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[triplets]

Boring............you have all been my life-line........just wish we could all meet up occasionally, I could bring the trolley:)
Scrap my feeble first attempt, tired .........very tired............yawnnnnnnnnn

Great news. Have just listened to msg from my solicitor, he forwarded the paperwork from my previous mortgage company to my insurance company by registered post in 1998, and he has their acknowledgement letter, so they lost the details, and they now have to either pay for this to be done again, or accept that the money is mine. I bet their legal dept will waive the need for that bit of paper!!

Morning girls xx

Great news Bibby xxx

.............or even Bubby

Fab new bubby!

How did they get on Shabs?

The kids certainly enjoyed their day off. Dd went swimming and then bk and ds had a mate round.

I'm a bad mummy, I forgot the advent calendars! Now trying to convince the des that the shops will have sold out we have nowhere to put 4 advent calendars - I think last year they went in the hearth and got covered in soot!

Dan got in work for about 7am....he said there were hundreds stood outside his building. One bloke came to him and asked him to join the strike. Dan said to him 'I cant afford to mate, I understand what you are trying to do and I'm really proud of all of you....but I have a little lad and I cant afford to strike.' They asked him would he consider donating his days pay and he said that he wished he could but he couldn't afford to. Said he was a bit scared but tried to pretend he wasn't. The shop steward shook his hand and thanked him for being honest.

Em ended up working about 3 hours longer than normal. She was exhausted when she came home.

They both fear for the loss of their jobs. Its like bloody Victorian days.

aww poor them. they must be relieved it is over, hope things go ok for them today with everyone back in. Least the shop steward sounded a decent enough bloke.

Being the daughter of a shop steward and strong union man and the DIL of a hard working coal miner I hated the fact they felt under so much pressure to go in. Wish I had the money to give them to replace their wages so they could have gone and joined in the march. Needs must...Im afraid. Im getting grumpier, and more unhappy with the country I was born in, with each passing year!!

Mm, tell me about it. I would emigrate in a shot if I had the chance! It is all so so wrong.

LOL I would emigrate to Rhodes, Greece.....where they are in a worse state than most....BUT I have been talking (online) to my friends out there. They are all helping each other in their village. All the families are going from business to business....helping each other paint hotels and refurbish, helping with olive picking and farming, helping to sort out shops ready for next holiday season. Their compassion for each other is second to none. My friends at the hotel say they are not 'going under' and they know how to survive. I would like to be part of their 'union.' They go by the rule of 'what we have got we all share....share through good times and bad.'

He's late you know. Just sayin.

Hope you are all ok, not drowning in lurgy at this germy time of year.

At least it's December. Kids excited and Advent has started.

< clutches at straws >

Just going to do the school run where approx 325 people will say 'OOoooh you not had that baby yet then?' Then to walk the woofa and maybe shift this boy.

LOL G & T - he is going to arrive on the 9th December....to share his birthday with myself and the mighty Donny Osmond!!

When is your due date? Bearing in mind, our Tom was 20 days late and they spent those 20 days arguing with me as to 'if I knew my due date' DOH well yes I do actually.....'IT' doesn't happen often in our house, my periods are always on time, I am almost 41 and I KNOW WHEN THIS BABY IS DUE!!!

:( why havent you missed me:(
2pm Tues went down suddenly with flu like symptems, sickness and diarrohea, and a migraine, sickness gone but don`t want to eat, got rotten head and feel totally yuk. Not even getting a cup of tea brought to me:(

I missed you Trips but have spent the last week feeling very sorry for myself [selfish cow emoticon] I felt better for a day and now I have started again. Tom is really not well at all. I think we should blame all this on our Lew - he started it and now he is fighting fit again

Ah the blardy lurgy has claimed a few then Tis the season. Can't believe none of your lot has bought you tea and cake to aid recovery Trips. V bad form. Withold Christmas form them till they buck up.

Shabs you been ill too? Tom can just go to bed, no? The older ones have been vaguley complaining of colds etc.. i just send them to bed. The smaller ones have all had d&v. Joyous eh?

It can all farck off. Father Christmas is coming, hopefull a baby first mind. He was due yesterday Shabs. They are often late. It's just i ahve been swept up to the eyeballs by the midwives as we try desperatley to get him out before he actually too big to come out.

< leaves nuts and HUGE bucket of tea for Trips >

Hi Trips - big Get Well Soon wishes
LG&T - Time to start all those ways of getting things moving, curry, sex,jumping jacks maybe he will come on Sunday 4th (my DT's birthday).
Shabs - You, grumpy, never!Get well to Tom as well. Glad Dan and Em got through yesterday, It must be really hard to walk through a picket line, especially if you belive in the cause, but family must come first.
Hops - the thing about emigrating is...would you go on your own, or take the tribe with you??? Me?...at the moment, I'd seriously think of going on my own!

Poor trips, have some choccy nuts, and a pot of tea. Hope you feel better soon.

shabs did u see the Jeremy Clarkson comments on the strike
That is lovely about Greece, def not something that would happen here.

LGT, really?! I sure it was weeks ago you were saying on FB he was overdue!

That was probably another baby Chops

Crap blood then Rubes? Anaemic? Take Spa tone, is good. They do an apple flavour too. V important to take it with a glass of OJ. NOT with cereal or milk. It can inhibit it's absorption by 40%!

He is coming out later. Have had a show < firm >

OMG, OMG, OMG

Ooh can we have a multiples thread live birth? G'wan lgt!

Yeah go on G&T its not as if you have any other children to think about or anything else to do now - is it?

Am keeping an eye out for news G&T, remember your breathing !

What the.....................................................................am I 9 months behind here????? how come I didnt know.........................please dont tell me I have early dementia?? OMG a baby...................ao long ince we`ve had a baby:)