no smokes on the water

[mummylonglegs]

hey everyone, come and join the quitting smoking team and chuck your fags away!

LSM was me in disguise, drop. Actually even with my usual name am not a super frequent visitor to this thread but pop in now and then to shoot the breeze. I'm two months in to my zillionth quit and cautiously pleased so far.

I have 2 T names too drop, Tasha and Tanya

You got your pics up now then, Commander Drop? Can you link to them?

You're doing great, SM, 2 months is such a milestone. Have you got this far before on any of your quits? My longest quit was 2 years. 2 bloody years! By tha point I never ever even thought about having a fag, hated the smell, thought smokers were nuts. I started again by sharing the 'odd' puff with someone when I went back to Uni to do my PhD. My immediate circle of friends there were all smokers. Then I felt guilty about smoking everyone else's fags so bought 10 to be 'sociable'. 6 months later I was on 20-a-day.

I think I've ranted that story out before haven't I? Sorry. It's just that I'm still mad as hell at myself for messing that up. It was 10 years ago now. I'd have saved myself 10 years of smoking if I'd stuck with it.

I have now got the whole family up on "First Family Dropinthe thread"-what a palava.
CC-like your names!
Scrummy-bet you taste delicious after 2 fag free months!!

I'm gonna search for your pics in a mo, drop. But in the meantime would one of you help me with a playgroup dilemma re. dd? Especially you, cc, leader, as you're in a relevant line of work?

Dd's just started at playgroup as you know and is doing fine. The trouble is I've found out it's closing at Christmas so have been desperately looking round for somewhere else for dd to go. The schools are all massively over-subscribed so wouldn't be able to offer her a nursery / pre-school place until next September, none of them! We can no way afford private nursery. BUT I have found another playgroup which is a bit of a treck (40 min. walk or 15 min. bus) but seems nice. It's much smaller, 14 kids rather than 24, tiny room rather than large hall, but the staff are nice and it's safe and cosy. The dilemma is, they'll have a place for dd in October when someone leaves, but not in January as they've got a waiting list for then. Do I pull her out of current place to go there? I think current place is overall 'better' plus it's only a 5 min. walk but is there any point if it's closing at Chritmas anyway?

help?

Hmmmm dilemma, the 14 over 24 could be misleading as we are very low numbers ATM hence me not havign a job, theres almost as many staff as there are kids, but as the kids reach 2.5 the numbers soon build up. Is there any chance its NOT closing at Xmas? And why didnt they tell you this before? I would personally take her out before as the morale of the staff, knowing they are going to be jobless at Xmas wont be particularly high..and shes better moved younger than when shes made firm friends. Only my opinion though MLL!

I can't believe they didn't mention this before MIL! Have they only just made the decision then?

9000 + I havent smoked BTW...do you realise that one day that will be 10,000 not smoked?

Charlie-have you looked at my family pic yet?

I have, I quite fancy the look of your hubby so I didnt comment

My nearly 8 Year old dd is up the stairs having a tired temper tantrum and ive put my music on so I cant hear her. She wouldnt eat her dinner and a fair lot of it ended up on the floor, IMO its so that she cant eat those bits, chips dont litter the floor on chip night you know...and then she stood in the dairylea triangle demanded that I sort it out while making the most irritating screeching noises. Ive stripped her clothes off stuffed a nighty over her head and shut her bedroom door. Sigh.

Shucks!-he is rather rugged isn't he?

You cant make Friday can you MIL? I can do Thursday but just noticed another thread re a Cancer relief meet up in Greenwich on Friday!
Typical-i bet youre working?

I am working Friday, drop, alas.

Cc (and drop), it was always 'in the air' that it might close at Christmas we just hoped it wouldn't happen. It's a voluntarily run playgroup by members of a church who all have long-standing child care qualifications. One of the women is retiring (she's very old!) and another is moving away and there's nobody else who will / can volunteer from the church so they have no option. They were very definite when they told me. It's been going with these same women for 15 years so very sad.

Cc, the numbers of kids is definite, the current group has an enormous hall, the new one is really tiny, they couldn't accommodate more than 14 kids, the manager told me it was their limit but that they often function best with only 12 kids.

Ok, you boring bunch. I'm going to find someone to chat with.

Hi mummylonglegs how are you, gorgeous?

I'm fine thanks, perfect one, how's your smoke-free breath?

Cool, mll. Or shall I call you mml?

Stick to my proper name if you don't mind?

Hey what's the scariest film you've ever seen?

Sante Sangre but I don't know anyone else who's ever seen it. You?

Miss Marple.

I'm off to bed now then. Sleep tight

Night xxx

It's so good to have a friend to chat to!

me too

night x

You daft bugger MIL! LOLLLING TO HERSELF!!

I'd just bought Sante Sangre off Amazon and then read your post!

Is it sub-titled? I seem to rememeber it was!
In my early twenties I used to go out with a guy who loved going to The Scala cinema in Islington-don't know if it is still open-and we used to go and see a film there every monthe or so. Sante is just of the ones that stook out as was Naked Lunch and a Cohen film I can't remember the name of.
Sorry wasn't around last night-trying to stay off when hubs is in-mind you we just tend to watch tv after the kids go to sleep anyway so no real intereaction going on!
Have you thought what you might do with regargs to dd?
Are you still up for Thursday?
I'm off in an hour to see a prospective school for Taig just across the common.
Talk later!

LOL at you MLL..I was in bed fast asleep when you were chatting to yourself