to want my life to be like topsy & tim's mums' life?

[ladyflower23]

I.e. house always tidy, children always do what I say/never have tantrums/I never lose my shit with them? I can also do arts and crafts and make cakes and have perfect make up while I'm doing it?

I don't remember Topsy and Tim being good as gold 35 or so years ago. They wandered off hill walking by themselves and got lost, dropped snow down Tony's neck and Tim refused to wear his wellies on a rainy day and went splashing through puddles in his shoes and socks.

Mind you - that Topsy and Tim will be grown up now. I reckon Topsy had twins herself who look just like their mum and uncle and she's now lost her identity and is just "mum".

I don't get why on T&T they have expensive designer cushions and a million carefully placed canvases if their smug little faces but the walls are dirty as hell.

Agree with Heels and Appin. Their house is a mess. I was also really bugged that the day after they moved house they had set up the garden furniture and the fridge had all the magnets and stuff set up on it, yet you couldn't move for boxes in the sitting room. Doesn't make sense that anyone would unpack that way. shakes head

I assumed that T&T's mum was having an affair and was so chirpy out of guilt. I think that no one could get hold of her when they had chickenpox (affair!).

My kids are literally addicted to this flipping programme! My 20 month old can regularly be heard from most rooms in the house saying HELLO TELLY ON TOPPY TIM?
I for one aspire in my imagination to run a house and children à la joy. But alas this is in my imagination only. My house is tidier for starters.
I also have a husband who does not resemble lee Mack (this is how I see him anyway lol) and where Tim appears to be quite a stroppy little sod who's mother "deals with it" my toddler is more than testing my patience past the dealing with it phase lol.

Cru cru. I agree. I found the "mummy no where to be found or got hold of during chicken pox" saga very hard to understand. Who switches their phone off when they're with "a friend" and away from their kids.
They do say they've made topsy and Tim relatable for families. Maybe they're relating it to adultery and broken homes lol!

I am REALLY ashamed to say that in the depths of the early days I was jealous of Mr Fussy from Mr Men as his house was so not like mine [Big grin]

Err

I haven't watched T&T as dd is too old for CBeebies, but we used to read the books and they certainly weren't angelic. Tim pulled very mean faces at Topsy in Red Wellies, Yellow Wellies.

Yes, the mum of the books gives great AIBU fodder. 'You must never touch a strange dog,Tim. He might bite you' (aibu to think all dogs bite?)

Or the time she lets Topsy and Tim bother the builders all day. I mean she literally leaves the builders to babysit while she buggers off somewhere.

Or worst of all when she takes Topsy and Tim to visit a friend's new baby and they spend the whole time complaining about the baby crying and the smelly nappy and don't once offer to make the poor new mum a cup of tea. She is v slack Mrs T&T.

I want to be on Planet Diazepam like Jason Mason's mum.

Sign...can you order this life on amazon. Did see perfect town in salt lake city but it was very creepy as everyone got up early to water plants, cut grass and move snails..

I thought everyone knew that Topsy and Tim's mum had a secret alternative double life as a police person on 'Stenders, and was having a fling with what's his name.

DS3 (6) saw her on the programme having a snog, assumed it was the same character, and was deeply, deeply shocked. As was I until I did a double take and realised what programme I was supposed to be watching and what time of day it was.

Meanwhile my child's mind has been corrupted forever.

Loved reading this thread! Oh how I'd love the perfectly tidy house and everything that goes with it, but in reality we manage pretty well to get everything done on time, people where they should be and are happy, and a happy family is music to my ears, excuse the pun!

If I was Topsy and Tim's mum I would have taken them out of nursery and sent them to school where they should have been about FOUR BLOODY YEARS AGO

I couldn't be mrs T&T if you paid me. I'd have to be too enthusiastic about too many things that in rl I can barely muster up a smile for.

And the friends,oh god that tony welsh, I feel like shaking him by the shoulders screaming man up - then remember he's only about 8. and don't get me started on topsys friend, kerry, every line delivered with over enthusiasm & jazz hands, like she's auditioning for a hollywood role.

Plus I would be on here day in, day out writing threads about my Mil who comes round with her smelly old dog expecting to give him a bath in our house .

I often imagine her pushy mum behind the camera shouting at the cameraman to show more of her.

In Midnight's second picture where Mummy is putting the finishing touches to the uniforms, it is 10 o'clock on a School Day. I could be positively perfect in every way if I didn't have to even leave for school until after 10.

I thought the dad was Arg from TOWIE

She can't be normal. She is never on Mumsnet while the kids are slumped in front of CBeebies.

Bing has definitely got something going on with Padget.

I think Katie Morag's mum has it pretty good. She doesn't cook, she clearly never does any washing as Katie Morag only has one outfit and the brother lives in his stripy onesie, Katie Morag is off having adventures all day and Granny Island is on hand to actually get shit done. All the mum has to do is stand behind the Post Office counter with her hat at a jaunty angle looking mildly perplexed. I can do mildly perplexed.

Also, is it just me or does anyone else find the relationship between Bing and Flop a bit unsettling? They remind me of a very large special needs adult with a petite, and very patient, support worker. And why does Flop need a step to reach his own sink? That's just poor kitchen design.

I hate to break it to you but I heard Judith Kerr on the radio recently and she said the Tiger is definitely not the Nazis or the Gestapo as many people think. I think her words were "why would I cuddle the Gestapo?". She said it was about a boring week she was having with her daughter and her imagining what could happen to spice things up a bit.

I'm watching for research purposes. T&T's house is not messy. Looks like a normal, fairly tidy, house to me.

DD doesn't approve of them having shoes on in the house though.

my husband went to school with actual t&ts dad. in real life he has no kids, thats why he can be so chipper