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I’m having a mint magnum. It was the closest thing I could find to a mint feast

Football is on. We taught ds to wave his arms about when we shout “goooooaaaaalll”

A big screens been put up in a local park here which is nice. But so many rules: no alcohol, no food, no chairs, no pushchairs, no umbrellas, bags will be searched etc. Food vans will be there hence the no food. And no alcohol because it was last minute and they couldn’t get a licence. But man people are complaining.

£35 in next on 12-18 m tops for ds. Got about 15 tops in the sale so happy with that.

Ds has been playing “making friends” at nursery today. They had the babies his age sitting together and holding hands and sharing. He also had humous and garlic naan as a snack. Ffs that boy has better food than us sometimes.

Lifelong depends on what's wrong with it? Element was relatively cheap for ours

Oooh stop talking about mint feasts they're amazing!

Why don't the complainers watch it in a pub em ffs!

I'd end of a tub of hummus with bag of chilli Doritos today em at 10am, Doritos were in a safe place for Christmas 2017

Our school meeting was quite tense. Lots of very wound up parents. I was quite relaxed, oddly, which is not my usual position in these things.

Wolf thank you for consuming a mint magnum in my name. I salute you. I had a tin of sardines in olive oil today. Man damn it was good.

You are all wrong. Raspberry magnums are where it's at.

Think the element is on the blink. I tried it and it worked for me. My mate is a hot point engineer so going to come round tomorrow and look at it for me.

I have to say our school converting to academy has made not a jot of difference to it. Maybe we are the lucky ones

life does that mean it didn't get any worse either? The parents in our school seem very worked up about it.

life yaaaaaas raspberry magnums are ace as are peanut butter ones. Oh so good.

None of my 24 primary schools are academies but there are some in our neighbouring team who I help out with sometimes. The primaries, I think, are doing fine. The same if not better.

I've never had a raspberry magnum. I'm not really a fan of ice cream, it's too cold

My ds agrees on the Raspberry Magnums. I'm very excited about wolf's mint one though. I found that strangely encouraging. I'm tempted to go out and try a new something myself. Just a small something, you know.

You can get mini magnums sunny. Really they are just bite sized

Yes, it's always been outstanding and remains so. It's a very friendly school too. I have zero complaint about it.
Academy status is very emotive. I would be interested in the argument they have though.

I may need to try mint and peanut butter Magnum, just for scientific research you understand.

Thanks Wolf. My ambitions are more modest. Along the lines of switching one day from bottled water to tap. I recently switched to a different variety of potato and that worked, when it wouldn't have a couple of years ago, just because the taste was too different.

Creme is spot on when she says about small incremental changes.
and your encouragement is really very helpful. :-)

Maybe if it's okay, I will start reporting my successful new sensory triumphs. :-) Today it was sardines in olive oil. Yesterday, ready salted crisps. Yum.

Check you out sunny, trying new things. You do it

Yes, it will be great to hear about your rediscovery of new/old things sunny. Not sure I'd want to discover the sardines though

I have just tried my best to explain some previous work related ill health on my pre-employment health check. Hoping an explanation might reduce the need to see occupational health

Mini almond magnums. That’s where it’s at.

Well, £980 today for a new home alarm system. Needed some extra door sensors so we can have it on at nights but without DS wandering downstairs and triggering the motion sensors. Unfortunately, while the new system is working, the phone line that was optimistically plugged into the old one isn’t live, so new one can’t send a phone alert when it is triggered. So I need a phone engineer 🙄.

Also 60p on yoghurt.

DS has been incredibly hard work for the last couple of days. I think it’s the end-of-term feeling at school and the talk of new teachers etc next year. He’s been so lucky this year with a lovely teacher who’s really worked hard to understand what makes him tick. I splashed out on gifts for her and the TAs yesterday and bought them each a proper chilly bottle in a lovely colour that suits them. I wanted something useful, not too personal in taste (so nothing decorative) but not a mug. It was expensive (i needed 4!) but nothing compared to my indescribable gratitude that, thanks to them, DS loves school and feels supported there. If he didn’t I don’t see how I’d ever manage to get him there through meltdowns. So £80 . You can chuck me off the thread now.

Leftovers for dinner and my goodness! without cooking again I feel as though I have loads of evening to enjoy for once! Will pm you now Snuggly.

Love a sardine, me. And they remind me of my DDad.

My parents had a holiday booked for this week, which is obviously not happening, so it’s a hard week for Mum. It was also her mum’s (my Granny’s) birthday yesterday, first since she passed away. Sigh.

Sardines would definitely be on a list of things that I wouldn’t want any sort of sensory contact with

Adore Sardines -42p in Aldi .
Being a child of the 70s Sardine Salad featured heavily on the school menu.
I was the only one who liked it.
Thats very encouraging Sunny
Aldi do mini icecreams and also a white chocolate and Raspberry "Magnum"
Just saying
Rafaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!🎾🎾🎾

I miss Wimbledon. Usually we’d be watching it but nope. Football.

Ds is still not asleep. He’s been going now since 8. I’m willing him to go the fuck to sleep. Quietly. In my head. While snuggling him and saying “sssssshhh baby babboooooo” just when I think he’s quiet and asleep he springs back with a new wail and a new wave of energy. He’s better sleep through...

He’s going through another development leap according to wonderweeks. And teething. And it’s hot. So he’s got a lot going on. But man:....... he’s hard work.

I’m alsownary of going to bed because of spidergate last night. But must. Because I’m exhausyed.

I’ve had a word with catface and have asked her to hunt and munch any spiders. She meowed. So hopefully she understands.

@ememem hope you all get some spider free sleep very soon!

@Sunny it’s a combination of medication and losing weight I think. Never had high bp even when pregnant but it got picked up when I went to be sterilised. Under control for years after but for some reason this last year its gone up. This football is not helping tonight that’s for sure!

Well I guess it’s not coming home after all! 🙄

I had a massive spider crawl up my arm once when we were, erm, in bed but not asleep. 😳 Somewhat killed the mood (temporarily) 😂

Dh had Croatia 2-1 in the works sweepstakes. He doesn't know what the pot is though.

We have a week off together soon so I'm hoping for some day trip money.

Curls how much do you have to lose? I want to get 3st off initially, i’d still have a bit more to go really but I’d be quite happy with that.

I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been. My knees creak when I go upstairs. And my DD is apparently (at 9kg) not quite 1.5 stone. Which just goes to show that a stone is quite a lot! I need to lose 2-3 of her and she’s Heeeeeeaaavvvy!

Em I’ve become expert at making soothing noises while swearing silently but vehemently. I think it’s a skill akin to circular breathing. Believe me, you’ll need that skill for years to come 😬