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really franny are u thinking of a nanny

i am finding this thread really coinfusing to understand

i read franny asking if 100 liked heroin

they are putting my shower door on at the moment

"It was thinking 'I'm going to kill her when she turns her back, I'm going to swoop down in a prehistoric way and have er eyes out.'"

For some reason I thought you were talking about the au pair

No 100 hasn't come round to the joys of heroin yet. But more importantly, what in gods name didn't stop Avi's sister's insatiable sexual appetite! I can't find it!

oh i've got one now
I am a bit short of childcare some days when I am at work - she comes and plays with ds in the park for 2 hours
the idea is that when dc2 is born and ds's nursery place finishes (I timed that cunningly didn't I? ) she can occasionally come and stop us from going mad
and when I go back to work she can look after ds sometimes
no more free childcare for ds after July
possibly ever

This thread is making me rofl - no one is concentrating and everyone seems slightly drunk.

aw tatties Don't have CAT but I have been meaning to get myself a non-identifying email addy.

I am going to look at it, 100x, but I fear it may be beyond our budget Mitte is an expensive area, as the name suggests (very central). We currently have an unusually low rent for the niceness of our flat (I assume because we are very close to the urban railway and fairly close to the ring road). I would also feel sad to leave this area.

FK - thank you for asking. We went to look at a cafe today for ds1's birthday/ds2's christening party and really liked it - lovely outside space with play area. We had a coffee there, ds1 played, happy relaxed other parents smiled at ds2, the sun shone and I felt really rather reconciled to Berlin.

ah so did i mrs c

one of several things i cant understand

Boco I am sure it was having a hysterectomy
perhaps that was why she had been recommended to have one, her insatiable sexual desires
I am sure Freud would have agreed

it is like a loud party with everyone talking slightly too much and miming across one another's heads
I like it but I may go to bed soon

Bloody hell. They do things differently in 1928 Guernsey don't they.

Also everything is loading so slowly, so I feel quite drunk and slightly numb and always 5 steps behind the conversation at the loud party.

How are the tiles Zippi?

the tiles are ok not well done but passable

the door is looking nice i hope it will all work

i have to decide whether to do the floor ones myself

Also do you think it will be weird to have someone living here? I can't imagine it somehow.

We'll have to get locks for the bathroom won't we? And wear clothes a lot. And what else will happen?

beach volley ball with any luck.

Have you got a tile cutter?

That sounds like a tongue twister. Have you got a tile cutter asked the tile cutters son.

Tnogu has recommended a book and Franny the Flying Fairy is going to send it to me. I can't remember what it is called, Three Wise Men? I think one will probably be enough with some magazines.

Fk - Thanks - I won't press you to ask intimate questions.

Don't you hate those books, Jasmine the jolly fairy or whatever?

yes it has water in and a saw blade cutting the tiles is fine its the grouting that is the hard part

Yes to locks and clothes.
Maybe it'll be good because everyone will be on good behaviour all the time, and then they'll get used to it and it'll just stay. Like the Little Brute Family when they find the wandering good feeling and stop kicking each other with hob nail boots. Not that you do that. I'm probably projecting that bit.

Um, depends if she's a quiet keep to herself type or boisterous 'high 5!' type really.

I think an au pair will be fun and interesting and useful. If it doesn't work out then it doesn't matter. I expect you ought to wear clothes and shut the bathroom door though.

Argh sorry MrsC I asked if you were here and then I went!! Are you still there? I wanted to know if you liked Nigella Lawson cause I think you'd like her Feast book and I wanted to ask about your mortgage.

am behind too, but LOling at prehistorically swooping au pair.

100x, I would offer to find you a German one, but not sure I want to inflict one of my former students on you. That said, the ones that would actually countenance going abroad are likely to be really very alright.

I do like Nigella, yes, I have her goddess and speedy book. What about my mortgage?

Are you training to be a financial advisor Pink? Do you work for the Book People? Do you like heroin?

Can you do tiles and get someone else to grout? Oh god, you can SO do this. You can build walls.

MrsC. Oh good, yes, I think magazines a v. good idea. You know Vogue is surprisingly satisfying. Do you ever read it/look at it? Am slightly but really, is like a full meal somehow.

We have read 2 Rainbow books. I think I'd cry if I had to read anymore. I have told her she can have the rest when she reads them to herself. They are dreary beyond belief aren't they?

This is an absolutely wonderful conversation.