Well folks, here we are, transported through time and space to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Golden couches and the distressed chintz sofa are arranged on a terrace overlooking the Euphrates and, as we recline on the exquisitely-soft cushions eating peeled grapes, we can enjoy the warm fragrance of the gardens' many exotic blooms. The garden is tended by the indefatigable Mellors, with occasional help from the bishops, rabbis and any passing world leaders. Somewhere behind the terrace there is an aga and a priest's hole, with optional massage table.
Please come and join us for a celebratory drink and conversation ranging from the profound to the profoundly silly.
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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 13/05/2011 23:57
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Scout19075 ·
15/06/2011 07:37
Yet another doctor's appointment today (well, it's with one of the nurses). This one at my GP "Heart Disease" clinic. They call me in once a year to go over my meds (none, usually, though this year is different), my lifestyle/diet, do an EKG....all the stuff they do at the normal cardiac clinic at the hospital once a year, usually a month before the GP does. Feels a bit silly, really. I think I've tried to get them to change the timing of it to the autumn but it's slipped back to the spring/early summer again. Ack!
Wondering if TS's package of goodies/toys will arrive today. I went and ordered a stroller, a baby and some figurine toys like little people (some of which will be put away for his birthday but there was a good BOGO offer I had to take advantage of). He doesn't have nearly as many toys as I thought he did loads of books, though! as I make a lot of everyday things into "disposable" toys for him (loo roll tubs, scrap bits of foil for hats, bowls, etc, empty food boxes, etc). We had to teach MrScout how to play with loo rolls the other day as TS was trying to play and MrScout was confused and didn't know what was going on. 
TS didn't get to bed until 9 last night (Guide night, MrScout not home until midnight and TS was with me -- I would have left if he was miserable but he was very happy running around, playing) and he's up chattering. Ugh, too early TS!
Who's for breakfast?
amberlight ·
15/06/2011 07:39
Scout, keeping everything crossed for you re the medical stuff today. Let us know how it goes??
Yes please for breakfast. Can it be something fruity please? With extra 
?
Scout19075 ·
15/06/2011 07:42
amber, nasty interactions with meds so no wine. Soon, though. Haven't had any since before pregnant (except the one glass before I knew I was and I was violently ill the next morning). Am planning on celebrating with a large white on July 6th. Am going to make some fruit infused vodka for presents -- might have to do a quality control test, too, as first batches might just be ready then. 
And please, amber, stay in your chair today!
Tee2072 ·
15/06/2011 07:52
Good luck today Scout. We had the great wakeful toddler from about 130 to 430 so I feel your pain. DH and I split it but no one got a full nights sleep!
Amber feel free to PM me if you're interested in what I was talking about.
Gee, have I ever been in an Irish Pub?
Plenty of please!!
mistlethrush ·
15/06/2011 09:13
Tee - your DH got up and looked after him too????? 
I always found it SO difficult to rouse DH that I woke myself up more doing it - and the time taken also meant that the distress pitch had upped in DS's room - so it was almost always easier to simply sort it myself. Apart from when he had colic as a baby - when DH took the first shift and I went to bed at 9pm - and he woke me up at 1am so I could take over for the rest of the night.
Mistlechick crept in at 6 and asked whether he could go downstairs - was told to go and read for a bit - but then started to comment on the state of the duvet etc... then the dog came in at 6.10 and breathed loudly, making it clear that she wanted to go out.... I know 6 doesn't sound too bad, but 6.30 would have been better (although I don't really know why I'm grumpy about it as I was awake properly from 5.30am anyway 
)
More Amber?
amberlight ·
15/06/2011 10:52
MT, bloomin unreasonable of DH in my view. Admittedly when ds was small, DH's attempts to deal with him at night yielded hilarious rather than useful results so I did most of it, but I wasn't working much for the first seven years so that sort of worked out.
::drinks more ::
Tee2072 ·
15/06/2011 10:54
I agree with Amber. It's his child as well, he should share all care, including middle of the night wake ups and early morning risings.
::holds out cup::
mistlethrush ·
15/06/2011 10:55
I'm afraid that was also the case when DH was unemployed. I do think he got quite depressed then - but still being in bed when I had got mc fed, dressed and was off to school and work was not exactly inspiring on my side either 
teafortwo ·
15/06/2011 11:06
I have never been to Ireland either but do love sipping at half a Guiness now and then. I did once interview an American who mentioned that she had Irish roots. "OK, so you're American Irish" I beamed. A look of panic crossed her face "...but we don't send money to the IRA" she felt the need to hastily add!
amberlight ·
15/06/2011 11:22
Builder's please, one that's seen a tea bag but not been too closely acquainted with it, perhaps with two sugars for energy?? Cheers!
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Jacksmania ·
15/06/2011 15:34
How silly re your appt, Scout.
I'd love some , thanks.
I'm still trying to get over the emotional shock of mistle ambushing me with an aspidistra in the Adoption Tea Room. (No, we're not looking to adopt, I have no business there at all. I wandered in there fir the same reason I occasionally pop into the Multiple Births thread - where I couldn't possibly belong any less: curiosity, the thread title said tea room, and I'm a nosy git friendly and sociable soul. Ahem. Yes, yes, go ahead and ... )
But back to the ugly green things... I have been so good. I haven't attacked any, I haven't even mentioned them. Why do you all insist in tormenting me with them? Can we not just accept that they make me -see red-- annoy me and let them quietly fade out of our consciousness?
And I've just come back, too .
Couldn't we exercise our green thumbs and cultivate something lovely, instead? I know Maud and I could, since we're passionate small-space gardeners. I would gladly bring in my passionflower vine with has three huge buds about to pop, or my pure red (yes, red) hydrangea, or my Pacific Dogwood tree in a tub, or my rambler rose that's about to open (orange-red) or even one of my two hibiscus, one pink and one red. Or my masses of steroidal lupines.
Anything rather than the dreaded A.
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