April chat for locals

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New thread for new month!

good morning all

I hope you are all well

had a chat with niece yesterday about politics and I am seriously shocked by what her peers think must educate the child
I think her generations sees it as entertainment we are all doomed

It is entertainment...just not very good entertainment

Looking at the list of candidates kindly provided by SFX just confirms they are all nutters!! What a poor shower they are!

Have you seen that guy Matt? - looks suspiciously like George Michael but clearly completely Bonkers

Sian Berry is the best looking, a woman and seems marginally sane

Hey isn't democracy great eh???

Just contemplating whether to go for a swim or sit on my butt!!

naturally I am very fond on Alan

dreadful weather staying in.

thanks to visitors nice to see you, apologies for slightly hysterical girl she is now eating and looks like sleep will follow, so clearly hungry and sleepy = not a good play companion

foxie - swimming is good, hope you went

We've received our postal ballot paper today! How exciting.

House smells warm and lovely at the moment. The magic of bread!

Hello all

Took DS for his long awaited dietician appointment today at hospital. He has lost nearly 0.5kg since start of the yr Have to put it down to when he was not eating for 6wks while he was teething followed by vom bug just before caravan hols. They said his diet was excellent even if he did not always eat it, I was at least offering him the right type of foods. They will check in 4wks if he made up weight loss. They also considered whether he should go dairy free as an experiment to see if that would increase his appetite

Spent afternoon glueing & sticking a pile of xmas cards I found which I chopped up, too wintry to go outside

hope everyone had good day. Foxie did you go for swim?

Argh what an awful day!! It started at 3 am this morning with DS teething (seems that is all he ever does) tried to go back to sleep at 6 but DS had other ideas, had to manically run round to tesco to get lunch for old school chums visiting but when we got home DS had a 2 hour moaning/crying/shouting fit, wouldn't eat, couldn't be left alone and kept hitting me, I got very teary and upset and felt like a thoroughly useless mum and then old school chums turned up early to me looking awful, DS fitfully trying to sleep and house looking like the local dumping ground.

They managed to cheer me up a little but I think they were a little taken aback by my mood (trying to appear cheery but not really succeeding)

DH arrived home to see DS smiling and chirpy and happy and can't understand why I've said I've had a rubbish day...Sometimes, its just not worth getting out of bed is it!!

Anyways, feel a little better now, DS is in bed, wine in hand and reading your threads!

SJ,
Don't worry. I'm sure things will improve. Dd loses a lot of weight when she's ill too.

Lausy,
Sorry to hear you had a bad day. We all have our days when we feel like rubbish mums.

Sfx,
Thanks for hosting again.

aaah lovely ... managed to get a lie in until 4am this morning...

good morning all

SJ glad you had the appointment, some reassurance and a follow up, I am sure he will be fine and recover the weight

Laus - I am sorry it has been rough, we all go through such phases then come here and moan about it that is what it is for
hope you get some rest this weekend

HI all. Had a "lovely" couple of days at ILs, with visiting great grand parents. Got home at midnight last night. CHildren fortunately slept until 9am this mornign. DH has taken dd swimming and ds is playing downstairs. (I am doing laundry ).

DS was a right horror on wednesday night. 9.30am he managed to open the stairgate across his bedroom door (fantastic!) went into dd's bedroom, found a black felt tip (there should be no drawing stuff in her room) and proceeded to draw all over 2 walls of her room, her bedside table, pillow case, sheet, her face and arm and she never woke up. Then he ventured down the stairs and I caught site of him (I was baking in the kitchen) sitting on the stairs "decorating" the wall. I flipped at him. Now have to repaint stairs and dd's bedroom (which I only did last year).

Then yesterday at il's dh has a run in with sil's partner. Last month she (sil's partner) had a massive (alcohol induced) rant at dh (at IL's house) over absolutely nothing and really (verbally) laid into dh (who has been nothing but welcoming to her since they started going out). Then stormed out of the house practically dragging sil with her. DH tried to resolve it through phone messages and emails/ texts etc. Got to the point where they agreed for everyones sake they would be civil when they saw each other.

Anyway last night she comes over about 10pm (having been working late), arrives with a six pack and totally ignores dh (and me) when we said hello, attempt to talk to her in any way. Lets ds (3) have a sip of her ber, and dismisses me as "boring and no fun" when I said I didn't want her doing that. Was snidey and unpleasant to the 2 of us all evening whilst being everso friendly to everyone else there. At the end of the evening as we were all leaving she made a point of saying goodbye to everyone individually by name except dh and I (we were totally blanked).. DH is very upset about it as it makes him feel awkward in his own parents home, as she is quite happy to saunter in there and act like she belongs there.

Sorry for the rant, just needed to let of a bit of steam.

COV,
SIL's dp sounds like a right horror. How do your ILs put up with it?

Hi all, just a quick catchup while ds is asleep. Manchester was ok, study day really interesting. Shame about the trains really!

Did anyone get to Kew today? I did think about going but ds was very tired, think he was excited about the thought of daddy day yesterday that he didn't have a nap (hee hee!). So we went to get him some new shoes instead. Tried the Shoe Station at Kew instead of Clarks & will definitely be going back there

Ros take it your presentation went well, did you use props?
love Shoe station, expensive but great service and quality shoes

Cov {shock] I think you were very controlled not to slap her, giving beer!

I am definitely staying in maybe shop if I feel I can face a busy M&S

Have my new laptop to keep me entertained dd was let loose on it and know I cant get online on it, presumably when I heard her shout 'I hate this stupid thing' followed by the sound of lid(?) shutting, must have been the fatal moment

now I mean not that I know how to fix it anyway best stick to books today

Hello all

Cov - what a nightmare , hope you manage to enjoy the rest of your wkend

Lau - hope you too feel better, we all have crap days, I'm sure your friends will understand

Sfx - LOl minisfx on laptop

Nice to see you earlier KC - have some good pics of the boys & the animals, will post on FB at some point

DH & I have been having doubts all week about going ahead with this house purchase given current state of the market. We keep thinking of all the reasons to go ahead but then I get that nagging feeling that it doesn't feel right That is weighing on my mind.

Anyway GP's going out tonight so will be nice to have the house to ourselves and have a proper chat

Hi all, thanks for the sympathies. ILs don't particularly like the dp but as it is their daughter they just have to live with it (as do we all).

SJ I think there will always be doubts when buying property, it is such a big investment. (especially with the climate the way it is atm).

What a foul day. We have just got back from Fishworks in Richmond where we had a lovely meal (although service was atrociously slow. However we ended up with dh's and my main course for free plus a further 10% reduction of the bill. (DH seems particulalry good at this - we had a good reduction at La scala last weekend too ). Plus Anthony Hopkins was dining (alone) at the table next to us and we had a lovely chat after ds befriended him and went to sit with him .

Right I am off to make brownies to take to ILs tomorrow (we are back up there for lunch tomorrow , but I am not cooking! I ended up making french onion soup, fish and prawn pie and summer fruit brullee for 15 people yesterday at IL's house as mil got in a fluster over what to do for everyone for supper (she knew I would end up cooking, she asked me and how could I refuse without appearing rude!)

Lausy [hugs after your lousy day]

No I didn't go swimming, just sat on my arse instead , surfing the net from my office. AF has arrived so I can blame PMT

Went to Snakes and Ladders today - DD attended a party there so I took DS1 and one of his friends and then took DS2 into baby area which he loved so much!! He should sleep really well tonight

SJ are you renting now (sorry can't recall)? If so I think its worth waiting as prices are set to take a tumble. If you re sellng, it won't make much difference as they will fall across the board so the differential would be the sme if you stay in the same geographical area.

CoV sympathies DD is often practising her graffitti skills here too its is so frustrating. She has decorated sheets, duvet covers, th sofa, as well as numerous walls and has even practiced her handwriting on the book shelves!! DS1 carved the words "Ben 10! into the mantlepeice!!

Just had a luvverly glass of Pinot Grigio
...bought some fantastic Sancerre back from France, it was wonderful

Oh and DS1 also wrote "I am a loser" between the shoulder blades of DD's Baby Annabel doll!!

Pinot Grigio has taken away my ability to spell...

hey all ooo i've been a delinquent mummynetter! lots of househunting (thanks for kew tip sfx!) this week but cross fingers that we get the one in st. margarets...

lausy i hope your saturday was better than friday ... the toothy grin (when it arrives) will be worth it i promise

foxie i love sancerre ...

COV ohmy re: beer and yey re: hopkins

so now i think i'm off to do some UK political research since apparently there is a world out there besides Obama and Clinton

my little babe has been sleeping since 5pm so is of course bound to wake up in the middle of the night now ... but it was nice to have a pseudo-adult dinner with DH finally!

sfx yey new laptop and the arrival of your DD bed

Glad I'm not the only one with a vandal in the house. I do despair though as I am so anal re tidiness etc I can't bear it.

No wine here I'm afraid. Have been very good and had no alcohol for 2 weeks now. Been on a health kick and trying to loose at least a stone before my summer holidays!

cov - if you please I lost the link for the railway near you, so if you could tell me the name agian it would be great. TIA
we think it might be a good birthday treat for dd.

dd spent dinner questioning dh 'daddy I will ask you a question - why do you have glasses/ we do we have ears/ we do you have t-shirt and on and on and on

she reserved her exhistentialist angst for me

• it is all rubbish
• I hate it
• it is awfull
• are you happy

she did, however thank me for cooking dinner

I am tired

apologies for spelling

sfx i can only hope my DS will be half as communicative as your DD! btw the sleeping sac tip was perfect ... the little babe has slept (warmly) through each night now with only a little fussiness to nurse then back again yey!

evening all,

sfx, lol @ minisfx. Remind me why I'm so keen for ds to start talking properly?

Presentation isn't for another week. Manchester was a study day on labour. But yes, I will be using props! Speaking of which, I still need a Ken/Action man doll to represent the partner, can anyone help?