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

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Heeyah.

Okes I am muchly liking the new pics on t'other place. You are looking well lush. Innit.

Anything for you, pols.

Thrilled to bits to see you here iggs. And a month is totally fine macaroon. Lovely to see you.

Am currently fighting Clyde for the laptop in order to avoid random keystrokes. He is in a really bad way but tonight's sleep is stuffed up due to random collapsing late in the day. His excema has gone ballistic. It looks so painful. His arms and legs are entirely covered in crusty raised red scabby scales, like an alien from Star Trek. The GP has prescribed the entire pharmacy. My poor boy. It is seriously hideous.

He missed nursery today and spent the entire day clinging and crying in between scratching himself maniacally. Is supposed to have settling in at the new nursery tomorrow...

Oh poor Clyde. I hope the drucks start helping soon Fans, poor little lad. TG gets it on his hands and he suffers badly enough, but I can't imagine if BB had the same.

Can someone kick me? I am going to visit the lush luscious GinHag tomorrow and I need my beauty sleep. I blame it on the sloe gin but I cannot get my arse off the sofa.

Evening all and welcome to macaroon

I love sloe gin - really should make some for this winter. I intend to consume plenty of it whilst out hunting on my horse (goddamit, I WILL get out on the horse, even just once!) and obviously over Christmas lots too. Not sure about anything before Christmas - I will be far too busy trying to figure out which is the front at work.

Talking of work, AIBU to expect my Support Manager to reply to my calls sooner than 3 weeks after I first called her, and after several increasingly pleading emails for contact? She did call me today, eventually, but not on the phone number I gave her to call me on. So she left a message.

FP poor Clyde. Please do inform him though that it is still no excuse for trying to format your hard drive. LG does like to press the 'Off' button part way through me typing something crucial.

Silv spag hoops from a tin? Er, isn't that what all second babies are weaned on? Surely it will be fine for PFBs too? Scary bit impressive thing tonight - Nanny Mcphee persuaded TT to eat a roast potato and a boiled carrot! Amazing. If this is the magic she can work with the teeny tiny kitchen we have now, imagine what she will be able to achieve when the extension is finished.

Yes. They are STILL building the extension.

Pols I don't think you should postpone the course unless you don't think you will be able to get into it. I mean, surely having a focus and something to channel into will be good? I remember how elated you were when you got onto the course....

FP what does the GP think is causing the eczema? You probably have seem me bleat on about it on here before so if you need to chat it through then message me on t'other place. Mini suffered/s a lot but we now have it totally under control.

Oh and boo I am with you about the pratting about on picking up from nursery. Total ball ache at times.

Silv tea is at 4pm at our nursery. I currently walk to pick up so he has a full on picnic in the pram on the way home. One of the easiest ways on getting him out of nursery (he likes it so much) is the curiosty of what he has as his snacks for the walk home. Appreciatre MB is a wee bit younger so probably not interested but I would give a little bit of grub depending on what quantity he ate at tea time

Oh just noticed my appalling brummie grammar in my post earlier. Please read, he will have none of it

Oh yes Okes. Today it was all, 'but Mum, I just need to do my running' (on huge lawn outside nursery), and then picking up random bits of junk off the floor of my car before finally getting into the car seat. I'm ok if I'm not hungry. I was starving. And breathe.

pols I think TG's response was 'totally normal' for a man. We are not characters in my so called life or Dawson's creek. These men tend not to set out to deliberately hurt us, they just think they're saying the right think. For the record I think you'd 'kick him to the kerb' if he were some fey, wimpy, ball-less bore predictable in the extreme. Do the course, it'll bring you back to life and if it's a big pile of shit then you can wing it until Xmas, it's only a 10 week term and it's going to take at least 5 weeks for the adrenaline to wear off and the reality set in. If you then choose to postpone for a year so be it, but I think if you do it now you'll spend the winter in misery kicking yourself.

I am back at work today, feel like shit but end of month innit with a stupid function tonight. box I mailed my manager 2.5 weeks ago to tell him I'm Diffed, no response.

fanny poor clyde, I didn't know he was a sufferer, I didn't notice in hereford. Time for me to start spending time with my eyes open.

backwards Why don't you try the sloe gin while figuring out which is the front? It might help.

alps Clyde isn't usually a sufferer - he usually has the most perfect soft baby skin, with just a couple of little patches behind knees / armpits. I was worried it was something worse as over the weekend he had terrible temperature, streaming nose, d&v, and then this raised red rash suddenly appeared over his entire body.

Doc says it's a combination of excema and a rash as reaction to the illness. They harvested the field next to our house last week which sent us all scratching and sniffing, so I'm sure that's part of it too. (By the way, I really wish I had a handy pony in the back garden so I could jump over the hedge and gallop around the stubble leaping straw bales right now.)

Poor lad. And while it's bad to happen this week with new nursery settling in etc, at least it's not in two weeks time which is my first week at the new job. (eeek!) Kids being ill is my nightmare scenario, and the thing I worry about the most in coping with starting a proper job.

pols When do you have to decide? Can we have an ESH council meeting this weekend to debate the proposal and take a vote?

But seriously - I really feel for you with all that is happening. If it's any help you know the Pricelesses are down for the week so I will be on hand for any court appearance support jobs, etc.

pols Yup, I think TGO would say that. I don?t think they think they are being mean, I think they think that as you are acknowledging your crapness, that it?s ok for them to acknowledge it back.

FP have you seen the message on the other place from curls??

Why oh why did we have to wake Artie at 7 again this morning?? Why oh why does he never sleep till 7 on a weekend????

I feel really guilty though, I am lurgified so went to bed at 9 and completely slept through Artie waking up twice in the night. Oh well, TGO settled him fine.

polly I think when you say "I'm sorry for being down and hard to live with right now" and they say "It's OK", what they mean is "It's OK I still love you and this is part and parcel of life, in sickness and in health and all that shit - we're a team right bird and this too shall pass . So, shall I get the biscuits?"

I agree with what alps just wrote pol. I might have thought differently before yesterday, but our latest session with the therapist - let's call her Marge from now on - revealed a lot about man-thinking. SFF's opinion was that it was "ok" for me to be as I am. Not that it's just ok. But that it's not going to make him run a mile. He accepts it and he still loves me. I know you wanted to hear that you are not any of these things, but men just aren't always like that. Shame.

FWIW I think you are amazing and you should do your course if you think you can handle it. Don't worry too much about anyone else.

FP I hope Clyde is better. Please to visit other place.

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous of the ESH coven occurring this weekend. I was telling SFF all about it last night and he really wanted to go - particularly given details of the specific beer delivery - and even asked if pol could move it I shall be thinking of you from my drunken spot at an alternative celebration.

I am also jelus curls. Still we?ll be having our own birthday shindig so will raise a glass to pols as well.

pols forgot to say do the course. Could be what you need.

pols I don't think you should delay the course - I agree that it will be exciting and could give you a big boost. Plus doing things like that are good for self esteem - cos I have been doing a few bits of work and it has made me feel like a functioning adult again...

cossie how often do you bf artie now?

It's quiet round these parts.

Curlsworld how's it all going with Marge then?

pols I am not sure what to say, but I think your course will give you something pssitive to focus on, and you risk being more depressed seeing the term dates go by and you not doing the course.

Oh Pols I'm sorry you're feeling so blue

FWIW Mr Loz would say exactly the same type of thing, leaving me reading all sorts of shite into what was / wasn't said. Caused a few mis-understandings in the past. Now I now he's just rubbish at the emotional stuff. Sadly I think a lot of men are . As always Alps has summed it up perfectly. I also agree that if you can start your course now it might just be the tonic you need. If its not the right time for you there's no harm in stopping it, at least you'll have given it a go.

FP poor Clyde. How's he doing today?

Right, off to play with BugBoy on the playmat, exhaust him so I can sit and drink coffee in peace do some cleaning.

iggs Artie gets first thing in the morning (anywhere from 5.30 to 7, depending when he wakes up, if it?s 5.30 ish he goes back to sleep after) and bedtime, which is around 7pm. On a weekend he gets it on demand, but that tends to be only either mid morning or mid afternoon, rarely both. Up until 2 weeks ago he was getting one feed in the night, but I decided to knock that on the head now he?s nearly 1. Am wobbling a bit about that though as he?s sleeping really badly and not settling well either, but I think that?s a combination of mild cold and teething.

fp how is clyde today?

When I dropped Artie off this morning, he picked up his toys, looked at me, waved and said ?bah-bah?. I can take a hint, I left!

iggs I know you don?t want to be persuaded not to stop, but if you are not sure you are emotionally ready to stop, are you sure you want to stop? I?m not going to talk you in to anything, just want to make sure you are making the right decision to stop.

I got the LLL book out last night but then got sucked in to watching supersize me, so didn?t look up the weaning bit. I?ll do it tonight.

I waas thinking about this and what about offering milk of some kind in a cup of some sort, but sort of as a toy, not as a drink iyswim, so don?t offer it when you would normally bf, but at random times. Eventually I?m sure she will start to drink it.

cossie I don't want to stop - but am stressed about the stopping and want it to be over - does that make sense?! I think I may try to drop the evening feed first - and then keep the morning ones... because if I leave her overnight -she'll easily cope without the morning ones. I we have a new beaker thing with a straw that she loves - so I might try milk in that.... although she will probably spit it out!

curls sounds like the marge sessions are good - and also like we might all benefit from them, if we had them...

Yes, that does make sense. I am firmly burying my head in the sand wrt to stopping. Am not ready to stop yet anyway, so am just telling myself that when I do stop it will be easy. Ha!

Try putting her to bed without the evening bf one night and see what happens? At least then if she drops that one ok it gives you more freedom to go out in the evening and you are not tied to bedtime every day. And if you keep trying with milk in other cups, at the same time, then you might well find she is more willing to take milk from other sources and then bingo. What happens if blokey offers her milk from a cup, does she take that if you?re not around? Just wondering if it?s that mummy is there so why should I drink milk from another source?

Hi iggs, glad to hear about the new beaker - that was going to be my suggestion. We have a ridiculous number of shapes and sizes of different cups. Some are very much cups - she must be in the high chair or my house gets soaked, but some are closer to bottles, so she can have them before bed and drink vast quantities from them. We also have the new fancy flip top straw cup and that is very much in favour with squeaks at the moment.

IMHO, if you can do this without trying to get her to take bottles, it will be even better, because then you'd just have to wean her off the bottles too. All the "big" Dr Brown's bottles are being packed away in our house as of tonight. I'll leave a couple of small basic ones to hand for emergencies, but from now on it's cups all the way!

Marge is good. We've done all the initial bits - giving histories etc, and have now officially started our programme, with homework. If anyone wants details of what that involves, I can explain on FB, but equally I don't want to bore anyone!

I agree with curls re the bottles, ours are packed away now. We have a tt flip top cup, an avent lidded cup and a tt bottle with a straw that you have to bite. Oh and last night he helped himself to some water from the cycling sports bottle thing we use in our room at night time.

Also a lot of people swear by doidy cups.