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AIBU to not want to wind my fucking bobbin up at 06 45!

40 replies

bumpandkind · 09/11/2013 07:29

I can't even invite DH to wake up and join the fun as he didn't get in from work till gone midnight. even though I've been up with Ds 3 times in the night.

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Bearandcub · 09/11/2013 07:31

Film him doing it, then he can sing along by himself by pressing play!

Livvylongpants · 09/11/2013 07:32

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Mouthfulofquiz · 09/11/2013 07:33

How weird! I've just been singing that too!! Are we part of a brain washing cult of bobbin-folk?
Joy!!!!

BlackDaisies · 09/11/2013 07:33

Ha ha, aren't moments like this what cbeebies is for?!

bumpandkind · 09/11/2013 07:34

Brew all round I think and make mine a strong one! Here's to the bobbin cult.

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Judyandherdreamofhorses · 09/11/2013 07:35

I was winding my fucking bobbin at 4.45!! I think I might die.
DS (1) is ill (vomit, cough, temp), DH working all weekend. DD (4) full of beans. It's raining. Why oh why oh why do they love that bloody bobbin so much?!

KenDoddsDadsDog · 09/11/2013 07:35

Push push clap clap clap

Bearandcub · 09/11/2013 07:37

Personally speaking we're of the Twinkle Twinkle Litter star schism.

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 09/11/2013 07:37

What is that song even about anyway?

Chuckthefucklebrothers · 09/11/2013 07:37

Pull, pull, clap clap clap, surely?

Don't forget to wind it back again, wiiiiiiiinnnnnd it back again...

Bearandcub · 09/11/2013 07:38

Damn you autocorrect!!!

*Little

jaffajiffy · 09/11/2013 07:38

YANBU. We ignored the bobbin 5.40 onwards until giving up at 6.20

LondonMother · 09/11/2013 07:41

Probably from the good old days when you could send your toddlers out to work in the cotton mills.

I feel your pain, ladies. My son is nearly 20 now but I still bear the scars from the few weeks when he was 2 when he started waking routinely at about 4am and I had to stagger down with him and put his favourite Disney film on the video. So traumatic was it that I can't now remember which one it was - Sleeping Beauty? Cinderella? Anyway, I used to lie, semi-comatose, on the sofa, while he pottered about with his toys with one eye on the video. Then at the other end of the day he had a lovely habit of dropping off in his high chair at about 6pm, often while he was still eating his tea. Spark out.

He turned out all right in the end!

AlpacaPicnic · 09/11/2013 07:44

I hate that fucking song.

I'm a rhyme time leader. At least I only have to sing it once a week... Twice a week at the worst.

MyCatLovesMeSometimes · 09/11/2013 07:46

Song is about cotton factories and the bobbin was used in the machinery to weave? the cotton through i think.

PenguindreamsofDraco · 09/11/2013 07:47

I was counting 1, 2,3 little acorns at 3.30... That has to win a prize, surely? Little sod then fell asleep at 4.30 leaving me wide awake and unable to get those bloody acorns and the arseing squirrel out of my head.

Mouthfulofquiz · 09/11/2013 08:18

Can Derek from Milshake be our cult leader?

mumofboyo · 09/11/2013 08:36

I made the mistake of teaching ds the incredibly catchy tune, Standing at the Station Early in the Morning and he bursts into song several times a day. It also gets stuck in my head and I end up singing it to myself going round the supermarket etc.
Yanbu; I hate getting up early anyway and am certainly never in the mood to wake up singing.

TheCountessOlenska · 09/11/2013 08:43

Due to a 4 year age gap between my two, Wind the Bobbin had somehow slipped my mind been blocked out due to traumatic 4am memories until this thread Grin I think the 8 month old might be about ready for some Clap Clap Clap...

insanityscratching · 09/11/2013 08:58

Oh it makes me envious, I had years and years of early morning singing. Now they are aged 10 and above and they stay in bed at weekends I end up sitting downstairs on my own instead.
Enjoy it won't last long really although you might, like me, end up being unable to sleep past 7am after the regular early wake ups when they were small.

thegreylady · 09/11/2013 09:05

Insanity one day you will bea grandma and discover it all all over again.
Wind the bobbin up, five little speckled frogs, five cheeky monkeys swinging in a tree, teasing Mr Crocodile and presumably the same naughty monkeys jumping on the bed!
I love it :)

Chuckthefucklebrothers · 09/11/2013 09:21

Incy wincy spider will always have a special place in my heart

Chuckthefucklebrothers · 09/11/2013 09:24

Oops, posted to soon!

DS was mesmerised by incy wincy when he was really tiny (weeks old) would stop crying & gaze in that lovely tiny baby way... He still loves it now & he's nearly 4 Smile

peppinagiro · 09/11/2013 09:31

We were doing Dingle Dangle Scarecrow at 5.15 :(

Judyandherdreamofhorses · 09/11/2013 09:37

Well, at least this thread has reminded me of some more tuneful delights that I can add to my early morning arsenal.

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