The New Festive Christmas PUDDLE,

[ShakySingsMerryXmasEveryone]

Here we are, a lovely shiny, new thread just in time for Xmas.

Hello :) Going to get a cup of tea and read up...

I love britax stuff, we were going for the vigour I think its called, 3 wheels lime green thing. But then I swapped dd1s buggy with a friend for her bugaboo and decided to use that for Lily. All 3 dcs have britax carseats and the fabrics etc are really hard wearing.

My friend has the silver cross, loves it but all she does is school run/shops so no idea how it is off roading, lovely proper pram though.
We did long forest walks with an icandy pear and everyone said it would never cope, it did, quite well. Ime air fill tyres are best for heavy off roading though, it depends the type of places you walk.

Dp takes the mick and calls kiddicare my mecca, I could spend days there, well I have but they've great customer service which after being burned by mothercare more than once, I thinks important.

Ahh I love pram shopping, or even browsing, as much as I love our buggy I do feel a bit bereft I didn't get to shop for one again

Your first link just came up properly (on the crapberry not laptop) that's the same as the vigour we were going to get I'm guessing they renamed/branded, and we have the britax babysafe carseat for Lily. Had a play with it on many occasions, its lovely!

Right cuppa tea made in my new love hearts mug. And nails painted with nails inc red sparkly polish, so am typing very carefully!

tee and dreamy the flowers were sweet weren't they? I also got her a wee stone that says "miss you" and has a butterfly on it.

LOVE the puddle xmas carols!

dreamy hope you love your kindle as much as me, my screen is fucked though - i MUST phone about a repalcement!

Love the pictures of the hunky men....although I have a wee secret. sshhhhh. I have a new man of my own. Don't mention on fb!! I am all happy and swoony and skipping around!

shakey hope bitch meeting went as well as it could do?

Ooh giraffes I am so happy for you!

The stone for Aillidh sounds beautiful.

How'd it go shaky?

Oooh giraffes !! Do we get any more details?

Shaky How are you? Did it go ok? Is bitch boss still alive?

at pram shopping. I spent hours and hours choosing mine! It was so much fun!

Hello and thank you for all the good luck wishes for today, it meant a lot.

The meeting went really well. The union rep didn't turn up though, which is not like her. However, since receiving correspondence from occ health, bitch boss has realised that she made a huge mistake in the way that she managed my last phased return! She was genuinely upset when she realised that, her not following the original PLAN contributed to my being of again and massively hindered my recovery. I think she was very shocked that I felt the need to have union representation with me. I calmly explained how important it was that the plan should have been followed. Initially, she couldn't see why I would need to be office based for the first 2 weeks, I explained that it was to get back into the routine of getting up, ready and out and being out of the house for 9 hours a day. Last time, I wasn't allowed to be office based and had to go back out into the clinical area, dealing with patients and ended up being exhausted with the sheer effort of it, hence, why I got tearful on my last day. This led to her thinking that I wasn't coping and her sending me home.

I was really nervous but was polite, composed and reasonable. She APOLOGISED for her mistakes and was genuinely mortified. She agreed to let me do whatever I feel is best this time round, which is following the original plan.

I return to work on 15th jan for 2 days office based for the first 2 weeks then start working with someone, gradually increasing my hours as I feel able. I also have a weeks holiday in lieu to use, so I gave her the option of me tagging it on to the end of my sick note or taking one day a week for 4 weeks. We agreed to take one day per week. I am so relieved that this has worked out and she has realised what she had done. I do appreciate that she didn't set out to hurt me and that she thought she was acting in my best interests although she was wrong

We are friends again and I have sort of forgiven her.

I feel like a weight has been lifted.

Sorry for the essay and I love you all

Congratulations Giraffes!! Brilliant news!

Oh Shaky, that's wonderful . Good on your boss for recognising her mistake and apologising. I hope it goes well for you.

And Giraffes, that's equally wonderful! Keep us posted!

Thank you Empress I'm a tad emotional after all the worry but relieved now I know what is happening. I can start to prepare and get my head back in work mode.

Oh that is good news shaky! So glad she saw the error of her ways and apologized.

Giraffes! A boy?!?! Do tell....

Great news shaky so glad to hear she apologised and isn't evil really :) x

Thanks everyone.

Great news Shaky! I hope this time it all goes smoothly for you :) x

Oh wow Shaky, it's like a happy ending isn't it?

I had a lovely day today. DD was an angel and talked and laughed all day and then I got my fucking phone stolen on the way home.

Oh no Snow that's awful bastards

And I HATE all the phones that are now available.

Aw snow don't cry darling, it only a phone. Here have mine.

I don't like iphones, I don't like Blackberry, I don't like complete touchscreens. I am screwed. And some of the phones now are SO massive, you might as well just hold an ipad up to your head. And I have titchy hands.

I'm at a loss how to help, sorry

Oh Snowy, I'm so sorry

I've got one of these, it has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and it's about palm size. It's a bit old now but I love it - any good?

Ah I think I looked at that a while ago but went with the one I just had stolen. I actually really liked my phone but Orange have stopped doing it. Sigh, I guess I am just going to have to be be dragged kicking and screaming into the total touchscreen camp.

Thank you anyway Puddlers!

what kind of phone did you have before? bet we can find the same one on ebay for you.