Burning calabrese I think I'm burning calabrese I really think so - 10 / 10 thread

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Me! I am - well the family Pink are all coming. After 2 days at Legoland, so I might be a bit whacked out

Banana

best thread title you guys have had

at singing brassicas

Am still procrastinating about the meet-up . If we do come it will just be for the picnic.

I have signed up for those Graze boxes, thanks for the link Franny. Mine will come on a Friday when the cupboards are normally bare.

Go on Lemur, come.

TooT and I iwll be there, Avi.

I can't come - and I even have a proper excuse We are going to be in Wales that weekend for MILs birthday.

That date is my brother's birthday and I said I'd go to his party the night before, so will be in London with just dd2, so will come. And Bee is coming. Or going.

Went to book group last night. It didn't finish til quarter to two this morning. Am not feeling good.

are people coming but they havent' told avi they are coming? how will you know where to meet?

Boco what were you doing all that time

Avi I ma definitely coming with DS, will e-mail for further info

ds2 was thumping his legs on the bed and trying to scratch and SUCCEEDING to scratch most of the night
if i pinned him, or tried in any other way to dissuade him, he yelled, and i was so anxious he was going to wake up ds1 (has habit of waking up at 4.30 am and not going back to sleep, getting everyone else up in the process)
was worst night we have had for a while
he is crawling round the room, periodically doing naughty things, (he can now GET TO STUFF) and then LOOKING at me quizzically to see if I mind

oh 100 you must be so disappointed

well i am exercise disaster this week
have had 3 chances to go to gym and have felt too tired each time
am sitting here in my gym clothes doing nothing
have a headache and just feel demotivated - better get some focus in the coming week or i will vegetate rather than vegging

4 peaches.

You're very Charlie Pooter today Fra.

Dp has taken dd1 with him to London. She was so sweet with her bag of essentials packed, like 'notebook to write down ideas' 3 pens, 7 books, 3 stuffed toys, no socks or pyjamas. My brother is taking her out for tea, and to the dinosaur park in Crystal Palace. Me and dd2 arguing because she wants to play monopoly but she does not UNDERSTAND THE RULES.

oh sorry
i think i am often quite pooteresque
it's so hard not to be if you take yourself a teeny bit too seriously

Boco, you have my sympathy - DS often wants to play snakes and ladders but he doesn't understand the rules. He spins the spinny thing (instead of rolling the die) says the number then choses six random squares to bounce on before settling on one. Then he does the same for me and, eventually, we both end up at a hundred and he declares, "Hurrah, we both won!"

I like games to be played properly so I feel myself getting more and more annoyed. It's totally unreasonable but there it is.

raisins

chaps avi has kindly offered to organise this meet up and she says only 2 people have emailed her back
i am being sent into spasms of impotent controlling rage on her behalf (she of course does not give a monkeys)

Oh. I think I emailed avi back. Was I one of them? I hope I did.

I love ds version of snakes and ladders SB dd doesn't quite understand skipping with a hoop. That's what we were trying to do this morning. I have a split lip. Perhaps we should try snakes and ladders or monopoly

I have had some rocket from the garden only one leaf each (well I had 3 but don't tell the others) but I was very chuffed. Also tomato, celery, cucumber and a walk to the library. Toddler pace though so not real exercise but dd did really well. I'm trying to get her to walk a bit more. When we have a buggy she will always opt to be in it! Which is often easier for me too.

Really want to come to the meet up, but have to be in sheffield on the saturday, am trying to convince DH, will email avi.

It keeps hitting me from different angles. I just looked at the table and remembered that it is my grandmother's table that we were borrowing. She won't be needing it back now
Funeral is on Tuesday.

TooT.
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salad
tomatoes
cucumber
banana (manky)
pear
banana chips

Itlain take away for dinner
Probably the one with tomatoes and aubergines in.
And profiteroles.

TooT it creeps up on you in all sorts of small ways
do you have someone who can support you at the funeral? i think it's a very hard time

Right, deep breath.

There are a few reasons behind my fannying around with the meet-up, but the biggest one needs a muther of an explanation from me, so here goes.

Baby Lemur is in fact our second child. In Nov 07 our eldest son died when he was 15 months old. He was born a healthy little boy and thrived until he was eight months old, then he mysteriously suffered from acute liver failure. Four liver transplants later things went horribly pear shaped and dh and I made the decision to end his treatment and we brought our darling boy home to die.

Now, one of the reasons I am procrastinating about the meet up is that having not told you this before, to me it feels like a barrier when meeting people for the first time. As we all do with everyone we meet and get to know, we ask ?is this your first?? and/or ?will you be having any more?? All of these questions still knock me for six, fluster me and upset me, depending on what mood I am in, so social situations can be a bit of a nightmare for me.

Another reason is ds1 was treated in a hospital in South London, but when he was well we went out and about. Greenwich being one of the places we went to and have very happy memories of. So returning there will be either great, awful or a combination of the two.

So, there we go. I would truly love to meet everyone, however there are quite a few things for me to mull over before I make a decision.

I would also like to say that I love to talk about ds1 (so in a way I?m glad I?ve written this post), so please don?t hesitate to talk about or mention him. Also please don?t think you can?t talk about death, sickness etc, I like to think I?m not over sensitive about the subject.