to open a mulled gin and rinsed mince pie bar?

[MaryzBoychildCheeszuzCrizpz]

To carry on the complaining and to drown Liney.

I've opened it in AIBU to piss off Trills etc and to see if mnhq leave it here

I don't like most of the inhabitants of America, some of whom I'm related to.

But I also don't like some of the inhabitants of the UK.

People is people.

I'm on a laundry break.

Laundry break? Ive had a 7 day one

getting ready now to go to theatre.

As in a break from doing laundry. I never get a break from doing laundry thanks to a barely toilet trained 4 year old.

Don't talk to me about laundry - if I don't do at least one load a day (not counting towels and bedding) our laundry would take over the world .

How v dare he put his kids before you, Liney, Le Bastard Chaud - glad you get to see him today and hopefully he'll sort your pipes

I'm lying on the sheets I'm meant to be laundering.

That made no sense.

I meant I was on a break from doing laundry today.

And now it's all folded.

I'm in bed eating fudge for breakfast [proud]

I find it hilarious when MN goes all "we British are ..." Because firstly they don't mean british they mean English, and secondly many of the things they are proud of no longer exist - or if they do drive half the population bonkers.

Written thank you cards are a case in point. And never saying what you want as in "would you like tea or coffee" - "I don't mind"

They don't even mean English Mary. They mean London.

They mean well-off, genteel London IMO

I'm going to drown in suds I have so much washing to do - mostly because idiot dog got so excited about Christmas that he could only possibly express it by peeing repeatedly on our bed.
Plus pagboy the elder is home and his washing seems to migrate into my wash basket
Oh and the holiday stuff of course ...

You know we all have to start planning New Year resolutions soon.

I'm rough as fuck, me.

I want to get better next year. I want Tee to get better, too.

Ah yes, Line, but do you do Thank You cards? See, thought not.

New Years Resolutions can fuck right off

That's not a resolution though, it's a prayer, isn't it, Liney? I'm with you on that one.

I have a New Year's Resolution, but it's for everyone else. Nice People of the World, stop going out with/dating/living with/marrying absolute wastrels!

Could you lot pass that command United Women's Nations' Resolution?

Mumsnet makes me so sad. Every day, there's at least one post from a woman who seems nice, intelligent and a decent human being, but seems to value herself so little.

I will never get better. And the government has just informed me I don't qualify for DLA. Too ill to work full time, not ill enough to get any fucking help from our beloved coalition.

But Liney will get better. Fact.

I hope Le Builder Chaud doesn't turn out to be a wastrel. What are the signs?

(I'm hopeless at following my own advice on relationships.)

Ah, Tee, that's a fucker. And it's the situation I fear I shall soon be in.

Ah well, I got the sheets in the washing machine, what more can a woman desire?

Liney I don't know anything about your illness, but if it has a treatment, it should have an end.

None of mine have treatments. Just ways to make them bearable. Sort of.

Jessie, amen to that . I think you should start a thread along those lines - "Women of the World, love yourselves".

Chronic illness and the current benefit system is just a shit combination . But that too is for another thread possibly.

How much Tree Fu Tom can I watch before I actually start believing in Big World Magic?

Well, the Conservatives can't get in again, can they?

Everyone I like on the internet is to have a wonderful year. That's another resolution.

I'm packed, taxi booked for 3, everything on list done apart from a) wash kitchen floor which is covered in sticky reed grape juice and
b) bleach moustache which I'm doing right now while drinking Buck's Fizz through a straw, so as to avoid Bleached Fizz. Using up leftovers is a hard job.
I'm dead classy.

pacific the problem is that I'm not very good at Sensitive and Inspiring posts. I just shout at people, and I'm worried I'd just make women feel shit and blame themselves.

Maybe if I work on it later after I've been to the sales*, and get the denizens of this thread to twerk tweak it...

By the way, I have developed a new barometer for relationships: the person who supposedly loves you, with whom you live, should be more reliable than your best friend. If you wouldn't tolerate a particular treatment/behaviour from your best friend, it's not tolerable in a sexual partner. Pitfalls, vipers? Over-simple?

*I have priorities!

Well I've made a start on some tidying in an apathetic manner.

Relationships defeat me, mostly. That's a good start, Jessie, I need to remember that.

Bon voyage, Fid. How's that big bastard bucket?

Thanks. ExH is staying here while we're away Liney so he can do the emptying. I can have a whole week free of lugging.