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jeanjeannie · 10/03/2009 18:32

Hello everyone - yet another thread. I'm expecting a call anyday soon from ITV - as I imagine we'll be prime candidates for taking over the Loose Women slot when they need a break

So, for anyone interested in joining in with us - just jump in and say Hi - we don't bite - unless you're disguised as a chocolate sponge cake

Ladies..................Take it away

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johnworf · 26/03/2009 09:02

JJ ah, there lies the rub. DH has pretty much lived with his mum all of his life....well, I don't need to add any more words to that sentence

tee have fun at work Hope you're crossing the days off on the calendar

JJ sorry your tum is still off. You need a pamper day for yourself. If it's any consolation, I caught the weather forecast last night and according to man at Beeb, it's going to rain, blow a gale and be pretty much horrible in the Lakes this weekend Downside is, we get pretty much the same weather as it's just up the M6.

mum41 dentists don't seem to tell you about the plastic coating and you have to ask for it. I would never have known about them unless my dentist had told me. They paint a coating onto the tooth like clear nail varnish and then seal it using some light device (if my memory serves me right). Here's the link to the BDA website and it tells you about pit and fissure sealants. I very much recommend them!

peachyfox · 26/03/2009 09:03

jj oh deadline, not headline! Silly moi...

jeanjeannie · 26/03/2009 09:42

Gosh peachy I was thinking 'headline?' what? I'm back at work...I need a headline...NOW! Ahhhhhh....having two children and being a SAHM has all been a dream?!

Well, I'm busy sorting out my Pantones and my bleeds and don't ask about if the fonts have been embedded during the PDF process - cos I don't know. I can't believe I've done this as a job for years....but one sniff of having to put something out that looks professional leaves me sobbing in a heap! Mind you - I am working with freebie software....Oh for Quark, In Design and Photoshop

jw I can't help but conceal a delighted snigger at the impending weather for the Lakes

Oooo, that plastic coating is supposed to be fab - but yes, they never tell you about it

peachy do report back from a German IKEA....please tell us that the menu is the same as here...i'd feel strangely reassured to know that lingonberry (?) sauce is served with meatballs worldwide

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ermintrude13 · 26/03/2009 10:15

peachy My DC only have one sweetie day too - usually Friday after swimming. They get a big bowl of chewy crap and chocolate and eat it to their hearts' content, but DS is one of those people who can stop halfway through a Fudge bar and say 'I've had enough'. The rest of us still stare at him as though he's insane. If other mums hear mine refer to sweetie day I can tell they're mostly either thinking - sweets once a week, what a mean old mummy - or - humph, what a self-righteous middle-class show-off. . However, no fillings and no weight problems seem like pretty good outcomes to me.

I'm all agog, like JJ, about how German Ikea does its meatballs. Usually DH can be persuaded to go there just by the word Meatballs! He's v fond of the gravy. And JJ, I don't think I'd even know my way around Quark nowadays, it's been so long. Hope you get the ad sorted.

JW I'd never heard of the tooth coating. I remember having mine fluorided when I was about 14 but they don't do that any more. So much about tooth strength seems to be inherited and both DC seem to have got their father's gnashers, which send dentists into paroxysms of joy every time he goes to see them, which is about once every 5 yrs. Not fair; mine need lots of scraping and polishing and I brush far better than he does. Maybe I should get mine coated, to give them a helping hand...

Tee ouch, that's too early to wake up! Hope the day isn't too stressful. Great bump and outfit btw!

JW K looks so cute in her Bumbo! My dad's hair grew like that and we have a b*w pic of him aged about 18 months with a huge sausage curl running front to back, which his mother carefully arranged for the photo. A bit of hairspray and you could do the same for baby K

Good luck with the non-telly activities and especially the swimming for DSS - both vital for him, and hope your DH starts pulling with you on this. I really do think that most men would let their women do everything, especially if they've spent too long living with their mothers. They have to go thru some kind of moment of enlightenment when they realise that they need to put their backs into the minutiae of family life, and this can happen at any point but sometimes needs to be gently HIT HOME. It's never completely solved - even now, DH will sit down to watch telly having left the kitchen in a complete mess, and then be grumpy that it has to be sorted out later - but never thinks ahead and sorts it out first. Weird . But he does do it.

Tee2072 · 26/03/2009 10:18

JJ I have In Design and Photoshop...but OH for Quark! I learned on Quark, but couldn't convince current boss that I should be allowed that and CS!!

peachyfox · 26/03/2009 10:22

ermintrude you've reminded me how great my wagonwheel used to taste when I came out of swimming...

mrsboogie · 26/03/2009 10:52

mornin all

Just a quickie as at work. Yes jw that missing woman is local - round the corner from OH's parents' house - we have just walked past her house on the way to work. One of my colleagues had her garden searched by the police as she lives on the girl's route where they think she disappeared. It is dreadful - her poor dad is in bits, - it looks very bad fior her and the police do not sound hopeful. They reckon soneone she knew took her away in a car as she isn't the type to not be in contact.

We had a limited suppply of sweeties growing up also - it was a bar of Cadbury's on a Saturday as I recall. As a result we never got into that thing that all the kids diod- spending all their money on penny sweets like cola bottles and those yukky things.

tee very nice dress - was that on your night out? also bump progressing nicely too.

jeanjeannie · 26/03/2009 10:56

ermintrude that's exactly what my parents did with me - Friday was sweetie day! Thing is I was a bit like your DS - I'd just stop when I'd had enough and then forget about them - my mum was always horrified as they were left there....tempting her Mind you, that was chocolate but never a crumb left in a bag of Walkers crisps....had to be Walkers though! Crikey, wish I had that resolve now

tee where are telepods when you need them eh? I could pop over, use it while you were enjoying a lovely lunch with COWorker and be home before anyone noticed!

peachy I always had a Blue Ribbon after swimming

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Tee2072 · 26/03/2009 11:07

No kidding JJ!

What is a Blue Ribbon? In the US, its beer!!!

jeanjeannie · 26/03/2009 11:25

Typo I'm afraid tee It's Blue Riband....a 70s classic waffer biccie - dull but very moorish! Definately NOT beer..!

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johnworf · 26/03/2009 11:34

JJ they still make Blue Ribband. Saw them in Morrisons the other week.

I was one of the kids that spent all her money on crap. As much as I could get my hands on. My teeth will prove it! Actually my teeth are fine but heavily filled. I think dentists in the 80's were into heavily filling teeth though

Lordy mrsb I heard on the radio they thought that she'd gone off with someone she knew but now the police are saying it isn't looking good Her poor family.

ermintrude honestly, K's hair is just one big curl. But mine was the same when I was little. A my DS#2 has a huge curl (it actually grows into his hairline) at the front. He was delivered with the said curl. Now he shaves it all off as he hates it

JJ I have a copy of Photoshop 7 but only for MS. No Apple here I'm afraid. Not sure what you use. You're welcome to it. DH uses Photoshop for web designing (business).

mrsboogie · 26/03/2009 11:44

yeah jw, when they say gone off with someone she knew they mean they think she was kidnapped by someone she knew rather than being dragged into a car by a stranger. Apparently she is a constant texter and chatter on the phone and wouldn't miss Mother's Day but her phone has been off since she went missing. She could be still alive - hopefully.

MUM41plus5 · 26/03/2009 12:14

We used to have our sweetie day on a wednesday, it was the day my father was paid and we would have a choccie bar and bag of soft sweeties to last us for the week, and also 50p pocket money, any extra we had to earn

unfortunately I have been a little more lax with my own children as I am a firm believer in everything in moderation so an after school snack may consist of a mini cake bar or milky bar but because its not made too much of a fuss about a yogurt or fresh fruit is very often the requested option and so far obesity has not been a problem with them either, but then they have also been very active and sporty, I think as with everything in life it's all about balancing things out

Tabitha8 · 26/03/2009 13:31

JJ Does boiling the water remove the fluoride? If so, that's a useful tip. Especially if all the water companies decide to start adding it.
Tee That's a beautiful dress you are wearing to cover your (doubtless) beautiful bump.

peachyfox · 26/03/2009 13:37

My mum used to buy one pack of Breakaways every week plus one pack of those squashed fly biscuits because she knew we didn't like them very much. Oh the drama when a breakaway went 'missing'! It was always me .

Ermintrude completely with you on need for arse-kicking motivational words for DP/H. Mine had a near miss with the doghouse today - I asked him to help me get the food from the market 2 mins away from our front door (because there are 97 steps up to our flat). He came but walked around the aisles with such a slapped-arxe face I told him not to bother so he went off. He was waiting outside talking to the tied-up doggies (loves doggies, like he was 7 not 37).

I can't remember who said about the baby feeling like a little fish flipping around but I love that idea - have been chortling for days. Also told my very artistic friend and she said it gave her a great idea for a picture!

jeanjeannie · 26/03/2009 13:54

Just back from Docs - GP has refered us to Paeds ENT as Iris's throat is still bad and she's got that croup cough with no sign of croup infection Still - at least we're doing something about it.

tabitha actually - i looked it up and horror of horrors - boiling water makes fluroride more intense!!! So, I'm clearly talking rubbish! I just boiled it and left it to cool as that's what special care said to do with Iris and I've never formula fed Verity. Here in Bucks we don't have fluroride in the water - so not a problem but I know that in some places close by, the water is so chalky it almost runs white out of the tap! I think that boiling is recommended across the UK as it probably evens out the water supply differences.

Oh i feel rubbish. My left BOOBIE is realy hurting - can't get rid - hoping it's no mastitis....

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Tee2072 · 26/03/2009 14:05

JJ hope they figure out what's wrong with Iris soon! Poor baby .

We always had cookies (biscuits!) in our house, but were on our honour that we'd only eat 4 a day. Of course, my mum worked, so how could she know what we were eating?

I have just taken another spectacular spill on concrete. I think it is these shoes I am wearing, as I was wearing the same ones last time I took a dive. I'm fine, just a reskinned knee, and I think the baby likes it as it was kicking up a storm just after it happened!!

MUM41plus5 · 26/03/2009 14:25

jj hope it doesn't take too long to get to bottom of it, a close friend of mine has been back and forth to GP and specialist for the last year or so as her 5 year old son has had a continuous croup like cough, they even suggested at one point it was an habitual cough but she knew better and pushed for more test and when he eventually had a chest xray he had scar tissue from a bout of pnemonia (is that correct ) he'd had and they had missed because they were prepared to put it down to habit he is now waiting for allergy tests to see if that could be the underlying problem. don't give up until you're satisfied with the outcome for Iris

Oh no tee not again, you really must lay off the doubles at lunch time

Tee2072 · 26/03/2009 14:34

mum41 this was before lunch! Its those mid-morning gins that are getting to me.

peachyfox · 26/03/2009 15:03

Tee baby thinks it's getting an early visit to Thorpe Park

jj sorry about the croup it's miserable. I had it lots as a child - the wallpaper in my room was always hanging off because of the steaming kettles I was put over. Hope you get to the bottom of it.

MUM41plus5 · 26/03/2009 15:08

jj its probably a similar thing to the steaming kettles peachy mentioned but my friend has been advised to get a humidifier for her sons room.

tee I thought it was ham and eggs you americans have for breakfast not gin and eggs

hedgepig · 26/03/2009 15:10

Tee your poor knee, lock those shoes in the deepest darkest part of your wardrobe.

I hang my head in shame B drinks mostly apple juice, it was getting silly with him not drinking anything when water was the only offer so I crumbled . My mom used to have a whole goodie draw when I was young, which probably explains the state of my teeth or could it be the hot ribena my Dad would bring me in the morning when he woke me up .

Os teeth are really bugging him today so he wants to be carried all the time, ouch my back.

JJ poor Iris, hopefully they will get to the bottom of it soon.

mrsboogie · 26/03/2009 15:10

Waaah.. gin? yes please make mine a double1

jeanjeannie · 26/03/2009 15:35

Gin? Did someone say gin? **Gets tonic ready, slices lemon and chinks the ice tray

Thing is - Iris doesn't have croup - if only she did then it'd be easy - it's just the weird, restrictive cough - making her sound like a seal We'll get there in the end.

mum41 interesting you say about your friend's DS because this new GP (fab, no nonsense Mancunian who is all of about 28!)mentioned that it may have been undiagnosed pnuemonia or at least something more serious than was previously thought - and that scar tissue may have formed. Have to say - you can just tell when a GP is so on-the-ball. Mind you, she's so young she's probably cock-a-hoop with the salary and not yet beaten down by the NHS - still enthusiastic!!

hedgepig I too hang head in shame - well (semi) shame. Iris basically drinks very watered down apple juice or Innocent smoothie. She will drink water but rarely and i think after the dehydration scare in hospital I became quite paranoid.

jw Photoshop 7 you say.....and for MS MMmmmmm, how marvellous.....I was looking at CS3 - not sure I know the differance?? OOooo, I'm very interested

Oh cripes - Iris is going nuts....back later

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johnworf · 26/03/2009 15:48

JJ think we have CS3 too. DH is still web designing as part of his other businesses. I'll ask him the difference.

What's that you say about no nonsense Mancunians?! As if. LOL

tee hope you're feeling better dear. Think it's time to get ride of the 6 inch stilletoes!

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