To not really care if I am boring, thank you very much!!

[sugarmatches]

Hands up, I am a boring person.
My life is a bit dull and I don't really do many interesting things on a daily basis. My dh is nice and normal, my dc are lovely and have no health problems and my family are on the right side of crazy. We have a boring car, go on boring holidays and have boring friends (whom I love, btw!).

So what??

If I want to post a thread asking how to get stains out of my Le Creuset, I am bl**dy well going to do it no matter what anyone says. If I had a more interesting life then I might ask advice on getting bodily fluids out of sequins thongs, but I buy mine from M&S and they are machine washable at 40 degrees.

I know that there are so many people on MN who have really difficult things to overcome and who are still nice, friendly and helpful to us boring posters. That is how it should be I think. And F*ck you if you don't agree

lorayn; thought it was an interesting topic as we're all parents, and maybe i could save you some time and money by telling you how to bring children up happy. but if your not into all those books, well done. if you'd rather keep talking about naff items for the kitchen, carry on.

lucyellensmum I didnt understand 'dont take on so'
And re the woman who lives somewhere remote with no tv or books, she probably had a million times when she paniced and thoguhth 'ah, I cant do this' just like the rest of us, difference is we can find a book/tv programme/mumsnetter with experience to help us.

talulasmum on Fri 28-Sep-07 19:24:49
but you shouldnt have to read a book, or watch a tv programme. a mum living in an isolated farm house in scotland, with out a tv maybe, and no wh.smiths down the road, just gets on with it.

Well if she is there she probably gets her baby books from the mobile library, as she is probably a city girl "experiencing the good life type of lifestyle for real" and was sent there by phil and kirsty, as the air is so healthy to bring up her children. And posh girls dont do smiths, they do waterstones!!!

just a joke lorayn, lol, dont let tallulah grind you down. Meant in good humour. this is much better than playing spider solitaire isnt it

lorayn; thats where your so wrong. the more information we have sometimes the more confused we become.

ha, ok lucyelensmum, I was kinda lost, wondering if you had missed a word or something, solitaire, hmmmm, might go play scrabble

talulasmum, tbh I have no problems bringing up my children, I think its mainly common sense and love. If I ever need any advice I will be sure to remember your offer.
Btw, Le Creuset isn't 'naff' it's rather bloody good.

lucy; i love location location location. i also like homes under the hammer.

Oh gawd... did this get serious when I wasn't looking?

Toasters (though I do love my toast) are all singularly crap. They last about 5 minutes before breaking. Unless you buy a really expensive dualit one, but I've never managed to bring myself to spend that much on a toaster. (My Le Creuset was all given to me, btw, so no double standards re. pans/toasters!)

Blimey, you just go off for a quick Scalextric and you come back to this. Chill, it's Friday night, it's been a blooming hard week...
The Tesco Finest stainless steel pans are lovely. They're still stainless. It's about £18 for a middle sized one. I have three. They were well worth the money.
However, I still have the very large saucepan my mum bought in about 1985 in Brixton market. It's still going strong.
Lucyellensmum - your previous life sounds very interesting. My dd may follow your career path, she has a strange legless collection of dead insects on the windowsill. My own previous life involved being very serious in Whitehall about the fat content of spreads, and the amount of meat in a sausage. Now I know the truth, the cheaper and nastier the sausage the more likely it is the child will eat it.

Scrabulous???

YEah iom the same with the dualit and im a shit cook so cant be spending on the cookware either.

Talula - you watch homes under the hammer?? Thats, um, choke, daytime telly - next you will be telling me you watch jerry springer!"

Vikkin, maybe you can help me with sausagemeat then, I can only ever seem to find one type of it wherever I go, and as I use tons of it, I want good stuff!!!
It always looks so horrid before I cook it.

TM - I agree with you, the more you know about someone, the more confused you can become.

People are often very complex and contradictory.

Ha, yes scrabulous, I am so rubbish at it though!! I get long words that dont score or short words that dont fit!

that about sums it up doesnt it, previous life sob, even THAT is more interesting than i am now. My dp cant wait to buy scalectrix, ive told him he has to wait until DD is a bit older!

Just noticed the mention of Tupperware parties. I remember them!
What do you think of the sort of parties you get invited to now?
I went to a Virgin Vie one where we all had to paint our toenails together in some sort of group therapy thing. I didn't like that.
I went to an Ann Summers one, nuff said.
And I do remember a pottery party that was just dismal.

Lorayn... If you can find a farm shop or butcher who makes their own sausages I bet they will sell you the 'innards' without the sausage skins. (Haven't tried this, but am willing to bet our farm shop would do it.)

LEsmum... If you don't cook much it might be worth forking out [ahem... no cookware pun intended] for the Dualit. You can't go wrong with toast, can you?

at uni, they sold a t shirt, i never got round to buying it, up to my eyes in fly food (god im so sad) it said: The more i study, the more i know, the more i know, the more i forget, the more i forget, the less i know, so why study!

Ellbell, i would if they would let me have one on trial lol. But really, i could buy a rampant rabbit with that money

Sausagemeat is horrid.
The problem is in the amount of rusk added (as well as all sorts of weirdy e-numbers and anti-blahblahs). A good sausage has a high meat content but TBH my kids hate sausages with a high meat content, they find them too chewy.

Vikkin, i went to an ann summers perty and i won slut of the night, i lost out on the lipstick buzzer though on a sucking pea through a straw competition with my equally slaggy mate. Of course that was all KBL - life before lucy Now i would be prudishly sitting on the corner of the sofa screwing my nose up, thinking, oooh you could catch your death in those undies.

But LEM then you'd only have to feed the rabbit...
It's all money innit

I love making sausage plait and toad in the hole, plus DP makes some pasta thing with sausagemeat balls, so we use quite a bit of it, Just wish it was nicer

Vikkin, ive had two, even an underwater one, the dog ate them

an underwater toaster????
WTF

Now we're getting there ladies. We've got LEM's dog shaking all over after eating the RR, and Lorayn's dh and his sausageballs.
Now that's a Friday night.