The Fruits of our Labour? 10/10 thread, all fruitmunchers welcome......

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Franny, I keep typing Franny and then not wanting to say anything trite or comedy! But I am thinking of you lots and hope you're not too miserable

Boco, I like 100's idea of an e-mail.

beans
baked beans
lots of em

Lully i think my allocated cats are quite appropriate

Gosh things have been a bit stressful for everyone today haven;t they

100 I think you did marvellously. WE do also have minor incidents of this type with DS. Usually he gets his own way about stuff because there is only him but obviously sometimes we have to do things he doesn;t want to do and he can really dig his heels in.

I think it will have sunk in.

We went to the beach and it was freezing cold and we hadn;t taken the right clothes but it was fun in a tired sort of way.

look Lully I have done one already

Please don't raise eyebrows at me 100x, that'll be 3 of you I've pissed off in the not too distant past.

I went to the same school as Jilly Cooper. I love Jilly Cooper, I would start a Jilly Cooper fan club and be president if I had more than one finger spare ATM. As for barbed, jeez, I really do need to take my own advice on puttting '!!!!!' or '' '' '' after everything.

Honestly 100, I was genuinely jealous. I want an aga, I want a roast chicken, and I want folk roaming around in peace.

What I have is a baby belling camping stove whilsy my ground floor is demolished, dust, and two bound hands. And a toddler.

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING I SAY SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling a bit sad now, it'g getting to a point where there are more people on here who I have pissed off than people I haven't.

Don't worry though, i am forgetful and will be back to annoy you all far quicker than you would like.

Thanks Avi, BIL just rang and told us not to freak out and to fax over the statement in the am and he'd try and make sense of it.

He said it was likely we were misunderstanding it.

I would secodn that.

100 - it's not just me. others were jealous of your kitchen too. If I hadn't mentioned JC you wouldn't have noticed me. Are you hiding a dark Jilly Cooper secret 100?

It is HBOS.

BIL seemed more optimistic than he really should be.

Could be cos he organised the mortgage! Nah, he's a good un.

Uh, he said something along the lines of 'that would be the charge for total early repayment' or summat.

We are on a fixed term, interest only jobber for 2 years. Once we made the payment, the monthly mortgage amt went down by about £80 so...

Oh, I don't know.

Painkillers wearing off, tired, too much exercise, 100 thinks I'm mean.

And cornershop has no chocolate based pudding items.

OB don't be sad.
Can you have a nice hot bath?

[lowers eyebrows]

I didn't think you were mean, I thought you were being barbed. I see that you were not. Sorry. I thought you were being sarcastic.

They are a bit of a pain Aga's actually, and when it's hot the kitchen is unbearable.

Avi - yes, you are right. It was rather admirable - especially as he was so damned polite when he was there. Just not so admirable when you are his mother, and you've done the wrong thing. Sigh.

Avi gives good advice doesn't she? You sound all efficient and marvellous.

Agas scare me

I've been finding Avi's mortgage advice strangely comforting. OB that's horrendous, it's the sort of financial thing that makes you feel all sick. HOpe the bank let you have your money back. You do seem to be having a terrible time.

Thanks for advice, I do need to email her and lay down some rules I suppose, but just not sure what I object to exactly - or if i do object, or if i should just let pictures go and ignore what she does with them. It's not like I have a reputation to be damaged, it's probably just a bit of vanity at not wanting them to go to rip off merchants or vanity publishers.

100 - have re-read and can see how you would think that now... Also, I am usually quite barbed / sarcastic so... Hoist by my own petard. Or is it foist?

gibber gibber.

Bero, pud was lovely, thanks. And made with whiskey too, very thoughtful.

I am ignoring thoughts of baths. I think hands would fall off in rage.

It is the idea of an aga that is lovely, bot th reality i suspect.

I want an enormous chef's range / 6 hob burner thing.

When I am a qualified Gillian McKeith turn inspector I shall have one.

I did have one gleaming beacon today...

Bristol CC are going to pay for 2 (well, lend) of my years at uni. I thought I would get nothing.

So although I've potentially lost 8.5k I've managed to boorw 7k!!!!

Hello

We have an Aga (or possibly a Rayburn) - can't remember which. It came with the house and did influence our choice, as did the nice big kitchen.

Plumber who came on Friday to try and sort out our non-flushing toilet had Aga . I was having at anyone with an upstairs flushing toilet. At least there is a working one in what amounts to an outhouse (you do have to go outside to get to it).

I remember you telling about your DS and the party before 100x. I think you sound a Good Mother.

I hate agas because we had one in the farm I lived in with step family from age of 14 - and I associate it with my step father saying we had to burn our tampons etc in it, and I used to wait until everyone had gone to bed because at 14 it was all devastatingly embarrassing as they'd not just disappear into fiery furnace, they'd sit there and singe for hours...
this is breaking thread etiquette now isn't it?

So, I won't tell you about the time I had a cunning aga avoidance plan and it backfired horribly...

Maybe this is why I love mooncups so much.

'not' the reality

'turd' inspector

keyboard loose since it was 'fixed'

Jesus Boco! Sounds like something out of a really vicious slightly updated version of Jane Eyre / Wutherin Heights.

I hid my periods. Until a Very Bad Accident. Shudder.

DD was just making me laugh She isn't asleep yet (had been in her cot happily since 7 but just started whining) I went in to see her and she asked for songs, so I started singing twinkle twinkle and she said 'no. baa baa' so I strted singing baa baa black sheep. And she said 'nonono'. Every time I tried something else she said baa baa and every time I sang baa baa she said no. I was trying to hide my laughing behind the pillow! Then I had to go and get her bear from the car, and more milk but I think she's off now.