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September pontification

997 replies

bunyanvillas · 26/08/2008 13:26

Hello

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slng · 08/09/2008 20:17

Sausage - yes let's go and eat! No cinema trips for me. Scared I might fall asleep when light is out. Our school run problem is DS2 who has to be hoiked to places. I've been carrying him all last week and had nightmares about achy arms which turned out not to be nightmares but real. Must dig out pushchair.

Apparently DS1 has been singing his favourite song at school. No problem settling in then!

sfx - DS2 likes the idea of drugs. Demands whatever syrup/cream/ointment/snake oil that DS1 has.

Paddlechick666 · 08/09/2008 20:34

SBS, your DS2 is a very clever chap

what happened to wagamama then?

hope mini-sfx on the mend soon. we had it the week after camber.

right, food then got some owrk to catch up on.

SushiMummy · 09/09/2008 07:30

Morning all. Tis early start for me this week.

sfx - re Xmas at nursery, we don't do anything - no present/card, or is it just me? Anyway, the nursery is shut from Xmas eve (half day, IIRC) for about a week. Regarding the school open day, the one we went didn't allow kids (stated so on the invitation). Otherwise I'd have brought DS along to see if he'd like it. Hope DD is better. My DS is so much better and looking forward to seeing firemen at nursery today.

Wagamama was still shut/boarded up at the weekend. DS loves Yakisoba noodles there.

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bunyanvillas · 09/09/2008 08:44

SFX, re: christmas at dd's old nursery - the parents did a whip-round - money in an envelope - as little or as much as you want - all given to a central person (parents' rep) - and that way each member of staff got an M&S voucher. I thought this was great and much better than getting a load of choccy etc that they might not want. Or else you could just give your dd's keyworker a gift, some people do it that way.

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sfxmum · 09/09/2008 08:47

fireman? dd will be sorry to miss them
sushi thanks for info

good morning all

here better nights sleep thankfully, must get dd some new pj's and assorted bits so might just walk around the shops a bit

sbs - crickey tests! hope it all works out well, glad to hear this years teacher seems sane

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 08:50

hi bunyan so far I only know nannies and one dad and sushi of course. was thinking in terms of a Christmas show with the little dears singing off key
about her key worker never seems sure who she is when I mention her

slng · 09/09/2008 09:50

Morning all!

I've got a visitor later today with a one-year-old so busy putting away things that are choking hazards... There are many ...

Must have my elevenses. All this ferrying people takes it out of you.

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 10:56

must stop talking religion on other threads

anyway sun shining should drag child out and purchase goods

slng before we had children some friends came to stay with their toddlers and honestly the place was a death trap

SJ99 · 09/09/2008 10:59

Morning all

Definitely up for going for food, could eat some Wagamama food right now

Hadn't even thought about Christmas at preschool yet, performances or presents

SBS - great news about new teacher for DS, what a relief for you too

DS first full morning today, he was v.tired when I left him but hope he'll be ok

KC - is that good news re: catchment distance?

rosmerta · 09/09/2008 11:07

sj, am sure ds will be fine, he'll be having lots of fun

sfx, step away from the religious threads! No good can come of them!

Christmas at nursery, we bought ds's carers a box of biscuits last year, don't know if we'll bother this year as they seemed a bit snowed under with biscuits & chocolates! The play was very funny though!

SJ99 · 09/09/2008 11:23

Have just rung nursery school for DS for next Sept, they have invited me to open day in a few weeks. They said I could come with or without DS, I will have to bring him anyway as no one else to mind him!

ComeOVeneer · 09/09/2008 11:33

Morning all. Yes a foody meet-up sounds good. Poor ds was exhausted after a full day of nursery yesterday. He was asleep by 6pm and only woke up this morning at 7.45 (mind you he was up half the night before jumping on my head .) Anyway he is only there for the morning today so we will have a quite afternoon just the 2 of us.

Christmas we do the money in the envelope thing to, plus a small gift like homemade truffles/ginger bread biscuits for key worker (same for dd's teacher).

Speaking of christmas, I have already bought all of ds's and most of dd's pressies online and saved over £200 on them! I will miss it when theybecome too opinionated on what they want (dd is already starting hence the reason I haven't finished her's - so she can ask for a couple of specific things). Dh is sorted too, so that just leaves parents, siblings and neice/nephew!

slng · 09/09/2008 11:46

I'm reserving my Christmas shopping for Christmas I love Christmas shopping.

Why do people say "would of"? What does it mean? Is it "would have" or is it an English construct of which I, a foreigner, am ignorant?

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 11:51

I have started making lists for presents but that is about it

SJ am sure ds will be ok

still home doing drawings with dd who is still n her PJ's
btw it was so much easier dealing with dd during the night when she was poorly and she was still sleeping with me

rosmerta · 09/09/2008 12:03

slng, I think it is 'would have' (would've), just another oddity in the English language!

I haven't even started thinking of xmas shopping yet! Have only just starting making a list of what we need for the baby

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 12:06

what do you need for the baby Ros? was thinking the other day that if a second comes along I would have to be deprived of the shopping sprees I had with dd

rosmerta · 09/09/2008 12:09

Actually, its more for ds, we need to get his bed etc! But I also want to get a sling, we've decided not to get a new pushchair and we've got a lot of neutral newborn clothes. So not that much actually!

rosmerta · 09/09/2008 12:09

Yes, I do feel a bit cheated actually

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 12:13

sorry I thought about that when I saw those threads around about what you really need for a new baby

I have kept the pram/ pushchair still good but we did throw away the cot.
just make sure you take as many pictures of this one as the first born

ComeOVeneer · 09/09/2008 12:46

Oh yes, totally agree re photos. DS points to pictures of babies in our house and says "tht's me when I was a baby" and 90% of the time it is dd .

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 13:05

am slightly amused that the government is blocking entrance to care workers from outside the EU have they visited care homes? maybe next cleaners hospitality industry workers etc

unemployment is going up soon isn't it?
care work in the late 80's early 90's was full of graduates

Kewcumber · 09/09/2008 13:32

and midwives. Thought we were dreadfully short of midwives?

sfxmum · 09/09/2008 13:47

we are short of nurses too but they keep laying off even the new ones, trained with subsidies because their budgets run out, then they employ emergency agency cover at more than twice the price

my sister often despairs at all this nonsense when she has to struggle with high needs patients and not enough staff

most care places are run like this too

Paddlechick666 · 09/09/2008 14:01

i believe the correct grammer is "would have", "would of" sounds to me something my mother would have clipped me round the ear for if I'd said it.

stop talking about Christmas will you?

I have dd's birthday to sort out before then.

So busy at work today, why am I on here?

Paddlechick666 · 09/09/2008 14:02

jeeez, could my grammer have got any worse in that first sentence?

I plead temporary insanity brought on by immersion in matters of cryptography.

The geek is escaping..........

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