Due May 07 - W/C 29th Jan

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

That poem was lovely.....

I hope the missing kitty has come back home now....

Susan

SOH-Im sure she wouldnt have fallen in the river-cats are not so keen on water as a rule and of course they are very agile..Also they can swim quite well-its surprising.Ours fell in a pond once and swam to the side just like a dog.Ten to one she will be sitting on the step when you get home, or she will come back tomorrow having had some adventure or other.Im sure of it.Chin up sweetheart..boo at dh as well-its like one of the fmaily has gone missing so its understandable that you would be upset.I once threw a sicky becuase our cat was missing and I wasnt even pg then!Men just dont get it sometimes re cats.My one doesnt anyway..

Londoners-TYG is right-some of us may have had babies by May!Or we may go into labour at the excitement of seeing each other in the flesh!I propose we meet up sooner-Anyone free beginning of March?

NSL-Jealous at the Cath Kidston.My CK mack was much admired at the v festival!I love the thing!Did you go to the lovely CK shop on Marylebone High st? Sigh-I adore that shop..

Have a lovely weekend TYG..

Thanks lupins, we are not staying at Tylney.......... Bloody hell, I'm not that rich!!!!!!! Wish I was, hehe it's very posh. My bf is not there anymore but lives in Hook now.

AM sorry you are still feeling rough..

Scooter, I am soooooooo with you on the cheap shopping spree's. Don't do posh shopping!! Will be having a good look at new look next week.

SOH, keeping fingers crossed for the return of kitty when you get home. let us know!

Haven't heard from lg&t yet, bet she's having a lovely child free time, she deserves it I think, surely super powers can't last forever they must need recharging occasionaly.

A meet-up. How exciting. Promise to speak to you all too (and not just guess if it's you!)

Are we talking during the week or weekends? I don't go on maturnity leave until May, so could only do evenings and weekends until then.

Am free weekend 3/4th March and DH is away, but don't know what you had in mind...

SOH, meant to say, when she does come back, I hate to say it but bet she's got some babies on the way too!!!!!! That's normally the reason they go, it is about time at the moment, have you noticed any signs, bum rubbing on floor, restlessness etc......? She's got a boy friend somewhere!!

DH has just rung and apologised for not being more sympathetic. He has phoned the vet to register Taqko missing and she said that at her age she has just reached maturity and is probably off looking for "friends"- we know she's in heat because of the constant yowling and rubbing herself on the floor (hence the booking her in for neutering next week) but there are no tom cats nearby that we know of so goodness knows how far she's wandered. DH said she was very reassuring and not to panic just yet. Still, going to pound the streets tonight, shaking a box of biscuits. It'll be in the news tomorrow..."distressed pregnant woman roams darkened streets, armed only with a box of cat biscuits. Witnesses claim she was shouting into the dark and sobbing frantically. We do not have reason to believe that this woman is dangerous to anybody other than herself. However, do not approach her yourself but instead contact the 'Mad Pregnant Woman' helpline for advice".

The best line ever out of Black Books btw is 'Now...which one of you bitches wants to dance?', and in the same tirade 'Hey, you know when you're doing the usual threesome thing you do of a weekend, and the moonlight's bouncing off your heads and your arses and everything, does that not get a bit confusing?' That whole bit is hilarious with Bernard trying to get out of doing his tax return.

Also love:

Rich Guy: Those books. How much?
Bernard: Hmmm?
Rich Guy: Those books. The leather-bound ones.
Bernard: Yes, Dickens, the Collected Works of Charles Dickens.
Rich Guy: Are they real leather?
Bernard: They're real Dickens.
Rich Guy: I have to know if they're real leather because they have to go with the sofa.
[Bernard looks confused]
Rich Guy: Everything else in my house is real. I'll give you two hundred for them.
Bernard: Two hundred what?
Rich Guy: Two hundred pounds.
Bernard: Are they leather-bound pounds?
Rich Guy: No.
Bernard: Sorry. I need leather bound pounds to go with my wallet. Next.

Oh and from Dylan Moran's stand-up I just love 'I control sandwich monkey!'

I want to come to a meet-up. Tis not fair. No house, no cat, no meet-up.

Har har har....(ROFL) SOH, now I really must get some of this BBook stuff on disc. Sounds hilarious.

Good update re your kitty too. When they're in heat they're like pg women (a bit mad). She'll come home with smile on, I'm sure...

Why don't we start another thread for the London meetup so's we don't bore the rest of the ladies with our planning? Check it out!

soh, hope your cat comes home soon. i can't express enough how much my pets have meant to me over the years. in fact, i updated my profile last night with a photo of my dog. why not, he is sort of my first child. it seems that outside cats do this from time to time. try not to worry and be sure to give her lots of kisses and treats when she comes home. perhaps better than a box of biscuits would be a few horny tomcats? that ought to get her home.

i am so jealous of the meetup.

Jess......That is a lovely dog and as we know Munch is just edable!! Jess we want to see you???????????????????????

SOH, did you like my poem???? It was sort of put on here with you in mind as to our posts a few days ago.
LOL at your mad pregnant helpline. I had an argument over a Macdonalds with dh when pregnant with ds, I remember making him stop the car so I could get out, It was the end of Nov, feezing cold and I was 8mths pregnant. I stormed off down the road bawling and continuing the argument to my self whilst he drove round the block. He came back and curb crawled me for a while before coaxing me back into the car. It was a busy main route through Bournemouth I'm suprised some white coeated men didn't appear and nwisk me to some where safe.

I've never even heard of these black books business????? Sounds like I'm missing something big.

i reluctantly added a photo of myself to my profile. photos of me are fairly rare considering that i am always the one behind the camera and if someone else has a camera i usually duck or stick out my tongue or something. i am not a good model at all.
munch is so mad at me right now. poor guy. i won't let him slam his drink into my laptop. it seems like that is all he wants to do right now. did i tell you all that he started walking for real this time? it is about time! he is sixteen months old!!! i am so proud of the little guy. every single day he gets more and more fun.

Thanks Jess, beautiful pictures. Nice to put faces to names. Well done little munch on your proper walking now. Keep mummy running around after you.

Where's everyone else tonight then?????

LWwatkins you are quiet today,

Jess what a cute dog you've got. You can see mine in my profile too. She really is a lot more work than DS I'm ashamed to admit. DH has spoiled her rotten!! Lovely photo of you too - sunshine halo Congrats to Munch too.

LOL FSF at your rant over Macdonalds. I also had a totally bonkers pg-induced rant at DH (over a doctors' appointment and translations into German - don't ask) whereby I attempted to flee the car. All highly dramatic and embarrassing afterwards

Bought some pink dummies today. Gosh I really hope it does turn out to be a girl...

Thank goodness that J is going back to nursery tomorrow. Think dh is just about to reach breaking point. Can tell this as he is making me feel bad for being ill I know he feels pants as well, but at least he can dose up on drugs to beat it, i get paracetamol which is next to useless and halls soothers that dont do anything either. Have fallen asleep on the sofa twice today and been moaned at, does he not realise that my immune system is being sucked on by Ella and there isnt anything i can do about it. I am very rarely poorly, and this has totally knocked me for six.

SOH, lucky you, with any luck you will have a house full of kittens by end of March! And then you have to hang onto them for 9weeks. Mind you at least you wont be allowed to sort the litter trays out..... Yuk.... Lovely, dont envy you that one

Hurray! Picure of Jess! I can't get over how cute Munch is.

I'm NOT having a good evening. Decided I'd better pop my damaged bonnet to check the catch was ok before I take to the motorway tomorrow and the sodding thing won't close properly. Phoned DH in emotional distress to ask him to go to get some rope on the way home so I can tie the damn thing shut. He decides that would be a good time to mention that he won't BE home til much later as he's having dinner with a friend. Oh, thanks for telling me, now I've put the frickin' dinner in the oven. And to make it worse, I feel like crying with self pity instead of just being a bit put out. Dammit. Pathetic really. DH says he'll sort it out later or tomorrow, but I bet he can't be arsed.

Could get the train or even a cab to the airport tomorrow, but wouldn't you know I've already booked and paid £50 for the bloody parking and there's a 24 hour cancellation policy. Nnnggghhh.

However, I did just see my very nice new GP who booked me in to see the community midwives to arrange my homebirth. Finally. Althought it means yet another skive off work next week. I'd better tell my boss what's going on, ie that I've been bumped around a bit due to changing hospital trusts.

Boo hoo, poor me.

Ignore me; I'm just pregnant.

Oh, one exciting thing happened today.... i got the nice baby bouncer chair i ordered - yay... very pleased with it

Forgot to say AM - I'm sorry you're still poorly.

Ok this is getting far too spooky!!!

So it seems that lots of you have connections in one way or another, or have bumped into each other recently.... Well, it turns out that just by mentioning Tylney Hall that FSF knows some of my old school friends and even my bf's dh VERY SMALL WORLD

Eek! That's very spooky indeed!

Have just read a thread about a poor woman whose 14 year old daughter who has been refusing to come home from a freind's house. Poor woman is looking after a disabled son, two other kids and is in a wheelchair herself.

Thoroughly ashamed of myself for being such a whinge now.

Hey AM, how on earth can you post on here and talk on MSN at the same time, you are too bloody clever girl, (your ill remember don't show the mute gorilla you can still do two things at once)

Sad post TYG, you've got to feel for people

Right am getting off this damnn stool for a while coxex is wriggling and baby is hurting....... OR is that the other way round

Hello everybody hope you're all well. When does everyone finish work? I'm stuck there until 30th March worst luck although officially my mat leave doesn't start until 16th April. I'm a teacher and there's no way I'm using Easter holiday as part of leave. Doesn anyone know when you're supposed to get the Mat B1 form? I'm sure I'd had it by now last time. I've been to see the gp tonight about my sciatics. Mw said it would be best to see them as they can transfer me immediately for physio - not the one I saw, obviously. He wants me to try something other than paracetomol first so has prescribed some apparently 'safe' painkillers. I'm really not happy about taking 6 tablets a day even if he says they are ok during pregnancy. m-i-l has lent me a heated pad that you wrap around your back so I'm going to give that a try. Dh finished wiring the new tv in in the bedroom this morning so I may retire soon!

SOH hope your cat has turned up. I bet it will come home when it's all shagged out!!!

FSF I love that poem, we read it at ds naming ceremony and made lots of people cry.

I think you get the mat b1 past 20wks, but i havent seen my mw since 16weeks so should hopefully get it next week.

Goddammit, forgot to get my MAT1B today. Fck. Am nearly 25 weeks. I'm sure I'm supposed to have it in soon... Better put a post-it in my antenatal book or something.

I'm leaving on 30th March as well AbbyLou, in time for DD's Easter holidays.

Perhaps you can "officially" start your maternity leave after the easter holidays, so that the holiday is holiday and the leave starts afterwards?

Sorry TYG, maybe I wasn't clear - that is what I am doing. My work as such will stop on 30th March but I will be paind fully until 16th April. I'm hoping to have some maternity leave before the baby is boen this time. Ds was3 weeks early and I hadn't even finished work so I had no time to prepare anything.

Duh, that's what you ARE doing Abbylou. I'm losing it. Completely.

Was smugly sitting here thinking dinner was all ready to come out of the oven, forgetting I hadn't done any potatoes for it. Arse.