Due Fab Feb 2009: the Curry and Cake Club

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Here is our new thread!

You are all bad girls tempting me away from my zillion hours of marking to read this thread, which is much more interesting than school stuff just now. I will be up until at least midnight working tonight and then I have a full day's teaching followed by a meeting tomorrow. I really like my job when I'm there but now that I know that it's over for a year from the middle of January I can't help counting the weeks and resenting the work I have to do so late into the evenings. I cannot wait until Friday - half term!

Right, my reward will be to mark a set of A level homework and then log back on later. Wish me luck and tell me to get on with my homework or you'll ban me from MN

Go on then!!! Get it done!!! It wont happen without you!!!

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Good luck with the marking...I can't believe the hours that teachers do!!! Loads of respect to you pluto

am enjoying the turkey with virgin mary image.

In fact, am enjoying it immoderately

pluto - did you see the questions i posed on fb? i went to twggs, and was trying to work out which school you work in, i plumped for either st gregs or bennett memorial - am i close?

Well, that only took an hour. Can I have some MN time now please? How about ten minutes and then I'll do the GCSE stuff??? I shall reply on facebook mrsy, a suitable distraction for at least another 10 mins.

Thanks for the sympathy chilledmama: life's just one long treadmill of marking and drudgery in the teaching profession - but we do get the holidays, so I better not complain too much

Morning! God I'm away for ages then start checking this thing as soon as I get up lol.
That and FB to see if there is any news of TBM.

God I am starving this morning! I have also put on weight - have now hit a stone since falling pg! I'm sure literally being in the Curry and Cake club hasn't helped! Or that my 'happy' place mrsy is in bed with a packet of biscuits

Hope you managed to tackle your marking Pluto

Any facebook peeps, I think some people are not mumsnetters, so please make sure we know who you are, post in the intros thread with your mumsnet name, so we can get rid of anyone who shouldn't be there... Thanks xx

Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

Ha Spotty, I do that too. I am so sad. Am eating breakfast with dd and having a quick check on here.

DH doesn't have a shift til Friday so he is about the house this week which I love but I stayed up til 11.30pm last night chatting and watching telly and I am regretting it now zzzzzzzz......

Luckily have a lazy-ish day today workwise.

re facebook group, I think you can make it a secret group then only those who are in it can see it. Should stop any interlopers.

Hi everyone

Just a quick peek to see if any news of TBM. Every day that little girl stays in there improves her chances, so hope the drugs have worked.

Morning all.....

Hope you got that marking finished Pluto...I remember living with a maths teacher once in a house share and she used to hand us each a book while we were watching telly and she'd read out the answers so we all got to mark a couple of books each - cunning eh ?! (or naughty ??)

Had rubbish nights sleep last night - woke at 3.30am, never got back to sleep so finished book - predictable and boring ending, ds woke at 5.30am, dh went to work at 6.30am and then ds promptly did a massive sloppy (sorry if TMI) poo on the bathmat (not potty trained yet). I was running shower at the time and heard this little voice go "whatsat mummy?" - the potty was right by the little gift ....Then I missed the bus and my secretary is off ill today....Joy. Maybe I should just go home and get under the duvet.

I'm exceedingly jealous of everyone's dates for starting mat leave getting very closer - I'm going to be hanging on as long as poss at work, so currently thinking of finishing on 6th Feb (or maybe 4th if still have any holiday left by then) (DD is 10th Feb) as I need to have as much time after DC is born as DS1 won't get the 15 hrs of nursery care till Sept 2010 as his birthday is mid April , so the less time I will be paying 2 full lots of nursery fees the better

DH has said that he's been prmoised more promotions over the next year, so hopefully that will mean I won't have to go back to work FT after this one - I did this time as wanted to make sure i could get as much mat pay as poss out of my company for No2

Hoping that no news is good news for TBM & TinyTink

morning everyone, hope all ok. Still have fingers crossed for TBM. All our other little moans and niggles pale into insignificance now don't they?
Ref facebook, I finally decided this morning to get off my arse and work out how to do it (very IT retarded lady here!) I've always relied on my DS do sort IT stuff out for me but just realised that next summer he will be gone off to boarding school so I'd better learn now! Can someone please point me in the right direction ref the name? Thanks

morning - hope things ok TBM

I finish on 18th Dec with leave until 11 Jan when mat leave starts baby due 30 Jan

Good Morning Everyone,

How are you all doing today?
Anyone had any news on TBM?

So this morning I noticed that I actualy do have a baby bump....I was wondering when it would appear and I imagined it would kinda happen 'overnight' and it has!

Although in London - I dont think Pregnant ladies still get a priority on the tube - this morning was nasty 45mins on a rammed tube with smelly mens armpits in my face....Doesnt do alot for the sickness.

Have a good day all xx

If is any consolation KazzaL I'm going to be working up till end of January too, then taking 2 weeks holiday and starting my maternity leave on the week of this baby's due date in mid Feb (DS was over 2 weeks overdue so, as this pregnancy is being so similar to my last one, am proceeding on the basis that this one will most likely need to be evicted too). I will however not be relaxing in those 2 weeks as our nanny is on holiday then, so will just be the blimp that is me and DS at home for two weeks - fun fun fun.

Am keeping my fingers crossed for TBM.

Mumoverseas - is something like Mumsnet Feb 2009 Group - Mrsy set it up.

Hey all -

mumoverseas - it's 'Mumsnet Mums Due Feb 2009' - I can't accept you until I get home from work, but maybe Markstretch or Swampy can as they are now group people-accepters (no idea what they're really called, damn pregnancy brain!) Don't forget to introduce yourself...

I think I'll try and make the group a secret tonight, but you all still need to introduce yourselves so we can turf out those already in the group!

Kazzal - I'm the same, will work as long as poss, maybe going down to 4 days after christmas if I can, but it does depend on how long my current assignment lasts, and how easy it is for my agency to find me a suitable position after that. Hoping to work right up until baby is born - she's due Sunday 22nd, so will aim for at about 13th Feb. boo-hiss.

I am working up until 5th January- 4 weeks before due date.

I am using up my last 4 days of A/L next week on half term. I am planning on doing fun things with dd as she is away at Christmas and it will be our last chance to do some fun mum/dd things before the baby comes.

KT1983 - I ALWAYS get a seat on the tube - first one at about nine weeks this time round . If no one moves I go to a priority seat and demand it.

And once at the Imperial War Museum, waiting to go up in the one working lift with a sleeping baby in a buggy I (rather rudely) said to the large group of young things with an older person ahead of me (with no intention of budging for priority users): "are you really ALL disabled? Cause it isn't really that obvious." The lifts were clearly signed as for use by people who couldn't use the stairs.

One of them said: "No, but my mother..." (As in accompanying the elderly). I said: "And my four-year-old and husband are using the stairs so people who need it can use the lift."

They all very embarrassedly scuttled off.

I felt a bit but the woman behind me who had a walking stick applauded and said she really couldn't understand why people who could chose not to use the stairs. She had been an athlete in her youth and really hated not being so mobile any more.

I too also generally get a seat on the tube Swampster - I go to the priority seat for disabled, pregnant or less able to stand people and politely ask the people sitting there if I can have a seat as I am rather pregnant and standing in a crowded carriage is not great for me or the bump. They generally move.

mumoverseas, I would CAT you the FB details but you're not signed up for them...

I think the link is www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27304767148

must be having more blonde/pregnant moments here as tried to search the name above on FB and it says 'no match'! Damm it, will have to wait til DS comes back from school and give him the opportunity to be smug again! Thanks for the offer of CAT'ing' me Swampster. Probably not signed up for it as I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! I wish we'd done IT when I was at school!!!!!
Assume no more news on TBM? Keep hoping that no news is good news.

for all you brave ladies working up to the last minute.....I did that and ds was 2 weeks early so I got 3 days mat leave before dday....two of my NCT friends also had early babies - one was born the Friday night she'd left work - I think if it's your first, it's nice to have a bit of time off on your own - if it's your second you most likely have a toddler to look after too so not much of a holiday - maybe working might be the better option !!