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You learn something new every day...

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SoupDragon · 20/06/2002 12:29

Another lighthearted thread here This is what I've just learnt:

Disposable Nappies Do Not Wash Well.

Have just accidentally picked up a pair of (clean!) pullups with the laundry and put them through the washing machine. The mess is indescribable...

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sobernow · 20/06/2002 12:34

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leander · 20/06/2002 12:36

YUCK!!!

Lil · 20/06/2002 12:56

Ha Ha!

This isn't so gross but I read yesterday what the 'stepping reflex' in a newborn is all about. Apparently, if you put the baby on your tummy it will climb up to your breast. How cool is that!!! haven't tried it yet, has anyone else??

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SoupDragon · 20/06/2002 12:57

Ooooh - lovely!

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PamT · 20/06/2002 13:00

Lil, I think that must be one of the reflexes that the male of the species never loses.

SueW · 20/06/2002 13:06

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Lil · 20/06/2002 13:11

An hour!!! What did the mother do during this time, make up a bottle?!

SimonHoward · 20/06/2002 13:11

PamT

I think that remark is unfortunately very true.

Shame that other such skills are not retained by most of my fellow males.

Lil · 20/06/2002 13:22

Hmm Simon the men I know still burp loudly after every meal and expect 'mummy' to provide their dinner and do their washing!!

SimonHoward · 20/06/2002 13:57

Lil

I only burp after a meal to show my host how much I enjoyed it.

And as for mummy providing dinner and their washing, I must have a wicked mother as she made me learn to cook by the age of 16 and how to do my own washing too.

People still think I'm odd when I admit I can cook, clean, wash, sew, embroider (badly) and iron and have been doing so for over 15 years.

Oh and I can knit triangles of wool as well.

AtkinsR · 20/06/2002 14:52

What do you do with said triangles?

SimonHoward · 20/06/2002 14:54

Not a lot.

My mother gave up teaching me how to knit after so many triangles were made.

Some how I always dropped a stitch each row.

PamT · 20/06/2002 15:00

SimonHoward, I wish I could introduce you to my DH, he might learn a few things. Apart from being a bit anti social in terms of not taking part in celebrations do you have any faults? You do housework, look after the kids, work hard etc. Where did I go wrong with DH?

Anyway, I'm really curious as to why you are a mumsnet regular (excuse my nosiness, please). Virtually all the others who post messages are female, or so I am lead to believe. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be because it is quite nice to hear the male point of view from time to time but then again you don't appear to be the typical couch potato male.

SimonHoward · 20/06/2002 15:10

PamT

I stumbled on Mumsnet by accident while looking for parenting tips for fathers (without too much luck really) and sort of stayed.

I would love to be a couch potatoe but I never seem to have the time

AtkinsR · 20/06/2002 15:26

Can you teach me how to cast-off SimonHoward?

I once made a pair of gloves that looked like Spock's ears.

SimonHoward · 20/06/2002 15:38

AtkinsR

I can teach you how to cast off a boat but not in knitting.

My last attempt at a scarf lasted about 30 rows, if that.

Enid · 20/06/2002 15:38

Simon, how did you find out that you could embroider??

SimonHoward · 20/06/2002 15:59

Enid

I got taught that along with sewing, cooking and pottery then I was 10 at school.

Not been much call for it since but I still know the basics and i still have my cushion I embroidered with a butterly somewhere.

AtkinsR · 20/06/2002 16:15

My Mum still has my vice cover I made in Metalwork when I was 11.

oxocube · 20/06/2002 16:16

My gran taught me how to do macrame when I was about 12. Can anyone remember that? I made loads of basket things which my family all hated but felt obliged to hang from hooks all over the house, filled with the obligatory spider plant!
Another thing: they were all beige. I hate beige. Maybe I am beigist.

AtkinsR · 20/06/2002 16:21

Oh yeah, macrame - another crafty thing I unexcelled at

Enid · 20/06/2002 18:01

I did them all, including macrame (surely you could only get beige macrame string??) and making the entire Tom Kitten family from a Beatrix Potter soft toy book. Velvet and silver horse pix; Chipaway models; 'cameo' plaster of paris ashtrays(I bought that kit from Smiths so I could get the receipt I needed for the Win-A-Pony competition); flower pressing and many, many others.

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SoupDragon · 20/06/2002 18:32

WHS Win a Pony!! Oh how I desparately wanted to win that pony... Never did though

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honeybunny · 20/06/2002 20:05

Sadly I'm still "craft" mad. Latest is an embroidery birth sampler for ds2. Still ongoing is a tapestry cushion cover in a repeating rose pattern, lovely! I make all my own curtains, and even a few of ds clothes (not often though, as no time really) Oh and I'm a garden fanatic. Not that ds1 realises this at the moment, as all we seem to do is chop down trees, dig up dead/dying/diseased shrubs and dig, dig, dig!!! So far we've cleared 3 large borders and discovered untold treasures.... enough building waste to create a small mountain.

God, I sound ancient, and I'm only 34!

leander · 20/06/2002 20:11

Hoeybunny you dont sound ancient but you must be knackered!!!!!