June mummies '05 thread 11 - the one with the Zoo!

[katzg]

new thread for all

got excited because i have ordered my days out vouchers from tesco, £10 of clubcard vouchers = £40 of days out vouchers which can be used to gain entry to london zoo

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo (etc)

My babysitter starts work today, yippee! Am thus able to go to the pub after work for 1 hour to celebrate my friend getting a promotion, without feeling guilty about leaving dh to cope on his own. (In fact am going to work in order to justify going to the pub!)

Fabulous thunderstorm here last night, the air is so much clearer. The Beeb weather forecast was anticipating 'light rain', I fear I will never trust it again.

Hope all are well! Katz - are we meeting for lunch in a cafe before the zoo, or picnic type thing?

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Giddy, poor you re: the cramp. I seem to recall that not getting enough salt can lead to leg cramps - I get them sometime and it was a lot worse in pregnancy, it can be agony can't it? I did a quick Google and apparently a calcium/magnesium deficiency can also be a cause, see here . Easy enough to get supplements of these, hope it gets better soon.

Having now been sympathetic I feel justified in hooting with laughter at your naked air balloon story! How mortifying for you yet so amusing for everyone else

Sorry we won't see you at the zoo but hope you have a lovely holiday with dd1.

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London Zoo The Plan

Meet at London Zoo on the 22nd July
will we be having a picnic lunch and i think the plan was to meet at 12noon, so i guess meeting over lunch would be good.

Morning mums hugsss

Hiya giddy hugssssss lovely to see you too
LOL a u naked, nice site for the balooners

Well weve talked it over and weve decided to come to the London meet, propably stay somewhere 0vernite, i cant miss on metting all my lovely friends.

Its williams birthday on saturday, so we be baking buns all weeek lol, me and will wish us luck, ive just spoke to friend whos little boy is 8 weeks older than william cant wait to see him.

Katz or any other northern junie mum, if you would like to come you will be most welcome.

katz can we buy cheap zoo tickets then?>

i fell ever so left out that i cant come . i have a wedding that weekend and i cant get out of.

hope you all have a lovely time though and i will definitly come to next meet up im dying to meet you all xxxxxx

giddy - that reminds me when me and my dp were having a nice evening in the bedroom and i heard a noise outside , stood up at window (no curtains 1st floor ) to see police helicopter above my flat with its light shining at me !!!! completely naked and they video too dont they? omg i know that embarassment too well

Giddy - I've heard quinine is good for night cramps, try a tonic water (or indeed G&T ) before bed, though I think only Schweppes has proper quinine in these days.
I can't come to the zoo either . It's my sister's wedding the weekend before in Kent, and I'm afraid the journey's going to be hellish enough without doing it twice in a row. I really hope everyone going has a fantastic day

{{{has quick look between arriving home and settling baby}}}

NAKED WHAT???
oh must get the full storyboiling where is that promised rain?!

giddy and mumma you hussies

i get cramps around pmt time and esp. pregnancy, bananas bananas bananas is all i can say, best advice i got that and exercise. oh its so painful i remember waking up screaming, much to dh's alarm.

the zoo, looking forward to that must look for my coolbox. are we tempting fate planning a picnic?
has the heat made you forget you live in Britain?
better whisper it then - lets plan a picnic

tea - tell you about good old norm when i see you, must pay attention tho these roles since you sort of foreign and all

poor little sfxette rather bewildered by the heat all sweaty and bothered hope she sleeps better tonight

had supervision today with my manager told her i can't manage a team who have been told for a year how shit i am, she blamed my replacement, the spineless cow, told her i need visible regular and prompt supportoutburst over

oh gosh tea meant to these rules
i need a drink
sorry some of you cant make it to london

and katz thanks for new thread

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sfx, haven't read throughout, so here is a quote from one of ds' favourite books:

roar. ROAAR. ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Just my views on you being given crap.

A taxi driver told me today I was going to have four children, two boys and two girls. I said "I don't really want to be pregnant four times" he answered "oh no, it is all worth it, you shall have four children". You read it here, folks!

bless you lovely junies, can always be relied upon to cheer me up.
dh got some ice cream and wine after my expletives laden texts from work. so i have indulged, must haul now considerably larger bulk out the door in the morning for a jog before work.

4 trib?!!!! only if i were very rich much younger and even then i think a couple would be adopted, still next time might be triplets

Have an unusual domestic problem today, ladies: too many servants I'm sure the Queen could sympathise. (Not that I think of these people as servants, I just said that for effect).

My cleaning lady and my babysitter are both here, and I'm having to invent cleaning jobs to keep them both busy whilst ds is a asleep! Fortunately cleaning lady has given notice, so my 'embarrassment of riches' will be over soon! (My babysitter is now playing with ds' bubble-making machine to amuse the cleaning lady!)

Also I have an important lesson to impart. If you end up staying in the pub for 3 hours when it was meant to be 1, do not roll home with a ready meal and then discover it takes 45 mins, not 5 as you had anticipated. Poor ds, I felt so guilty, dh can't do the put-down on his own so I strolled in at 8 and then we had to do bathtime and everything before I turned my attention to the cooking. Assumed ds would punish me with a 5 a.m. start but actually he slept til nearly 8 Would have been a bit more helpful if I hadn't woken at 4:30 in anticipation, and gave up trying to get back to sleep at 6.

Afternoon ladies

Go AWOL for a day and you all disappear on me!

LOL at the nudies !!! - boss thinks I'm working, so smothering the giggles and making wierd snorting noises is maybe not the best way try and look busy! Giddy - I had a balloon ride last year, and it's amazing just how much you can actually see on the ground - just telling you to make you feel better about the whole thing

Trib - loved the excert from the book - perfect expression!

SFX - good for you standing up for yourself. Have you decided when you will leave yet? He he he sounds like I will have to keep the Tebit thing from my mum (when I hear what he said that is) - it's her favorite soapbox subject, how foreigners are treated...!

Katz don't suppose you know if Nectar do a similar thing with the vouchers do you?? Usually shop at Morrisson's so no vouchers at all, but have a few Nectar points hanging about...?

Oh Trib - well at least you weren't 3 hours late and rip roaringly drunk - must try harder!

2Happy / Lummox hope the sickness is staring to ease now - how are you both coping in the heat??

EYM - good luck with all that baking, is William having a big party or just a small cosy family do? Is he the youngest of the Junies then? I guess he probably must be.

Right now I really must start working again. Catch up later, x

P.S. Zoo - yup think we're tempting fate with picnic, but that's part of the fun isn't it - ok maybe ask me that again when I have a soggy droopy sandwich in my hand, he he he!

Tea - how'm I coping in the heat? Pretty well, actually. But that's because it's been cold and damp for the last two days. No heatwave here I'm afraid... (Actually the sun has just come out, but the sky's still grey so I don't suppose it'll last!)

Hi All!
Been away in vacation/work... so will rudely post without reading the thread...
Am still keeping the hope of making to the zoo... but things are looking hectic...
Katz, can I still be of help in the academics business? send me an email!

omg we had a massive power cut yeasterday the whole of northampton for an hour and half . i was stuck in a shop in a shopping center it was so scary . we all got chcked out as security cams and backup not wotking either . no traffic lights and apparently the hospital generator didnt kick in

am i the only one who cant keep up with baby? she is running wild making such a mess , all drawers and cupboards are being emptird daily (must invest in locks SOON )

rubbish bins and practically anything she can get hold of she will grab through /rip etc . she has so many toys but is only interested in what she cant have , kitchen cupboards which has tupperware in has lost its appeal now
i cant keep up with her and everythime i tidy a room she has messed it before i have finished arghhhhhhhh im leaving her too it now - 2 steps forward 5 steps back

no walking but cruising on everything . she can get out back door now so i have to keep it closed (stair gate doesnt fit on it . clothes horse is always her fav and it doesnt matter how many times it hurts her or she gets stuck she goes straight back to it . she can get on sofa too and she scares the life out of me that she will fall , she can get down but she sits so close to edge and you cant get stairs gates for sofas can you ?

better go think she is in bathroom , prob got hands down toilet

LOL, Oh Muma - your DD sounds just like mine, he he he - only mine has now mastered climbing down stairs although not always successfully!!! luckily only fell two steps this time!

I've also given up on the tidying up until she's firmly in bed - don't have the energy in this humidity to keep running around constantly putting things away

Same here, muma and tea. ds cruises so fast I don't think he can see the point in walking! Obsessed with the drawer with dvd's in and always wants the dvd boxes opening. He's also mastered climbing onto the sofa, and he's bounced off a couple of times already muma, but we've got carpets so he just gets a fright but isn't hurt. He did get his first black eye the other week though by falling over onto the patio door step

So far ds hasn't worked out how to climb on to the sofa, I think that is because whenever he wants to, he simply bangs his fists on it and shouts until an obliging parent comes and lifts him up for the sake of a few seconds' peace.

I bring good news tonight: we went to the sleep clinic today and it seems dh has severe sleep apnoea . This may not appear to be good news but it is the first time dh has been diagnosed with something that is treatable, so it's a major leap forward for us. At the mo we are not holding out too much hope, as there are still lots of things which can go wrong, but we are on the 'urgent' waiting list for a CPAP machine (urgent in NHS speak means "a few months, not years") and hoping to circumvent that by hurling some money in the direction of BUPA.

At the same time, I have a real work dilemma. A promotion has come up which I think I could do fairly well and would represent good career progression for me (plus dosh). But it would mean more days in the office and quite a lot more stress. It's very hard to know what to do for the best because I have to bear in mind that I am the sole breadwinner for my family, but equally don't want to be apart from ds all the time if I can help it. Let me know what you would do ladies! (PS the closing date is lunchtime tomorrow )

hello allhumid wet hot yuck!

trib - only you can tell really but i know how you feel about missing the little one. but then again if this is the right opportunity then it might be worth it.
sorry about your dh, mine has a much milder form of it which does not require any assistance but made his life a misery a few years back, it still freaks me out sometimes in the middle of the night. hope NHS moves quickly.

mumma - mine loves doing the same stuff our book shelves are permanently being emptied and i am trying to get her interested in stacking them as well, not much success there.
we have locks on the no no cabinets, the rest where she can reach we leave stuff that she can't damage or damage her. pick your battles is all i can say

yorkie - sorry i miss your post last time, its hard having recurrence of panic attacks they are a pain and very misunderstood. i am glad you seem to have such great support. i recommed cognitive behavioural therapy not good for everyone but i like the practical solutions that allow you to get on with your life, most of the time at least.

about the zoo my in laws announced they are visiting that weekend - i told them we would be out on the 22nd they said 'oh no we are coming late on friday'he said...oh well