CRESH - Crap ham, stinky Brie, gin and lol'ing at birth plan believers

[AlpinePony]

Heeyah.

I don't know why Brie was capitalised, perhaps it's because it's so important in my life. Many French cheeses are, that is not to neglect the Dutch, Belgian & Italian ones.

ah, alps to the rescue!

fp I have sent your alliterative alter ego a friend request.

So then, mn on my mobile, I?m assuming that requires me to remember my password. Bugger.

wot about the british cheese??

Argh - how could I forget? Imagine my damp, teary face at Dover Tesco when I came through in June and it was 32 degrees, knowing it would be madness to indulge. Tbh I prefer Welsh cheeses. Caerphilly, caerphilly, wherefore art thou Caerphilly?

A local shop does Wensleydale, but only the fruit 'tainted' versions, I just want plain.

My Isabella Oliver stuff has arrived. Fuck me is the wrap top wrappy! It'd go around a hippo. Twice.

Yup, I had the wrap top - infact iirc I was wearing it when I saw you. It was wrappy indeed, but I loved it soooo much.

I heartily recommend swaledale.

Mmm Wensleydale! It's good for cheese round these parts too. Yum. Right off to catch up with old thread, back in a mo.

Alps I remember buying certain maternity items and thinking 'hahahaha, I'd have to be a whale for this to fit OK,' and then getting to 8 months and thinking 'I'll be needing something even bigger then!' Surprised me each time, it did.

I love cheese. If I had to give up cheese, any cheese, or chocolate, I think I would wave the chocolate goodbye. The other day TT burst into the room as I was tucking into a particularly nice runny bit of brie and shouted 'Daddy says you're eating foot cheese!' He does not appreciate the finer things in like .

We had a grand game of musical beds between 1.30am and 4.15am today. Sodding kids. And then OH joined in too. A constant stream of 'ooh, I'd rather be sleeping somewhere else' for nearly 3 bloody hours!

I could easily live without chocolate, but no way could I ever live without cheese. In fact, I could quite happily live on a diet of bread and cheese, as long as there was plenty of variety of both.

Mmm, one of the things I love about where I live is the cheesemonger.

Yep cheese >>>> chocolate by a million miles.

Well we survived the second lot of jabs, she was ok after 5 minutes and seems fine now. Remains to be seen if she gets all grouchy later like last time but I have the calpol at the ready. Naps have got a bit messed up today so might put her to bed a bit earlier than usual.

I found we only needed calpol at 1st jabs, so hopefully you?ll be the same rocket.

Forgot to mention, Artie slept through again last night, that?s sleeping through no 6. What I did different was feed him when I got home (at just after 6) as well as at bedtime (7.10ish) , so I?m going to try that again tonight. What?s the betting it doesn?t work??

Yeah I hope so cos she's just crashed out on her play mat. I normally try and feed her before we eat (6ish) and after her bath (7ish) just before bed and I always thought that was why she slept through til 4/5 so early on. She's been waking earlier lately though so might just be fluke. I am wondering what I need to do to get her to sleep later but can't figure it out. Just have to hope it happens naturally.

Oh yes - the leg drives!

Huzzah for mobility!

I love chocolate. But no cheese ever again? No contest. Stilton!

My face cheese based M&S sarnie is Wensleydale and carrot chutney.

That sarnie is beautifully complimented by a large bag of crisps.

Sodding predictive text : face = fave

That's always been one of my faVes to silva sitting here with a slice of Wensleydale and a small glass of port.

I have had a busy screamy day with both nippers today. MrP is currently upstairs rocking begging Clyde to sleep.

meds Middle of the bed? Oh, how I laughed, ha ha ha! Yep, that's Clyde's favourite sleeping place still at 14 months! Are you understanding the desperation that led to tent sechs?

All this cheese talk is making me homesick for the Dales. Swaledale, Wensleydale... you would think much more fondly of the cheeses if you had been to these places and held them in your heart. (But I'll keep my favourite dale a secret .. Littondale.. oh whoops!).

silv A yokel? Moi?

I am missing you cossiemodo. I have a heap of friend requests I have to catch up with now that I'm finally on the 'puter.

Oh, and good news: after 6 friggin' weeks since the verbal offer I have finally agreed terms wif the new job today. I start the Monday we get back from poo's party. Terrified.

But proud of myself for standing my ground and forcing them to offer me a measly £5k more than the max they said they could. They should be thrilled. After all, negotiation skills are part of the job requirements. Their argument was - I had been on a two year maternity break so couldn't expect more than their original offer. I came up with a few choicely worded arguments... After all, £5k is a lot of child care.

Oh, and I spoke to a young French nanny housekeeper today about possibly doing 2 days per week. MrP thinks it's a brilliant idea. Should I be worried?

In a similar vein HI thinks employing a Swedish nanny would be the solution to all our childcare issues. I soon wiped the smile off his face when I told him as long as his name was Sven Anders Sexy Bod Magnusson then I'm all for it.

Congrats on the pay increase! I've had an email from my boss saying he can't wait for me to return and there is no need to rush in on day 1 and settle MB in and then head in. See you about 2ish then? Also asked me if I wanted to meet beforehand. Took me all of a blink of an eye to decline that. Bloody hell my ML will seem like a distant memory.

I'd much rather be a PESH waiting to pop than be returning to work.

There's only one way to ensure that Silv

Salivating over the cheesey chat. Most revolting cheese I've ever tasted is Isle of Wight blue.....now I love my stinky, rotten cheeses but this one was vile [heave]

Good news on the job front girls - am almost jealous

No you are not, Cluck - you are going to be too busy hunting and playing ponies to have a job. (Lady discussed today came round tonight btw, and the physio is right. Definite social skills issues there but otherwise perfectly nice girl. And will do some mucking out next week - which saves you a job )

Silv our nanny is definitely of the more English variety. OH didn't get much of a say, and she is definitely employed for her childcare skills! Speaking of her skills, I luvs her already. She does lots of little tidying jobs quite unobtrusively, so I never even notice her lining up the books on the kids' bookcase or emptying the dishwasher. And she has limitless patience with the kids. It's weird having someone around to do my stuff for me, but since I cannot do much of my stuff for myself atm it is extremely useful, and I am sure she will come into herself much more when I am not there! Apparently the most annoying things to nannies is having the mother hanging around. I learnt that on MN. My nanny is far too polite to say anything like that.

Today I have mostly been ringing work and wondering 'WTF if we are a 24hr a day, 365 days a year company, can I not get though to my manager even though I have been calling and emailing her since last Thursday?' She is not on holiday, I have checked that. I spoke to one of her colleagues today, and she confirmed that they need to start organising retraining for me NOW or I will lose my Christmas leave. Shit.

And here's my itchy thought of the day - while I have been unable to do my chickens properly, and having people help me, the people who have been helping have not been switched on to noticing things like parasites. Today I opened the main hen house for the first time in weeks and it is crawling with tiny mites. Microscopic mites. You can only tell they are there when you start to itch and then notice a speck of dust on you that seems to be moving. Who's itching now? I nuked the place with Really Bad Chemicals, so hopefully they will have died or moved out now.

Yuk to bugs box!

Talking of bugs - what's worse: baby with the snots or husband with the snots?

Yep husband with a cold! the same cold I had last week. He is still working but we all get to know he is suffering!!