due MARCH 2007-thread no ?????

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i cant see a new thread so i thought id start another one!

Right I think I have just about caught up on everything...

Jay - Glad to hear the cat has been found

Boo - I'm sure you will love your bugaboo, everyone I know who has one has been v pleased with them.
They seem to go for around 400 second hand so they hold the value

Having a buggy dilemma now myself - when should I buy it?
(I'm going for a Phil & Ted so I can use it as a single until no2 arrives)

Jay... yay, that's fab news. I bet he will be wanting loads of cuddles and reassurance now .

Thanks for comments re website. It's our way of keeping family back home in the know since we are so far away. Dh and I have dd, who is 10. Dh also has a dd from a previous relationship. She is 12 and lives in NZ with her mama but visits us at least once a year.

I am excited about the baby shower now - tho we need to find another name for it. Sis was heartbroken that I didn't want one and was planning on a girly dinner but we have talked it through and our plans were so similar (except location and time of day). She was home sick today so we went to hobbycraft, as you do , and bought loads of bits and pieces to make invites - I can't wait to see our ideas in print!

does anyone else read Heat . This week's mag has a piccie of Tori Spelling pushing her dog in a buggy!!

Is it a Bugaboo?

Diva, the book is called "Feeling good, the new mood therapy" by david.D Burns. As I said it's a chunky book with tiny print but it makes so much sense that it is very readable. It is also user friendly, no complicated sentences to make my brain ache . I couldn't understand this whole'bottom line' idea with that other book

Oh I have a dog problem not because I've been bitten. I was brought up with them. My mad mother is sort of obsessed with them. Her partner even more so. On christmas day he came over at 12, had lunch, opened some presents and at 3.30 said he had to go home whilst it was stil loght so that he could walk the dogs[ shock] I wasn't best pleased. I thought "so they can't be let out for a quick wee later tonight, it's gonna damage them forever and a day not to have their customary 100 walks a day?" .
My prob isn't so much with dogs it's with certain types of dog owners.

Kitty my sil used to be just like that with her three, but she is better now, tbh it was less to do with the dogs and more to do with her feeling insecure about social events and the like, when she was very large.

Having said that her and mil's dogs lead a very luxury lifestyle, home cooked meals, all mod cons, you know!

Got home tonight and mil had her two round here; they are both adorable though, one of them is a little Italian Greyhound; he's tiny and Ziggy (the cat) scares the hell out of him!

Yeah Mossy, mum's dh is pretty nervous round people, so he probably sees it as a welcome excuse. Still doesn't make for a great xmas day for the kids.

I have a problem with people who let their dog poo all along our road, meaning its like an obstacle course - but don't get me started...

buga BOOOOOOOOO - Boo you had to get one because it had your name written all over it!! LOL

Kiwi - you are one energetic family!!BTW your daughter is a real beauty isn't she? . Are you and your DH Maori?

Jay - that's such good news, I'm so relieved for you. You can snuggle up to your cat tonight

Eids - welcome to the waddly trimester

Well DS and DD have spent the whole day looking after the doll. Even dressed it in a new born "baby nest" when we went out and strapped it in its toy car seat . Mind you, they didn't offer to share their chocolate with it I noticed...

They've called it Oscar BTW, after the boy in The Tin Drum.

No, it really isn't fair is it, even ifit was about the dogs and their walk, why didn't he walk them before he came over to yours? Or walk them at half three and then come back to yours afterwards?

Kiwibella I could almost see mil putting her Italian Greyhound in a buggy. It's funny really, before she got him, she (and the rest of us if I'm being honest) were a bit like "oh no not those little lap dog yappy things, real dogs for us thank you!" Now it's turned her into a bit of a Paris Hilton, she even has a little coat for him and a diamante collar! Have to say though he has changed my opinion on little dogs.

Booboo I went back to that thread just now - it is a very emotive issue isn't it?! Hope you didn't feel too "got at", especially seeming as your dog is ill atm.

I think sometimes people have pets when they have problems having relationships with humans.

No one on this thread of course, but YKWIM - sure that applies to my Mum and my sister...

Foxy there is a guy who works in the industrial laundrette near our terrace, he has a dog who he used to let out to run free round the front grass, where it often poos. The dog is lovely and really friendly, but the man is a complete twunt, he obviously doesn't care about his dog either, he didn't supervise it and it could have ran out onto the road and get run over

He is a really scary guy, dh and I wouldn't dare confront him but one of our neighbours who himself is quite formidable looking tackled him once and it ended up in a fight.

Sadly though - I say sadly because I don't think violence should be the way to tackle anything - it did actually work and the guy now keeps his dog in work with him. I don't think he realised just how strongly everyone felt about it, but people's children play out all summer on the grass out front, it's not right.

I am trying to decide whether to have a bath and then an early night. Hmmm...

hello!

ive been on here 3 times today but by the time i'd read the new posts i never had time to post anything

rosy-my ds2 got into bed with me last night,we must be cuddly atm.ive noticed hes been cuddling me alot more the past few days as well,it may have something to do with my bosom growing even larger

moss-i think the buggy thing is southern,ive noticed that people are alot less materialistic up north.ive never even heard of bugaboo,and phil+teds are only pushed by people who live in ambleside/windermere etc who only venture to these parts when they need to go to tesco or morrisons
i think the southern equivalent of a 'meff' would be a 'pikey'(thats how the people of east london refered to them when i worked there).we have chavs here but they tend to dress in clothes that have been shoplifted from jjb sports.

jay-im so glad you got your cat back.i had a cat when i was living with my mum still,who went missing for 2 months.it turned out she'd been staying at a neighbours house!

kitty-im pleased im not the only one who found that book hard going.i assumed i must have got thicker over the years.i will hunt out that one youve got.

30+2(girl)

Moss - no stay on here and chat with me, you don't need an early night!

Once when I had really bad PMT I follwed a man who let his dog poo in our garden. Just as he got to his front door and was rummaging for his keys, I jumped in front of him and said "oh, this is where you live is it - several of my neighbours want to talk to you about your dog pooing in our street!"

He NEVER walked his dog in our road again and used to cross the road whenever he saw me LOL!!!

Diva - that happend to me twice today too (read the thread, then ran out of time)

It was my turn to cook tonight, so I made a curry from scratch. That means I bought it myself from Waitrose and microwaved it all by myself!

My God, Waitrose do a bloody great curry ready meal!!

where is the dog thread?i crossed about 5 postd when i was typing that last one...are we all trying to make time pass quicker ??

i've never had a problem with dogs,the way i see it is theres no such thing as a bad dog,just bad owners.

Its on the home page under the hot/todays topics bit

ive never been to the homepage...i have this bookmarked to go straight to dicussion topics

LOL Diva!

Do you like my new name?

Diva: "we have chavs here but they tend to dress in clothes that have been shoplifted from jjb sports" ROTFPMSL!!!!

Foxy: I have now promised dh I will watch the Mighty Boosh with him, we got the DVD of the series the other day. So no bath, but no MN either. Might pop back though. Need to do email stuff and NatWest stuff so might sneak a peek later!

I think I am losing my mind a bit. I just said to dh, "I'm going to feed the dogs a treat now." At least, that's what I thought I said. I actually said, "I'm off to walk the dogs now." He was a bit until I actually heard what I'd just said!!!

Diva - I PMSL too when I read that. It is a classic quote!!!

Moss - keep us updated about Nat West eh? I'm going to tackle Abbey on the same issue in the next few weeks, with model letter etc...

Good name foxy. How's you mother behaving at the mo?

I've been starting to read that "How to talk so your kids will listen...." book. It's actually pretty good. I've been practising some techniques on my dear ones, particularly on the feral dd2 and I must say it has had quite remarkable results, tantrums evaporated very quickly and she has been very caring and nice towards me .
V tired atm, off to bed x

Kitty - who is the author? I always wanted to be one of those Mum's who doesn't shout but have turned into a fishwife

My Mum is "she who must be handled carefully". I had a really interesting conversation before Christmas with a friend who's living with a partner who has depression - a lot of the behaviour of her partner was an exact description of my Mum. My Mum says "I used to suffer from depression" but I think she still does. She's just extremely unpredictable, negative and nutty TBH

She paid for all my sisters Chrissy presents and wants my sister to move back in with her .

My sister is aged 39 BTW and sees my Mum as a bit of a soft touch.

Heard enough? LOL

the presents from my sister to other people BTW!

LOL, our town centre shopping precinct on a saturday afternoon is Chav central! socks pulled up over their adidas trackie bottoms! bles 'em.