On a LIGHTER note...

[BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger]

Hello, I'm Bitter and I have lost around two stone, have another 4 or 5 pounds to go.

Come for the healthy eating, stay for the chat. We do more of the latter than the former!

Brian - choose me. I'm small enough to fit in most places so easy to transport.

And I'll hang off your every word.

Hey UNO xx

yo uno!

was film good saf??

hmm i could make a vole shaped brooch....

bitter - thats me, i say 'have you brought Fluffbark up? I can't sleep without Fluffbark' and he has to go downstairs to find said dog

ooo i just sold a fluffy one!!

I'm NOT a fecking vole. You are mean.

Hello UNO ...

at Bitter..

Someone wanted to paint me as Ophelia when I was 13 (my Dad had some weird friends) I declined, and I have a painting done for me, dedicated to me, from about the same age so I guess I was once a muse.

Had a MullerRice after my Lasagne, so quite carby but well needed while feeling so PMTish. I want my Mum....

meh. as you may have noticed, my mood has been up and down like a yoyo this week. feeling a bit blue about something I read on another site by a doctor about how seeing kids at school outside school is all part of normal social development - feeling blue about lack of party invites etc for DS.

We released a vole called Albert into the wild once, it was playing dead on a path, so we fed it cake and porkpie crust and it scuttled off... I think he was doing it as a scam.. pretending to be ill to get nosh.... soooo cute...(but not as cute as you Mouse xx)

Sorry TC.. .. does DS have friends around...? or meet at the park?

Oh that's so weird Double.. I went out the other day in a top I have worn before, lowish cut but nothing extreme and I caught site of myself in a mirror and there were these things jiggling out of the top of my top.. ^where the bloody hell did THEY come from?> flashed through my mind. I have put some weight on, but hellooooooo!! half tempted to stick with just toning and keeping my assets!!

Hey mouse, Brian, mittz, double, tc and bitter :)

How is everyone this lovely evening?

tc whereabouts do you live?

miitz - big cuddles for you.

mouse - you are so a cute little fluffy vole face

ok how come no one asked re Fluffbark?!

Was at my mum's the other day showing her the bag i bought off etsy. So i typed in etsy and she's looking over my shoulder when up comes this screen flashing pink saying 'sexual content - are you over 18?'. I was slightly baffled, when I realised Id typed www.wetsy.com by accident... my mother was not amused

double - erm no, have not done anything re:school and playdates, I should I know. Met my friend and her DDs at soft play earlier in the week, some of time time he played with them, rest of time he played with a kid from his school who happened to be there, and some other random lads. Need to set up more "playdates" with more distant mates and their kids as well. DS also plays out with kids on the street, but it's gone a bit awkward re:playing in our house since the local problems over summer (something i can't discuss on here).

my gut feeling is tending towards the lack of out of school action is more due to insular nature of school than DS's SN but I worry I am deluding myself...

Tc, I was very low when ds1 was small and we moved about a lot so he was always the new one in the group.

I always worried about his lack of invites, but found it hard to push my way in iyswim.

Ds is 12 now. Has lots if friends and is very sociable.

So i don't think it's done any harm :)

Parties when they're little are all about the mums really. It's when the child is older and chooses to spend time with a friend that shows how things are.

At least that is my take on it.

Is still feel guilty for not pushing my way forward for him, but he's normal and happy and in no way damaged by it. So it's far more my problem than his! :o

thanks uno, nice to see happy endings and in a weird way that someone had the same problems. things were compounded by DS having a whopping language delay when he was 3 - 5, it's much improved now, but that kind of screwed up making mates for him and me on the toddler group circuit!

fluffy - oooop north west. (whispers L i v e r p o o l). I do have a friend with lovely 7 year old DD not too far from you - she's a very committed Christian, am sure you would get on like a house on fire

mouse - you were right, it was £1700 disposal (no rent/council tax but obviously other bills still) my brain about to explode.....

Ah you know you're a mum when you can worry about everything in every way and from every angle :o

I do think friends go in and out of fashion up until secondary school when the relationships really develop. When I look back to my own school life I had a stable group of friends throughout primary school, but when we got to secondary we all just rent our separate ways and drifted apart.

Fluffbark?!