August 2008: Coffee's On. Pull up a Chair and Chat a While.

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AHHH the greaseproof should cover the bottom and sides, if you scrunch it up then straighten it before lining the tin sides and bottom before adding beansand baking.

Hope it works sounds yummy.

mmmmmmm....pie..............

Have just seen this
howawful.

That's very sad.

I really ought to be having a shower right now. SIL is going to come over in a bit to keep seb occupied while I do hidying tidying.
Actually doubt hidying would work, as we have too much crap and not enough space.

Where is everyone

Hellooooo?

shhh, Ann I'm 'at work'

My colleague has just gone out, thereby allowing me unfettered mn access time to complete some urgent research on the internet .
Very quiet day tbh, being broken back in VERY gently. 5 hrs today then back properly for 4 days next week.

It's nice to do something other than baby stuff but I don't half miss him, and keep wondering if nursery are doing things the way Oliver likes them!

Very sad for David Cameron and his family

OK CC have a good day.Have to say Oliver's pic is just gorgeous. He has exactly the same cheeky look that Seb's just started doing yesterday

Thanks Ann, they are a pair of cheeky boys eh?

TYpical - first time in ages I get access to mn without kids around...and no-one else is about!! Oh well, I can murmur away to myself (and Ann )

Did I say it was the MAM teat we had success with yesterday? It was brilliant and I'm really hoping for a repeat performance this evening.

Anyway, my working day is drawing to a close. Better go and wash my mug in preparation for my departure....have to say my norks have grown somewhat throughout the day

I am here...been out for my first driving lesson with Joe in the back and am pleased to report that he was angelic Think my driving was better too.

Ooh cyteen very of the driving lessons. I don' have money for lessons

They're good, but I've put in for my test on 12th March, eek! and am now totally cacking it...I hate failure, and the driving test is very easy to fail.

cyteen - ooooh good luck. Probably passing my driving test is one of the things that I am most proud of (and for me it took a lot of lessons and practice )

anyway, just popping on to say that Tom just did his first kind of solid poo and screamed throughout. Normal? not normal? any votes?

Ann - DS is a month older than Seb and he is nowhere near sitting, or crawling yet ...

Yes, sad news about David Cameron's son. Even when it isn't someone that we don't know.

I have just tried DD on some packet foodd in preparation for the week end. I bought an ellas kitchen spinach,apple and swede pouch which I was going toput in a bowl and drip her bread in it. I left it open on her highchair and went to get bread and bowl only to turn around and find her sucking on the open end and grinning a great green smile!! she had caught her own dinner and was very proud. S I guess nothing to worry about then. We bought some of the thicker/lumpier ones as they seemed to be more flavoursome looking.

CC glad you had a good day at work.

V sad news about David Cameron's son I must be PMS-ing as it made me cry.

Hi Ann - hows the day going?

dip her bread not drip her bread

Cyteen sorry I ignored you - I was blinded by a cloud of noxious gas the just came from DD. Driving test I did mine twice once here and once on South Africa much easier here!

Well done Poppy, catching your own dinner is very advanced! After saying he wouldn't eat anything off a spoon, DS has made a liar of me again by devouring 3/4 of a fromage frais - the rest is smeared on his face, vest, hands, highchair, he even got some in his eye . Having great fun chewing the spoon now.

Have also been crying at the news this evening, 'tis something that no parent should have to endure, the death of a child but I have also been a bit wtf about the excessive coverage - nearly 20 minutes on PM for what is really a personal tragedy for the Camerons and not anybody else's business

Quick update before storytime.
Kurt woke up in fine fettle of course this morning, back to the quiet, pleased-to-see-you little chap that he is. Panicked a bit at sudden pink marks on his face this avo, started planning childcare for trip to A&E but it had gone in 5mins!

Saw Milk at the cinema, v good, educational.

Parp. Sorry, laxatives working v efficiently!

Yay for Kurt

Clothes pegs for everyone else, pooeee Buckets

oops lol at catching your own dinner. Makes note to get some of those Ella things - am not finding much time to do purees as well as cooking normal food, packed lunches, cleaning etc etc blah blah blah

Agree hotter it is extremely sad but lots of others sadly will go/have gone through the same thing but it won't be news. Atm I should think they are wishing they were like other parents though - it has to be made doubly worse when it is all covered in the media - and what will his little brother and sister make of it......

Was feeling very down today - Toby has been teething again and have been walking around this not very big not very exciting village (one post office/shop and that's it) to get him to sleep. FIL turned up this evening though and came to ds1's gym class and generally was very helpful so the clouds have lifted a bit. I am not good without dh.

vg I just get ground down with the monotony of doing stuff on your own - especially in the evenings, I find it hard to get going, to make their lunches, to make my own dinner. tbh I just want to sit in front of the tv and go off duty once they are in bed iykwim

PF - I too am desperate to switch off when it gets to post tea/bath/bed, etc. It's been all I can do to run a cloth over the vast amounts of papaya (not a success) and smatterings of banana (success) strewn across the kitchen table. I am now about to retire to my 'shed' and watch some rubbish tv. Bliss.

Oh and Lentwise, I've just realised that I've inadvertently consumed chocolate today (the chocolate was hiding on the biscuits) so it'll have to be crisps or alcohol that get the heave-ho. So crisps it is.