Cousin Matthew Returns with the Robbing Butcher

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A thread intended for menus, cats and idle chit-chat.

mustress funny though. I nearly bought a creme brulee kit till DH told me not to be so stupid and get the blow torch out of the garage.

Oh god teenagers do not sound fun! God help me!

Mustress yours lighting joints 😂

Toddler had epic tantrum in the co op, bribing him with cake did not work! Still not sure what the problem was!

Luckily he is watching shrek eating his lunch nicely now.

So i think im surviving!

Haha get the blow torch out of the garage! That sounds insane!

BabyShark

The problem with your toddler was that the cake was the wrong shape for today.

Or maybe the cake was in the wrong box.

Teenagers are far worse than toddlers
I used to be a nursery school teacher and
You can negotiate with a toddler there is always a distraction

And teenagers always find the chocolate

But they do give the best bear hugs

You can negotiate with a toddler - there is always a distraction

It sounds like high-level Government Talks, put like that, Cinders.

Maybe some of them are in government now

Trys to remember
Possible candidates
I wish I knew what some of them went on to be
The children I nannies for I do know

There was one who was always in shorts
He was the biter
Yes I plump for him

Good thing I cannot remember his name

My cousin was a biter. I was never a fighty child but after one particularly savage nip I got my revenge. Nothing was noticed at the time but when I got home my DM found a handful of her hair in my tightly clenched fist...

DD1 was expelled from nursery for biting... and I was once told by my GP that she would run the country or end up prison!! possibly both...

It is still drizzling here. I have had to hoover, it's so horrible. Not thriving.

Mustress it probably was either of those! He did want the more expensive cakes first! No issue scoffing them now though 🤦‍♀️ such a sod!

I was thinking at least teenagers dont go mummy, mummy, MUMMY every 10 seconds? They ignore you right? 😂

I just got a sky news alert ph lost the complaint against the mail on Sunday, something about wildlife pictures?! Are they trying to sue left right and centre?!

Yolofish i feel you! There is cake smooshed into my carpet and the hoover is at the bottom of the cupboard of doom.

I really dont want to adult anymore today!

Thats true Cinders! Distraction does work well! And bribery normally works as long as its the right bribery!

Are they trying to sue left right and centre?!

Perhaps they see it as a potential source of income

They should try matched betting, apparently it's quite the money spinner, according to MN.

Bad things.... builders next door drilled so vigorously that we started to get debris into the flat through the chimney. And when I spoke to them, it took so long that I missed a very needed Pilates class (barely squeezing into my jeans)

Good things... builders were very apologetic and came in to clean my fireplace - never been so clean, ever! And I managed to get 40 min swimming instead.

Trying to decide if I am surviving or thriving. Definitely not thriving I think. The weather is too dreadful, the jeans are too tight and I have no idea what to make for dinner.

I'm not thriving as our bedroom radiator has adopted a jaunty angle due to one of the brackets coming away from the wall. It is currently being propped up with a piece of timber.

DH says he can fix it but I would rather wait until we definitely don't need the heating for a few months...

I was thinking at least teenagers dont go mummy, mummy, MUMMY every 10 seconds? They ignore you right? 😂

@BabySharksMummyShark they do when they want money or more time authorised on their phone (I have screen time set up on the DC’s devices; teen hates it and often also me for it)

Lol at potential source of income and matched betting.

teenagers dont go mummy mummy mummy but they do go money money money... never mind I love her to bits and would prefer she had fun than be stuck in!

Hmm, I’ve just googled and read about that PH - v - DM lawsuit and it’s made me mad (lying re animal photos). What’s the etiquette about discussing that here - can we chat about what we want? Otherwise I’ll discuss it on t’other thread. @BabySharksMummyShark you found the story, do you want to post about it?

Ooh we’ve been beaten to it. It’s been posted about. I might wade in with my two pence worth.

Awwww thanks @DandyAF! I havent been on the thread since 13 i think. What are they saying about it?

Honestly if i had been on mn before having the toddler i may have changed my mind! Its hard work!

We have fish fingers for dinner.... daddyshark is at work and im a rubbish/lazy/uninventive cook 😂

I think if people want to discuss MM and PH, it would be best to go to the relevant thread.

This one is light-hearted.

Teenagers ignore you unless you are holding out money or pizza.

They live underneath the One Thousand Socks Mountain, which they are pleased to call their floor.

I once managed to sort through DS's sock mountain and none of them matched.

He actually had a thousand odd socks.

Well - it might have been sixty odd socks.

It looked like a thousand though.

Sixty odd socks. Impressive.

Socks are the fucking bane of my laundry life. Slightly easier now DD1 is abroad and I never wear the fuckers if I can help it. So there is only two sock wearers in the house. But still, they either breed or divorce, and nevr the twain shall meet if they can help it. Bastards.