June 07 - hankering after a quieter, more peaceful time

[daisyandbabybootoo]

I think all that talk of superheroes made us all a bit feisty

not watching it - DH playing PS so i can't see it, is it scary???

i'm keeping an eye on ebay tonight as my mobile phone is selling in 1/2 hour.
currently at £36

Yep - it's scaring the pants off me!
All my lovely beauty products are full of nasties! Even 'Simple' and 'Aveda' stuff

really? that's crap. might watch it on channel4+1.

Phew, I've just had cracking service from a holiday flat company in Edinburgh. I sent off an e-mail with a booking enquiry and they called me back five minutes later....talk about good service!...either that or desperate for business

I'm deliberately not watching that DKMA....

so did they offer you somewhere Daisy?

(yeah my mobile selling for £51.99 with 9 mins to go and 16 people watching it ) >

AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!! Car insurance is confusing! Am trying all the comparison sites and am getting some quite good quotes, much less than I thought!

Jesus christ! I feel better about FF now!! I use loads of products so I bet my BM was packed full of it!!
Please to say I only use the Mclaren range and Neals yard for LO. Johnsons etc = full of nasties
Might now swop to Ecover washing powder now too - does anyone use this? Is it any good?

Hell/Fury (what shall I call you??)
Im using Little Lambs Size 1 - but theyre the only ones Ive used so Ive got nothing to compare them with. They are quite bulky and take a while to dry, but Im getting on ok with them.
Poo is well contained , but I get wee leaking onto the cuffs of the wrap every so often - (is that what Daisy calls wicking? Im not sure what that means?)
Even with a booster layer I have to change L every 2.5 - 3 hrs.
Is that good or bad?

I use ecover tabs in the dishwasher, they actually clean better than anything else I've used. Also use their stuff for delicates but the not powder usually as I prefer liquid detergent

That programme sounds awful...yet another thing to stop women bfing! Along with Bringing Up Baby C4 has a lot to answer for!

yippee phone sold for £58.50!!!!

Hi again. I survived the driving, even the right turn and the dark. Judo was actually very boring - DH can go next week

Yay! Want help choosing some boots?

WOOHOO for derlor's phone!!

How odd that one company can charge me £345 for my insurance, yet another is £970!

i LOVE selling stuff on ebay, now i need to start looking for some lovely knee lenght black boots........
DKMA - i'm watching that programme now, those sisters are scary!

NO NO NO they did not tell people to stop BF they just said be careful about the products you use as they can pass into BM - makes sense really!
Things like formaldahide and incecicides (sp?) that are in the shower gels we use for example - end up in our BM.

jbm, I usually change babyboo every couple of hours during the day. Real nappies are never going to be as absorbent as disposables. I get wicking (yes that's what you described; basically the meaterial of the cuff acts like a wick and sucks up the wee transferring it to clothes) if I leave her for too long as well.

funnily enough I was using dispos last week cos of her dry skin (my washing machine isn't rinsing properly) but she's been back in cloth this week and I keep forgetting to change her and wondering why her vest is wet.

it's shocking the difference in prices for car insurance. i just don't get how they can differ SO much

flip, it's so foggy here i literally can't see the house across the road!!!!

but they all say they are the cheapest ???

I got a good deal from the AA on european breakdown assistance for our hols next week.

When I tried the website, it quoted mt £48 as a non AA member (I couldn't remember my membership No). I phoned them up yesterday, with my membership number, and with a 10% discount he gave me £49.50. I told himthe web thing was cheaper so he applied a web discount and gave me £48.00. I asked for a ref number as i was going to get more quotes, and he started giving me the spiel about how they were the best cos they included this, that and the other, but other comapnies were this or that or the other (iyswim). when I told him that it didn't make good business sense for me to take his word for it and I needed to hear for myself what other companoies were offering, he said he could apply his own personal discount and took it down to £37.50.

Just shows it pays to be hard nosed and flinty about these things.

on the subject of chemicals......my real nappies from the council contained this information about disposables.

"The chemicals that make up the absorbent layer of the nappies are not subject to government controls or independent testing. Sodium polyacrylate, the chemical that makes disposable nappies so absorbent, was removed from tampons in 1985 because of its link to Toxic Shock Syndrome. Despite all the evidence for its effects on adult women who used it in tampons, its usage in nappies continues and its possible effect on babies? thin skin and reproductive organs remains unstudied"

you go girl!!!!
DH just did similar with sky HD he haggled between phone and wee guy in local shopping centre and managed to get £50 off "cheepest possible price" and free instalation - dobbers!! just shows what a bit of persistance can do