December 2008: because i unwittingly finished the old thread

[waitinggirl]

oops. sorry. didn't realise i was post 1000. hope people find this...

hi beans sorry x-posted there. I think it's about 2 weeks incubation for the pox. Glad dd2 is feeling better, and fab news on Whizzer eating so well at nursery!

Well i went and had a fiddle with twitter, not sure I can be arsed! Hi trace!

beans what's wrong with dd2, did I miss? I do like your use of the expletive bumholes I have to say.

Trace, that is quick she only got the cast on about three days ago didn't she? Glad all ok.

Twitter is freaking me out a bit, I don't understand it, therefore I fear it.

Spot, the way you get an estate agent to work for you, is pay them. We are paying this guy 1% of the price of the house. Believe me it is worth every penny. If left to our own devices DH and I would pay the asking price. Also he knows stuff and sees things, he's our very incredibly critical eye. We have offered ?250,000 but think we'll go no higher than 275. It's not the Dam. It's the Hague, its better, its got the beach.

Oh and the only completely 100% sperm proof contraception is a high quality condom and the pill...think I should go on the pill. I was thinking because DH doesn't want anymore he should get the snip but not just yet.

I'm in bed and posting on phone - so much I want to say but 'twill have to wait for morning. Rubes, I daren't join Twitter! I would never stop yakking!

Kiwi, I am so sorry to hear yesterday was so ghastly. That does sound rough, on the pair of you. I do hope they can make a better fist of it next time.

DB, I am thinking of you and your family a lot. And I watched D. Abbey before bed - very good series finale but what a downer! Downer Abbey...

Spot, I didn't handle it all that well with DP. He asked me why I was being a little frosty and I told him and it resulted in a Large Row. He thinks he does loads and I think I do everything and never the twain shall meet.

I do want to respond to tons of stuff but now DD2 is crying - more tomorrow. But I noticed something funny today. Despite the tiredness, I think my energy has returned! Yippee. Night....

Vag, I hate to disagree with you but there is another 100% reliable form of contraception. A 3 year old in your bed. Grrrrr. Not that I would be at it at this instant, but she has been here kicking me for hours and I have been awake since 4. Got to sleep at 12. great. Am off for work at 6.15

Hope all with babies or in the club are snoozing peacefully.

syb me too. I have been up for at least 5 hours .

urbane congratulations you sly dawg! What I want to know is how you've even found the time or energy to get back in da club what with working so hard and your DH's all-nighters and everything! I must admit I felt a huge pang of jealousy when I read your news - I think cos your DCs are the closest of all the Dec 08ers to mine in age & sex I feel like you're now going on to have the family I will never have . DP doesn't want more & I can kind of see his point - like others I feel like I'm spread too thin already (although that will hopefully change soon). I come from a big family and looking back I think my mum spread herself too thin in many ways - not that you notice at the time of course and you have lots of siblings to make up for it. Still... Anyway, v excited for you - promise to good care of yourself and none of this working yourself into the ground lady. How is redundancy vs mat leave shaping up?

modern lovely news - well done! Come back and tell us more!

Avo Love your stories about DDs - they sound too sweet. I think you should step up the pace with the TTC. We need more new pgs and we are running out! Just think, there will come a day when there will be no more new Dec 08 babies. I wonder when that will be. Hey I wonder when we will get our first Dec 08 GC? I for one will be pressing DD to get herself into trouble from about age 14 cos otherwise I'll be too bloomin old to meet my grandchildren (can you tell it's my birthday soon?)

jj/MoM good to hear about your test/scan. Kiwi sorry to hear about DD's. Sounds grim, poor little thing.

Lady loving "bloke".

Wow trace can't believe the cast is off already!

DB hope your GPs have a better day today.

Vag good luck with the house. You sound like such a wheeler dealer what with your little property empire. Have you thought about signing up for next year's Apprentice?

spot Hope you're feeling better soon. Yes yes yes to Brighton meet-up. When?

Table runners vs spinning wheels? Well, at least I know what a spinning wheel is for. Maybe we should stage a TV Burp style fight. Oh effie did you see your programme on TV Burp the other day?

Well I finish work one week tomorrow. Hurray! So I'm going to be very busy going for long lunches and surfing the net preparing all my handover stuff for the next few days.

As usual I have the terrible conundrum of where to go away for my bit of birthday sun. It always boils down to the Canaries or Egypt at this time of year as I can't face (or afford) long haul. I think Egypt's too hot for the DCs and I can't be arsed so it looks like it will be the Canaries. Again. Anybody got any recommendations or are we doomed to go back to the same place we've been to twice in the last year already?

Hello to all I've missed. Might be back on later if I get a chance.

Morning all, am off work thanks to a delightful bug that had me up vomming every couple of hours last night :( and feeling v pants. My new boss started work on Monday, I was on leave yesterday (dd not at nursery), off sick today, and supposedly off tomorrow afternoon for a hospital appt. It doesn't look the best...! Anyway, hope nobody catches it through the pc. WG you have massive sympathy for surviving this earlier, hopefully I'm over the worst so suffering for several days must have been v grim.

oh - Avo, on the unhappy subject, good on you for dealing with some yukkiness, that's very brave and hope you're feeling proud of yourself for coping so well!
kiwi poor dd, give her lots of cuddles from all of us. It must be so hard when she doesn't understand what's going on.

twitter - hmmm, I joined a couple of years ago as part of a work project, I think I've posted about 4 times and then gave up so anyone who's following me will be a bit disappointed! Though random emails do turn up every now and then saying "XXX is now following you" and usually it's someone I've never heard of.

trace excellent news about the arm, gosh what a speedy recovery :)

all this talk of no. 3s is very exciting! I'm pretty certain we'll be sticking with 2, dh offered to get the snip which is very noble of him but I'm not going to say no...! He's getting a bit over the hill so even if he did run off with a younger model I can't imagine him wanting to be a dad of a newborn many years hence. I saw a very sad memorial on the wall of the church where we were singing last weekend, a stern looking couple and I made a bad joke about how it was hard to tell if the lady was a lady or a man. Went up and read the words, it turns out she looks so stern and careworn because she had 23 children, of whom only one outlived her. :( Makes you glad for contraception really. And yes I know that's not a very RC thing, but there's plenty of RC things we're not especially keen on, mopst of which have been made up in the last few hundred years.

lady - meant to say, I read your DH's book last week at the hospital for the gtt, it is fantastic! What a gifted writer. Though I had to stop reading your end chapter as it made me sob. Wanted to come and give you an enormous hug, and now I can see why the ongoing cricket thing is so important to you.

runners - hmmm, we have one that we got as a wedding present, it comes out at Christmas but that's all. Rather smart though :)

Bugger I just wrote a big post and it wouldn't post i saved it and sent it myself by email as I'm sick of losing these bloody posts. But I can't copy and paste it from my email on this phone. (I had to restart the phone).

Will try to find it lap top later and send it. I.lost one last night too so annoying.

Your posts always make me laugh. I'm the same about grand kids. One I was a kid, my mum was terrified one of us girls would end up pregnant as a teenager, she did such a good job of scaring us off having kids young that I had my first at 32 & my Dsis is a lesbian. I would be over the moon if one of the boys got a girl pregnant, maybe not a 14year old as they would end up in jail, and on the sex offenders register but maybe 16. I could handle that.

Vag you do make me chickel.

you are so correct Spot, I do ramble in posts, and I've just realised how uninteresting they are! I probably post the most out of everyone, yet get such little reference from anyone! I'm SO not feeling all sorry for myself, don't worry! I'm just thinking I need to stop boring you lot! Twitter might really work for me as length of post is restricted! Anyway, I'm off to meet a friend at soft play today so I'll leave you in peace and bother her!

But how can you say that Rubes? You single handedly started the table runner craze on this thread! Which I think should definitely feature in our next thread title along with pork in the oven so get your LED thinking caps on ladies.

True PD, but how boring is that! All I'm saying is I'll keep it to a minimum (the drivel!)

Oooh, grandchildren. I do sometimes wish that DH and I had met a bit sooner, and ditto our respective parents. GPs are early 70s (his) and 63 (my dad) so not really of an age to get down and play with the kids, and chances of them seeing our dds (or indeed my bro's sons) getting married aren't great if they wait til the ages we did :(

It's kind of sad in a way that families are so much more spread - a generation used to be 20 years so it was quite common for people to know their GGPs, now that a generation is mostly about 30 years it's much less the case. We're all pretty over the hill on this thread aren't we? apart from kayz the nipper. But there's no way I would have started a family with any of my student boyfriends. Lordy no. Not even the one whose parents were millionaires and owned a huge estate in Ireland In fact DH has an ex known as millionaire girlfriend, we've both made a bit of a blunder there

PD winter sun... hmmm have never had one of those hols so can't advise but it does sound lovely to get away from all this grimness. Morocco? Didn't you go there for your [ahem]th birthday a couple of years ago?

Keep up the rambling rubes and everyone, it's like having you in the room for a good old natter rather than a formal interview type of chat.

Nice short post there Rubes. I pronounce you cured. Now never mind all that RL nonsense - get back on here and do some wittering!

Hmm, dunno about Morocco jj - maybe if I was backpacking but not sure about a family hol. It sounds interesting but tbh I'm put off it a bit by the hassle you get walking around in some other places I've been (Turkey & Egypt to some extent but especially Tunisia). I just want to be left alone and have some peace & quiet, and build sandcastles with the DCs.

Am sneaking on from work (where I was until midnight last night) to say "STEP AWAY FROM TWITTER EVERYONE". I will not have you deserting us. Especially you Rubes. When you were quiet at the end of last week and over the weekend the thread nearly died. It was not a happy situation. You may not reduce your posting rate.

Poison - Have a look at this luxury yurt on Lanzarote. A friend of a friend helped design it and I think it looks fab.. Its v baby friendly (even advertises on baby friendly boltholes). It gets rave reviews on Trip Advisor. Rather pricey though. Otherwise I would recommend Dahab on the Egyptian Red Sea. Great snorkelling and diving. We once stayed at the Hilton Dahab which was on a really sheltered bay with very shallow water which would be great for kids. Probably cheaper than the yurt!

Pleeeese don't stop wittering Pubes. I don't know what I'd do over here without it. I promise I'll respond more.

Speakin if wittering I'd better paste that post from earlier

Acutally I have just been looking at that Baby Friendly Boltholes link to the yurt. You have to go PD. It looks like heaven. I might book myself.

said post from earlier

haha funny you say that Sybs. DH said that children are the other form of 100% contraception.
Lady glad your feeling perkier, sorry about the big row though.
DS2 slept well, (dispite slipping over and splitting his chin open). He woke at the usual hour of 4 am screaming and with the luxury of a couple of nights sleep and some perspective I was able to listen and wonder if he may be waking with nightmares. Until recently I think he may have wanted reassurance (& sore teeth made getting back to keep tricky) from the dream. Last night he was satisfied with lots of cuddles a.s cooing. However, I think for the first minute or so after he sat up screaming he may not have been fully awake as he was pushing me away and looking at me a bit confused. Who knows.
I wrote a big post lastnight but lost it. It was mainly to do with my little break. My friend who I'm hoping to go away with had suggested the ski trip. I love snowboarding but just didn't fancy spending a fortune and a day each way traveling, just to board for 2 days, when for the same price I could chill in a posh spa hotel for a few days. I think her DP has hijacked the trip a bit as he is going snowboarding in Feb and didn't want to feel guilty. So we are back to the drawing board but in the mean time I'm going to go on a little overnight shopping trip by myself in December for my birthday. It will prob be the 11th & 12th just before DS2s 2nd birthday. I can almost taste the champagne bar bubbly now.
Oh and I almost forgot DS1 had his parent teacher night last night, it was DHs turn so he went. His teacher was glowing in her praise of him. Said he is one of the most popular and important kids in the class, montessori is big on mentoring of younger kids by older and she said he is one of the kids that the other look up to and in a brilliant mentor. She thinks he'll be artistic and is quite intelligent. It was lovely as age really saw the AK, that we know and she really likes him. When he first started school they didn't think he would be ready to go up to group (6-9years) when he turns 6 next august. But now she thinks he'll def be ready as his Dutch is brilliant. I'm so proud of him. He's gotten back the confidence he had at his old school.

PD ive been to all those hassly places too and some others (iran india pakistan)actually Iran wasnt hassly, just starey. Anyhoo, I found Morrocco to be all the things I liked about those other places but minus the hassly stuff. Except the post of Tangiers. Marakesh was great, the markets have stall holders will try to sell you stuff if you stop by your stall but they wont harass you if you are just browsing (or openly insult you like in Egypt).

Blimey Avo. Rather pricey you say? Actually I nearly said in my original post I don't want any recommendations from you as I won't be able to afford them . Yeah I would love to go to the Red Sea (been there a few times, just to Sharm) but I figured that as the snorkelling would be the main attraction it would be wasted on us with the kids to look after. Plus I think it might be too hot for the DCs. Will check Hilton Dahab out though.

You all know how to say the right thing but honestly I sometimes read back my posts and its a whole lot of drivel on the days I'm at home! Are u coming here that weekend Vag? I'm most impressed with my last 2 posts also PD, but I'm far from cured! I'm posting from my phone now which helps as its slower to type!

Vag that is so cool all the positive feedback you got on DS1. Sounds like he's doing brilliantly. DS goes to 2 preschools and the most you get out of 1 of them is "fine" when you ask how he's getting on. And that's at the parent's meeting thing! From what all friends tell me who have DCs of school age the schools are even more tight-lipped and seem terrified of "labelling" children or something and the poor parents end up trying to read between the lines & overanalysing every little thing the teacher says. Do those of you with DCs at school find that? It's going to annoy the hell out of me if it's like that. I just want to hear how lovely, intelligent and popular my DCs are - even if it's a barefaced lie. Is that too much to ask?

Your DCs are so lucky to be being brought up trilingual by the way - such a lovely gift for them. I do envy you that.

Morocco - still not convinced. I hate markets for a start - not my idea of a good time. Let's face it, a bucket and spade, a plate of chips and the Birdie Song is my idea of high culture.

Pah, so much for surfing the net & going for long lunches - my boss has evidently got other ideas. How rude!

Still, this is my 7th post of the morning so I've given you a pretty good run for your money today Rubes.