It's my parsley and I'll cry if I want to - 10/10 thread. All welcome!

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ds has not rung plumber 1 i mean

bero walk sounds nuice it is nice weather here today

but i must find out how to tile the shower

Oh poor you Bobo

120 cakes? Goodness!

Bee - hope ds feels better v. v. soon. Earache is so miserable.

Ds2 was up in the night crying with pain (his eye) Seems better this morning although it's still not fully open and is swollen.

100x - 8yo has shoes, 6yo is the needy one but he does have school shoes and wellies so not disastrous.
Ds1 is just so damned angry - he has been sharing slightly and intermittantly recently, says he gets v. stressed and that makes him angry. Trouble is, when he is angry he lashes out, and the moment he hurts somebody (usually ds2) I lose all sympathy for his stress etc. Because hurting is not on but he does it and I don't know how to stop him. Poor ds2 suffers a lot and I am crap crap mum because I can't stop ds1 hitting/kicking him. Why? Help.
The eye/blowpipe incident was an accident though and ds1 did apologise sincerely for that.

Sorry Boco , I am not being overly familiar.

boco it sounds awful i really hope it works

who has died

i have read your news and want to talk but busy but just want to say thanks to Slur for advice -- partic on a. hair b. spare food!

bloody phone won't stop ringing

all of you come ..there are blue berries

Humphrey Lyttelton has died. One of those people you expect to carry on forever.

going to hide crap in secret room now

nobody is funnier than Humph was

Wish we had a secret room. Good luck with party

littlerach - no , they low and wide rather than up...

TooT - have just emailed you, lovely one!

very sorry for dc with sore parts
earache and eye pain both so nasty
hope it all passes soon

been swimming despite ds's hacky cough & gunky ears
have avoided it for months
hope it wont have disasterous consequences ,but it was so worth it to see ds laughing & grinning & having a lovely time with dh.
It is about the only bonding thing they do together.

dh has lost a stone since he gave up drinking,in his all in one suit he looked like a skinny runt
His bum is now about as big as ds's
I feel like an elephant

Toot & Bee
Hope little ones are feel;ing better soon
Stuffit..hope party is fabulous
Boco..I wonder if your treatment was the same as mine?
I quite liked the big hair effect tho as mine was rather non existant...horridly stingy tho

Gah, Franny, I just did a stupid thing. Please see email (from different address than the one you used so you now have my RL name ). Am having one of those mornings.

Pavlova will be fab although Stuffit's ice cream thingy sounds delicious.

8 yr old boys are hard, Toot.

Boco, it sounds horribly uncomfortable.

boco

"turn around
every now and then I get a little bit crazy,
turn around,
bright eytes,
every now and then I fall apart...."

um, the ear ache seems better (thasnks for good vibes) so now I have to just put up with moans about not going swimming!

I am ovulating.

Isn't it a gorgeous day?

We have been to the country and game fair and it was baking hot. Lots of lovely dogs and sheep shearing and parachuting shows and stalls selling overpriced aloe-vera cream next to Hunters wellies and so on. I think I would like a sheep one day.

It is almost barbeque weather here. I am marinading tuna steaks with coriander and lemon and we have asparagus and green beans and salads and corn and stuff.

DD won an enormous pack of electronic vehicles, cars, motorbikes and helicoptor on the tombola. They are all fiddling about and arguing over them in the garden. I am sitting here with a cold drink and ignoring them.

It is gorgeous, but very windy.

We have extended our garden by buying osme of the field bahind us, and it is a wastleand.
The girls love it.
They have been digging and making campfires and chairs and all the things they should do.

And the neighbours children came with their rabbit and guinea pig and it was like a pets corner with real comedy moments.

Lager weather

But it's forecast rain here tomorrow.

No wind at all here, though the army people were blowing all about the place in the air, apparently they were caught in big blusts while the air was still on the ground. It looked strange.

Yes, lager weather. We bought some gluten free beer from St Peters Brewery yesterday and it's quite tasty, more of a light lager than their usual ales.

i have wasted the afternoon sitting on my bed drinking coffee and cutting a few tiles i cant get the adhesive off the wall

sounds like you had nice days

not read the thread but if ever anyone fancies meeting me at the end of term to go round the tate would be well up for it!

greyish, fine-ish warmish here...not nice enough to make you feel 'wow'. I spent the whole afternoon at the allotment making a seating area. when I got home after 5 hours, the boys were still in pyjamas and nothing had been done at all at home...
But dh had downloaded a load of audio Terry Pratchett novels so we may curl up, drink wine and listen to stories tonight

i spent half an hour lovingly making a leek rissoto only to be told by both dcs that it is horrible and so they had marmite sandwiches.

ungrateful so & sos

i will bbee

well having faffed around all day failing to get the adhesive off

i finalkkly realised that there was no man to delegate it too and i had to do it so it is just about off now

has made big mess so have to try and clear that of the new shower tray as i have done it the mans way withoput a dust sheet

and then do the tiling oh lordy

i have cut most of the tiles except the hardest ones

also the mans way i think

wel done fmf at seating area
you have doen more than me

i am in the position of haviung done no college work this term and i think i have to do at least four garden designs as well as turf assignments and cad

i hope the weather is nice next weekend

i am glad i dont have to make food for ingrateful offspring