The OFFICIAL buddy bench/naughty bench thread No. 2

[teaandcakeplease]

Come hither all those who haven't found their place on mumsnet, have scrapped in Aibu or crossed words in chat. The buddy bench shalt not judge.

The buddy bench will hand out wine and cakes, it will join you on your scoffathons getting pissed

All those who enter the Gazebo and sit on the bench, will have their sins erased and be given a warm welcome and cheerful chat from ApocalypseCheese, CheerfulYank, Anyfucker, HairExtensions, gomummy, tired mum and far, far too many more to mention.

Welcome to the buddy bench, we look forward to meeting you all

Oh and don't forget, last one to leave polishes bench and locks up !

OK I'll start off with ten....hopefully by then Cheerful will be back with a vast improvement on anything I can devise!

1. What does your "comfort" outfit consist of?

1. What hair style/colour/cut did you have that was the biggest mistake?

1. What is your favourite thing to do with your DC(s)?

1. What was the most interesting thing you received this week in the post/mail?

1. What was the worst present you ever received?

1. What is your favourite late-night snack?

1. What was your most loved childhood toy?

1. What was the last book you read where you learned something useful?

1. When you set the table for dinner, what does it look like?

10. If you could travel anywhere in the world for three weeks without worrying about the cost, where would it be and why?

Go!

Lol, see, I told you all I would be terrible at it!

You answer first GoMummy

I'm lurking but posting too much elsewhere. Mainly in relationships.

1. jeans and my liverpool shirt .

1. my mum made me have short spikey hair when younger .

1. going to the park and playing football.

1. my tesco clubcard vouchers .

1. socks lol.

1. roast beef monster munch crisps.

1. my rabbit teddy bear.

1. usually read paranormal stuff so always learning about ghosties.

1. full with food .

10. canada to visit my good pal gomummy .

hth, lol.

i will check my mail shortly gomummy, the kids are calling me to go in the garden so i best see what they want me for lol

OK, here's me:

1. What does your "comfort" outfit consist of? Jeans and cotton tops that tie at the back of the waist.

1. What hair style/colour/cut did you have that was the biggest mistake? Childhood - 80's really big bangs with enough hairspray to stop a truck. Photos are disturbing to me.

1. What is your favourite thing to do with your DC(s)? Cuddle up reading books outside on the glider bench.

1. What was the most interesting thing you received this week in the post/mail? A handwritten letter asking me to give a eulogy when the time comes.

1. What was the worst present you ever received? A book on how to fix my life. It was an anniversary gift from ex-DH and I didn't know my life was broken, lol!

1. What is your favourite late-night snack? Prawns.

1. What was your most loved childhood toy? Didn't have one.

1. What was the last book you read where you learned something useful? Twas very political, best not answer this one.

1. When you set the table for dinner, what does it look like? Casual, a bit "tuscan" style usually.

10. If you could travel anywhere in the world for three weeks without worrying about the cost, where would it be and why? Easy one for me, definitely over to the UK! See ya then Tiredmum!

1. My blue velour pajama pants and a sweatshirt...I'm so fasionable.

1. Blue highlights! In my wild youth They bled all over my head so I had moldy looking patches of blue-green all over my (at the time) platinum hair. Then I tried everything under the sun to get the blue out, which made half of it break off. Sigh...

1. Hmm. Play-doh is fun, going to the park too.

1. A One Tree Hill dvd from Netflix

1. My DH made me a plant hanging thing that was sooo ugly. I feel so disloyal even writing that!

1. Lately it's been tortilla chips dipped in beans and cheese

1. I had a doll named Johnny that I adored. He was one of those ulta-realistic looking newborns. I carried him everywhere for years.

1. I read a book called Nurtureshock that had an interesting chapter about talking to your DC about race. They said that most parents assume if that all they need to do is not say anything negative, but apparently that's not the case. So this morning I was talking to DS very earnestly saying, "And sometimes people don't like other people just because they have different colors of skin. And that's just silly, because you don't know whether or not you'd like someone before you know them." He replied, "I know! Just like I don't know if Daddy is going to make me a robot or not." Well...I tried.

1. It's summertime, so lots of fresh produce as it's in season. My actual table has blue jars in the middle with pebbles and shells in them. I like nature-y stuff.

10. Canada to hang out with Tiredmum and Gomummy! Otherwise I'd like to go to Scotland or Greece.

My questions:

11. What is your favorite song lyric right now? Mine is Jason Mraz's: "Sometimes the sun shines down on other people's houses and not mine/...If there's a light in everybody/Send out your ray of sunshine." It's much better sung than written.

12. What did you say "oh I'll never do that when I'm a parent" about...and then have it turn out to be a total lie? For me it's the amount of TV I let DS watch, and the fact that I don't care if he sleeps with us occasionally. I was really adamant about those things before I had him and it all went out the window afterwards.

Oh as far as number 10 goes I know you don't live in Canada Tiredmum. I just meant we should visit at the same time!

Oh I love that song too! I don't even try to fight the tears when it come on. And also "you're gonna miss this/you're gonna want this back/You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast..." I try to sing that to myself when DS is being naughty.

And I totally agree about the plastic stuff. Where does it come from? We have bins and bins of the crap and I swear I didn';t buy most of it.

Are you serious Cheerful? I always sing "You're gonna miss this" when DS is being naughty!!!! I have never told anyone, not even DH. I am floored.

No way!!!!!!

I am seriously freaked out by that. No one on earth knows I do that; well until now that is!

That is honestly beyond bizarre. I've never told anyone about it either except maybe DH. I have a chalkboard hanging in my kitchen and the lyrics were on it during a particularly trying month DS and I had.

It really is eerie.

DS knows it so well that on the more challenging days, he will sometimes say "turn on CD with 'alright', mummy."

I wonder what else we have in common...this is so weird! Cool, though!

Maybe I should try that song my DD has pushed me beyond the edge of reason today. I've actually started a thread for some tips.

I know Cheerful, I was wondering how similar "a day in the life" would be!

The song helps Tea, it really does! Not with behaviour, but definitely with perspective for me. Darius Rucker, "You're gonna miss this." Will look up your thread to see if I have anything helpful to add.

Hey Tea you must do the quiz!

1. Stretchy black trousers actually originally part of my maternity wear and any old top really.

1. My mum always cut my hair as a child and it was ok actually. I?ve never been adventurous hair wise, sometimes a fringe, sometimes not, generally shoulder length or longer. I am booorrrrinnngg

1. Swimming

1. This week in the mail? Nothing at all apart from a bank statement and a printer ink cartridge and a new booster seat for my DS

1. A fake my little pony from my mum, I asked for the real thing and she bought a cheap imitation, I was horrified as I knew my friends would make fun of me! LOL My mum was terrible no matter what she knew I wanted for a birthday or Christmas she went off list a lot and bought me random things

1. Snack seems to biscuits or cake here

1. Most loved toy?. Hmm probably my fisher price little tape recorder thingy, used to reply the same songs over and over and drive my brothers mad

1. I have several books on the go right now about children, maybe if I finished one my kids and I would find each day less traumatic? LOL I have a terrible memory nowadays and can?t remember previous books that I learnt something from as I read a lot of fiction

1. Very casual when I lay the table at the moment with 2 DCs and no H

10. Where would I travel? anywhere warm with good stuff for the kids would be a winner

Sorry typos

great cheerful see ya in canada lol

give me time to thing about the other questions haha, might take a while

okay whats everyones fav colour????

to think -

really not with it

The absence of colour I guess, but mine is black.

mine is pink.

although i do actually like black aswell gomummy, hubby showed me a really expensive wallpaper earlier and it was black, but it was really nice

btw you have mail