June 07 - where our cuddly bundles become roller-coasters, carpet-creepers, rug-rats, commando-crawlers and intrepid adventureres

[thisisRialifebaby]

Hope this is ok.

Don't think a few cat biscuits are going to hurt... how disgusting though

My god, she might not move yet, but she don't arf yell when I go out of the room....its very tiring....suppose I could be persuaded to sit on my arse in the lounge and do nothing

'lo Daisy! Glad you had a good birthday. Was wondering where you were, seems you were getting your house in order (literally) rather of you.

Fury, not that I've had any experience, but getting a buggy which you have to take the wheels off before putting it in the car will piss you off within minutes, if not seconds. The thought of it makes me narky. Especially if you have a toddler and crying baby and you've got to fart-arse around when all you want to do is stop DC1 legging it into the road and stop DC2 from screaming.

Nope, you need a buggy which you can pull out of the car with a baby under one arm, your foot on the hem of toddlers trousers, handbag in your mouth, and which will spring open at the flick of a wrist.

Does that help?

My faith in humanityhas been restored.

We dug DSs old car seat out of the loft the other day for babyboo to move up to, but noticed that the polystyrene insert was broken between two of the shoulder strap holes. I just called Britax to ask if it was safe to use (it isn't) and they said they would sort one out for me. I had my card all ready, but she just took my address and told me they would pop it in the post and was there anything else thay could help with . There was I thinking I'd need to fork out as much as a new car seat for it!

Don't worry about the cats biscuits, Daisy. Mine all survived those tasty morsels too.

I need a playpen......but then again, all this running around after babyboo has got to be helping with the weight loss ?

foxy, did you see this? I know you talk to verylittlecarrot on your little acorns thread.

Hurrah for Britax!

lol foxy, that is so my life!

I had the same nice experience wih Britax when our polystyrene broke - she said they'd replace it once free and if it broke again it was £5. And it arrived the next day. I too was expecting it to hurt my pocket

Not here

Foxy yes it does - if I have to take the wheels off, I'm not getting it. I am just going to try a few out, I won't be parting with any money tonight.
Also, I want none of this 2 part folding shit. The bugaboo does that and whilst I love the bugaboo the 2 part fold is annoying and slow.

It has to be one part folding, small when folded, and able to offroad pretty well. Amongst other things which I shall not bore the non-huns with. DKMA has been plugging the micralite toro but am not sure

learnt a new thing though, I always thought they were called Brit-ax, but apparently tis pronounced Brite-ax. You live and learn!

where is DKMA?

according to FB - gone sking

Where is Derlor....she's been on FB recently as well

I've not heard from derlor for ages and have even less time for fb than for mn!

dkma and lilkel are very quiet these days too, but I think lilkel has her hands full with two littlies to look after.

I heard from Derlor a few days ago - she says she is really busy as her house is being re-done.

Going home now. Had enough of all this working malarchy.

Help please....... I bought a small red cabbage for us to have with our roast chicken tonight. I usually just steam it in the same way as I would a white cabbage - but I just wondered if anyone else could give me a more interesting way of cooking it??????

Like Sputnik who went before you, you have succumbed to the seduction of a shiney, red cabbage!

There was a thread just last week... let me see if I can find it.

You and your fancy ways

here's a cabbage thread

Strictly carrots, peas and brocolli here.

I've got a good recipe that involves cooking it in a casserole dish with apple and a little wine vinegar, sort of sweet and sour, but it needs to cook for ages.

I'll see if I can find it!

Red Cabbage

1 small red cabbage, shredded
I onion, sliced
1oz butter
1 small cooking apple, peeled and sliced
1 small desert apple, peeled and sliced
2 tsp light brown sugar
2 teasp white wine vinegar
pinch of ground cloves (or 1 or 2 whole cloves)
salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 Shred cabbage and rinse well
2 In a large heavy saucepan, sautee onion in butter till it begins to soften
3 Add the drained but still wet cabbage, apples, sugar, vinegar and cloves and season with salt an pepper
4 Cover tightly and cook over a very low heat, mixing well and stirring every 15 mins or so for 2 hours or until the whole mass is soft and reduced in bulk. (add more water as required)
5 Taste and add more salt, pepper or sugfar if required.

You can also bake it in the oven whilst the chicken is cooking after starting off on the hob for 15 mins or so.

tis very yummy

I love red cabbage cooked like that. Reminds me though of our first Xmas in this house. We didn't think we were going to have use of a cooker, so we borrowed an electric grill off DH's family, and bought some really nice venison steaks, planning to grill them and serve with microwaved bakies and veg. But then we did get an oven installed just in time, so we decided to still have the steaks, but with red cabbage and roast potatos. Only the cabbage needed hours of cooking at a very low heat, then the potatos 1 hour at high heat. So I ended up cooking the cabbage first, then the potatos, popping the cabbage back in to reheat at the end, and the steaks about 3 minutes under the grill. So I must have been the only person getting up right early on Xmas day to put the cabbage on!

Work was good, but had to come home early because of stuff, so got 1 hour to make up later this evening. C was better at nursery today, but somehow my note went missing so instead of giving her the cup of lovely expressed milk first, they gave her the bottle of formula and the expressed milk has been sent home unused. And because it's previously frozen, and anyway was warm by the time I got home, it's wasted

that's a pisser about the milk jammy, especially if it takes an effort to get some ebm in the first place.

I read somewhere you can keep it at room temperature for 6-8 hours, but not sure if that works if it's been frozen first.

Glad your 1st day back went OK though. I'd mention it to the nursery manager that you want any ebm given before formula in future.

Riht off to deal wit my whingy DCs

Babyboo cut her second tooth today and is all red faced and miserable.

drool at the slow cooked cabbage with apple, etc. Unfortunately I don't have apples or cloves but will definitely copy it into my book to try next time.

And thanks for the cabbage link foxy.

It looks as if all the nice recipes need apple so will have to stick to steamed this time . It will be on next week's shopping list to try again though

Sorry about the milk Jammy , it used to upset me so much when my ebm went to waste.

How annoying Jammy! Hope your first day was ok. Good to see you dropped in here too