WEST LONDON MEET-UP THREAD - DECEMBER 2006 - from Acton to Sunbury everybody welcome

[MrsBojangles]

The brand new general chit-chat thread

a man that does the food shopping!!!!!!!! My dh takes great pride in not doing the weekly shop

My DH is not allowed to do the shopping. If he comes with me I spend a lot more on crap we don't need. If he went alone, God knows what he'd bring home.

Mine would come back with Pringles, beer and wine, maybe some jars of food for the kids

Did I mention we exchanged yesterday?

Mine would come back with those mega family packs of walkers crisps, tins of spagetti, ready meals and several newspapers to read while he "looks after" the kids LOL

Comeon - congrats!!!!!!!!!! R U still moving on 4 Jan?

We'll have to arrange an initiation ceremony for you

Yes movers booked for 4th Jan, dd's school sorted to start on the 8th (her birthday ). House sorted and ready for packers, bags backed ready to head to my mum's for 5 days leaving saturdy morning, christmas presents all wrapped and down at my mum's yay. It finally feels like it is all coming together.

fantastic CoV: and what a new school ice-breaker for dd.
glad it's all working out.
hohoho

Yippe! Congrats, Veneer!

See you at the January meet-up in Twickers... if not sooner.

Uwila I will email you my mobile number as we will be offline for a while once we move until we get set up and I don't yet know the land line number. Then you can keep me informed of plans.

Congrats CoV make sure the school knows it's dd's birthday on her first day. Hopefully they make a bit of a fuss and she'll settle in nicely

right have posted the pressies to Sue, only cost £47 so I suggest the rest of the money goes into a pressie for them when they get back? Will let you know how much is left. Then some suggestions on what we can get and everyone who put money in can sign a card?

Cool. Thanks, Quokka.

We could get her a subscription to Sitters (she'll need it for our next meet-up).

Thanks for that and pressie for them when they get back is fine by me

Thanks for arranging paddle & quokka. Btw quokka, I've sent you £10 through paypal & am happy to put the rest to a present.

Hope everyone's who's not well is feeling better!

evening all

great to see you guys at Pud's today. great house pud, very impressed with how organised you are already!

Quokka, loving your house and your boys too! thanks for the coffee and allowing dd to create chaos. she thinks you guys are great!

nice one on the dhl delivery. did it all go in? when will it arrive? has anyone told sj?

the leftovers should provide for a nice welcome home prezzie. i'm thinking a push along car/bike/trike thing with a parent handlem perhaps?

or mothercare/elc voucher so Sue can decide.

;-)

ps: MrsB, we took some of the kids dvds out but i have them here so can return them....

forgot to say they wouldn't let me send the funny money Uwila

You can track the parcel, so will check up on it. They did mention the fog and limited flights out of London, but fingers crossed hey!

You didn't see upstairs paddle

well, y'know i am such a sticky beak i nearly asked but thought it might be rude LOL.

hope the parcel goes off without a hitch quokka but guess the weather will be the decider on that one...........

Oh you silly bird, you were supposed to dtuff it inside a dvd case and not tell them.

Oh well, it was only about £7 or so might have covered duty (depending on the value of our package. But, oh well. If you wouldn't mind returning I can use if they send me off to Kaz again, which I hope they won't before Spring. But, hey, you never know.

I tried to slip it in but she saw . She wont have to pay much tax as they put down the value as £10!

Pc nice to see you yesterday, your dd is a crack up!

Morning all.

Bit of a grump today so could do with cheering up. DS been up most of the night with pain in tummy and fever. I'm also feeling blurgh now! Looks like we've all had our fair share of this festive bug! To top it off, DH has very kindly invited my IL's round for dinner tomorrow

I didn't have the heart to spoil DS's excitement by saying we couldn't go on the choo choo train to London yesterday so, like a mummy on a mission, off we went. Ofcourse with him having no energy, i carried him everywhere. Now I have muscles like Arnie Schwartnegger (sp?) I tell ya!

Quokka, great idea on getting welcome home pressies. I'll paypal you my tenner later today.

2cute: whatareyadoing??? tell ILs that you have the bug. Excuse on a plate.

Seriously - it is v contagious,. I know this as it is doing rounds again at our house. so if you want to get out of the dinner, y9ou have the perfect reason.

YOu really must get better at 'getting out of ILs' excuses m'dear.

Still trying to think one of our own for Christmas & Boxing Day. Am kind of hoping the lurgy lingers on. Puke and tummy crapms are still preferable to MIL/SIL combination.

Did I tell you that they 'decided' without our input that our family would be split up on Christmas night and boxing day because SIL wanted our ds to play with her ds - but apparently not our dd, who will be banished to MILs because her ds does not want to play with her
Promises to be a challenging christmas.

hoxohoxohoxo that's horrible poor dd. Were will you be staying?

apparently it has 'been decided' that me and ds will stay at SILs, and dh and dd will stay at MILs. First we heard of it was last week and when dh phoned to say no, he was told we are being difficult and ruining christmas.

am waiting for the thunder and crying when we say we are coming back home on christmas night. we did this 2 years ago and it caused massive arguments. even now dh is umming and ahhing on this point as he knows the emotional blackmail it will cause.

I hate it. at what stage do we get to stay at home by ourselves?