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Okrahoma! where the wind comes sweeping down the plains - 10 / 10 thread

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FrannyandZooey · 02/05/2009 21:08

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pinkspottywellies · 09/05/2009 21:02

Did anyone find out from Wombling what channel she's on? I've emailed her but might be too late

pinkspottywellies · 09/05/2009 21:24

Found her!!!!!! She's brilliant!

womblingalong · 09/05/2009 21:26

Have emailed you \Pink

SuperBunny · 09/05/2009 21:27

Lovely post, mits.

Hooray for Wombling.

womblingalong · 09/05/2009 21:29

x posts! Thank's Pink, I am sure I was cheesy and a bit too quick, I can't even watch it to check, as I can't get that channel!

womblingalong · 09/05/2009 21:30

sorry for rouge apostrophe!

pinkspottywellies · 09/05/2009 21:32

I emailed you at the same time! I'd already found it! It's great. I want some

You're really good. Sound very calm and clear and confident.

pinkspottywellies · 09/05/2009 21:33

She's very good as well - the presenter.

And you look lovely. I like your dress.

womblingalong · 09/05/2009 21:55

Thanks Pink, was just distracted by my mum on the phone. I love that dress, but tjought I looked a bit fat on the VT monitors in it yesterday, didn't help standing next to that skinny legged model! lol

(and I meant rogue, not rouge!)

ahundredtimes · 09/05/2009 22:09

Oh my, it's impossibly exciting Wombling being on the telly. How am I going to find it? Did you enjoy it? Were their orders? Is very difficult to do that 'natural' looking telly stuff I think isn't it? Tell us more about everything.

Fra I sent you a weird mother's day thing. I don't even know why. I think I should apologize. Someone sent it to me, so then I watched it, and clicked the button and sent it to you. I don't even know why I chose you. Was a heady five seconds.

DS2 is out at a camping party. The mother was so excited and nice and was going on about how they'd be toasting marshmallows and foraging for wood or something. She has 16 boys there. That's the sort of thing I think I'd like to be able to do, but so wouldn't.

What else? Food. I was Mrs Smugtastic, and all mine ate whatever was put in front of them and no mistaking. Now something alarming has happened fairly recently. It now looks like this:

DS1 likes meat and most vegetables, hates peas, hates potato in all forms except those little chippy ones cooked in olive oil and garlic I do, hates any kind of cooked or stewed fruit, hates semolina, custard, sloppy food - v. adventurous and likes strong tasting foods - all seafood, mussels, curries etc. Keen on fish too. Eats peppers and cucumbers whole out of the fridge. Poor fruit eater, except for melon and the odd orange.

DS2 loves sloppy food, loves cooked and stewed and fresh fruit, custard, ratatouille, eats ALL fruit in large portions. He hates meat unless it is mince and rarely eats it as it is too chewy.. So that's nice. Likes all fruit - plums, strawberries, apricots. Dislikes hot or spicy food, likes it all v. bland like macaroni cheese. Everything which is polar opposite to DS1 basically except they both like lasagne.

DD is a right pickle. She pretty much seems to dislike everything except peanut butter and honey sandwiches. she eats vast amounts of apples, also a pepper eater. It's easier to say what she does like rather than doesn't: Lasagne. Lasagne and peanut and honey sandwiches cut into quarters with the crusts cut off.

And that my friends is that. We eat a lot of Lasagne. And a lot of peppers.

I never make them eat what they don't like, but I also don't expect them to holler because some erroneous pea has wandered on to their plate. With each passing day I become less and less interested in their opinions I find.

ahundredtimes · 09/05/2009 22:17

That was HUGELY therapeutic writing that down. Thank you for asking SB. I think we should start listing what they didn't eat in a day rather than what we did. Except for right now because I have eaten this:

orange juice
banana
aubergine
red peppers
courgettes
onion
rocket
2 apples
a WHOLE punnet of black grapes
melon
butternut squash

FrannyandZooey · 09/05/2009 22:18

i like lasagne
nothing has turned up for me 100
i am disappointed you want to apologise and you don't know why you sent it
i want it to be something deeply personal to me or some guff like that
and i want it to TURN UP so i know what it is

i don't have any channels
i want to see wombling

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mollyroger · 09/05/2009 22:23

100 I love you.

Mine eat fish. All fish in huge quantities.
10 different types of veg (carrots, brocolli, peppers, kale, beans, baby sweetcorn, sugarsnaps, peas, asparagus, cucumber)
home made pizza
Meat
Apples, rasps, strawbs, blackberries, melon, pears, gooseberries.
One wil eat pasta, rice, potatoess - but not mash
The other will not.
Cereal. Brown bread.
One will eat cheese. the other will not eat cheese unless it is melted.
One will eat eggs. The other will not.

That is it....

wombling we don't get cable or sky Would have loved to have seen you!

ahundredtimes · 09/05/2009 22:24

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

mollyroger · 09/05/2009 22:25

oh.
Orange
apples
pineapple
grapes
Spinach
Onion
Tomatoes
Chickpeas
Cranberry juice.
fruit on a fruit tart!

womblingalong · 09/05/2009 22:26

100!

Yes, there were orders, it was very exciting, and also made me cringe a bit, because, well, it is a shopping channel.

I can tell you, the Presenters are amazing. The lady who presented my show was gobsmackng, she had a briefing of about 20 mins with the producer, spent 10 mins with me, and then just did a hour of live TV with no script or prompts.

There were no errs or anything. I was in awe.

It was a bit acrylic nails, IYKWIM.

ahundredtimes · 09/05/2009 22:26

Fuck! I shouldn't have written that should I. I'd better ask them to delete the name. Hang on

FrannyandZooey · 09/05/2009 22:26

oh good that's much better
i was all 'ooh 100 has sent me something, oh, no, she says it was a mistake and she didn't mean to'
i think it must be lost
can you send it again?

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womblingalong · 09/05/2009 22:28

Err 100, do you want to delete that post?

FrannyandZooey · 09/05/2009 22:28

wombling i am glad you said that
i seriously thought the presenters were extraordinary
how do you basically natter about something for 2 hours without sounding banal or bored?

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FrannyandZooey · 09/05/2009 22:28

whoops 100
that didn't register

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ahundredtimes · 09/05/2009 22:28

They sent me a copy for some reason. Have forwarded it to you Fra. It's getting a bit of a build up - it's very corny

mollyroger · 09/05/2009 22:29

100 I had already reported your post.

ahundredtimes · 09/05/2009 22:30

I know. I hit the red !. I hope there is someone in HQ tonight.

Yes I so agree Wombling. I often think it about all sorts of presenters, they make it look so easy, but it so isn't.

mollyroger · 09/05/2009 22:36

scone! In a fast cake styleee