Bring me the head of Alfalfa Garcia - 10 / 10 thread

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aw nooo
I can't
I am scrabbling around for enough money to go camping next month tbh
new slings are out

right
captive sling expert

BE what is the deal with this calin bleu gauze one? I bought it to be cool but there is so much fabric in it - I don't think it is any different
why is there so much of it?

plus please tell me how to breastfeed in a wrap without getting your entire breast out
I had a whole thread on this and the matter was never satisfactorily resolved

I have called ds2 a velcro type but he is mere amateur I can see
he even went in pram for 10 mins last night before waaahing

ooh oooooh ooh I have just spoken to my sister

She had an op this morning to remove an infected lymph gland fron her armpit

And has also had her GSCE results today

Can't remember exactly what she said but there was an A*, some A's, B's and C's

Well done that sprog

Mmm, the calin bleu gauze appears to be a 'one size' wrap, but at 4.6 metres that is on the long side. What carries are you doing ?

I have a couple of woven wraps Didymos and they start at 1.8 metres and the biggest ones are 5.2 metres, I am fat and prefer a 4.2 metre wrap.

If your wrap is too long I would just cut it up and rehem...as long as you are sure you can do the carries you want with the shorter size.

Breastfeeding in a sling is something I never got to grips with my DD as a baby. When she was older I found I could nurse her in a mei tai.

I managed to nurse DS yesterday whilst walking around a toy shop and he was in a fleece pouch sling.

Haven't yet tried to nurse this time in a wrap but should be trying it shortly. Suggest you search this sling site for hints.

HTH

I don't know if it was an accident, OB, I think it might just have been half the country descending on Cornwall/Devon on a Saturday and bottlenecking the M5.

I am just about to post my letter of complaint with photos and we receved our cheque for the damage bond back with no charge for breakages (loads). It is in a card advertising the cottage and there is a photo of the owner and now I feel a bit bad. I shouldn't, because it was crap, but I do.

Tigerfeet, Well done your sister....She is one bright girl

Is she going on to A levels ?

I too have glo sticks from Lakeland!! The last two packets.

The van isn't back yet and I need to be loading it up. We are leaving at 7pm.

FMV - Give me a kick up the arse would you. I am languishing here on the chair and I Am Not Ready.

ah. hopefully early Fri pm won't be so bad??? Hopefully.....

Yeah right.

Am not coming into work tomoz am and am going to make BF pull a sicky. Balls to being company director. I want to go with DH tonight but think she might have a hissy fit.

Dear Guad - I have reached a hiatus here...and I need to clean for house-sitting friend. I wish I was ging today. I hate waiting to go somewhere. And I get stomach-churningly over anxious about the whole ''how long will it take us to get in, will they accept our ID, will we get on the camping field we want etcetc)''
A chilled-out hippy, I am not.

Is too hard work dithering over clothes so I am going naked...

She is going to do Media Studies (she got A* in that - she did a fabulous music video for her boyfriend's band), French, and... erm... something else [crap sister emoticon]

MrsC get up off your carroty arse and put everything in nice piles ready for the arrival of the van

at glow sticks and festies and associated goodness

How early OsBa? Likely to get snarled up by 3pm on a Bank Holiday weekend Friday imo

ok, ok, I am up now!

fmv - what id? I hadn't thought of id, should I be worried? This house is a cavern of clothes. I make a pile and ds2 swooshes in and tumbles it down again saying 'crash'.

Tigerfeet - well done your sister.

Forgot it was BHoliday. Titty.

See. you need the services of a qualified motorway anorak.

Bet you're glad you asked now

FMV - they don't mean you need two forms of ID for each child as well do they? Surely not.

Right need quick honest answer.

DH going to festy tonight to bag good spot.

I was going to go with best friend tomorrow pm after lunchish but am now freaking out about long traffic ming with toddler in car. She doesn't know what time she will finish as has important job, not like me.

I already have her tent to set up for her, she has sat nav so won't get lost. I even have found the postcode of the supposed 'secret location' of the festival.

Will she be pissed off with me if I go tonight? Has she any right to be?

How far do you have to travel OsBa?

ID for children would be daft imo. DD has a passport but it's a farce - the picture is of her as a baby and frankly could be any blue eyed fair child

(Guad do you need to borrow a passport for a blue eyed fair child?)

Well, 2 n a bit hours if the M5 isn't shiteous.

If I go tomorrow with DD though, it's guaranteed to take longer....

Definitely go tonight. Your dd can sleep in the car rather than being wide awake and bored tomorrow afternoon. If I were your friend I would understand - but obv you know your friend better. Sell it to her with tales of wailing children, stinky nappies and motorway snarl ups for over three hours

yy, she's not known for her love of sticky smelly babies in her leather seated newly valetted Merc

I have just clocked that my dd's passport would be bugger all use to the carrot family, given that it has my dd's name on it

go tonight, can't see on what possible grounds she could be annyoyed with toddler and traffic situation, if she is then best camp somewhere else anyway!

tf - it would be a farce, yes, they barely look like their passports either

TF - You weren't actually serious, were you??