May 07 Darling buds of May crawl this way...

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Sorry, best I could come up with in between making tea and trying to get Lils off to bed before the football starts...

Abby - the houses are really a couple of doors either side of me, and I pass the estate agents' window about 5 times a day. I reckon I might get caught out for not being a serious buyer - particularly when they ask me for my "details" for the database, when I want to view numbers 56 and 74 and I live at 66! Hehehe. I'm no good at lying. I wouldn't be able to pretend I was really interested.

Re: NCT. I'm a local "contact" for NCT and I can see how it can be daunting at first. We run a weekly group at a local community centre now, and tbh, I get nervous about having to go up to new arrivals and welcome them. I find it mortifying! I think most groups aren't "cliquey", it's just difficult when some people already know each other. Persevere for a while.

you youngsters won't want to be seen anywhere near me at the ripe old age of almost 37

At my mum and tots there were all ages and we all mixed, but that's Somerset for you, people down there are happy to talk to anyone, sheep and cows included

Forgot to say - does anyone like giraffes? We are going to a giraffe centre today to feed them. The dc just love it.

Cam im so glad you are going to see the giraffes, maybe you can clear something up for me, what noise do they make? No one seems to know.

So has anyone got anything nice for Valentines? Dh has been working 17hrs days all week (helping his Uncle and then doing his usual shift)and so he hasnt been able to buy me a card or anything yet but he has told me that he will bring me home something later and we are going for a meal tomorrow (he couldnt get tonight off work). All ive got him is a card, was planning to go out today and get him something but then I realised that Ive got my annual gas check today and so cant go anywhere until the man has been.

E has bought his friend a valentines card along with a small teddy and a choc heart lolly. Its so sweet, they are going to get married when they are older lol

Pebble - giraffes just always made a chewing noise (lots of lip smacking etc) when we were doing animal actions for dsd

I got a card and some flowers from dp... I'm going to sound really ungrateful and miserable but we had agreed we weren't going to get anything (we don't really do Valentine's day much and we're a bit broke). So I bought nothing (not even a card ) and now I feel really bad... I wish if we decided something we could just stick to it ! Will go and get a card later and cook something nice for tonight

TYG - seems funny that the NCT organisers could be as nervous as me ... that will probably help me next time I go

Tilly, thats what everyone says but they must 'talk' to each other Its all started because E was given a giraffe hobby horse and wanted to know what noise it makes but no one seems to know lol

Giraffes communicate using "infrasound". Like infra-red light, but in the sound spectrum. It's very low frequency and we can't hear it. It only bounces off large objects so travels long distances.

It's thought the "shiver" movements they do with their necks might also part of their communication process.

Belated post - so sorry to learn your news JW and MT2LB.

Tilly, welcome to the mumsnet postnatal threads. My baby was born on 4 May but he was due in April last year so I normally hang out there but occasionally visit here and had the pleasure of meeting a few of the May ladies in Bethnal Green last summer.

Hey, less of the "old" bit - I was 37 when D was born, note I say "was" as my birthday is in June. 33 is still pretty young I think.

Hi Elkie... Sorry - I meant old..er

Hello all

Well as I am now the big "40" I had better keep quiet about it LOL.

C at CMs today as I have day off to be with the DDs while they are on half term. We have made cakes this morning and they have now gone out to play!!

C had his 9 mth check today but I postponed it until next week so I could be with the DDs all day!

Not much happening in the sky house. I will be 15 weeks on saturday and all seems well at the mo. C been sleeping from about 8.30 until 6.30 for the first time ever. We hope to be getting his room sorted soon - DDs been sharing since before xmas so we must get on with it or he will still be in with us in August when the next one arrives.

TYG you even know about GIRAFFES??? Good lord, you are my phone a friend

DH dying, he is so unhappy. The pox have taken over... Beau's spots are still coming out bless him.

Am so bored and stuck and bored and pissed off....

I am old too, flippin 30 last year it does not help that dh is only 27 (just)

Am off to be misearble somewhere else, valentines day, pah!

TYG you even know about GIRAFFES??? Good lord, you are my phone a friend

DH dying, he is so unhappy. The pox have taken over... Beau's spots are still coming out bless him.

Am so bored and stuck and bored and pissed off....

I am old too, flippin 30 last year it does not help that dh is only 27 (just)

Am off to be misearble somewhere else, valentines day, pah!

Well the giraffe centre was great fun, you go up a viewing platform and feed them with special giraffe pellets which they lick from your outstretched hands. They have the most enormously long soft squidy grey tongues!

Pebble, that's a very good question and one dd asked as we went into the bush opposite to try and 'track' down Jock, the male giraffe who was cunningly disguised as an acacia bush. Frankly they make no sound at all, not even a lip smacking chewing sound as they eat. I think TYG, font-of-all- knowledge is right about the sonic sounds, the neck twisting and moving is definitely a way they communicate. Quite amazing.. dd also asked why they have horns - over to you TYG

We then went for lunch at a friend's house and one of the ladies lives on a flower farm and brought us all the most magnificent bunch of red roses you have ever seen - I told dh I had bought them for him She said that between 30 and 40% of their total annual sales come from Valentine's day orders Everyone is quite pleased they have managed to get their stock to the markets given all the troubles this year. Many workers have left the farms and transport has been an issue too.

So then dh came home with a bunch too, so we are awash in red roses!

Giraffes are related to deer and cattle, so they have some DNA make up that gives them the bumps on their heads. They're not "horns" as such, because they don't protrude from the skin. They're called ossicones. Okapis (the things that look a bit like a zebra mixed with a deer) also have them.

The evolutionary purpose of these protuberances is unknown in a giraffe. They possibly became unnecessary as their necks extended in the evolutionary process. However, they do use them to play-fight or in mating.

I'm good at the blue questions too. DH does yellow.

tyg - why do you have such a good knowledge of giraffes???
Hmm...old? I'm 36 and had DS1 when I was 32 - I felt like one of the younger ones first time round - not so much this time!

TYG - do you have a shunt in your brain directly linked to Google . Next quiz night I go to you are definitely my phone a friend.

Would love to meet up goils...let me know when and where.

By the way I'm so friggin' old I was bitching and moaning the other night to DH about being 37 and he turned to me and said 'You're 36 ya dingbat!' and he was right!!!!!!

Thank god he's younger than me (by 5 years) and still has some cells left to think with.

I cant belive you are 36 Tam..you look about 22 in RL, honestly!

Tyg is really David Attenbourough, its official..

Poor gandt's..horrid pox..

Well M is all fine..there is nowt up with her hips..ruddy HV and Dr..the consultant couldnt understand why they sent us in the first place as he couldnt see any signs at all that there was anything wrong..so thats a week of worry for nothing..numptys..still am pleased my little darling is fine and to prove it she has crawled, albeit backwards, today!

Must say DH did very well for V's day..card, flowers (not from Tesco's )tickets to a play I want to see, and we are just off out for dinner except Lily is refusing to go to bed and is currently in our bedroom so I cant get ready!So I am a lucky girl today.I got DH some shirts..not very exciting but he is easily pleased bless him..We have never ever been out on Valentines day, in 9 years of being together..I bet it will be full of cheesy couples..Spect we will have a row and get asked to leave lest we spoil the ambience

Must go and get my GHD's out, have only got half an hour..

Did you London gals meet up today? . Own fault if I missed it for being rubbish mumsnetter

If you do one again soon, will try to be more alert.

Hope you are all well.

Think I'm getting my first Aunty flo. Down to one BF mornings, so it was inevitable...just hoping it won't be as hideous as other mums have told me.

Oh yes and on the old mums front, I think I'm up there with Granny mum credentials (40 when O was born and planning no.2!)

And if you london gals did meet up - hope you had fun

Oh BUGGER. Was that today, the meet? For some unfathomable reason, I thought it was next Thurs for some reason and I was waiting to confirm, because I might go to Ireland for a few days. Duurrrrrr. Sorry.

No, no link to Google. I absorb useless info like a sponge and sometimes supplement it with some deep wiki-ing. However, I can't remember the day of the week and standing people up has now become a frighteningly regular occurrence. That's three times in just over a week, ffs. Takes about two months of seeing a group of people regularly before I can remember a single name. It's mortifying.

Man, you guys make me feel young (at 28), but 30 is creeping up. I remember when I was 17 I said I would have to kill myself at 30 because I would be old. I think I have to re-evaluate that plan.

Anyway, it looks like I have to go for another blood test next week (damn hormones won't settle down). I thought I was done, but apparently not.

Gotta go put kids to bed, and find something edible in the house (yeah right)

ciao

Poor you Latinomom, are your hcg levels still not back to zero? I used to think that abput getting old too! Must re evaluate soon

I am up at this god forsaken hour with the nightmare masquerading as Beau he is ok (apart from being awake all night) i have given him some piriton and medised and just euraxed him. DH fitful sleeping with his 4000 pox, me just NOT sleeping.

LGT i was up at 4am - thanks fully not for pox or insomniac baby - just restless one that decided he had been in his own bed too long

Latinomum - I think it can take 6 weeks for your hcg levels to sort themselves out, i know i was having blood tests for quite a few weeks, last thing you need really

Dd's last day at school, im a bit sad about it really she seems fine tho, she has her 2 best friends over for tea tnite but she told her teacher she is looking forwaard to making new friends

Still havent got a truck, did find one but they dont take electron and thats the only card i have at the mo grrrrr just what i need why is it the only thing that dp is in charge of is a cock up , i have managed to find a new house, new school, pack the house single handedly and look after the kids him and the dog, all he's had to do is sort a lorry and sell his ps3 and neither has been done!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bugger, LG&T. That's rubbish. How is S? It is S with shingles isn't it?

Lupins, men are crap. We've moved house 6 times and DH has never been any use. On move day, he charges around "helping" the removal
men and because he's tired at the end of the day, he reckons he's been a Godsend. Never mind the fact that the last two times we moved I took an entire week's holiday in order to clean and sort the house we moved into.

I nearly posted this in AIBU this morning, but I know I'm not, so I didn't bother. I brought him coffee in bed this morning because he was late and it would get him moving. He faffed about getting ready because he's going out after work. He had the coffee cup in the bathroom and I said, "Would you mind brining that down on your way - I have my cup and glass and Aoife to carry." He rolled his eyes! Asked him what the problem was and he goes, "I'm late and you're giving me JOBS to do." "You're going down anyway you useless git. I only want you to put it on the hall table ffs. I'm not even asking you to put it in the dishwasher; just save me an extra trip up and down the stairs."

Jaysis. He gets all arsey when he gets up late and acts like it's my fault. Nnggghhh.

So now, I've arranged a cleaner through an agency down the road and she sounded great, but she should have been here at 10.15 or 10.30 and there's no sign of her. Better call and find out what's going on. I was very excited about finally having someone regular. Talked DH into us needing someone for 4 hours, twice a week, so I could "keep up with the tidying and ironing and everything". Except I reckon she'll fit in 2 hours ironing a week as well as the cleaning.

My Next delivery, which I was waiting in for LAST THURSDAY still hasn't come. I phoned on Weds and all they could tell me was that if the courier department couldn't find it, then they'd re-order for me. No phone call back or anything. Tsk.