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Oh glad she's on the mend Psychobabble

It's a very quiet veg day today - how's everyone and their poorly children? How's Franny's morning sickness?

We had horrors of the Christmas Fair today, girls traumatised by a reluctant and rather skinny father christmas and his elves. DD walked out saying 'he's not real, he's not at all twinkly'.

Dp is ill in bed - came home from fair and he'd come home from work and gone straight to bed after lunch.

Dd2 had a day of being very tricky and smashing plates, spilling food, running off. I'm thinking a lot about wine mostly.

What else is happening?

Hello everybody

My but it's quiet in here. Are we all super busy with our actual lives?

I have eaten lots of very nice stir fry.

Love to all and healing vibes to those who need them.

Oh, thanks for the recipes Franny

Freegan? What's that, vegan on a tight budget?

I am wandering around the internet.

DH and I are watching Nikita. He is watching it, I am wandering around the internet .

Thanks Avi. V. interesting.

fv is so much easier in the summer isn't it? Then it is easy to eat through bowls of berries but I find it hard now - only so many satsumas I can eat.

I am tired. It is stupid because most days whne I am travelling to my course I get up at 5:17 and then today when I am at home and I can lie in bed all snug until 7.30 my body TWNAGS awake at 5:17 - the stupid bastard.

The freeganism thread was funny. I especially liked people's outrage and getting out the dettol. I like the word freegan because a mostly vegan friend of mine uses it to mean when he is eating out and not sticking strictly to vegan stuff. So he says "oh we ate at pizza express last night and i went freegan" at which point I get a vision of him in the skips out the back.

Oh I feel like crap. Had a big slump yesterday and had to ask dp tp come home early, then like a twat did NOT go to bed early but stayed up trying to finish the photo montage thing I do each year of ds for Christmas. Then ds up at 5.15 why oh why oh why. Have lots of work this afternoon, arrrgh.

Oh Boco. Ds obviously thinks he is going on your course. I see it all now.

DD has just eaten all of the mango while I wasn't looking, am left with teeth grating pear and a pappy apricot.

Wish I knew why I can be so good some days and others just crave carbs and crap...hello to everyone

If lully pops on today - could you remind her to mail me please - thanks

[hands round mugs of hot chocolate]

Everyone sounds a bit glum. Hope all illnesses soon gone.

Everything a bit mad here, I have lists flying about the house, and I'm chasing after them and reading them and adding things to them and pinning them down and then releasing them in the air again like so many butterflies.

Went out last night, have a bad headache. I talked too much, again. All dcs surprisingly well, but ds2 and dd aren't sleeping and are arsing about each night and then I have to drag them up in the morning and they don't eat anything and we have fights about shoes/hairbrushing etc.

BBee how long is your course, how long does this madness continue?

[picks ups lists, reads]

Fibonacci? He was the chap with the sequence, yes? 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...

On top of my anyway busy day, I now also have to drive to a town 10 miles away to buy a printer because there are dire problems with dp's. Mugs are on hold. Has to be me that goes because it has to go on my credit card because dp is in shit with all his

Don't hold out much hope of food until this evening.

Hello all,
sorry to hear ds is so poorly Lully, no tips except grated ginger steeped in boiling water, mixed with honey and given on a spoon should help with sore throat and ease cough temporarily. Hope he improves soon.

Everyone else who is poorly, sympathies.

Franny you must get your rest, you are growing a baby you know

In the burrow here, we have all been up since 2.30, all children being repeatedly ill over the sheets, have 3 loads of washing from changing all beds, twice!

Am also v v tired now, and DD won't go to bed for a nap - poo!

Oh Wombling, that is awful. Hope they feel better soon and that you have a nice, bright breezy day for drying sheets.

lol Boco at your poor quality Father Christmas

I once wrote a bizarre pregnancy-hormone fuelled letter to Asda complaining about the charity Santas parading around their lobby; one of them was about 23 and I had to keep swishing dd1 round in the trolley so she could not see him pulling his beard down to take sips of tea

I got very very irate and wrote the crossest letter imaginable - thinking back they were probably snorting with laughter at it in Asda

today I have been to see the naturopath Jan de Vries and he has confirmed that I have an ME condition and sent me away with various pots of stuff which on close inspection seem to be full of lots of ginseng

he did say that the ME was in the early stages so easier to get rid of and seemed to be talking in terms of years rather than months

I mean months is but at least it is not years. And I do feel better than I did a month ago even without the potsful of ginseng.

god I mean months rather than years

trust me to be so pessimistic as to accidentally write it down the wrong way round

Avi, please tell me about it. I don't think I know about a golden section. I remember doing the sequence in school but can't quite remember the point of it. I always forget the important bits. That's why I can re-read books and still be surprised by the ending. Oh, do consecutive numbers make pleasing rectangles or something?