Weekly FLY for W/C 28/6/10

[grouchyoscar]

Hello all

Back with the links in a mo

Well day started well, took dd [by car on dual carriageway]to Kew Gardens, had nice walk, played etc, bought various presents for teachers, relatives.

Then had most hairtearing attempt at trying to get back to Scout Camp to watch circus display (why did I bother if you were to say thewords Hemel Hempstead to me I would spit, have got in and out of umpteen trains cars and taxis at vast cost, only to end up back where I began, not having actually got out of Euston and someone else dropped back ds1 in their airconditioned 4 x 4 from Herts. All networks in London down, should have checked before I blithely set out at 1pm.
Presents came in handy.

Ds back not realising the life's blood I have expended on his happiness, but I think he had a nice time

Just out of interest Ruby how much time do you spend on your kids' projects? Just being nosy?

Ruby also glad that primark bra has cheered you up LOL

Grouchy sorry to bang on, and best wishes to you.

afternoon all, have had a trip up to london with dc. We went on the high speed service, very impressive so much easier to entertain them for 30 mins than over an hour LOL
we went in the v&a museum, wandered round for a bit looked at a few statues etc but they decided it was boring! So we went to Hyde Park and had a wander aroudn the lake. The dc wanted to go on one of the pedal boats but it worked out at £17 for us all and I didnt have that much on me. Still at least they were placated by an ice cream!

now cooking dinner before going to visit my friend

Oh no Swan! Sounds like a nightmare!!
Dyl - Hyde park lovely .
ruby yay to bargain bra (I won't be needing it sadly ).

Had a nice day all in all depite exhaustion and dd being on the brink of meltdown several times. Went to shop and park this morn and had Ds friend round this aft.

Need to get stuff ready for tomorrow. Don't know how I'm going to drag myself to work.

well done Dyls you are much better at London than me
you are a kind friend. I'm glad your friend is being looked after, I suppose it would be worse if you knew she was desperate but no-one seemed to be in charge of situation.

swan I love London, there so much to see/do there and there always a tube station walking distance so can't get lost as such.

Been to see my friend to see her so down and in such horrible place. She is terrified of the others in there with her as they kick off over nothing . Started while I was there and apparently they were tame, but very intimidating all the same. Am having her baby tomorrow so her hubby can see consultant with her and see if we can have her home as when hubby can't be there with her, I can, so will see if that will appease the docs. as you say Swan at least she is getting the help she needs, just awful she needs t be on that particular ward . Fingers crossed for positive outcomes tom for her.

evening all

swan souds stressful afternoon. They really dont realise all the behind scees stress that goes into their happines do they LOL Still, as it shouldbe I suppose, but sorry to hear at dismal failure of public tasport grrr

Dyls yes, it is sadly true that most mental health wards are tuely dismal places to be. I often wonder how anyone manages to get better in such an environment...but they do.Your friend is lucky to have you. I hope that she and her DH have a productive meeting with the consultant tomorrow. How old is her baby? It must be hard seeig her in such a bad way.

well, have survived the day...just
Church this moring...was meant to be whole family but had a missing snadal crisis at last minute and total dd3 melt down so I went with 4 dc and dh stayed home with 2 LOL
Slightly OT, but am seriousy NOT liking new Priest and am thinking of boycotting or defecting LOL

then on to summer fair(local Gala,with scout/cub tent!) 1 of 2 for the day. Very big...but managed to limit time (and money) spent there with promise of rushing off to school fair.
So school fair duly attended. Spent too long and too much money there...all dc evaporated in differet directions...spent most of time trying tokeep track of littlies whilst handing out more money to older dc...(just 20p more PLEEEEAAASSSE!grrr )
came home hungry (had resisted hot dogs despite being starving!) and in bad mood.

Cue grumpy shouty rest of afternoon....lots of nagging to finish homework(which I thought we did yesterday),tidy rooms, find missing school shoes etc....

now tired and still grumpy,but house slightly tidier and shoes all found for tomorrow.

have dd3 assembly tomorrow am, but will BB tomorrow lunch time with list, feeling calm and inspired LOL LOL

OFM sounds rather stressful afternoon for you, I love dc assemblies, ds current school doesnt often do them, his infants school did them all the time, at least once a month.

Friends baby is 13 months old, they also have a four year old, she'l be in school tomorrow when they see ocnsultant or would have her too. It is awful seeing her so down, other than helping out with childcare not sure how else to support them both, just need to make sure they are both aware that I want to help and not to be afraid to ask me. Much easier for my friend to ask me, than her hubby as know her better, but clearly she is not in the right place to be able to ask for help. So will reiterate to her hubby when he brings baby tomorrow that I don't ming helping in anyway at all. Can you tell I am tired, rambling a bit so gonna go get some sleep.

how awful Dyls - a cousin had PND very badly - I can't really comment as I am lucky not to have had it, and in a way she has never really confided what she went through. She is still coming to terms with what caused it and how she dealt with it. But, she said it was a complete chemical imbalance, triggered by circumstances which possibly could have been avoided, but nevertheless the chemical balance had to be treated, and that was the difficult bit, gettign the dose right, making her take the drugs, side effects as you had to build up the dose and of course just the worrying about the baby at the back of her mind.
She will get through, she just has to hang on, and trust they want to help her.

Supper cleared, now off to bed, going to leave sink in disarray and collapse.

Scatty dd had plenty of meltdowns today too, it is v. tiring. And ds had a meltdown because I forgot his cup. Methinks he should have packed hs own knapsack. Will work on getting children to do more tomorrow - something needs to change round here.

x-post, sorry perhaps not PND.
sleep well Dyls I think to be able to tell people how bad you feel is v important if you are suffering from depression so easy to try and hide it.

OFM the shoes LOL, that will be part of my funeral oration - she located umpteen numbers of missing shoes and tried to train her children to always leave them in the HALL BASKET. Alas they did not heed her, and occasionally a fox would steal a shoe from the flowerbed, causing terrible scenes when said chewed shoe discovered.

must go to bed now - I could have shone that sink by now

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