Jan/Feb locals chat

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How exciting to be starting thread

Yay, thanks Sfx, am already looking forward to banana bread, mmmm!

In Sweden they had Noise Police (everything is so formally governed over there) but what a great idea, they used to go and put a stop the noise polluters, no messing.

cov

foxie dh was complaining about road works yesterday. I really don't get why people don't offer help.

ros -I am still trying to get dd to eat something other than milk, my toddler lives on fresh air, I always marvel watching other kids eating.
so not sure when/ if I make it out of the house might just do playground / shops

SFX I#ve a feeling the road was closed 'cos no trains were running and there were men on the line working, meaning cars couldn't cross the level crossing...blah blah blah

Cov -

oh dear, mexican stand-off.

she just came to the door with some mail that she opened of mine.

so i asked if she put the note thru and she said yes. told her she was being unreasonable and that if she wanted to speak to me she should and not to put letters thru. then she said she did that because i told her not to bang on the door in the evening.

it then got a little bit heated when i said she was being unfair and that i try to keep dd quiet and that she is only here on weekends and one weekday etc etc.

she starts saying she's on sleeping tablets and the walking around in the morning disturbs her etc.

i brought up the "incident" in the early hours of weds and she flat out denied it! said she was an ill person and on sleeping tablets and didn't make any noise ever. i said it's a man's voice shouting etc and she immediately says "we are both very ill and on sleeping tablets".

i said well if you can't admit to it then there's no talking to you. so she says it wasn't us it must have been someone else!

how on earth could it be anyone else when it is right below my bedroom and it's the same man i can hear talking loudly or shouting etc most days!

how on earth could it be anyone else when i am in a corner flat with only them below and the old retired couple next door who's only party wall is their junk room next to dd's room.

i can't believe the bare-faced cheek of her to deny it. unless they're so drugged up they really don't remember it!

arg!

i will start a diary just in case they get worse. apart from that the matter is closed as far as i'm concerned!

perhaps you could take a similar tack yourself Paddle - it isn;t you making the noise as you are on the same sleeping tablets as tehy are. It must be the fairies

DS was soooo much better this morning, took him to CM, he's thrown up in her car and my ma has had to go collect him .

I know I'm being mean but I really can't take anymore time off this week. Mum doesn't think there's much wrong him so hopefully its a one off and not a bug.

i'm such a mean cow to be more concerned about my dreadful work record this last week or so than about my poor sick child

Oh dear sorry to hear that QC - poor CM too having to clean up the vomit from her car

Paddle - what can I say??? Is she expecting to sleep all morning then????? . Why don't you just tell her to get soem stronger sleeping tablets

BT fixed the prob then Kew?

good idea re: fairies. will use that next time. or maybe will let dd be a fairy all morning from about 5am onwards perhaps. with wings and a magic wand, i'll tell her she can fly if she jumps up and down hard enough and squeals!

bummer about ds, car voms are not good! dd did one back in November and car seat still stinks.

totally empathise on the track record at work thing. my friday from hell was down to this. all very well people saying "oh keep some A/L back for when they're sick" etc but it doesn't get the work done does it!

Good Lord, the building just shook when she just slammed her front door just now!

Can you do some work from home Kew? I resort to getting stuff done after dd has gone to bed.

finger's x'd is a random vom and he's okay now.

yes (re CM's car) - thought I'd offer to pay for an internal valet for her.

Foxie, I really wanted to ask her:

a) if you're on sleeping tablets why don't you take them at night instead of staying up and yelling at your husband?

b) if you're on sleeping tablets how come you can even hear us?

c) why don't you take stronger sleeping tablets if you want to sleep all day?

d) WHY ARE YOU BUGGING ME WITH YOUR INCONSEQEUNTIAL AND UNREASONABLE BULL&*^T?

obviously not for her personally but for her car.

Yes t-internet now fixed - BT trying to con us that was a nationwide problem now...

assess teh damage first, may just need to dryclean the car seat cover.

roll on spring eh? i'm over the winter bugs going on and on and on.

dd right as rain this morning but cm said coughing heaps so no pre-school again for her.

think prob coz they had to walk the older ones to school today due her car being out of action.

poor dd, she was so looking forward to pre-school.

howabout being the height of reason...

"Good woman... I think we are as quiet as it is reasonable, nay even possible, to expect. You obviously think the same. I can only suggest we both record noise levels within our flat 24 hrs a day for a one week period and go to the local council for arbitration"

I can do a good act as a noise arbitrator by the way

oh pc am so for you. Glad she admitted it was her sending the note and good idea about the diary but you are right to close the matter. I remember once the guy above me in a flat I lived in decided to have a bath with his gf at 3am and forgot about it and flooded me out - I had no electric for 6 months until it dried out and a massive hole in my kitchen. So everytime I went out and came back late at night, I started playing loud music. When he knocked and asked me to turn my music down and I said "if I didn't have a f*cking hole in the ceiling, it wouldn't be so loud" - I never heard from him again.

pc - sorry to hear ds is still not well. It is terrible when they're ill - that's a reason why we have an AP, I was having so much time off with either one of DDs being ill (and never at the sametime) that work was beginning to suffer. So now the AP looks after them.

Foxie - How was Friday night? Sorry I couldn't make it but AP had a lovely time at the theatre!!

I might be up for a meet-up on Thursday during the day, if anyone's about. I'll check back here...

if this was america i could sue her for personal distress!

Paddle, they're just bonkers really! Agree you're right to close it now & carry on as normal. Btw, won't the pre-school take dcs if they have a cough?

Lollipop wasn't too bad, v busy to start with but emptied out quite quickly after we turned up!

lol!

Hello all

Gosh Paddle, have just read through your saga with neighbours, what on earth are they on??? No wonder you're at them, that's the last thing you need esp while DD not feeling so well. Don't any of the other neighbours hear/complain about these people? What a pain.

Poor Gherkin, hope it was a one off and he gets better soon

Went to playgroup today, don't know why but last few wks it has been so busy but today was standing rm only. We left after 1hr, it was too mental, too many kids tantrumming all over the place.

And just as I said last wk it hadn't happened for ages, DS got mistaken for a girl today by the postie

Ros - was it something you said?

poor gherkin hope he feels ok, I suppose sick in cars is a professional hazard for childminders

paddle - hope dd ok,can fully understand issues with work. someday maybe the job market will understand that people have children.

there must be a way, although judging by the discussion last friday it seems to be very far away.

Ros lollipop is usually ok at around 12, same for most playgrounds. it is one of the advantages of keeping a different schedule to everyone else.

after complaining about dd's eating this morning, she has been munching away all day and also looking very sleepy at intervals despite sleeping through last night.
perhaps a growth spurt.

will be taking her tomorrow for her 2 1/2check with HV then maybe pool or lollipop

DS had another nasty fall earlier this afternoon but this time from a cardboard box he had climbed into in the kitchen. He fell forward out of the box and landed on his head and then fell backwards. It was horrible to watch as for a split second I thought he'd broken his neck

He calmed down quickly enough but then a bit of blood came out of his nose, I think he must've burst some capilliaries. He seems fine otherwise, I've checked he's not woozy/concussed. How scary

On a more positive note, I think I might have a job Altogether an eventful afternoon

Glad minisfx is eating well, DS just had 4spoons of soup and half an apple pie, that's the most he's eaten today

Not sure what we'll do tom, had enough acrobatics to last me a while though

SJ, that must've been massively scary. glad to hear he's recovered quickly tho.

congrats on the job too - will look forward to hearing all about it.

update on the neighbours from hell: the husband showed up on my doorstep and apologised for the wife! he says she's had something wrong with her head so she can't sleep and dd wakes her up etc.

i said i didn't want a row or any bad feeling and that i tried to keep dd as quiet as poss in the mornings but it was unreasonable to expect it till noon.

he still creeps me out tho, always tries to grab dd and kiss her and hug her and she's not keen at all!

anyways, hopefully tis the end of it.

ps: still getting a diary tho!

oh SJ that must have been scary, although it seems toddlers are made of rubber while we acquire more grey hair

hope all is well.

dd fell in the playground a few weeks back and got a huge fat lip lots of blood but that was all, dh was with her and he was wreck when he got apparently some mum helped with her supply of chocolate buttons and bandages clearly she had more than one kid

Paddle - that is creepy what a toss*r

word missing on that one how well

hi everyone
how you diddling?

paddle..glad things looking a bit better with neighbours. clearly bonkers, tho.

SJ..blimey..what a fright for you with ds. congrats on job! details, please...

Sfx..yes indeed about sam fox. i like her.

kew..hope ds feeling better. i saw him this morning as CM got dd today, too, due to my workload.
sometimes it's just a one-off from coughing too much or something, isn't it?

foxie..thanks for txting back CM's whereabouts as i was pacing up and down outside her house! amazing how no-one offers to help with buggies, isn't it?

Mind you, i usually cope better by myself, tbh. blokes seem to just grab buggy and charge off leaving you tripping downstairs in their wake

well, just call me superwoman..have just had 4 children over for tea/general mayhem (7 including mine) .

actually aforementioned superwoman status largely thanks to dh rustling me up a cheese sauce yesterday (see Kew, I NEED that lesson..) so i could produce an effort-free macaroni cheese.

despite work hassles and losing my voice (much to ds1 and ds2's delight..) it was really lovely seeing them all together - nct friends met when ds1 was a bambino.

ho-hum, better do the bed/night-night-mama-loves-you-glug-glug-glass-of-vino thing.
toodlepip

"bed/night-night-mama-loves-you-glug-glug-glass-of-vino thing"

pmsl! are you me?

twins separated at birth, my friend
we'll have to the glug-glug thing together one of these days..
meanwhile...
cheers!
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