August 2008 : FPG - Rambler's Rest!

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Boo!

Steaky see now I thought living with French PIL would be really stressful & require you to be trimmensely en your garde after dinner & sit around looking like Carla Bruni & discussing the separation of Church and State & possibly smoking cigarettes, not watching musicals in your jammies. Which racial stereotyping probably reveals why I was never proposed to by any Frenchman.

dizzy I think I've probably said it before but I can tell you it took a year for my father's death to sink in and five years later it still saddens me and still feels like a hole. But as someone sensibly and sensitively said to me at the time - you weren't ready for him to go, but he was ready to go. Big hugs.

Your casserole sounds YUM we had the basics here as dp muscled in offered to cook but he DID pop to the shop for a pound of Kerrygold so we had most of that on the spuds!

Can I just remark on a post I made ages and ages ago someone said about making porridge or some cereal and I say surely no dairy and they said with breastmilk and I said but you can't heat it and they said ok with water then.

Well that was stupid of me because you can heat it of course, it loses something in the heating I know but better heated and therefore reduced quality milk than water? Sorry that only just occurred to me and I can't remember who it was but they probably thought to themselves ah she's talking shite but were too polite to mention it.

Can I please urge all the members of this thread to disregard any advice I give, ever, because it's usually a load of eyewash?

dizzy I can't believe it's been 6 months already since you lost your mum {hugs} - but then I cant' believe we all have 6 month old babies either! Grieving is as individual as you are, and the grieving process will be different for us all. Although there are recognised stages of grief, how quickly we pass through them (or not) no-one can really say. Also, just because you feel goodd doesn't mean to say that you WILL feel bad. In a not-very-straightforward-way I guess I mean enjoy feeling up (as Cyteen said, only much more simply )

Hockey - we won 2-0 and I nearly scored. Still, I did managed a whole 5.5 hours without either of the ds's (much to dh's annoyance and horror!). FFG I do declare.

Not really an option to have denice with us (mum and dad would have her). No one in social services acknowledges that dneice is even at risk, let alone offering help to dsis. I'll leave it there otherwise I'll start ranting again!

Forgot to say - got a haircut and lovely new colour on Thursday {swish swish}

and now I'm off to sip some wine with dh

VG - DH would be most upset if we disregarded your recent assertion that he is irresistible.
He was very and then .

LOL Sibh I am a total sucker for brainy men! I seem to remember in the early days of this thread causing a leetle bit of trouble by claiming to be a sucker for vicars too, then we had Men in Uniform and all sorts and it all got very heavy and we had to reign ourselves in!

DP always very if I mention he's been mentioned .

Surely Steaknife is watching musicals in bed and looking like Carla Bruni, non?

TS couldn't resist an extra post on weaning thread. What a bunch of nasties!!!

X-post, VT. I recommended to a poor sleep-deprived woman on another thread that she should join us here this evening. She'll think she's lost the plot altogether if she reads the last few pages.

Sucker for vicars. Rofl.

I am ashamed to say that living with the French-in-laws is a dream. DH is the youngest son and first to marry so points to me for that, then I pop a lil one out, more points, then we move in with them and they look after us and in return we let them.

I am rather about it actually. You know when you feel that something should be harder. I look after lil one and go to my French class and thats pretty much it. Which makes me feel double if I have a day when I don't cope so well with the baby, as it isn't as if I have to do the shopping and cooking and cleaning too.

That said, we had an arse of a year last year so maybe it is okay to be looked after for a while.

VT my dodgoir francaise did stand up to a discussion of the DH and BILs charachters, relationships and feminism this evening. I was quite pleased with myself.

CC - do you still get to bully-off in hockey?

Angus we push back now (same as kick off really obv we don't kick the ball though!) However, if someone gets injured and the umpire isn't sure whose ball it is, then we would do a bully-off. Jolly hockey sticks and all that . Must say am envious of the sound of your life!

I can't resist a man in neoprene [winks] actually DH does look very spytastic in his divekit. Sigh.

Not at all Carla Bruni - am sporting a very cute lil bob at the moment accessorised with milk stained t-shirt. Chic non?

ah that's how it works.

evening all

VT huge brownie points to DP for going to get the kerrygold - I loved the fact that upon arriving in Spain we nipped into supermarket and there is was in all its shining glory - Kerrygold butter I do remember muttering something about the fecking Irish getting everywhere but that was only because DH and I were having a 'moment' at the time

thank you all for your kind words about my mum - cyteen I think you've hit it bang on the nose about there being no shame in feeling better than I think I should - thats exactly what I DO think and think I should be whimpering in a corner somewhere? I've always been a bit of a coper (if thats even a word?)

CC once again well done in shamingusall your excercise on a cold sat afternoon! DH nearly scored this morning too but then I kicked him out of bed to deal with the DC!!!

angus I feel much the same about my DH in his riot gear as you do about yours in his dive kit and don't ever feel embarrassed about living with family and letting them help - when your DC grown up and have a shitey time you'll do all you can to help out - that is what your PIL are doing for you, and on a plus point your DD will have a lovely close bond with them too

sibh am delighted by the term postmodern in context of my toastie

I am loving being Angus, what a great name, I am adding it to my mental list of boys names for possible future use.

I loved Augusta and tried to persuade the ladies on here to use it - I couldn't as we already have a DD beginning in A and I'm completely anal about names

It was Steaknife who said postmodern.
Jeez, I get blamed for all the literary critical technical terms round here.

I'm huffing off to the naming boards to seek opinions on Foucault as a name for any potential DS2.

VT -the glamour of DH's mind might wane if you were here editing an essay on farming poetry in the 18th century as I am.

Augusta is a good strong name. I have some misguided notion that a strong name helps develop a strong charachter - load of old tosh I expect.

I wanted to call DD Eleanor, it is a family name on my mum's side but DH said no, so she is Isabelle as it was the only name he suggested. When we had to do the paperwork for the registration he saw my mums middle name was Eleanor and said "oh that's a nice name"

GAH!!!! I had gone on about it for ages and even spelt it out for him, cloth eared muppet.

sorry sibh I meant to reply what you said about pregnancy/childbirth etc delaying the grieving process makes sense as I was told by HV that the intial rush of keep going/keep going/keep going once baby is here begins to wear off slightly by 6months so it could be creeping in slightly? Not sure its true though

and have also abandoned the ironing notion on your say so

Steak am a bit of a baby naming freak but have to say both Isabelle and Eleanor are lovely choices - my dh is also a cloth eared muppet but managed to come round to what was right in the end lol

Miamla evening!! sorry I didn't see you there

am munching my way through stir fry veg/chicken in an attempt to stop me going out to the car for the emergency maltesers

We only agreed Isabelle on the way to the hospital for the birth, I think I was just pleased he had suggested something.

The only other name we agreed on was Fleur, my suggestion, but I'd gone off it as he had told everyone already.

Weetimerous - you can pass the ironing this way, I don't mind it at all.

oh my GOD I think I love you

btw I have an Isabella so love Isabelle too

I'm just a bit odd that way. I saw a gentleman's tailor show the correct way to iron a shirt and I love doing them the correct way. Which, if you are interested, is the reverse of the construction. Start at collar and cuffs, sleeves, back yoke, front, back, front. Done

Oh and don't even think about putting a crease down the sleeve.

This would cleary be the subject on which I would use SHOUTY CAPITAL LETTERS at people on an MN thread.

oh I was always taught collar, cuffs, yoke etc and sleeves last. when DH joined the police I swore I wasn't doing his uniform and didn't so he's quite the expert!! they've changed to those black zip tshirts now though. I like doing the girls stuff its just ours that I don't like doing and mine mainly as I think its all huge

but thats quite enough of that - its a SATURDAY night FFS surely we can talk about something other than ironing