So I haven't been on for a while.......how is everyone? BB, sorry work is hellish. My experience is that people will just keep giving you more work, especially if you're the sort of person that generally is very good at getting things done, so you absolutely have to say NO!
Boff - am following you on Twitter and reading the blog - much sense there lovely lady! Hope the picketing is going well? And how is the iron?
Puzzle am 
of your plans for DH's 40th - sounds like brilliant fun. I dream of a night away from the boys, not I don't love them a billion, but it seems like a long time since DP and I had not a care in the world.
Mind you, this is more to do with him working FAR TOO HARD than anything else. He is on his way home right now, shattered after getting up at 5am to go to London, work like a slave all day, then come home specially as it's Orbit's birthday tomorrow. I think he could cope with the work if he didn't put 110% into being a brilliant dad as well, and vice versa. But we don't want an absent dad who works all the time, so not sure how to solve this one.
Have just finished baking Orbit's birthday cake for him to take to nursery tomorrow. I never learn, I always bake two cakes, one for home and one for nursery/school, and the second is ALWAYS better. So why does that always end up being the school/nursery one? (I suspect it's to do with being more worried about what other people think of my baking skills than my own family. Something amiss with my priorities there 
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oh, he's home - got to go! 