To wonder if you're one of the older members of a large family you ever stop and think

[PlayOnWurtz]

No more kids please mum and dad!

How much were you expected to do to support them?

"Magzmarsh

I doubt anyone gives a shiny shite what month, year or millennium your children were born 😕"

I laughed, Magz!

Exactly Cara, and if you were more like me you'd be able to be supermum to five too

I'm glad we've finally resolved our differences.

I knew you'd come around

Nite nite Horse!
Mwah

Thread's gone very weird. Weird and compelling.

horse, sometimes, in recent posts you've used 'yourself' when you would work- I've always found themselves using yourselfs incorrectly to be quite lacking in theirselves education and coming over to everyotherselves as wishing to be considered of a higher academic standing than thoseselfs reading theirselfs drivel.

DH is the fifth of seven kids and always felt one of a crowd and a bit ignored - he is 4 years younger than his next older brother but 8 years older than his youngest, so by the time he got to 10 or 11 he wasn't young enough to be the baby and have attention that way, and wasn't old enough for his older siblings to want to hang around with him. His sister was 4 years younger than him but as the only girl, was treated differently again. None of his siblings had any more than 3 kids apart from his youngest brother, who had three all born within months of each other to 3 different women and then went on to have two with his current wife.

Loving this work!!!

"hoddtastic

horse, sometimes, in recent posts you've used 'yourself' when you would work- I've always found themselves using yourselfs incorrectly to be quite lacking in theirselves education and coming over to everyotherselves as wishing to be considered of a higher academic standing than thoseselfs reading theirselfs drivel."

The hitler youth reference is utterly disgusting, you really have lost it horse if you think that's acceptable.

Maybe time travel appeals to you, back in ye olden days yay verily and forsooth I say unto ye your leaden, windy, incomprehensible, repetitious rhetoric would be highly prized.

....and most people had families in double figures... quick find a teleportation device, you'll fit right in 😬

I am one of 11. Born in late seventies and grew up in Ireland.
For the most part I hated it. It was survival of the loudest. I got very little attention as I was quiet and in the middle. How could you give 11 children proper attention on top of cooking, washing clothes, cleaning,etc.?
We're not a close family and i think there is a lot of resentment from our early years. Could write a book about it!!

Please do amber and send high horse an advance copy so she can translate it into Verbose.

Fine seems to be doing a nice line in Hyacinth Bucket with a Thesaurus.

How posh people really speak
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-philip/11732243/Prince-Philip-swears-at-photographer-just-take-the-f-g-picture.html

I'm so pleased that I've been able to keep you all so enraptured.

It really doesn't take much, does it?

No it doesn't, watching someone making a fool of themself has been the basis of comedy for centuries. It's good to keep tradition alive.

Come now, surely I didnt have to write a word.

I've got five children woman, my loquacious manner must pale to insignificance when you consider the utter folly of my reproductive organs.

I rather thought that was the point of the thread.

Still, if you can't shame me on pseudo moral grounds I suppose it was a good attempt.

I'm certain its proven thoroughly diverting.

"Magzmarsh

Please do amber and send high horse an advance copy so she can translate it into Verbose."

Haha

Apostrophes, woman!!!

Goodness Cara.

That took you absolutely ages!

Surely the reasons behind a large family feed into how those children feel. Not too long ago many Catholics (some still do!) felt as if they couldn't use any form of birth control and ended up with loads of kids. Some loved it and some hated it! Some large families I've known seem to have come about because the mother has a baby obsession and seems to not want to be without one and the father is along for the ride. But when both parents are happy, engaged and warm the number of children doesn't seem to have a huge impact...the impact on the environment is a different matter!

DH is one of 10. Each of his siblings is well on their way to having their own ten. He's one of the oldest and he absolutely loved it.

Have just now gone back and read the last few pages of the thread....

backs away slowly

Oh don't be so wet. In the end it was less barbed and almost genial.