Should old tom-ay-toes be forgot and lemon brought to rind - 10/10 thread

[TooTickyDoves]

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Night, pink

It is snowing, again. AAAAAGGGGHHHHH. We only see snow once or twice a year, usually, and I've been trapped in my home 2 out of the last 4 weeks.

Sweet potato
peaches

There's a reason I'm not officially starting until tomorrow. Although I had a really iffy stomach, so didn't eat much of anything until dinner today.

Off to read all I missed now.

You were all very talkative last night.

My warmest jumper has shrunk. Blah. I am wearing a cardigan that is still damp around the shoulders.

Ahundred, I didn't know you had a thing about birds....which is a bit of a bum because I love them....will put a bird alert on any posts in the future!

And avi likes and counts nuts....I knew there was going to be something I liked about you .

And I love early mornings and getting back to normal. Contented sigh.

Hope you are feeling better dooneygirl.

We have snow and now I don't want it because they close our school at the sign of the first flake...narrows eyes...wimps.

Am off to stalk Toot,!

There you are!!!!!

Don't you run away from me now!

Dooneygirl, may I ask where you are?

oh i'm here. Fb?

Dd1 and ds2 have nits and dd1 is back at school today.

ok am off there now.

We appear to have some snow.

hi Toot for snow
we appear to have some smog but it's so smoggy one can barely tell
osba I admire your resilience and your chutzpah
hello all what a lot of talk
excellent start to the day got up dh and dc3 for school at 7 only to realise 20 mins later that it starts tomorrow
i interrupted dh's cold shave to tell him this and ran away quite quickly
I'm afraid I had chocolate for breakfast but I have big plans for later

Toot nits snap jinx whatever

are you a comber or do you go down the sheep dip route
I'm a comber and I can't imagine you doing sheep dip

not sure about communes, have never had a jingly skirt
might have to book into a nice b and b nearby

bet you are popular stuffit

I am a comber. NittyGritty is good.

Right, off to boil water....and comb grumpy angsty 12yo....wish me luck

Maybe our girls should fb .. mine is on fb..
What's nittygritty? is it elbow grease?
They are used to me being disorganised once I picked up ds1 a whole afternoon late for easter holiday they all went home at 12 and I turned up at 3

Yes, maybe they should. Dd1 is desperate to be on fb. She'd love that.

Well, I am a stupid idiot and an evil witch and a bitch. Deep joy.

NittyGritty is a comb that also combs out the eggs.

Oh yes, been there Toot, DS regularly tells me to 'shut my mouth' at the moment.
He-he, all our children FBing each other, moaning about what dreadful mothers we are! Lol.
We have a nitty gritty, it does find all the unbrushed lugs though! evil cackle.

Snow here too!!!
And no school til tomorrow.

TooT, dd2 had nits at the end of last term. Think I have combed them all out now. So far dd1 hasn't had them this year (school year). I nit comb mine almost every time I wash it as I am paranoid . My hair is long and thick so it is hellish.
I had a bad dream last week that i nit combed dd2 and found thousands on her.

TooT? you okay?

Snow here too today I'll be taking out ds for a stroll in it later.

Where I grew up there was a commune in the next village and I used to be fascinated by it. Years later I met some of its members at a yoga class and they were lovely and calm types. I asked loads of questions, I think they thought I was slightly mad ... or nosey ... or both!

Franny - according to the bf chart your ds is in the 50th percentile for weight. The height chart I have isn't bf specific. If you would like me to scan/post a copy to you let me know.

Oh Toot
I am a cow sometimes not from dd but ds -- another snap

but we have so much door slamming from dd at the moment that the handle has fallen off the door on the inside and she can't get out

leads to much eating humble pie afterwards when she wants her tea

god love em all

snow sounds lovely
is it good snow, soft but crunchy
does it sit softly on your coats
am thirsty for info about snow

lr how are you? I too hate having them myself as the combing is so dull on long hair it has happened once before when I had three under six and very long hair there was no time for combing so I had to use the paraquat.. it smells utterly toxic and gives you a headache

maybe it's different now

am I allowed to say where dooney is? I have been lurking on the overseas thread and just read
would love to post there but I would be found by rl

Morning

I am in denial about nits, afaik DS doesn;t have them, but as I never brush his hair and it gets washed about once a fortnight, I am not sure I would have noticed

I do stroke it alot though

It is snowing wet snow, and I have a sore throat, and I have to go out and do multitudinous errnads and shopping of all kinds, with DS, because work and school start back tomorrow.

[Grump]

morning all
snow here too! rapidly vanishing much to ds1's displeasure
i had things to say, i can't remember what
oh yes

MISS HUNDRED
it is NOT very 10/10 to KICK a bird

oh moveit
thank you v much
that's great
i think MN v helpful and i shall stop thinking about it now