We had peaches, we had plums, we had strawberries in the sun, but the peaches and the plums, like the strawberries are all gone - 10 / 10 thread

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cos you're welsh. It's in your genes, he can't argue with that surely Guad?

I use it, but swap welsh for australian

I love 'Criminal Minds'. I am watching one I have seen 3 times. Still good. Comes back to the pisshead thing..

oh OB, you will not win that game. I am Queen of that game...

I shamed myself once at an anne summers party (I swear, I didn't want to go but a very good friend was holding it)
They played a 'rude word' alphabet game and I won so much, everyone else ended up shuffling twigletts round sulkily while I joyfully blurted out:
''Testicles!''
''Urethra''
''Jism''
''Mammaries''

Guad, tell Dh it was me...

No no - I have a different version of the game.

You go round in a circle each takes a turn but has to remember all the previous swear words. And I WILL win.

Only thing I'm good at, swearing

urethra isn't a swear! Cheat!

no, but no-one came u with anything better for 'U' so....

I won some dead classy penis ice cube thingies

Swearing and memory. No. I will win.....

Score!

I've never played the swear word game. I think I have forgotten them. They don't swear so much here. Well, not as creatively as Brits do

Ooh yes, I forgot that. Maybe that is why I am atrracted to the name Guad, I think my grandmother is called Gwendoline. I can't exactly remember but I think she abandoned my mother in Wisbech, just across the way from Hunstanton. Not my favourite part of North Norfolk, Hunstanton, I prefer Cley and Stiffkey.

We are watching back to back Chocky. Does anyone remember this? It's like the exorcist for kids with the weird blue alien in the boys head. I am particularly enjoying the credits with the prism and the Thames river reflection tv thing from the eighties with the der, der, duh der music.

on the ice cubes that is

god it's busy - is like having to shout across a dinner party table.

Hi FK.

superbunny - not really helpful. i told her my insomnia was seasonal and my dad had SAD and she offered prozac and I asked if that was really necessary and she asked me if I was depressed and I said I didn;t think so but then got all introspective.

I am not depressed am I?

Prozac is a bit much I think.

oh |I loved Chocky!! Hass it dated a lot??
I'm trying to get ds1 to read it.

By the way Guad, ds1 may like Triskellion read to him. We are totally hooked.Very creepy and 'grown-up'.

It is almost unbearably dated.

I enjoyed the bit where they played Space Invaders. I was swaying slightly, though I always preferred Frogger.

Sometimes ADs can be helpful for insomnia. But ime, they don't help. But everyone is different. The problem with no sleeping well is that it can make you depressed.

Do you think you are depressed? Does melatonin work? You can buy it over the counter here. Don't think you can in England though.

Oh Bee. That sounds a bit rubbish. Do you often get insomnia? Do you think it's seasonal - or habit? You used to get up so early for your course, do you think that's thrown your clock off a bit?

If anyone asks me if I'm depressed, I always say 'No!' Then I say 'What is depressed anyway? Do I feel like this, like that, like this, well yes, yes, I do.' etc etc. It's a weighted question.

What have you taken for your insomnia so far?

totally - sorry BBee, didn't mean to make light.

I went through a rough patch a few years ago - not depressed in anyway just... y know...

Anyway, they just gave me a 6 month script for Seroxat. Didn't ask how much I drank, if i took drugs, if I was having trouble sleeping etc etc.

Anyway, was so angry threw them in the bin. Was a helpful kick in the butt to me solely cos I was so angry about being fobbed off like that.

Blumin GP's being hand in hand with pharmaceutical companies.

not a holiday. maybe a nice new mouse pad

The artist that I worked for when I had insomia had melatonin. He wouldn't give it to me, said it was like gold dust here and that I should try valerian. Then he turned up the heater as I shivered. Dreaful thing, insominia. You have my sympathies. Try a herbalist first. That helped me. Well, it helped with the underlying anxiety that was causing mine.

BBee? Where are you?

Come and talk to us.

And it is easy to sonfuse unhappiness with depression sometimes. There was thread earlier today which made me realise how happy I actually am.
(and depression runs through my family like words through a stick of rock)

i swear by nytol. Still the only thing that works for me. Above and beyond the stronger stuff.

Valerian - could drink the whole bloody tincture bottle and not get anywhere.

You have to find your own thing with insomnia. I don't think that any one thing works for all.

Not meaning to piss on anyones melatonin bonfire, i'd like to try that but got a similar esponse to you Guad.