Due May 07 - W/C 29th Jan

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Happy Monday all............

Hey all - just read through all the chat from the weekend. Great photo's all - will have to get my profile done. Completely blank at the mo.

It was Australia Day on Friday so cooked Aussie food all weekend and barbequed everything in sight - delish!

I am definitley a poker and every time I poke Bean she pokes back with a nice left..left..right combination.
I'm going to buy a copy of Anne of Green Gables today for DH to read to her at nights. I want her to get used to his voice and that was and still is my all time favourite book. I have a couple of copies back in Oz but they are all in storage. So DH will read her her L.M Montgomery and I will sing to her

Morning all!

Had the strangest dream last night. I met up with LG&T, TYG, AM and FSF in Cheltenham (why would we meet up in Cheltenham??) because LG&T wanted to buy some new trousers for Hugs. We traipsed round for hours and couldn't find anything until TYG remembered that she owned a childrens clothes shop (because that's the sort of thing you forget) and we went there and found some perfect trousers (although LG&T wanted to buy them in pink ). We then gave up shopping and went to a teashop which made lots of cakes and I had lemon drizzle. Bliss!

So, I've started dreaming about people I've never met. Is therapy free in pregnancy as well as prescriptions?

Cinnamon- DH is reading Roald Dahl to the bump at them moment. Going to do The Hobbit next.

Morning all,

Chatty chatty ladies over the weekend..
largandt-my Dad cut all my hair off when I was 6 to 'save my mum the job' of taking me to the hairdressers.He is ex para so did it in a 'smart' style-ie about 2cm all over my head.My Mother who rarely cries, wept openly for an hour.It was appalling-so I do sympathise re Hugs, but I agree with notsolilkel-I dont think it looks so so bad?
Have bought you a little something today and will try desperately to get to the post office to send before 5.., (though have a meeting till 3 so it may have to be tomorrow..I feel that you deserve a treat after your weekend.Pesky kids..Why I oughta..(in a scooby doo villain stylee)..

TYG-Just there for a restorative drink following a meeting that was a) very long, b) very pointless.And then I went home..naughty scoot, skiver..Will let you know if ever I am to be there again-I think you break up for mat leave before me so that might be the time..Nice road though!My dh drives up it every morning on his way to Big Mac Towers in East Finchley..Will now have all sorts of fun whn im on it playing guess which house is TYG's..(but not in a stalker sort of way, which is how it sounded)

lwatkins-are you some sort of model?grrr. I looked like that once for about 3 minutes.Then I started drinking snakebite and black and it all went downhill from there.Have resorted to using eye cream.I am only 27 and this feels like the first step to old age...

We are very short staffed at work today so I have done some actual care this morning..I wish i could get paid my salary to do actual care as I do enjoy it..I say that but then no one was covered in poo or anything this morning...I would likely change my mind sharpish if they had been..done enough of that.She says with a one year old and one on the way and nappies currenly making a huge contribution to the rapid filling of landfill sites...

SOH-Your bump will be very well read by the time she comes out.O god. mine will come out singing the theme tune to the OC.

Hi all,

sorry but didn't get a chance to read through all the weekend posts.

Amazing to think I am nearly 24 weeks and have finally stopped feeling sick. I have had a whole 5 days with NO nausea

Just in time for the bump to cause discomfort.

HA!

Well read perhaps but looking like this

ROFL at your dream (nightmare?) SOH......... You don't need therapy you just need more of us. I like the pink bit added in there. Don't think I've ever been to Cheltnam?

Morning all! Have just sat down to a bacon sarnie again....mmmmmm. Well the kitchen is still in a relativley (sp) clean state, wont be by luchtime. Update on the ketchup - still hasn't been replaced and has now been completely removed from my possession Whoever took it has obviously laid claim to it thinking that by starting it they must finish it? Very strange people I live with!
SOH very strange dream! Mine are strange but leave me traumatised! Last night my dad died (in dream) and about a week ago bean died (in dream). They really shake me up, but try not to think about them to much as they are both fine! (She says after ringing dad at 6am this morning in a fit of tears to check on him, poor man was a tad....confused!)
Scooter, have a cupcake you lovely lady

SOH - Hobbit is next as DH gets to pick the next book. Excellent pick for both of us

I was worried he was going to insist on a Cormac McCarthy

Good morning everyone

SOH PMSL at your dream...till i got to the pink bit....i keep having serious doubts as to whether this baby is in fact a blue one. Very starnge, i just have this nagging feeling....quite unnerving.

How nice you read to your babies, have not done that but when dh is home in a few weeks i may just get him started.

He\she (?) is going nuts this morning, i ate an apple filled donut (not a patch on a kk) and Caspar (name for today) has been going mad ever since!

Scooter you dont have to send me pressies, im a bad yelling mummy and should be punished not rewarded!

I phoned MIL today and said i may need to come and stay, she sounded very pleased and has put some petrol money in my account She is so lovely, i may go Wednesday. Dont think it will do th kids any harm to escape for a few days, and i could so do with a rest. Feel a bit like a cop out as i normaly just get on with things, not a whinger by nature. I seem to have met my match here.

So am off to make a bacon roll or several, anyone else want one? Toddlers this afternoon, really must make an effort. Hugs already asleep so he should be rareing to go in an hour.

I like it in Cheltenham-its quite posh.SOH very good taste in dream locations..

lwatkins-ruddy students.You could fox them by next time putting something vile tasting in your ketchup.It will be the last time they nick off with it.I lived with a swedish girl on my floor in halls and she was constantly stealing only my food.The lord knows what she did with it because she was skinny as a rake.Never heard from her after I left, until about a month ago she sent me a letter through the alumni office..very odd.I may reply and ask her to return all my food post haste..
SOH-Better a gingerbread baby than a chocolate, crisps, sourmix and semolina one.At least a gingerbread baby has a touch of the sort of fairytale, Borthers grimm aspect about it.Mine is just a junk food junkie and probably headed straght for an ASBO...I really must stop eating this stuff because I saw a picture of myself yesterday when I was pg with dd (when I believed my self to be one of those women who looks slim and glam except for the bump).I looked absolutely massive.My face looked like a moon.And this time I am much bigger so I hate to think...Am going to get dh to help me put some pictures on my profile, (need him to help as I ma pathetic with technology) and then you can all comfort yourselves at the size of me..
Also forgot to say, SOH that when I was pg with dd I was in an almost constant panic regarding her not moving, (neither she nor this baby it seems, big kickers), so I sympathise with your experience the other night..maybe the baby just turned round or something, but I know how you feel anyway..its not silly at all, dont worry..and by the by everyone thought I would be a rubbish mum.And they were right!(haha).You will be fine, as long as you are not to proud to ask for help when you need it and trust your instincts.And ignore any woman at your baby groups who claims her baby is in a routine after a week and never cries, blah blah..there is always one, its not a competion and furthermore, its highly likely that it isnt true..(I had a bad experience with one baby group where there were about 4 women who constantly tried to outdo each other with tales of their perfect babies.Meanwhile mine screamed throughout-as did two others, the Mothers of whom are now very close friends of mine!)And there endeth my sermon!

I couldnt watch Richard Hammond last night.Even the sound of his accident made me feel queasy.

I'd love a bacon roll, thanks lg&t..... although I had some a couple of times last week and it made me so thirsty. Tasty though, we have to ration ours, can't get nice back bacon here so it's one of the things we bring back in bulk from the UK. Shhhhh don't tell customs, not sure we are supposed to?

A trip to your MIL's sounds a good idea if you can face the packing...... don't go at the end of next week though or I wil be looking forward to getting together!

dh back from the boulangerie, umm fresh bread, cheese and apple for lunch for me. Sounds a bit French!

And me-off to caff now.
Except I cant decide wether I would instead prefer some french stick and a piece of cheese FSF stylee.Except I want goats cheese and there is nowhere in this bit of Islington you can get hold of it with any ease.I am practically in Dalston dahling and I try to avoid it as much as poss..as the Razorlight song goes, 'dont go back to Dalston' and I dont tend to given that Ive been mugged there twice..im such a snob.You wouldnt think it given that I grew up in a pit village in Derbyshire.
largeandt-we know you are not a whinger by nature you loon!Give yourself a break.You are pg, with a dh at sea and about a million kids.Im finding it tough with only one.Lovely MIL.Go and have a rest.I beg of you!
And everyone shouts at their kids sometimes...so package going in the post wether you like it or not lady!
cafe or a longish walk to sainsbo's, hmmm...

Which pit village? From Derbyshire originally too- a pit village at that.

Morning all

LG&T Hope you get on ok with Jonah's hair later! Someone else cut my DDs at school once and she ended up quite short for a while. Hope you get a well deserved break with MIL.

LW - sorry to hear about SPD, hope you can get some rest.

FSF - my bump gets achy whenever I walk anywhere - i feel really unfit.

Loving all the new photos over the weekend. I will try and get one of me to post.

Going to get lunch now but can't decide whether to open a tin of salmon or just eat hot cross buns which will probably give me indigestion!

Oh dreaming of the French bread and cheese now.....

LG&T - trip to the MIL sounds like a great idea. Nice to all get out of the house for sure

LWatkins - why don't you tell everyone that all your food has had a pregnancy vitamin (liquid form) added to it which stops facial, breast and belly hair growing in pregnant women but causes it to grow if you aren't pregnant!!
I guess that would work for the girls but maybe not the guys

Lol cinnamontam, I might just do that! Mmmm, LW's revenge plotting begins mwahhhh There's an October 07 ante-natal thread that's just popped up. How qiuckly is the time going!!!

Hi Ladies

Feel like poo today. Headache, sore throat, achy limbs. Sore arm- due to being drained of blood again just now. Knackered and generally miserable. Dh's birthday today and so far it has been crappy. He feels pants, as does J and me GREAT. However have told work that i am taking tomorrow and Wednesday off work as J cant go to nursery until the end of the week .

SOH - your dream made me chuckle, and then the mention of lemon drizzle made me want some!!

Also could quite fancy a bacon sarnie!

Sorry for such a moany post. just feel crap.

AM, when will you get your results? Cheer up chick it'll soon be summer. Happy Birthday C, sorry your household all feel rough. x

In about a week. Takes longer as they are doing immunity checks for the Parvo Virus.

Was born in Arkwright SOH, but then we moved to Holymoorside which is further out towards the Peak district.Both nearish to Chesterfield though..Would quite like to move back one day.Want to leave in Eyam which was the plague village.We had our wedding reception there.Lovely village but the connotation is quite morbid I suppose if you arent a history buff like me..Lots of jokes in the speeches about not getting out of here alive and all that..

Sorry to hear that people arent feeling well.Everything is worse when you are pg as well-well it is for me but thats because I am a milksop.
Settled for the caff instead of the french luncheon, scrambled eggs on two toast, couldnt be bothered to walk to Sainsburys.I too am very unfit.

Arkwright's quite northerly I seem to remember- Bamford way? My family was from South Derbyshire- Swadlincote/Burton on Trent area, but a proper old pit town. In fact, my Grandad's death from emphysema was directly linked to working in the pit and my great-grandad was killed in a pit collapse the day my great-grandma found out she was pregnant with my grandma. My first ever boyfriend was from Holymoorside, lived on Greendale Avenue. Aah, fond memories. We held hands and pushed each other on the swings! Tis a lovely area, my parents moved and I was mainly raised in Norfolk butI went to university in Sheffield and loved going back down to Derbyshire for visits. I've stayed in Eyam a few times too and it's beautiful but yes, what a history!

Laughing at the Cheltenham dream. There was racing on there on Saturday. Perhaps you overheard something and it made you think of it. Children's clothes shop... Now THERE's an idea. Thought about that recently as it happens. I think there's a real gap in the market for 10 to 14 year olds. M&S and Next and Gap tend to have very little for that age group and the only girls' shop I can find is Tammy - which can be a bit chavvy.

LG&T - how sweet of the MIL to send you petrol money.

Hope you feel better soon April. Sorry about the pants MKG.

Scooter - mine is the house which was previously owned by a complete muppet who thought Georgian style u-PVC windows would suit an Edwardian House. Unfortunately they won't be due for replacement for years. Dammit. Blue gate.

We almost moved to Dalston. Made an offer on a house near London Fields. Am actually relieved it fell through now as I much prefer the house we just bought and the area. Well, I will be relieved when I eventually get my deposit money back off the swindling estate agents. Tch. Bailiffs managed to get £2K off them the other day. Take out the bailiff's fee of £1500 and we still have £7300 of the debt to go - at £2000 per month. Hopefully they won't go out of business before then.

Better get back to work. Am off Thurs and Fri for a wedding in Ireland and just this morning realised the extent of the work I've been putting off. Woops. Bad TYG, on mumsnet all the time.

SOH-Greendale avenue-that is so so spooky.We live, (well ive moved now obviously but my mum and Dad still do) literally a minute up the road from there at Riversdale farm on Holymoor road..(The old village laundry)What was his name?That is just so bizarre!!I used to have lots of mates that lived on Greendale avenue and I used to play there all the time..
Yes TYG, you are much better off in Muswell Hill IMO..Will look out for your gate when I am next on your road..
Off home now-started early this morn as well so thats a few lovely hours flexi accrued for me..Making a dash for post office largeandt but dont like my chances...Thus dont like the chances for your KK neither, but no matter if I succumb will call in again on my way to work...Like the sign says, 'if the signs flashing they're baking!'