continued pontification for September

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Cake looks good. Am going to start doing volume cooking to stock up on freezer meals (although freezer not that big) but am sure it will help out in first few weeks of zombiefication

Fields might be worth a trip if weather is nice next wkend, ta for tip of lack of eateries, bit cold for picnic though isn't it?

Thanks for link. Just realised that the Ravescourt display is very close to my EDD so may not make it after all. Maybe DH & DS can go. Time is playing tricks on me, sometimes I keep thinking that I'm about 6mth pg got ages to go but reality is baby could appear in 2wks Better pack my hosp bag tom

next tues no good sausge I normally work but have hospital appt tomorrow. Will hang in to stuff until Sat can drop off on my way out then if you're around

next tues no good sausge I normally work but have hospital appt tomorrow. Will hang in to stuff until Sat can drop off on my way out then if you're around

SJ get packing better early

KC hope appointment goes well

just distracting self while on break from reading textbooks

random thought of the day

I have found it interesting how pretty much the entire media and official bodies refer to the Brazilian killed at Stockwell station with the correct Brazilian pronunciation 'de Menezes'

still surprises me but early on I took it as indication they did something really wrong

Morning everyone.

Sfx - I'm always impressed by how Brits can pronounce foreign names, including mine. No one in the US could even come close to saying my name right.

good morning

think our plans for yesterday have been transferred to today at least I know when repair person will show up
dd was up at 7.15 again how unusual

mellow most people made an effort which is really nice, although I have to say rolled R's and guttural sounds are a challenge
pesky foreign names

Mornin' All,

Have manaement awayday in Windsor today which doesn't start until 10am so lolling about on internet...

Found out last night that a 5 year old girl we know has a brain tumour

Sausage - How sad. Good luck with away day.

Sfx - I bet you wince when I say your name.

Morning!

Most people make pretty good efforts on names. It's the Irish names that I find most difficult! But if you listen to the BBC they have a special department telling people how to pronounce foreign words, don't they? I find that rather sweet

Sausage - about brain tumour.

Where are you going in Windsor?

SBS that is so sad, do you know if it is operable? children sometimes bounce back quite well

mellow not at all but I sometimes get a shock when my sisters/family call me out
one of them has an unusual name but not hard to pronounce

slng that department seems to be slow to catch up with sports commentators, they kept calling Jose Mourinho Jose with a Spanish accent much to my amusement am sure it annoyed it

we had a nice time at lollipop today busy but not horrible then along to the library where dd found it hard to part with Ratatoille

Got a (rather alarmist) head lice warning letter from school today! Checked out the NHS and Health Protection Agency websites and off to buy comb tomorrow. As if there's not enough to do. This school business is overrated. Seriously.

Slng - I think all schools sent that letter out this week - is it the one with the rather awful line drawings of "a nit" and " a louse"?

Don't want to teach you to suck eggs (or nits LOL) but the most effective way to de-louse is to massage any conditioner into the hair and then carefully comb through with the nit comb once a week.

None of the chemical shampoos work effectively

There was a louse epedemic in the DS1's class last winter and it took months to get rid of, as one girl remained untreated. It was only when parents started to complain and the Head rang the girl's (semi famous) mother that she was treated and they dies out. Her head literally crawled with the buggers and you could see them wandering around on her head. DS1 sat next to her at school for an entire term and got infected daily so I had to delouse him and DD every night

SFRX - the tumour has apprently stopped growing suddenly so we are just hoping they can remove it - it must be so awful for her parents

Kew - re Saturday - I will be rushing around in the morning as have to get DD to swim and DS1 to Alter Server training - both in two different venues at same time

Might be around in arvo though, after about 2pm

Also will be around on Fri after about 4.30pm

sausage - your advice coincides with the NHS and the HPA. One child has it, apparently. No pictures, just lots of capital letters, in our letter.

What's "Alter Server training"?

Hello all

How was your away day SBS?

news about the little girl, hope there is a happy ending for her. There is a 4yr old boy in our st who has leukemia. He had all the treatment and it went away and they had a big party to celebrate but they just found out it has come back Life is v. cruel sometimes

slng I think SBS means altar boy in old money
do they do training for that? are girls allowed these days?

SBS / SJ it is awful it is very cruel and heartbreaking how parents wish all ills all nasties should come their way and never their children

btw repair people really good highly recommend the service, now to catch up with laundry, always a joy

sfx - don't even mention laundry - headlice advice says change beddings daily though it didn't say to launder them . Of course all fingers and toes crossed we don't get it. Was going to cut boys' hair at half term but might bring it forward.

Alter Server training sounds a cross between some IT job and tennis.

I remember a few years back an outbreak at work of some sort of little bug, not head lice but nasty body thing and I had to rub this weird powder all over, shower and wash all bedding an clothes worn and tell everyone I lived / came in close contact with to do the same

never got the bugs but it was awful and smelly treatment

oh bollocky bollocks

think that scabies sfx very contagious - friedn of mine caught it from a hotel bed. I remember her treatment.

Sorry - boolocky bollocks post refers to platelets being sighted leaving the building

And bloody incompetent doctor

Now I have to decided what to do as I think incompetant doctor is really the hosptial janitor and I don;t want to be the reasn they realise he isn;t a doctor at all...

Of to lie down in darkened room for a while.

oh no, kew. i'm sorry
does mean more treatment?
unless the janitor/doc is just lain wrong, of course..

hi everyone
well was about to catch up with rest of thread but talk of nits has automatically made me start scratching my hair so i'm off to boil my head...
toodlepip

plain wrong, even

sausage...what a glorious weekend for your 'mini-break". must get my act together with those coupons..

very sad about the little girl's brain tumour, really puts things in perspective, doesn't it?