AUG 08 - Here we go again and again and again...

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Seriously!

VG - they should be fine as long as you avoid the white stillettos

We are off for scan number ? this morning to see if girl has grown and made more fluid. I may also get to ask someone who appears to know what they are talking about about how to sort this baby out!

Have a good day everyone

morning
been up for a little while but had an early night so feeling refreshed and happy And this is despite dh crawling in last night, breathing on me and me calling him 'stinky'! i can hear him pottering upstairs but i think his head is a bit sore!

morning..

thank you all some much re advice on wedding attire.. i shall try new dress on when it arrives and try ad put pics on for final cofirmation..

dh wants to take me out tonight ... we are still not doing to good and not sure if i want to go out iykwim however maybe a good chance to talk and haven't been out since begining of feb...

dizzy hope you slept ok and sod your silly family.. your immediate family and all us hairy truckers are thrilled to pieces for you xx

poppy/sazz we will have dd1 21st, dd2 18th, our 20th wedding anniversary{presumming we are still together }, and dh's 60th.. luckily for me my 50th is the year before !!!

Eh what stilettos?

Good luck with appt, I hope you get more sense than "have a few glasses of wine" etc! and the babba is comfy and happy. Enjoy!

Loti can you post a pic of frock? Or on FB? Re evening out, go if you want to, don't go if you don't want to - i.e. don't go out just cause it's been announced iyswim. Also maybe be clear on terms e.g. are you going out To Talk or are you going out To Bury The Last Week?

MrsM hope dh's hangover not too painful!

he's just crawled downstairs... couldn't even face drinking the lovely cup of tea I'd made him let alone the muffin I'd baked bought so it must be bad! I don't mind though, he only goes out once a month!

gg re capri pants... no problem re a short arse wearing them but you have to get the length of them right. You don't want to look like you've borrowed DP's shorts! Oh and re his jeans at the wedding, I thought he looked lovely so tell him he needn't have worried!

where did your comment about stilletos come from?!

loti i agree with gg, check terms before agreeing

argh, think we'll have gcse and a-level hell in the same year!!

sazz i'm pretty sure i've got the right book but if no sweetcorn crops up, i apologise for falsely exciting you!

sorry lwfh, i'd forgotten you had a map interest as well!

ah ha, just seen oops post so now i understand where the shoe comment came from! Hope you get the answers you need/want Oops

i've just sent DH off to work with a box of painkillers, a bottle of water and a sick bag for the train! he's in a really bad way! i'm always pleased on days like this that his friends always meet on a thursday. if it was on a friday, i'd have to deal with a hungover dh all day instead of his colleagues

oh and gg i read a lovely fiction diary thing a few years ago, does that offer any interest to you or is it only the real ones you like? if you are intested, i'll have a bit of a search for the title but obviously won't bother otherwise!

Wouldn't recommend white denim to anyone with a child under 5!

Inset day today, farming DD off to MIL then off to have more boyish fun with friend & our sons. (Boyish fun will probably include lunch at Ikea LOL.)

Morning lovelies

Sunny again here after yesterday's deluge so feeling all springlike and looking forward to the weekend. Just got another 7 hours of pretending to work to get through before then.

Quite of the book talk, since I have started driving to work I don't get much time to read any more. Am a confirmed fiction girl although currently enjoying Bill Bryson's book about Australia. Have got 13.5 Lives of Captain Bluebear waiting for when I have finished Bill, and looking forward to it very much.

Miamla glad you have got DH out of the house, hope he's recovered by the time he gets home again

VG good luck wearing anything white with a toddler around

Oops enjoy looking at your baby from the inside maybe for the last time

Loti hope you like your new dress too. Not allowed on FB at work (they have some sense) so you will ahve to do without my fashion "expertise"

Better do something useful...

Loving the book talk. DP trying to get hold of one for me, but not a single bookshop seems to have it in. It's between editions apparently. Just killing me as I've recently reread all the previous books.
Anyway managed to find a copy on amazon in hardback for the paltry sum of £90.95!! that's just shocking I think. you can't get it for under a tenner, even for a second hand copy.

GG I need to read more diaries/letters, since I do enjoy them. When J was about 6 months I remember listening with pleasure to this serialisation on R4 of Winston and Clementine Churchill's letters. Absolutely marvellous, I recommend it On a much more cynical epistolary note, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is one of my very favourite novels.

hotter have you read any Tim Moore? He's like a British Bill Bryson, but much funnier. I'm rereading Frost On My Moustache for the nth time atm and still cackling out loud at every page.

morning

cleaning done ish, me dressed, O dressed, a good mornings work me thinks

Wotcha cece, you have achieved more than me so far today and I've been at work for nearly 3.5 hours

Thanks for the recommendation cyteen will have a look for him

Queenie which book?

Am having massive car seat dilemma re DS . Decided to get him a more comfy seat now we are gadding about a lot more in the car, but as he is so heavy (17.2kg ) he has virtually outgrown all the toddler seats but I don't think he's really old enough to be trusted in a booster seat secured by the adult belt. There is one whose harness goes up to 25kg but it's £200 . So I could

1. Chance it with 18kg seat
2. Chance it with him and the adult belt
3. Stop feeding him
4. Cough up the extra £100

But then if I do buy the good seat, what about when he's off with grandparents? Should I make them use it too or chance it ofr those few times Damn you mumsnet for making me paranoid aware...

sorry hots we went for the £200 one so can't really help! although option 3 does sound like it could work.....
i do hope that the bit you haven't achieved (but that cece has) isn't the getting dressed bit!
oh and dh had better be full of the joys of spring when he gets home! i suspect he'll go straight to bed though, he's having a particularly hard day today which isn't helped by him feeling very sick! he had to get off the train and sit on platform to recover earlier. at least he's getting more of an idea of how my journey to work with MS was

i'm reading Portrait of Dorian Gray at the moment. I am enjoying it but my my is there alot of descriptive detail in places. skim reading is a useful tool!

buckets i'm considering a pootle to ikea this afternoon, might see you there

MrsM I skim read a lot of super descriptive stuff, I know one is not supposed to but hey. I am interested in fictional stuff too, read The Observations, was a brillig fictional diary-style historical novel, bit like Alias Grace, one of those ones you wish you'd never read so you could have the pleasure of reading it again for the first time iyswim.

cyteen I love the look of Winston and Clemmie, am going to see if I can get a d'loadable copy as I have iTunes credit! Thank you!

Now what is the crack with these twitter and fb links, Jaysus I'll have to namechange on a weekly basis!!

hotster 200 lids is pretty painful all right ...

GG hmm, my memory didn't serve me correctly, (no surprises there!) looks like it was a real diary after all! here's a link for you

i'm likiing the sound of the observations

C'est ca

A great voice.

TS what are you grinning at, FB links etc?

Argh argh argh I know it's all public and searchable and linkable etc but I fool myself I'm just chatting to my mates.

Hmm hots I have just looked at our car seat (Maxi Cosi Priori - sounds like something a priest intones at a crucial juncture) and at seats online. God it is impossible to choose. But Mothercare have three which go up to 25KG which are less than 200 squid - maybe they have been poorly reviewed somewhere or I am missing something else (not unknown)!

Anyway cheapest one on this page is 119

Thanks for that GG, I have added to my ever-growing Amazon wishlist

ooh and here it is for six of our english squid

gg chatting to your mates? but we're all imaginary and therefore only exist in your head

with free delivery! (anyone would think i'm on commission!)

lwfh have you seen this?

Finally back - 9am appointment back by 1 - not bad. Baby is fine and has grown, not further scans needed, fluid okay now. She was wriggling her legs have grown most over the last 2 weeks they are now measuring 2w4d ahead of the rest of her . Signed off by the obs team and they will see me at the birth if necessary but just to go with what I want for the birth. Now see MW every week until baby arrives. They are not concerned by the contractions just told to rest and relax. Swab from Saturday nigth shows StrepB which means AntiB's in labour but not worried about that.

Liking all the book talk but can't reallt concentrate these days so re-reading all my James Herriot books - easy unchallenging read.

HP - I would for out the extra cash, unfortunately I have seen the results of kiddies in the wrong seats when I helped out on the children's ward which makes me extra paranoid.

DS is so funny, a few weeks ago we had an animal programme on and it showed some really young kittens making the squeeky noise that really young kittens make. Since then, whenever he sees a cat, he squeeks at it! makes me smile every time! still no recognisable words from him but lots of recognisable noises (if you're on the same wave length as hiim!)