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OiMissus · 29/03/2012 08:38

A new thread! squee-eeeze. :)

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MissRee · 10/04/2012 18:38

seven if your property is mortgaged, the mortgage company will usually keep hold of them until mortgage is repaid. If your property isn't mortgaged then you should really have legal docs like that kept in a bank or other secure holding.

aethelfleda · 10/04/2012 18:58

Seven, if you can remember which solicitors you used to buy the property: some of their job is to arrange for deed storage and they should know where the deeds are being kept.

OiMissus · 10/04/2012 19:01

I had quite a good day today. I met up with EasilyBored which was really nice, ...and we didn't even have cake! Then I shopped. I finally have an outfit for the wedding that I can breastfeed in curtesy of Karen Millen (£50 off), and shoes from Next. (BOi has 2 outfits!) I bought a rattle for BOi and a christening present from John Lewis. Success! But a long day. I felt sorry for BOi in his pram all day, so he's a had all my attention and playtime since we came home. He's screaming in daddy's arms now, I'd better help...

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EasilyBored · 10/04/2012 19:48

I may or may not have had to go back to JL later in the afternoon to feed monkey chops and I may or may not have had a scone with clotted cream and jam. Possibly.

LittleMissFlustered · 10/04/2012 20:08

Let me guess:

We might think that, but you couldn't possibly comment?

I've just fed the washing machine, fed the kids earlier and threw them into their ravenous pits. Am now feeding the cats. Why is everything in my house chuffing hungry! >_<

I will be heading to bed shortly. The kids are away to my mum and dad's for a couple of days tomorrow, so I can get some serious sleep stuff done while they're away. We're off to York for the day on Saturday, which should be nice:)

Hope everyone has a good evening, see you all in the wee hours no doubt, I've got this new zombie shuffle routine I want to test on you allWink

Rashkakeller · 10/04/2012 20:24

I have put some photos on my profile, hopefully added correctly!

Rubbish day. Had to fetch Dd home from nursery early because she had a temperature. It was a bit high but she still had bags of energy! Dp was off work today (bank holiday) but has man flu plus he cut through the cable of his hedgecutters so he's been real fun to be around. Ds screamed the place down for the entire time in Morrisons - cue many a helpful comment from other shoppers (he needs a bottle etc etc) then fell asleep just in time for 3 injections, meh.

Feel bad for hoping dd and dp can go to nursery and work, respectively, tomorrow so I can put the house in order!

Sorry for the moan-a-thon

BeeMyBaby · 10/04/2012 20:27

So spent the day making a cake for SIL's DD1s bday in an attempt to woo SIL after giving her the cold don't touch me with your poxy child shoulder, I'm hoping she will forgive me and understand :( I am but a mother trying to protect my children from the inevitable with an extreme hypochondriac husband who would go berserk if I knowingly got DD1 infected

C'est la vie as DH says

OiMissus · 10/04/2012 20:31

I almost saw you in there. I parked my car there, so was going to go in and get the cream scone and feed BOi, but I decided that I had spent enough and so should jolly well go home and eat what's in the fridge before it goes off, like what it does all the time.
Glad you're getting some time off lmf.

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NorthernChinchilla · 10/04/2012 21:01

Tis the food of the Gods Easily, cream teas mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I had loads as a kid holidaying in Devon, and then nothing til recently.
And then lots Grin.

I hope your days have improved air and seven, and hope the vino and curry was good!

I still have a pink boob but it's not too painful and I don't feel ill. Still managed to drop one feed today, and DP and I have discussed it all, and am now thinking of just doing one express in the middle of the day at work (as opposed to the four+ that DS is currently having in working hours) just for the next two months til he moves onto solids. Sounds like a workable compromise on many levels.
DS had a massive yelling fit mid afternoon post jabs, so I took us both to bed. He slept clutching onto my finger Smile... I do love being a Mum.

Ooooh, LMF, that's one of the stock phrases in our house! I still remember the woman being pushed from the top of the House of Commons... brilliant series, and fantastic quote. Great you're getting a break, and have a lovely time in York- I go every year (bar last year for obvious reasons) with my Mum and Aunt for a weekend of hardcore gin abuse and Xmas shopping.

And there is nothing wrong with wanting a clear house Rashka, entirely normal! Love the pic of your DS looking surprised.

On with the Being-Human-athon. BTW, the new werewolf has been bugging me, as he sounds exactly like a female character from a programme we watch... I suddenly realised it was Kelly from Misfits, and then it appears that they have the same name and look dead similar too. Am going to check if they're siblings or if it's just freaky...

mopsytop · 10/04/2012 21:28

Hi all!!! Coughy spluttery little baba here but she appears happy out. So hopefully she will be fine. Hope everyone gets sleep tonight! Too tired to reply to everyone but jealous of the scone w jam & cream mmmmmmmmmm

LittleMissFlustered · 10/04/2012 21:29

Northern It's one of my favourite quotes:o

I'm sat abusing my phone waiting for a certain tentacled child to wake up for his feed. Any time now...

Figgygal · 10/04/2012 21:49

Northern they are brother and sister they look practically like the same person!!!

Poor lo had wind today so bad he cried for over an hour proper shrill hysterical crying......all my sympathies for mums of any colicky babies i barely lasted an hour and a half let alone months on end.

LittleMissFlustered · 10/04/2012 22:40

Not pleasant Figgy:( My daughter had colic, only thing that helped was being swung. Before we caved invested in an electric swing her dad and I would spend hours swinging her in her car seat. How we managed to avoid RSI or dislocating our shoulders I'll never know >_< Hope it was a very random and never to be repeated one off:)

MissRee · 10/04/2012 22:49

I also don't know how I'd cope with a colicky baby either Figgy. The one day Freya cried for hours on end, I was in pieces by the time DP came home from work. She's a real daddy's girl though and she made me look like a big ole fibber by being a smiling angel for him!

I was a colicky baby and my dad once got stopped by a policeman in the middle of the night as walking me in the buggy was the only way to settle me. Mum said she contemplated giving me back many a time I was that bad Grin

Freya has been surprisingly chipper today after her jabs! She screamed for all of about 2 minutes and then gave the nurse a lovely big smile.

TMI alert: DP and I DTD last night and freya woke with a big yell at just the wrong moment... Oops, maybe it's time for us to sort a space for her in Jack's bedroom Grin

seven77 · 10/04/2012 22:54

Thanks ladies, according to DH the solicitors have the deeds.

oi glad the shopping went well, babies need two outfits anyway.

rash I enjoy laughing at the unhelpful comments

lmf enjoy your break, hope the DC's have fun and you enjoy York.

I need to buy DS new shoes tomorrow, I noticed his big toe is right at the end [terrible mother emoticon]. And I've got £65 of birthday money and no idea what to buy, I may have to feed my Lakeland overpriced kitchen gadgetry habit!

seven77 · 10/04/2012 23:03

missree oh dear, how off putting! Apparently I didnt sleep through the night until I was about 4 Blush. I feel very sorry for my mum though, my dad never got up once, my mum couldn't believe it when he was up at 5am with my neice when she stayed there the other week.

Colic is awful. It wasn't colic but at 5 weeks when Eva was on normal formula before we knew she needed lactose-free she screamed constantly when we put her down, at one point she went two days without being put down for longer than 5 minutes.

Whoever recommended Ashton & parsons does it contain lactose? I bought some teetha then noticed it said not suitable for anyone with lactose-intolerance so it's still in the cupboard untouched but I could have done with it today when she was a grumpy little bugger irritable.

aethelfleda · 10/04/2012 23:04

Yep, they are siblings.It's the way they say " Orl Raaaht? " that makes it especially obvious.

DS now stowed in moses basket with a dose of neurofen in him. I'm paranoid about temps with my DCs as I had a febrile convulsion when small (they tend to run in families) so I tend to give pre-emptive strikes of antipyretics if I think they are likely to spike a temp. Plus I think it's humane to give painkillers when DCs have had needles stuck in them and are too small to tell me it hurts. Will see you later on the nightshift, fellow zombies...

LittleMissFlustered · 10/04/2012 23:09

You can tell it's spring, my kitchen has been invaded by ants:( Must pop to Wilko's for some ant traps:/

LittleMissFlustered · 10/04/2012 23:13

aethel We're doing the stabby-leg dance tomorrow. I daren't give him ibu for obvious reasons but have calpol ready and I take the same view as you. See you later no doubt >_

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aethelfleda · 11/04/2012 02:51
LittleMissFlustered · 11/04/2012 04:02
aethelfleda · 11/04/2012 06:21

DS is a bit warm but fine. His nighy nappy is drier than usual, presumably due to increased body temp overnight but he seems OK eith it and did give me a 4 hour break (phew!)....

LittleMissFlustered · 11/04/2012 06:45

Glad he's ok:) Had a broken night here. I'm running on 90 minute stretches. I think that after jabs today we'll come home and head straight to bed and sleep it off as a team:o

mopsytop · 11/04/2012 07:29

Morning. Hope all well and not too zombiesque after broken nights. Minim had more coughing fits last night. She seemed to stay asleep so it can't bother her too much but it sounds a but like she can't breathe so I kept waking up worried.