton Keynes Half Marathon - pawsnclaws
11/03/12 - Cambridge Half Marathon - Futurity, Runnerstipple, Cherry (what have I done??)
25/03/12 - Edale Skyline - (21 miles. 4,500 ft climb) Hatwoman
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner, Fannybanjo
01/04/12 - Reading Half-Marathon - RunningAllDay, Tulip27
22/04/12 - VLM: ibbydibby
29/04/12 - Shakespeare Half Marathon - FairyBasslet
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity
09/06/12 - Blenheim Sprint Triathlon - Cherry
29/06/12 - San Francisco Marathon - MoshiMoshi

Moshi meant to say that I have no advice for you re: DS not having school-age children myself, but, having been a very academic child myself in a not very academic environment, I'd say that the social thing is very important. Could you put him in school, but make sure he is stretched outside of it - as sticky says, there's UC Berkeley and many of those kids will be doing other things outside school. He could learn a new language (Mandarin, perhaps, given SF's big Chinese community?), or find some maths/science stuff outside school if that's what interests him. I don't think you necessarily need to do it - but IMVHO deliberately isolating him from his peers might not be the best plan - you can provide academic stimulation outside school, but the peer group is irreplaceable. I can also see how very very difficult this is, particularly for a boy of his age and stage.

lovely day here - so going to bus it to work (can do some prep on the bus) and run home...it will be getting dark when I'm near home, so am taking hi-vis bike vest and lights...

potty training mostly seems to consist of DD playing potty and knicker games with her toys , but thankfully, thank the lord, we have no visitors.

And...for the first time since 1999, DP and I (and now our family) will wake up on our own in our own house on Christmas morning . She did say grumpily (my mother, that is!) that she wouldn't bother sending presents (even for DD1 ) 'because they get too much'. We are actually very sparing about the stuff we buy and most of it has come from other people. So she is pissed off - even though it was her decision.

Am about to sign up for Dec 3 Jingle Bells 5k, with the proviso that it's entirely possible that I won't run it...

Well done Cherry ! LOL at the cemetery - you'd probably not normally notice it.

T or T a biggish thing round here too. We got through 2 big bags of lollies. DD1 went out with friends (and a parent) and DD2 had a lot of fun giving out the lollies and eating them herself of course. DD1 got a huge haul. I am eyeing up the mini curly wurlies but know she counted them before she went to bed .

Well done, Cherry! And welcome back vicar. Hope you stick around. We are a friendly bunch and there are some seriously dedicated runners here!

just to say, thanks for the LFDI vibes, probably one of my fastest runs for a while - 3 miles in 34 mins.

I was nearly home and congratualting myself mentally on the run thinking I had chosen a nice safe route, when I realised that I was running alongside ....

A HUGE FRICKIN' CEMETERY!!!

Somewhat spooky on halloween, but I was more nervous about the fact that my 13 year old self would have found it hilarious to hide in there on halloween and leap out on unsuspecting runners. Glad to say the 13 year olds round here are clearly not so devious, but the bit past the cemetery was shall we say Usain Bolt esque.

sticky I'm home alone tonight ...... Spoooooooky!

rhet don't worry too much about your Mum. In the end she is her own person and has to take responsibility to sort herself out. I might sound a bit hard, but it's hard-won wisdom. Family might be important, but not at the expense of your sanity. You and DP, DD and DD2B are the important ones atm, if she can't respect that, well, she's going to have to learn to. Not your Problem.

Squix well done you, great race report. Running with your sister sounds lovely, and well done your Dad too - what a family!

Peach you'll be back at it soon enough! And I like this "feeling a bit tired after half term" - you are allowed to feel (extremely) tired at the late stage of pregnancy you're at. Blimey woman, we might be running for a bit of a day - you're weight lifting the whole day! Take it easy, not too much rushing about now

I am so hungry and ruddy DP hasn't got himself ruddy home yet. I think he's got 10 minutes before he's getting his own dins (if there's anything left)...

thanks for the warm welcome ladies....i am also going to have a glass of vino to unwind but daren't touch the left over chocs....got enough to sink a small battleship!

wish - go on....you'll feel better for it! i went this morning and not being a morning person i literally had to drag myself out...glad i did though - means i get tomorrow off (sort of - back to work tomorrow)
go on....you know you want to!
ill bob back when i can! cheers folks happy halloween!

thanks for words of support, all, and congrats on excellent races all. My neighbour did his first marathon in just over 4 hours, and a little competitive spark has lit...

trick and treaters out in force - it's really big deal here. My mother has gone now, and I know she feels marginalised, but really, DP is 4 1/2 weeks away and we have a lively toddler on top of all the other things that we have to do. I am really missing my work (e.g. the thinking, writing part of it, as opposed to the teaching part which gets done anyway) and feel that I am losing my way.

But I have a 15k race to look forward to, and longer term goals. Running is the way, the truth and the life (aka, my salvation) - apologies if that offends anyone, but it's the closest to religion/spirituality that I am going to get...

off to scoff remains of Halloween choc and to drink wine - think I am close to not being able to drink, as the limit is now 50ml rather than 80, so even one glass would tip me over. About time too, as it happens

LFDI cherry. Go for a little one and see how you go. Wasn't it you who went out running whilst the rioting was on ? What's a witch or two ?

Can you please all send a big dose of lfdi to me. On my way home and I really fancy a run but it's dark and I am a bit of a wuss plus it's Halloween . Thinking all main roads and high vis jacket. Maybe dp's riot baton and pepper spray too ??

fanny - On my training runs I do usually do the last mile faster but I guess I'm going slightly slower on the rest of hte run (usually 8.30 ish). I should really should get in some more race practise as well. I have been back running over 2 years now and only a 10K, a 8.2 mile, a 5K and this 10 mile. And before that I had only ever done 1 5K.

I have just found a local 10K for the start of December... tempted...

Welcome back Vicar.

You'll soon shift those 2 stone Peach but give yourself a chance to get over it all first !

Well done Pan !

On the subject of more mature runners, I was boring DH with my stats on the run and I said I was the fastest 'mysurname'. And he asked me what they were and the first one I looked at was a man in the 80-120 age bracket who had done it in 1.47 ... respect !

wheely your splits are great - however the majority of us when we are pretty new to racing will naturally slow down the last few miles of a longer race. That's where pushing yourself at the end of a long training run will help - I need to do this myself. Also, I think I need to do more speed intervals - I do a good fast tempo one a week but I could with improving on this. I want to get comfortable under the 7m/m pace for 5k. My splits for my 8 miler were all constant yesterday except my first mile was 8.17 so started slightly top fast. I warmed up before I set my Garmin too. I definitely come Sunday need to make sure my first mile or so is the slowest.

Fab race report squix these big races are addictive!

Wheely, how thoughtful of DH's client, that is very sweet!

orange, your family are mad, lentil curry sounds yum!

Ahhh vicar, it's yourself!!!! Good to see you back.

I am really rather of all you folk running, I have literally forgotten what it feels like! Looking forward to getting back to it in new year though slightly depressed at thought of running with realistically an extra 2 stone on me. Hmmm, what will I wear? Running tights certainly won't fit!!!!