AUG 08 - Be who you are and say what you feel...

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." --Dr. Suess

Not a clue Miamla.

VG - you have seen me often enough to know I have short chunky little West Cork legs. The man is a chancer of the first order. We were great mates for the time he was there though (he had a bypass that year and was away until March) - when he made a bid to get me hired on a more permanent basis he made his case on the basis that 'she teaches with her whole body.'

I have Senator N stories from there too, second-hand. Remind me to tell them somewhere else ... Also, on twitter for a week and follower 2 was a certain twitter-slut, of Norris's Seanad parish. Got to run.

It's Irish for typo

LOL but also at "teaches with her whole body" .

Dying for the Norris stories, perhaps you'll save them up for when he's President

'Warming her pearls' is gorgeous, bit steamy for a wedding though I love Carol Ann Duffy. She came to read at our school one year, along with Benjamin Zephaniah and Jackie Kay - all awesome and v tolerant of us pseudy/starstruck A level students.

Will schedule a trip to the library soon to find works by your sex crazed poet.

Ladies, I am now sick too. Swift this bug is. Ug!

So sorry to hear about all the [bleurgh] on the thread. Wishing you lots of swift recoveries.

One of the reading at our wedding was the one about the wise man building his house upon the rocks mainly because we couldn't resist watching my brother trying to make his way the whole way through it when one of our most precious heirlooms is him singing the primary school song on a tape from our childhood. He did surprisingly well, but us less so. . Our other one was from Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It seems to have become rather popular now, but we'd always liked it and chimed well for us and the fact that our first big hol was to Cephalonia when the book first came out. Here it is:

'Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your root was so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. that is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.'

We actually used a slightly longer section when it's clear it's being said by Pelagia's father and MiL read it with parental authority. Meant a lot.

Have been meaning to share DD2's new trick... She will now present disappear off when she needs a new nappy and then return to present me with a fresh nappy and packet of wipes. She also lies down in front of me! Too lazy to take this as a sign of potential readiness for potty training though .

She has also worked out how to undress herself. Always at the least convenient moments of course, but she she can also give a running commentary on which item is the latest to be jettisoned. A striptease artist in the making she is not as she is yet to remove her trousers/tights without also adding a face-plant into her presentation.

Oh TS sorry if I have transmitted the bug electronically you've had a rough few days.

Poppy that is a lovely passage.

cyteen ds2 adores B Zephaniah (as do I) he will be v impressed you saw / heard him in the flesh. He loves Talking Turkeys though he's not a veggie! Turkeys just wanna play reggae!

Oh Poppy that's priceless! About presenting the nappy and wipes and assuming the position I mean. I say to ds do you want a clean nappy and he just goes and runs off. Maybe it does mean she's ready for p training though it's vv early isn't it, I can't remember when one starts. 2?

poppy that is fantastic DS mostly takes the same view as Gardenia's DS2, although he will empty the nappy drawer get a clean nappy out when asked and even spread it out on the changing mat in preparation.

My friend's almost-2yo can now answer questions about his poo, e.g. 'have you done a poo?' 'yeaaaaaassssssssss', 'where is your poo?' 'buuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm' [big grin] How quickly they start finding it all funny.

Poppy - I think we have a striptease in the making, DD will take her trousers/tights/nappy off at any given moment as long as she can sit down.

We had the Apache Blessing at our wedding too.

I am a little to be amongest such literary bods - I just don't 'get' poetry regardless of how much explaining is done.

TS - hope your sickness passes as quickly as the girls bug did.

at the popette. DD2 shouts 'poo, down 'ere' like an Eastender while pointing at her bum.

Having an almost 7 year-old brother is fuelling her obsession. She can sing 'poo, poo, poo, poo, poo, poo, poo' or 'bum, bum, bum etc' to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle' while pointing vigorously at her nappy. ]

Oh, how we laugh.

LOL Sazz. I quite often sing 'Cry-y-y-y-ing, over poo' Well, it's accurate!

Why do they find the subject so fascinating/hilarious? Surely we were never like that.

hotsy I somehow completely missed about your grandma. I'm really, really sorry . Poor you. She must have been a brilliant person and a brilliant grandma. How nice that your two knew her even for a short spell. I hope the funeral is a nice & fitting one and you feel happy to say goodbye to her. I'm so sorry.

Toooooooooooooooo fecking early again dh at work then on night out so all about me today/tonight. Surely shouldn't be this exhausted this early?

Poppy, Dylan does same as E & will sit there wiping herself through her nappy lol

dd2 finally asked after her old CM, 4months after they finished there

D has found the stash of hand me down shoes & is insistent on trying them ALL on regardless of size!!

VG thank you yes, she was an amazing lady and we are all going to miss her very much Lucky really that both she and my mum were such early breeders which meant I had the joy of knowing her for many many years

Thanks to all of your for your kind wishes they have been very much appreciated.

Normal service should be resumed by me from now on (eg I am posting at work )

Dizzy DS loves shoes too Also DD; she gets mighty annoyed when she finds the too-small shoes and insists they still fit despite no circulation in her toes

at the Captain Corelli quote, God I LOVE that book.

Our poo song is to the tune of Scooby Doo. 'Kurtykurtykoo, where are you, we hope you're feeling .. hap-py' you can imagine the rest.

Right, off to millionaire's row today, just waiting for a loaf to bake from the machine (decided home-made is the gift for the lady who has everything.) DS1 will be wearing his Steaky snugglesuit with complicated and toilet-inaccessible knotted pink negligee belt arrangement, looks a bit like parachute harness. You'd be surprised how good a 5yr old's knots can be, better bring some spare clothes I guess.

Morning all

DD awake at 5 - so I went in and settled her and left her to it, she called muuuummmmyyyy for 20minute before going back to sleep but was awake again at 6.15 in bed with us where she dozed until 6.30 when she yell - everyone awake! So DH brought her downstairs. No chance of a nap today as builders doing upstairs doors.

Dizz - hope today is okay and you don't get too worn out. D is a shoe girl already

DD will go and get her Pooh Bear when she needs changing and ask for loo paper for him. She is currenetly running around the sittingroom dressed as Peppa Pig

x-post GB have a good time and I would rather a lovely homemade loaf then something shop bought

'we' made so many wedding decisions last night!

one of our readings is going to be this...

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

our vows are

Today I marry my best friend
The one I have laughed and cried with
The one I have learned from and shared with
The one I have chosen to support,
encourage and give myself to
through all the days given us to share.
Today I marry the one I love.

our second reading will prob be the correli one but i'm still waiting for approval on that one

and so, good morning all!

Miamla - They are all fantastic