Dec 2011 - Do that again, and you're getting sold on Ebay.....

[Aethelfleda]

Shiny new thread with no listing fees!

Seven - the beds were already there and certainly do need work to get them ready. We've started clearing the crap out. We need to add new soil/depth and richness. Thanks for the tip to add manure. We'll get busy!

Morning all,

Very annoyed this morning, I think DS has got conjunctivitis....I was quite looking forward to work this morning and more importantly I'm just dreading trying to get a dr's appointment! Also having a stress about the fact I'll have no holiday leave by next month the rate we're going!

Ahh well, at least DS is not grumpy or suffering so that's the main thing! He now has 12 teeth and I can clearly see 2 more in the gums almost ready to cut through.

You're all going to be WELL JEL - guess who got to see aethel's new house yesterday It's luffly. And HUGE!!! And has a billion bathrooms! And a giant garden! And an adorable DS sleeping with his bum in the air And then we walked home in glorious sunshine through some lovely parks.

Oi and queen fingers crossed firmly for your 2ww and I hope you'll soon be joining me in upduffedness...

Figgy YANBU, I wouldn't be able to deal with someone who couldn't stick to a budget and had a cavalier approach to debt. You are entirely justified in being very upset. And behaving like such a shit about the car, surely since it's going to be your car his input should be limited to deciding what budget and running costs you can afford as a family and then letting you choose what you feel you need.

Cheung do you have any parental leave days you can use instead? I think there is some entitlement to prevent you eating into holiday time...

Oi - good luck with your veggies.

We are hoping to do better this year. We've already got spuds & onions on the go. Hoping to grow carrots, parsnips, lettuce, peppers, green beans, tomatoes, cucumber, courgettes to name a few

Cheung hope DS is better soon.

Figgy hope things are sorted between you & DH.

Yay for veggies oi, and bonus points for motivation. I have a theoretical plan for two raised beds in the garden corner once I've removed/relocated a few straggly shrubs and have ten nanoseconds to spare. I am slowly cleaning the house on a needs-must basis, need it to feel like ours, which it is just starting to do. The weather was lovely this afternoon so had the DCs playing out in the garden for the first time, it's a nice size, but we would really notice if it were smaller.
xiao neglected to mention that she showed up with an enooormous and yummy homemade lemon cake. My dad and cousin visited and helped us with it....There is not very much left now

So much to do but it is satisfying. d-day is this Friday when plumber is coming to tell me the extent of the damage andore importantly how much to fix it! I suspect we may end up with Tesco Value showers. I like a bit of blue and white stripe.....

Cheyng, if the whites of his eyes are red, its conjunctivitis and needs summat. If they are actually still white but he has gunk it may just be eye snot (where the nose snot comes up through the tear ducts. Niiice). Hope you got a GP to see him!

I love Ice Hockey, but NHL is on premier (£9p/m) & AHL is on ESPNamerica (£13p/m), can't justify the extra money when DH isn't 'allowed' to have skysports (we had it for one season, he watched 2/3 games the entire season).
Thankfully my football team are too shite to be on Sky so we see them live whenever we can.

Seven, that's so irritating! Although glad it's working out for you & you'll be able to do everything else without tripping over units.
for the reusable nappies, just getting into the swing of them & our washing machine is playing up so we're not using them until we know what we're doing about it (you just know it'll breakdown when I've just loaded stinky nappies in).

Cheung, hope DS is feeling better soon.

Aethel, why did you mention that about the snot?!
Glad Xiao is a good guest...although it sounds like you've got a potential squatter on your hands

Good luck with your veggies Queenie
And with the new house Aethel! I am indeed well jel if visiting opportunities I luffs a good nosey around a new house, I mean, when else do you get to see every room!?! and of lemony cakey goodness.
Hope your LO is ok cheung. If I'd seen your post earlier, I may have saved you time off work. My doc wouldn't even see BOi for his conjunctivitis. I was instructed to bathe it. But nursery said they take kids with it without a problem. (Not that that's really fair!)
BOi is still awake. Fighting sleep. DH is jiggling him whilst watching the match.
Oh, did the world stop? it didn't in this house. Babies must be rocked. Parents need to be fed. Washing needs to get done. Cm's need payments set up... Silly Jose.
Sleep BOi! I needs some food!
Hope we all have good nights. Bob knows most of us need a decent night!

(Let the thread note that: All cake-baking squatters are welcome at Ashworth Towers).

Ah, little boys that sleep with their bums in the air My Mum was totally bemused the first time she saw DS do this; I never had done.
The house sounds wonderful aethel, we are indeed well jell; first Ashworth Towers, and now this! And sounds like seven's getting all palatial on us too!

Hope your senses of taste and smell have come back figgy and that the cold's improving, you so have my sympathy. And really hope DS and DH are getting better in respective health behaviour ways too.

I've got a new member of staff starting tomorrow, just to help me out...sadly it's only a secondment for a few months, but will hopefully help take some of the volume work off me.

DS should (if the nurse doesn't pronounce him having Peruvian bird flu by the state of his toenails or something ) be having his MMR tomorrow. DP has the day off work, and so I'm doing him a list of jobs.....

Not another one with Peruvian Bird Flu?
...should be the name of our next thread. Either that or "but why can't I bash the cat with the frying pan?"
#thingsoffthethreadthatmademechuckleoutloud.
(I think I'm really getting the hang if this social media malarkey!)

Ah Jeebers! (Bob's son) now he wants to watch the after match shitery... I suppose I could go and put a wash on...
;I was feeling all giddy (you know, "giddy") earlier. Give conception another chance,.. but not now, he can bloody go and whistle! I can't believe how much my OBEM is being delayed! Grrrr! He 'll be lucky if we ever do the deed again. Why I oughta....

OBEM isn't even tonight. He is well in trouble! Now I'm annoyed!

northern don't worry I still have a grotty bathroom, and the kitchen will only get finished if the sodding builders turn up to finish it, they've not been here since Friday. Hope the MMR goes ok, and great news that you'll have some of the workload taken off you.

oi hope BOi has settled now.

gary our washing machine is only rented so no worries there. We've been on rented ones for 3 years, we'd somehow previously got through 3 machines in the 6 years we'd been together (the hotpoint actually lasted less than a year ) and decided we're better off renting.

cheung hope DS is better soon.

How many teeth does everyone else's LO have? DD still only has 4!

DS has four on top, two on the bottom. Has been the same for ages despite drooling like a faucet the last couple of days.

gary yep it's a definite housing option for the future - will bake cakes for rent

Oi oh dear, hope you managed to enjoy yourself even without OBEM!! I know you are on the 2ww but if you can forgive DH for hogging the TV there's no harm in reinforcements, as it were

northern yay new minion member of staff! Really hope they're more of a help than a hindrance for you, you could use a hand. We need to get one for figgy and missree and everyone else facing stressful work situations.

Yes I second/third/fourth the washable nappy pompoms for you seven - we've been using them since DS was born and I don't even want to estimate how much money we've saved but it's got to be a lot. We currently do two nappy loads a week but when he was smaller it was every other day - I shudder to think how many disposable nappies he might have gone through instead.

I think the washable wipes were an even better investment actually as they not only get his bum clean but dry as well and you can use as many as you like without worrying about running out or having to buy more as you just wash them. We have 40 soft little bamboo squares and never run out before another nappy wash goes on.

Jesus, DH just came back from taking his tutor group out for a meal and to the cinema. They were attacked by a group of boys that spotted that they were Etonians DH told his boys to go back into the restaurant and confronted the attackers by himself, and scared them off.

Xiao - OMG I hope your DH & his boys are okay?

Oi, did you use any distraction techniques to get DH attention away from the football?

I miss my DH & want him home now, 2 nights down, 3 to go :(

Both my girls are rewarding me with good behaviour and slept all night.

No symptoms so far except boobs hurting periodically but to early to tell. it's all in my head

Yikes Xiao, that's awful. Hope the boys weren't too scared by it all. Ignorance has a lot to answer for! Your DH is a hero. Very brave. Very scary though - there are too many stories of tragic accidents in situations like that.
Hope the MMR goes without a hitch Northern... maybe stick plasters over his feverous toenails to hide all evidence?
Hope your builders come back seven!
I need a builder/plumber/tiler/type company. I need just one company to come and see me and help me build the plan for the house, so I can let them get on with everything. Who does that? Where do I find this wonderous-being? I need a kind of interiors/maintenance company that won't charge a fortune. ...Who am I kidding? With my ideas, nothing short of a lottery win will sort it! Puh!
I told my DH orf for tv-hoggary, but allowed the "reinforcements".
Boi has 7 teeth. He's had them for ages, and so they are quite big now. He's been drooling lots the last few weeks though, and his cheeks are so often very bright red that there really must be more on the way. I hope so. There must be a reason behind this horrid interrupted sleep pattern.
I was determined pre-BOi to use reuseables. I bought a few different types to try. And I convinced myself that one particular type would be perfect. And then they went on offer and I spent over £200 on the whole kaboosh.
When BOi came, I really didn't like how wet they were. Within the hour, they were wet through against his skin. I tried different liners, but I really lost confidence in them. So I've £200 worth of Bamboozle Stretchies in a cupboard. Most of them haven't even been touched. I only put a few through the 3x wash stage in preparation. One day, I will get around to selling them.
So I failed on nappies, and on sleep training.
But he's the cleverest and fastest baby in the world, so that's OK. I don't use this word ever, but I'll pulling it out today. BOi is awesome. he knows the most common farm sounds and farm animals, he knows the jungle animals and their sounds. If you ask him where's the elephant/giraffe/monkey/parrot/snake etc, he'll find it on the page (on a page where they're all together, of course!) straightaway. No messing about. Shape sorters, schmape schmorters. easy peasy. And he LOVES books. All he wants to do in the evening is go through lots of books. We have a new ABC book, and he's getting very good at repeating the letter sound back to me.
[proud mum emoticon] The BOi is a genius. Evidently.
I do know that all your LOs are all geniuses also, and all awesome and amazing. I'm just completely bowled over by the developments that we are witnessing as they are really starting to take it all in and find ways of communicating back to us. [first tuime parent wonderment!] I really could do with taking a couple of months off work to see it all and enjoy it.
Right, to work. have great days y'all!

DH was shaken but said last night he was fine and downplayed it. But this morning he told me they "chest bumped" and pushed him several times before he scared them off. I suspect they also tried to punch him but he doesn't want to worry me. Thank goodness he is 6'3" and built like - maybe not quite a brick shithouse but possibly a slate one! Thank goodness they didn't have a knife or something worse.

His students now think he's a legend - he sent them all inside gourmet burger kitchen and they goggled through the door. Just so sad a group of 14 year olds who wouldn't hurt a fly are attacked when with their teacher for such a stupid reason.

Bloody hell xiao! Well done Mr. Xiao!! Scary.

On phone and already can't remember what replies I was going to make. My brain is like a sieve. Hmmm. Was going to say that minimopsy often sleeps with her bum in the air... v v v cute! And re teeth that she has ten-four top front, two top bottom and four premolars. But still dribbling like mad and awake crying most nights with the cot soaked from dribble but can't spot any new ones...

Lots of interrupted sleep here too Oi. Am so tired!

aethel house sounds great and xiao lemon cake sounds ace!

Oh dear better go rescue minimopsy, she's roaming my room on mischief bent...

Two teefs on the octo. One on it's way by the look of it.

Glad your husband managed to avoid any injury Xiao, it's chuffing stupid that kids are attacked for choices they weren't party to. If Boo had noticed the boys he would have staryed his rendition of Eton Style. He's obsessed with gangnam style oarodies >_

Well done to your DH xiao, very brave of him. I do hope for the boys sake that these incidents don't become so regular that they aren't allowed on nights out to the cinema etc. I worked out based on 8 nappies a day for the first 6 months, and 4 a day thereafter its nearly 4000 nappies if you potty train at 2 and a half.

oi we failed at sleep training too, she's often up at 5 or earlier because she won't go back to sleep. BOi sounds like a very contented little chap, DD has no interest at all in shape sorters or wooden puzzles. She'll just about tolerate books, I don't think it's a development issue, she can build a tower of 4 blocks but would just rather be making a mess and climbing on things! When you get your lottery win you need a building company who can project manage and sub-contract out rather than just an independent builder. Ours have sorted the plumbing and electrics, they also would have done the kitchen units and presumably tiling if we'd had the money!

Well done Mr.Xiao, glad everyone is safe and well.

We've got eight here, three just about to break through (although he's been milking them coming through for a month or so).

Northen, hope they don't find a excuse not to stick her with needles!

Waiting in for a parcel So today I shall be mostly hating Nanny Plum.

Found some Mamas&Papas jeans, on eBay! Three pairs for £9 so everyone is happy.
PIL are taking DS over Easter...and for the first time I'm feeling really sad about missing him (normally I only miss him once he's gone) so I'm blaming pregnancy hormones!

I quite like Nanny Plum but the wise Old Elf can do one!

She's so rude to everyone.
Although I blame the King & Queen, she's obviously stressed as they make her do all the cooking/cleaning too. They should either hire more staff or get off their arses & stop reading newspapers.

I don't like how wise Old Elf is anti-magic until it suits him.

Just seen on fb that nickelbabe will be closing nickelbooks later this year as they're not making enough.

what are you talking about? I'm completely lost...