Guardian readers and their ways (part 57)

[SenoraPostrophe]

I was thinking of changing my name for this, but I can't be bothered.

A friend (let's call her C) has been helping me out with childcare and a bit of housework (paid). We are from completely different backgrounds but she is nice - one of the things about living in Spain is that you get to know lots of people who would be outside your social circle in the UK - bit like MN.

Anyway, another friend (D) told me the other day that C had been telling her about how hard it is to find a "system" which allows her (or anyone, in fact) to look after ds and dd while doing housework. I am well aware of this - they are 1 and 2! D asked C if I had a system (answer is yes - let them pull all the things out of the cupboard) and C replied "no. You know she reads the guardian?"

what could she possibly mean?

teehee, ambrosia, that is not the guardian you're talking about, that's "ethical consumer"

sophable - i manage the same effect w/o the whistle

right bk you need to tell me how.... seriously. i need to know

sophable, ok, it was a blatant lie and you have caught me out

oh tits. i thought you were about to reveal the secret of amazing parenting

thank you mp, the eating-with-pants rule has just cheered me up enormously after one of those "I let you have all of Saturday morning off how come you get half of Sunday morning to go running ..."-type "talks"

I like this!

Especially as I'm SenoraPostrophe's friend, alias "D" (Not the "you know she reads the Guardian" one, the gossipy one who past on the message)

What's a mooncup?

Hi, bijou! Welcome to mumsnet!

Mooncup for you. Hope you're not squeamish

My dd, 4, greeted the big hairy piano tuner on his first visit, saying 'this is the living room, and the rule is, you're not allowed to climb on the window-sill unless you've got knickers on'

Thats a mooncup!!
Actually I'm impressed, might order one.

Sorry 2 very different conversations going on here. Shall we go back to the big hairy piano tuners?

eemie - fantastic! I bet you're glad she said it or you might have had a knickerless hairy piano tuner on the windowsill.

I've been meaning to get a mooncup for months. Also now i've found out what Birkenstocks are i might buy some of those too. Organic home grown marijuana anyone? (veggie friendly)

Oh please

No more for me, memory already out the window.

Can't tell you the number of times I walk into a room and forget what it was I was going to get/cook/email/clean/wear

Mooncup seems like a really good idea, but can just imagin DH face, and then jokes, when he sees it, blimey.

eemie, that's fantastic!

IT's one thing that someone invented the Mooncup. What is really worrying is that someone took the time to write 'ode to mooncups'.

I read the Guardian however...
I do not wear Birkenstocks
I am a dedicated carnivore that drives a gas guzzling car, uses disposable nappies, doesn't believe in homeopathy and I do want the travellers to vacate the land down the road).

Other than that I am a pinky woolly liberal!)