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ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 28/03/2011 19:38

Sorry about the crap title ladies, I was lacking inspiration and we were up to our limit on posts!

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Meglet · 07/05/2011 21:27

Crikey, saucy bikini waxes and pretty theft, this thread has got all naughty lately Grin.

I earthed up my potatoes earlier .

FannyPriceless · 07/05/2011 22:04

carrie I'm trying to cut back on the Wine as I think it clashes a bit with the anti-depressants. But hey, it's Saturday night - I'll have a glass with you my friend!Wink

I'm doing OK. The kids are fab and gorgeous. I'm muddling my way through.Smile

CappuccinoCarrie · 07/05/2011 22:23

You ladies crack me up, in a good way! If only there was a way we could all go out for a real Wine together, or even a Brew!

DebiTheScot · 07/05/2011 22:49

The grapes threads are hilarious! I can't believe how over the top some people got though!
I loved the comments like "just teach your child to wait until after food is paid for before giving her it" Yeah ok, obviously you've never taken a 2 yr old round a supermarket!

ninja · 07/05/2011 23:01

For some reason grapes have caused MN bust ups for years!

Nice ham, however ......

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 08/05/2011 10:11

A grapes thread? What is this you speak of :) Can't find it - how do I look at it!?

ninja · 08/05/2011 11:39

here

and I'm not sure what the other one is ....

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 08/05/2011 12:04

Oh thank you. Very very funny. i should be making a rice pudding and a pear tart but am on MN Blush. DP taken C out shopping.

I'm loving 'you deserve bad ham' Grin

Going to just finish by saying C has never been allowed to eat anything unpaid for at the supermarket and never will but that's just me Grin

Becaroooo · 08/05/2011 14:38

It is hilarious fanny

I agree carrie it would be lovely to all meet up - at least once - to put faces to names Smile

Dh has just ordered me a kindle cover and light for our anniversary next week! have even told him I cant afford to get him anything and he still did it! Bless him!

Must go...got cookies in the oven and need to ring a friend before I forget......x

ninja · 08/05/2011 22:02

Meet up sounds like a fab idea - we could do a map and see who's in the middle. Who are the furthest away ?

I've decided I want a kindle, do you like it Bec?

Meglet · 09/05/2011 08:30

There's always the slighty intimidating big MN spring meet up in london.

Becaroooo · 09/05/2011 10:13

ninja I love with a love that surpasses understanding Blush Seriously, after the kids, it would be first thing I saved if we had a fire!!! Grin I got the £111 one as we have wifi.

You wont regret it!!!

meg hmm...would rather it was just "us" IYSWIM? (although a day in london does appeal!)

CappuccinoCarrie · 09/05/2011 13:10

Come to York, you know you want to Grin

CappuccinoCarrie · 09/05/2011 13:10

(that said, london is easy for me too as my parents live down there)

Becaroooo · 09/05/2011 13:19

oohh...I like York too!

Come to Nottingham doesnt really have the same ring, does it????? Grin

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 09/05/2011 13:19

Well Ninja and I are North West, so Leeds might be a good mid-way point for the northerners?

I'd love to meet up. Probably all a pipe dream though.

Debs75 · 09/05/2011 13:33

Meg would rather it was just us as well, unlike Bec a day in London sounds awful, and a nightmare for travel from Yorkshire.

Who on here does quilting? I'm sure I saw on one of your blogs a load of quilting things. I want to make this for DS www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/mario_quilt_block but I'm not sure how hard it will be

Debs75 · 09/05/2011 13:34

York and Leeds are easy for me, would prefer York though

pacita · 09/05/2011 14:30

hey ladies, the milking lurker is back with two free hands at last!

Ninja, I am so angry on your behalf, and think that you should not have to stress about keeping a roof under your children's heads. The fact that -d-h is pressurising you about it is beyond unreasonable.

All well here, although I am kept very very busy with my two. I laughed and could relate very much to fanny's grapes thread. I usually just give DS one of those ella's smoothie things (although he's far too old for it!) and scan it at the end. It makes for a stress free, and occasionally almost enjoyable shopping experience.

Ines is a doll. She is a contented and smily child and she hardly ever cries... BUT... she is still a wind-trap and, after a very decent phase of one or two wakes per night, she is back to her evil non sleeping ways, which means I am back in the zombie underworld.

I LOVE the idea of a september 2008 meet up! Who can be tempted down to London? Go on, you know you want to! we can go around in an open top double decker, or meet in hyde park and the LOs will love it.

Debs, Hopefully is the goddess of quilting and all things hand made. You should check out her blog:

lifeinlists.typepad.com/

You all enjoying the sunshine? I have been doing lots of gardening with Ines looking at me from her bouncy chair. I invested in some turf and (like Carrie) have been lovingly watering it and shearing it. I have planted lots of herbs, and camellias and azaleas and stuff whose name I don't even know, and everything seems to be growing like mad in this green house weather. CArrie, any advice regarding turf lawns? Have you mown yours yet?

Diego has developed a crush on an older boy who lives in our street. All the kids come out to play outside (it's a close, so fairly safe) and he just follows him like a duckling. Is this normal?

MrsA how are you feeling?

DebiTheScot · 09/05/2011 14:40

A meet up for all of us would be amazing but realistically it could be a nightmare to organise. I don't think anywhere is close enough for all of us. So we should maybe try and organise a London one as well as a Northern one. Then we could skype each other!
Or have them on different days so Carrie and Bec could go to both!

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 09/05/2011 14:43

pacita whilst London sounds nice on paper, there is no money you could pay me to put C on a train with me for 3+ hours with a pushchair. Grin

And do not worry about fruit pouches. C LOVES them still. They are great and handy when out and about. Just last night I offered her the choice of ice cream or an Ella's fruit pouch and she chose the pouch. She loves the Plum baby ones, which is great cos they have quinoa in them too.
If we're shopping, I'll take some blueberry rice cakes with me as she gets through a bag every 2 weeks of those.

Sending sleep vibes to you btw, but Ines sounds just adorable. I am not looking forward to the days on maternity leave really as C was a compete nightmare. Yes she slept amazingly at night but I was unable to put her down in the daytime for months and months, and it's only really in the last few weeks that she has stopped being so ultra-clingy.
Obviously no babies are the same and I'll probably be eating my words when I have a contented daytime smiler who is up every 2 hours at night for at least a year!

Thanks for asking after me too - I'm around 12 weeks now and nausea is starting to pass, although between 5-7pm is still a bad time of day when I feel awful and so tired (really handy for tea, bath and bed Not!)
I'm not really showing at all and clothes still fit fine, so as usual I'm worrying. We have a private nuchal scan on Saturday, so fingers crossed.
I am determined to stick at my request for a home birth though. I've found lots of online support and am not budging atm, despite the consultants' horror. I refuse to labour flat on my back with contant monitoring again.

pacita · 09/05/2011 14:43

I'm on mat leave, I would be happy to organise the London one, or even host it, if we're not that many!

DebiTheScot · 09/05/2011 14:43

Leicester is kind of in the middle!

DebiTheScot · 09/05/2011 14:46

(but still too far away!)

pacita · 09/05/2011 14:48

Crossed posts, mrsA. Sorry to hear about the nausea, and happy it's passing. I was pretty nauseous all the way till the end, with a better spell in the second trimester... Pity about long train journey to london, but can understand the dread. Diego is himself rather an active traveller, and this can be exhausting, specially when pregnant!

So go on then, who is up for a London meet?