June 07: We are going to finish this thread skinnier than we started it

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Seeing as none of you lazy beyaches are going to start a new one...

evening all

Bloody footie on the tele again....but I have a TV in this room now as well

PITA about CAB/Tom Natty....at least you're in for next week.

Dinner sounds lovely Jammy.....I've just had a yummy chicken tikka masala....(btw Daisy, Sainsbury's do a nice range of low-fat own brand curry sauces)

Forestry sounds good Ria

Spoke to my car insurance today and I can drive again....thank fuck for that!

Natty if it was chicken he'd be VERY ill.

Most likely dairy or something, or even just a virus. I would go with if he is ASKING for food, give him food.

happy birthday Mr Jammy.

They are all in bed! You would think after all the exercise, freash air and mud, they would have been out like little lights I feel quite content. I have missed the forestry I could walk for miles and miles on my own. nearly 3 of Mario this and Nintendo that, and Hitler and kamikaze, plus the driving, was quite enough thank you!

I feel your pain sputnik. Although they all vanished the iffy stew last night. I think I am nearly getting the balance between hungry enough to eat anything, and over-tired as I have been late with every meal so far this week

DH has finally taken a day off sick. He also has a GP appt, so now I have all day to fret about him getting signed off for ages and having to live on SSP. I am never satisfied

how lovely, my day just gets better.

DH has just been sacked. Over the phone, no notice period, for "being unreliable and not being able to cope with the hours" FFS

I know I hated his job with a passion, and he was probably leaving anyway, but there is no need for blatant lies. And I have a horrible feeling he has been set up for this with all the questioning and stuff this week

PAH.

oh Ria ....I'm so sorry

Ria

Bugger Ria
Hope this other prospect works out for him.

ria.

The catering industry sounds like a bloody nightmare to work in. No respect for the staff at all. Can they even do that? surely there are procedures like written warnings etc and if he hasn't had them.....

I got fed up with trailing in dog shit every time I walk along to school, so tackled a man about it who let his poodle crap in the middle of the pavement and then walked on. The ignorant fuckwit didn't even acknowledge I had spoken to him; so after telling him he was irresponsible and that if he can't clean up after his dog then he shouldn't have one and that he was breaking the law by not cleaning up, I have called the council and told them I'm prepared to identify him so that they can fine him . He's not the only one by any manner but he was there and I caught him at it. The street is used as a way to get to the local playing fields and is covered in shit, which I have to scrape off the wheels of the pram on a weekly basis....grrrrrr . And this is supposed to be the nice end of town as well

I'm really fired up by this and am going to see if I can get some posters/flyers made up about the health dangers and hand out nappy sacks if I have to.

Oh Ria

shitty-shite

Oh Ria

shitty-shite

good on you! but use biodegrabable nappy sacks or you'll have the eco-warriors after you! The forestry had good signs, I'll see if I can find a link...

Thanks for the support guys. The situation itself isn't so bad (in the great great scheme of things, we're quite used to it) it's their reason that rankle. Why should he cope with twice as many hours as everyone else? and 1 1/2 days off sick and half a shift when DS2 was at A&E in three months isn't unreliable. Will be interesting to see what happens when senior management find out... I SO hope DH gets the last laugh.

We have been to town for DS2 to have his photo taken by the newspaper with the staff at the shop who looked after him after his accident

I have sent an email to my councellor as well

bloody hell Ria, they sound like a bunch of tossers. I take it this is his immediate boss that has done this and not the big boss? DH has just had four days off as I was in the hospital and then knackered at home, and he came home early today as his boss told him to get off to look after the kids; and he has been there for less than 3 months. He also had a day off last week and will have a coule next week as he has his vasectomy. His work are being great about it; life happens and sometimes things are unplanned and need dealing with.

In my perfect little world, when I win the lottery and open my cafe on the east coast, he can come and be my head chef and work as flexibly as he likes

Bravo Daisy!
The area where my MIL lives is like that, I hardly go there anymore now but I used to get really wound up that walking anywhere involved constantly thinking about dogshit.
The place we're moving too doesn't seem too bad for that.
Amazingly, in anarchic Italy, the small place I live now can fine dog owners for not having a bag on them. Don't know if they've ever applied it but there is no dog shit.

thanks daisy. I have my eye on a derelict house and market garden I used to visit with my dad when I was tiny. Nice house for us at one side, B&B at the other, organic garden at the back, outbuildings for a couple of holiday apartments, can't remember if there's a nice bistro site... just need the lottery win now

yes, it was the "managers" decision (and apparently these decisions have to be cleared by someone else first - he is away this weekend.) the manager might be in the poop too as they weren't in for their shift when DH rang in sick... it's going to be interesting.

DS2 is perfectly icing gingerbread men

half the ironing done...

Don't know why people with dogs always have to use the school run route (but I would get slated as a cat owner). My BIL has been known to see someone leave poo outside their house from his office in the attic, charge downstairs, follow them up the street to their house and bang on the door and demand they go back out and pick it up. He is quite a confrontational bloke though I feel like getting militant about spitting too

the only "up" side is DM&F leave dsis's house today, so I can wait to tell them til they get back after their couple of weeks in Oz

your DHs work sound lovely

evening all.

arse ria about DH job, i hope the man who sacked him gets sacked himself.

go daisy! wanna come stick some posters up around here about dog muck? its awful around here atm.

well ive been out all day, had docs booking in health check up thingy at new surgery today. blood pressure is up on what i normally have (100/50) to 126/70 which might explain all the headaches. i know that its not high its within normals, but as i have low blood pressure normally anyway i thought maybe its fluctuating alot and giving me headaches?

took the kids to bromley and wore them out in the shopping center afterwards. brought them home and put themt o bed after a swift dinner.

im the one thats tired now tho, kids still awake lol

Hi everybody!

Arse about the dog poo, Ria's DH getting sacked and Natty's BP

And arse for my day at work Yes, they had me in on a Friday to do a course on being a loggist and it was dull-diddly-dull-dull!!! But at least the guy got through it by 3 not 4.30 so I got home in time to take jamlet to "the field" on her little trike and push her around for a bit She loved it and it was good exercise for me. Still, 5.5 hours being taught how to write things down in a notebook [yawn]

write? as in with a pen??? medern technology eh?

Just had nearly an hour on the phone to dsis, I need to put the kids to bed and wash up

Yes, writing with a pen (specifically a black pen, unless it is to correct a mistake or make an addition, in which case use a red pen, unless it is to correct a correction, in which case use a green one) on paper (preferably a specially printed, hard backed, bound notebook which costs £17 )

bloody hell jammy, what sort of note-taking were you getting taught? Is it legal?

Bugger for your BP natty. Not surprised it's raised with everything that's been going on.

lol, that's note taking in a legal context, not is it legal for them to teach you how to take notes in that fashion

daisy do u think the bp is why i feel so rough and headachy all the time?

Don't know about the BP, but I used to get a lot of headaches in the 2nd trimester of both my pgs. Have you had a lot of colds? It could be sinus related, if your head hurts more when you bend down that's a classic sign.

It could also be stress, with all you've been going through lately.

DD had suspicious spots today, but apparently not chicken pox. She did have diarrhea though, so off school again, I think she's been in about 10 times since january.