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i havent stopped wirting out cheques this week.....

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LaCod · 05/09/2007 09:13

ok so far
ds1 £30 cubs, £70 tennis, £35 cricket

ds2 - £30 beavers - £ 11 beaver trip £50 tennis £20 football £50 Rugby

this is ridiculous

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bagpuss · 05/09/2007 10:10

In our defense it was my MIL who suggested it.

ahundredtimes · 05/09/2007 10:11

Ponce.

(ds1 has clubs he goes to the driving range with DH. They have promised me they won't tell anyone we know that they do this. I am going to buy dh canary yellow trousers and a tank top for his birthday).

ahundredtimes · 05/09/2007 10:12

OMG - also, ds1 announced he wanted to go to the rugby club on Sundays. He did. Isn't that extraordinary?

I think he saw the banner, and got jealous.

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nailpolish · 05/09/2007 10:12

where i come from you are born with a club in your hand

bagpuss · 05/09/2007 10:15

So, it is poncey but we all do it?

Nailpolish, I really do still wish I lived in Scotland sometimes, dh would love it I'm sure.

ahundredtimes · 05/09/2007 10:16

That's it bagpuss. Under cover of dark, they are under strict instructions if they meet anybody I know, to fling their clubs to the ground and run like the wind.

nailpolish · 05/09/2007 10:17

its not poncey in my home town, you are considered wierd if you dont do it AND its fierce and competitive!

bagpuss · 05/09/2007 10:17

lol, ahundred!

nailpolish · 05/09/2007 10:20

you are considered poncey if you use a trolley or buggy, though

KTeePee · 05/09/2007 10:20

I think I only use my cheque book to pay for kids activities. Luckily we have cut back a bit this year so shouldn't be too bad - dd and ds1 do swimming, dd also does ballet & modern. Plus various music lessons at school (great because I don't have to take them after school).

Apart from swimming, none of mine show any aptitude for sport so far... (and the swimming things amazes me because I can only swim a few metres and none of my 4 siblings can swim at all)

You do know that the Irish Dancing hair is wigs don't you? Freaked me out too when I first saw it - think it is a modern day thing. When I did it briefly as a child wigs were nowhere to be seen....

I would like ds1 to do another activity but the question is what... Am thinking that beavers/cubs might be to his liking but have I left it too late to put his name down? He is just 6...
What sort of things do they do?

DumbledoresGirl · 05/09/2007 10:31

I can't picture what the hair of Irish dancers looks like. Someone, please provide a link to show me what you mean.

Personally, I wouldn't let bobbed hair put you off going to ballet. When my dd had her hair bobbed it was great as she was let off having to have it in a bun. In fact, I am going to take her to have it bobbed again soon (when I can face the hairdressers) so we can be let off having to bun hair again for a few weeks.

nailpolish · 05/09/2007 10:33

irsh dancing hair

saltire · 05/09/2007 10:35

Irish dancing hair

The one on the right is a btter idea of how it looks. It has to wigs they wear surely

stealthsquiggle · 05/09/2007 10:35

Ouch at ballet costs - please tell me £315 a term is for all of them?!

I prefer to look at weekly costs as it hurts less:

Judo ~£4/ week
Ballet £3.50/ week
Riding £11/week

Golf £0/week as DS's friend's mother has brilliantly negotiated free lessons - otherwise he wouldn't be doing it!!

However, DS is not even 5 yet, so looking at this thread I think I need to start saving now for when he has umpteen lots of cricket, rugby, etc (and he would like to do trampolining again as well) and DD has her list too.

bozza · 05/09/2007 10:40

I feel quite rich but haven't yet factored in the cost of my eventual therapy and, of course, DD is only 3 as yet.

So I have to pay:
£104 every 12 weeks for swimming lessons x 2 and neither of them can swim despite DS having lessons for 3 years
£50 in the summer for football but that lasts all year, although I suspect that there will be hidden extras still to pay
£4/week for DD's dancing lessons
£12 in July for DD's dancing exam - plus a small fortune for the hair spray required to get a just turned 3yo with fine, wavy, wispy hair to have a bun.
££ on bleach because DS has a white football shirt
DD needs a new leotard

The reasons I am going to need therapy:

sorting out above mentioned bun
having to take DS and DD to JJB on a Saturday on my own to get shin pads and having to try every pair in the shop on despite the fact that they were behind a load of crates of stock and all security tagged together. DH had been twice and got some that were too narrow, and then some that were too long but was too busy playing golf on this occasion.
having to leave work at 4.30, drive 23 miles, pick DS up from childminder, pick DD up from nursery, and get DS to the swimming baths in time to go into the men's changing room on his own and get changed ready for a 5.30 swimming lesson - every week. Compounded this week by the fact that just as we got to the baths DD wet herself - not on her car seat or mats but on the carpet in the middle. So I had to dump DS and then race home for a change of clothes for her. Then she wet herself again in the garden (infection?) then got her finger stuck in the sandpit and i had to dismantle it and stick finger and sandpit part in a bowl of cold water.

RANT OVER

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LaCod · 05/09/2007 10:41

BUNS
thanks god again fo boys

JJB is the shop wiht the WORST srvice int he universie
even the dsses notice it
the staff aare utter shit( WHNE OYU CNA find em)

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LaCod · 05/09/2007 10:41

re swimming hcnaging
ds3 once had a hige tantrum adn i had ot carry him out of the leisure centre nude as he woudlnt cchnage

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DumbledoresGirl · 05/09/2007 10:42

OMG, at the Irish dancers' hair. I had no idea!

ShrinkingViolet · 05/09/2007 10:45

yes, the ballet is a termly total - I've just worked it out as being £7 per hour, whch is actually quite reasonable; unfortunately we have 4.5 hours a week .

PandaG · 05/09/2007 10:47

I have -

ballet/tap/modern approx £95 per term
swimming x2 £55 11 week block per child
Beavers £20 per term (bargain!)

that is it so far, but DS started new school today and expecting a request for sport club/instrument lessons later!

KTeePee · 05/09/2007 10:58

Someone talk to me about beavers/cubs, Please?

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LaCod · 05/09/2007 10:59

if you get a good group tis so cute and they love the camps

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nailpolish · 05/09/2007 10:59

im not sure about brownies cos of the religious element

madness · 05/09/2007 11:00

well, I find it's not just the costs that is bothering me. Watching ds play football is soooo BORING (luckely he usually goes with friend). DD ballet I'm not allowed to watch so that's 30 min of getting bored doing nothing(too far to go home, unable to read a nice book as dd2 wouldn't let me).

During the summer holidays ds went to a football course, only 10 min drive, that is 40 min a day, 200 min a week, nearly 3.5 hours driving!!!!

KTeePee · 05/09/2007 11:00

But what do they do (when they are not at camp I mean)

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