Drive-Blu McDonalds

[Marina]

You know you want to really, Blu...

went to evening wedding do at syon park once, thought it was OK but don't really like that part of london (well, it's not really london, is it?? )

dd2 (aged 3, looking at freebie cd of Supersize Me): mummy, that man has too many chips

dd1's diary might read: Saturday, at ballet, accidentally squeezed mummy's thumb which she cut really badly yesterday. it bled, again. she shouted CHRIST ALMIGHTY very loudly in front of the parents.
Sunday: mummy made us go to church and Be Quiet, but at least took some raisins and marmite rice cakes to shut us up.
Monday: daddy back at last. trashed house as two of my friends came over. ate profiteroles (friend's mummy brought these over for picnic which we ended up having indoors) - why does mummy never buy these? did the Naked Dance for my friends, they were impressed even though they pretended not to be.
Tueseday: mummy didn't believe I was sick and sent me to school. drat.

does middx still exist???

Not officially, sadly. Title of a very good Jeffrey Eugenides novel though!
Bundle, how nice to see another fully-paid-up church-attending blasphemer around. I have been lectured before by ds for taking the name of the Lord in vain
Parents were valiantly maintaining they "loved" having ds and dd for tea (while dh and I mopped the kitchen floor) even after it transpired dd wedged a cherry tomato down the back of their storage heater and showed them both her fanny several times...

marina, i have to confess I once blasphemed in church (dd2 flipped backwards, knocking her head v hard on pew)

Gastronomic puritanism \link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4960860.stm\drives children down the chippy}

lol

Talking of swearing, there is a columist at The Times who I love and I forget her name at the moment, BUT she was telling her son off for his swearing and at the end of the row, she said "Sons Name, your language, for f**k's sake!!!!!".

Which I thought was hilarious.

if you want carrot sticks instead of fries you have to YELL this a few times and also, preferably, write it in big letters on a post it and stick it on the Happy Helpers forehead
then, of course, take back the fries and swop them when you get to the table and open the bag
fruit bag is quite nice too, apples and grapes
terrible incident once when fruit bag exchanged for jelly in a bag
oh the horror

Did you say Sweet Jesus Mary and Joseph come to my aid, though bundy
The first time I had ventured into church for many years I saw a clearly poorly supervised toddler take out an elderly worshipper with a well-aimed cream egg (Easter Sunday). The victim swore too.

Harpsi - thank you for that tip. Though DS will not eat carrot sticks. or jelly. or grapes. So I will be spared the shouting, and the jelly-debacle.

Next time we go, that is.

wish i had marina

only saving grace was that it was during a (noisy) hymn. oh and we have a tourette's-type old lady who drowns most things out anyway..

I had tears in my eyes from 'is McD capitalist'. What did you say?

I had to admit that our £1-99 had indeed gone to a multi-national monopoly that had actually threatened the livelihood of one of DS's street-vendor great uncles in the island DP comes from. I am sure DS would have believed me - when he came home from Traidcraft agog with capitalists, and poor children doing all the work, he was at pains to make sure that i understood PROPERLY:

"it's capitalist , Mummy, not shopping list "

Oh, you couldn't make it up. That is glorious.

Never mind a column, you lot could get an entire magazine out of this. As it is, it's all freeee for anyone to read, hurrah :)

Incidentally, someone has written a paperback for children all about McD's marketing methods and so on. I am going to buy it for ds when it comes out, he's always most concerned at the number of loan adverts on children's television.

Blu, have to say, your original thread on here was the funniest I've read in ages. Haven't yet had a chance to read the whole thing, but it sounds just like us!