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is it UTTERLY sad to be sitting itn eh hall ONE HOUR before a nativity begines

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FluffyMummy123 · 13/12/2007 08:56

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myrrhthamoo · 13/12/2007 09:30

No what you do is put your bag and your coat and your spare wooden leg and a suitcase and another coat and save seats in the whole first bloody row so you can swan in at the last minute and still be on the first row

TwinklyfLightAttendant · 13/12/2007 09:30

Did you have to make the costume? I always wanted to make a King costume

What did we get? a sodding donkey. Have fun with that.

OComeOLIVEfaithfOIL · 13/12/2007 09:32

I will be waiting in the hall as it starts at 9.30am

dd2 is a donkey
dd1 is a narrator (sp?)

there is always one woman that leaps up and takes pics like farkin David Bailey

she has annoyed me for 4 YEARS and I may react soon

TheIceQueen · 13/12/2007 09:32

For DS1's school stuff (Nativity, Harvest, Christingle etc etc etc) if you want

a) a balcony seat (really good view and no-one standing in front of you)

b) A seat near the front

Then you have to be standing outside queuing up no less than 30 minutes before it's due to start - 45 minutes is better - and I have - on most occasions (come rain, sun, snow or wind!) been stood there at that time otherwise it's sheer hell trying to get a space where you can actually see anything.

yorkshirepudding · 13/12/2007 09:32

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FluffyMummy123 · 13/12/2007 09:33

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Yulemoonfiend · 13/12/2007 09:36

Well I am so grateful to secure a ticket for my child's nativity I may camp out overnight

(end of aisle seat for me, as the kids always process down middle)

ggirlsbells · 13/12/2007 09:36

you won't be able to see a thing you know

Saturn74 · 13/12/2007 09:39

Run cod, run!
There could be a series of comedy obstacles on the way.
Banana skin.
Ladder with bucket of confetti poised on top.
A chinese dragon dancing across the path.

Latecomers will not be admitted!
You'll be stuck outside with your nose pressed to the class, mouthing "I love you" at DS3.

ggirlsbells · 13/12/2007 09:40

pmsl humphrey

catherine tate sketch

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FluffyMummy123 · 13/12/2007 09:43

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ChopsterRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/12/2007 09:43

They were all queued up outside the hall for ours. I didn't go (bad mummy) I couldn't make it back from the dts' pre-school run in time.
I jsut tell mine I was watching through the window and they were wonderful.

Yulemoonfiend · 13/12/2007 09:54

rofl Humpho!

JingJanglingBexieHoHoHo · 13/12/2007 11:38

How was the play?

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FluffyMummy123 · 13/12/2007 11:39

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EricScrooge · 13/12/2007 11:42

Oh dear. I had to sit for a half hour and i was vored to tears.

I did think about popping out and wandering around aimlessly for a bit - but then i would have had to have sat at the back cos of all the parents already camped out there.

It was great to see mine singing really loudly in that kiddie out-out-tune way.

Made everyone laugh, so she started wiggling her arse and stuff.

Think she enjoys being the centre of attention.

I know who she gets that from.........

EricScrooge · 13/12/2007 11:42

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MegaLegs · 13/12/2007 11:42

Got front row seat last year, saved one next to me for DH coming straight from work. He arrived late, wet ,stinking of deisel and left a pile of sawdust under his chair when we left. We are sitting at the back this avo.

edam · 13/12/2007 11:43

Oh, bless him! Ds was very taken with posing for Daddy's pictures at the end of his nativity (he was Joseph) and didn't want to go back to class.

Peachy · 13/12/2007 11:47

yesterday they started queuing at 8.50- the Mums sat on th seats whilst dad popped kids over. Those of us with no partner availoable in the morning to help (DH only got abck from his shift at 7) had to shuffle in where we could. PTA parents ahd reserved seats which theoretically should have been me as Secretary but alst years PTA (none of whom involved at all this) swiped them all , so I ended up sat behind a huge fat bloke who had his mobile clamped to his ear half the time, the rest was spent excavatings aid ear with a finger; other ahnd was employed videoing little darling effecively standings till for the entire event which blocked anyoe elses view- would ahev watched on his DHVD screen but no, he didnta ctually film anyone else, just his LO standing there. Only thing he missed was LO's one line as he was texting at the time.

Had I not been feeling very ill would have pulled up head and compalined- everyone else managed to video from the back of the hall after all, its the 'done thing'. As for the mobile- !

ComeOVenReadyturkey · 13/12/2007 11:49

We had ours this morning at 10am and school drop off is at 8.45am so there where some waitng over an hour. We popped over the road for a coffee and a natter and I spent a ridiculous amount of money in this gorgeous little gift shop a couple of doors down from the school that I had never been in.

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