The PESH Deli; Won't somebody think of the children???????

[Cosmosis]

THE NOT LIST

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, girl born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April
FannyPriceless, boy, born June 8
CurlyCasper, girl, born June 24
CUNextTuesday, boy, born June 29
Skihorse, boy, born 1 July
Carrots, boy, born July
IggyPiggy, girl, born July

UPDIFFED
Cosmosis, the one that likes a good ride, due August 22
backinthebox, thinking of inventive uses for courgettes, due September 6
skatergrrrl, the one that overtook the rest, September 1
VAG, lives in De Nile, due 19 September
silversky, the biggest farter, due 18 October (first baybee)
Honeymoo, 3 wees a night, due October 31 (boy)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November 14
ReginaMonologue, knows when all the sales are, due November 20 (boy)
maswera, jungle hottie - due December 11
PollyPoo, wants to name her baybee after the dog, The New Messiah is due December 25

Where is everyone? Someone come and entertain me! I'm so bored. Failing that, could someone come and fix the fence in my field for me? It's falling over.

The highlight of my weekend so far has been buying some new pillows. They are very comfy. I am taking the old ones to hospital when I go in as all hospitals seem to have a pillow-eating monster. OH did a pillow audit when we went for our tour last week and found it lacking.

Given that OH is off to play cricket this afternoon it would seem that the pillows may well stay the highlight of the weekend too.

OK, talking to myself a bit here, but here's the latest thing I am outraged about: The new Dettol hands-free soap dispenser. I've just seen an advert on some mind-numbing kids' channel for it, and thought WTF?! It bangs on about how your 'ordinary' soap dispenser could be harbouring millions of germs every time you touch it. Now surely once you have touched the dispenser to dispense soap into your hands you have no further need to touch the germ-riddled bit, as you have now progressed to washing your hands? So what is the point of be-labouring the advantages of a no-touch soap dispenser? Praying on the minds of the paranoid, is all! If it was that important to not touch anything at all that might have germs, there would have to be a lot of no-touch inventing going on, is all I can say.

Morning. Every disinfectant advert annoys me and makes me want to eat mud.

mornings. I am waiting for bet friend to come and visit. not seen her for ages so am most excited

We went to visit mil yesterday and went in to Ambleside for to buy something while we were there, and I went a little bit menkul and burst in to tears for no reason at all crying "I want to go home" to TGO Poor lad.

I think medee's absence can be explained by record 19 degree temperatures in Aberdeen - she's probably been struck down with heatstroke!

boxer Well if you won't invest in a voice-activated soap dispenser then I can only pray for your unborn child.

silver glad your hoss's feet are sorted.

box Sorry things are dull. I have some more courgette recipes for you, as our neighbour continues to keep us supplied.

1. Simple fritters: while attempting to make courgette fritters for Bonnie yesterday I found we had no eggs (and unlike you have no helpful hen in the garden) so improvised with grated cougette mixed with a little grated mozarella fried in lttle splodges in the frypan. Scrummy!
2. MrP and I had courgette chilli spaghetti: Several courgettes diced into 1cm dice. Heat some finely chopped anchovies and red chillies in butter in a pan until soft. Add the courgette dice and cook quickly over a high heat. Stir into cooked spaghetti. Serve. Yum.

Mitchell and Webb did a good spoof of those disinfectant ads.

ha! no, was just sitting in the garden!

medee When I was in hospital so hot & bothered when he was born, I asked my mum how she coped with the heat being as sister was born in '76 in September. She reckoned that living in Aberdeenshire saved her skin!

Oh Box - guess that means you'll be loafing around this afternoon - will pop round at some point to help you with that cake before I go for a ride - there is straw bales that need jumping & I need to get to them before they go!!

Got back from hols last night - one of the blinkin' cats haz been doing unspeakable stuff in the kitchen sink (she has a bloody cat flap so absolutely no excuse ). Was only after I cleared it all up that I remembered I should be touching cat-poo

I do not want to eat mud but I would like to STOP CRYING. Three real life friends just had babies and seeing the photos made me weep. Like a girl. I used to be well 'ard.

Clucky I have just got back from pub lunch so am in now for visitors. There are no straw bales - sorry. Too valuable a commodity this year to just leave lying round in fields. I am feeling very pleased about this as I now don't have to torture myself looking at them knowing I can't jump them. Although the stubble fields are just calling out for a racehorse on them!

I have to confess to not having noticed the cat-unspeakable! Wasn't there 2 days ago unless she has less smelly than normal cat do.

Ta for the courgette recipes Fanny. I would give some courgettes to Clucky but last time I did that she fed them to my horse while she thought I wasn't looking - tis almost as bad as tipping someone's homemade wine into the pot plant. (Although you don't do the same with my homebrews, Clucky!)

Skates SLAP! Is that any better?

skater I am apparently well 'ard. Just before transition the MWs were discussing pain relief. YOB said I didn't want any, and hadn't before so I knew what I was in for and I mumbled into the water, "I'm 'ard, I am".

box any idea why my onion sets have grown into groups of onions? Is that normal? I thought they just grew bigger!

Hate to mention this when cos is around but I scoffed 5 scrummy figs today. Those in the direct sun have come early. Hundreds more preparing for September but I reckon there's 5-10 coming through every few days. Makes up for the 3 measly blueberries.

I am an Autumn 76 baby too, must ask my mum how she coped.

I ate crab and smoked salmon linguine for dinner last night, followed by 2 glasses of champagne and a honeycomb icecream. Have I hurt my baybee?

The FSA says smoked salmon is OK. But clearly the champagne is all wrong. Because you should have given it to ME!

Today's dopey preggo forum question; Help - have I eaten so many Thornton's Alpini chocolates that I kilt da baybee?

Polly I think you are safe, so long as you don't swig a bottle of plonk every night and the honeycomb didn't contain a bee that flew into you mouth and right down through your body to sting the baby. And dontcha know ice cream is essential eating for diffed women?

Unless it was the soft icecream from the icecream man. In which case you are clearly EVIL and worse than 1000 HITLERS.

So another weekend nearly done and dusted. Leaving another bloody Monday morning threatening. Tho only few more weeks to go.

Tomorrow I am 31 weeks. Can't believe it! Don't look heavily preggo. At what stageis one considered to be heavily preggo? When you eat continuously? When you can get out of a bed or chair unaided? When you can't keep your eyes open at 3pm and your body demands a nap? When you order request your OH to nip out and get a McFlurry for you? Or when the only clothes that fit you are your fella's pj's?

fanjita I iz v pleased that nag is fixed. He just
needs couple of days off to get used to his new feet. Then will get sharer back on the case. Need to get some over reach boots (bell velcro type) so if anyone has any in large looking for a new home...... Do let me know!! Won't someone think of the horses??????

Oh my god. I had MrM take a picture of me yesterday after we had dinner out. I swear I look about 6 months gone in it. I am a fatso anyway, but when I eat I immediately bloat and it's just ridiculous. I shall have to upload it to the other place tomorrow after scan so you can all laugh.

I might have some super-duper huge ones lying about, but they will most likely be the neoprene ones. Still got lots of big horse stuff lying around....

silver You can't eat McFlurry's as they're only 50% ice-cream, 30% Lion bar but are 20% Hysteria. :(

On the subject of overreach boots - I don't need them anymore as she's barefoot - however in shod days past I found the best were these moulded ones with a "peg" which sits between fetlock and heel - they don't slip/flip and are so much easier than stretch bells!

I had it in my head that smoked salmon was verboten, so I am glad to see it is not, as I love it.

Muse all the best for tomorrow.

My MrM has started taking weekly photos of me and my belly, but we've only done one so far so not sure how much it is developing.

Soz to confuse as I mean the neoprene ones thatfasten by velcro not the pull on beasts. At the mo he is wearing my xc ones!!! If those get trashed there will be hell to pay cos I will be using them next year hopefully !

ski I'm addicted to the McFlurries. Tis trooo.