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Where have all the fit, interesting and available men gone (part 27)

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ninah · 16/11/2010 22:12

part 27? good god

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hatesponge · 29/11/2010 13:20

feelings
typing is shocking today...

Janos · 29/11/2010 13:43

Eve, I'm with you and am actually enjoying the enforced laziness. Well done your DD, she's obviously made of stern stuff!

sponge - I get this and my reaction is smile nicely, and agree with all they say while knowing I will please my damn self!

Janos · 29/11/2010 13:50

Am jealous Flame. Now officially sick of snow! It goes quickly from fun to pita

Remotew · 29/11/2010 13:59

Sponge, tell them you've got a few on the go!

hatesponge · 29/11/2010 14:05

am thinking maybe I should tell them I have a FWB....worth it for the Shock Shock reaction i would get!

elastamum · 29/11/2010 14:09

Just tell them you are too busy shagging around to settle with one man. Alternatively I say 'I will tell all about my sex life if you will all share yours' That shuts them up Grin

FairyLightsForever · 29/11/2010 14:42

Sponge, I normally tell interfering busybodies concerned friends that i'm not willing to settle for just anyone- they have to be every bit as fabulous as I am for me to even consider dating them... it does tend to shut people up Grin

I am also sick of snow- it took over an hour to walk to the local shop and back- normally a 30min round trip. We had to take the sledge cos poor little DD couldn't walk in it- it comes up to her bottom and it's still snowing, so it's only going to get worse.

And to cap it all off, we got back to find the boiler's broken down

Janos · 29/11/2010 15:07

I like that approach elasta.

FLF, it's a pain isn't it. Wonder if schools will be closed tomorrow as well? Hope not, I'm going stir crazy.

Janos · 29/11/2010 15:08

Now bored of enforced laziness.

elastamum · 29/11/2010 15:59

That said the office are quizzing me on my latest liason and have suggested that maybe I find a plumber or electrician so I can fix the controller on my central heating system which is permanently stuck on! Grin

Janos · 29/11/2010 16:29

Great - schools closed again tomorrow.

I've already had to take 2 unpaid days off this month due to plumbing/heating emergencies. Now I have to have another one. Aside from the loss of money work are going to be really pissed off :( :(

There's No-one except me to look after DS - in fairnessd to XP he would - but no chance of him getting through (or me getting DS to him).

Bloody, bloody hell :(

Janos · 29/11/2010 16:31

Elasta, have you tried homeserve? They sorted me out and allowed a payment plan as long as I took out their insurance - £75 quarterly. Would that be affordable?

Remotew · 29/11/2010 18:31

I can remember how difficult it was when the schools closed with a little one. My only problems nowadays is driving on the roads to get to work. Most likely be going tomorrow but we are forecast some more.

Right I sort of agreed to meet up with someone but realise I was too hasty and after exchanging some messages and having a good look at his photo, I need to back out. What to do, don't reply to him again or be honest/make up and excuse?

I will not be meeting strangers again unless I get extremely positive vibes. I replied because I had such a downer on myself yesterday I was convincing myself I have to lower my standards. ROLF!

kdk · 29/11/2010 18:38

I would be almost honest - tell him on reflection you have decided that you are not suited and don't wish to waste his valuable time - or fall back on the old 'i'm not over my x yet etc'

I found this had checked me out on PoF - do you think he went to bed wth tits and is wondering what happened - and check out the 'poem'

Elsewhere, Bluebeard is still deafening in his silence, S&M guy seemed to be arranging a date but checked my profile out again today .. and has not yet replied to my message agreeing to meet! Must have been something I said ...

And kids are off school tomorrow due to lack of leccy or heat - don't know they're born children these days.

Ah well, at least there's wine and chocolate

Remotew · 29/11/2010 18:59

Wierd KDK, he might be good-looking if he wasn't looking at his pecs!

Have done it must remember to not reply to anyone unless I'm really impressed.

kdk · 29/11/2010 19:05

maybe he's the star of a new advert for male breast cancer - or checking to see if he's got moobs?

And well done - life is too short to meet guys who you KNOW are not right - it's hard enough finding Mr Right without having to deal with ones you know are Mr Wrong from the off iykwim.

And Sponge - just wanted to say I'm thinking of you and will join you in a toast to absent parents (was the second anniversary of my dad's death on the 10th).

Janos · 29/11/2010 19:29

Yup not looking forward to calling tomorrow morning to explain why I can't come in again.

eve - kdks suggestion is a good one I think. I think you owe politeness but nothing more than that.

lou33 · 29/11/2010 19:51

he is vain and egocentric, uses his looks to get women but pretends he is deeper than just a pretty face by pretending to like poetry

imvho

no snow here yet, but it is only a matter of time

oh and my washing machine parts have been despatched it seems, so as long as the snow holds off i may well have it working by the end of the week

please cross fingers i have so much to clean

Janos · 29/11/2010 20:19

Wtf is he doing ? Confused

lou will keep fingers, toes and everything else crossable crossed for you.

kdk · 29/11/2010 20:25

Keeping fingers (and toes) crossed for you, Lou. We are having problems with our central heating - think it just needs descludging (not the technical term obviously ...) but that would mean turning the boiler off for the whole day which I couldn't do at the moment.

And for anyone on Girls date for free, I offer CURIOUS234 - why do these people look at my profile? I have nothing, de nada, zilch, to offer them!

Remotew · 29/11/2010 20:26

I was polite but he wrote back 'thanks for wasting my time and don't bother me again' So I've blocked him.

kdk · 29/11/2010 20:32

I had that the other day Eve - guy has sent me several messages and eventually asked why I never replied.

Sent him this 'Okay - as you've been so persistent and are hoping for a reply I will oblige. I suppose the reason I haven't bothered answering before is that I don't feel we have anything in common - at least not in terms of mutual interests. I hate sport, particularly football and wouldn't read James Patterson if you paid me. I'm more of a theatre and film lover and am quite partial to classical music and opera in small doses.

Not sure that the fact that we're both human and live in north London is enough to be honest and have never been a believer in the attraction of opposites, at least not as the basis for a relationship anyway.

Thanks for the comment re the way I look - if only looks were everything eh?

Good luck with finding what you're looking for.'

He sent back 'Just want to thank you for obliging me with a reply even though it has got to be the rudest yet . I like sport and I read James Patterson everyone is different sorry you didn't like anything about me but you could have gone about it a slightly different way , instead you did it in a way to put me down as if I was some sort of sub human . I am an air con engineer so maybe that puts me at the bottom of the food chain where your concerned , all I will say though is don't judge a book by it's cover because I like certain things I do go to the theatre and do enjoy eating out and good food and love the country walks with my children so I'm not a complete retard as you think I am .
Yes you are very educated to do the work you do but you would have found I am no idiot as the job I do requires alot of qualifications as the environment is affected if it's done wrong . '

Am not bothering anymore as not worth the trouble in my opinion.

Remotew · 29/11/2010 20:37

Phew KDK! He did ask and you were honest. What did he look like and would you have overlooked the Footy and James Patterson if he had a cute pic Grin

sincitylover · 29/11/2010 20:43

I have just realised I have missed the mn Xmas do. (Doh emoticon)

Elasta - sounds like you live in a Winter Wonderland

Lou - ooh washing machine not working is serious. The old diswasher in my house hasn't worked for ages - tried it last week and it worked but now doesn't work again. Someone looked at it and it seems that its not pumping in waterand its prob about twenty years old. I have a list of probs to tell the landlord but am worried that if I get too arsey he will try to get rid of us.

Sponge - Really I wouldn't worry what to say - you don't have to justify yourself to anyone - being in a couple is nice if its the right person and it works but so is being single imho.

I just yearn for some time completely alone tbh - exh hasn't seen the boys for his usual 24 hours for quite a while and at the weekend I can't really do much at all. Just to wander down a street at leisure would be nice tbh.

Im finding as the dss get older they seem to swamp my life more IYKWIM.

waves to everyone else

kdk · 29/11/2010 20:45

Wasn't that he was bad looking - was just I've been on dates with guys like him and it's been like pulling teeth. I like blokes who've got a bit of a spark, a bit of an edge - and to be fair I do say in my profile that i hate sport etc so feel he had had due warning. And I had ignored several messages from him so you'd have thought he'd have got the message without me spelling it out ...

Think I'm agreeing with my mum from now on - if you've nothing nice to say, say nothing!

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