Deny thy burger and refuse thy bacon, and if thou wilt not, be but corn my lovage and I will no longer be a cabbage head - 10/10 thread. All welcome!

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(this bit is only for FK to read cos she asked and it is really TMI for general consumption)

(erm no they don't think so. Apparently I am just quite wet atm but not leaking. They took swabs and things but they said it may just be one of those pregnancy things )

"I just didn't think it was appropriate to be picturing you naked on a pulic forum!!"

god MN is just no fun anymore

I wouldn;t mind if it was cuddles

It's playing tents / reading books / chuffing trains / going to fetch food / drink / having my eyelids prised open that I struggle with

LOL at chuffing trains

I don't like playing chuffing anything at that time in the morning

more LOL, remembering

when he was about 1 and a half we co-slept, and he would wake up at 6, crawl over to get the sling and bring it to me, like a dog bringing its lead for walkies

he wanted to go out to the ruddy park
yes at that time
dp did it a few times in the summer as well

God - I am such a sour sally

I can't even speak to anyone before I have a cup of tea let alone enjoy cuddles and do chuff-chuffs.

more LOL at doing chuff chuffs

oh dear I should go to bed

Well I'm pleased all was well in the end Franny, bottom and all.

We went to a bookshop this afternoon and then to the cinema. It was silly because the weather was so nice, but I felt tired and wanted popcorn and to sit in the dark. I don't even know what we watched, it was rather long and complicated and had Nicholas Cage in it being creepy and caring about his family name.

Hope all well. I know EXACTLY that feeling FK. I'm ashamed to say I still have it, if DH is taking everyone out, and one of them says 'Oh I'll stay here actually'.

Everyone turned up in my bed last night. They were all cold. Even ds1 - who rarely pitches up there at night anymore. He had extremely cold toes.

You must have a big bed then

Yes, is big but NOT that big. I tipped various people out once they had warmed up. I think DS1 was there because he never does, he didn't sleep, he banged about and sighed a lot.

I regularly have 3 dcs in bed with me atm. It is rather lovely. Dd1 quite likes the idea but find it most unrelaxing.

We have a super king size. Thank goodness.

I put up with it in the morning for a bit and Lo is there most of the night but I am not up for family in the bed with toes up noses. No siree. I like my space.

That might be what we have. A super king. It is very nice, it has brass/white bedsteads - with knobs like in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. We bought it when we moved here, DH's feet used to stick out between the bars of our old bed.

No, I don't sleep well when they get in. I have to lie on the outside otherwise I feel trapped.

I find mornings the tricky bit. Ds1 wakes early (6.30 today) and asks the time constantly until the others stir.
Snuggly sleepy people are fine.

I always feel like I've slept well if I wake up on my own though.

do you get any sleep though with all the toss toss turn turn? I would ened up roaring I think.

Our bed is quite big but the room is very small. It is an orangey pine one, not to my taste at all but not an emergency either. It takes up the whole room, end to end, and there is just enough room for a cot next to it where Lo at least starts off the night.

Do you meant TooTs? I'm guessing you do. DD is the most regular visitor and she doesn't toss.

How are things MrsC? Diss sounded like a success. How is ds1?

You've gone to make hospital corners on your huge bed or take a turn around the garden.

[sighs]

not in the garden no!

and I am rubbish at making the bed

Ds1 is ok, a bit better recently but he finds school stressful and hard work. They just will not do the dslexia tests

GP referred him to the ed psy and we got a snotty letter saying that it is done throught the school and she will bring it up at the next school support meeting but we haven't heard anything

Now we are like one of those clocks, I have come out as you have gone in and when I turn in with my umbrella you will come out with a sunhat.

[wanders by in large straw hat]

Did someone call?