Plump up the yam, til your beet are stompin, and the jam is pumpkin - 10/10 Club

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I dare someone to turn up with their kids covered in bits of Dorito

Mine may well request a fruit shoot.

It's ok, the borlotti beans were only wooden

which you will no doubt present them inside a hollowed out butternut squash

I ate some cashew nuts

I know they don't count but I thought TooT would be pleased

we have spent the afternoon making the most extraordinary beautiful and festive playdough. It is bright red and bright green and very glittery and smells of a) cranberry b) spruce. It is also organic

[ponce de la ponce]

I am ignoring the scary puppet thing. There won't be any fruit shoots. It really is uber healthy and nice there.

why is it good to eat nuts? does tooticky sell them?

Ignore it at your peril.. you may just find yourselves behaving in an eerily predetermined manner as puppet mistress SauerKraut pulls the strings from afar...

Cashew nuts are nice. Dd3 calls them moons.

It's all right. He'll bring his own.

(Seriously, just kidding).

I want to crack this theatre conundrum for 100 now. Do you need a theatre for grown ups?

No lionheart. I need a theatre for a rather camp and playful dyspraxic 8 y-o, with the possibility of making scene changes, and backdrops and erm, well, basically, staging West Side Story and Les Miserables. Could you do that for me?

Actually dh rang. He thinks he might have found something.

DS2 likes making animated films, shooting stills and then putting them on the apple and running them together. They are v. funny. there was one about two footballers going for a pee. But he really wants a theatre, so he can put on shows of 'absolute geeenious' and things.

He's basically a victorian child who wants a boy's dolls house, with performance possibilities.

He doesn't sound weird. He sounds fabulous and creative.

100x your DH is bound to have found something brilliant in Pollocks

I amvery with DH, Every night almost he comes in and starts making snippy reamrks about stuff.

I said we'd been into town and he was off, not asking about what we'd done or anything, just

"You're always going into town" (in a snippy way)

"Well yes, we do usually go once a week, especially since I've been buying fruit form the greengrocer"

"Oh have you taken that into account in your calculations then" (I think he meant financial or maybe carbon footprint )

"Well we did go into town most weeks before that anyway..."

"Last week you went t wice"

"Er, no, we didn;t"

And so it goes on. all in strange accusatory tones.

I'd made a really delicious supper and it was all ruined by that stupid conversation, and I don;t know what the point is. If I'd been to the moon dressed as a fairy there would have been something wrong with it

Sorry to blether on.

I'll tell you about supper in a minute.

Oh dear, DD has brought home an invitation to a party at 2pm on Sunday. That'll be around the time we're eating wooden borlotti beans then.

It's so annoying as she missed this child's birthday last year as she was ill, and it's in the bear factory, making bears presumabley, so it sounds unusual and fun.

not that our outing isn't unusual and fun of course, it's just annoying that it couldn't have been on Saturday or a different time.

the bear party that is, oh god, I'm logging off for the night, have been on here too much today.

Bonsoir

Well done Franny. Although cashews freak me a little now since they made dd2 very ill, twice.

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That was quite short notice for the party, wasn't it, MrsC? I am sorry the times clash. Ds really likes those bear things.

I have had lettuce and tomato and cucumber. (and potato salad and veggie sausages. Mmm. Am going to go and eat some more potato salad out of the fridge with a spoon)

faintly puzzled at free rice

is this like free willy

dp has beaten me to it and finished off the potato salad

the fucker

thetare stuff sounds nice all these imaginative and creative children

i am knackered i have had proper meals today but think it has made me knackered aunless it was the going to sleep at 2.0am and the alarm at 5

The three hours sleep might well do it.

Franny, are you craving carbohydrates? Or just the potato salad what is gone?

I am not sure

I can't find anything else I want to eat so I suppose it was the potato salad

fucker

he has gone out as well so i can't have a go