FESH Spa & Creche: Plenty more FESH in the brie

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Welcome all those with aching scars, undercarriages, eyelids and limbs. Find comfort here. Menfolk barred.

Poor combinations #1: heavy cold and weak pelvic floor muscles

Tues I have some Tena Lady going spare! I sent HI out to get me some pantyliners and he came back with Tena Ladys!!!!

cunty. I can empathise.

Anyone got any suggestions for when babies start crawling and refuse to sleep? Squeaks normally sleeps up to two hours after lunch. Instead it took two hours to get her to sleep, as she bounced all over the cot and cried hysterically. And she has to sleep in the travel cot tomorrow night.

Hysterics not helped by din being made by tree surgeons outside, chainsawing and chipping huge amounts of wood in garden directly opposite. My house is shaking.

In better news, my blind "mummy date" went well, in terms of us getting on. Her 8 month old was so chilled out, while Squeaks whinged the whole time we were sitting in the under twos soft play. Bugger.

Box if it is not too much trouble would love to see some sling wearing pics in t'other place. I don't know how you manage to get him on your back! I struggle to get her tied on to my front. I can just about manage but may be now she is more substantial it will be a be eaiser. I also reckon it would be better in the warmer days ad I can wear less clothes as currently I worry about her face rubbing on my coat zip!

I too work in travel related industry and rarely use my staff perks. Box I have it the other way to you in that it is dead cheap for me once I am there but the getting there often costs an arm and a leg! We should have married each other

Oh Alps enjoy your 4 days off although I am sure you will miss bear and jb heaps.

Cunty I hear you. I worry about smelling of pee at the age of 40.

Re sleep I pop Peppa in her cot swaddled during the day or she sleeps in pram while we are out and about. If she is not swaddled in her cot during the day that often causes some issue and she is a pickle. At night she drops off fine in her bag, no swaddle. Result.

Fanks okie ! I've been sticking him in his cot without anything over him so think I'll try a blanket or get a LW bag for day naps. Hopefully will do the trick.

alp have you got written instructions for JB wrt to "caring for Bear"? I

silv I didn't think it was necessary being as his mum is barely older than me has three kids. I've just got to get them Schiphol bound on monday morning with baby milk & some grub. Does anyone know what the deal is with taking babymilk in the flight? In reality he doesn't drink milk during the travel times but is good to know what the "rules" are.

okie I will miss them, but at the same time I will get 4 good night's sleep (dickhead dogs allowing of course) and I can re-charge my batteries a little.

I am very this morning. I was really knackered last night and not very well, so I trotted off to bed very early and made jb sleep on Bear's side of the bed. In all honesty he did a good job. Now either he helped Bear sleep, or maybe the baybee wasn't interrupted by my snoring - or the baybee was absolutely knackered too after a day at creche sitting on ladies laps & stroking their boobs.

re milk on flights alps I spared myself the inevitable armed strip search at Heathrow that would have resulted from me declaring baby food/milk in my luggage, although the various warning signs declared it to be an 'amber' substance, i.e. tell them and they'll decide whether to hold you for 30 days without trial and pull all your toenails out in a vinegar bath. Instead, I bought it in the airside Boots.

Conversely, when flying back from Geneva, they Could. Not. Have. Given. A. Flying. Fuck. No buggering about with little plastic bags there as I held out my measly assortment of lipsils and eyedrops, just an and a . I heart the Swiss, I really do. If our pound wasn't so devalued against their franc I'd be there all the time

Bear doesn't like the ready-made milk, has to be fresh of course the contrary child. Yes switzerland, germany, austria all gorgeous lovely places.

I notice medee's MIA.

Don't talk to me about liquids and airports. It makes me angry I can't be trusted whilst in my uniform, in charge of an aeroplane full of who knows who, that I cannot be trusted with a tube of toothpaste if it is the wrong size. Aaargh I'm cross even thinking about it. I'll come back later when I've calmed down to offer some useful advice.

Medee has been on the PESH thread this morning. I am currently in my local cafe having hot chocolate and cake. It's a bit too small to be buggy friendly but today we are trying out the sling. She is fast asleep. I'm trying to work out if I have the positioning quite right. The head support comes right over her head, but she is very small.

Correction, she was asleep. Now she's headbutting me. Hungriest baby ever.

Well, apart from a ride in the sunshine with Clucky, which was lovely, it's been a bit of a fucker of a day here. OH had a really cool idea about getting me a good night's sleep. So, without going into it in too much boring detail, now we are ALL knackered in the Box household, not just me. And we had to have a bit of a chat about what constitutes controlled crying and what is just leaving the baby to cry, before agreeing that I do NOT want controlled crying of any kind doing with my children.

Then I got an email from the village hall committee banging on and on about me switching the heating off in the hall for the toddlers group. Well, we have busy little children running around and don't happen to like it furnace-hot! I mentioned it later while taking TT to a party to some of the other mothers and they went 'oooh, I bet it was that bloody cold-hearted ballet woman who complained.' 10 out of 10!

When I got back from the party I got the shock of my life - ma Jennie had cleared out the stable and tackroom and done a runner with the racehorse. At least she has paid for him, but it was a bit of a surprise nontheless. (Scuttles off to count the cash!) She actually checked with me this morning when I would be out so she could skulk off without scrutiny, and she has been so reliable for 18 months I didn't realise she what she was planning.

Finally it turns out my name was the latest on the list of people to hold a witch hunt against at the hunt. Well, it is true there were very few names left on the list after they kicked the rest of them out, so they had to get their sport some other way. They can fuck off, the lot of them. I'll give another hunt my hard earned readies next year.

There. I probably deserved all that for gloating about a holiday.

OMG ! To the racehorse saga and the hunt fiasco! I am totally shocked about MJ doing the orf! Have you tried to contact her etc?

Bloody hell box that's poor that is. I wouldn't ever have realised that something as grown up as a hunt could be akin to a girls boarding school in its bitchiness. Still, perhaps you've had all our your shit luck now for a good while. Chin up love.

Sleep news: rastus slept from 7.15 till 2am with just a resettle at 10pm. This is unprecedented. I hoping he's starting to wear himself out a bit more - every time i look at him he's pulled himself up onto his feet which must be exhausting. Well it is for me anyway

boxer They do say no good deed goes unpunished.

I suppose in a way it makes your staffing issue less complex, now you're looking for a groom/PA with additional part-time childcare duties. So essentially some weeks will be very full-on, some weeks just equine responsibilities. Time to pop your ad in H&H.

cunty I thought he was already sleeping like that. :( How's it going back at work? Are you enjoying it?

Well I'm off up the stables. I ignore all the shit and play the language barrier/dumb foreigner card if I don't like the way things are going.

Bob slept from 11.30pm until nearly 5am. At which point I woke her up as I thought my boobs were about to explode. She did spend pretty much all of yesterday feeding and refusing to sleep. Clearly well stocked up.

alps god no! 7 till 11 till 2/3 till 6. Hahahaha!

Babies are good at that Muse - spend all day pushing the make more milk button then sleep just as mass production kicks in!!! 'Spect you're feeling great after a good sleep though.

Got back on the horse yesterday - yippee!!!! Only walked, with a bit of a prance around some pampas grass and hunting fences, but was so, so good and surprisingly not aching today....have yet to get out of bed tho.

Shocked at the sudden departure of MJ Box - most odd. And other shit is just a load of dick-swinging. Rise above it - there is more important stuff to worry about...like when will we get our next ride

alp Dont blame you. Is it like a regular livery yard? Or do they have some quirky rules??

Had my girls night out last night. HI was a bit of an arse before I went cos he had to defrost MBs milk and it wasn't ready in the fridge and I was making things difficult for him!!! < oh if I'd had a heavy object to hand emoticon > Few vino's were had. Veh veh nice. Came home and HI opened some fizz to drink whilst we watched Take Me Out.

Today I'm off to a local NCT sale. Can't find me members card so will have to queue with the "normals" and it's pissing down and I've got to take MB and I've heard no prams allowed inside. Going with a mate. Otherwise I wouldn't bloody bother! Got headache thinking about it already!!!!

Thanks for all the very un-FESH-ly sympathy. I know what you actually mean is 'let's get the heavy bunch round!'

Anyway, hurray hurray! We have just got up! LG slept from 12-6.30 (after a little tweak of OH's plan) and then went back to sleep for some more! Let's hope it lasts.

Cunty girls' schools are way more grown up than hunts, but my (old) hunt takes the prize for childish behaviour. I spoke to my friend the old lady master of it (she was kicked out last year) about it, and she knew but didn't want to upset me, but here's the best bit - the bitching about me was started by the terrierman's wife, as she wants to be a master herself and starts a nasty little rumour about anyone she feels is more likely to become one than herself. So I feel quite flattered this morning. And the neighbouring hunt have welcomed me with open arms.

Is it that rumour about you selling your dirty undercrackers on th'interweb? Cos i heard that one too

kate It was lovely to read that you're back on the nag.

silv Luckily the biggest shit-stirrers have left over the last 9 months or so. However I'm seeing one turn sly and snide and stepping up to the bar. Thankfully we rarely run in to each other and I refuse to ride with her as she's out of control (won't use the reins in case she hurts him ).

Today was not a success. Came out of the yard on to a farm track which is about a mile long then forks. Unbeknown to me there was a village walk and there were hundreds of people on this path and as I've not hacked out in a while she was pretending everything was scary. Bumped in to a colleague with his kids so walked next to him for a while whilst being overtaken by weekend ramblers. On a 17.2hh power nag. Then, just as we were very nearly at the point where I could've lost them all she went all "rocking horse" and spinning in circles. Now normally I'm up for the fight and will make her go forwards - I make the decisions not her. But I hope think discretion is the better part of valour where kids are concerned so I had to allow her to be "nappy" and turn around. :( Made her do the fucking long way home though. Not amused. Just the wrong day for it obviously.

box I hope it works out with the new people.

PS I love mn for introducing me to all of you - but fuck me are there some arseholes on this site who spout lies as absolute truth!

Spill it alps! What lies? Don't tease us!!!!

box so what is happening wrt our mutual friend?

NCT sale was quite good. Spent a few of HIs hard earned poundage on stuff for MB. Got us a singing all dancing mobile with remote control, a ring thing to hold him hostage keep him safe and these interlocking plastic things that he likes to bash about. Should entertain him for five mins quite awhile, therefore justifying the spend.

Off to meet horsey folk for coffee, cake and gossip!

Anyone's droid come back before they finish bf'ing? I keep getting dull aches in the wombular region a bit like pre droidage.

Oh yes, three months to the day after he was born.