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mornin' ladies

and the conversation continues...

ladymac poor you - sickness AND no energy to look at MN - gosh, that's bad
Hope you're feeling better. Here - have some medicinal CAKE

Who's got their tree and decorations up yet? Persuade me someone that I've got the strength to go through with it and battle Iris who will indeed want to eat the baubles, pull the tree down and rip the wings off the angle

Folk opposite from us have a lovely lantern outside their door, it's all white lights, really tasteful and really pretty, until DP told me he thinks it looks like a maggot...and now that's all I can see now

oh I am a very Bad Mother - need to get on with some house sorting and the little man is plonked engrossed in front of the telly watching the adventures of pigglywinks or some such

at least this is suitable viewing material - last night he watched the Bill while we did wallpaper removing...

lol@mrsb. K was watching Jezza Kyle before while I folded the washing Very bad mothers aren't we?

Haven't got our tree down from the loft yet JJ so can't really muster persuading you when I can't persuade myself. I'm loving the maggot. What a shame you don't live next door to lilibet. She has an ambulance light outside of hers. They would go nicely together.

Opposite us, the fusty middle aged woman has put her tree up in the window. They have a neon snowman and a neon star on top of it

DSS is off to his mothers this weekend so if I can just get through tonight without him realising we haven't got a tree up, I get away with it until Sunday when I just know it'll have to go up

Hahaha at baby D and K watching a Bill/Jezza Kyle combo. I'm feeling positively smug at shoving Verity infront of Cbeebies

I've never ever, ever, ever seen the Bill [smug emoticon]

Will Dss's mum being having tasteful decor up for Xmas jw? I have visions of larger can ring pulls hanging daintily from gold thread as tree orniments...

Mum has gone now, much calmer in the house. Bless her, she changed a very pooey nappy while I was having a lay down but had to come and ask me where to find clean tops as she'd somehow managed to get poo all up Elizabeth's sleeve!

jj what good news about Iris. Glad you found a good Santa. We saw a good one in John Lewis a couple of weeks ago but of course Elizabeth had no interest in him, having no idea who Santa is.

My children always moan as I never buy a tree till the weekend before Christmas. Worrying about it this year as, like Iris, I think Elizabeth will not be able to leave it alone.

Watching Countdown which I haven't seen for ages. What has Carole had down? She's got that chipmunk look about her. Has she had some polyfilla injected into her cheeks?

jw well done to your ds. And after so few lessons too. I passed first time but seem to remember putting in rather more hours than he has.

Me too ladymac. I think I was nearer the 60 hour mark!

JJ no doubt there will be stella artois cans from every hanging garland at his mother's house. Mind you, I hope she gets some carpet down first I saw some chavettes in ASDA last night looking at the ever so tasteful decorations. I reckon if any of it went anywhere near their roll ups, it'd go up in a flash.

JJ obviously you're much posher being southern and all. We have to raise our children on the appropriate tv programmes for northern 'hard' babies; Coronation Street, The Bill, Jeremy Kyle and not forgetting Holiday Showdown (with the swearing left in).

I love putting the tree up as late as poss - otherwise it feels lie its been Christmas forever by the time it actually arrives and you just get sick of looking at the thing.

OMG someone has just seriously asked in Baby Names if the name is Ptolomey is too posh for her to be state school educated son!

Forget too posh, how about how tortured the kid will be in school!!!

feckin' eejits! it's too posh for anyone

hahahahahaha. A life of bullying is granted to that child!

Thorntons 25% off tomorrow. Also M&S are doing a sale from tomorrow (I think)

i know a Ptolomey, we will see how he fares when he starts school next year. I think he will be ok at primary but the local secondary will be a different experience!.

Why land your child with a handicap?

and there is me worrying Oliver James will get teased about Jamie Oliver ! (we didn't think about that at time we chose the names)

Ptolomey....Mmmmmm???? why do they do it?? If you want to be really radical call the child Brian. There is a really lovely and tres stylish Estonian girl I know and she's called her DS Robert and he's the only one I know -and it sounds great.

On Cbeebies the other day there was a birthday card read out for an 'Araminta'....now that's posh'tastic'.....I can hear the parents braying from here and the cries of 'Daddy, I want a pony'

Mind you, there was another card read out on the same day and I could see presenter Chris stifling a laugh as he held up a card for a little girl calles Laiba......eek NO!!!

We know a Wilf - several Stanleys - lolita - tiger and...wait for it...wait for it....a Cushion You gotta love a girl called Cushion.

tee I love that Baby Names board - it's a Hoot!! My two girls' names divide opinion - and I couldn't give a fig!

hedgepig I believe Oliver James is a rather lauded psychologist (sp?) on Tv/Press and within academia. Not to be confused with 'pukka' Essex-chef and all-round dinner-lady-loving nice guy!

Laiba huh? She'll have plenty of mileage in that name once she reaches 14. There'll be a guffaw around every corner.

Cushion??????????????

it's not really like she can shorten it to sometying better.... Labby sound a bit too much like lavy

although I can see the use of soft furnishing catching on... OH rug an. curtains stop playing now an come to mummy (said in a very posh voice)

sorry abiout the lack of letters, one handed typing Ollie is in a being held mood

JJ, ahem, I can't see why Stanley ranks with Lolita, Tiger or Cushion (is the latter true? I mean really? Named after Humphrey Cushion from Hector's House maybe?). This may be because I have a Stanley, which IMO is a good sturdy classless Anglo-Saxon sort of name, very charming at any age, and suits his surname. Others may disagree. So I think the potential Ptolomey's ma should keep quiet and call her babe whatever she and DP decide - ask Mumsnet and you'll get every kind of response: snobbery, inverted snobbery, "I knew a Ptolemey and he was horrid", "What's wrong with being perfectly sensible and calling all boys John and all girls Jane?","It's pretentious/chavvy/ hard to pronounce/posh/common etc etc etc." Whereas once you announce a name everybody has to say - Oh, lovely! with as much enthusiasm as they can muster...

I bet Laiba won't have any problems now that Latin is so rarely taught. At my comp she'd have ended up being nicknamed P*issflaps.

ermintrude am choking laughing at P*ssflaps

Actually I love Both Stanley and Wilf - I briefly considered wilf - but I've only had girls! I was trying to illustrate that the lack of Colins, Brians, Roberts or Julies means they are being superceded by what would five or so years ago have been considered wild. I do consider Cushion wild I have to say!!

Gosh - I can talk - Verity and Iris are frequently slated on MN for being posey/posh/pretentious - OOoo, the list goes on. We've had all manner of responses in real life - usually having to repeat 'Verity' several times to a blank expression looking back at me. My Aunt said to me when I told her we'd called DD1 Iris - "ugh, it's horrible, I knew a vile girl called Iris. Nothing good comes out of an Iris....'

Cushion came about because the parents asked their young daughter what she thought the bump in mummy's tummy should be called and she said Cushion - and they didn't want to disappoint her......

Anyone have weird crushes? I'm watching Hairy Biker's Christmas and fancing the large, blonde hairy one......WHAH!

JJ hairy bikers I think it is your sleep deprived mind......but then again someone to do the cooking does have its attractions.

JJ that is a weird crush indeed. Although the prospect of a man who can cook is attractive enough to overlook some erm figure faults I guess .

I knew a woman whose MIL wanted the new baby to be called Charles, because it was a tradition in her husband's family that firstborns were always Charles. The FIL didn't give two hoots, and the mum and DH (who wasn't Charles) went for Oliver. The MIL refused to use it - 'Come to Grandma, Charlie' she'd say when visiting and use Charles or Charlie all the time, even when specifically asked not to - she'd just ignore everyone. When poor Ollie was 2 or 3 he would correct his grandma; she ignored him too. I'd have been tempted to place some sort of sanctions on her but she was such a mad old bat I think the family let her get on with it and hoped Oliver would show more maturity than she ever could.

Yeah - I know, it must be the sleep deprivation. And ladymac would be horrified, as she said the other week you should only really consider someone with a Michelin Star

ermintrude poor Ollie....or is that Charlie? Well, my father is called James yet his entire family call him Don - which is his middle name. No reason - just Don.

And talking of mad bats. My grandma hated her name all her life...she's called Daisy Agnes. Hated it with a passion - even called herself Yvonne. So, when she had her DD2 she named her.......Daisy Agnes.... Cruel or just weird? I've never decided. Mind you - she called my Mum Ethel..............

What is it about these crazy women? My grandma was a twin and when she and her brother were born her mother said 'Their names are Beatrice and Bernard, but we'll call them Dolly and Tim'. And so they did; nobody ever called them by their 'proper' names which appear only on their birth certificates. Perhaps it was something to do with having names for Sunday best! As if it isn't hard enough agreeing on one name each!