Peas to remember the 5th of November, sunflower seeds and shallots. I see no reason why cauliflower unseasoned should ever be forgot - 10 / 10 club

[FrannyandZooey]

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Oh well I can't help you then. I like to confront and know all my fears and worries, I like them written down in black ink with doodles beside them, and sometimes footnotes too, or arrows sometimes linking particular anxieties to either the To Do List or Back of My Mind.

For instance, on the Back of My Mind list is written 'there is the distinct possibility that the upstairs loo is a hygiene hazaard and we are all going to get dysentry, and I am an awful person because it stinks and doesn't work and when people come round they must wonder about this awful cess pit at the top of the house and what it says about my general level of competence in life' and then that is linked to 'Call the Plumber' and 'Make a sign saying 'Loo Out of Order'.

See?

lol. Would it be a misuse of my time then, to sit down and make Toxic Waste signs for all my room doors then? And just have a beautifully tidy hallway?

Someone said sneeringly to me in the playground ''oooh, you're always on the go , you,'' (I was handing out the cake stall forms) and I wanted to just grab her by the shoulders and say
''don't you realise, if i stand still too long, I suddenly become aware of the fact that I have no pension plan, my children are growing up into a world of global warming, my son will end up working in Macdonalds because he hates school so much he wants to leave NOW, my husband is having a mid-life crisis, my other ds needs to go to the dentist for a check up and I keep forgetting to book him in, I have no clean underwear left because I have done no washing and I have an important funding review meeting at work which I have forgotton to write reports for!!!''

My whole life is one (cunningly and carefully-crafted) distraction technique!

Ah you see, there you go in that one hysterical declaration in the playground you have To Do, Back of My Mind, Middle of the Night/Awful Fears.

I should say though, that not all these are NOT supposed to have answers or resolutions. Oh no. There are NO links to Awful Fears or Middle of the Night at the moment, but there they are, all written down with stars next to them.

You should get your dp to make one too. They are v. good mid-life I think.

I am going to hairdresser in a couple of hours

100x and Fmf, I love you both

I am cold. I am making toast and drinking hibiscus and ginger tea. The wind is moaning but the sun is shining.

FMF, you make me laff. I think I may have to nominate that little outburst for quote of the week.

I heart you all.

TT - will you talk music with me next weekend? We have similar tastes according to your profile...
We can get tipsy on organic beer and sing ''Don't worry, 'bout a thing..'' slurrily to each other

Gizmo, 100, i wish you were coming too

Tatties, when I next manage to stay awake past 9pm, I will ring you...

FMF, people say that to me too, and i have similar toughts to you.
But mine go along the lines of
"Yet again the boiler has broken and i ma too much of a coward to call the plumber who obviously hasn't fixed it (again), and dd2 will never be dry at nioght, or sleep through the night, and dd1 is so clever am I spending wnough time with her, and I still need to call County about pre school, and are all the policies crrect, and ooops, I should also think about my paid work, and also dh."

He shouldn't really be bottom of the list though.

But insrtead I smile and say
"I know, but soemone has to help out, and do blah blah blah"
And grit my teeth!!!

Franny I have something funny to tell but I am going to wait until you are here

Lully so sorry about the bunny, poor ds

FMF I shall be sitting by the phone

Hello everyone

People NEVER say things like that to me.

This is because I am lazy and languid and spend my days staring out the window and compiling lists of Dark Thoughts.

However, all this will change when I get an allotment. Won't it FMF? People will applaud from the pavement and shout over the hedge 'How do you manage to fit it all in? What with the lists and the staring and NOW carrots too!'

100 I love you having an allotment. You are very brave, I am too scared

Tatties I am here I am here

I am eating black eyed beans and cucumber and sweetcorn and cheese and bulgar wheat and pesto and artichoke hearts

Ok. This is going to be a huge let down probably but I thought it was funny

We were shopping the other day, walking down the magazine aisle, when ds spotted a TV guide with Daniel Radcliffe on the front (as some WWII character) and shouted, "DADDY!"

Oh I haven't GOT one yet. I put my name on the list, and the lady did this sniffing thing, so I think I'm quite a long way down the list because apparantly I don't look like a gardener.

I am going to eat a large steak for lunch. I'm sorry, but I am.

I want to tell you this because it has made me snurk all day. Last night dh had to go to a curriculum evening at the school, where they had to go round from classroom to classroom learning how to do subtraction, or something. Anyway dh walked into one classroom and the teacher said 'Where have you come from?' and dh was a bit surprised and said 'Coventry' and the teacher frowned at him and said 'No I mean have you come from the art room?'

See what I mean about him making me laugh every day?

Ah Tatties!!

(we had a similar one years ago with Mr Motivator!! (dh is white. And not a fit man....)

100x, yes, you will have to practise that slightly smug, nodding-in-agreement-while-attempting-to-protest-smile (a la Nigella) to recieve all the admiring glances and comments you will recieve when people find out that in addition to having a clever, amusing husband, dramatic hair, children and being a World Class Neurotic, you find time to shovel shit, and produce a grand total of three, worm-eaten carrots a year. It is quite an achievement....

Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanny......has the postman been?

pooh,pooh and pooh...ds has to give up lovely music group on a Friday,they are changing his nursery days & after plotting a cunning plan to go to earlier music session & arrive late for nursey on a Friday...........

music teacher has announced there will be no early class anymore
Rats

warm raspberry,apple,pear compote & granola with toasted almonds & sunflower seeds

cous cous & roasted veg
avocado,rocket,spinach,spring onion,pea salad for lunch

i have the urge to bake a lemony cake......very lemony
best recipes this way pronto please

Oh &

My super lovely friend & her boys are coming over from Jakarta for a short break at the end of the month

{grin]

Blimey Lully, he has just come just now just this minute ooh oooh oooh OOOOOOH

will email you, thank you VERY much

must go to work first though

Tatties LOL the thing is FMF he DOES look like D Radcliffe

I had one once where ds pointed at Sarah Michelle Gellar and said "Mummy!" and he currently thinks my friend's husband is Zac Ephron and gets very excited when he sees photos of him

Tatties, did anyone spot your DS's outburst?

Were there heartbroken 16 year old girls throwing themselves at you going: 'He said he was mine, the callous toad!'

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

oooh ooooh mmmmmmmmm

ds is skipping and singing "this choc-o-late is so luv-er-ly"

and it is

Hello .

DD and I went shopping. We have bought more apples. And other things. But the apples were the only fruit.

200g sr flour
2 large eggs
125 butter/marge
1 lemon - or two !
200g caster sugar
1/2 small cup milk
1 tsp hot water
pinch salt
oven 150deg

rub butter into flour
add 150 caster sugar
grate in lemomn rind

in another bowl beat eggs, milk and water then add to flour.
bake in 20 cm cake tin for about an hour
mix together lemon juice and remaining sugar to pour over cake when it comes out of oven. leave to cool in tin.