Hello girls
Lal/Urbaneski* - how disappointing for you about the nanny. I am really sorry. I hope you can find someone else who is ace in time. What a stress it is (and also for Kiwi and others). I know how anxious I felt when I thought I was going back to work...and I remember all the really helpful responses I got at the time. Crossing fingers for everyone very much.
Daisy, your poor GPs. So many cancers are treatable now, so hopefully it's one of them. She sounds like such a terrific lady.
Jolly - I love Belgium - a deeply underrated place in my view. Antwerp is great too (I have a friend who lives there) as is Brussels. And you can't beat a minibreak! ZJ is right though; a lot of people have lost people on here. I am sorry about your brother. I do remember you mentioning it before.
PMK - Happy Birthday young lady! I think cheerfulness and What Katie Did are an excellent way to usher in your birthday, personally. I watched it myself when DP was at a chambers meeting the other night and when he came back he was incredulous that I would watch such crap but I actually find it fascinating. What a strange person she is. And all that business of wearing her wedding dress to her friends' gay wedding vows renewal. And the horrid screechy singing, yikes. Glad the house is working out. I was in Reading the other day, shopping, thinking again that it really isn't bad for shops (though I know it's further away from there than your alternative place would have been). I too have horrid flash forwards about bad things happening to DD, but I think that's just motherhood
ZJ, that is such a clever thing to say about him not being able to dictate how I feel affection - I wish I had thought of that! I will be keeping THAT one in my back pocket though I hope I won't need it - after the posh lunch the other day he also took me up to the pub for supper last night and even managed to tell me I looked nice (compliments are rare around here), so I think he is really trying. I just wish we weren't locked into this Bridget Jones-Mark Darcy dynamic. Because I ain't Bridget Jones, and always find Colin Firth a bit frustrating...Yes, the separates for girls in M&S are very nice, particularly in the Autograph range. Don't know what the boy stuff is like, for those with DSs. I bought some nice bright babygros as well.
We did have a lovely time the pub last night and DD was so fab. She had her milk at the table and her other food, then bits off our plate - grown up things like olives, too - then she went to sleep. She is impeccable in public. But she shook her fists in my face this morning again as her milk wasn't ready the minute she got out of bed Maybe she has taken my remarks about the importance of good service far too seriously.
Veggie, I too thought the places featured in Derbyshire looked lovely. I was so sorry for the young couple at the end who came a cropper with their mortgage.
Good weekends to all. We are off to see our new house tomorrow - still not exchanged though...Other than that, there's a NT place called Buscot Park and I want to go there again before it shuts for the winter.
- Lal, I dreamed about you last night, probably because reading about your nanny was one of the last things I did before bed, and we were in a Gulag. But THAT is because I was telling DP about One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich....