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[CamperWidow]

Thought I'd Shiny a new chat thread for us!

There's and , help yourselves!

naturally carrots

carrot muffins

175gwholemeal self raising flour
75gdark muscavado sugar
2tsps baking powder
3 eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
225gcarrots,grated
120mlrapeseed or sunflower oil
pinch ground ginger or nutmeg for flavour

preheat oven 180oc/350of/gas4

mix flour baking powder and sugar

beat eggs in ajug.add vanilla,spice if using and oil.whisk/stir til combined

add "wet " to "dry" ingredients along with the carrots and mix lightly til combined

into 12 hole bun tin and line with fairy cake cases

bake middle of the oven fro 25-30 minutes until golden

carrot cakes on way...
after fun and games Mn eating messages i CBA to type out both for it to be eaten in one hit!

I am glad she is safe and sound zoo. Tell her well done. Not only did she do it, she did it in appauling weather conditions. Well done!

I keep trying to say thank you zoo and mumsnet keeps crashing on me.

Carrot cake muffins it will be

Everyone is currently having a hot choc before bed. Possibly not a good idea but I went out to fetch dd and it was freezing and she was in shorts and t-shirt

I think we may be having our first night of "I'm not sure I want to go to bed so I'm going to get up out of bed". Give me strength.

We definitely are. MrScout and I are tag-teaming it in blocks.

Good luck Scout and be firm and strong. The older they are the harder it will be (believe me) so better to crack it now.

^^ what carrots said!

Hey all! Had a bit of a monster w/end and am feeling quite demoralised/emotional about it all. I feel like a hormonal mare, DH and I have had loads of petty arguements/snips at each other, Lol is calling black white, and to top it off I am back on the bloody sofa with Muddles cus she has this stupid bronchilitis and can only sleep near upright! :( Makes me wonder how we're gonna cope for a week in the camper on 'holiday'.

On the other hand I've seen Kate Rusby and will be seeing her again at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival!

Bummer about Muddles not sleeping in her cot after all your good work last week - have you tried propping her bed up? We had to prop DD2's (1yo) bed last night as the poor thing was just full of snot

((((hugs)))) Camper. The dcs seem to time things perfectly for when everyone is at their most stressed.

I have seen Kate Rusby several times but she seems to have stopped coming further North than Edinburgh lately. I am Camper. If you speak to her ask her politely to get herself up to Carrots quick smart please!

bessie please note I am being a good girl and going to bed now

btw, incase anyone is interested(?!) I am thinking about moving my recipe blog to here as the search functionality seems to actually work be much better. But I want a new name for it - all suggestions welcome!

Four hours in and he's still manic!

OMG! is he still saying he's not tired?

Finally, FINALLY asleep.

OMG.

He wasn't saying much, really, just kept getting out and running back to bed. MrScout went up to bed (he leaves by 5:30 so really needs to get some sleep) and Toddler saw him and that set off tears, etc

He was soooo desperately tired.

I should say I expected this last week, when we first took the rails off, not a week later. He's normally very good at going to bed -- might not always sleep right away but would happily lay there, talking to Bunny or looking at a book. Not tonight.

Right, now that I've had a drink and calmed myself a bit I can finally go to sleep.

Good night/morning/whatever (and if I'm grumpy later I apologize now).

Hope TS is still in bee asleep! DD2 just woke me after she turned around in her cot, which isn't a great idea when we've propped the bed up at one end.

Morning all, I am up bright and early! I have started a new lists thread for May. I think I almost got an undisturbed night sleep although DD did whinge a bit --I just didn't get up-- I think the tablets may make me a bit sleepy sometimes. I was in bed by 9.30 last night and up at 5.00am.

Scout and Bessie hope you got some sleep.

Toddler's just come into my room. I think my reconnecting the gate (it's a spring lock type thing) after having gone downstairs and come back up woke him up. I am not impressed.

Morning guys!
Sorry for my whinge, self-flagellation is not really my style. Her mattress has a pillow under it and I even put a folded up blanket under her head too but to no availe. She has a really bad cough as well so that just adds to the misery!
But new day and more positive!!!!
Carrots I will let her know! Can't wait to go and do some boogieing!! (Is that even a word???) Me and the girls go and camp with my parents at Cambridge and Shrewsbury. It's fab!!!!
Scout that sucks! Bless him, hopefully he'll have got it all out of his system and knows you mean business for tonight!!!!

carrots do you want the yummiest carrot cake ever recipe?

i sent ds back to school.he is still quite easily tired and not hoovering up his food at usual speed or capacity so im feeling quite worried for him..
his teacher has said will keep an eye on him but she isnt known for taking a blind bit of notice of him as he is so quiet he goes under her radar in a class full of lively individuals