The new bitten nipps thread!

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Hello (hopefully) to Voodoo, Worley and Jennster!!

hello, new name change but think i may change it again....
well i stopped off at tescos on way home this morning, i have never been in there so early (7.10am) it was so empty. i was out in 5 mins. and in bed by 7.30. i woke at 9 when ds2 woke, and he kind of bf while i was half asleep then dp took both the boys downstairs while i slept till this pm, lurverly sleep.
then we watched one night at the museum this afternoon and had pizza for tea.

meetng my cousin tomorrow at a local kids play park so her 2 boys and ds1 can run about and burn off some steam and we can have long gossip!! ds2 can go in the bouncers they have hanging next to the chairs and bounce till his hearts content.

seez you later

2 more days of lent left Worley! You can eat as much you like then.

yesterday I picked up dd in a funny manner that has resulted in a painful frozen shoulder...and me eating dd's malteasers easteregg to cheer myself up.

it hurts to pick anything up...with either arm

Poor Voods
That's just not funny.

Try a heat pack across your shoulders to try and ease it off a bit. Can you take an Ibuprofen? Might help as well.

HUGS and more HUGS

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la.........................

dd in her kip,

dh watching golf.....

I'm gonna have wine

Hope your arms feel better soon Voodoo.

Been at pil today. We went to the red squirrel reserve and actually saw some amongst the hoardes of people. I used to go there all the time when I was little and I swear there used to be loads. Had lunch and stayed so late they had to miss going to church. Think they were quite glad actually.

Happy Easter everybody.

dh and I love watching the red squirrels here when we go on holiday in Pitlochry.
The whole garden is so peaceful and tranquil, mainly cos it's on a steep slope.

I got my new compost bin today, how sad am I .
We qualify for the scheme where you get a subsidised bin. Got this 330 litre lovely object for only £8.
Dog is bedded on straw, so we're always looking for ways to deal with it.
Never tried composting before, but ready to give it a go

OOOO ooooo. We get compost bins for free. They are really in to recycling our way. I'm a bit of a bare foot earth mother at heart. We recycle nearly everything. We only have one water butt right now, but we are going to get the bathroom redone, and get all the waste pipes diverted, sink shower and toilet in to one, and bath into another. We are then going to syphon off all the bath grey water and use it on the garden. We figured if we are going to be rinsing pooey nappies possibley in the sink, then we had better not get that water in the butt. We're going to get another on the side of the house from the roof to water the hedge down the side of house and all the plants on the front.

We collect all vegetable scraps and keep them in a lidded bucket type thing in the kitchen. You can buy special pots though. Our cleaner is Romanian and is disgusted. She told dh once 'I cleaned the bucket jenny keeps her rotting vegetables out'.

That garden looks fabulous. I LOVE going to gardens. When we went to Ireland the year before last we went to loads of stately homes and their gardens. Was brilliant.

at free compost bins!!!
Thought I was doing well
did get the wee lidded bucket free, though.

We're lucky where we live for gardens/parks.
Best enjoyed without the dog, though

Just wasted 2 hours reading this whole thread.

Just a quick opinion poll. Would you take plastic pump dispenser bottles of Gilchrist and Soames soap and body lotion from a hotel room. There are no signs saying not to take them, but it does say in the 'green policy' on the website saying they refill them with luxury products to save on landfill. This policy was unread.

Saw that thread earlier.
I think the teeny sample size bottles in hotels\B&B's are fair game, but larger dispenser bottles are deffo off limits.
But, maybe that's just me

Weather broken here today, lovely smirry, drizzly rain instead. So we're off to mooch round shops. dd needs a new changing mat as a matter of urgency (you really don't need to know)

Looks like it's just us this weekend, Jenn.

Yeah drizzley here too. Doing crosswords from Sunday papers and watching History Boys on DVD.

Meant to be Easter Egg rolling later in local park but it's too pooey out there.

WARNING ANOTHER RANT ABOUT MOTHERCARE.
Since the first changing mat I bought for dd which lasted AGES and ages, Mothercare have reduced the size of their cheapest changing mat by 30% and it has lasted 60% less time and the price has gone up by a quid. I hate them with a passion. Next one I bought second hand from the charity shop over the road. I think Ethel Austins do cheap ones. Maybe my problem is you need to INVEST......Oh my god I'm discussing poo changing stations.

Ooo OOhh Oohh just found out that there is a new restaurant in town with a menu almost identical to Wagamamas.... Am salivating just looking at the menu. It's also not as expensive as Wagamamas.

Chicken Kare Lomen, Edamame and Chicken Katsu Curry here we come.....

[drool]

Sakura the restaurant was very nice. Not quite Wagamamas but still very good. Little sis and her fella have been staying the last two nights and have taught dd how to walk. She can do the length of the room, pausing mid way to burp if necessary.

back from the parents' in Scotland...absolutely gorgeous, I am homesick for it.
We walked up a mountain path,
saw the commando monument and the Nevis range (breathtaking)
and the Glen Coe road through the Black mountains was magnificent, terrifying in parts but awesome views.

The downside was rain, and 8hr car journey with fed up dd in the back. Jams on the M74 going, and the good old M6 coming back.

So glad we went though, feels like weve been on a proper holiday ( and there are 8 loads of washing to do...)

Well done you lot with your recycling...I thought I was good slinging the occasional bottle into the glass bin...
Arm is better now thank goodness, and finger where I sliced it badly on one of my mum's lethal veggie knives, oops...

now I am waiting in for the telephone engineer as our house phone has a fault on the line again
I already stayed in for one last wednesday, but they 'hadnt booked the appointment correctly' Mother*. They had better show up today or I will be on the warpath like a Scottish warrior

Am very Voods.
That is one of my favourite parts of Scotland.

Got fabby changing mat in TKMAXX for a fiver.
Really grudge paying Mothercare prices.

We have narrowed the search for a backpack carrier for dd down to this one. Just a matter of surfing Froogle to get it cheapest now

and as for being able to manoeuvre a pram around a childrens shop, you'd think I'm expecting a dual carriage way paved with gold

I'm not surprised Edwina Curry got a bit pissed off with Mothercare, (not that I like the woman) but my bile rises every time I go in nowadays.

Sounds like a wonderful break. My next holiday is booked for the last week of May for a week, but I'm too pregnant to fly by then and we don't have any relatives in a lovely part of the country. I've got a wedding in 3 weeks in Leicester and the weekend after a weekend in the Lake District which would be nice if it weren't for the fact we are in a hotel and guess who is going to have to babysit. I live in hope that the monitors work.....

Picked up a moses basket and stand today on Freecycle. It's brilliant. There are some very kind people about. I just need to get rid of the useless one I bought from a charity shop!

I keep forgetting to check if the freecyclers accepted my registration...back in a mo...

b l i m e y freecycling seems awfully complex...

you email what you want to get rid of to the main site,

then check your responses every day,

then email the main site if you decide to give it to someone???

is this right?

jenn do you go and pick stuff up alone?
and are you in the house alone when someone comes?
I dont like the sound of that so much?

hello everyone,

i was suppossed to work the afternoon shift easter sunday but my other co-worker called in sick, so i had to cover her night and find someone to work a few hours for me in the sfternoon so i didnt have to work right through from 2.30p, till 7am. (we are exempt from working time directive which is how they get around us normally doing them shifts on weekdays)

so as i have now done 2 night shifts in a week i was so knackered i havnt been on here for ages and ages, i had to search for this thread!!

how are you all doing? ds2 has discovered his voice and screams constantly, he is also developing quite a temper, if he doesnt get what he wants asap he clenches up his fists and pulls such a funny face, i cant believe he has a temper already.
he cant crawl but he is trying his hardest to pull him self up in to a standing position, he has discovered he can pull himself up in his cot and when he sits in the washing basket he tried to pull himself up now on the sides of that which is liable to topple, so no more of sitting him in that whikle i sort the kitchen out!! (i know im such a mean mummy and should buy a playpen or something!!)

i still have the same changing mat from ds1 it was so cute i didnt want to get rid of it, its just like new though BUT i have to say i dont use it that much, ds2 gets changed on a fleece blanket on the floor now if we are downstairs and on the bed when im upstairs. i've never had a changeunit or anything as practical as that

Ayo of you use ebay? Bit shocking...