**TAMOXIFEN TEN***

[MaryAnnSingleton]

brand new shiny thread....our tenth !

why did I put phoned? - he e-mailed [anyone seen my brain?]

We used to have Bertie a lovely old red mini, but the bstds stole it two days after we moved to brum! Haven't names any cars since, some 15 years later, as still grieving for Bertie, now being driven round an eastern european country, I try to think of it as him having an extended hoilday without us!

@amber and Kurri

Rescues are lovely, both our cats were rescues, including the departed Dotty. I haven't yet rescued a dog though because of having small children. I was wandering happily through the lists of rescued horses and ponies yesterday evening.......just a slow thoughtful saunter through

Any ginger thins left?

Love the boot try

If you say £213 really quickly it is not too bad. I so recognise the tutting and sucking sound effects to accompany a big bill - plumbing, cars.....etc.

Ugg It is raining again, and I have to go and feed the chicks their elevenses....they eat more than me, and I am pretty sure my weight loss is a fluke, will avoid scales for the next few days.

Oh yes, there seem to be plenty more ginger thins!

Sparkle, try to avoid temptation in those horse lists! I reckon he costs about £750 a month to run, even doing most of the work ourselves!!

Have the land, so no need to pay for livery, and little food costs.....but I am thinking more about the time to care cos it will be me! I am avoiding tempation for now!

Just got off phone with dsis. Why is it some relationships are just so draining? Need to have a sit down now and another of those slimming ginger thins!

It's the extras that mount up though (no pun intended ) - saddlery, kits, vets, etc etc. The cost of part livery isn't too bad here and there's 360 acres of grass, but it still costs a packet once they get older or get lame/unwell in any way. And the cost of insurance is ! But he's lovely and we wouldn't part with him.

at mounting costs....! In a few years it will be worth it to off set riding lesson costs for dd1, but she is only 6, plus am intending to use horse to keep boys at bay....it is either horse or dh has to get a shot gun licence and they won't give him one with a history of mental health issues

Ah - the thing is Sparkle - when boys start looking at your girls you get very protective, but when your boys start looking at girls, you wonder why on earth the girls parents are so uptight, when your boy is so wonderful

Too true! I have already picked out the girl for my ds, they have been best friends since they were 5! She will keep him nicely in line, they have planned where they are going to live and what they are going to call their dc!

Dd1 on the other hand, she is going to be a rebelious handful so horses for her!

Jury is out on dd2, cos she is only 2.....

Have to laugh at some of the mums around DS. I got the complete interrogation from one of them recently - "what are his prospects/what sort of family are you?!" and I'd only gone round there to pick him up from a tennis lesson with her dd!!

at third degree for junior amber!

Are there any biscuits left?! Lots of munching on here today. Hoping Topsy'll be back with as good as can be expected news in a bit.

Amber, your family have had a bit of a run [understatement]. Here's hoping your BC's the end of it. I like the way you've timetabled your aches. I used to do that too. I even had a wall chart at one point.

Can't catch up with alll, but what's this with the car names? I mean really is that what one does with a car? We have a car, but it has no name. DH uses it for work and I don't use it at all, so often forget we've got it. Our old one had what DS called 'pesto' round the windows (was mould..!), but that had no name either. [inadequate]

DS and his friend have decided they'll get married one day, but the friend's another boy. We have been to a couple of gay weddings of late. Very cute, but I wonder how long before peer pressure makes it a problem.

Dd2 was sitting with me in the kitchen waiting for her boiled egg, when she heard the music "Come outside" on cbeebies, she climbed down saying "its aunty mabel and pippin, I not miss auntie mabel" and headed off at speed! She is a poppet (dd2 that is although am quite fond of Lynda Baron being auntie Mabel!)

x-posted, Amber, but did she really ask 'what are his prospects?!' How very 1950's.

ooo look random alternative spelling for auntie/aunty and punctuation, nice to see I am consistent!

smee, yup And in a very scary way, backed up by a stern looking Aunt!

Plenty more ginger thins. And some ginger cake now as well.

Not sure car names are compulsory, but I just like naming cars!

@ Smee ds future wedding plans, may peer pressure never affect what he wants!

Don't know about more biscuits, but have got plenty of eggs if you fancy one!

xposted everybody. What are his prospects" is very 1950's, love it am going to save that one up!

I'll have an egg, though maybe a sliver of ginger cake first. Am thinking of a name for our car...

Can do them anyway you like!

I love ginger cake!

Ta Sparkle - has to be on toast with butter melting and marmite. mmm.... Will wash it down with a

Scrambled for me, on buttered toast - yum!

at 'what are his prospects' - did you say 'what are your daughter's prospects'?

I can't book the flexibus for tomorrow (its a little bus that goes all round the villages picking folk up, and ends up in the local small market town, where I need to be at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.) but they've no buses before 11 tomorrow.
So I think I will be having a 15 mile round trip on my bike. Hooray - oh well if it doesn't kill me it will make me stronger