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just realised i have probably scuppered my chances of babysitting any 10/20 babies again..wombling and mrs c u don't need to go and sterilise yur babies i promise

oh crikey 100x, this is MNet, it is all chit chat in cyberspace and utterly meaningless diversion of an evening, of course I wasn't offended! genuinely interested in others' points of view but not at all offended.

I once did flounce out a church hall in heels. I skidded on the zealously polished parquet and shot out backwards and sideways into a lurking mop cupboard. I was half weeping with pain from a barked shin and half weeping from crazed hilarity at my idiocy.

i ate an apple btw

Was it a scary toddler group Possum?

lol Possum. I think I did much the same. I ended up skidding into Slubbers christmas pudding thread, and now I'm all committed to making one and I've never made one before.

Right. Then I just need to know how Avi feels about it.

I ran away from a toddler group once. Looked around, scooped up dd1 and ran

oh and a baked potato fr lucnh with peas and swetcorn

fabulosi kitchen in a very high gloss plastic way but with a walnut worktop of course

I might still flounce TooT. I am in flat shoes and I have Taken Umbrage. [nose in air]

I don't think I could stay anywhere where disagreeing is banned. I'd have my fist permanantly in my mouth to stop myself talking, and then I'd get hungry. And I'd look so ugly.

Oi, that is my umbrage. Give it back!
I keep meaning to dig out your email address. I should reimburse you postage costs.

umbrage is that like darker than yellow ochre

So do you cook your plastic food in your plastic kitchen, Zippi?

when i was t school u had to learn those things

That's burnt umbrage. Raw umbrage is better for you - more vitamins.

Nah, don't worry TooT.

[waits for Avi]

yep i am 100% 2007 bad mouse

TooT - All toddler groups are scary to me, full of ernest bustling women getting infants to glue things and sit in circles and sing things and eat horrible cheap and toxic biscuits. DS just wants to chew the radiators and bounce around patting the toy kitchen. People keep kindly sitting next to me with their cups of tea as if to include me in the group and eventually I had to say, "look, I'm exhausted, I come here for DS to interact with other kids and to enjoy different toys. I am not physically able to string a sentence together right now. Please would you mind if I just sit here in pleasant gormless silence?"

I wish there was a Franny-like heuristic play and silk parachutes group near me. No such luck.

Sure? It was quite a lot.

we call it the dolls house me and dd1 are competing with who is going to be allowed to live there but neither if us can afford it

Yup, honestly it's fine. Forget it.

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me
I sit and watch
As tears go by

My riches cant buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doin things I used to do
They think are new
I sit and watch
As tears go by

Oh Possum! At the one I ran away from nobody was friendly. They didn't just ignore me, they Looked at me and then ignored me.

Thanks 100x

Zippi, that is very sad and not at all pro-active.

ah well i still like it...sadly dgs did ask where my ex was tonite

it'sd the first time he has asked me

i said he was driving his rtaxi

poor dgs moved out last weekend..think he is wondering wher ethey are going

Oh Zippi, are you feeling sad?

TooT, the local group is well-meaning and kind, it is a good place for DS as a first born to get used to a bit more noise and push/shove/share/negotiate over time. I just long, like LL longs for her dream cafe, for a play group without plastic, beeping, lurid-coloured toys, biscuits stuffed with E numbers (have to check packets because of DS's severe skin rashes) and well, how do I explain it, group leaders who don't exude magic or excitement, just hum drum "let's bash out a nursery rhyme or two then push on to cups of tea and adult chit chat". I continue to dream....