Raisins to be cherryful - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

[FrannyandZooey]

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I may regret out food choices today:

Mixed bean salad (pinto, kidney & garbanzo) with quinoa for lunch then, at DS's request, egg mayo sarnies for supper.

I fear his bottom may be worse than Franny's tomorrow.

Boco ....you stole quote of the week from flat stanley !

What? Where?

I noticed that too.

Thinking of you, MrsC.

Boco - dh has had a skin biopsy, for a strange rash he gets on his hands every few years. He has a little (maybe 5mm long) scar on his hand from it, and said it was really fine. (Sadly they did not find a cause for the rash).

That's a shame Bero - does he still get it?
Really really hope they can work this out as it's very frustrating being itchy ALL the time. I can't imagine not having it now. Kind of wish it was the gross thing they thought as at least it would be cured now.

What quote of the week and where? I haven't said anything quote of the weekable and can't find it.

It's in the mumsnet news email - you were talking about reading ages

REally? I haven't had that. My chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer was much better.

Quote of the week

Boco ponders reading ages... "Is it normal for your reading age to fall drastically in later life? Mine was quite high, I was pushing a reading age of 45 a few years ago, but now I really struggle around the 23 mark."

How do you know your reading age?

lol @ chess-nuts

LOL no I did like your reading age quote Boco
even if it didn't make me snort in the middle of the night a la Flat Stanley

I can't remember the last time he had it, Boco, neither can he - it used to turn up every couple of years, hang around for a week being slightly painful and looking a lot more alarming than it was, and then go.

I thought the chess nuts was funny too. And so was the reading age, but funnier perhaps in the context of the G&T thread?

Anyway, it was one of our own and we should be proud.

Good grief, I can't believe you are STILL itching. You should be given some MN award for being funny and nice and firing off emails to irresponsible lobby groups whilst itching.

Franny probably knows about it. I expect she was awarded one for being funny and nice whilst making up wnacky baskets or something.

MrsC, I am worrying that you didn't read my post about poo. Or was it just too graphic?

TooT - she has information on constipation coming out her ears. IYSWIM. I'm sure she read, and noted.

How are things with you? Is ds1 ok?

yes Boco I would make you a Motivational Poster if I could word it right about the itching
I may try tomorrow

meanwhile I would love to go down in history as the inventor of wnaky baskets but sad to say it is not so

I was advising pre-emptive pooing but possibly that is obvious.

Ds1 okay today, yes.

We have a RULE. Any hitting/kicking/hurting, provoked or not, incurs a loss of £1 from monthly money. Should anybody lose all their monthly money and keep hitting, they then lose screens for a day.
Enforced as of this morning and no incidents today

Oh well done TooT. A family rule. I love a family rule almost as much as I love a list. And our family rule is about hitting and kicking too.

That's good isn't it? I think the best thing about a Rule, is that it gives you something to say, something neutral rather than 'GRRRR, YOU XXXX gnngngngn' type thing.

And are you going to talk to the teacher too?

Sorry. You don't actually have to discuss this with me.

Where's UR? Did the elevator man just disappear?

That sounds good Toot, I hope it keeps working - it's a good idea.

I am extremely excited by the prospect of a motivational poster.

Yes that reading age thing only really worked in context of that thread didn't it.

No, no [comforting] not at all. It didn't make you look like a senile 45 y-o or anything, oh no, not like a person who asks extraordinarily silly questions, no, no.

Nah. It was good. You did good.

I want to talk to the teacher but I don't know quite what to say that I haven't said before. I'm not sure I should mention the fact that I had to restrain him from the knives.

I liked making up suffolk insults best. I wish suffolk people really used them. Maybe they did in 1928 suffolk.

Glad the rule worked today. I'm a list & rule lady

Yes, elevator man seems to have disappeared

I must practise listing and ruling. I make lists and lose them, and deliberate for ages over quite which rules to make and how to word them.