++March 06 ++Birthdays Ahoy- thread the third++

[UniSarah]

Ok, I think I have spelled everything in teh title correctly. shout at me if i havn't.

Happy St davids day March 06 mums and tots.

Uni, good news about the in-laws they must be relieved. Hope you sorted out your tax prob...we've just phoned thru the estimates to the tax credit peeps and will have to do the full returns when things are a bit less hectic.

Friz, am keeping my fingers crossed (not really or couldn't type) for the job. LOL at your mum!

Well, we now have three huge holes out the front of the house BUT we do have our luvverly gas range cooker fitted!!! Hurray! Sadly no boiler until Tues but we have the electric shower and may hide at my parents lots over the weekend.

Tilly finished at nursery as she starts pre school and play group combi in Sept and as we are away lots (hopefully) during Aug it seemed daft to pay out.

Trying to bid on ebay taps, do work emails, think about the complicated task of packing etc. before kids go to bed. Should be cooking on aforementioned cooker but am having 3rd curry of the week with BB as am knackered. Kiah is going in Moltex for a couple of days so I can have all dry nappies to send up to Scotland with sis....bloody damp washing everywhere!!!

Moltex? dur?
Glad you have cooker fitted LL
Ah you see pre school is at nursery here! seemed easier to carry on where she was, particularly as they're teaching them french, don't ya know, laaa deee dah!

damn that umberella song, dd1 is now calling it an um b ella not an um berrrrrrella r, its got a r in it, grrrrrr

Uni, glad for the inlaws staying dry, hurrah! lol at squeemish sil
Hope you got the tax return sorted, nightmare things.

So so day here, dd1 trying it on big time, back on a star chart, she's on minus 6 stars at the end of the day, just can't help herself from stropping and being naughty, sigh....all stems from me taking her to see Shrek yesterday....seems quality time with mummy makes a girl not want to give her back
Have just discovered the damn biker festival up the road has The Levellers on tonight too, and I can't go

Plus a mates grandad, who was more like their dad has just died

One redeming feature is my bestest oldest friend in the whole world has emailed me to say she's taking me for a Spa day for my birthday I love her, timing was just right!!

spa day- you lucky thing friz, what a nice friend.
Tax office they say-0 oh no you can't do capital gains form on line. ggggrrrrr. so I will have to do a paper return after all that.I'd finished but not submitted on line, now I have to do it all again. BUM BUM BUM.

had a nice afternoon at a 2garden party" today, as is becoming traditional for this particular party it rained so we moved indoors. while we were in the garden all teh kids ( 6 under 3) enjoyed playing on a BIG trampoline. It was nice to see them all playing together this year, in previous years they have been too small and just played alone. Boy was teh chatterbox of teh group and declaimed about balls and fish and the cat etc to any who would listen.

sorry sould read "garden party"
Moltex- eco disposable nappies. compostable in teh right sort of compost heap ( mine is too small)

Uni at boy and his talking, dd2 is into Cow at the moment, likes getting her hands the wrong way around on her head for the horns and going mooooo

Sorry to hear you couldn't submit the cpgains form online, thanks for letting us know though, should I ever get any I'll be aware of that!

Happy Birthday to me
Kids have woken me up and got me, Amy Winhouse cd, Harry Potter and a Gordon Ramsey cookbook, dh got me lots of money to spend at our local Spa place too I feel ohhh maybe a head massage, pedicure, brow n lash tint, shape etc coming on Mum and dad are being lovely and putting some money towards us getting our front lawn turned into a driveway! (trust me its more an undulating mess of weeds it needs it) Dh n kids are also taking me out for lunch with Daemara and her brood shaping up to be a lovely day

Hope your all having great weekends.

Happy Birthday Friz - I'll cheer for you when I see Amy later (she's supporting Arctic Monkeys).

Catch up again from Scotland next week....hey the SUN is out!!!!

cpgains! ha, its not exactly a huge wodge of cash. The company I have a pension scheme with demutalised (agaist my vote) so i was alocated and promtly sold a small number of shares.
how ever I did so little work last year it equals my earned income ...
This year is going rather better. was workinga gain today- taking a stage down and returning it to Devon. Dh and I have decided we CAN afford a new Hillerberg tent. Hurrah. After seeing on on Top gear we came over all deveil may care and agreed that we shoudl get teh best we can afford and we can afford a Hillerberg so lets get one.

Ok so now I want a link to the tent your getting Uni

LL was it great?

Have woken up so grumpy today? not period that was last week......could it be I want to go out and do lots of things and can't cause I have step son in tow? he won't drag round most of them,(not without lots of moaning anyway) going to be difficult enough to get him to the bank..... and I have to go there. Ok there's my selfish moment out of the way, must plough on with the accounts

am cheering up! a friend has prompted another mate, who has turned up with a birthday prezzie, now have more pampering goods, which in turn with the nice sunshine is doing the trick. Don't ya just hate it when you wake up miserable?

www.hilleberg.se/default-e.HTM
Nammatj GT is teh tent I like the look of. big porch but V lightweight. Should fit teh three of us for teh next 7-10 yars of camping cycling trips.

My annoyance with HMRC grows, they have "lost" all our Child tax credit renewal form contents and want it all again. AND what form did DH NOT photocopy when I asked him to. Yes, teh C tax renewal one. BUM BUM BUM

Like the look of that one Uni had a quick look at terra nova for you, as they have a tent trade in offer on!! but there's nothing to match size wise really, there are the right weights, but not much outside space on the 3/4 man ones! and you need stash space right! (this coming from the woman with now the worlds largest tent ever, you can have festivals in mine)

Sorry to hear about tax credits loosing your stuff grrrrrrrr for you.

That tent looks the biz Uni. I hope we get to actually use ours this year as we've never even slept one night in it!!

If we go camping at the end of Aug what would you say to sleep the girls in? We've got sleeping bags but not sure they'll stay in them....Kiah has a normal sleeping bag too. What do you pros do?

Well I'm here in Scotland and girls have gone off to the beach in the bike trailer with my sisters. This morning we did a charity shop trawl and stocked up on toys for £5. Actually a neighbour just popped round with 2 Sindy dolls for Tilly which will no doubt make her day! I got a big bag of plastic food/plates etc today and took out all the McDonalds logo stuff and binned it - what a killjoy.

Better get on with some work I guess...

Oooh how long are you up there for then LL? you flew this time right?

dd1 here has her sleeping bag, which she's slowly gotten used to, we zip it half was up now and then she has the rest draped over her, with her pink fleece on top
dd2 has her 2.5tog grow bag, then when she's fallen asleep I drape a fleece over her too have used this method with both dd's and haven't gotten frostbite yet! although it also helps having dd2 (and dd1 before her) off the ground in the travel cot. Did Glasto with dd1 on just a mat once though and just the 2.5 togbag (light camping right) and that was fine too.(though actually remember waking up with her snuggled upto me and my bag over her too, now I think about it) but she still has all her body parts, so was fine

Up here til next Weds Friz. Yes flew up with one sis and Kiah but am flying back with both girls on my own. It's only an hour so I'm sure I can cope by just feeding them chocolate.

Reckon we'll sleep the girls on an airbed...we'll see how it goes. Not sure we can fit travel cot in the car with all the junk/bike tralier etc!!! Thanks for tips re sleeping bags. My friend went to WOMAD with her kids last w/e but only stayed one night as the mud was awful.

Back in june Boy was fine sleeping on a karrimat covered with flease blanket wearing vest, baby grow and 2.5 tog gro-bag. Like friz we covered him with a flease blanket once he was asleep unless it was a very warm night. Most nights he kicked/ wriggled it off before morning and slept on soundly.
Your right friz, stash space is important, itll be nice to get most of teh panniers in teh porch rather than having to stash them in teh trailer over night which is a pain when you wake to rain and remember the kitchen box is in teh trailer.

We wnet to Teignmouth today for a fab nearly free day out. I car shared so paid for parking rather than petrol, teh playground on teh front is free and fantastic with a large preschoolers section ( also 5+ and 10+ areas) and a wet play area with water jets . Boy had a ball, he loved teh water jets and was quite happy being splashed by other kids and even having buckets of water tipped over him! picnic lunch, ice cream and on to teh beach, boy started stomping off to france, so I followed and we explored teh sea weedy shallows looking at crabs and throwing gravel.

Uni sounds lovely wish we lived nearer the sea.....not going to happen though! have to stay in radius of Leeds for ss.
LL have a great time up very north then glad our tips are of use

Swimming today here, but went out with two of my girly friends last night and we're planning on taking the kids to Matlock for the day tomorrow, should hopefully keep all ages entertained park and arcades hopefully will cut the mustard?

Sounds like a great day out Uni - Kiah is obsessed with 'wahter' too.

Reckon park and arcades should do Friz - where did you go out to last night then?

Sisters have taken my girls out for the whole day so am going to try and leave MN and plough through some work today.

Beautiful sunny day and nappies on the line.

Did ya manage to leave MN alone then

Just to Zizzi, ya know the pizza/pasta chain place.

hi all, jsut stopping in again. boy has learnt a new word - bugger, god knows where from. lol. GREMLIN!

jackinsti form this thread is also on the march 2008 thread, but sadly i've had to leave

sorry to hear that pips, big hug, hope you get through the next 6 months OK . nice of you drop by here tho, bugger, where do they get it from! I'm sure boy is going to come out with BUM very loudly one of these days.

That you Munz? Sorry to hear your news - hope you'll be on another ante natal thread soon.

Took girls to the beach after tea to tire them out for bed....saw a lost seal pup and Tilly wee'd in her pyjamas outside the pub!

Did do some MNing but got some work done too - having a day off tomorrow...

Pip nooooo {{{{Hugs}}}} sorry hon, echo Uni's thoughts.

Re ds though, my friends son used to say bugger a lot, they kept telling him off till they realised he meant Burger cheese bugger mummy!

LL for lost seal pup and oopse re the pj's accidents eh!

dd1 went to bed at 5.30 last night screaming the place down (very tired, swimming followed by the prospect of eating my lovingly cooked tea, polished her off) so I put her to bed, fell asleep mid 'I want my daddy' woke up at 5am today, but refreshed, so happily saw her dad off to work, then played happily till 8am when dd2 got up, followed by ss at 8.30
Off to Matlock today, inland seaside!!

LL yes it's me. made worse a bit by SIL now expecting but wil have to deal with it whent he time comes. hoping to get PG again pretty quick (asap preferably)

uni - least it's not bloody I guess. he said bugger thou in the shop in front of DH's boss- not too good. lol.

{{{{Hugs}}} Pip, heres hoping your on your way again soon

Oh Pip that's awful and exactly what has happened in my family too - my sis lost a baby in March and my SIL is expecting in Dec....she has asked sis to be her birthing partner tho so I hope it all works out.

Pop on here now and again and let us know how you're getting on.

We're off to Highland Games tomorrow....