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sb, doesn't sound fun.
perhaps tomorrow you'll have a heat wave & dry everything out?

Thanks all - school went well today, but he looked completely shattered when I went to pick him up. But he was tearing around the playground playing soccer.

He's not impressed with his spelling homework, as it's words like "go" and "so", and he's been doing words like "picture" and "adventure" back home .

It's been raining like I have never seen all day here.

New York has fabulous rainstorms - almost monsoon like. Here in BC we have just waved winter goodbye - it was snowing two weeks ago, with banks of the stuff all over the place, but this weekend was positively balmy. We are getting down our shorts and packing away the snow trousers Skiing finishes next week end too, and kyaking has begun. ds's cubs group are going dragon boating after Easter, and then camping the week-end after that (although they did a winter camp too, with snowshoes and tracking). I'm very happy! It will be interesting to see how much nicer this dry heat is than the sauna weather in NYC.

Be careful, Nooka. I packed away our snow gear & sled last weekend and it snowed the following day.

Yep, it seems a little early to be spring in BC

We've just had a cold snap the last two days, brrrrrr

sb, beautiful spring day here - hope you can open your windows & air the appt.

btw, does anyone know where i can get marzipan from? my plans for an easter cake have gone awry! i shall just rest a pretty iced egg on top of the fruit cake, but would like to be able to do one properly sometime

I just used the last of my imported marzipan for simnel cake, Kickass. So, I say tescos for Marzipan. I think World Market do it too. I resorted to making my own a few years ago.

DS announced at his playgroup this morning, "It's ok because Daddy doesn't hit me ALL the time"

Yes, lovely weather here too - planted corn (again) and spuds and some sort of flower. I bet it snows tomorrow

Oh I'd love to be planting things! It's one of the sad things about being in a rental property. Spring has come very late here according to all my colleagues, but then I do live in the hottest "city" in Canada (according to Environment Canada).

I do find the habit of calling places cities here a bit odd. Kamloops has a population of 100,000 and feels very much like a small(ish) town to me. Of course that could be the effect of coming from London via NYC I suppose, but to me cities are big and bustling, not small and laid back!

I was just reading a post on a food blog the other day about using marzipan for decorating, and it said it should be able to be found at any large sized grocery store, and I wondered on what planet that was, because it surely isn't around here.

sb!! are you able to discuss this with ex-h? very upsetting, even if the explanation is totally innocent (like a silly game they played) until you know more.
yep, in uk, marzipan is a staple i'd expect to get anywhere

NOOOOOOOO-OOO-OOOO!!!!

Just realised the yoghurt I added to the vegetable curry I am cooking is not plain yoghurt but VANILLA.

Oh my goodness, the smell of cumin, cardamom and vanilla permeating the kitchen is making me retch.

That's about as exciting as my news gets these days apart from the old milk machine stuff (ds2 now 10 wks - how did that happen)

Hope you are all well. No idea what you are all talking about, not time to read the thread, but thought would pop in and say hi...

Wow, ten weeks! Congrats Hope your curry tastes OK!

sooo, I allowed dd the key to her piggie bank so she could count the money. she has now put the key in a REALLY safe place.
Can you guess where?

Hope the curry tasted ok, i would have thought that vanilla would be alright as a falvouring

In the piggie bank Kickass?

AnnieL I have had to give up baking while baby hormones turn my brain to mush as I ALWAYS leave out a key ingredient and its such a waste of time / effort / ingredients. A shame as while breastfeeding I really crave cakes and biscuits and do prefer homemade.

Just not my homemade! I can manage meals but something always goes wrong while baking.

bunkups, yep, inside the piggy bank. she was so pleased with herself for thinking of such a safe place!!

Not really something we can discuss Kickass and I have to send DS back to his Dad tomorrow

I often wonder about 'cities' here too - I have lived next to a city with a population of 30,000 here - no town centre to speak of, just a small strip mall but a city it was. Very odd.

Mum just left

lol @ piggy bank. Sorry

sb, sorry to hear about both exh crapola & your mum going. still, it sounds like you had a great time, hope she wasn't too annoyingly motherish!

We are all feeling a little bit dislocated with Easter. Last year was our last Easter at home (dh flew out on the Tuesday after I think) and Spring is just so different here it doesn't really feel like it can be Easter!

Feels like we are jumping straight from winter to summer - it's already dry, very little green, no bulbs and warm (that last is really nice though).

We worked out that I have probably spent pretty much all of my Easters with my parents in the countryside - no wonder we are all feeling a bit odd. ds has just admitted that he is homesick, and there is very little we can do about it as I just don't have the holidays or the cash to take him back to England (and I think it might be a terrible anticlimax for him in any case).

So we need to do lots of fun and exciting things this weekend!

Give you and Dinner a hug.

I'm so tired.

FB question. What do you do when someone puts in a friend request, and you know their name and realize you went to school with them, but probably have never talked to them in your life? Is it rude to just ignore them? DH says just add them as a friend and hope they give you money. I must be the worst FBer of all time. I don't have a drive to go out and collect friends. Especially people I don't think I've ever interacted with. Except for the one food blogger that I don't know but posts interesting articles daily.

I ignore them, Dooney. I have 4 friend requests from people who I either have not heard from since I was 16 or from people with whom I tried to maintain a friendship but who never returned phone calls/ letters/ emails so I stopped. Can't understand why they want to be my friend now when they couldn't be arsed before.

Nooka- I often feel like that. I think holidays are hard because they always remind you of what you used to do 'back home'. Hope you find something lovely to do this weekend.

Good, I was starting to feel anti-social ignoring people. I just know they're doing it to boost their friend numbers, and find it odd. I don't think he even knows who I am, because I don't use my maiden name, and have no clue how he would know my married one, and don't look a whole lot like I did in high school according to people who went with me to school the entire time instead of just 3 years.

Nooka, I'll be thinking of you. We're kind of at a loss this weekend. In-laws won't be able to make it up until next weekend, so we're holding off until then.

yes, we're trying to establish our own new 'traditions' here now. actually, as dh rarely takes time off work, it's just nice to have some family time.
we did have an easter egg hunt here yesterday, and i am now bloated with too much choc (the yanks v kindly brought round cadbury creme eggs fors us!!!)
i think dd's birthdy will be hard, it's just before schools start back & we used to have a big party - all her class for the afternon (in our village, that was the entire year group), then grwon ups in the eve, as also dh's bday & last weekend b4 schools went back. we had friends to stay over & spent a lot of time sitting in the garden drinking beer (not dd). i think this year we'll go on holiday as otherwise dd will be v upset. she hasn't been to a single party since getting here, but there used tobe loads in our last place.

That's a hard time for a birthday party. I know, both mine are late August birthdays. Nobody's ever in town, and it is hard to round up people when you don't see them in school.