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

[AlpinePony]

Heeyah.

Box your little rooms sounds like somewhere where fellas go to jiz in a pot!

hahaha okie - where is your mind coming from? I must admit you've given me a massive giggle now as I picture boxer wearily removing her latex gloves as her client leaves before shouting "NEXT!" and putting on a clean pair - with soft-70's-style-hairy-porn playing on a splashed screen in the background.

Gah! Massive t'interwebs fail most of yesterday.

Silv & Casper sorry things are tough going with the menfolk. Keep offloading here if it helps. We're always up for a bit other half bashing. Seriously, hope things improve soon.

Okie that sounds blardy scary! Hope your LO is OK now.

Rocket BugBoy is early with teeth! You're going to hate me but we haven't really noticed any major difference in him. I mean, he's been drooling like a dog in a butchers, & when you think he's lovingly grabbed your finger all he wants is to chew on it. But he's still sleeping right through the night. He did wake for a scream at 9pm on Sunday, went totally mental, so I eventually administered some Calpol, his 10.30pm feed a little early, & he went back to sleep until 7am. He's going to be 4 months old in 5 days so am tentatively waiting the sleep regression mallarkey. Fingers crossed he remains as lazy as his mum dad . BTW I do not underestimate how lucky we are with the sleep!

Alps I laughed a lot at your "feeling fresher" gag - you're on comedy fire lady!

Oh laurie I had a dream about you Sunday night [hero]. Your mum took us to a cafe and kept giving us coffee & fags and you were wearing a skirt UpToHere .

Alas the fresher gag's not mine, I saw it on a t-shirt in the late 90's.

If only that dream were true. For some reason I've been really fancying a fag since BugBoy was born.

I just wish I had time to whinge on here. I have been sleeping badly - many dreams involve arguments with SFF or pregnancy (?!?!). Been back at doc today and being sent for new tests.

And we are moving house in about 7 weeks - eeek!

Speaking of which, hope fans is ok.

boxerbeat when are you let loose airside?

coka seedy mind!! I like it.

Things at home have improved. Fear it's temporary til we go full circle again. Oh well.

pony I have serious cleaner envy.

See t'other place for latest disaster. Not epic but nightmare all the same. This is where a nanny would be best option as they do look after sick babies non?

casp are you broody per chance? What are new tests for?

Broody but skint silv and now my dodgy chest needs exploration, so not too healthy either. I have just been e-mithering you.

Holiday-makers need to be scared on about the 23rd Oct! Hurray for today - there was evidence today that my head is not empty after all. I can remember which end is the front again!

Well done Box. I am not planning on going anywhere though.

Just thought I would post in here since is it dead quiet. You lot are all nattering in t'other place and I didn't want to see things die a death here.

I met my new boss today. I was in work for 3 hours. He seems ok, a bit old school and by the book though which is a bit different to my last one who I used to go out with and down several bottles of wine and smoke 20 tabs with. Can't work out if he is gay or straight. I could do with a straight bloke with family.

Good you posted okie as I was curious about your job as it all seemed to be up in the air even before your ml.

I forgot to mention it last week, but at my scan last week I scanned her patient list. Oldest of the day by miles, in one case decades! Go esh! ;)

Well, whaddya know? It turns out that even with the phone lock on to prevent inadvertent calling of friends and family, you can still override it to call 999. And 112. Guess how I know?

LG by any chance Box?

Grrr. I have to go to work today. All day. And I want to watch the rugby. AND BB had me up from 3.30am until 6.30am when I dumped her on the bed with TG and stomped off to the spare room. Nob end had ear plugs in. I worked last night until 10pm, and now I have an 8 hour shift. Fucksticks. Oh well... one more week to go and then I'm done. Thank fuck.

And my scalp is itchy as hell after the bleaching. It is driving me nuts. Meh.

Have a good day y'all.

Yeah Alps the job seems secure for now however, who knows how the land will lie when I get back. The new guy may have his own ideas and frankly I could do with a job where I could cruise along a bit. Hey ho, at least I will have some funds for bags and shoes for a bit.

Pol forgot to say I am liking the hair very much, meh at the itchiness though.

Rubbish wrt to itchiness. They do say beauty comes at a price.

I'm off to immerse myself in ponies for the day. Horse of the Year show. I'm going with a horsey pal sans child.

Did LG speak to the emergency services box?

oks hope the boss is nice and family orientated as it does help. Speaking from exp. I may be getting an extra boss who is a young go getter who prob is not as understanding about all things child related. So I'm a bit unsure.

Hooray for going back to work Box. Hope the new boss turns out to be a good one okie, and hope your scalp is a bit less itchy now ShinyTits.

I am a bit stunned as the baby has managed to fall asleep all by herself. I fed her and put her down, she lay in her cot babbling to herself. I left her as she seemed quite happy and we've just got home after 5 hour journey home so I am knackered. She babbled and sang and babbled and then just stopped.

Too much to hope this is a regular thing. Must just be all cried out after wailing for over an hour in the car.

boxer I dread to think, however, if the book's open my money's on the TT!

pols Your hair is gorgeous - I always wanted to rock that look but my complexion was always given to "blotchy" & "blushing" and the one time I tried peroxide it was Paula Yates for approximately 30 seconds before going straw-orange. :( But how I yearned for it!

silv How was your day out? Good news about new stables I think and having HI on board makes it all much easier. JB likes the new yard and is always up there. New yard = young blonde girl who blushes every time she sees him. Teenage crush!

Polly and Alps are both right in a way. TT called 999 on Christmas Day 2008 from my sister's house. So we bought a phone with a lock on it. This has served us perfectly well until LG called 999 last week while I was out. The police called the nanny back to check she was OK. She told me about this, and I assumed that LG had somehow pressed the correct combination of keys to override the lock. Which seemed a bit of a fluke, so I was amazed to find he had managed to call 112, which also gets you through to emergency services. So I got a major bollocking for allowing my baby to play with the phone and was told I was an irresponsible parent. I would agree if I was allowing him to play with matches, for example. But I was letting him play with a phone that I thought was OK as I needed a moment of peace to let work float out of my head and OH was a bit too busy to keep an eye on the kids.

Anyway. First exam passed, and last night I had my first session in the sim, complete with engine failures (which put lots of stress on the leg) and the leg didn't drop off! Hurray.

Shit! Do you have to pedal when there is engine failure box?

Stupid bloody emergency services telling you off. Bloody accidents happen! If you'd put LG in a room with 90 mobiles and left him to then........

ponio gave notice today and move end of month! Hope made right decision and hope nag survives living out. Think he'll be fine. It'll be me with the issue. Went to turn out and muck out this morning and certain things reminded me why I'm off!!!

HI are getting on much better. Had great day out yesterday. Fantastic seats and the Speed Class was amaze. Ellen looked v put out and mis as she came 6/7th or summat. Got me self some new wellies.

MB and HI had good time. They went to the park, ate ice cream, went on the swings, did the hoss and generally had fun. When do I tell him I'm out Weds AND Thurs night?

Fuckity - just caught up and now have to go pick up cornflakegirl from pre-school but just wanted to say silv that it's all about the good days. I really wasn't joking when I said I think about the D-word a lot. Our problem is that we haven't really managed to have a proper friendship since C.G. was born (3 years ago!) because our lives are spent just keeping afloat. I think it's because we don't have family here and haven't been able to justify a nanny so we are the only people who look after the children which is tiring and distracts us from being a couple. I usually work Saturdays so we only have one family day all together AND money also doesn't help because if we were to spend time together going out then we'd have to calculate costs in terms of babysitting etc and it all gets a bit expensive. TIS is also not a good talker and I'm not surprised we don't have a lot to talk about if we don't have any other experiences add to the mix. That said, we agreed recently to make more of an effort which means taking advantage of any opportunity to spend time together but of course, now I'm BFing a 2.5 month old so I'm a little tied. And tired. GAH!
However, I found it got so much better and easier and even fun again when C.G. turned 2 and was more independent/sleeping better... but then I wanted another one. I am now clinging to the knowledge that we will get back to a better place sometime in the future and that we just have to hang in there and make the most of the good days.

That reads awfully like a load of shite. Sorry...

Hello peeps! Haven't posted in aaaages but looks like it's not been that busy round these parts lately. Holiday in France was lurvely, thought the 14 hour drive through the night on unlit French motorways...not so much. Have since discovered that there is a direct train from Lille to the south of France that has a children's play area . Had just got back and settled back into normal routine when Squib developed a temperature which was not going away. When it went above 40 degrees after 36 hours, despite us dosing him with calpol and cuprofen, the doc told us to take him to A&E, where they ended up admitting us and giving him a 48hr course of antibiotics in case it was anything serious. Turned out to be a viral infection of course, and he came up in a rash as soon as the temp dropped, so basically the poor tyke got a line shoved in the back of his hand and was cooped up in hospital for 2 nights for no reason whatsoever. New parents eh? Will they never learn...

So what have I missed? Silva sorry to hear things have been grim at home. I think the first year with a sprog puts even the strongest relationship to the test. If you get through this then hopefully you can get through anything, right?

Box great news on being able to get back on the job. Is what you fly then?

Now that it is officially autumn, my mission is to really pull my finger out and Get A Job, ideally starting as early as possible in the new year. Trouble is I want to change careers, and the job market's a blimmin' nightmare. I've been looking but haven't seen anything that fits the bill for what I want to do, and the idea of going to work and using my brain again after a 2 year gap scares the bejesus out of me. Am thinking about putting squib with a childminder for a day a week soon as well, to give me time to go to interviews etc, and also so that he gets some time away from mebut am in a chicken and egg dilemma on whether to wait until I have at least been invited to an interview before blowing bucks I don't have on childcare I don't currently need. Dither, dither.

Sorry, long post...I'll shut me cakehole now.

Lights that's exactly it! Now you can see why the leg is so important.

(Actually, it's a bit more like what I have been up to the last couple of nights. My leg aches now, but apparently I can remember enough what to do that they have entered me for my flying exam on Friday. Shit.)

And happy, happy joy! I took LG for his MMR today, only to be told they won't do it as he has chickenpox. How could I have not noticed this? In fairness, he only has spots on one leg and they look a bit like bites.

Poor Squib, though I am glad it was nothing serious in the end.