Due in June 7 - the one with all the boys!!!

[katzguk]

yeah new fresh and clean thread!

Early night with a good book for me too - with DH away I can read in bed (with all the pillows!) for as long as I like.

LMAO at Tea's Chihuahua's I was trying my best to be tactful, but I can see I needn't have bothered Knowing how Tea likes to chat about sex at any opportunity, I'm sure she wouldn't have minded a comment about her ample knockers

I never got into 24. Not likely to spend a whole day devoted to it now either now, dd would nevre allow that.

Thanks for all the links about DIY. Can I wimp out and employ someone if I feel like it ?? I realised that with the radiators, we want to replace them with different ones, whcih may be a different length, all gets rather complicated.

I tell ya, I looked at the clock at 8:15pm and wondered if it was too early to go to bed!! I'm glad I'm not alone!

if your replacing radiators and they are currently onyl the single ones then you can make them smaller by getting the double ones, that what we did in our living room and then we gained wall space! got a bloke in to do it think it cost us about £250 to change one radiator

Mornin everyone. I can't believe it's after 9:00am and no one has posted yet!

Charley, if the urge strikes you, you could always go get a job replacing radiators. And bring the baby with you. That will get some mighty surprised looks when you show at the doors of people who are expecting some fat grungy middleaged bloke with builders bum.

Oh Charley, I have a whole new image of you!

Morning,

All this DIY stuff making me feel really lazy. We have just agreed a low price for our flat in order to avoid having to do anything to make it nicer. Am embarrassed about it, but too lazy (dh too). Have had to spend the last two days packing all our stuff into boxes though - am baffled about where all the stuff came from.

Does involve staying at home, though, with easy access to bags of prawn crackers.

Morning all

Lummox, I must stress that all this DIY stuff is still only talk on my part. I think if I wasn't pregnant I'd persuade dp to give it a go, but I think it may not happen as soon as I would like i.e. before the baby is born.

Charley, you make the most of lazing in bed all day watching dvd's. Cuz, believe me, that's never gonna happen once Podrick comes along! Unless you manage to palm him off on a doting relative for a day

I coudn't believe no-one had posted til 9 either Uwila, we're slacking

Are you moving within London Lummox?

No DIY going on in my house - DH has been banned from doing it (by me) because he loses his temper too quickly and easily so it all becomes very stressful. The shame is, he is actually very good at it but just gets frustrated if things don't go right first time. Whereas I've got all the patience in the world but not much ability. I'm hoping DS or this baby is a combination of the two of us and grows up to be a builder!

Lippy, how much longer until the loft is finished?

Lummox, are you moving to a bigger house?

What is it with babies and house upheavel?!

We are also planning an extension and doing a little DIY ourselves.... I have been surprised though, how hard is to find someone to do the work! We remodelled a lot of our house we lived in before in the US when we were expecting DD ourselves and it was so much stress that we swear we would never do it again! But if we can find anything to do it... we may need to take our words back!

Oh goodie. Look at that. It's almost lunchtime. Meeting some friends at the pub. And one of themis more pregnant than I am. So I won't be the fattest one there.

Hello Everyone!

You lot were a bit slow off the mark this morning weren't you?

I went back to bed shortly after posting last night too. I had had such an exhausting day after all {blush]

Oh Lippy - are you wimping out then? Cant blame you - we've been employing people to do stuff in the houes since I got preggers. May even get somone in to tile the shower cubicle!! I am certainly making the most of my lazy pre-baby days - we have no relatives within 100 miles so it's just going to be me and Pod for most of the time and dp's already talking our next one!

Uwila - I must say, normally I do relish a bit of DIY. I've saved us thousands over the years, and if you take the time you get the finish you want which I have found tradesmen just don't seem to notice, let alone bother with. Before we concieved I was seriously thinking about installing a staircase up into the loft then strengthening the joists up there myself (employing some cheap muscle of course) - then spending a few months doing a bit of a conversion....I got a book out of the library on how to do it!

MrsW - my dp's the same - gets impatient and angry with DIY, BUT he's no good at it either! I am also going to encourage my boy to get a trade - honestly, builders/carpenters/plumbers/electrictricians/whatever are having a laugh - they must be loaded the prices they (over) charge!!

Lua, what's it like finding decent tradesmen in the USA? It's a complete nightmare over here. I'm sure they have to do a course in Taking The Piss as part of their syllabus!

LOL Charley! You are absolutely right! Tradesmen here tend to charge a ton, not show up and when they do, do a sloppy finish! I should also encourage my little guy (who still doesn't have not even a nick name!) to go be a plumber. Actually anything but a scientist would be good!

In US they charge even more, but they usually show up...

Brasil though, is heaven! really cheap and really easy to find someone to help!

Lua - science doesn't pay does it!!!

DD wants to be a vet at the moment shes 2 (well she wants to make poorly animals better!!! This one can do anything it wants if DD is a vet!! she can keep us in our old age

Oh Charley, do you build outdoor playhouses? I want to get DD one for her birthday in March.

DD got a playhouse this summer and she loves it , we've only got a plastic one so charley could come and build us a wooden one too!!

whats the pop-up my computer keeps blocking? its really beginning to bug me now!

Ooh - don't mention VET BILLS!! They're almost as bad as Builders! It cost us £116 just for some ear drops and flea stuff last time we went! [shcok] You will be very comfortabe in your old age Katz!

KVG - don't think i'll be constructing anything for the nursery, but I did see some lovely designer furniture on the net which looked like old traditional stuff, but painted metallic silver and furnished with purple glass knobs, which has got me thinking....

Sadly Uwila, I'm afraid I don't do outdoor work until at least the end of May, so you'll have to sort that one out yourself I'm afraid - Have you been coveting the Beckhams' kids £200k play castle then?

Hmmmm... I hasten to add that anyone who knows that BAeckhams have a play castle let alone what is cost has a wee bit too much time onher hands.

Gosh! 200K for a play castle? It better be bigger than my house!
Maybe they can donate it to my kids when theirs are done and we can all live in it....

I only know about their play castle because it was front page news one day - they'd not gotten planning permission for it and the council was threatening to rip it down.

I don't have any time on my hands Uwila by the way - it's chock full with watching 24, snoozing, taking doggie out for leisurely walks, humourously bickering with dp about what he's making for dins, generally pottering around and occasionally mooching round the shops fingering nice fabrics etc!!

When you have as much money as the Beckhams, you obviously live in a different reality don't you?? But they have both come from 'normal' backgrounds, how can you lose sight of the value of things so quickly?? Surely even they must think "omg! That play house for our children is more than some people can even afford for themselves, let alone a garden playhouse" It's embarrassing, they've lost the plot in many ways I think.

I'd love to do the DIY. It's not really possible at the mo because of the loft and having builders traipse through the hall, and the floorboards run from there to the living room iykwim. Apart from anything else, we should focus on one thing at a time and the loft is taking up enough of our energies, not to mention money It's much more of a big deal when you have to organise babysitters/ Grandma for the day as well as just getting the job organised. We're already going to have to re-paint the hall, stairs and landing and front bedroom ourselves.

Dp is a dab hand at DIY and stuff, I think it comes from living in NZ. They love their DIY and saving money that way. He did all the work on our boat that he could even getting to grips with the diesel engine. He did me proud then, not just a poncey doctor who wouldn't get his hands dirty after all!!

Wow Lippy have you got a BOAT?

errrr it's less grand than it sounds honest.

i do some DIY but i'm not very good, i'm far better at just painting walls ect than constructing stuff