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derlor · 08/04/2007 21:28

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foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:43

derlor, where are you? I need to talk chocolate club.

I'm not happy about this choc club business. For a start it took me 10 mins to get through to them on the phone, then they told me that if I wanted to cancel I could just sent them £16.95 for the chocs.

No, says I, they are free? Whats this 9.95 for? that's a membership fee. but it says on the website there's no enrolement fee, which is what effectively it is. And it also says that its £15.95 a month.

Now, I would have probably treated myself to bi-monthly deliveries, but they are so crap that I'm not going to. And I haven't even opened the chocs yet!!

Your experience pls derlor! Or did you tear into them, scoff em and sod em?!

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:43

Holly, its good to have a hobby!

I am going to go and do some exercise, really really really.

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:46

bumper, i am PMSL at the waterproof exercise book you can attach to the bath ...

hollyandalice · 10/04/2007 13:46

£16.95 for a box of chocs? They best have been the best bloody chocs in the world! Bite them all in half and send them back!!

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:47

holly, if you don't come back from shopping soon I'll have to go and exercise ...

derlor, come in from the cold and talk chocolate

anyone?

hollyandalice · 10/04/2007 13:48

I'm here!!!!

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:48

Its shocking isn't it?!

I was quite happy with my half price creme egg dozen from sainsburys yesterday too! Am going to give them a tenner and keep them, but am not going to join. I'd rather join a cheese club.

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:49

phew! I've got the creche booked til 3.30, so I'm going at 2.

in theory.

hollyandalice · 10/04/2007 13:50

Oooo cheese club, now you're talking!! Do they exist? I could get dp a membership for xmas! He loves cheese even more than me!

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 13:55

yes! actually a friend of mine in Australia is a member of one and I checked them out when we got back after our trip there at Christmas. There's a few around. The yummy, rinded, mouldy soft cheeses she served up were divine! I know, pregnancy and soft cheese don't go!

hollyandalice · 10/04/2007 14:02

I just found one, it's £30 a month and you get 4 big lumps. I want a cheaper one with less cheese!

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 14:04

right, I'm off! Be back at about 4. Will feel like Mom of the year for giving kids activities all day, be virtuous for doing an hour and a half at the gym (if I hurry up) and my house will be sparkly clean and tidy as its tuesday. So I will let the kids watch tv, log on here and crack open the choccies!

Am off to Bristol tomorrow for a few days to see my family, so it'll be quiet from Foxys world. Its my birthday on Friday

hows our secret shower doing? haven't checked my email or the other thread yet.

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 14:04

hee hee, am encouraging Holly to shop ....

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 14:05

logging off right about..... now

doggus · 10/04/2007 15:24

Holly - cheese club - I gave dh a year's sub to Neal's Yard Dairy club, it was expensive (we got the cheapest sub) but soooo good. Maybe it was the one you found - we did get more cheese than we could possibly eat and froze a lot.

I haven't found ANY half price choc down here but am delighted to find 12 creme eggs at the back of my 'bad' cupboard.

I win on dh age - the poor bugger is 50 next week! We have an eleven year gap, and met at work, neither of us had had any children or been married before which I guess is quite unusual.

Just seen the time, got to go to physio

bumperlicious · 10/04/2007 15:37

Well Foxy, we can't all be good like you and go to the gym! Bathrobics is as about the closest I'm going to get at the moment. Though I have yoga tonight, but only if I manage to tidy up in time!

Doggus you beat me on the old man front! How is DH coping with turning 50?! Mine hates birthdays and went into total denial when he turned 40. Still haven't kids running around will keep em young!

Mmmm, just had the most ginormous tiger bread french stick for my lunch from morrisons. Don't know what they do to it but it tastes yummy and twigletty! How can I still be hungry tho? Regretting going past all the yummy cakes and choccie in morrisons, though I might make banana loaf.

bumperlicious · 10/04/2007 15:53

I've got some little easter bunny chocs and min cream eggs that I meant to sent to my little brothers. V tempted to eat them myself, I mean am I ever going to get around to sending them?

doggus · 10/04/2007 16:52

Bumper - he is taking turning 50 quite well, he looks, dresses, acts much younger, so everyone is astounded when he says how old he is. His father was 51 when he was born, so it is tradition! As you say, children will help - I read an interview with John Simpson who has had a child aged 65-ish and he was very positive about beneficial health effects.

I had such a healthy lunch (ham salad) but am still starving and tucking into chocolate merrily - I should def keep that present and eat it today, bumper, after all Easter is over!

Happy birthday for Friday, Foxy!

hollyandalice · 10/04/2007 16:59

Well..bloody vertbaudet have finally delivered my jeans and they've sent me skinny standard length instead of bootcut long! TBH I'm a bit pissed off, but I can't wait another 2 weeks for them to send me a new pair, so I might just turn them up and wear them as 3/4 length.

Hope you had fun at the gym foxy. Did you manage to do any exercise?

bumperlicious · 10/04/2007 17:40

My DH's dad was 40 when he got married and had kids too, must be some genetic thing. The good thing is we never had that awkward relationship stage where I couldn't mention marriage or kids, like some people I now, even though they've been going out years!

Well, I have a banana loaf in the oven, been food shopping, house is tidy (well, living room is tidy) feeling like a proper wife for a change!

Foxy are British or a forner! Just wondering why you use Mom instead of mum?

What a bugger about your jeans H&A, bet they still look fab though!

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 18:06

foxy.

When I was at the kids activity today, one acquaintaince (don't even know her name, just see her around) verbally pointed her finger at me and said to her friend 'this lady is having NUMBER 4!', her friend, obviously having no manners or social skills looked absolutely horrified!! WTF is it with some people?? I just said "its not for everyone", but next time I'm going to say "guess I'm just more maternal and better at it than you". fucking fuckers.

foxybrown · 10/04/2007 18:09

foxy

whilst on the rowing machine, young skinny woman asked me how much longer I had left because I 'looked amazing'. We had a chat, she didn't have children herself, but was telling me that her friends tell her that you forget the pregnancy, I told her at this point that this was number 4. Again, she looked shocked, but continued to tell me how great and amazing I looked!! we liked her

Daisybump · 10/04/2007 18:09

Hello....I'm back. Haven't hadtime to run through the old thread...one a week that is impressive! or catch up on this one, but will do later.

Holiday was great.....great to see family, then have been in Boston (Lincs) with DH for the Easter weekend which was just fab. DH and I getting on like a house on fire, DS behaving (generally) and happy smily people all round doing touristy things like visiting windmills and buying bulbs and lunching out a lot....now bloody skint, but hey ho, a grand time was had by all.

DS is very spotty though...rash around his middle which looks suspiciously like chicken pox. Showed up yesterday and is spreading, but not much. Pharmacist said yesterday it was too early to tell, so we're booked into the docs tomorrow. He's been really clingy and grumpy today and not his usual hurricane self the wee soul.

Can anyone re-assure me that at this stage there is no danger to the LO? I'm sure I read somewhere that there is only aproblem if you pass the virus to the baby when giving birth or in the very early days.

Found my first stretch mark the other day...only a very tiny one, but scary nevertheless....my stretchmarks will have stretchmarks at this rate.

Quick one re size of babies....my mw hasn't measured me once, but she writes down the size in my notes. Is she just very good at her job and can assess the size by looking, or should I demand that she takes the tape to me when I go next week??

hollyandalice · 10/04/2007 18:49

Hi daisy, glad you had a lovely time and you and your dh are good! for mystic red ranger! Hope he is ok. Send him a get well message from me. I found a website about chickenpox in pregnancy and it says that it is only dangerous if the mum catches it before 20 weeks, or the newborn baby catches it. So you'll be fine.

Glad you had fun at the gym foxy and I'm sure you looked great on the running machine! It must have been such an ego boost to be told you looked great, I bet you've got a spring in your step! Lol at the person who was shocked by your 4th child! Some people are so weird you just have to laugh! I don't think it's unusual to have four children. It's not as if you have 2 heads and 4 arms is it? Losers!

Alas bumper I don't look fab in my new jeans, I look shit, but thanks for trying to make me feel better!! I have arranged an exchange for some 3/4 length ones, so hopefully they'll be ok.

My parents are having Alice again tonight, so I'm going to make dp help me tidy the living room in preparation for the painting! He doesn't know this yet, but he is!

marylou23 · 10/04/2007 18:59

Foxy, you go girl.

And Daisy, I would definitely get her to measure you properly. I'm sure it's fine but how can she tell just by looking?

Am feeling like fully fledged pregnant person today. Seem to have grown massively over the past week (am hoping this means baby is now bouncing instead of slightly small for weeks), feel knackered and have been walking around the house eating peanut butter out of a jar. All I need is a Vicky Pollard tracksuit and I'll be sorted!

Feel lucky that I'm sleeping well - I literally pass out when my head hits the pillow at 11pm having dozed in front of the tv for an hour. But is it normal to be knackered from about 5pm onwards?! Don't feel hungry in the evening which doesn't help I suppose (that's why I've been stocking up on peanut butter )

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