June 08 - 79 days (and counting) til Christmas, has Deb started her shopping yet?!

[KnittingisbetterthanTherapy]

Thought we should update the thread!

Abdn - good idea, whenever the bikes come on holiday with us it causes major stress, mainly about finding somewhere secure to store them. He once got up in the middle of the night to bring his bike in from my Grandma's unlocked garage, as it was worrying him too much, only to find she doesn't lock the front door anyway .

Amber - hope the therapy goes well.

Dewin - good luck with the exams, and have a lovely night out tonight. Not sure about the eye, I'd probably just hope it will be OK, but I am a bad mother .

PM stuff if anyone else wants to be brainwashed like me . I might have to move the file fairly soon so let me know if it doesn't work.

I don't give the other kids presents when it's anothers birthday - they have never expected one!

Rolf to get it from a GP your BMI needs to be over 30 , if you want to buy ALli from Boots it's needs to be over 28. Really is only for very desperate out of control eaters, it's not that great for your body as many vitamins are fat soluable.

Thanks Going.

I feel like a really over-indulgent mother now! When I was a child the non-birthday child got a small present. Maybe I was such a horrific child that my parents did it out of fear . My father did once tell me that I was wilder than DD1 and I think I've posted enough about her for you all to know that means something pretty scary .

Hope it goes well, Amber

It's ok, I don't know where any of you live!

It's ok, I can't see Rolf, you can all come out again.

deb I hated the stained glass window. Last weeks show was so sad, and even worse with medical knowledge, as the minute he said he had just been diagnosed with stomach cancer, alarm bells started to ring, and you could see in his face that he had no idea what the prognosis was - cut to sunset picture... horrendously sad. Don't think I would have built the house though, although I got the impression that he had unfortunately left them in a bit of dire financial straits, so maybe no option?

Abdn lovely, my parents house is near Castle Douglas, there's so much to do in that area isn't there!?

I have my last overnight on call tonight before my Mat Leave starts. Friday night in Glasgow is never fun though - I wonder how many drunken head injuries/ stabbings I'll be scanning tonight. send quiet thoughts this way please!

LOL Biscuits - thinking of you and the Glasgow Friday night scene!!
DH went to casualty on a Friday night a couple of weeks ago, but it wasn't too bad at all. (Incidentally, they phoned last week to say his finger might have been broken after all - he was told a torn ligament or something. Stopped hurting though so he hasn't done anything.)

Hope it all goes well tonight Biscuits

I had to stop watching Grand designs when he diagnosed with stomach cancer, it was just so sad.

The kids have had friends for tea, they are now all hyper-manic and I have a cracking headache. Wine o'clock yet?

sending you quiet vibes Biscuits!

Little by little we get to know more about you Rolf

ps hated the stained glass window too, and I didn't much like the man who decided to put it in either!!!

Sending you quiet vibes Biscuits, but given that Scotland are playing those vibes may be futile.

Sibling presents - I'm in the against camp too. Not that S has any siblings obv, but MIL called last week to ask what they should get S as a present when we were going to nephew's birthday. I don't think she was very happy when we said we'd rather she didn't.

Have just been properly laughing out loud at Knitting's fb status (perhaps only funny to those with a similar political persuasion though ).

I'm off to meet Bugger tomorrow - we're going to see Room on a Broom. Yay!

Deb, I was going to say a similar thing about the man, I also didn't take much to the wife, who seemed to use the cameras being there as an excuse to try and get her way.

quiet vibes much appreciated - hoping the fact that it is an away match will help.

hope room on the broom is good!

on call so far has been much improved by the consultant who I'm on with volunteering to stay and report the scan being done at 1730 at the hospital he's based at, which has allowed me to get home do bath and bedtime, order and eat a takeaway as a special on call treat and watch 'It takes 2' while putting up my feet! Said consultant has just called me to say that he's only just left the hospital as it was a v complicated scan (I'm feeling very grateful, this is unheard of consultant behaviour!)

Lol at us all being scared of Rolf! Oh and I have also listend to PM ktpie, but just haven't tried hard enough - like everything with me really .

Dewin, I think there's a lot of truth in what you say about women who've had fertility issues. There is a feeling that you can't have the usual mum moans and groans because people will think "oh for god's sake, she got what she wanted and now she's not bloody happy" .

Don't fancy your chances of a quiet night in Glasgow Biscuits, but fingers crossed anyway!

And lol at DG - that was taken from the News Quiz which was bloody hilarious tonight, well worth checking out on Listen Again. I was laughing so hard that Alex started laughing along with me, bless him! Just what I needed after a hard day .

Started well, but I have now been awake since 6.30 yesterday morning. This is not good.

Poor you Biscuits. When do you finish on call?

in 15 minutes. It has been hellish. I got home briefly at 6.20, fell asleep for 10 mintues then got called in again. At least it's over now!

Glad it's over Biscuits! Will you get much chance for some Zzzzzz's today?

Sorry it was so bad Biscuits.

For those of you who think my DH is a space cadet, this is a conversation his colleague had with his daughter:

"Darling, why don't you ever tell me about the boys in your class?"

"Because I go to an all-girls' school, Daddy"

Marking spot. [waves]

Rolf -

You are all VERY funny ATM!

Amber - Shame about the car. Meal sounds great though. How did today go? Was your therapist a german lady?

Dewin - How annoying of your body to trick you this month of all months!

Not much to add, I've flirted with PM a number of times, and actually credit him with me so far only putting on about 2lb in this pregnancy, although I am still massively overweight. Obviously I'm not dieting or anything, just trying to follow the 'only eat when you are hungry' rule. It sounds so bloody obvious doesn't it? Wish obvious = doable. again.

Yay that it's all over Biscuits. Can we all get excited at the immenent new baby Biscuits arrival (crumbs?) and baby Spider too now?

Reading 'How Not to Fuck Them Up' by Oliver Jsmes at the mo, massively controversial I know, esp on MN, but fascinating at the same time. It's funny how he gets so much abuse for attacking working Mums, cos he's pretty harsh on what he calls 'Huggers' too. Speaking of which will be trying R at nursery for the 1st time this week.... is it snobbish to say that I am apprehensive because 1. They don't have a waiting list and 2. They are really cheap. And they have a boy there already with R's name.

Love it Rolf - although I have to say that cos I'm scared of you now.

Mentioned this on Knitting's other thread, but R has transitioned from cot to sideless cot to bed without really noticing in the last couple of weeks. On the one hand I am so happy about it, but on the other it doesn't say much for his powers of awareness does it?

I am such a muppet! I noticed there was a new thread then instantly forgot again and have been watching the old one rather bemused that everyone had suddenly stopped talking! I blame sleep deprivation, last night was the first night all week I've had without one child or other in bed with me. I am a firm advocate of CC but don't know what comes next once they can get out of their bed / cot! ah well, Liam's still adjusting to school and Caitlin's convalescing so I will let it go for now. (she's fully recovered now thank goodness)

Having said that, my sleep dep / food theory is in full swing and I am back in chocolate hobnob territory. Trying a new diet control trick though - since we are on this topic - but it's a weird and extremely counterintuitive one; I will tell more if it turns out to work.

Dewin don't be embarrassed, I managed to convince myself I was pregnant this month despite a) being on a very effective pill, b) having barely DTD and and c) having a period! All on the basis of some heartburn and indigestion. I realised I was driving around wondering how on earth we were going to cope with a third, had to give myself a stern talking to!! Yes it's such a mixed blessing having early pregnancy tests available. Sorry you had to go through that, that monthly up-and-down wondering is such hard work but I never managed to detach myself from it - had 2 years of symptom spotting before ds was conceived and it drove me slightly crazy at times.

Marking spot- hi everyone.

Busy week - birthday, test results ( quite interesting as repeating some of them) and now in France drinking wine and watching new moon on DVD.

Hi Hardandsleazy, happy belated Birthday, and have agreat time in France

Can't believe it's been so long since I posted! Nopt got long cos it's tea time and D's crying.

Dewin, I used to feel like that all the time! I would get so excited about being maybe being PG, tell people and then feel dumb when I wasn't. But I really don't think anyone else thinks that!

Daniel is doing great - he is in his own room now and slept 8hrs straight on wed thurs and fri. Last night he woke at 5.30am for a feed but I'm not complaining.

The twins are doing great in their beds. We tuck the duvet in under the mattress so they can't fall out. They still go for a rest at lunchtime but tend to get a bit rowdy after about an hour so I let them out. E did go to sleep today though.

T's bed is under the window so I wrapped the blind cord up around the window handle (high up so he can't reach it). So I said to DH: we won't use the blind now, just the curtains, until we get a safety catch for the cord.' This morn I went in and he'd put the blind down last night - so the cord was hanging down. What a muppet. I said I thought we'd agreed not to use the blind. He said 'I thought we'd said we would only use the blind' .Dickhead.