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.

Morning all.

Just done TPT and I'm still only 10 sheets so must be getting a hollow back and bump is huge!

Off to a posh coffee shop with friends this morning so will catch up later.

Morning all,
Just a quickie today as have meetings all am then midwife amd need to try to get dh something for Valentines day..

FSF-I want to put dd in the bed before the baby comes so she doesnt feel too pushed out by dd2 taking her cot.Im getting a very low bed with raised sides at foot and head from IKEA,it about £100 all in, and we have the thing that goes under the mattress to stop her falling out of the middle-but it wouldnt be far to fall if she did, as its so low to the ground.Both dd's will be in the same room for now anyway and there is a gate on the door so not too worried about dd1 escaping and getting where she shouldnt..
DD1 will be quite little when she first goes in her bed but I dont want to risk her being mentally ill after being pushed from her cot by the new one!(And Im simply too tight to get her a new cot for the interim)

And now I want Lasagne.I used to go out with a lovely Italian boy and his lasagne was something else!

Mutter, mutter, size 10 jeans, grrr, LW..i was a size 8-10 before I had dd.I will never see that again without the help of a surgeon.(Although as my friend pointed out yesterday, Lipo is really very reasonable these days and you can pay for it monthly now..Im seriously considering it).She says, eating a huge piece of caramel off of a family size bar..

thanks for the link to the p and t April-have forwarded it to dh as a hint..

tata for today ladies as wont get on later..x

Morning all,

Today is MN-day as everybody I work for is out of the office today. Hopefully will get some time to catch up on all your chatting.

Spend most of Sunday morning with DH in Ikea and mothercare. We've been given a cot, changing table and wardrobe by some of our friends who are not having anymore beans, so all we have to do is buy cute little extras.

Got nice (fabric) storage boxes from Ikea, but I had to hold DH back as he was planning to buy large plastic storage boxes for the 'baby's toys'. The little bean hasn't even been born yet, and currently only has 4 cuddly toys and a book. DH also insisted on buying a cot bumper with matching quilt(he's worried about the draft as we have floorboards)

We still haven't decided on important stuff like cot mattrasses and pushchairs. I saw the silvercross 3D pram on Sunday and I think I like it more than the MamasandPapas Pilko. (all DH will say on the pushchairs is whether or not he likes the colour and how small does it fold up)

Anyway, time for a mocha and a second breakfast and plenty of time to read through last weeks chats

Hello all.

I'm absolutely knackered today.Flipping back and pelvis pain meant that I hardly got any sleep last night. No amount of adjusting the dream genii or any of the other vast amount of pillows seemed to help. It's strange because all day yesterday the top of my bump really ached - just at the top of my ribcage, underneath the knocker area. I wasn't sure if it was ligament stretch or the bobba's head/bum/feet poking up there. I'm starting to think now that it must be the bobba having a growth spurt and my bump was stretching to accommodate him/her. Maybe he/she is so big now that my knackered old back and pelvis just can't take the weight any more. I tried to get DH to have a feel of my bump and to tell me if he thought it was noticeably bigger. All he would say is that it felt like I was "having a leopard". Cuh. Whatever that means!

My god, what a lesson, grrrrrrrrrr, I thought I was doing well, but today we tackled direct pronouns????? I have to admit that I need to re-cap my English on this before I can even start to get my head around it in another language. SOH, TYG and anyone else with an amazing grip on the English Language. HELP!!!!

Oh I am very well and I have finished unpacking thank you SOH. tres bien!

Decided to make eggy bread for lunch, Is that really bad????

Have my gloucose test booked for tommorow. Grrrrrrrrrr YUK YUK YUK!!

I think you are right scooter, I'm going to have to do it before baby and put dd in her toddler bed, she wont go anywhere, don't think she can open her door yet and we shut it tight. Wooahhha.

Hey jellybump, lol at the storage boxes for toys, believe me it won't be long til you'll be cursing all the damnn toys. Mine are limited to one each, they choose it on a daily basis from a small drawer.

Direct/ Indirect pronounds. I remember those. I think!

This is knowing when to use le/ la/ le or lui/ leur, yes?

Might I suggest getting a high school text book like La Grammaire en Clair ? I used that at school and managed to get a fairly good grip of French grammar and used the equivalent book for German grammar, which is even more complex. (Genetive case and all that - gagh!)

FSF, my French A level essay questions were:

Est il droit de craindre la perte de jeunesse?

Fait le sport concurrentiel encouragent l'agression?

Or words to that effect.

Eh, what? I don't know if I could answer them in English. How do I know if we should fear the loss of youth or whether competitive sport encourages aggression.

Surprised I passed tbh.

Direct pronouns are killer...

French was my best result in my Leaving Certificate. (It's a bit more like the baccalaureate than A-levels I think.) Do you think I can remember a single word when actually there? No. I expect if I was there for a few weeks, it would start to come back to me. Likewise German/ Italian. It's so frustrating not being able to remember the vocab.

How are we today? I've utterly lost patience at work. Some of the blokes on the desk STILL think it's hysterical to ask me what I'm having for lunch. Ho, hum, yes Hormonal TYG - ask her what she's eating today, it will really annoy her. How funny.

My dad was sent to hospital for emergency tests yesterday by his GP. Seems his years of excessive drinking, smoking, not getting any exercise and not eating properly have taken their toll on his blood pressure and circulation among other things. There's a surprise. He had to go back to the hospital again for more tests today. Waiting to hear how he got on. No doubt they will tell him to give up the cider, eat better (he's just given up cigars, so that's one thing off the list), but to be honest, I can't see him doing it. I'm not sure he cares enough to make lifestyle changes. He's only 60 this year. Depressing.

French lessons?? I think i'm going to need some extra English lessons soon.

A pregnancy brain + a cold + far too many sleepless nights = very dodgy english.

In Holland we had Dutch, German, French and English lessons from the age of 12. Not that I remember much of it now. It all seems to merge into one very strange mix that even I don't seem to understand at the moment.

I want to go home and sleep please

I had to do a test in Dutch (never having learned it - the idea was to see how much you could pick up), to see if I was suitable for doing Russian at uni.

They gave you a piece to read in Dutch and asked comprehension questions in English. It was much easier than I expected. I suppose it helped a lot, that I'd done German. I love the way Dutch sounds. Germanic languages was another course I fancied at uni. Not that I ever took up my place in the end. Oh well.

Thanks SOH and TYG, yes TYG you are right, it is something about replacing the compliment of the sentence with me, te, le, la, les, l' etc.... so that you don't have to repeat the whole sentence again. ie: Est-ce que vous voyez votre vouisin dans la rue?
Oui, je le vois or Non, je ne le vois pas.
Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr

I struggle to work out the part of the sentence that I need to change though?

Thanks for the book advice TYG, I'll have a look at that link. Sorry to hear about your father, maybe the scare will lead him to think about his lifestyle.

The book has exercises which are boring and repetative, but there is nothing like learning "parrot fashion" for boring things like this. It eventually sinks in when you've written it out twenty times!

Thanks. Hopefully. Wouldn't be the first time he's had a health scare though and he's still managed to single handedly keep the local pub and Strongbow in business.

Oh the part you need to change is the "object of the action". The "action" in the sentence is "see" and the object or the thing that the seeing was happening to, is the neighbour. (I presume it's menat to be voisin?)

So you don't repeat "le voisin" or say "mon voisin", and say "I saw my/ the neighbour", you say "I saw him", just like you would in English. Just the placing of the word "him" is different - it goes before the verb, so you say "Je le vois."

If I'm wrong on this, please somebody say something!

Gosh you bunch of linguists you. All this talk of languages is making me feel very guilty about abandoning my quest to speak perfect spanish. Oh well...maybe when I'm on maternity leave (hahahahaha)

Jelly I'm with you. Want to go home and sleep. Cold is abating (Finally), although it seems DH has it now, so instead of chilling out when I get home, I will have to pamper him - only fair as he did a lovely job of pampering me at the weekend.

I hate my job beyond belief and even knowing I only have another 50 odd days left seems like a lifetime.

Need to win the premium bonds or even just £50K on the lottery would do. I'm not greedy - Anyone out there listening???

Yeah what TYG said...

ie

Est-ce que vous avez mangé le homme de pain d'épice?

oui je l'ai mangé

Anybody seen the Emmas Diary thread on here? Anybody managed to read all of it?

Here, for your amusement is my Emma's Diary entry for last night:

'Not so darling DH buggered off to MIL's for dinner leaving me at home to wait for the Tescos delivery. Discovered that I shouldn't have let DH do the online shop because he'd eschewed the normal route of 'bread, milk, cheese' and plumped for a family size packet of biscuits, some coconut snowballs, jaffa cakes and a litre of orange juice. Settled down to watch Eddie Izzard DVD. Baby got hiccups, spilt half a litre of orange juice over my epic-sized bump in shock. Couldn't get up because of sciatica so sat there, drenched in orange juice, stuffing chocolate snowballs into my mouth. Pelvic floor failed to cope with Eddie Izzard's best efforts. DH rolled in at midnight to find his gargantuan pregnant wife covered in coconut and orange juice remains, snoring and farting simultaneously with half a jaffa cake in her hair'

I'm so glamorous.

Juicy, I worked out this morning that I only have 33 days left in the office as I have tons of holiday to take before my ML. 33 days is nothing really but it feels like forever at the moment

TYG, you're not wrong on this. Learning the 'theory' behind the language is sometime I always enjoyed. After a while it just become natural.

Saying that, it took me ages to work out the difference in english between to bring back and to take back. (i'm taking the video back to the video shop, can you bring me back some chocolate from the shop...)

Jelly, have you noticed that Americans reverse the take/bring thing? ie at work, American students often ask if they can 'take this book back' when in fact they wish to return it or bring it back. I don't mind it until the English students start to ape it.

I'm a bit of a linguistic nut. My undergrad degree is literature, linguistics and creative writing and I found the linguistics element incredibly interesting. I'm quite a bore though so don't get me started on it.

Guy on bus this morning said: "I literally fudged it". Now to a linguist that's fairly amusing, no?

Anybody want to find me a maternity swimsuit? I want something high-coverage. Lots of tankinis but I want them with shorts not little bikini briefs. I have stretch marks on my upper thighs and want to cover up...

Morning all
Sorry I have not been around recently as at last weeks scan (24 weeks), Twin 1 (exomphalos) was diagnosed with a rotated heart, hole in the heart, dual outlet right ventricle, and a large feeding vein going into the heart that the consultant radiologist had never seen before. DH and I went into meltdown. We tried to be normal over the weekend for DD but it was so hard.

We were referred to a cardiac specialist who we saw yesterday who said she is 98% sure the heart is fine. It just looks funny as it twisted out of its normal position due to the weight of the liver and bowel being on the outside and pulling it down a little. The large vein is just out of the normal position as it has to go outside the chest/abdominal cavity to get to the exomphalos. This is apparently usual with exomphalos babies.

We have been through the mill this weekend and I feel exhausted but so relieved that things seem to be back on track again. DH says definitley no more kids after this as he can't face the worry again. I think 3 will be plenty though!

I will have to get my life organised now as I feel like I have been in limbo for most of this pregnancy. I've almost been too scared to buy anything. I will have to check out DDs stuff and work out what we need.

DD has been in her cotbed as a bed since Christmas as Father Christmas brought her some new big girls bedding. She was on the floor next to the bed for two nights in the morning during the first week but I heard no thumps and bumps so assume she got out of bed and then lay down again. She has been fine and has not even got out in a morning she shouts Mummy and Daddy to come and get her.

Take care, CM

Oops forgot TPT now measuring 11 sheets!

CM ate all the pies
CM ate all the pies
You fat biffa You fat bifa
CM ate all the pies

Jelly - take and bring is something that is far more interchangable in Ireland than here. DH, to this day, is "charmed by my Irishness" when I say things like, "Where are you bringing me?"

To me, "Where are you taking me?" sound like I'm being taken against my will...

Ooh, the vagaries of the English language. I could go on for hours. But don't worry, I wont!

Charley - You poor, poor things. How horribly worrying for you. I'm so glad to hear that the cardiologist had better news for you.

SOH - perhaps together, we can be secret pedants?

Not quite the same, but I say 'what did you bring me?' to DH a lot- with outstretched, upturned palm.

It's a euphemism for 'gingerbread NOW'.

Most Irish people can say anything and it just sounds lyrical and magical. My clipped English tones just make everything I say seem like an order.

Ooh secret pedants. I like it. Maybe I can vent spleen on here to you about pre-pubescents on the bus who utter sentences such as 'He was like I got it in Fat Face and I was like so totally blown away that I like literally was on the floor'.

Charley, how bloody terrifying. I'm glad that things are not as suggested at your scan. You must feel exhausted by it all.

Charley, that sounds pretty scary. Hope the specialist put you and DH at ease.

Sorry, I just have to mention this. It must be the weirdest ever 'must have item throughout pregnancy'. Found it on the Blooming Marvellous website when looking for swimsuits. It's the aqua mum swimming support.

i'll try to do a link this

"Lyrical and magical". I love it! DH loves most of my colloquialisms, except for when I say "them" instead of "those". I know it's wrong, it's just habit. It really gets on his nerves. I told him I'd stop if he stopped saying "off of". I told him there is no need for the "of", e.g. "I got off the bus" is correct. I got "off of the bus" sounds ridiculous and "I got the book off of him" instead of "I got the book from him" is even worse!

DD says "I was like" when she means "I said". She was saying it so much that I started repeating it. It was awful! Now I insert lots of other words, so when she says "I was like", I talk over the next part and say, "I said/ whispered/ responded" and it drives her nuts! She is improving, though!

I hate "literally" as well. I had a teacher who banned us from saying "actually" unless we meant "at the present time", because it was such an over-used word.