Guava Guava Guava Hey! Over The dill With The Strawbs Of A Thousand Men - 10/10 thread

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what does 'you got the smarts' mean?

Is it a euphemism for you got the skits?

my simple craft activity did involve a boiled lollipop so I am reluctant to mention it.

You drape white paper napkin over lolly and tie with pretty sparkly thread/ribbon. You have threads and wool pieces to stick on for hair, draw a face. You make it look like a little an gel or somthing. Stick on sequins, purdy things.

franny - my ds did a similar thing at auntie's house w/r coca cola corporation.''I don't like to drink Coke (tm) as they steal water from poor people in other countries''
I got flamed on MN for mentioning it though People said my child was rude for mentioning it! (he was 6 or 7).
Auntie thought it was hysterical.

Dd2 also doing that defiant thing. She will be 4 in just under a month. Sigh.

I made apple and blueberry muffins. They are nice.

I ate stuff. Can't be bothered to count but it was good. For me.

Where is Pink?

Ds2's ambition used to be to go to the Nestle factory and bite their legs.

Hate to mention it, but DS is 5 (and 3 months) and showing no sign of giving up the defiant thing, ever.

At the moment, everything I say, has to be punctuated with

"no it isn;t / they don;t"

E.g. me in bright, sunny, tone:

"I think the pumpkins look like they need some water!"

DS in sullen, picky-fight tone:

"No they don;t"

I am baking some apricot teabread.

Don;t let me forget it and go to bed.

Well, if we are being totally honest, dd1 is rather good at the defiant thing. She has been practising it for years....she is 12...

That sounds nice FK.

I really hope Franny's DS does the Nestle comment loudly in front of many people

i presume he already said it to her when i wasn't there
he told dp earlier "grandma doesn't even know...." etc, so i presume he confided about the nestle / baby killing info and she expressed amazement / disbelief

thing is, she ruddy SHOULD know
i told her at length myself when i was about 17

Boco I refuse to believe there are people in the world who don;t know what binca is (I thought it was with a k but have just googled)

Did no-one else spend hours at junior school embroidering the stuff ?

It's like open weave fabric that is easy to thread through - you can use fairly blunt needles and do cross stitch and similar pretty easily.

pointy i don't know what you got the smarts means
it's from the HTT thread
i was trying to get in with the big girls

hmm do you think i should do HTT with my mum?

"mmm so you really want to vote for the UKIP? mm yes wouldn't it be great if we could all be bigots and read the Daily Mail, i would love that wouldn't you? shame we have to be sensible and vote for a real party instead"

now you describe it, I know what it is. But I have never heard it called binca, knots

binca is the big sort
the ordinary sort is aida isn't it?

never 'eard of aida eether

strawberries
mango yes another
raisins
banana
salad
chickpeas
avocado
another big bowl of salad

bother that's it
i ate loads

oh grapes! in my graze box
graze box a disappointment today
grapes, bit lack lustre really

I fear I may be showing my age with the binca stuff.

I must got to bed. Teabread is done

Our main defiance flash point seems to be scooting the school run. Since she got her scooter we're never late, because she doesn't have to stop to examine every bug and leaf etc, she whizzes along. But she goes too far ahead, out of sight and round corners, which I don't like - but if I say 'dd, please stay where I can see you and not too far ahead' she goes too far ahead anyway - and if I say 'if you keep going too far ahead then we'll leave the scooter at home and you'll have to walk instead' she shrugs knowing full well that's a worse deal for me than her, as she can go back to slow walking and crouching under hedgerows and I'll be the one shouting 'HURRY UP, WALK FASTER!'.

boco one of dd2's first words was 'comeon'

she had heard me shouting it so many times at dd1

I didn't realise that Toot, Avi & I have DC so similar in age. Mine is also somewhat defiant and argumentative and just a little bit stubborn. Not at all like me. Oh no. If I don't understand what he said and asked him to tell me again, he does sighing and eye-rolling and says, "Look, I already told you once. I'm a bit fed up now."

We were out yesterday and we passed the Haagen Daaz store. Obviously, DS wanted icecream. But they are owned by Nestle, so I said no and wasn't sure what to tell him when he asked why. What would you tell a 3.5 yr old? I said they do bad things with their money which was a bit of a crap explanation.

I love Binka

I am laughing at the stubborn child anecdotes but only because they are so familiar.
I am bracing myself for later as dd2 is riding her trike all theway to playgroup, then to school, then home. In the hotness. And she is tired because she didn't sleep yesterday and had a short night.
And she will have to keep getting off and on, doing up and undoing straps, adjusting dollies and packed lunch, stopping for "just one grape"....