After the darkness, comes the LIGHTer ladies!

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Hello, tis me, Mouseface.

Welcome to the LIGHTer threads. We are a part time healthy eating thread and on ocassion, we are the WHETE (Worst Healthy Eating Thread Ever)!!

Hopefully, we'll get back on track in the New Year but for now, most of us are trying not to put any more weight on.

I've managed to put over half a stone on in 5 weeks! Argh!

Come and join us for lots of chat, laughs and bloody good company.

DISCLAIMER - No cliques, bitch fests or vipers allowed!

That is such a clever poem.

Thanks double, I hope I will. It terrifies me that my dcs are going to the schools here. They're entirely white, and when i worked in on of them I heard such lovely things as kids calling each othe ngger and pki and other vilenesses. If watching a video and anyone non-white appeared they'd groan and ask the teacher why they had to watch some effing foreign "insert expletive of choice" and the teacher wouldn't even call them on it!

I was constantly confronting them and they just seemed entirely bemused that anyone wouldn't just see skin colour.

So sad :(

It really is. It was such a shock to come across it as the norm. It's not aggressive racism, just completely ignorant racism. And I can't stand the idea of my dcs being around that. I find it hard enough seeing it on a daily basis at work.

God I'm just being dragged down by everything at the moment. Normally I can fight it all and assure myself my dcs will learn from me. But at the moment I just want to run away.

jesus christ uno, that's horrible. Sounds like the whole place is stuck back in my grandparent's generation

Hello

Mouse - how is ds now?

Brian that is exactly it! It's got all the bonuses (helpful neighbours, safe areas, children playing out, no crime) and the negatives (small minded bigots, racism, inter-family feuds, not being 'local'unless your great grandfather's great grandfather was born here) of living in the fifties. No one goes to uni.

It's all very restrictive.

Hello ham :). tWas me who wants to live over your way. I love it down there. Got lots of friends around Bristol.

I want to move!

Fancy a swap?

Xpost! Hello Alice :). How are you?!

Alice - as bad as he was but I'm hoping that last night was the peak IYSWIM.

Hammy - DS is 18m. Thanks for the snogs. xx

That'll do me :). I'll be turning up tomorrow with a tent, three dcs a cat and a dog and an enthusiastic attitude :o

I'll leave h here, with your ex

We have a plan :o

Double late is simply not on! I have a friend who lives in a canal boat. I'm veery jealous, except when it's winter.

at exh and 'd' h abandoned together in the north west. bet they have very progressive attitudes to men living together there

bitter is off to the mn meet god love her.

mouse sorry for the nightmare night. as ever i wish there was something someone could do.

friend is coming this afternoon (snow was pretty pitiful here) and we'll head out to soft play hell. it is quite nice though as the boys just bugger off together and leave us alone to eat toasted sandwiches and chat.

Hammy have we met before?