The Robbing Butcher - Immortalized At Last

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Here continues the tale of the Robbing Butcher, his whimsical opening hours, and TheMustressMhor's daily quest for his finest produce.

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In front of my computer, wfh, and going increasingly mad. You?

No point looking for sherry under the bed, Mustress.

It's all gone.

I should imagine, anyway...
Evaporation due to...umm..climate change.
Or such-like...

Ahem.
A-n-y-way!

Mr LaMa would love to get away with a winter and a summer haircut.
Mainly because the barber cuts his eyebrows at the same time and he has aspirations to look like some experiment has melded the supra-orbital hirsuteness of Dennis Healey and Bernard Ingham.

I even found him a pretty barber-ess and he still looks like the cat being taken to the vee ee tee when he has to go.

Hope everyone's surviving - thriving might be a bit much to hope for.

Oh there you are LaMa and OV.

I wasn't looking for sherry. Well, not much. Just a bit, maybe.

Nearly time. Nearly.

I’m here.

Barely surviving, don’t have what it takes to sleep train the baby so am quietly going crazy with tiredness.

Starting my new job on 1 April, yikes.
Mat leave has been good, but time to get back to it!

I'm here. 4 hours in the garden today as managed to find sneaky spaces out of that bastard east wind. Got msg from neighbour wfh who has set up workspace in her bedroom "Laughing hilariously at you gardening with Tammie, you must throw her ball every single minute!" yep, but have trained her to drop it within arms reach and she's pretty good most of the time. Willis cat also joins us, he loves gardening. Fat Stanley and Syco Sootie remain indoors, Stan because too fat too move much, and Soots because he's a little shit.
Chickens are thriving, because they are eating all the weeds I pick, and any poor unfortunate bugs/worms which thought a pile of weeds was a safe place to hide.

for all those suffering with lack of sherry/sleep/company/nasty symptoms.

7Pengiuns have you read Richard Ferber's book about getting children to sleep through the night?

It saved my sanity many years ago.

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Thanks Mustress I’ll order it, though current predicament probably can’t be solved without crying (breastfed to sleep).

7 in current times I'd just go with whatever makes the little sod (sorry, your darling boy!) sleep! I didnt bf mine, because I am a complete failure in that dept, also not able to put up with the pain/mastitis/bleeding nipples etc (weak failure!!) But if he feeds and then sleeps surely that's better for you all? xx

I was in the same boat, 7Penguins.

The book describes how to stop breastfeeding to sleep.

I continued to breastfeed after the sleep training. You're right in that nothing can be done which does not involve some crying.

If it helps - following the advice to the letter means you are sorted by night three. So if you do exactly what is advised, you will only have two grim nights to face.

If you can't face it at the moment that is understandable.

Good luck whatever you decide to do.

yolo it’s the all night snacking that keeps me awake, I’ve started unlatching him as he dozes off, hopefully he will soon stop using me as a dummy. I don’t mind the feed every few hours otherwise.

Thank you Mustress I think I’m headed to the point where I’ll have to do it...

aw 7 that's very tough. There's a reason armies use sleep deprivation as torture...

7 - it’s tough, i won’t tell you my (horror) experience - but we got there in the end.

yolo - guard your chickens - we have had reports of chicken rustling round here - they may need security.

llamas is the happy ending something like "...and our baby started sleeping throughout the night when they were 11 months old, without any intervention from us"?

7 - not quite - I had a troubled baby, wouldn’t bf, wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t sleep, wouldn’t like a cuddle - I was mentally exhausted and depleted, in the end I had to just go with the flow. My 2nd child I had to cuddle to sleep from about 3 years to 7 years!!!!!!

It is demoralising so my heart goes out to you💐

Oh llamas I'm glad it's better for you now.

Hi Everyone,

The distansen learning has almost finished me off today. And an online music lesson did the rest. Little Hippos realised quickly that 1) if they bent down, the teacher couldn’t see them. 2) sound is one way on zoom. If they just kept playing, the teacher couldn’t interrupt.

And Mr Hippo keep bringing down giant dusty boxes from the attic for me to sort. I am thinking of putting them next to his side of the bed.

Now, Little Hippos in bed, heading downstairs for any kind of alcoholic drink! I could even drink that grappa!!!

ugh. rant alert. Just had big row with DD1, she is being a fucking cow at the moment - her life is OVER, just like everyone else's at the moment. I am not being sympathetic enough, basically because she emerges from her shit pit of a room, has a strop and then fucks off again. She's stormed off in tears because I told her she has to get up tomorrow and contribute to the functioning of the household, eg empty dishwasher, perhaps hoover etc. ugh. bloody young adults, wish she'd stayed in fucking France!! I have and fags.

Oh yolo.

I really do sympathise. They don't understand how stretched our mental resources are.

You worried so much when she was in France and now she's home you're (possibly) wondering why you wasted so much time worrying when she's clearly ungrateful and not contributing to the smooth running of the household.

Mine were all the same. Mr. Mhor and I are very tidy. None of the DC are. How did we produce four children who don't give a fuck if the entire contents of their wardrobes are on the floor, along with every carrier bag they have ever had in their possession.

Ugh. Sympathies.

Penguins I only had to do sleep training with the first baby. It took two nights and then it was done.

The subsequent three didn't need sleep training because I didn't feed them to sleep.

I breastfed the lot of them (for years.)

Be brave. I won't lie and say it was easy. But it was quick. Two nights of hell then the problem was solved.

Hippo I could not home-school.

I know without ever having tried to do it that I would fail to succeed.

I can run a labour ward or a nursing home, but I could not home-school my children.

thank you dear mustress I know she doesnt mean it, but omg she can push my buttons! xx

Heartfelt sympathies yolo. It's the lack of respect and appreciation, as though you are an inconvenience to them while being expected to provide them with fully serviced accommodation.

Brings it all back. Have

yolo I remember I was a right cow in my early 20s too It’s a very annoying phase. Any chores she’d like better, like gardening and bathing the dog?

Mustress indeed if I have a second child I won’t let them dream feed for hours!

Fun fact (which I may have shared before): in my language we call the first child the dog’s pancake - it’s the trial pancake to see if batter is the right proportions, pan hot enough etc, usually the first one ends in the bin/given to the dog and you learn what to do for the next pancakes to come out great.

I’m a second child