to be planning a letter of complaint to the PTFA for poisoning my children at the Christmas fair?

[Mincepiedermama]

Why does it have to be so packed with sugar? After the fair at the juniors my nearly three year old was sick several times in the night because someone gave him those disgusting sugar walking sticks.

At the Infants fair yesterday I gave my kids pocket money and sent them off browsing reminding them about the sugar poisoning incident so ds3 decided to go for the lucky dip. He pulled out a handbag which I thought was great. I later discovered it was FULL of lollies FGS!

I can;'t watch them all every minute of the Christmas Fair because it's one of the places they should be given freedom to roam. Also I was running a stall.

I love school fairs but the sugar thing really ruins them for me and poisons my kids. Why are people so obsessed with sugar for kids?

I have many years to go at these schools so am thinking of writing or talking to the PTFA people about capping the amount of sugar available at these events. Is that reasonable?

Now if you'll excuse me I have to put some more vomitty bedding in the washing machine.

The wine at the wedding reception was non-organic.

That is why I was sick.

No, no, you've got it wrong, it's going to Ireland makes you pregnant. I've been there twice in the last 12 years and came back pregnant both times!

I am off down to Thorntons now with a few placards - those bastarding peddlars of filth that are poisoning our dear children.

How can they sleep at night?

A brick through their window is what they need and me dancing naked in the burning embers of the vile establishment.

Good thinking Eric - where better for a spot of looting?

whenachildisbored, thought I'd posted earlier to say I was being over-sensitive after a bit of a 'mare on another thread.

'but surely that's an intolerance to wine and you should be careful to note down the brand of wine and avoid in future, make sure you tell people inviting you for dinner that you are allergic to australian (or whatever) wines '

This happened to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was given a 10-15 itemn list of foodstuff to avoid with one dinner guest I once had. She stipulated no Australian wine, because she was ' intolerant' to it.

Beacuse she drank it once, and the next day had a head ache and felt sick!

I shit you not!

You will note that she was a guest of mine once

Perhaps it is because they don't have sugar at home that they go a little mad when they see it

My kids have sweets occassionally (admittedly more chocolate than sweets) so when we went to the Christmas Fair they weren't that bothered and brought all the sweets home. They are still sitting on the kitchen worktop.

Is it not the forbidden fruit?

Some people!
Id have poured some Australian wine into her glass whn she wasnt looking.

Opps, just noticed the second page. As for wine my theory definitely doesn't work. We have wine any time we want it after the kids have gone to bed and I still drink too much!!!!

I have a memory like a fish, and am constantly amazed that people can remember things I have said in the past!

at least it is a 'proof' of a kind that I wasn't fibbing!

admission: had no idea who had said it, it just stuck in my mind .. cracking story of total nuttiness

I still have two bags of halloween goodies, that the kids are working their way through.

they can have a sweetie (small) each once homework is done.

It works quite well. Last year it was well into the new year before they finished them all.

Please avoid stories of total nuttiness. I am allergic to nuts.

I bought New Zealan d wine, btw, just to be cussed!

Hmmm.
I don't know the poster, so I am not quite sure what to make of this. But it has a whiff of troll to me.

Agree with op that school fairs should make a bit of an effort not to peddle sugary crap ... (well not exclusively anyway) ..

but remember reading somewhere recently that there is NO scientfic proof that sugar is instrinsically bad for you .... maybe some nutritionists/chemists could enlighten us further ???

excessive long term use of sugar, if it leads to obseity in particluar, can give rise to type two diabetes.

If sugar spends too long in the moth it can increase the numbers of tooth and gum diseases.

Suar per se, in small amounts does no harm. And all carbohydrates are broken down into sugards by our digestive tracts anyway.

Too much is a bad thing, but the same can be said of water (drowning!) and oxygen (can scar the corneas). But in small amounts, I ',m unaware of any reputable data that show it to be harmful (nb not a nutricianist, but did Biochemistry at uni)

Jeez - the bastards are putting it in moths now ! Sugar laden flying things - is no one safe

Sticky little feckers they are too!"

Eek, moths are scary enough, but now theyve got poison in!!!??? What are we going to do??

I'll be alright then - I hate moths.

Btw, it's moving house that makes you pregnant - it's happened to me twice.

What did Scrooge say when he saw the prizes at the scool Christmas fair?

Bah! Humbugs!!

I bow deeply to that, a WorminAManger