August 2008 - I wish it could be Christmas every day, with the TV rows and the ILs you'd like to slay-ay-ay.

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Hmm might be a bit early for a festive thread title but thought we could get in the mood.

None of that tasteful two colour decoration scheme in my tent - oh no. The gawdier the better.

Oh well bugger you lot and your Friday night lives

I'd better get off to bed as I have to sober up in time to collect the car tomorrow [excited]

Night night lovely girls

oh Hots no Fri night life for me darling, am just home from a late shift, my ears are ringing and am pooped - lovely news re new car and laptop

taking the girls to Glamis Castle tomorrow for story telling, Santa and a carriageride
the inlaws are coming too but hey, can't have everything

am missing you all but this is my last shift before the holidays so am sorry if I'm missing anything

for anyone who is interested this is where we're going tomorrow

and for those of you with slightly older kids who 'understand' Santa more than the littlies have a look at this northpole tv its great

oh and spent a fortune on the Boden sale - thanks for the reminder Oops AND have managed to get tickets for Pearl Jam for DH's Christmas present - trying to relive our grunde teenage years - we'll probably be the oldest ones there but we LOVE them so am prepared to live through the humiliation

hots we are also getting a laptop as dp hogs my computer all night long!!! It's a brill idea

buckets hope your pasta was yummy. I love making fresh pasta, it tastes so good and is really quick

pert the allergy is unrelated to the eczema. we will be testing if certain food exacerbate the eczema over the next month or so ie dairy - but if they do, it does not mean he's allergic to them. We have accepted now that we must use steroid cream until it goes away which could be when he's 2 or 7.
steak good luck with job hunting

ds is telling me he's done a poo - he says wah wah, gotta go

This must be some sort of record....nearly one whole month on the same thread!

Hello to everyone Christmas madness has overtaken me. I did manage to buy a fabulous red dress for myself yesterday for £24 down from £55 .

Work has been a manic time this last week. I'll get sacked if I tell you why but it has been very hard work...

Horrid weather today, cold, wet, brrrrrrrrrr

morning all
sorry for absence, was busy sorting fancy dress outfit for my christmas party last thursday. was great fun and i didn't get home til 1am!!!!!!!!! DP then off to airport at 5am so not much sleep was had by all but hey, it was worth it!! brill brill night!
i'm not even going to try and pretend to catch up but i hope i haven't missed anything major
love you all!

I tried to post earlier but it didn't work!

Anyway was just jumping on to say I got my Secret Santa - Yay and thanks!

Steaky lovely to have you back - glad there are lots of job options for you.

QoD when will you hear?

hello ladies, whizzing on thru amid a sea of bodily fluids - DS had mysteriously yakked all over himself when I went in to him this morning, chunks in his hair, the lot. so an early bath was had, in the run-up to which he wee'd on the floor and then spat in it seems alright otherwise tho which is good as we're off to a charity ball my SIL has organised. this morning has been too manic, packing, showering, cleaning, gah.

for all

DADDDeeeeeeeeee didn't giiiiiiiive affecshun and the boy was something Mommy wouldn't weeeeaaaaaa-hear... Should have called DS2 Jeremy.

Tickets now on for Tree festival next summer but it's a lot more expensive for us this year with 2 over 5's. Looks like a no go and kick ourselves nearer the time. But more money for bucket&spade breaks at peak times I guess. But I still highly recommend Larmer Tree to those who can afford it.

Took DD and Kurt to see Where the Wild Things Are this am. Not sure she enjoyed it that much, I found it gorgeous to look at but a bit self-indulgent to listen to, not 100% sure what 'post-modern' means but I suspect this film is it.

CC Nice work on the bargain front.

Have a good night Cyteen

Afternoon

Cards all writtn last night and posted this morning. Bulk of food shopping done and last bit of Dad's present purchased. I am sure there is loads more to do but my mind is a blank.

Glad to hear of fab parties, balls, fancy dress and glamourous frocks. You see, we are not all down trodden housewives only for the other 364 days of the year

cyteen sounds grim - how on earth do they sleep through it?

hots glad to hear you have a new laptop so you can spend more time with us and hope the car is fab too

dizzy your day sounds magical . I hope the inlaws behave too

Good work Sazzles! We are just back from Oxford Street - hell on earth but I think the xmas shopping is just about done. Tree is up as I was up with DD at 6am and thought DH deserved a lie-in after his work do last night . Can't find anywhere to plug the lights in though without complicated shifting of furniture.

Cyteen yuck what an awakening - bet that snapped you out of any lingering sleepiness.

Fancy dress Miamla?! What was your costume?

Gotcha Sambo, sorry I didn't understand, I'm sure you've explained it before. Poor little chap and poor you having to deal with it. Hope you can find something to help though.

[horrific feedback noise]

Don't worry my dear.
Your present was sent out on time.

If it doesn't appear on Monday, I'll put an elf on the case.

Merry Christmas, one and all.

Hey ladies
so sorry I have missed sooooo much.We are offically the house of lurg. IN our 5th week of illness allround.
hotter very well done to you lady for passing the test. Fantastic Well done on the car too.

dizzy I am so very very of the Pearl Jam tickets.

cyteen hope J is feeling much better and so sorry missed your birthday.
It sounds like you had a good day with ds being as adorable as ever.

sazzles I hope dd2 is ok after her fall, and no bruises/scrapes are evident. Poor little lamb. Also how very for your dnephew. That is very very deep for one so young, makes my heart break to think a young one can feel like that. I do hope it gets sorted out asap. Surely medication would be the very last resort.
buckets how is the kitchen coming along?

sambo must be very frustrating and worrying at the same time for you re ds. Glad you have a definate answer as to something he is allergic to though. Hope things improve.

oops hopefully you will have had a wonderful night away, and I am sure dd will have been fine. You are so normal to feel like you did when you were getting ready to leave last night. I still feel like that when leaving BOTH.
lentil Your ds does sound amazing/adorable. Despite the fact that things seem difficult for you at times,you always sound so positive and creative in the things you do and say.
ts not sure when the inlaws leave, but hope everything is going well and af isnt getting you down.
steaky yeah your back. Great news on the job front options.Hope you are feeling ok.
qod so sorry to hear of the house eviction notice, but you and dp seem to sound very positive about it all. fingers crossed on the job.
cc nice bargain on the dress front, do we get a preview. hope work is settling down, appreciate you can't share info,but sounds stressful.
sorry this is long I will post and continue catch ups

Evening all

We had a fantastic night and DD was an angle - mum said she didn't ask for us once and never cried. That was of course until she saw me and burst into sobs of maaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Then once they had left she wondered around calling for them. The hotel was great as were pre-dinner cocktails and the most amazing fresh truffle pasta starter folloed but steak and roast veg, DH had a pud but I declined as sweet things tend to make my morning sickness reappear . We then spent hours sitting in the library by a big log fire just chatting without being interuppted, pulled on, shouted at and climbed on. I slept until 9 whole am it was bliss then a swim brekkie and home. We put the tree up this afternoon, it kinda looks like a great big monster ate too many boobles(DD's word) and vomited them all over the tree, DH has his tinsel on[shudder] and DD keeps walking upto it saying 'pretty' and stroking the baubles.

Will catch up in a bit DH back from M&S and DD needs a bath.

By the sounds of it a right angle rather than an obtuse angle

Hi No1 so lovely to see you back , if still unwell

Oh and your dinner sounds sublime oops. What a lovely treat

Thanks Sazzles - I was usre I went back and changed her to an ANGEL obviously not it must be those booze free mojitos I was drinking.

Strictly on Dinner in the oven and DH out in the dark hanging yet more tacky lights

Should i drive past your chav house with the DD's oops?

I have chicken dhansak and okra cooking, Strictly sky plussing and waiting for my neighbour to come and spend the evening with me whilst DH and her DH play table tennis.

oops that evening sounds amazing! I am so desperate for adult stuff like that. How wonderful your dd is at speaking, ds here grunts like a cave man (not cc)

no1 hope you recover in time to enjoy xmas, we've all been down with one of the most horrific colds ever which lasted for weeks, not fun. |Now we are on 1000mg Vitamin C per day.

sazzles & pert well done on the xmas shopping, now hopefully you can relax. I am still on the look out for a present for my dad. LAst year's effort gathered dust til Nov (a fab calender showing the night sky throughout the year with all stars named, whats not to like, to go with his telescope, also gathering dust). Any ideas?

bouquets does post modern mean so much effort to understand it, it's not enjoyable?

cyteen hope ds remained well today

Santa That sounds about right. Seemed to be a lot of analysis for adults but not so much for kids.

DH and I have had a bottle of wine and are having a lovely time going through the Now11 album doing our own versions track by track with uke accompaniment. You should think yourselves very lucky indeed not to have to listen. Everything is blending into Climie Fisher's Love Changes Everything. DH says he wants the entire double LP played at his funeral.

Sorry, have been chided for my slapdash typing, tis Now 12 not Now 11.

Modernists, at the beginning of the 20thC sense the chaos of the modern world (massive shifts in class,gender roles etc) and respond by trying to stick the world back together or resolve things back into a whole.

So Eliot in 'The Waste Land' puts working-class women waiting for their husbands to come back from WW1 next to classical myths and busy London streets and tries to make a story that makes sense of the connections between them. He says he is 'shoring fragments against my ruin...'

The pritt-stick response, glueing old and new, popular and classical back together.

Postmodernists sense the chaos too, but embrace it. They reject 'sense-making' and disrupt any big explanations or 'grand narratives' that offer great over-arching truths (religions, nations, patriarchy etc). They don't let any one story act like the 'truth.'

Sendak who wrote Where the Wild Things are is the son of holocaust survivors and is absolutely a postmodern thinker: brought up in a home traumatised by the Nazi attempt to make their 'Final Solution' come true.

An early 20th century 'design-led building might look like it is glueing styles together

But the postmodern Bilbao gallery looks like this

As you were ...

(Do please ignore me. I have a compulsive teaching gene)