I spy with my 10/10 eye, a snifter of currants in a fat mince pie

[FrannyandZooey]

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Oh poor you Boco..well, hopefully this is the start of getting better..can you get te stuff over the weekend?

pmsl wizard

Crossing fingers is helps Boco.

FK - hope your DS is feeling better soon

MrsC - at the cheek of the chap stealing that phone!!!! but I have to confess I did smile at 'He has gone to get his hair cut. Feels very timely, obviously he has realised he is not Samson'

Well I braved the shops - to begin with was lovely - very quiet. Then it was as if 100 truckloads of manic shoppers were delivered into town at once.

It was horrid.

I did smile when I got home though. My lovely artist friend sent me a fab card she made with a crudely drawn turkey on it saying "I fucking hate Christmas" made me smile and now has pride of place on my mantle piece

Hey MrsC, i just looked at my list and Floradix is what she wrote. They didn't have it so i got this other thing but it's probably the wrong thing.

So, dd2 now has sickness and diarrhea as of this afternoon. Which as perfect timing, with inlaws arriving at crack of dawn and party for 37 people on Sunday, and me feeling ill, and the house a mess, and none of the Christmas presents finished.

hahahahahahahahah

37? Gulp!

what is the other thing?

Other thing is Seven Seas vitamin and mineral tonic. Did i do wrong?

dear lord, should incantations not have been said over the packet before you bought it?

Boco, you so thoroughly deserve that holiday!!!!

how quaint to have shops that close for lunch boco where doi u live midsomer bottom or somewhere like

i think u may find the supplementy things help with building ur immune system i hope so

and love the chocolate discussion...i am trying to work out how to eat properly as i think i have got into a funny mindset with food and because i have spent so long losing weight i don't kno how to vhcnge again and i have got into some wrong habvits i think

my mind says eat stuff but then somehow i keep thinking ill do that tomorrow

i had a nice time with the climber (i jusyt wrote his name then by mistake heaven forbifd!)

we spent ages gloing round the shelves in a book shop saying which books we had read and the pitt rivers museum is such a toppo place hunnis

hello all

have been out this morning to lovely alternative Christmas Grotto organised by local art gallery

kids adored going into the magical badger sett

I realise that I will pay for this by not being able to get out of bed for a week with exhaustion but was worth it

also hoorah I had an MRI scan earlier this month to check that my dizziness was just a virusy thing connected to my post-viral fatigue and not Something Worrying and that was clear

whoop de do

have had NO VEG except a banana

Boco if you are ill and at rock bottom you MUST REST. Call in every favour going, however guilty/ obnoxious it makes you feel. Please, please, please. I tried to soldier on when I was under the weather for too long and I am living proof it is a Bad Idea

please learn from my mistake

Hello Capp. Glad to hear you're feeling more chipper! I feel all festively effusive all of a sudden (Tis relief at feeling better myself I think).

Magical Badger sett #

There is a giant badger sett at Kew Gardens. Ds1 was seriously into badgers for 7 or 8 years. Now he acts big and tough but he still has a soft spot for the stripy ones.

oh TooTicky it was gorgeous

I took some photos to put on my blog but they did not come out very well

it was all full of crinkly lights and like a proper little animal home but with books and little shelves with trinkets on

and the chatty badger was so nice

far better than the school fair santa in his plastic gazebo with his Santa coat and chino trousers

Capp glad you got out and had a good time - and very good news that the MRI was all fine.

Resting is impossible with a puking toddler and inlaws coming and xmas and making stuff and the party! [jibber jibber] How? I want to - and would if i could think of a way. If i still feel like this tomorrow i'll cancel phase one of the party - which is the small people in the morning and their parents, but can't put off the afternoon part as that's all the relatives like my dad and his wife who won't see any of us otherwise.

I just called inlaws and asked them if maybe after xmas would be better and mil said no way, they're coming no matter what! I said what if it's a bad stomach bug and we all get it, and we only have one bathroom! And she said 'well, we'll just have to go outside!' She really is desperate to see the girls.

ok Boco but please go to bed as soon as your kids do (good grief if my inlaws were coming I would do that out of choice )

If I see you on here after 9pm without your pyjamas on I will shout at you

yes and cancel Phase 1 of party

and don't make stuff

take it easy on yourself your health is by far the most important thing

if I have learnt anything these past few months it is that we are far more fragile than we would like to believe

Oh no, definitely not without your pyjamas Boco. It's going to be another cold night.

And we will all point and say, "We can see your bottom, we can see your bottom!"
'cos we is very mature.

Capp, I read your description of the sett to ds1 and he looked as yearning as an 8yo Elvis fan can look.

I like your single dose homeopathy thing toot, that sounds amazing. Is the Rasputin man expensive?

Why are you screaming? Do you want to email me? If we discuss it here Franny will have overload, which may not be wise in her condition.

Oh I was only screaming because you were looking at my bottom. Yes please do you have my email address?

Oh, sorry, I forgot about that! (at least yours isn't spotty like mine).
I also meant to add my email address but got distracted because ds2 is leaping and screaming in front of me because he wants to do the cbbc advent calender NOW
[email protected]

ok chaps - I need to know how contagious this throat/had/cold type lurgy is???

DH has it (bugger and arse) what are the chances of DD and I not?

bugger and arse again