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HowDairy · 25/10/2025 17:38

(Please humour me, I'm ill and thoroughly fed up of being ill!)

It was a dark and stormy night.
The wind was howling and it sounded menacing.
In the distance I could see...

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StephenKingIsScaredOfMe · 25/10/2025 19:39

Hot bowl of stew

Bumdrops · 25/10/2025 19:43

Ooh that stew was hot !!
Shall I go to a+e or make a complaint first ??

Beetrootisthesecretingredient · 25/10/2025 19:45

It was DH who deliberately gave me that hot stew! I was going to LTB, but then....

HowDairy · 25/10/2025 19:49

I remembered that would mean I would actually have to parent the kids half the time.
Sod that! I thought, I'm just going to get myself an outing hobby doing...

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Middlemarch123 · 25/10/2025 19:53

the dinosaur in Asda, and whilst I’m there I can pick up some picky bits for tea, I mean dinner, no I mean supper. But I must rush because I’ve left the washing out and it might get…

SeptemberOctober25 · 25/10/2025 19:57

Get darked on.
But not to worry I've taken in some ironing so I need to rush home anyway.

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 25/10/2025 19:58

It's my side hustle and I use the extra money for

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 25/10/2025 20:00

…playing Fortnite…

HowDairy · 25/10/2025 20:07

I got so carried away playing that I forgot to...

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Bumdrops · 25/10/2025 20:09

check in with the post i started on MN - and now there is 800 posts and there was something about if my hands are hairy ???

shellyleppard · 25/10/2025 20:09

My cashmere jumper 😂

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 25/10/2025 20:12

Backs of your hands or Palms, phone 101 and

itsgettingweird · 25/10/2025 20:16

Log it just in case …..

Neddevine · 25/10/2025 20:26

The stew is needed for evidence. Meanwhile.....

SeptemberOctober25 · 25/10/2025 20:27

Somebody is at the door so I am going to hide behind the sofa.

Middlemarch123 · 25/10/2025 20:31

But I really need to spray the darked on washing I got in with Zoflora, in case the spiders rubbed their willies on it…but I like being behind the sofa, I got it from…

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 25/10/2025 20:32

Liberty's and put the old one on FB market place, some of the people honestly..

Neddevine · 25/10/2025 20:36

I mean who is 'Hun'?? I clearly indicated what my rather unique name was on my FB page. I nearly spilt champagne down my cashmere jumper when somebody...

autienotnaughty · 25/10/2025 20:37

Snapped my hand off for it. Furthermore….

pushthebuttonnn · 25/10/2025 20:41

Watch strictly and guess which affair will be next...

Gingerwarthog · 25/10/2025 20:42

And start itching. Is it the menopause?

Bumdrops · 25/10/2025 20:46

Hang on, might be my rampant threadworms ??

Move22 · 25/10/2025 20:46

Or was it from my husband? He has been texting the girl at the gym a lot lately so….

HowDairy · 25/10/2025 20:53

Of course I consult MN on what I should do.
The general consensus tells me to hide a spare phone I just happen to have, in his car so I can track him.
It turns out he wasn't going to the gym, but going to Jim's...
😳

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magimedi · 25/10/2025 20:53

@Move22

LTB!! The only solution.