West London chat into Spring

[sfxmum]

thought I would start a new one

Good morning, all.

Many thanks for your kind words. You are all so lovely. Hope to see you all soon.

new cold/cough/sinus pain accompanied by eye infection and child with same so waking at night oh joy.

Still Sushi's friends being safe puts things in perspective doesn;t it.

hello all

Kew - sounds nasty, hope you both recover quickly

Tilly - lovely to see you both earlier Forgot to say I'm enjoying Absolute radio
BTW here is line up, looks pretty good. Gutted Muse are on the Sunday though, same day as friend's wedding so can't go that day

Steppie - nice to speak to you earlier, good luck with all your guests!

Hello!

Swimming this afternoon, I think.

Have googled all kinds of achievable Easter craft. Will show kids later and they can bloody well do them themselves.

Off to pack swimming kit.

hello nearly time to pick up dd

steppie my dh just forgets he booked visitors and leaves the country, did that to his parents last year tempted?

sore throat and temperature yesterday, today just sore throat = improvement

substitute teacher in dd's class, I felt sorry for her this morning

no crafts I know of that is why I pay for her art classes

Sfx- sore throat for you or DD? either way hope it clears soon. BTW do you mind if I ask how much you pay for language lessons? (Text me if you don't want to say on here).
Just curious as mum from school trying to organise lessons for several of school kids but they seem v. expensive . I would teach them at that rate

hi vbus I have a sore throat, better now, dd has a cough and a cold as do at least 70% of her class but we are fine just tired really

language we pay per term and includes materials £55
I guess it depends what you want I think the teacher is very dedicated and actually spends time engaging the small group only 4 including her son, they are the youngest group

The sun! The sun!

Shhhhhhhh. You'll scare it away.

Hello are we allowed to speak of sun now?
Trying to post from phone new dangled stuff
Looks so lovely out

It's gorgeous out there

Thanks sfx, yours does work out cheaper. Will see how that goes, DS1 keen to learn

I bumped into 'Nick Cotton' today

BTW anyone want to meet up at Kew during Easter hols?

My mum is renting out her caravan on the south coast privately this year - if anyone is interested please email/pm/text me as there aren;t that many shcool holiday weeks to go around (including us) and freidns will obviously get priority!

hello

vbus/all up for Kew meet up we will stay in London throughout

KewC I think dh has taken his limit of Summer hols unless one of you would like to go halves with the kids for a few days?
not sure he would be too keen on the idea

very tired/ stressed today need a frivolous day but not much chance of that until next week, I am behind with study and other stuff

Advantage to it is that its an easy drive (relatively) to get there and you can get away without driving at all once there either by staying on our smaller quieter site or by catching the free bus around.

it is all going bonkers in Portugal tonight was watching the news at my aunt's I predict a fist fight in parliament tonight

What's up with the Portugese? Fist fights are nothing. I've seen (on telly, not in person) politicians pick up chairs and hit each other with them. Can't remember whether Taiwanese or Malaysian parliament. That's democracy. Whether they get arrested or not afterwards is when you know whether there is rule of law. Moral of story: fix furniture to floor to avoid volatile situation.

My first Boden purchase arrived. It even fits.

copper it is complicated politics, there is a left wing minority government returned to power after the financial meltdown, they are putting in place unpopular austerity measures.
The opposition made noises for months but nothing came of it. In the meantime there were presidential elections where the electorate returned the the current incumbent for his second term, none of this is unusual, they often like gov and president from opposing parties.
but the opposition seems to see it as a sign that they could win the next election if called soon and, the current PM said if they do not approve this current package of economic measures he will resign
he lost the vote and seems to be ready to resign
high stakes gamble all around

the president does not have much of an executive role, he has some veto rights but they are rarely used by convention
personally I really dislike the sanctimonious self righteous man serving as president, he used to be PM many years ago

no fist fight or chair throwing happened

evening, hope everyone's well

So interesting everything that's going on in the world atm, from an observer's perspective anyway

Kew, thanks but this year we've booked cheapy holidays through Sun and Daily Mail

Have been working out my study plan, aiming to finish by August, no pressure then

Though it will help as ds2 starts nursery 2 mornings next week, so will get a bit more time to study at least

funny tilly - our caravan site participates in teh Sun offer - if you like it you could book a lovely break next year in lovely peoples caravan!

The Thing up there is doing is thingy again yeah

rushing my portion of study so I can go enjoy it
hope everyone is well

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DS2's assembly. Very cute.

Tilly - good luck for DS2 at nursery

Sfx - saw the Portuguese news last night, there is lot going on in the world right now

Kew - thanks but have hols sorted for this year

Copper - what did you buy?

Been tidying up, IL's coming for long wkend tomorrow. Now for snooze vbeen awake since 5am, had nightmares, plus Dh got early to go to Germany

vbus - This. The "blue wash meadow" version.Very boring, really.

Taking kids out to tea this afternoon. Where to go? Cafe? Restaurant? Easy place? Nice place? Possibilities are endless.