Monday FLY. Bleugh those houses

[scattyspice]

Morning .

mission.

How exciting simply do tell! What did you wear? Did you have a good time? Who got up to what?

Big list today (but expect to carry planty over):

Floors
dusting
laundry
empty recycling
cull mags
clean bathroom
download photos
order snowman tickets
find dds yellow book and take to gp
make cards for grandma
finish knitting mums hat to take down to grandmas.

Also ds has friend to play after school.

Have a good day all.

Hi scatty and thanks for the thread.

I was very limited as to outfit as I was travelling and needing to carry my overnight luggage and handbag/shopping bag. So... I popped into a Next and bought myself a new pair of jeans (we don't have Next where I live) and I wore those with a pair of boring black small heeled leather boots (to keep my feet dry as it was raining and we needed to walk from the hotel to the first pub and then on to the second pub) and a white camisole top with a white M&S blouse over it. The leg pulling can be found on the MN meet up thread here. I stuck to either beer or orange juice and lemonade and was pretty boring well behaved throughout! It was fab to meet custardo. She looks FAR too young to have a child aged 20 and dd agreed with me when she saw the pictures. She's ever so nice. Mamazon is a real character and did an excellent job of organising and made everyone welcome as did salstrawberry and I'd be delighted to have so many people there as RL friends, they were so warm and friendly and funny!

I'm allowing myself a quiet day as it took from about 7.45am to 4pm to get from home to the hotel on Sat and from 1pm to nearly 9pm to get from Victoria coach station to home yesterday, so I've had two long days of travelling. Back later!

Thanks for thread Scattty.
I feel bad not to have been there to meet you Simply, but it was dd's Concert on Sat night. It feels strange to think of you travelling so far just to be "here" (well it is at least an hour in the other direction from EC so not quite here)
Did you see any London sights apart from the Mnset ones?

Hideous horrible weather in London.
2 Dcs to school already
laundry on
now to get ds1 downstairs
b when done something constructive

ds is dressed, leg exercises, practise on crutches (he finds it very difficult)
he has done piano practice
and about 5 minutes of BBCwebsite touchtyping
I have wiped some worktops,
weighed myself hopefully
now I want to do Literacy with him and then a journey to the dreaded dump

Simply I'm that you went to the meet-up. How many people were there?
Wendy What sad news. That's why you need to grab life. How is your Ds coping with the news?
I'm not in the best spirits today for a variety of reasons that are to boring to list. I'm going get the house ship shape to take my mind off it all.
See you all in a mo with a list.

Wow, simply, it sounds as though you had a great time

I have another unexpected day off work today as I have to take poor ds back to the consultant after physio has made no improvement to the movement of his arm at all (for those who don't know - he broke his arm badly at the elbow in Aug) I am very worried as the physio says there's something more solid than muscle stopping it from bending...not sure what the docs will say today

To take my mind off it all I am baking a good old lemon drizzle cake!

Agh - just had almost an hour long power cut since I started this post. My LDC has sunk in the middle - I wonder if it'll revive itself now I can continue cooking it?

I have managed to do some general tidying up but not a whole lot more. FiL is still here tiling the bathroom so chaos rules.

I might have a quick go at the mission before I head to the hospital

swan I never did find out; what happened to your ds?

Morning Swan Yep! 'Cause London is drowning and I, live by the river' Love that Clash song. I live 20mins from the river doesn't go does it.
Hope no one has any flooding problems here?

Okay must crack on
DH has lent me the car so I can do errands quickly and in the dry.
So far
Ds to schoolDone
Dry cleaning in (wearing the same dress for School Parents party)Done
collected package from post officeDone
D/w empty & reloadedDone
Laundry sorted into various pilesDone
Bits of white wash socking in Bio-techDone
W/M loadedDone
made bedsDone
Recycling & emptied bathroom binDone
D/W onDone
kitchen tidyDone
Chopping board smells of onions now covered in lemon juice!Done
Appointment made with new head! (on DH's request)Done
still to do
Re load W/M
empty D/W
shopping
Look for glasses
Tea Fish pie! Maybe.
write out foreign Christmas cards
Off to reload See ya later

BiancaCastafiore Morning I remember a little about it now. Hope the hospital Can help? see ya later.

Hi,
scatty theanks for the thread. wow that is some to do list too.
Simply am at you for going to the meet up much too far for me to come though.
swan hiya
starbear I hope you feel in better spirits later on I find cleaning helps
bianca poor ds, I hope the appointment with the consultant goes well.

Todays list,
breakfast
dishwasher reload
load of washing
Unpacking the last of the boxes since our move which have been staring at me for a month,now I just need to find space for it all.
Entertain dcs maybe fo some painting
Help ds1 whith his reading
lunch
dinner
need to sort out the kitchen cupboards to find space for stuff in boxes

bbl

long diagonal fracture of left femur, now plated with 9 screws. Can't go back to school till he's off crutches (end of Jan probably) but that's the least of our worries really - I just want his leg to mend.
He fell off a bike whilst messing around with his cousins at halfterm because his wrist was weak from a previous break in August (trampolining with same cousins)

We had a problem with his wrist too in Sept as it set wrong with a big buildup of excess bone, but consultant said that in young children USE might sort out the wrist problem although technically x-ray on badly healed wrist demanded he should have operated. Now that particular issue seems far less important than not being able to walk properly
He HAS got almost full use of his wrist again, as the consultant said, despite it looking so iffy on the Sept x-ray, as apparently children's bones do magical things when they heal.

So I know what a nightmre it all is - sympathy. Sometimes it feels like one is running on empty - there almost isn't time to worry because you just have to get THEM through it - but then the stress to you will come out at some point and hit hard.

Good luck with consultant/doctor.

o - that was a message to Bianca!
lots of x-posting

Star you have done loads.
We are on a hill luckily. Our high street is regularily flooded by an unromantic drain.
Party any good on Sat? Three party invites so far, tempted to say no to all and boring person here]

MOrning all

I am feeling pants in body too now, I have been up most of the night with the dreaded D & V.

I am just feeding MiniMad before Preschool and then I must go to the bank and draw some cash out to feed us for December beofore the overdraft eats it all again

BBL

Sorry you're not feeling well Tea.

Bianca - Poor ds. How much bend has he lost? How long since fracture?

Swan - poor ds too. Does he have wooden axillary crutches or metal elbow crutches?

simply - sounds like a good night. I will peruse the official thread later . Your outfit sounds good (I'm a jeans and top girl too). I'd love to meet Custardo, she sounds so sorted.

Leo, Star - hi.

hello, still in bed, DH is at home caring for us

Grouchy hugs to all.esp Tea

Afternoon all esp. Scatty who started the thread and I didn't say 'Hi' to. Hi Scatty Hope LO enjoys playdate.
Hi Grouchy Is Mr Grouchy going to be a flyman?
TM You are going through the mill. Hope we can cheer you up.
Swan Very good party. Best bit was my sgt's wife wore the same dress as last year too. She was so happy that I did the same. She is lovely. IT also cheered Mr Bear up too. Only downside is crappy hairdresser cut my hair into a odd shape and it went very flat during the night. Going to save money by growing my hair long and won't be going back to him. I might put my hair in rollers on Friday can't do any worse than the hairdresser.
back in a mo

Now going to have a cuppa with the paper.
Re load W/M*Done
empty D/W Done
shopping Done
Still to do
Start Fish pie!
Look for glasses
put shopping away
re load machine
fold clothes
write out foreign Christmas cards
Do some batch cooking tonight Chicken casserole & Pumpkin Soup.
Oh! yes someone in there collect ds

Afternoon all

Had a great weekend with DH and DD's birthday yesterday but then sickness bug took hold yesterday evening with both me and DD unwell and today DH is joining in. We had a day off to do some lovely things together but instead we are spending the day in bed/on settee and intermittently playing with DDs new toys from yesterday.

Sounds like meet up was fantastic simply. Hello to everyone else off to watch a DVD with DD

Star. Mr G is fab at catering, just the cleaning up and laundry and cats he's a bit poo at

I've been finishing the Xmas shopping. eBay solves everything!

Hello everyone
had a really nice day today. Played with DD and made tonight's tea this morning. Then went to my mum's and dropped DD off, did a bit of shopping and met a friend for a child free lunch! (not that we eat children )
Home to general tantrums - slippers I'd bought for DC didn't fit - tantrum. School website password didn't work - tantrum. Called DD's bear silly - tantrum. Oh dear
Otherwise am feeling generally very sunny despite our sad news, or perhaps, in a strange way, because of it, grabbing life and all that
star it was a childhood friend of DH's who has died of cancer, not a friend of DS's. DS and DD don't know her very well so we haven't had to explain to them.
grouchy hope you are ok
tea sorry to hear you're not well either
simply meetup sounds good
leo i still have some stuff unpacked from April!
scatty thanks for thread, hope list going well!
swan how was the weigh in? I daren't!
bianca hope you are coping - poor you and ds.

Right BBL

changes sorry, missed you there, hope you all feeling better!
Lots of poorlies, it seems.

Hi again
swan poor ds but kids are resiliant (sp) I hope he recovers soon.
tea keep venting on here, we are all here for you.
makingchanges poor you and dd and dh I hope you are all better soon
grouchy your dh sounds fab mine can burn a boiled egg if left alone in the kitchen for more than 5 minutes

Todays list,
breakfast done
dishwasher reload done
load of washing done
Unpacking the last of the boxes since our move which have been staring at me for a month,now I just need to find space for it all. done
Entertain dcs maybe fo some painting done
Help ds1 whith his reading
lunch done
dinner done
need to sort out the kitchen cupboards to find space for stuff in boxes

Wendy, it IS a relief just writing the tantrums down somehow that's them done and dusted for the day...

We've had a good day too in our pootley way
hall is mopped, grownup sheets changed, some hoovering, bought some tinned fruit/pineapple rings etc (rapidly regressing to 50's here)for storecupboard
Ds did literacy, spelling, piano and violin today and stayed in a sunny mood
Deflea-ed cat and washed its bedding

Weigh-in bit of stalemate, the scales glared at me as if to say, "you lost your kilo what more do you want from me, you nagging woman"
So it's working but it IS slow progress [yawn]

Swan, what a horrible time for you and your ds. I am so stressed today and just want this whole broken arm business to be over with, I ended up spending most of the morning sobbing in the kitchen which is just silly. We too had a previous break to contend with; ds broke his other arm at Easter (and perhaps this weakness led him to fall harder onto his left arm this time) We have now been booked for a CT scan later in the week and will have to see what that shows. The concern is that the amount of bend-ability he has will be the maximum he'll ever get which isn't really v good. The scan will show if there's cause for concern or whether he just needs more time for everything to get used to working again.

FiL has been working hard in the bathroom but I don't like the result

I think I'm just having a down day. Back to work tomorrow, maybe that'll snap me out of it.

I need to feed the kids now but can't get motivated to make anything It may just be microwaved jacket potatoes all round...

oh dear, Bianca - it is such slow progress isn't it just waiting from appt to next, not surprised you are wrung out.
What has FIL done to bathroom - perhaps better not to ask..
I have made red lentil lasagne for supper. Not quite sure what it will taste like as it has no cheese sauce (run out of milk) but combined various ingredients recklessly.