December 2006- Here's to pre-school newbies, business starters and twin survivers.

[Indith]

Oh go on then.

I'm rubbish at titles though but I bow down to Oli's cakes and supermum.

Oh great. Ds has just picked and eaten each and every strawberry in the garden. WOuldn't be all that bad but they were all still green and nowhere near being ripe!

I shall have no sympathy if he has a tummy ache later!

Weren't you going to decamp to your MIL when the dust got too much, oli? The idea of making one cake in a week fills me with dread, perhaps you could run a class in your new kitchen and I'll come Indith is not allowed because she clearly makes far too many cakes already! I bought the ingredients for Malteser Crunch last week to make with ds1 & ds2 but have eaten all the maltesers. No, it's worse, I replaced the maltesers and then ate them all again!
I'm glad you got some sleep anyway, Oli. I notice dp never actually apologises unless he has really transgressed (like walking on out me a few weeks ago leaving me to put all 4 to bed and staying in a hotel for the night!). Prize arse that night.
hope ds's tummy not too bad, indith, I can totally see most of my dcs doing that (not that we have strawberries).
Dare I hope that potty training has arrived in the house of AQ? DS2 decided yesterday that pants were the thing, fished them all out and did 4 straight wees in the potty on arriving home from nursery this afternoon. He's so pleased with himself he's giddy. DS1 looking quite miffed about it all. Jabber, thanks for email, I will try to mail you back in a few days but off to London tomorrow, funeral before I go and supermarket order to sort before packing!

meant to ask if ds1 still has his electronic bracelet or did he earn being trusted again?

AQ, eating the malteasers sounds far easier than making the cake.

If there are cake making lessons to be had I need ot be involved. There is a produce show in the village in September and I need to get practicing to beat the WI ladies in the Victoria Sponge category Shame there is no category for cordial, I just made some elderflower with flowers I gathered on the track and it is very yummy.

Back from a surprisingly fun and fairly restful mini-vacation with the dh and the boys! No real meltdowns from anyone (including me!) and I have a day to unpack etc before the work week starts.

Mmmm, elderflower cordial, my favourite. I'll trade you a cake lesson for a bottle of that. Is it easy to make? There is masses of elderflower round here atm and I keep thinking I ought to give it a go.

AQ, just roared at you and the maltesers, that's me to a T . Hooray for self potty training ds2 - clever boy! Have fun in LondonIs DH being left with all the dcs?

Jabber, glad the break was a success .

Twas the village fete today and the late nights paid off, thank goodness! I got 4 commissions on the day, plus enquiries about 2 wedding cakes and about 100 people took business cards. I'm oddly proud of myself, it's been so long since I've done anything that isn't connected in some way to the dcs that it was so lovely to have attention on me because of me iyswim. Can't explain it but it was a good feeling .

All my most recent cakes are on my FB fan page, can't get them onto here via the Mac, it's too complicated for my pea brain!

Congratulations Oli - you are so talented, you should be very proud.

I have to nip off here for a while. Same reason as last time, will read thread and keep in touch via fb.

oli, that is wonderful!! So all of the manic-ness paid off

AQ, I totally missed that ds2 is potty training himself. Very good! I know that you were like me, i.e. quite hesitant to go down that whole road again. My ds2 has been much easier than ds1 and I think is now reliably dry at night. (Ds1 still not, but that's a whole other thing)

Oli that's great!

Cordial is just made by steeping the flowers along with some lemon zest and slices in sugar syrup for 24 hours. 750ml water to 1kg sugar will do for about 10 heads of flowers and 1 lemon. Then strain and bottle.

As is it will keep for a few weeks in the fridge. If you add citric acid then it will keep for 6 months, also in the fridge. You can get stuff that will make it keep for years itv the cupboard but I've not experimented with that yet.

Hello. My name is Kevin. Ds is now called Joany but is still a boy. Dd is a boy, the only reason she doesn't have a willy is because it was broken when she was born.

Someone is still confused about the willy vs vagina thing

new thread, hopefully everyone will be able to post on it.