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June 07 - no MNET all morning then the flippin' thread runs out!

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RiaisMaLarkin · 04/04/2008 14:17

NEW THREAD!

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Bumperlicious · 15/04/2008 21:15

Daisy I heard it via another thread daisy. No VBAC? I'll have a look for her thread.

Izzy that's great news about your mum, what a relief.

Hi jammy.

The problem with my work is that every problem involves a different person there is no one person I can speak to. V frustrating you would think I was the only person to ever go on mat leave!

V excited actually as I found someone who works in the same company as me on here. I don't know her but guessed from some of her threads (it's one of the biggest employers in the area) so I stalked her a bit, then she found out who I was while I was off and last week she emailed me (not knowing if it was me for sure) "erm, I may be going out on a limb here but if I was to sign of XXX would that mean anything to you?" I thought about letting her stew and think that she had sent that email to a completely random person but I replied and we are meeting tomorrow. She has a wiki page at work and seems v funny. We are going to hatch a plan to try and discover more mumsnetters in work, or at least recruit them! I a bit nervous though

Bumperlicious · 15/04/2008 21:22

Right, I am retiring to bed with Vanity Fair, night all x

Bumperlicious · 15/04/2008 21:22

The book - not the mag!

Riallyclean · 15/04/2008 21:23

sounds very cloak & dagger bumper.

Glad to hear about your Mum Izzy.

Hi jammy. That's a good gardening philosophy. We differ here on opinion - if we don't know what something is DH leaves it to see and I dig it up. I haven't done "proper" gardening since DS2 was a toddler

lackaDAISYcal · 15/04/2008 21:29

Ria, so far we have only planted out garlic and onions, but have some things in pots ready to go oout when it warms up; there was a frost here last night, so not quite warm enough for courgettes.

If you leave it later you can plant directly in the ground. The seed packets have a guide on the back, or buy The Vegetable Expert book at your local garden centre, or look out for Grow Your Own Veg by that mad woman from Gardener's World (carol Klein I think), or the gardening God and all round Great Yorshireman Alan Tichmarsh has a new Kitchen Garden book out!

bumper....a proper RL friend from MN woohoo....and who said cyber friends were for losers! Have a great time......which poster btw, can you spill or is that classified info too?

Riallyclean · 15/04/2008 21:41

I have the New Supergardener. We were going to buy the Kim WIlde book for the DCs but never got round to it. I'm thinking - onions, peas, beans of some sort, lettuce, radishes. And whatever else DH plants. I grew some lovely sweet williams the year before last. We have been offered seeds by our neighbour who apparently has a massive stash in his garage.

Small rant - did anyone see the thread about the missing toy bunny Spot who was bunny-napped (allegedly) by the downstairs neighbour? Along that theme, on Saturday DS1 & I found an obviously loved toy dropped in a flowerbed when we walked to tennis. So, I took it to the post office to ask them to sit it in their window so the owner could maybe find it. The post office owner refused because it was wet and told me to throw it in the bin. I took it to the supermarket instead and it is sitting on their till partition. How mean. I hope someone goes to the post office asking if anyone's seen it. Rant over.

lackaDAISYcal · 15/04/2008 21:52

Bah humbug to the PO Ria....or should we call you Emily?

May the PO cuts rain on them for being so curmudgeonly.

I've just missed the second part of Waking the Dead....bugger!

lackaDAISYcal · 15/04/2008 21:53

and I like the sound of The New Supergardener......that could be me

Riallyclean · 15/04/2008 21:59

I can't have any more retro '70s names to choose from, I am more bagpuss anyway (saggy and whatever it is at the seams!!!)

Night all. I am giong to a film group tomorrow morning about Finding Neverland

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lackaDAISYcal · 15/04/2008 23:00

I think I just felt bubba moving .....am only just 11 weeks....surely not and it's just wind????

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annobal · 16/04/2008 10:53

Greetings from sunny oz! Hope everyone is well, I haven't had a chance to catch up on the thousands of pages that I have missed out on while pining for MN (and an internet connection).

Things are great here - so far I've managed to not even fight with my mum (and I think we're only mildly annoying them ). Boys have settled in really well. DH is still off work - he has another week before he is due to start. We won't move in to our new home for another month or so and are still with dps.

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 16/04/2008 11:49

Hey Annobal! Good to see you back online How was the flight etc?

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foxythesnowfox · 16/04/2008 12:40

Hello everyone, and hello Annobal! Good to see you back.

Had a quick skim, promptly forgotten everything.

Now have to dash, as DD has her first ballet lesson and I have to get her ready

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 16/04/2008 12:47

Hi MHC, Hi Foxy.
Just been getting the jamlet's lunch. Cheesey oat biscuits, goats cheese and pastrami today And peach slices for pudding.

Got a 3 mile walk planned for this afternoon, so hope the weather stays dry. Tonnes to do round the house too, but want to keep the walking up now I've made a good start.

Foxy, hope the ballet goes well

lilQuidditchKel · 16/04/2008 13:10

hi all thanks for the good wishes for grunting DS! he's such a sweet boy but goodness, his tantrums and whining are horrific. i'm so very torn all the time between going with his grunts and pointing because there's no way I can force him to speak if he can't...and thinking that is the biggest mistake because it only trains him to be lazy. if i could only see into his mind and find out whether or not he's putting on an act, it would be grand. I guess the one thing I keep thinking of is a comment by an expert I read which said, there's no way a child who can use words will prefer to scream/tantrum/whine...

izzy re your mum. good to hear good news like that

daisy thx for the link - and re VS baby! am dying to hear news from a friend of mine who was induced yesterday, supposedly bearing a small elephant as well (her first is DS' age and that baby was nearly 11 lb!)

annobal · 16/04/2008 13:12

Hey! Have wrested pooter from dh for a quick hello. Flight was actually not too bad thanks Jammy - Singapore was fab (wedding was fantastic). Ballet sounds very exciting, Foxy, how are your dcs?

Getting late and it is almost time for bed (we're around at my sister's - without children ), so will try and get on-line in the next few days...

Lots of love xxx

lilQuidditchKel · 16/04/2008 13:13

ooh and Foxy a ballet class let us know how it goes

Hi Annobal!

annobal · 16/04/2008 13:15

Hi Lilkel .

MHC - weather is amazing - we went to the beach yesterday . AND it has even rained!!

OK, must go as am about to fall asleep at pooter...

Sputnik · 16/04/2008 13:18

Hi Annobal, nice to have you back and glad everything is going well

Sputnik · 16/04/2008 13:20

Er Lilkel, hate to break this to you but they throw tantrums when they can speak too

lilQuidditchKel · 16/04/2008 13:32

ha ha Sputnik
i think i'm just fed up with his lack of understanding/my lack of understanding. better take a break from this thread; all i'm doing is complaining lately...sigh.

Sputnik · 16/04/2008 13:34

Don't go Lilkel, that's what we're here for.