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

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Heeyah.

Funny you should say that Box - BC is also showing signs of the pox too...came out in a rash y'day with more spots today.

Typical...we is in Dubai and it costs 100 quid just to see a doctor. So, we are waiting to see whether any puss emerges before going to confirm our suspicions. Am hoping this doesn't affect the flight home on Sunday

Welcome back Lights - have missed your drivel words of wisdom . Hope the holiday was good despite poorly baby (or was that when you were back?).

Gotta run - is getting late in these parts.

Arghhhhhh...fucking MEN!!!!!

Have just checked with BA and they stipulate that you cannot fly until at least 6 days after the last spot has appeared and that we will need a doctor's not confirming BC is no longer infectious. OK - an extra few days here I can deal with.
Have just looked up our travel insurance policy, because I suspect our cheapie tickets are non-transferable, and MrCluck did not include BC when he renewed the policy. FFS - the renewal was due just 3 weeks after BC arrived so it's not as if he needed to be added to an existing policy.

WHY ARE MEN SO FUCKING USELESS?????

Cluck has he got spots on face? LG has spots just on legs. I would just be keeping quiet about it. The nurse today was only 75% sure that it was chickenpox, she thought it could be bites too. You could pretend it's mosquito bites?

Err, tickets are indeed non-transferable. I'd be having words with the dodgy travel agent you bought them from. And Mr Cluck, of course.

Not 100% sure it is the pox Box. Lots of spots but no pustules. He's definitely not right today - cough, full of snot, quiet & lethargic and has projectiled his entire morning bottle

Good to hear things are looking up with HI Silv. Nag will be fine living out - he's a horse after all. Am liking the sound of new wellies....which ones did you get???

macaroon I thought TIS's parents were nearby - I fully know what it's like not to have family around to take over for an hour or two so that we might do something as a grown-up couple. Sometimes it can be very hard just doing the "slog" and it's hard to remember that we are a couple who are together because we love each other. Monday night we both went to bed at 8:15. What with him getting up at 4am and me alternating between exhausted and pregnancy insomnia (good morning 2am... :( right the way through...) we're pretty pathetic.

As for domestic drudgery, today is the day my life turns around - our newly installed cleaner is scrubbing my bathroom as I type. Now if only someone would keep an eye on Bear long enough for me to nip to the cashpoint, she might like that 'n' all.

clucky How lovely to be on holiday but how very typical that your offspring try to throw a spanner in the works! I suppose there are worse places to be stranded. Can you send MrClucky and LC ahead of you? Tbh I'd be tempted to go with boxer's "oooh terribly bitten by mosquitos one night the poor wee love". Then read AIBU for "to be furious (but silent) at a woman who brought a SICK CHILD on to a plane?".

My thoughts exactly Alps. Just got back from the docs, as the boy has been super-pathetic today, and the pox has been ruled out. Phew!!!

MrCluck still in the bad books for being completely inept but yes, we are together because no-one else will have us we love each other......oh, how easy it is to lose sight of that.

Clucky I would put him in a polar neck and keep schtum!!!!

lights glad you had a nice holiday. Driving any distance with children no fun though, even to Devon did my head in.

Sorry I have been so crap at posting of late. I have been keeping tabs on you all...

The boy is being a right monkey at the moment - tantrums galore when he doesn't get things he wants (e..g remote controls etc). Bit early for this isn't it? Thinking be firm but kind and just ignore?

Sorry clunky somehow missed your last post!!! That is good news indeed!

How do lighterlife? I've been wondering where you you had disappeared to.

Relationships can be hard at the best of times, let alone with a baby. Men are so black and White. Never any grey. Women have a lot of grey. Hmmmmm. Hopefully things will continue to improve. I feel happier. Now I only want to smash his face in occasionally instead of continuously. Absolute progress!

cluck hoss will be fine. It'll be me that has the issues and stuff. Anyone any tips on how to prepare nag? Or do nuffin? At mo, he's got LW rainsheet on. Hoss quite fluffy.

Bad news box on poultry pimples and click lucky escape perchance.... This time! Happy hols!

Roller we have ended up hiding/putting out of reach the proper remotes and have one that we don't use anyways that we've just taken the batteries out of that Squib's allowed to chew on as much as he likes. Seems to act as a bit of a deterrent. Worth a try if you have any spare old remotes knocking around?

That said, there always have to be a few "no means no" things that aren't hidden away I reckon - in our place it's a poor pot plant whose leaves are starting to get pretty darn bare at the bottom, and the fake coals in the gas fireplace, which my OH informs me are toxic, so best not to be sucked on for too long. Sometimes Squib does pause for long enough when I say no in my stern mummy voice for me to impede his progress towards the verboten item...just sometimes...

We also attempt to fob him off with old duff remotes but tbh they're not that daft. E.g., they know it's not real, in the same way they know the stairgate is ajar or the patio door open.

Just had an interview for a job I was shortlisted for. American global head of finance ripped me to shreds. Still, it was an improvement on the man who made me cry then locked me in his office so his secretary wouldn't see. :( can't I just get my baps out?

cluck me boots are Dublin neoprene ones. I likes them. I won't touch any Just Togs as the durability is very poor which compliments their shoddy customer service. Actually they don't appear to have any customer service skills - they ignore you in the hope you stop complaining. Rubbish. Nuff said.

I had a night out! It was brilliant. And all my worries about t'baby came to nothing as she didn't wake up once while I was out, saving it for 20 mins after I got home.

A small part of me is thinking "oh damn, if I'd been home I could have had so much lovely sleep". But it was good to go out.

Congrats on night out Muser. Went out for a couple of bevvies with a friend meself last night. Makes you think there might, just might, be some chance of us regaining what those people call "a life" when these babies get a bit older. Just perhaps.

Was duly punished by my lovely son deciding that 5.30 was a perfectly acceptable waking up time this morning . I knew the post hospital waking up at 6.45 thing couldn't last. And when in my life did 6.45 in the a.m. become a lie in I ask???

It's Friday!!! And grandma is over from Belgium for the weekend, arriving this pm. I shall be mostly On Strike so that she can spend lots of quality time with her grandson. Which also means that tomorrow night is date night - dinner down the local pub. Oh, the glamour!

I am no longer awol. Did you miss me?

House move is now great. Wasn't really at the time, and I won't bore you with the tales.

Oh, OK, maybe some bullet point headlines will communicate the general feeling of the 'journey':

• washing machine had developed weird unfixable fault during its 6 months in storage
• children both spilt various liquids (which may or may not have included bodily fluids) on their only bedding put aside for the move
• emergency next day delivery of new washing machine involved the discovery that the inlet hose was broken off at the tap
• emergency plumber call out, etc
• BT cut off our phone and internet a week after they had just connected it
• Sainsburys delivered our much needed groceries to our old house even though they admitted I had changed the delivery address correctly on the system
• etc!

But... despite all this we are sooo happy with the house. I think I have finally got MrP to buy in to the concept of staying in one place for more than 5 minutes, and to watch our kids grow up here. Result!

Will catch up properly now. What news have I missed?

yey for house moves and holidays!

muse I have my first night out tonight. I bought a gig ticket when Sprout was sleeping from 7-5 am. Ho ho, should be an interesting evening for TB but he is 'up for the challenge' apparently.

FP well done on the pad. Let's hope it is a sticky one. Veh jelus of Muser's night out. I know where you where and who with and therefore even more jelus.

Sorry about the pox ishoos/scares esp on hols. Cluck I totally empathise. We were on hols a week or so ago which involved a bit of a dash to hospital with mini due to anaphalatic reaction to something he ate (pasta - hotels fault!). We said to hotel we would try and claim the cost of hospital and ambulance off our travel insurance but Mr C didn't declare his allergy as a pre exisiting condition. What a nob. I mean, this allergy issue (to wheat of all things) affects us every day (wheat is in a lot of shiz) so it is not as it it is out of sight out of mind kind of thing. At least the hotel will cough up if the insurance won't but when I tell you Mr C works in a profession to do with law and insurace then maybe you will see my total frustration..

So, 3 weeks left of maternity leave. How does one make the most of it? I am thinking coffee/wine/meeting with friends/lesiurely lunches... yes?

Okes if you are anything like me my last 3 weeks of mat leave were spent wondering if work was all a dream while decorating my house like mad. Belated nesting?

Had exam today. Went something like this:
Examiner - do XXX.
Me - OK. (Do XXX.)
Examiner - You only have a partial pass, because you did XXX.
Me - But that's what you asked me to do!
Other work colleague - Yeah, that's what you asked her to do!
Examiner - Is it? Oh, I meant YYY. Well, you didn't do what I meant for you to do, so you can have another go tomorrow which means today is still only a partial pass. Still, your ability to do XXX (which is a fucking tricky manoeuvre) is impressive! Very good indeed. But I'm not going to pass you because I meant to ask you to do something else. My fault entirely, but hey, ho......
Me - Fucksticks.
Other work colleague - That's a bit harsh.
Examiner - nervous Ricky Gervais style giggle.....

I could have punched him. I luvs work. Of course I could just be sitting here on sick leave and shed loads of sick pay instead.

Have also just written the kind of email that gets you sacked from the village hall trustees. And copied in all other trustees. And pressed send. Am bolstered by wine and fed up of petty bullying of any group containing children by the chairman of the village hall committee. So there we go! Barsteward.

Just checking in. Didn't really have time to post much... but trying to keep track!

BitB, did you use swear words?

Okie, cannot even imagine end of maternity from this vantage point, but long boozy lunches and brunches, deffo. I also cannot imagine a Life. Can someone explain how that happens?

box can you appeal? What a div!

I didn't swear, I smiled and nodded and fumed quietly. And then I spoke to tomorrow's examiner and had a lovely reassuring chat. It has to be said the email to the village hall tosser helped channel my frustrations somewhere away from work. He deserved it anyway. I am our toddler group's chosen contact with the village hall committee because no one else will deal with this bloke, and after I received a very terse and accusatory email from him last night after a glass of wine, I sent him back a little reply telling him I have had enough of his bullying tone, and I am the last person who will correspond with him. So can he back off and stop trying to be so intimidating because I am not intimidated but I am rubbed up the wrong way!

Day 2 a bit more successful (different examiner!) I am now free to scare real holiday makers!

Hurrah for wings!!!!! Congrats!

I hate bullies. Low life.