D'y ever wonder what would happen if you never changed your pants?

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Get your bums over here ladies xx

Hope he is ok Frumpster xx

Lew is like the crocodile off Peter Pan!! He has an old remote that he uses as a phone to ring his Mummy He is crawling around but keeping it in his hand. Every time he puts his hand down I hear 'bang' 'bang' There are only so many conversations I can have with his Mummy and Daddy on a remote tv control

Good Morning...well just, Had the joy of buying big pants today! Midwife suggested investing in some before the op next week. My other half is well excited lol

Hard to keep up with you lot!!! You seem like you have been on here for a long time!

Will be more than willing to bring drink and nibbles.... mmmm vodka.....its been too long

Already managed to stuff my face with carrot cake and coffee, so only one thing for it... LUNCH!!! X

Shabs - am here. Just nothing to say. Spend most of my time in tears - spent most of the day trying to buy my mother in law a senior railcard online - 5 attempts at getting her passport number from her, finally got it, now their website is telling me its wrong. Rang enquiries, they didnt know what I was on about (overseas call centre), put me through to virgin trains who didnt know what to do and put me back through to national rail enquiries. Its not like i need the extra bloody hassle of having to sort out all her travel whilst she is here on top of everything else.

Oh sweetheart you really dont need all this extra hassle. I dont know what to do that will help you - other than hijack your MIL Send her to my house - by the time she has spent a morning with the 'all crawling, all CLIMBING' Lewis she will be on the next train home. Go on send her here I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU xxxx

Frumpy I don't know what they are either but she doesn't know I'm pregnant yet. My other daughter isn't talking to me since I told her. I know the little one will be excited so I don't want to tempt fate till I know if they are healthy or not. HM those b**ody call centres -what is the point in them ? Almost as bad as those "please select from the following" and "press 1 if you want some random person who can't speak English to not give you an intelligible answer"
"press 2 if you want to speak to some obnoxious young person in the wrong department" or "press 3 to get cut off half way through the sentence you have just delivered to the previous 8 people from the wrong departments and start all over again"
Grrrrrrrrr

Neddie I am so excited for you! Wishing your DH luck in getting a job and be near.

HM I agree about these places, its enough to make you want to explode and cry all at once. And the waste of your precious time.........with children in the background too....... xxxxxx. Are you back home yet? There will likely be quite a clear up but its going to help being home. Talk more......you are way too quiet. Please offload.

Nan, we all chatted like mad about our twins when they were all tiny. We compared notes about how much they were ransacking our lives.......now we just chat and chat and chat. But don't worry, we slip back into multiples mode the very second someone needs to. I tried to do weekly roundups for those who couldn't pop in daily but it just took so much time. Just hop in anytime (with booze) and we will reply

We are missing some members. They will return.

no - I will not be home anytime soon - we were supposed to move home on Friday but its not ready, nowhere near. So instead we are moving to another cottage. So we have to shift all the stuff from here to another place on Friday. And MIL arrives on Saturday so we had to get a place with an extra room to accommodate her at a much greater cost.. And to top it all off, I have spent 1.5 hours on the internet tonight trying to book her train tickets - and only managed to do one journey out of four due to F*ing websites being s**t!!!! I want to scream, but I think the people in the cottage next door might ring Social SErvices.

HM, let them. Who are they to you? If they can't empathise that sometimes in someone's lives things just fall apart and need swept over then they aren't worth worrying over. Truly. If I hear a mum at the end of her tether, I just think, "aw hell, I get like that, wish I could help".

Can we help? Anything? Sending love xxxxxx.

DD1 is home . Got her at 7pm. She has hardly any voice, choked with the cold, exhausted, hadn't eaten since 1pm...... but she's home and she's safe. Fed her, poured her a warm bath, dried her hair, tucked her in, closed her door and breathed out. So nice to have my bairns where they belong. I bought her a wee bunch of roses today and put them in her room, its her biggest treat, she loved them. I told her it was reward for being very grown up and staying away just like dad does. She was almost asleep before I left her room

Thank you for indulging me in my worry. I'm better now. xxxxxx

FG - feel so awful for my bloody self-pity when you were worrying about your DD. You sound like a wonderful Mum, the kind I would like to be.

HM don't be so daft!!!!!! I am only wonderful in these small snippets, on paper, in type, on my own time..........we each only see little snippets of each others lives. I am not Mrs Wonderful. I get tired, I get worn down, I shout and bawl, I do all the stuff that makes me feel like I am not the sort of mum I want to be. And then I smoothe down my pinny and try again. And that is all we all can do.

Darling, you are dealing with an awful lot atm. You have to live out of home, you have a home project, you are not always seeing eye to eye with DH (let alone having any relax time with him together/alone), you have work worries, you have children issues, you have personal stuff that ties you in knots and you are preparing to see MIL and display Swiss Family Robinson to her when you feel like a bat out of hell. Why would you come out of that with a Mary Poppins attitude?

did anyone see a madwoman round here, scowling, and with all sorts of food pouring out of her pockets?

thanks Hooch, thanks FG. MIL also announced today that instead of leaving on Good Friday (me - visions of relaxing Easter in fully done up house) she plans to leave on Easter Monday (cue visions of non- relaxing Easter and straight back into the grind of work post MIL departure).

If it werent such a nightmare, I would turn my life into a sketch show!

HM...................is she capable of babysitting? I am picturing a night away (just the one).....you and DH on Easter Saturday!!!!! You can feed her on Good Friday.......have the night away on the Saturday/Sunday and still be back in time to indulge her on the Sunday and serve up M&S delights straight from the ready-to-serve shelf.

What are you waiting for?

FG - I have to laugh.........this is the real picture. Kids all jumping around going "Gran, Gran!!", Gran wandering off, ignroing them, no interest whatsoever. Couldnt look after them for an hour, let alone overnight. Nice thought though.

Hiya my loves....my friends are at mine tonight for a few toots!! HM I've told you send your MIL to my house. That always sorts the men from the boys.

Oh I am going to regret this when Lew gets here at quarter to seven in the morning. xx

Wish I was there Shabs, could just do with a Guiness Supposed to be getting to bed earlier, well its no-where near midnight is it? Feeling abit better tonight, had quite a sharp pain this pm and its been slightly better since, I`m weird Nice wet one FG!! You know to what I was referring! No plans for tomorrow, oncologist with H on Thurs, and book club supper here on Frid, and feedback is nobody except one person enjoyed my book Well, I thought it was delightful.
HM, sorry you are having such a stressful time, would you like to come to our beach hut party, then you too could see France! Lots of love to you xx

Off to bed ladies, sleep well. Hope I don`t wake up to a wet one FG! XXX

Night night Trips....Sagapo....xxx

Morning .............soooooo tired!

Just walked over the fields from school again to blow my thoughts away, I say, thats rather poetic for the time of day! Just deciding whether to do the house, or the garden , wish I was playing with Lew

Ooowwww! Lie down doll, we'll do your ironing.

Trips, what book was it? Hey, they are getting supper, they are going to have to say they adored the book or else its cheese sandwiches

Momma, is it the week for rediscovery then? Are you enjoying foods of all sorts?

DP's dad took another turn for the worse. His lungs aren't draining......

gaun yersel doll