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Happy Happy Thoughts?

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Kia · 06/03/2001 21:30

Anyone got something really positive to share today. I've had a really sh*te week so far and no change in sight - cheer me up please, i've got to the point where I'm relying on winning the lottery!!

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Bugsy · 14/03/2001 16:03

Me too Snowy - you are making my tummy rumble. But you forgot the big glass of Merlot to go with it and the dark chocolate mousse to finish off.
Mmmmmm!

Snowy · 14/03/2001 16:07

Strange as this may sound I'm not much of a chocolate girl - more of a treacle tart.....

You are dead right about the wine though.

Tigermoth · 14/03/2001 16:23

Going to see the film Chocolat tonight with a good friend. Happpy because:
1 Chocolate - yum!( I'll eat as I watch)
2 Going out.
3 Wine.

Tigger · 14/03/2001 16:52

Pure carnivore, just not blood running out of lamb, like my beef rare though!!

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Kia · 14/03/2001 21:21

Just read the 'working mums and dads' board so feeling deeply depressed! Guilt is wasteful so I shall be kicking it out of this kingdom of happiness - by order of the queen! I don't know about you lot but I forgave myself all kinds of stuff years ago! My working life is still pressurised and its great to check the boards during the day and have a smile and a snigger. Thanks everyone!! Star, I have promised myself to become a vile old biddy complete with blue hair and trews, possibly overindulging in the alcohol and turf accountant areas, I don't expect to have time for the old battleaxe MIL behaviour!

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Marina · 15/03/2001 09:15

I'll sign up for your menu Snowy - although my dh did cook me a mean lemon thyme tuna and couscous grill last night which we ate while heckling CBB. And then I watched ER for the very first time. What HAVE I been missing all these years? Are we meant to know who's the father of the Chinese doctor's baby? Why is Abby now a nurse when she used to be a medical student? And has Benton been justly dismissed or is he being victimised?
Can't wait for next week...

Bugsy · 15/03/2001 10:25

Oh my God Marina, you have missed out badly - but at least you've finally found true happiness on a Wednesday night.

  1. No we don't know the father of the baby.
  2. Benton did get dismissed (for doing the honourable thing) but he is a key member of the series, so I'm sure he won't be dismissed for long.
  3. Abby started training to be a doctor, flunked out so became a nurse and is now going to become a doctor again.
Welcome to the best TV show ever!
Star · 15/03/2001 10:38

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Tigger · 15/03/2001 10:42

Bugsy wait another fortnight, then you know who the father of the baby is, and lots more excitement in the Benton department as well. That is all I will tell you, ha, ha!

Bugsy · 15/03/2001 10:49

Tigger - you jammy thing. You've got cable or digital or satellite or something! The suspense is killing me already.

Tigger · 15/03/2001 11:00

Got Sky, the best thing we ever did, and for all those who do not have it, it is free at the moment and the first months sub I think is either reduced or for free, check out the TV Times and other papers, as I'm not sure if I can put the number up here, maybe Justiner can help with this one. Sorry it is the dish and sky box that are free.

Tigermoth · 15/03/2001 12:47

Star, Chocolat was fab. Left with a nice warm feeling. '50s costumes and Johnny Depp in his lovely stripy shirt, gorgeous.

But the two women who run the chocolateers both sport tiny wasp waists. Chocolate? Waists? together in one film?? Surely not.

Emmam · 15/03/2001 13:34

We've promised to have a girly night out when the Bridget Jones film comes out. We're going to go straight from work, drink cocktails, smoke like troopers and go and see the film. I'm really looking forward to it. (released April 10, the film that is, not me)

What really makes me laugh is my 2 year old talking in his sleep. He said Weetabix the other night and Winnie the Pooh.

Star · 15/03/2001 16:01

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Emmam · 15/03/2001 16:11

I think you're OK there, the dog phase will probably pass soon! My 3 year old nephew likes to think he's a train. Sometime ago he looked at me and said very earnestly `Aunty Emma you can be a signalbox' - and so I was.

Actually, come to think of it, I remember my niece a few years ago thinking she was a cat. You'd ask her a question and she'd just miaow at you. It drove me nuts.

Croppy · 15/03/2001 16:22

Don't want to alarm you but I was at school with a 9 year old who seemed to be under the permanent illusion that he was in fact a train. He never walked, he shunted - with appropriate sound effects of course....

Tigermoth · 15/03/2001 17:13

Thomas the Tank Engine has a lot to answer for!

Star · 15/03/2001 17:23

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Emmy · 15/03/2001 22:08

My son pretended be a cat for the whole first 2 weeks of term when he started school! when I said maybe you should stop he looked at me seriously and said "what about a chicken?"

Tom · 15/03/2001 23:21

My nine month old boy has a new game - When we're in the car, I sing "Who let the dogs out!?" and we both go "who..who whowho!" (well, he kinda does anyway!!) - and he gets the biggest grin in the world every time I do it (which is hilarious cos he's only got 2 2nd upper incisors and they look like fangs)

Tigermoth · 16/03/2001 09:44

When my oldest was a toddler, husband and son used to amuse themselves in the car by listening to the Chemical Brothers. Son in his car seat waving his arms around like a maniac with a not too subtle 'boom boom' bass note coming from the car. My husband said it put a smile on many drivers faces in the morning as they passed by.

Hmonty · 16/03/2001 10:55

My eldest used to do excellent animal noise impersonations. This was well before he could talk. The goldfish was a particular favourite (work that one out). My eldest niece used to impersonate an extractor fan. Not sure where my sister got the idea for that one from!

Another thought - Thomas the tank engine. Why? Isn't this the dullest childrens series ever? I hated the books when I was a kid and they haven't improved by having Ringo do the voice over...

Jac · 16/03/2001 11:00

What I don't understand is why children still say nee nor nee nor for ambulances etc instead of woo woo woo??!

Tigermoth · 16/03/2001 11:46

HMonty, oh yes how I agree with you. Sorry, Thomas, and all your followers, but I find your books and your TV series deadly boring. Reading your stories to my son used to make me sleepy long before he was.

Marina · 16/03/2001 13:57

Maybe the fact that I have to pound the streets of SE London singing Good King Wenceslas and The Wheels on the Bus at the moment explains why no-one at our son's nursery wants to be my friend.
Jac - nee naw nee naw is so much more satisfying to shout than woo woo woo I suppose.