The OFFICIAL buddy bench/naughty bench thread No. 5

[Teaandcakeplease]

Come hither all those who haven't found their place on mumsnet, have scrapped in Aibu or crossed words in chat. The buddy bench shalt not judge.

The buddy bench will hand out wine and cakes, it will join you on your scoffathons getting pissed

All those who sit on the bench, will have their sins erased and be given a warm welcome and cheerful chat from CheerfulYank, gomummy, tired mum, Elmo and far, far too many more to mention.

Welcome to the buddy bench, we look forward to meeting you all

Oh and don't forget, last one to leave polishes bench and locks up!

Yes thank god our bank stopped them in time , i reckon it has something to do with the play-station been hacked into 6 weeks ago as dh & ds play games online through that , apparently 77 million accounts & credit card details were taken . The girl on the phone told me the name of the company that tried to take the money but we have never heard of them before .
No more using credit cards online for us from now on .

Oh wow Elmo ! Glad the band stopped them in time!

Ugh Elmo, that's a pain...but great that the bank caught them before they'd emptied your account! Such a pain getting everything reorganized with new cards and numbers. I read about that playstation thing, scary. Hope the bank gets things sorted for you quickly.

Thanks all

So hows everyone doing today ?

The bank , not the band. A band would be of no help in this situation.

I have to make dinner in a bit and then go to work at the cinema. UGH! I like it, usually, but we're getting new movies tomorrow which means I have to change the marquee. It's always a pain and involves scampering up and down ladders. :) It's a gorgeous day here, so I won't complain too much!

Hello all

Hows everyone today ? Ds has passed his entrance exams and has gotten a place in the secondary school we have been given an appointment for Saturday to get him fitted for his new uniform . Whooooo Hooooo

Yay ElmoDS! That is great news. Hope the new school brings wonderful things for him.

It's a HUGE relief . Were your ears burning this morning Gomummy ?

I brought along your list of plants to the garden centre & was telling dh on the way all about what plants you have recommended for our flower beds . seeing as dh & i know nothing about plants your list was really helpful & the owner of the garden centre was able to show us most of the plants on the list so Thank you again x

Is this school likely to not have the bullies at it Elmo? Or am I missing something.

Congratulations though Lovely lovely news.

One of the bullies will be going tea but this new
school really seem to take bullying very seriously so
hopefully x wont get a chance to get up to his old tricks.
Ds is very excited about starting there and has already
made a few friends from when he sat the exams

Glad to hear that most of them grow over there too, Elmo, I wondered after I posted if it would be of any use! Hope you like them. If you want photos of anything, I grow everything that I mentioned so you can see what they look like when they're mature - might help decide how you wish to plant them. Of course only the spring ones are up now, lol! :)

Elmo that is wonderful ! YAY your DS! Good things are in store for that boy, I can feel it :)

I'm not up to much here...just counting down the days til school's over. Next Thursday...next Thursday.... We have Monday off for Memorial Day, so that's good!

It's really cold and windy here today but I refuse to turn on the heat since it's almost June.

Windy here too Cheerful, and a balmy high of +7 today. I never know how to get dressed this time of year. DH is from colder climes and is in shorts this evening. Visitor from UK is wearing a coat.

Oh BRILLIANT news about ds elmo! Congratulations, you must have a bright little button!

Thing about bullies moving to bigger schools is they suddenly find they are no longer Top Dog and it can come as quite a shock!

Yanky my ds's dream job is to work at our local Cinema

Having lunch with another Mumsnetter today - we meet up about every 6 weeks or so for a chin wag and a pub lunch :)

oooo that sounds nice valium, lucky you, was it good?

elmo thats wonderful news a fresh start eh, so excited for your ds

hope you are all well, everything is lovely and peaceful here zzzzz ...........

....oh no sorry that's my dreams in fact everything is manic and crrazzzzyyyyy here lol

Thanks, I couldn't wait to tell you all he got in

He is chuffed with himself
He has two parties to go to this weekend , one tomorrow & one on Saturday after his uniform fitting .

Ooh enjoy your lunch out today valium I'd love to live local to you all on the bench to be able to meet up would be great fun

Gomummy pics would be lovely thanks if its not too much trouble x Our patio slabs and decorative stones are due to be delivered tomorrow morning so once dh has laid all of that down ill be able to order all the plants in
I was going to link to the paving slabs but don't want to bore you all to tears

So has anyone got any nice plans for the weekend ?

Lol Tiredmum , Hows little Jamie doing ?

There ya go Tiredmum!

Oh yes Elmo, link to slabs! Will send you email shortly with pics.

No plans here this weekend, am actually excited to have a weekend with no plans, lol!

Aww thanks gomummy , I'll send you an email with links to the patio slabs we've chosen x

Anyone ?

Email on the way to you gomummy

Thank you , would love a cuppa elmo

yes thank you had a lovely lunch, we try and meet up every 6 weeks or there abouts for a proper gossip! I knew her before I joined MN, have known her for about 4 years now - she's lovely :)

Very wet and damp here - so much rain!!!

Just a post and run, but I put up a picture of my new rug on my profile for anyone who's interested :)

Be back later!

Oooh Cheerful, beautiful rug! Looks like it will be perfect with your refinished floors and the colour you have posted. It is so hard to pick a rug but so nice when it ties everything together like that!

Wet here too today Valium, but nothing in comparison to what you all experience over there I suppose. Rains a lot on our West coast mostly, but that is a solid week or so of driving away from me! Recent visitor from UK was making fun of how we can drive for days and days and days and still be in the same country...

Hope DS enjoys his parties, Elmo, so happy for him! :)

I'd be wearing a coat too at 7 degrees GoMummy Funny what we're used to and if I went to Dubai they'd be wearing coats and I'd be in shorts! LOL

Ahh Valium sounds lovely having lunch with a friend.

Tiredmum manic is good

I'm not an expert on rugs, it looks lovely though Cheerful.

5.20am wake up here by the kids

Just stopping by to clear the tumbleweeds out of the place :)

Hope everyone's doing well. DH and DS and I went fishing today. Well, they fished, I sat on a rock and read. And then a few friends of mine and I took our kiddos to see Kung Fu Panda 2 at the theater, which was lots of fun. :)