Hot Cross Plums (and something about Gourd of the Dance) - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

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yes all Easter bunnies here present and correct at 5.30 am
managed to persuade to go and read books until 6.05
liked his Astrid Lindgren book but said "that's not much of a present, to me" about the bulbs tried to rescue it when he saw my face
I think he was too hyped up and thought Easter was going to be like Christmas
ruddy consumer expectations

anyway tis snowing here, big blustery flurries
friends coming for lunch and egg hunt in the snow
I think egg rolling down nearby hill in cancelled until further notice

avi if I used to eat dark chocolate in the evening it used to keep me awake
only the dark sort

oh shit, big probs, dp and dd1 broken down, probably just out of petrol but they are stranded

oh man, where?

Keevil, Wilts
Have started hopeful thread....

oh dear
hope all resolved v soon
what were they doing?

ie, small village, no petrol, no shop

I'd have to walk 3 milesd to get petrol today and Keevil is even fuyrther but in other direction

BUM

delivering papers
Was hoping PO man could rescue them but he is not answering phone

wish we could help
could they knock on door of kind village local bearing big smiles?

dunno.....

dp reversed charges to phone me - of course I casn't phone back to tell them help is NOT on the way

can't not casn't - goodness, I sound like a Bristolian

I definitely can't sleep if I eat good dark chocolate late at night. I got a maya gold egg from DH, I love that one.

Dc's are meticulously counting out the basket of little foiled spotty eggs and bunnies, there are too many I think, now that they are all in one place. How do you limit the amount yours eat? We were allowed to eat everything in one go when I was little wheras DH had to have a small pice after breakfast so they lasted unil June. There is a balance I guess.

It is snowing here too, it does feel quite Christmassy.

Pink - Thank you, but I am ok for chocolate at the moment, I expect I will help them with theirs!

Oh, no, Toot!

well i don't see wtf you can do from there TooT, I think they will have to sort themselves out (possibly walk home in snow from sound of it )

I wish I could think of sensible suggestion but you've no way of getting petrol to them and you can't contact them, so they'll just have to get themselves home I think

MrsC we bought one packet of the tiny foil eggs to be shared between ds, friend's ds, and whatever the adults eat during the hunt
other presents are non-edible
my giant egg is another matter of course

Oooh Toot, sounds v cold and horrid. Hope someone can help you, we unfortunately, are too far away.

Mrs C, I am glad that they have been able to catch the cancer so early, but am so sorry that the treatment has to be a hysterectomy. Please shout if you want to talk/need anything at all.

Do you think it would be too big a favour to ask a neighbour?

no I don't think so
what would they have to do? drive how far to get them? (with a siphon presumably)
do you usually do each other favours?

I feel as if we probably ask favours more than we are asked - not oftenb though - and usually just borrowing a loo roll or something

problem is, if a local has taken pity on them, it would be pointless sending somebody out....but I don't know what's happening

I would have asked our old nextdoor neighbour,

MrsC - I'm glad there is treatment for you but sorry it has to be a hysterectomy. Hope you are OK.

Hope dp & dd are OK Toot - I felt such a spanner when I rang Green Flag when I ran out of diesel but they were kind and hardly laughed at me at all

There's about 4 inches of snow here and it's still snowing. DD is ridiulously excited but I am trying to persuade her to eat more breakfast so I can mn a bit so she has energy for playing before we go out and play.

The easter bunny brought her 3 small Lindt bunnies (?ethical status of Lindt? I have no idea) and some deely boppers (another pair) with easter eggs as the dangly bits. I am a sucker for tat that I know she will love

AA on the way - I'd forgotten dp was a member. So had he apparently

Ds1 and ds2 are going wild - desperater to go egg hunting. DD2 miserable - runny nosae and lots of requests for mummy milk. Didn'#t help that when I was on the phone top the AA and the boys were fighting and annoying each other, ds1 pushed ds2 who fell into dd2 who fell into some shelves

Are you cross that dp ran out Toot? I was furious with dh when we ran out once in the middle of nowhere (pre dd thankfully) because he kept saying it was fine and I knew it wasn't [fume]. We had to walk 2 miles to the petrol station, just to find that there were no petrol cans there, so we had to get a bus to the next petrol station 5 miles away, then a bus back, then walk the 2 miles back to the car. Thankfully it was summer and the weather was nice. I have never let him forget . Such a shame when I ran out myself last year and I lost my superiority in the ability-to-keep-the-car-going stakes.

No, it's just exasperating. Especially today!!!
Your experience sounds like a nightmare!

oh Toot
what a miserable morning

Heavy snow here...no Hop farm today I guess

left ds's little book & rabbit at the end of his bed & left little easter basket & egg hunt trail outside his bedroom door.

Put his wigwam up in the sitting room & filled it full of cushions,little chicks etc

We had an easter breakfast on his whittards easter set...hardboiled,dyed eggs with our names on & toast...strawberry,banana smoothie & hot cross buns & blueberries.

He has his bunny ears on over his dressing gown hood & is painting daffodils

MrsC, I'm glad that the appointment was good and he spent time explaining everything so thoroughly - that's so important isn't it.

Sorry that it has to be a hysterectomy, but it's great that soon this will all be over with and you don't have to worry about it coming back or have chemo or anything.

Toot glad AA have gone to the rescue.