The Fantastic Forties Forum

[johnworf]

Pregnant or Popped. Partial to Cake. Thrills, Spills & Bellyaches....and SO much more. Come on in for 'mature' chat (go on, I dare you!)

Hey Tee looks like a good time to leave. "Enjoy" your last day. Sounds like my place too - if i didn't organise the whip-round no bugger else would.

jw - hair - we need photos! (and do you think it's the smarties that have sent you running?)

Thanks for the link on the fussy eating (jj?)- have sent it to my SIL as her son won't eat touching things plus has a diet of about 4 or 5 acceptable things. Hopefulyl she will try it. It looks a good plan.

Massive sobs here today .... my car has failed its MOT BIG_TIME. Spent £600 last year to get it through but not again (plus issues with 2 children in 2 door tiny car etc) ... its time is up. Very sad - it's an original Mini - 24 years old. my Grandma (a district Nurse) had it from new then gave it to me. Sob. Be so sad to see my Skippy go ... (will post pic in profile) .... boo hoo. I know it's only a car ... but it is one of the family now.

mrsb I am just fed up with the cheeseparing penny pinching ways that are very rapidly leading up to a total ICT melt down. Which I warned them would happen about a year ago.

I really am getting out just in time.

Bonzo I think you have a duty to retire Skippy and look after him forever. Can't you park him somewhere nice where you live? . How did he get those spots, by the way?
Tee are you planning to go back to work? It doesn't sound like it. Me neither!

tab officially I am going back. Unofficially.....

well if you can avoid it *tee then good luck to you 'cos working full time with a baby is crap. D falls to sleep in the car on the way home and goes straight to bed. So I only see him in the mornings during the week.

tee get all the maternity benefits due to you then start looking around for something better when they've all run out.

bonzo awww your car is really sweet. I'd be sad to see it go too. Just a shame that it has to be retired. Can't you have it mounted in the garden or done up so that the kids can play in it safely?

Think Mr Patio Man is going to start work on Monday so should have it finished for family gathering.....and if not, then the kids can play with his cement mixer

Dunno what has given me the runs but I have shoved a fair bit of chocolate in my mouth so mebbe it's that. I can't resist it when it's time of the month. I'm telling myself it'll be ok as it seems to be passing through me Sorry TMI.

tee just one more day, hang on in there knowing you'll be having a lovely time after just one sleep [happy]

jw gorgeous dress, everyone is going to be tres chic for the NC. Sorry the world is dropping out of your bottom and hope it stops soon.

heron hope the cake works and you feel cheerier soon. as JJ says, it could be your 'system' getting back into gear ready for The Return of The Curse.

Bonzo I'd be sobbing if I had a little old mini that had carked it. Is there not a sanctuary you can send it to?

I've done bugger-all work. Foolishly ordered all the 'Twilight' books 'for my DD' har har, and have read the first 3 since yesterday afternoon (I read faster than a vampire runs, very useful skill it is too). It's teenage trash, full of badly-hidden Mormon messages (the heroine decides not to make her vampire boyfriend make love to her before they marry, just in case he has a mortal soul, because such an evil act would damn him to hellfire, naturally ) but it's fun and pacey trash, and at just the level of intellectual stimulation I can cope with at the mo (very very low). Can't wait to finish the last one tomorrow. I think they actually get it on

Off for a lime and soda down the wine bar with a couple of friends now. I'll be the hippo in the only cardi that does up around her... night all x

JW that's exactly what I am planning on doing!

mrsb I don't know if we'll be able to afford it, but I hoping I can. I've never liked working anyway.

Lime and soda hey Ermintrude that was my fave pregnancy tipple to.

DH is out at a meeting tonight so I have manage to get both boys to sleep (well in bed which is almost the same ) now what do I have in the freezer I can have for tea.

MrsB its crap when they are so little and working full days but it does get better when they stay awake later. B always went to be lateish for a LO (8pm) just so we could see something of him in the evening. Could you work it with your DP that one of you went in earlier so could get him earlier? Enjoy your meeting with the boss lady, she will tell you all about her cruising.... sorry I mean cruise!

Tee nearly done, then you can slob out and nest all you like.

I read about the woman who wrote those books - she's made a bleedin' fortune off it!I suffered a terrible drop in brain power when I was pg and could only read shite.

jw hope you're ok now - and hope its not anything to do with the pills!

jj ooowww have seen your little vid V is bright as a button isn't she! "Hullo" - clear as day. She has gorgeous colouring too. And I could eat that little cardi!

I don't think it would make much difference hedgepig we could both go in earlier if we wanted do and we keep saying we will but it seems to take hours from getting up to getting in!

Am holding out for when he stays up a bit later - the real problem is he won't sleep at the nursery- he had a total of 16mins today they said whereas at home he would have 3-4 hrs of naps and be up later.

Hope you find something nice in the freezer!

Evening all.

jw good to hear that the old barnet is looking swish And yes, you've named the band in one!! Fab news about the patio but rubbish news about having the trots, you're swinging from one extreme to another BTW: LK Bennett pointy shoes - Good /men's judgement - Bad!

mrsB sounds like Verity has been passing on non-sleeping tips to D A full 16mins sounds like her idea of a power nap! Well, at least she can say 'Hullo"! You'll probably find D is reciting chunks of Thomas the Tank Engine in his spare time

ermintrude I've never heard of the 'Twighlight' books but they sound about my level at the moment! That reminds me - I had a really scary dream the another night that my fab gay mate from college had turned into a Vampire and he was tres scary Enjoy your night out.

bonzo Awwwwww, NO,,,,poor spotty (dead) car Can you not take it home, put it in the garden and plant flowers in it? Or maybe pop a hose-pipe out of it and turn it into a water feature?

We've been working on the ideas in that food link I posted...and today Iris had chicken for the first time in a year! OK, so I breaded it....but she's never as much as put it in her mouth before! And she had another go at the egg. Slowly catchy monkey-child!

I found a Waitrose spinach and ricotta cannelloni, it is bubbling away.

JJ I found your video its lovely, cute cat too.

Can we talk highchairs? I have the one I had for Ben but although O can sit up well as soon as he gets in the highchair he slumps down and to one side. I only has a cloth strap between the legs not a solid post. I tried him in a Chicco Happy Snack in Mothercare today and he seems to sit much better in it, has anyone got one? Or any other recommendations would be welcome.

MrsB Its such a minefield going back to work and trying to get the balace right. With Ben I juggled hrs around in various ways but in the end did 4 normal houred days and took Weds off. When he went to school I went back to 5 days but cut the hrs/day to 8:30 to 2:45 so I could get him from school. I'm trying to work out what I want to do when I go back in September I'm thinking 4 days on those hrs but I also want to be able to do a good job and I'm not sure if that will be enough time.

Bonzo how about turning spotty into a chicken shed???

ermintrude Twilight? Oh dear. Still, a little bit of pulp never hurt Mine were all into the Goosebumps series years ago. JJ you must have seen Robert Patterson (sp?) The teenage hearthrob......

hedgepig we've got a Stokke Tripp Trapp and I love it...moreover, K loves it too.

Thank you JJ for perking me up. I was getting myself very depressed looking at the beautiful shoes and thinking that they were calling me a witch when I tried them on Philistines.

Just saw Verity on Facebook. How adorable is that child? Can't believe any of the horrid things you've obviously lied about JJ. She's an angel and wouldn't, nay couldn't, do anything naughty.

tee count them hours off...not many now

JJ lovely video! She's adorable.

Baby has hiccups again! Made it very hard to speak to my sister on the phone. Although she is very amused, after having taken my teasing through 2 pregnancies herself!

Tee what goes around comes around my dear . Baby hiccups are the funniest things just watching your belly boinging around.

JW does she sit well in the Trip Trapp? I have though about them but even on ebay they are so ££££ and DH has banned me from buying a new high chair, (like thats going to work )

hedgepig yes she sits up very well in it and don't forget, no tray. They sit up at the table with the rest of the family I think she likes that bit best of all! We have the set with the bar and the leather strap as it doesn't come with this.

Had 3 lime and sodas and stayed out till 11pm, just fancy that. Am now knackered.

JJ, Twilight was the dvd my DD chose to show (on DH's huge projector screen from work) at her bd party. That night my sis and I watched it with our DHs. We ended up in a frenzy of thwarted desire; the boys were extremely grumpy. Not quite sure what they've done to restyle Cedric Diggory off of Harry Potter but you won't be able to resist. Swoonsome.
The 4 books are extremely sucessful mid-teen trash written by a US Mormon - so very much a not v well hidden message about Saving It For Marriage but what with all the vampires and werewolves and intoxicating smell of human blood it's inadvertently even more, umm, arousing than not saving it. And just my level for now. Thank goodness I can use my DD as an excuse to buy them . She, meanwhile, is reading the very classy Helen Dunmore 'Ingo' books - beautiful, literary novels for young teens - and shakes her head in despair at me getting all excited about the vampires.

JW They're better than Goosebumps, they really really are, honest.
Pointy shoes are always lost on men. They think we squash our toes into the ends in masochistic ugly sister fashion...

mrsB ah, I do sympathise. We managed to work out a system whereby I worked a 5-day week in 4 days and since DH often worked nights and Saturdays he also did 4 weekdays so our DC had 3 nursery days and one with each of us. But there were periods when it was FT and it does take it out of you. When baby D gets a bit later with his bedtimes it'll settle. Hope you don't get too meanwhile.

Tee
one more day of work
one more day of sorrow
one more day of rotten colleagues
and you'll be off tomorrow

Tee The bunting is out, the party food is on the table and the cake is iced.....have a great last day woopeeeeee!

Morning ladies. Well, ermintrude. What can I say except that you're living life on the edge what with those 3 x lime and sodas

Goosebumps were a good few years ago now and not surprised that many books have superseded them. My youngest DS went onto the Darren Shan vampire series after GB. I met Mr Shan at a book signing in Manchester. What a sweet (very young!) man he was too.

Re the shoes, basically what DH said was that my toes will never reach the end (duh!) and that instead, they'll all be squashed up and I'll end up hobbling with deformed feet Not sure since when did he care about my toes. Anyhoo, I love them and just debating with myself whether to wear some black opaque tights with them. My legs are milky white from a winter under the jeans and I have very muscular calves. Not a great look. Think that opaques would hide both of these nicely. Alternatively, something a bit more sheer. Not sure at all at the mo.

mrsb D is fine in all of this. He gets spoilt at the nursery (at least you don't have any worries it's a crappy nursery), and overcompensated with loves and kisses from mummy and daddy at home. What a lucky little lad he is I worked on my older 2 and you do feel guilty but then I'd tell myself that if I couldn't pay the bills/mortgage, then what kind of life would the children have then? Needs must and all that. He sounds as though he's doing just fine out of the set up to me!

tee bet you can't wait until today is over and done with. I'd have my coat on from lunchtime ready to go home. Hoping they'd take the hint and say 'seeing as it's your last day and all....why don't you have an early finish'? Hope they surprise you with a nice gift/card or at least some flowers or vouchers for the LO. If not, I'd be sitting at home next week putting little pieces of dog poo into envelopes with the office address on it. Ok, bit OTT but too much time on ones hands isn't always a good thing

Morning all.
tee I can't compete with the lyrical might of the people's poet ermintrude but needless to say.....have a good one today. Look smug, feel smug and let it all wash over you x

ermintrude You do have a thing for vampires....were you a Goth? I'm slightly alarmed about finding Cedric Diggory attractive a possibility....isn't he about 12?
Hey, then again I'm finding the strangest men attractive at the moment.What's with the attraction for David Cameron? AND Michael (gotta bat for the other side surely) Portillo... There was a thread not so long ago on MN about disliking Tories whilst still finding them attractive. But I would 'do' Alistair Campbell over the lot of 'em

*runs off for cold shower

hedgepig another vote for the Tripp Trapp...got two of them here and we love them. Slide in under the table - the girls join us and no manky tray. I've heard the IKEA ones are very good.

Off to a sing song thing today. Thanks for all your nice comments on the Verity video - it just made me laugh! And she is a little minx.....honest!

morning all! very interested to read about high chairs because pretty soon i will be needing one! jj will check out the ikea ones.
tee soon on leave ! yay!

i take my hat off to you mums who work full time. honestly, i dont know how you do it!

JJ very worrying your crushes on Tory MPs. I can see Michael Portillo is handsome in an obvious way - did you just out him?? Haha! No surprises there then. Cameron def no. He's the sort who'd scream for his mummy once you got his kit off. DH went to see the new Wolverine film last weekend and keeps telling me he wishes he had a body like Hugh Jackman and I keep saying 'so do I'! Now Hugh is def worth it

heron don't know anything about the Ikea ones but think it was bonzo who got one and said it was good, especially for the money.

I bought an oilcloth tablecloth y'day and it's a super find with LO's (and messy big ones) at the table. Just a wipe over et voila!

I'm bloated out today and I know it's nearly time of the month. I feel lumpy, frumpy,fat and full of a cold Ah well, no sympathy around these parts so must get on with jobs.

Hope you ladies have a great day and tee enjoy sticking your fingers up to everyone (in secret) when you leave the office today