June 2007 They're (almost all) two which makes them hard work in a whole new range of ways. But just as adorable!

[JammyQueenOfTheSewers]

Unable to sleep thought I'd see what had been going on and saw we were due a new thread. Hope this is OK?

Oh dear, the rude part of my brain read Daisy's last post and thought "well yes, there will be something big up Bumper"

Sorry Bumper! Sorry Mr Bumper!

We are moving last week of august, as DD starts new school 3rd september.
We still have to paint the flat and assemble all the furniture (which we still have to buy half of).
Driving in Rome is chaos!

Driving in London is easy as long as you are a bit bolshy.
Rome looks worse!

I am happy to meet up subject to birthing
Would also prefer to drive, simply because I am too huge and SPD-like to like the pram on buses/tubes.

Remind me Fury, when's your due date?

21st August. But I suppose in theory it could be anytime.

a child at DS2s school died today

lol jammy. I'm sure Mr Bumper will be chuffed with your thoughts!
must put these kids to bed, only 1 more day to be late!

Ria why? what happened?

What happened Ria?

sorry, that was misleadng. It didn't happen at school. Apparently they died of an asthma attack last night (according to my friend who was in school helping this morning). DS2 brought a letter home and the disco was cancelld, DS1s school were having special "grief" sessions with the year mentor (siblings at that school). Child was 10/11. It is very

OMG Ria . The poor family. How do you get over something like that?

Jammy, after your horrors yesterday with Our Planet, you would be mortified with the story in the local paper about a couple finding a tarantula in woods in Horsforth . They think it's an escaped pet, and it took a posse from the pub (where they fled to safetly, lol) to track it down!

daisy. where I used to work we once had a python asleep in one of the fleeces in the shop, and nasty insect things in the cafe - it was next door to an aquarium.

Mmmm, that well known python fish

That would really have freaked me out Daisy. I used to live in Horsforth btw.

evening!
i got M&B stuff today too bit [shocked] at one of them, its a pump worth £250

great day here, DH even went shop and left me with all three DC and the house was still standing when he got back.

he is leaving me alone with them ALL DAY tomorrow as he ahs to pop into uni.. scary!!

about child that died, makes u think doesnt it.

is it wrong that im sitting here feeling sad that DS2 may be my last baby, and i really want another??

lucky you Natty, good work!

I am going to a mums house for a coffee morning. We haven't met and I am looking pretty...interesting... these days. I wonder if I'll get turned away at the door as they might confuse me with a very overweight bloated tramp.

Speaking of tramps Fury, we were walking along the river on the way into Oxford last weekend and a tramp started talking to DH and pointing as his tshirt. The tshirt has a series of picture showing typical evolutionary stages from ape to upright man, then slumping back down into an ape like pose in front of a PC. The tramp kept pointing to it and slurring "Darwinian fan". "Ah," says DH, you even get better educated tramps in Oxford!"

fuck
one of DHs friend kids who was here day before yesterday has been told she might have swine flu, has been in a&e all night and been given the anti viral.

what do i do now? panic? ds2 is only a week old.

Don't panic Natty
Just keep a close eye on him and check temps regularly

Remember he has increased immune system for a bit, plus you are BF'ing, there is nothing more you can do so don't panic, just keep a close eye.

Jammy are you confirming I am a tramp?

Was your DH's T-Shirt the 'Something, Somewhere, went terribly wrong' one?
Seems to be popular in nerd circles.

My DH has one that says 'go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script'. He doesn't like wearing it though as people keep asking him what it means.

When I was in China I had a series of t-shirts with mandarin on them saying:
'I don't know'
'I don't understand'
'I have no money'.

lol fury @ those tshirts!
trying not to panic, but on own today so cant give him 100% attention

That's the one Fury. And no I'm not saying you're a tramp, but your mention of one made me think of it, that's all

Natty, I know you must be worried, but try not to panic. If he has picked it up, he has, you can't change that now. but he might not have done. So just keep calm and keep an eye on things. DO call your GP if you think he is becoming unwell. But until then he needs a calm mummy not a flappy one!

flappy me?

It is so bloody dark here . I cam hardly see the keyboard - only can see it at all from the light of the laptop screen.

everything very subdued at school still, and the poor reception kids have to go to the hour-long assembly this afternoon as a mark of respect. it does make you want to hug your own kids very tight. I will be haunted by the child cheeky face for a while too.

Iagree natty. try not to panic (difficult I know). make yourself aware of the symptoms so you know what to look for, and keep an eye out. presumably if it is swine flu it will get confirmed as a case, so your fiend will be able to let you know? If it gets confirmed, maybe then contact your GP.

really grim, grey and raining here.

want buttery toast.

apparently they are not even testing for it, they are just treating all flu as swine flu. so i dont have a clue, and wont know if it is or isnt.
i bet all three of them come down with it while dh is out today.
feeling guilty cos the mum told us her DD had a cold and didnt want to infect us, but i said "oh its only a cold!"
now ive potentially made my family very sick, and DH is one of the very high risk groups as he has liver/kidney/blood pressure problems PLUS he is ashmatic