Cream coloured parsnips and crisp apple strudel, Beetroot and bok choi and swiss chard with noodles - 10/10 thread,

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SHHHHHH

It suits you, MrsC, this virtuous air.

I'm eating strawberries and blueberries and melon and raisins

when is it lunchtime? I want some more meringue

bbbbbsihyisauyishicihishkhkhcihsihichhkkl

are you chanting?

or more mango rage?

[I have reached a state of religious ecstacy and was speaking in tongues]

meringue anytime for pregnant ladies I think.

have promised children swimming this morning and oh how much I regret that move!

big vegetable soup for lunch and already had dried apricots. Will eat fruit in a minute.

(Bee the thing is, it isn't my meringue so I have to observe the proper rites>

Any chance of some dervishing while you are down there, MrsC?

or failing that, a bit of breakdancing? arf

Franny when you are pregnant all food automatically becomes yours, therefore rendering null and void all proper rites

oh superb I shall go and tell dp

hang on I think he may have an inkling by now

break dancing?

I am having a religious experience I'll have you know.

Oh a religious experience. I thought you were possessed

dp and ds are painting a garden gnome. What thoughtful birthday presents we got

I think this is quite good exercise

how can you get bored of mango divinity?

Right - I must do something more contructive with my day than pursue ecstatic states to find the answer to why some mangoes are cunting.

oh I didn't know it was MANGO related

do we get to wear nun's clothes?

I'm trying not to spend so much time on here. but then I find it all moves too fast and I haven't the foggeist what is going on...
MrsC - underno circumstances could you be described as fat.

Avi - marble runs are marvellous. Also noah's arky things/toy farms.
also those magnetic mosaic thingies were always popular at preschool.
Safety scissors, paper, and a bin of their own!!!

Oh no. We're not dressing up and role playing again are we? Although nuns outfits would be in keeping with the title.

yes

I have been singing that ruddy song every ten minutes as well. We need a new title soon. A virtous one.

Whilst fully respecting other people's opinions and life decisions I would just like to say that both mine found marble runs very boring and unsatisfying, and it ended up in a dusty box.

Everyone is obviously entitled to speak freely of their love of marble runs, however it is perhaps worth pointing out that they are limited imaginatively. In my humble opinion.

[faints in tiredness of excess politeness]

But then it depends on the child. I think at 3 my ds's were absorbed by Brio, and then perhaps Playmobil. But they aren't constructors, they are lying on the floor with a Viking and a lady from the hospital chatting types.

DD did/does much less of this. She is unsupervised user of staples, sellotape and string type.

come in my child, all are welcome here