D'y ever wonder why its ALWAYS this time of night when we start a new thread!!

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Still searching the shag pile for my Faliraki flip flops!!!

oh believe me - you are doing nothing wrong. We have many 'moments' like you describe. My mum calls the teenage years - the 'monkey years!!' LOL - I could think of something else to call them though!! Tom is a good lad but he is still hard work at times.

ooh well done bubby, glad he got there! Is the bus stop really that far for you? Ours only have to walk 2 minutes, the bus stops four or five times just on the main road through our part of town!

I've never even bothered asking her about a coat. With her, it's bad enough with the socks. It seems that every other week there is a new sock fashion, it's absurd! I keep catching her heading out the door having raided someone else sock drawer to get the right colour/length for the sock of the week!

I still wanna swap dd for tom for a week, and maybe you can train her for me, shabs :D

Oh My God Chops - I dont 'do' girls - they terrify me. Boys are just apprentice men - hopeless and helpless!!

Hi Chops - its about a 10minute walk to the centre of the village, not really that far, and TBH, they do it most mornings, just today it was chucking it down, and I said I'd give them a lift, then we went to the car, and the tyre is a flat as a pancake with what has turned out to be a bloody great screw stuck in it! Of course, they then had to run down the road, as they would have missed the bus otherwise!
Shabs- but you do 'do' boys? now, I have a couple of 11yr olds......

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - I regularly do the 'I am very disappointed in you' face rather than full on shouting When Danny and Matt were about 4 and 2 I did that face a lot. Danny used to say 'Im sorry Mum, please just smack my bum instead of doing that sad face at me....please just smack me!!!' Makes me sound like a child beater

Come to think of it my Mum used to do that face at me when I was a kid...although, being a cocky confident girl I used to glare back and carry on with what I was doing.....see what I mean, girls are terrifying!!

I'll see bubby's two and raise one

ours are def spoilt, it's literally less than a minute to the bus stop here! I remember back in the days, I used to have a 45 minute walk each way to school....

Helloooooooooooooooo its moi back from myb exciting w/end...............the highlight was meeting the Mighty Rubester, who is absolutley a doll, prety and fun! Seriously Rubes you are lovely and I am soooooo glad we have ifnally met, aww it was lovely. Everyone (except one who will remain nameless as she said she thought I looked 60) was really lovely and good fun, and as for Portofino bringing chocolates all the way from Belgian................which were hogged by one table until I slid over and removed them:o I think there were a few sore heads the next morning, sil and myself were up and out for b/fast at a sweet little french cafe, then 5 hours at the V&A which was brilliant, then back to hotel for a snooze then out to Covent Garden last night where we had the most fab meal.................now back to reality, no Ollie and James home with sickness bug......................it was such a fun, giddy w/end..........a grown up w/end in London and I loved it:)
But nice to be back on here, Shabs delivered donkey scrub as requested!!!

Ooohhh Trips sounds like a wonderful weekend.

Soooooooooooo glad you had a good time Trips, so very glad xx

oh sounds lvoely trips!

Where did you go in covent garden, trips? Dh works there, might have to try it sometime :)

Oh pass the monster much, I love them, but never get a look-in if the twosome are about - working full time again this week and next, (well, supposed to be working, but its shutdown week here, and its a bit quiet), as job share partner on her hols in Canada, so cant watch Jezza
Trips, you sound as if you had a wonderful time, so sorry to have missed it, maybe next time..

Morning girls xx

LOL Trips - you will always be a posh bird to me xx

You got it Rubester - in one!!! I love it when Trips swears because she even says that posh. I have got the weirdest accent....touch of Peter Kay, touch of Liam Gallagher and a bit of all the places we have lived thrown in!! Was born and brought up about 5 miles from Manchester, lived darn Sarf for about 6 years, lived in America for 6 months and in Bolton for 30 years. Depends who I am talking to as to my accent BUT I could never, ever be called posh or well spoken

Well, you have got a "git oorff moi laand" accent here, suffolk with a hint of Norfolk (Yes they ARE different!) and overtones of BBC english, courtesy of my mum, who worked for the goverment as a young woman and had to get rid of her cockney accent fast! If i'm with the "gid ol bouyes" in conversation, my accent is strong and true, when I'm with the multinational office workers I tone it down quite a lot!

I grew up in 'bootiful' Norfolk, though I am thankful that I have mostly lost the accent since moving away. It only gets picked on very occasionally these days. I don't speak to my parents regularly, tends to be a proper long catchup less frequently, and I really notice their mispronunciations now, and it grates a bit! The dts think they sound hilarious

I think my kids tend to sound a bit like londoners for some reason. I do have to keep reminding them about dropping their 't's etc! There is so much variation around here. dd's school is in an extremely affluent area - cant get a flat for less than £400k, but all our lot get bussed over there from our not so posh part of ascot!

Its our wedding anniversary today, just had time to exchange cards with DH before we all rushed out the door for school/work. Anyway, the boys decided they wanted to bake us a cake last night, with little or no help from me, and they have done quite a good job, so they are decorating it tonight. Only problem is that I went into the kitchen last night, and I swear they must have used every bowl, spoon, cup etc out there, as well as assorted knives and sundries, I was even wiping cake mix off the kettle after M's overenthusiastic used of the mixer! dreading coming home to the mess from the "decorating" later- bless, I will have to go over again the concept of 'cleaning up behind you' in the kitchen

aww bless them! It's our anniversary tomorrow, don't think the kids even have a clue, even though they were at the wedding!

Oh and congratulations x

LOL.

Lew came for a visit today....awwww he actually read his reading book to me.....told me all about his spellings that he has to learn, and spun around on my kitchen floor showing me his 'break dancing'