Due May 07 - W/C 11th Feb

[Frenchsmallfry]

Morning all.............

This weeks resolution for me is to get off my bum and organise my life.

What a day SOH.
sorry nothing doing on the cat front just yet.Hopefully the rescue man will call and have a better answer.Dunno why but RSPCA staff always seem to be a little bit vague..Especially when you are desperate for news..
tea shops are one of my favourite things so am happy to just hole up in one of those for the afternoon, but I suppose dd might have other ideas..

Have sat down and done 30 mins work on my RMA.It is NOT NOT going well.F***G THING!
If I werent getting extra pay at the end, (And also if my job didnt technically depend on me having it by 2008)I most certainly would've chucked the lot out of the window by now!
Have been researching other jobs on t'interweb.I want something with shorter hours, nearer home, outdoorsy preferably and without numpty staff to manage or courses to do..Im thinking Postlady.I would love that.But Royal Mail will probably go bust soon so that will be that up the swanee...I wonder what else..All I have is a BA in History and Social Policy and some care and manual handling qualifications..And of course a charming and witty personality...(but you knew that bit already!)

Yes or we can always meet impromptu in the Maid TYG, especially after you finish work.I can always swing a jaunt up there as we have another service in East Finchley that I have to cover sometimes and also im the manager so I can always bugger off somewhere to do 'an assessment'..
Well no offence but gald I wasnt the only one scuppered!

Back to work before dd wakes up again..

The most important thing that I want to know is how you managed to sit through Moulin Rouge? And the second thing is how you have the nerve to do karaoke? I couldn't bring myself to stand up and sing in front of real, live people. Don't they look at you?

Just checked out your profile- what an amazing thing you did with your dd. A very selfless, but ultimately very rewarding thing. However, 3 years old? Eek! I look after my godchildren one weekend a month (5yr old girl, 3yr old boy and 9 month old girl) and I've come to respect anybody with a three year old. It's that great time when children start to change into very wilful little people. Fascinating, but tiring!

So, is this little one your last, or are you trying for a football team. I quite fancy a big family- 5 would be lovely but DH is from a huge family and thinks 2/3 will be enough.

lol could always find time to sit thru moulin rouge u not a fan??? its soooo differently romantic (secretly always wished i lived in a romance film - im soppy really but dont tell anyone)as for karaoke well got told i could sing as a kid and just got stuck into it - the more people the better hehe (typical leo)and as far as dd yes yes yes yes all true !!!!!!!!!!!haha at the moment we r at the stage that she makes me giggle cuz she acts 20 years my senior lol

lol and the last baby was the last one!! haha libby-jaine decided this herself

Moulin Rouge What a pile of shoite. A friend had this ridiculously posh girlfriend who saw it and told us that it was wonderful and she said, "Oh, Ay just adooooorre Baz Luhrmann."

DH and I tried to watch it and all the way through we just kept saying, "Ay just adooorre Baz Luhrmann!" and collapsing into fits of giggles. T'was the only thing that kept us going. I might have kicked the television otherwise.

Sorry lillaura! No offence.

Hey quite fancy a mini-meet in April avec Scoot and TYG. Of course you are most welcome up here in lovely rural Norfolk but we could always try for somewhere lovely half way if that turned out to be easier. I love Cambridge for example. Anywhere with a teashop. Hey, we could hire a punt- me falling in the Cam heavily pregnant has got to be worth a laugh! "Mad cat lady last seen wandering the streets of Norwich in her slippers has turned out floating down the Cam like a water buffalo screeching 'this is not the waterbirth I envisaged'. Again, do not approach her, she is now thought highly unstable." I too am fairly busy in March with antenatal jiggery pokery (though as my dear ol' ma pointed out last night, there's nothing left for me to learn I've rather devoured anything about pregnancy/labour related since September- it's DH that's going to be studying). Plus having a break at Center Parcs in March, practicing the water buffalo in tankini look.

Disappointed that you both missed your London meet. All the best people couldn't make it after all ( Don't tell the others I said that ).

Scooter, what about park ranger? Guide? You quite like good life type stuff don't you? Would you think about retraining? There are lots of schemes run up here for training up people to work in landscaping/conservation/gardening etc. I'm sure there would be things nearer you. What about the police force? Police community support officer? They have a cycling brigade of support officers now. Always quite fancy that on a dry, sunny day.

no offence taken think its funny - im a common gal and didnt think id like it was suffering PND 1st time i watched maybe i got emoionally attached to ewan mcgreggor

I don't think I'd mind being attached in any way to Euwan McGregor. I like to listen to him.

oh you mentioning tea shops just reminded me of wen dh and i met (see soppy) in stow-on-the-wold in the cotswolds - sigh so many little teashops and bits and bobs shops lovely little place

I am incapable of sitting through Moulin Rouge. Usually about 20 minutes in I'm trying to work out the logistics of manoeuvering the television through the french doors, onto the balcony and into the river. I think it's a love it or hate it sort of film. I don't particularly like romance anyway (although I love Brokeback Mountain and The Notebook- exceptions to the rule) and am a terrible film watcher. I usually fall asleep, probably during approximately 80% of films or become incredibly annoying and start a running commentary of the 'and are we supposed to believe that Keira 'Knock Me Down With a Feather' Knightley got the role of Elizabeth Bennett based on acting talenta alone or is it more attributable to her ability to look like the first giggling, human toothpick' kind.

Ooh, my secret loathing for Keira Knightley just surfaced there. I do apologise.

no maybe not the teashop thing then maybe im in love with ewan dreamingly waddles around kitchen with my hiormones i could fall in love with anyone at the mo lol

Farking hell. I wanted to kill someone when I saw KK in P&P. DD liked it and then I bought her the BBC version from ages ago - the mini series one.

She LOVED it and watches it all the time and can't get over how utterly shoite the new film version is in comparison.

She's now reading P&P and Jane Eyre.

sorry wasnt ignoring you just uploading some pic on profile

Aah the BBC mini-series. Now, I have that on DVD and watch it very regularly. You can keep your Ewan McWhatsit and I'll have Colin Firth.

Fantastic that your beautifully named dd is reading the classics- just the right age to get into them before she becomes a cynical teenager! I have to admit that even today when there's a rolling mist at work (library backs onto lake/moors), I stride around outside in my swishiest skirt pretending I'm looking for Heathcliff.

I need to stop revealing these things on MN. I am an entirely normal if slightly hormonal librarian who actually believes I was born in the wrong century- might be why I want to move to a remote isle and live the Good Life, pretend the modern world doesn't exist.

where u and colin flying out from then me and ewan r joining u lol

Raising petition to have lilaura kicked off MN for being too darn young and pretty.

I'm deleting my profile!

Seriously, you are very pretty and you LOs are very adorable.

[WashedUpOldHag]

no dont say that - i spend most of time looking tired and haggered and not remembering to brush my hair they were off chance pics - but do u think ewan would run away with me???

thankyou tho i think lol

Hey, you want Ewan to run anywhere just ask me to chase him.

You and LWatkins are officially too young and pretty to even be real people.

Please don't look at my Profile, I look like your badly aged grandmother.

Scooter - sorry to hear you have been stuck in, my dp has a bad back he has broken it twice and it is bad alot - dont they milk it tho - I can be the most sympathetic person - but men take the P when they are in pain

SOH sorry to hear you have been on wild goose chase with cat news, hope you hear something soon - ooohhh Colin Firth yummmyyy, me thinks we would make a nice couple lol

I have only watched molin rouge once - I was zonked on copius amounts of painkillers when I was expecting dd adn friend bought it round - was sooo boring but i couldnt move to turn it off lol - not on my favorites list

And me...

DD up now so no more work will get done.I would like to say ive broken the back of it.I have not..
Cambridge might be a goer then.Few nice student types would perk me up no end.

I like Baz Lurhmann fils as well lilaura and I didnt mind Moulin Rouge, but I really loved Romeo and Juliet.The soundtrack was fab..
I HATE Knightley as well.

But obviously if we are talking directors dahlings...Does anyone know who did weekend at bernies?

You see the problem with Romeo and Juliet was the presence of Leonardo Sproutface. His pubescent whining was not befitting a romantic hero. Elements of it were very good I must admit and John Leguizamo (Tybalt) and Harold Perrineau (Mercutio) were outstanding. But Claire Danes? No no no no no no no no. It fell victim to popular casting for its leads.

I remember having to watch the Franco Zeffirelli version at school and the boys being very excited at the promise of nudity from our English teacher- oh yes, that would be Romeo that gets nekkid then... and I seem to remember that 13yr old Juliet had the most heaving bosom known to man in that version.