June 08 - a Coalition for all (even those with May or July 08 babies).

[DomesticGoddessInTraining]

Abdn liked the title so I just went ahead!

only time to congratulate Amber my favourite girls name is Eleanor

LOL Biscuits!

I can't share my baby names as DH won't discuss it yet. Apparently it isn't time yet . He is currently playing Football Manager and reading out the names of the teams. So far I have said no to Cody, Leon, Jens etc...

Amber - great news.

DGT - ok I'm sold on Edinburgh and your post made DH laugh too. Just need to get DH a new job.

Nights out. Probably had 3 meals out since P was born when GPs have been visiting. I have had 2 nights away for a hen do, but no nights away with DH.

Sorry that a few people are feeling sad at the moment. Can't write anymore right now as iPhone on strike again!

Ooh, Verity, Felicity and Beatrice were all on our list for DD2! All the names mentioned so far are lovely, actually (apart from the football names!). I love Charlotte and Emily, too. We had to apply the Liverpool Factor when choosing names for the girls. There are some names that would have been OK if we'd stayed in the SE, but in Liverpool we knew people would say "wha?" and do this face . So obviously Theodora was a shoo-in as a good Scouse name

Are you having a boy, Spider?

I am supposed to be helping DH with a horrid work thing and have writer's block and am bored, hence the many many posts . He'll be very cross with me when he sees what a bad job I'm doing.

I hope the poor sick girls are feeling better and that the non-sleepers give their poor parents a rest.

Heh heh, I am so Welsh!

Thanks to everyone about all the good comments - going I think you summed it up, and I'm sort of relieved that I've confessed. (I was kind of staying off the thread for that reason, really.) I should stress it's not major drama - well, I do scream 'divorce' when I'm being a drama queen! - but practical issues: living apart, DH worried about money versus not spending enough time here, me worried about career versus everything, and the 'functional' aspect I mentioned: we're in this weird childcare conveyor-belt thing. But we do need a referee when we argue discuss. We're both argumentative by nature and by career choice and won't budge an inch.

Many thanks for all the prayers and offers of hand-holding - I'll accept anything superstitious, including tips from our recent-new-job-not-down-to-God-in-any-way Eddie!
I also think several of you on here might have practical advice.
Anyhow, feeling ok about things now becuase I saw the Union rep today (I arrived early and could hear someone ranting about his job, v. stressed and upset - didn't listen, obv, but you can tell from tone of voice - and the person who came out before me was...a staff member at history ).
She was v. v. useful. (a) the job advert is on ropey ground legally, apparently: it gives the appearance of being a permanent position, then has this disclaimer that the job might only be until June 2011 subject to funding, and that's Not On apparently.
(b) the shockingly low wage - apparently also not allowed.
(c) The Union will be on standby if I don't get shortlisted. (I bloody well should be - I meet all the essential criteria, all the desirable criteria, and every single one of them is demonstrable and also I surpass the requirements on all of them.) So that major wobble - which has been freaking me out a lot, it's my big fear: not even getting the chance - is resolvable. Ish.
(I didn't ask about (b), and only indirectly asked about (a), but it seems things will be done about both now.)

Luckily I'm not panicking or anything...

Baby names - well, I'm really really keen on Verity and practically stalked Valium to name Annabel () that. So I might start my new campaign on Amber now. I like talking about baby names but mainly because I can express likes and dislikes on English names but I'm not part of the draw IYKWIM.
Girls names are hard though. Ruth - very pretty and not very common these days? Love Esther - Neenz has already used that so don't use it again, Neenz - and I also like Stella, but I think that might have connotations for an English person? I just think it's pretty.

Sorry had to post because DH phoned, but anyway it's time for bed.
I'm going to put the heating on now.

I like Eleanor, but used Helen as a middle name for C. I really like Emily, but too many around here.

spider my DH likes to suggest ridiculous names, or to veto ones I like because either there was fat girl at school called that, all the insert names here I've ever met were ginger (so what, I like red hair?) and that's just girls names, on boys names he just pulls faces. sigh.

We are having a surprise Rolf. Would you believe that not many girl's names come up on Football Manager?

Biscuits I stand corrected! I had a feeling there was some English connection in your background, so now understand.

Biscuits last time it was the credits from Grand Theft Auto that he used. Not sure whether Football Manager is an improvement.

Ishbel's nice Biscuits. And it would beef up your Scottish credentials

I have to share this fact with you all - in 2008 there were more babies named BEAU than SIMON. FFS.

That last message would make a wee bit more sense if it read:

Ishbel is a nice name Biscuits. And it would beef up your Scottish credentials

Beau?!?!? Mind you, there have been threads on it on here.

Dewin, I think Stella is a very pretty name but ruined with the whole Artois aspect.

DH likes Isobel, I am put off by the myriad of spellings - although I thought there was only one way to spell Charlotte, until she came home from nursery with something with Charolette on it...

Argh yes the Beau v Rocco thread [biscuits]

We have been through the same 2008 list and had similar conversations. Infact DH suggested Simon this evening but I said no cos it's an x's name.

Spider

Surely everyone of our generation has an ex called Simon?

I have a not insignificant number of x's but no Simon's. Oh, hang on, flashback... not an ex, but a moment in time iyswim...

There you go. 3 out of 3.

Rolf your theory would explain why it is such an unpopular name.

Ha Ha - have an ex called Simon - but I was only 18 though and he dumped me because I wanted to shag him (he is now happily gay!!!!). Oh dear - I like the name Beau! I love the name Beatrice, lots of nice ones. Will think about it properly nearer the time and i'll probably do a list and you can tell me which ones will have them beaten up at school! There's a thread on the thread of the day section about names which suit kids but not adults. I don't ever think about the adults bit I think about when people are over 60. I have a friend with twin girls called fifa and lola. I think they are fab names but can't imagine a 60 year old fifi/lola! They will also have a crap surname unfortunately which is Learner (not mine, Mark's!) which restricts things a little. I always said Mark should marry Minnie Driver and then hyphenate his name (sorry crap joke).

Having a rubbish sleep time at the mo with Luke so sympathies Eddie. Luke was up for an hour at 12.30 and tyhen up for the day at 5. Yesterday was up for 30 mins at 12.30, 30 mins at 4.10 and up for the day at 5.20. Thank feck I don't work. It might be the heat.

I have bought a renault scenic now and get it on Saturday. I am so excited about driving, it is really going to revolutionise my life I think now I live in the back of beyond and only have 1 bus!

Texted Dewin yesteray but I have suggeted Mark and I do counselling loads before but he doesn't want to. We hardly see each other and are fairly exhausted when we do so we don't have much of a married life either. Quite a lot of bickering too and little/no sex life so Dewin I am in the same boat I guess.

I know a stella - and an astrid which also means star and I think is lovely.

Not dated a simon here but my best friend dated one and then married a different one (and obv. dated him too before she married him). But then I have an ex named Hank... What about Jason? Who else has an ex named that? Or is that a Canada thing?

No Simon in my list of exes, but I do have a Barry and a Brian, which probably says a lot about me... (But Abdn still wins with Hank - unless she actually lives in a cartoon!)

Was also going to say stuff about Beau but not now that Amber has admitted she likes it! I just read in a magazine that Louise (from Eternal - she's got a surname these days though) has a son called Beau. To me it looks feminine.

I have a name for any boy I may have in the future, but it's Welsh and weird. This is a backlash against choosing a v. rare Welsh name for my firstborn which has suddenly gone mainstream.

A friend of mine just had a baby girl (Wednesday!) and she's had major traumas on name choosing. She's got a very unusual name (for Port Talbot - she has a Spanish father) and clearly suffered as a child with spelling issues and teasing. So she chose a lovely Welsh name for her daughter, straightforward, not way out at all - Mari. And then the midwives started calling the baby Marie...

No ex called Simon here either, but I do have one as a brother.

Congratulations on passing your test by the way Amber. I passed mine while 6 months pregnant with dd, I was quite big and think the examiner felt a bit sorry for me! Good luck with the new car.