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

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Yes I think an early night is in order

Oh bah! I arrive just as everyone is off to bed

I may be overly reliant on the visual dimension.

Goodnight.

Hello wombling. How are you?

Hello.

I can fancy people in books.

I see Franny and 100x have gone to bed together.

Hello Lionheart,

I'm goodish, but beyond tired. How about you?

Idris, how are your teeth?

Yep, beyond tired about sums it up.

Are you feeling better Idris?

How about fancying people on the internet, then? Have you never fancied someone you have spoken to on the internet? (and no it is not me that has that crush thread )

I am eating apple and pear and banana and raisins.

Peers round door covered in string

Coooo eeee

Jordans granola/natural yoghurt with banana and strawberries

Am I allowed in ?

hello

I too can fancy people in books even if they are over 20 years old

I remember during our O levels we all had a crush on Mr Darcy

come to think of it I haven't read any books with totty in them recently - in the last one I read the bloke was a syphillitic madman

this is the BEST title ever

I can definitely fancy people on the phone specially young sounding irish blokes...i seem to get a few of these...ossibly even the same one

there aren't many books i read with fanciable possibilities in..i am currently reading saturday and i don't think i fancy perowne...or his son

my iron gate is being fitted shortly

can't believe i invested so much money in it

Hello.

I am not very 10/10 ish today. I will have to improve.

I am at work. I was meant to be going to Dublin today (with work) but am not because I have to teach something else tomorrow and Friday as someone else can't. I was rather excited about going on a plane on my own. It was however, the Right Thing to Do.

My teeth are OKish at the moment although they are still mid-treatment. Next appt not until December though.

I am not really that all right which is a bit of a pain. Bother. Not helped by DD appearing in our bed and sleeping perpendicular to the general sleeping direction.

MamaG it's MINE!

Idris sorry you're not really ok, hope your day gets better.

I'm trying to decide what to do about dds school - i'm cross with them, after getting them to stop the stupid birthday table for R and year 1, dd has come home with an invitation for a birthday table lunch for a girl in her class. I was planning on mentioning it to HT, but she saw me and said 'today i'm ordering you art boards for your class ok?' and then walked off, so i'd feel like an arse chasing her to complain about something.

DD has fallen out with her friend who won't sit with her, girls are awful, so she spent the morning crying and refusing to get dressed so we were late and she arrived looking crumpled and weepy. dp has gone back to work early as he's too stressed to let it all pile up and we just fought yesterday so both decided that he should do what he wanted. [give up emoticon]

I've eaten some grapes and i need to plan art club but don't feel like going.

Yes, children like to sleep at right angles.

I am of Franny's arrangement, which is something I toyed with when DS2 was born.

In the end, DS1 had a bed on the side and DS2 slept in a cot and it didn't feel right.

I was thinking about the internet too, Franny. But with the internet you know there is someone on the other end somewhere.

With a book I am more likely to be attracted by the person who put the words together in a particular way rather than any character they conjure.

(Although you are very lovely, I am sure of it).

Oh Boco. My mother always says 'for richer for poorer etc but not for lunch.' It's tough when they're around I think - and I know.

I don't know what you do about the birthday table now. I don't understand it either, because she's in Y1 isn't she? I thought it was banned.

Chips were lovely. I am going to do things on the Back of My Mind List today - this includes a lot of sending things from the post office, including TooT's shoes, which are actually on the To Do list. And things left by people who came to stay about 3 months ago.

Oh and I fancy people in books. All the time. I swoon constantly and have imaginary conversations with them. Much more probably than people I can see. What's the fun in that? I have quite a long list, actually.

Someone was reading a Barbara Trapido novel on here - who was it? - and it had that man in it who constantly feels his wife's bum in the kitchen and keeps impregnating her. I fancied him. Who was reading it? What book is it? Brother of the More Famous Jack or something.

And I've never fancied anyone on the internet. But then I've never spoken to anyone on the internet, other than you lot, though I am sure you are all ravishing.

Right. Lists.

I haven't ever fancied anyone on the internet, and i can't think of anyone in a book i've fancied since Mr Darcy. There must've been more, but can't think of anyone.

100 it is banned for year one! The swines!

What can i get the kids to draw today , someone make me a lesson plan i can't do it.

Are they still doing the wretched thing, Boco, even though there have been words?

There have been words and letters and phone calls to ofsted and feedback forms and everything! It's supposed to be banned for her class! 15 in the class, 12 are invited. This school is a pain in the arse. I've not got the mental room for it now.

ooh! This thread can be spookily serendiptious sometimes! I was just toying with the idea of asking some q's about co-sleeping, and it has already been mentioned by Franny & Lionheart.

When/if anyone co-slept with their DC's, did you do it right from the beginning? How did you cope with the bedclothes issue? i.e not letting the child get overheated in your bedding, or did you all just get under the duvet/sheets?

Sorry your not feeling so good Idris, anything we can do?

Boco for you, sounds v drainign at your house at the moment.

God yes, I can absolutely fancy people from books. In my teenage days, I remmber having crushes on some of the heroes from my stash of Austen/Georgette Heyer novels.

Hey, I always say 'for better or worse, but not for lunch'. DH sometimes wants to have lunch with me in the week - it's just weird and immoral and wrong. We're married fgs.

Fancying people online is totally different from fancying people in books - the online thing is interactive, more like a conversation.

(I am v 10/10 these days, living on ratatouille and fruit, and running a lot and biking and all that. Salsa tonight (the dance, not the food). Just not very MN)

Hello, NQC, I've just been reading that cycling thread and looking on the wee ride site. It looks much better that a rear seat.

When DS1 was tiny, Wombling, he slept between in the middle of the bed on top of the duvet but with his feet facing the pillows

(in a kind of valley formed between us).

That worked well and we knew he wouldn't get overheated or lost under the covers. Then, when he was bigger he slept in the middle

(although at strange angles). Franny would probably have more ideas about it.

Boco, that is horrible.

I like our Wee Ride, it's been through two children (and even a small crash, whoops) and stood up well. I can talk to, feed, and entertain DS2 while he's on the bike, very easily.

It's technically not legal in the EU now, though, so you may struggle to get one fitted. They are a pig to fit, and don't work on all bikes.