West London chat - Spring into summer

[tillyfernackerpants]

Time for a new thread!!

Mellow, congratulations!

Dusty, ds2 would look so cool with a Beatles haircut

Pc, sorry you've all been ill, glad you're on the mend. Can't believe ds will be 2

Vbus, well done on getting dh into the spare room, dh refuses to move from our bed when he's ill!! Hope he's all better for your holiday, where are you going?

We're also ready for a holiday, am waiting for The Sun cheapie deals to start up again!

Yay well done min-Tillyboy on your 1st steps!

hello all

tilly saw it and will reply, I have to send you all my more commonly used address as I so seldom check the old one
and yeah for walking that mixed blessing

lordcopper I recommend him very funny

dolphin still loathe him and everything he stands for, he is not environmentalist he is a rich boy with a hobby at no personal cost

and I agree the Tories are great at cutting costs and generally good for middle class families shame about the rest

in the link not sure what they mean about 'children genuinely at risk' and a lot of yes we would love to extend parental leave and flexi work and will perhaps do it on a month of Sundays

I hate Labour for being so lacking in conviction and propping up such self serving ministers, for all the good they did there was so much that was so so bad
namely the war and the criminalisation of children, deregulation where they should have kept an eye and over regulating everything else

apologies for rant

anyway here

school visit to Kew this morning absolutely freezing and we were not able to go anywhere near the lake (purpose of visit) because it was being sprayed.
dd was exhausted by the end so brought her home at lunchtime, I am really missing running and falling behind my revision

and getting really cranky

I like the rant..glad I'm not the only ranty passionate person

"children genuinely at risk" I think that refers to the fact that evaluations of Sure Start have shown that most of the ppl who have benefitted from Sure Start have been middle class families, not the vulnerable families it was intended to benefit. I guess they want to target the reseource at the families in most need, rather than the yummy mummies who drop by for the free fruit/books/parenting classes

hello everyone!
hope all well - sorry been AWOL but it's just this, er, life thing..gets in the way sometimes, eh?!

so sorry about your dn, tilly, what a sad situation.
dusty - glad you're fuelling your zac obsession from afar
it's all very exciting, isn't it?
how pissed off with clegg must cameron be, eh?

finding working from home very frustrating at moment due to
a) the constant procrastination
b) not having the satisfaction of escaping going out into the workplace
c) everyone i'm dealing with at the moment is turning out to be flaky and unreliable

for the first time ever, found myself thinking would rather not work...not because i don't want to, but just to make life a bit simpler.

but need the money and know i'd be bored. also going through a phase when i'm bored, bored, bored by the utter tedium of the domestic treadmill....

there, you've missed my cheery posts, haven't y'all?

seriously, how do you all cope with the - whisper it - boredom of domestic life (not the kids - although reading the tiger who came to tea every night for months does lose its attraction swiftly) - but all the boring rubbish that surrounds it?
sigh. sigh. vent, vent.
note to myself: maybe i'm going through a mid-life crisis
further note to self; maybe i'm just officially a grumpy old woman

...and dd, all bright blue eyes and giggles, has lightened my reflective grumpy mood with her favourite joke..
Why did the banana go to the doctors?
Because he wasn't peeling very well!

hi stepford, lol @ dd's joke. Ds1 just getting into jokes atm (but not getting them iyswim!), will tell him that one!

And yes, domestic life is tedious, I find daydreaming helps. Unfortunately, I then realise I've daydreamed most of the day away & there's more to do!!

..hope he enjoys it, tilly!
just replace "daydreaming" with "focusing on life goals" and sounds positively virtuous, eh?

steppie I can rent you my kithcen as your workplace. WE should discuss terms.

Just heard. Can't believe it. They'll regret it.

number 10 in danger of being confused with madame Tussauds

anyway Dave on conciliatory mood, for now

steppie domestic drudgery? where to start? I just don't deal with with it at all I pretend I am still relevant

love the joke, dd is in that phase too

"They'll regret it". - no they won't, it is a chance to get some of their policies thorugh and for at least a handful of them to actually sit in the cabinet (tbh I suspect a handful of Lib dems are currently wetting themselves with excitement tomorrow!). Realistically this was their only chance of that for a very long time. If the coalition works and teh deficit is reduced and the double dip recession is headed off then Lib Dems can say "Ah well that is becasue we moderated the dreaded Tory policies", if it all goes to hell in a handcart then they will run as fast as they can in the opposite direction and shrug saying "oh well we tried".

It looks like Tories have already compromised on not raising nheritance tax threshold, and instead targetting the aim of taking all incomes below £10k out of the tax threshold.

I am such a cynic!

Oooh Ahhhh!

Here's hoping that the LD and tories will temper the more silly elements of each party!! (and it doesn't all end up in an ugly mess...)

Zac G for Environment Minister
and lovely John Hemmings for Children's Minister!!!

On a more serious note, didn't Samantha look gorgeous in her maternity dress tonight? The leader's wives are gorgeous!!!

Steppy - IKWYM about domestic drudgery, that's why I went back to work early after DS2!!!

Next time you get fed up at home, think of me dring 40 miles each way to Limerick for work, and even friggin' Galway (120 miles return)and then you can feel smug that you can work from home!!

You need a lover or something -

Kew -"wetting themselves with excitement" - I think so too!!

I like the tax concession, lets hope that each party having to compromise will bring us some sensible decisions on key issues

KewC that is a fair assessment I think, power does things to people

there are a couple of Tories I should like to see in government but doubt it, seems Cameron is slightly to the left of his party and Clegg to the right of his, should be fun, particularly when things go wrong of the recriminations

I expect we will do well, married self employed types
anyway off to watch sci fi when the lizards conquer the world far more comforting

dolphin Zac as environment minister?

the upside of this is that Lord Tebbit is likely going apoplectic he has been foaming at the mouth lately but they have managed to keep it kind of quite, probably upping his meds to keep him away from the press

quiet

foxy - I don;t look that gorgeous not pregnant - though how she walked on those shoes escapes me...

On the subject of domestic drudgery: DS1 ran out of white polo shirts for school! Emergency laundry on now.

Three people asked me if I was pregnant. What is it with people? It seems to me if there is one question one does not need to ask and where the risk outweighs the benefit, it's this one. It lowers people in my esteem, and I already have a superiority complex.

Down with the entire world, blue and yellow strips or not.

Kew you could see that while DC made his speach, Samantha was concentrating very intently on balancing on those heels and keeping upright!!

If Zac is a Minister, he will be on TV a lot . He is rather photogenic after all...

Wonders: "how old do you have to be to be a minister of deputy PM?"

Am seriously getting worried now that there may well be minsters, who are young enough that I could technically be their Mum!!!

lordcopper was it because you were cranky? expect it was a woman non?

dd at school but told me all the way she did not want to go as someone hit her last week I need to go running and get my head straight this sort of thing is just upsetting, she had sort of mentioned it before then retracted a bit I meant to talk to teacher but then she was poorly etc
it is wrong to want to slap the other kid isn't it?

dusty, at least isn't your MP - looks about 15!!

sfx, how horrible for your dd, hope she's ok today