June 2013: Here come the terrible twos!

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New thread. :-)

DD goes to bed more easily if she's napped for less than an hour, so hers is definitely going. It's DS still having 2 naps that's a pain in the arse!

Sunny, we have a June baby named Elliott!

DD still has a good nap when we're at home (between 1.5-3hrs), but she can go without if need be - like yesterday, when we were out for much of the day. So the best of both worlds! DH still naps when at home so I can't see her dropping it any time soon!

Ha ha - sorry Hungry! Actually it's not the Elliot that is the problem. it's his younger shouty brother that is the problem. He stands at the top of his chute and screams it over and over again until his presumably half deaf brother finally wanders out. The nicest name in the world would probably make me grumpy if that child shrieked it over and over again.

I might have gotten over my grumpy mood since then

I get where you're coming from, Sunny. "Oscar" and "Oliver" are sometimes heard being shouted at the bottom of our garden. It does put you off the names, as lovely as they might be!

I had naps at work when pregnant. Took myself to the first aid room! Took the side off the cot and replaced with bed guard. Despite the fact there is a big gap I don't think she realises she could climb out. So day one success. Less so on the potty front. Quite a lot of wee on the floor so far.

In previous pregnancies I may or may not have spent some time slumped over my keyboard snoozing...

Glad you've got your naps back sunny, days without naps are like hell on earth here. We're currently staying with PIL in Isle of Man and the journey up nearly killed E. Took nearly three days for her sleeping to get back on track. First two nights she took 2 hrs to get to sleep. Ugh.

I left the office at 330pm today, considering the hour's commute back in crap but not fully shit traffic, as it would be if I'd left any earlier, and have come home for a brief 30 min sit-down before collecting Joe. Knackered.

The amount of cars in the lay-by on the Watford Way bit of the A1 indicates that pre-hometime cottaging is booming. Lord. I couldn't be bothered with the effort. I saw one guy exiting his car and over-casually sauntering along, hands in pockets, un-jacketed with short-sleeved business shirt (shouldn't be allowed, those things), looking all cool until shooting into the bushes at high speed.

*left any later. God's sake. Clearly spending the last half-hour of the drive back home thinking about cottaging has utterly ruined me.

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I want to go here. I want the housekeeper, the chef, the driver and the live in nanny.

yeah that looks doable.

I mean at a push obvs. Wouldn't be my first choice. Centre parcs clearly superior.

Well I'm clearly sheltered because I had to look up cottaging.

Bean - what can I say. I imagine it would be just about alright but it's not a caravan in Ayrshire is it?

I would like a round of applause as I actually cooked something tonight. Ok it was as complicated as turning on the toastie machine but there was salad and everything. For the last 2 weeks while DH has been at work my culinary skills have stretched as far as pouring myself a bowl of cereal.

Ooooh cereal sounds good. I fancy it. I never fancy anything at the moment.

I don't know how this working away + being upduff thing is going to go. Not well, I bet.

Bean - well obvs you'd hit up CP first. Thailand would be a sorry second choice.

Sunny I had to google it too! You learn something new every day!

Dd slept thru the night last night. I was amazed. Would have appreciated the skank that was visiting a house down the road, not having interrupted my sleep. He jumped my front garden wall and pulled my recycling bin out and was going thru it. As I sort of struggled to see what was actually happening and manage an 'oi' he proceeded to try and jump the wall again, catching his foot and falling over. Karma. He then carried on up the road, collecting plastic bottles and as he returned to his mates house, tipped the rubbish bin attached to the sign post over the road, all over the road, the seagulls have loved it. I prefer dds wake ups!

New term on me too! I won't look it up though so to save my blushes - will take an educated guess instead.

DS had an atrocious night last night. He was awake from shortly after 4, having been up earlier too. I will be so glad when the molars are finished.

My happy news of the day is that my uncertainty at work is no longer uncertain That's a yr of stress brought to a close. There will be a celebration gin so long as I can stay awake long enough

Sorry you guys....!

Spot the non Londoners:)

Dirty old London.

Dirty old men.

It was pretty grim, all those ordinary looking husbands and fathers heading into the bushes.

I'm a non-Londoner and I'm well aware of cottaging!! (Lucky me.)

There was a public loo in a small market town near me which was notorious for it and people dirty old / young men used to travel from all over the country to it!

There's 2 lay bys on the A43 from Northampton to Kettering are also notorious for it (opposite side of the road from each other).

But anyway...

That's good news, Mrs. I've been told I'm being made redundant in 8 weeks' time. Woooo. :-/

Hungry.

Were you expecting that? Not that that really helps. It's shitty regardless unless you wanted to get away anyway Do you have a plan b up your sleeve?

I haven't heard of it either. I'm too scared to look it up.

Oh gosh, hungry, I'm sorry to hear that. I really hope this other job comes through for you.

Not great news from my work either but I daren't put more in case of lurkers (paranoid, me?!). I'm not impressed with them, though.

Just asked DH who is a copper if he'd heard of cottaging and he hadn't. Knowing the police they'll be all sorts of rude messages on FB tonight about cottaging.

I remember working in a bar in Newcastle and whenever we had a decent lunch break Lee would go for a walk through the shopping centre then come back and delight in telling us in explicit detail about the blowjobs he'd had in the men's loos. Eldon Centre if anyone knows Newcastle well