West London June thread (one day early)

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Almost made it to the end of the month. Children are gone. I am free until Sunday lunch

Hi sj & everyone else!

My mum came down yesterday so we've been out and about. We ended up drinking 2 bottles of wine last night but she got up with ds this morning, typical he slept till 8.30 .

Happy belated birthdays to minisfx & paddle!

Sfx,
Minisfx looks really pretty in her party dress.

Hi SJ,
Hope to meet you when you move. I live in Brentford and I have a 13-month old dd.

We bought a tower fan from John Lewis as it gets too hot in our flat at night to sleep.

It really helps.

I'm having to wake up DS - still asleep afer going for a nap at 12.45!!!! He's in the pool for 10 mins and crashes for the whole afternoon!! So no Chiswick park for me am just going to drag him over to my mums for a change of scene.

evening all, just got back from my mums.

wasn't the most spectacular of birthdays as my bro didn't show up (hungover) and ma was really pissed off and i didn't get any presents

ah well, dd had a great time anyway.

SJ, welcome and well done for finding us. I am well and truly outed now eh!

Paddle - no presents? That's a sign of being a grown up

QC - DS2 does that too - dip him in the bath and he's out for hours afterwards!!

I actually did some gardening this afternoon!!!

Now I'm going to have a beer, BF DS2 and play Janis Joplin!

paddle - I have the insulated cup with straw that I bought with you in Tesco. Ds just can;t get on with it (keeps tipping it up) so if you want it, remind me next time I see you.

pudding I have your plastic box you brought the mince around in (nicely washed of course)

sorry about the lack of presents - didn;t your mum even buy you anything? I can always rely on my mum!

I have bought you a present... its an insulated cup from Tesco, bought it specially for you to drink your iced tea on the way to work.

no present paddle! poop to that lets go swimming tuesday and have cake

am really tired now dd still chirpy we just had the rest of the cake with ice cream nothing like a sugar rush at bedtime

must post pic of cake dh's valiant efort at a character cake

aw thanks! i did get a chocolate cake made for me.

ma says there will be a present but they couldn't decide what so..... altho i wasn't asked what i'd like there was some mumbling about when i move if i need something.

yeah that'd be great coz i've only got two lots of furniture to fit into 1 flat!

kewC, ta for offer of cup but we've already got one like that.

old deer park swimming sounds good on tues. dd doesn't have any bathers yet this year so hoping a swim nappy is sufficient?

gotta say, they could've got me something little like smellies or chocs for dd to give me.

I agree - specially the chocs!!

I bet you were anticipating a nice little something and felt all sad and let down..

Poor Paddle

Sorry that you didn't get any presents, paddle. That's a bummer.

Sorry your b'day wasn't so great paddle

Well we have the children back and although it was fantastic to have time together and we loved it, I really missed them.

foxie, yeah i did a bit. altho i know ma has been run ragged with sdad as he put his back out so......

thanks for the nice words tho.

maybe i'll get some sort of cosmic gift eh!

;-)

Just back from holiday and trying to catch up by speed-reading thread, probably missing all the good bits in the process.

I'll look into dates -- am going to see the Wiggles on June 15 with DS so not sure if I'll need to lie down in a darkened room that evening...

Thanks for all the welcomes

Paddle - Sorry your birthday wasn't more special, bummer.

I'm not going to be living too far from Twickers train stn and the high st, but I've never been so I don't have any sense of what the place is like. Looking forward to exploring though. I'm a SAHM. Are there any hot spots in the area that you regularly go to and would recommend?

Hi SJ, you'll be about 5 mins from me in the car then. For now at least, I'll have to move at some point in the near-ish future....

As for hotspots, they tend to be Kew, Syon, Chiswick House for garden/outdoor type stuff. Lollipop club at London Welsh and Childsplay Cafe for indoor type stuff.

And Foxie's or KewCumber's for tea, margaritas, paddling pools and general frivolities!!

And my place for any ad-hoc coffee and cake moments.

We went, en masse, to Bockets Farm a while back too.

Activities sans les enfants (where's Nanou? I want some praise for this!!) tend to involve restaurants around the area with a reasonable price list and good transport links.

Next one is being planned now for June at Pizza Rustica near Richmond Station.

ps: I must add I did get 3 actual gifts. One from MIL, one from shewhoisbuggeringofftoS'pore and one from bestfriend. DH's card says gift is in his wallet........

hi y'all..
hope all well

welcome SJ i have ds1, 7, ds2, nearly 6, and dd, 2.

sorry you didn't have a fab birthday, paddle..we'll give you the bumps next time we see you. there, feeling better already, aren't you?!

and happy (belated) birthday to mini-sfx. is she in her own bed yet, sfx? just ask that as dd now in her own bed (from saturday!)she looks so grown-up suddenly. seems a milestone when they're not in a cot anymore, doesn't it?

and so much more convenient for her..now she doesn't have to wail until we get her, now she can just get out of bed and come into our room herself in the middle of the night.

yes, yes, it's on my (ever-growing) "to do" list....get dd to stay in her bed.

Hi lemonaid [waves]

SJ - my Twickers Hotspots are the huge Waitrose and the Huge Tescos

DS is stayiong in his cot until his feet and head wedge him in or until he learns to climb out. I hoping to hang out until he is 11.

MrsR - I have your CDs and cat paraphenalia (didn't realise that cats have just as much "stuff" as babies by the looks of it! [sock] )

sock????

where did you go Lemon? "we must do this more often" she said in Richmond park on our Mile for Maude then buggered off not to be seen again

Ds1 has a playdate tonight - the boy who buggered our computer last time - so will ensure they play in the garden. I'd much rather they smash a window with their football than wreck my PC!!