June 07 - Happy New Thread

[thisisRialifebaby]

A new thread for the new "us" inside

So much for my tesco boycott, I went to Sainsbury instead and couldn't get half the stuff I wanted so I had to go to tesco too. I am going to buy our veg from the farmshop where we go for eggs, but even they are a fairly commercial concern here, not a little hands-on farmer like my Dad. Farming isn't what it used to be (just look at Emmerdale - I DON'T EVER watch it, just an example. I once typeset a book on it, but that's irrelevant).

IKWYM about the fill-in atmospheric bits bumper, they are the bits I get bored with. I might have to get my file on "teenage angst" out of the wardrobe... DH gave me "that look" when I told him what you all said

Sad news about Daisy's Mum

OK. Bed for me. Got friends coming to lunch tomorrow so got a busy morning clearing up and cooking lunch (fish pie), so must be well rested.

Hi MHC, are you having a good time>? (sorry for ignoring you the other night, was not intentional).

What is the soil society?

night jammy, enjoy your day. Are you having sustainable fish

FFS, DH is making me watch Al Murray (marc & cerys are on). I'm sure he's met FIL and bases that bloody awful man on him

QI is on the other side...

Any recommendations for books for a 7 YO girl? I have to get some books for my sis in the middle east as they are desperate for something to read.

Oohh I loved Enid Blyton at that age ...

So did I norty! Is she a big reader? I would have loved Harry Potter at that age (and still do tbh)! I craved books at that age! I used to love Roald Dahl books (Matilda, The BFG etc.) and Anne Fine books are great too. She wrote Madam Doubtfire. I also liked the Borrowers and Dick King Smith books.

I used to read all the time, even whilst riding my bike! I was a saddo!

Hey MHC, hope you are having a wicked cool time. My dd always asks if we can go and see Mickey Mouse when the Disneyland ads come on tv! Hope your dcs are enjoying it!

Me too norty.

I am giving her my Milly Molly Mandy (my fave when I was little and I only read again it last year, hope I get it back - it's a must for everyone with little girl LOs) and Toms's Midnight Garden (odd, but good, read it for the 1st ever time last year, I used to read James Herriot when I was little). I have lost The Children of Green Howe (or whatever it's called - lent it to my other niece or my Dad and I WANT IT BACK!). I though maybe littles girls stories had moved on now. (Bratz - the plastic prostitutes). I quite liked the Pullen-Thompson sisters too.

OMG ria, I forgot about the P-T horsey books! Iloved those. I used to read James Herriot too! If they are into ponies I used to read the Jill books by Ruby Ferguson.

I used to read with a torch under my bedclothes .....I really hope my DD likes reading....she got some Topsy and Tim books for Christmas...I learnt to read with those

Right off to bed....night all x

I heart Tospy and Tim!

Topsy that is!

I don't know what she's into as have never met her. I don't want to be a saddo old auntie and get books she thinks are boring, but I am completely at a loss with little girls. (and boys, cos DS1 doesn't read if he can help it.)

aww, aren't marc & cerys sweet. hope it's genuine. I think she's fab.

nite norty

I used to do the torch under the bedclothes bit too, also read all the James Herriot books. Can't remember for the life of me what I read at 7 though. How about The Hobbit? My Mum used to teach roughly that age group and said it was always very popular when she read it to her classes.

'Tis a classic sputnik!

Night, my ds is shouting at me xxx

I have never read the hobbit. Started to read it to DS1 but he got bored (I have a lovely illustrated copy too, but I have two boys to go at!)

I think Jaqueline Wilson is too old and would prefer to stick to the classics. I suppose I will just have to look in the bookshop.

Suppose I should bugger off to bed. Nite all. Rx

Morning all

Ria, when I was young I loved Enid Blyton, especially the St Claires and Malory Towers series, and the Faraway Tree stories. There's also Ballet Shoes (loved it on TV at Xmas!), the Narnia books, and Roald Dahl.

Is our fish sustainable? Well we are using pollack (which is on Hugh FW's list of good fish) and line caught haddock (which has to be better than trawler caught haddock) and prawns (which may be a bit but we only have a few of them). I shall poach the pollack and hoddock in milk, then use the milk to make a sauce, then mix the pollack, haddock, prawns, some hard-boiled (free-range, organic) eggs and peas in with the sauce and top the lot with mashed potato. We will serve that with some curly kale from this week's veg box and some home-made bread. How smuggy do I sound ? Still, I hope it'll all be delicious.

v smuggy jammy LOL! Malory towers, st claires & faraway tree were all my fave books too! (in fact while at my family reunion before xmas i found a malory towers book while trying to bf dd in peace and read it!). I love the Drina Ballerina books too and collect them now but they are hard to get as they are out of print. and when i was older i loved Sweet Valley high books, to my mum's despair. i always had a really high reading age but wasted it on trash, much the same as now!

I am sooo tired. DH and I went to bed at 10.30 then for some reason DD woke up at 11.40 and drained both boobs. By the time we got her back down I couldn't sleep so was up for hour. And despite an huge feed later than she would normally have it she still woke up at 7 like clockwork (grrr) When I bought her back into bed DH said "oh you should have woken me up I would have fed her" and I just grumbled something about it being too bloody late now, and I am now in a strop with him, but I am being unreasonable because if I had woken him up he would have got up and fed her without complaint, but I didn't want to have to wake him up and ask him like he's doing me a favour (even though that's not how he sees it), I just want him to get up anyway, but I always wake up first.

So anyway I am in a strop now because I'm tired and it's not DH's fault at all so I need to snap out of it. Honestly I have such a bad relationship with sleep. I feel like I need at least 9 hrs to feel human, and if I can't sleep or go to bed too late I get really panicky about being tired, which makes it worse. DH can't understand as he can sleep anywhere any time. I'm panicking about going back to work and having to get up even earlier. I wish I knew how to be better at sleeping.

can't believe I'm on here already, but in all honesty what else is there to do at this time of day?

Am considering walking DS1 to tennis (so shall have to shift my bum as we need to be there by 9).

Fish pie sounds delicious (and I don't like fish really). Am a bit about all this sustainable fishing business too (we nearly live in a fishing community that's dwindling). Like most of this political food thing there must be a better way. But it's Saturday, so lets be happy

Have a lovely day with your friends jammy.

hope you manage a nap later bumper,

I must get dressed or I will have to drive to tennis in my PJs

LOL loving your fish pie smugness Jammy

I wish I had the energy for things like that! DS is still ill, still refusing food, still awake all night. Very tired mummy and daddy.

Now I am off to do housework and put stuff on ebay and ironing and stuff.

Daisy if you see this just wanted to say how very very sorry I am about your mum
lots of hugs

hope you all can sneak a nap later too fury.

back tonight if I haven't collapsed from exhaustion.