New blog posts- 13th to 19th November

[BsDad]

Good morning everyone. I thought I'd get the ball rolling with my week's offering. We've had news, of sorts, regarding my son's MRI scan. Looking forward to seeing what everyone else has come up with.

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Wow, it has been an eventful day on here! MmeG you were given a Kindle, that's fab .

I'm trying to get my act together with my cooking now that I'm back at work but have been rambling about Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame as a form of displacement activity (and because I made one of them for my son's first birthday)...

Here is An ode to my boots.

I'm in love, would totally wear them to bed if DH didn't get so cross. I could spring out of it first thing, all ready to go! Yup, not wearing my boots is definitely the reason I can't get up in the mornings

I would like to point out at this point that the slight "Message withdrawn by poster" tangent on this thread, does not indicate some sort of horrendous cat-fight.

I'm sure PR, or anyone else who saw the posts will attest to that fact.

Still catching up with posts that I wrote on my holiday in France this summer - eek! (Mobile internet MUCH too expensive to post from abroad!) But hope this report on my experiences helps anyone who is thinking of touring France next summer - HIGHLY recommend pottering down the Loire and the Rhone in a camper van! Go on, you know you want to!

France by Camper Van

Shirley I'm going to explain.

We are totally cool and very much stroking each others arms.

Basically, ladies, today one of my rants was directed at MN, excepting the blogging part. I linked to the post by habit, and Shirley pointed out that this maybe was not the place to do so (since MN Blogger Network is my second home). So I said that although I would not withdraw my blogpost, I would withdraw my link to it.

Which is what I did (and had some lovely discussions with MN regarding the post by the by.)

No cat fight at all, and will stroke each of your arms on demand. However, I would like to say that the comments on that particular post have been very very interesting, being put in a non MN environment, and I hope that anyone who does come across it will take into consideration the far more, erm, considered, points made by the commentors.

A rant by definition is not considered. The point of my blog is to incite considered responses. I will rant til the day dawns on pretty much any subject.

So, no bun fight, just some strong opinions. Shirley no need to pull any posts, you made very valid points.

I'm not here togain stats, just to gain discussion. I hope I have explained my post to MN in private emails perfectly validly.

Big kiss to all (on the bloggers bit) and sorry if the way I announced it on here was too awful.

To the rest of the forum

Young Debbie have lots of tips if anyone wants them, living in France and all that...

Oh, and I am a little much drunk, so any offers of kisses may be withdrawn at any moment.

I had one of those afternoons

My last post on this matter is thus:

The End.

and for the hell of it and for some titillation

The end

I'm going fingering.

Reality over here in Lux they say that a few glasses of wine won't kill anyone. In fact at my 12 wk scan I was told, nay, prescribed, a couple of glasses of champers.

And this is why I don't post elsewhere

at Reality. I remember having a couple it was more than a couple of bottles of beer and forgetting momentarily and feeding DS1 back in the day.

He's totally damaged now. He's 14 and a right pain in my arse.

PR - I want to live in Lux - champers on scan day? - BRILLIANT!

(BTW, you could post this stuff anywhere - the frothing berserkers are the frothing berserkers, they are FAR outweighed IMO by the "normal" parents, honestly)

Shirley naughty little you. Fingering? On Bloggers' forum? Careful, else I'll rant about what my MIL discovered in my wardrobe this week while I was in England

Except I can't as she is one of the few family, I mean 'family' people who have managed to get hold of my blog address...

Nope, sorry, the frothers are far too loud for my little ears.

My OB GYN rocked (before almost killing me with his post CS prescription). He prescribed drink at every sccessful scan, as I had had a couple of MCs, slashed and grabbed a very healthy girl, then let me out of the hospital a few days early.

OK, then I almost died but that really wasn't his fault. And I did get my life very effectively saved. So Lux/French docs are redeemed. Kind of. Except for the massive scar.

Can you imagine an: AIBU, I just had my 12 week scan, can I drink a couple of glasses of champagne? My doc said it was fine...

Believe it or not, I don't try to start bunfights on here.

See the thing is Pr, that I'm out there.

I'm out there on AIBU, I'm out there on _chat. I'm in there on Parties, I venture into Arts and Crafts and I rove onto Teenagers.

I pop into the Litter Tray (I have an Old Boy Cat) I rock over to Behaviour and Development.

I take a swing by Relationships and I peruse "Active Conversations"

It's the same old, same old. I love mumsnet - we are NOT the borg, we are a million (half a million) voices - all able to say what we want (within reason) and it's powerful.

I find that amazing and empowering. I'm sure that I am hated, I couldn't give a shit - 10,000 people read my post- 1% hate it? That's still 100 people (maffs) hate it?

Chuh!

I know what you're saying. I get those weeks/months where I'm overwhelmed by the shit, but the VAST MAJORITY are good here.

We are Mumsnet. We are Worthy!

Well, I can tell you one thing. When you're dying but being doped up with morphine and general anaesthetic it is actually pretty good fun (if a little scary). The nurses and doctors are all freaking out and you're like, woo hoo, this is better than a REALLY good trip.

And then you wake up a couple of days after surgery and it hurts, which sucks.

Anyway, moving on, I have avoided bunfights, except with Shirley, to whom I am sending a current bun with ICING ON.

Shirley I haev known you via this forum for ages, and you are rarely (if ever) part of that very noisy minority.

In fact you are the party woman if I recall correctly. You are generally lovely. I'm not saying generally because you aren't always. I'm saying generally as I haven't seen anywhere that I consider you to be mean but I don't spend all my time on here so am not sure if you aren't sometimes mean IYSWIM.

On the blogers forum in fact you are all mostly lovely when I spot you elsewhere. So maybe tis just the bloggers who rock. Except those that really don't (but they hardly ever post here)..

But, as I said in my post earlier, the meanies are the minority. They are just very very loud. And by loud I mean offputting.

Forgive me, in spite of what you may read on my blog (which is generally done in the morning by the by) I don't often drink, so am being a littl forthright this evening.

I AM the party woman (I think).

I can be mean - I get pretty nasty when confronted with views that I find abhorrent. I refuse to stand by while people denigrate the working poor, or even the non working poor...that's one of my buttons (gotta be honest) and I can be pretty bitchy in response. I try to stick within the guidelines as much as poss. Being a horrible potty mouth don't help though

The loudness of the offensive ones is in your head (ugh, I know how offensive this sounds...read on) it's like...OH MI GOD! I actually get a thrill and not in a good way, when I read something completely against my point of view - I feel like I've licked a battery - and THAT POST stands out against everything else. I need to respond or click hide but instead I froth against it and I watch as it becomes a car crash thread.

Believe me. I get it.

They can be loud - but we can be RIGHT.

It's so not "your type" that I am upset at.

I get that it is "in my head" in a way. But I have had so many comments and emails today which indicate that something is wrong here.

I too have gotten pretty angry on here from time to time, and told the whiners about, I dunno, child benefit for the rich, to fuck off, in politer ways but..

what upstes me most is when people come on here with massive problems and get either told they are trolls, or that their massive prob is nothing in the scheme of things..

Anyway, Bloggers section is not the place to debate that.

I am fairly sure though that people who are the target market, for want of a better word, are being scared off by some posters who are within the rules, but still mange to be very mean.