dec 2008- Who will stonk it in & be crown queen of the thread?

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He we are ladies though I may need to change my name as royal title may be stripped.

Deids, I would keep him in big boy pants if I were you and take potty with you. Just ask about every 10mins if he needs a wee and if no action, bung him on it every 20 mins. If you go back to nappies it might confuse him.

Race at 9.30 tomorrow am. Please let my thighs have recovered by then!!

Sybs - I want your cleaner! Or any cleaner. I did Nigella Express lamb tagine for DH last night with added dry apricots. Easiest recipe in world and delicious! We shared half a bottle of cheap and nasty red wine. Feeling bit rank this am!

Cheers Beans...he's in pants now. Think I will take potty with me. The thing is he is constantly playing with his willy so I can't tell if he needs a wee or is just having a play! Boys, was so much simpler with DD.

Your meal sounded lovely. I need a really good recipie book. I seem to make the same things over and over. For example I have some mince beef inthe fridge. It'll be lasagne or maybe meatballs...I need some inspiration.

Fay's Family Food and Nigella Express are brill!

Express that sounds like my kind off cooking. I'm to check it out! x

Play date switched to my house. I feel much more confident about him peeing all over my floors!

Apologies in advance for my TT ramblings....

DB you have to keep up the high 5's and praise - yesterday I was having a wee and S walked in ( as they do ) and said "mummy I'm so proud of you" hope it gets better...

Her hee!
I have just been to TK Maxx and bought some seriously cheap running kit. Trousers RRP £65 for £12.99 and top RRP £25 for £12.99 too. Chuffed to bits. All a bit tight and revealing, but fuck it. I look rank jogging and feel rank, so everyone can suffer with me by watching my buttocks joggling in my tight trousers! Ha!

Go Beans, you luscious piece of woman you! Hate to be boring but I'd advise against wearing your new kit for the run tomorrow. It would be awful to be performance impaired if something rubs or chafes etc, and it never does in the comfort of one's own home.

Why not run in your old kit as a last hurrah, bin it afterwards and then wear the tighty tighties to say "hey, I run 10ks..."? Just a thought. Good luck darling, i'll be thinking of you and remember that gay music makes you run faster. Big love XXXXX

Just marking my place. Can't keep up properly at the mo!

Woo hoo beans sounds sexy. Agree with sybs, you really don't want chaffing! Massive amounts of luck for tomorrow - you'll do great xx

DS has been a litle star on his potty today. About 3 accidents, but much better than last time we attempted it. He even put himself on the potty rather than just me doing it all the time which is the most promising thing since my last attempt.

Definately wine time now...oh and the man in Morrisons just asked me for ID! Ha...I think he was actually taking the piss a bit. Cheeky beggar.

Evening girls! Have been on my tod today and will be tomorrow as well, as DP is up at Trent Bridge watching the test. Bit of a role reversal, him watching cricket and me not. Anyway, it was a pile o' poo today according to the radio. But I am sure he is having a nice time anyway as he is with a good pal.

Anyway, I am not drinking this eve and had a cheese salad for supper. Have been been doing very low carb this week. Have I lost any weight? Have I shitters! Might have to join you crazee exercisers. The water rower went off to the menders this week, so once that's back...no excuses. I need to get the mini trampoline out of the shed, I suppose. The rats don't need it!

Best of British tomorrow, Beans. 10k sounds topping. I like Sybs' suggestion of gay music.

Sybs, did you make it up with DH?

DB, your DS is going great guns on the potty. I think I am just going to have to leave it a while. To go back to the point about budget supermarkets, there was a great thread on here along the lines of "What's good at Aldi or Lidl" and people were chipping in about what was expecially good. It may have been in Chat, in which case the thread may well have gone now. But my Mum raves about the cod fillets in breadcrumbs at Aldi, and I love Lidl Cottage Cheese. It really is the cat's whiskers. Tastier than M&S or Waitrose!

JJ, the idea of a granny sounds much more reassuring. I really do hope you get to sing this time. When are you off?

Speaking of which, happy hols in Sweden, Nolda (if I haven't already missed you).

Effie, just to carry on the chat about housework, if I really think about it I do have slight anxiety about it myself. My Mum is incredibly tidy but when DP and I were living in his flat, it was so small and cluttered I got too overwhelmed and depressed by my surroundings to do much and it got a bit yacky. I don't want that to happen here. I am quite a tidy person but DP is very messy and the DDs are obviously a bit of a whirlwind, so it gets really out of hand (also we haven't found spaces for everything yet, plus there are a few tools and DIY stuff etc still dotted around).

So, can I ask you all how much housework you do? What is your system? I can remember the days when I was at work and I used to have a cleaner but that sure ain't going to happen now, as we flatly don't have the cash. (It was lovely coming home from work to clean bedding that someone else had put on! Aaaahhhh....)

Speaking of which, admittedly DP had the day booked off today, but the other four days, he didn't have any work at all. Not good. The diary is v. bare.

Trudy, I will try to find you on Twitter. I don't use LadyThompson on there, even though that feels more like my name than my actual name!

DB, you were asking about recipe books. I am no great shakes in the kitchen but I do like Plenty by Yotam Ottalenghi. It's easy, tasty Mediterranean cooking, mainly veggie recipes but written by a non-veggie. That's a massive undersell on my part.

I've got Black Swan to watch on dvd. I guess we'll watch it on Sun evening when DP is back. He has a mahoosive pash for Natalie Portman. I am simply hoping for a moderately entertaining melodrama.

Is anyone watching The Hour? I gave up after episode 1, should I have?

Am still a bit scared here, on my own. Although DD2's cot is next to my bed so perhaps she can protect me Aww, when I said goodnight to DD1 tonight, she said quietly "Thank you for helping me today, Mummy". It was so sweet and so surprising. She has been a little so and so recently, at times, but it was cute. I said "What with? Everything?!" and we both had a laugh about that. It amazes me how grown up she is for two and a half, despite sodding nappies.

Goodnight all...

Lovely to hear from you LadyT - I will reply properly tomorrow but can I just say we are fully nappied here and likely to remain so for a while. When I can SEE M pushing out a big poo, I often ask him if he has pooed and he denies it, so I've no hope with wee. I did both girls at 2.7 and 2.8 respectively and they got the hang very very quickly (less than a week. I went out with a potty but rarely used if I offered a loo regularly - ish). So the later you do, the easier. Unless you have a fabby who just gets it early (my friend's DD is dry day and night. 2 in September) but mine were lateish, M will be really late but tis all fine.

Don't be nervous, do burglar check on doors and windows, then sleep with radio on for white noise. Strangely soothing to have shipping at 5am.

Night night.

Night Sybs. Everything's bolted and locked. I suppose as you say it doesn't really matter if O is late with the TT. Anyway, if the walking's anything to go by...we'll be lucky if she's in pants by 4

I will listen to the radio in bed,yes. And read the book I have been reading for ages. And do some of the stultifying competitions in Take a Break magazine, to win holidays. Have started doing that again and don't want to be snooty but JEFFING HELLCATS, it is a very vulgar and exploitative magazine. Hate it. However, if I win a hol or a car I will say thank you very much and send them a photo of my mother or my sister, should they wish to publish my image as a Lucky Winner

Urghh DS decided to grace me with his prescence at 5.45am. We have taken the gate off his door so he just comes straight into our bedroom.

lady I didn't rate Black Swan at all. Beautiful acting and music. But the actual storyline didn't do much for me. DH actually thought it was really crap but then a certain scene made him much more interested in it. As far as 'the oscar winners' went I found The Kings speech a far superior film. Here endeth my Barry Norman impression.

Good luck for todays Beans!

Nolda have you gone yet? Forgot to say have a lovely holiday x

Good luck Beans enjoy yourself.

Sybs I just had to giggle at you asking M if he had done a poo. That's exactly what DS2 does. He always says no despite the smell coming from his nappy. He also shouts poo when he doesn't want to go to bed as he thinks he'll get to stay up. There is never poo though.

Speaking of poo I'm feeling dreadful. I think DS2, DP and myself have had DS1's bug.

Hope you're all well

Good luck beans! Run lovely girl run!

Lady i will henceforth adopt jeffing hellcats as my curse of choice:) TaB is wonderful, some of my mates at college wallpapered their bathroom with delightful photos and pull quotes such as 'it was like something from the Exorcist' above the mirror :)

Well I asked e's godmother about granny potential, and she feels very wary of asking - granny has already been signed up for loads of childcare over the summer hols, and she is after all meant to be on holiday herself in france - so it will be down to her discretion really. Fair enough... I looked on a few websites where people sign up with details, and found someone in the right vague region of france, with relevant experience, but once you've found them it then says 'sign up for full access at just £65 for 3 months to get her email address!'

Oh and we're meant to be leaving this time next week, so all a bit last minute...

Sorry to disappear for ages and then just reappear and dump. Am feeling a bit wobbly this morning as Mr J is in surgery to have the top of his finger reattached after losing it in DDs bicycle chain. Sounds like the odds of it taking are fairly low, so poor little chap may have to forgo his musical career.

Am fairly fuming with our nanny as it turns out there was a crowd of 7 smalls in our garden yesterday and a gang of nannies inside chatting.

Just hope the poor fella is OK. He's been a superstar.

Oh Invis, poor little chap and poor you! Ouch, sounds very sore. That kind of thing is very frightening indeed. Hope you are all OK. Am thinking of you darling XXXX

Oh my goodness, Invis, that is awful Poor little J. I am not surprised you are fuming, I think I would want the nanny's head on a plate. Lots of love to you all. Let us know how your DS is later, if you have a moment.

Thank you lovelies. He is safely out of his op, which is a relief - feel much better having him in my sight.

Will need to think about the nanny situation another day - we were thinking about changing things round anyway and this might well have pushed things along. Need to be a bit calmer to figure it all out though.

Thank you lovelies. He is safely out of his op, which is a relief - feel much better having him in my sight.

Will need to think about the nanny situation another day - we were thinking about changing things round anyway and this might well have pushed things along. Need to be a bit calmer to figure it all out though.

Phew. Yes, you are right - think about the nanny thing when the shock of this has abated. Hope he recovers well xxx

SO glad he is back with you Invis.

I am sorry I didn't realise earlier that this happened when the nanny was in charge. I agree with Lisa that you need to think calmly another day, but this is surely a written warning at the least.

Take care and healing vibes to J and huge hugs and lots of for you. Perhaps would be more appropriate given that it's not yet 12!

Invis - so glad all ok with DS. Poor little chap. I agree with Sybs on the written warning thing. Very naughty behaviour. Is this the nanny you've been having doubts over anyway?

Thank you all for all your kind good lucking to me! So, have done my 10k. To be brutally honest, I don't truly believe it was a full 10k. I promise I'm not doing myself down, but I did it in 54 mins and 42 seconds, which is incredibly fast and I really didn't feel I did it that quickly. In fact, I managed to sprint the last 500m, so clearly had something in the tank. Nonetheless, I am very very proud of myself. And in mourning for 2 of my toenails, which are about to separate from my toes. Sob. Ouch.

I will sleep well tonight. DH has gone off for a bike ride to Brighton this afternoon, leaving a very grumpy me with the two girls. I love them dearly, but DD1 chose today not to have a nap, so is on meltdown point. Joy. Fishfingers and waffles about to hit their gobs. Brilliant.

Off to meet rich friends at The Hurlingham Club tomorrow afternoon, then onto inlaws to stay the night. They are having the girls on Monday while I house hunt. Day off. I feel a McDonalds or a lovely lazy cup of coffee coming on. Bliss. I haven't seen them since christening-gate. Not really looking forward to it!

Right, off I go.

xx