Franny Had A Little Yam - 10/10 thingummies :o)

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oh, that sounds lovely, UR. I would like something like that. Ellbell gave me a beautiful huge pashmina-type thing which is what i use in those sorts of situations - that or my wrap sling I am not great at making things.

It's the saltiness of cheese that a lot of people crave.

I have a book called The Uncheese Cookbook. Haven't used it much but it's interesting.

Another sad/scary things coward here. I suppose that's why I'm vegan really

If you remove dairy from your diet for a while, it will taste wrong wrong wrong. And smell.

I can do scary, but not sad. Motherhood has erased all my coping mechanisms for sad. Motherhood and life experience - in my teens I could read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich without shedding a tear.

I mostly cut out dairy for the last year or so because of ds but I seem to have eaten a lot of cheese recently. I couldn't drink a glass of milk now.

I went to bed but I was greeted by the sight of ds1 cleaning poo off his foot in the sink with my nailbrush. He had stood in a nappy I had left on the floor when getting ds2 ready earlier. He seems to have stepped it all over the rug and seen as he has a verruca and I am tired I shouted about my nailbrush and thre it away. Now I am not tired.

Motherhood makes you sensitive, necessarily. Or it does in most cases.
Before then, I suppose one is actively looking for thrills/experiences. Or something. I used to watch Casualty - couldn't stand it now!!

Oh Guad, do you mind that I laughed? That is the sort of crazy thing I expect to happen here, not to civilised people!

I don't think I'm good at making things either, Bero. I'll let you know. I can't afford a pashmina but someone gave me lots of yarn so I thought I'd be enterprising.

Uncheese cookbook could be worth reading. Everything here comes with cheese. Or fake cheese. Actually, it is so heavily processed, it probably has no dairy products in it anyway.

I read that a long time ago. I wonder if I should read it again. Life-like scary things are ok - The GodFather etc - but creepy scary is off-limits. I had nightmares for months after watching The Exorcist (aged 19).

Your ds1 sounds very self-sufficient. My older two would have screamed and expected help and soothing.

I laughed too

that is the sort of thing that happens in my house. Nice that he was cleaning his foot himself though.

This house is far from civilised.

Oh, I was just thinking that I could go to bed when I spotted the bread sitting in its tins waiting to be baked
Still, it has risen nicely.

Toot, it's far too late for baking

I'll stay up and watch and eat the bread for you

dh likes baking bread at night. I love him for it.

But the children will want food in the morning. It's a habit of theirs.

I'm just hoping I can simplify holiday food a bit. At least I won't be making bread there.

That is very good Bero.

Yes, children do seem to need feeding. Quite a lot too.

Do you think these would be good for dd1 to start secondary school in? Clarks school shoes all have silly, thin, non-grippy soles.
DMs tend to be fairly wide, don't they? Dd1 is G/H.
And are they trendy enough?

Yes, I need to go to bed but have hit my midnight-1am insomniac patch. I tend to be tired around 11pm but can't bear not to have a bit of blissfully quiet Time to Myself without baby in arms, then I get to a very un-tired stage.

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I have desperately wide feet and spent a few happy (well, my feet were very happy, I less so ) years in secondary school in DMs.

Oh. How about now?

That quiet time after DC in bed is important.

I loved my DMs. V comfy. But I have narrow feet.