The Roaring 40s- We're a bunch of old windbags!

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Here tis.

not nappies jj (I can't face 2 in washables at the moment )I've been busy washing 17 pairs of curtains and doing frienzied ironing and packing as we're moving house 2 days after DH gets back from working away for a month (he goes next week. DD1 went on her hols today and DH is working until the early hours so it's been my first proper day trying to manage all 3. Lets just say it's been an 'interesting' day

Passes the valium over to iris.

Ah a mushroom fest. Nowt like it. My DH thought lardons was a made up phrase. Made up by me no less! Ha ha

I had pizza tonight followed by indigestion chaser. Ouch I have figured that slowly I am turning into my mother. My guts cannot tolerate anything containing pastry. It's really anything with a lot of fat in it. I was told by a gastro surgeon who I used to work for that it's your pancreas being unable to digest the fat, hence the indigestion. I may as well just give up now Boo. Sob.

I'm washing nappies as we speak. In the machine, not at my desk. Plenty of white wine vinegar in the softener drawer mrsb Then when they're finished, I'll sprinkle liberally with fairy dust, dry them on the back of an elephant that was born ONLY in the rainy season of 1968, then put them away in the chest that was hauled out of the Solent from the Mary Rose.

Da dah!

why thank you jw - think I'm still in a post delivery brain dead fug though as I'm not getting overly worried over it all (yet... )

pass the 'shrooms (thinks dawntigga has had far too many already )

You have a Mary Rose chest do you jw OOooooo, mine was from the Titanic...it's silver plated dontchya know. I like to hang mine off the neck of a giraffe but I find that on a wind-less day they're a bit rubbish.

iris I've been doing my calculations....and you have a LOT of windows with curtains. Blinds....they're the way forward

You washable people are caaarrraaazzzzy

Grr, gmail is dead all over the world. They must have been hit hard.

Off to bed soon. Wishing quiet nights for all!

tee it's all the fumes from the vinegar we use in the machine.

Hope A behaves for you

arf

off to bed? I haven't had me tea yet. After I finished the tiling and clearing up and everything else I decided to make a chicken and harissa pie that I had seen in the Guardian's saturday magazine. It took hours - has preserved lemons and olives and all sorts in it and had to have a blind baked pastry case etc. It looks shite now in the oven cos I lost patience with it in the end. why do I do this to myself? I would have been better off at work all day...

still it pales into insignificance compared to washing and drying 17 pairs of curtains...

wonder what's up with gmail?

jj - yes,lots of stupid little windows with big ugly curtains that have to be washed and rehung (oh the joy of renting!)

would have liked to catch up more (and specially find out about Araminta's book )
but bed calls (and, as it's DH free for a while, me & mini are going to sprawl)

Tee - hope you get a good night

adieu

... hastily puts down gossip section of her newspaper where she's been reading about erm's in-laws

Ah jj I love you! If only I looked like that gorgeous woman! Hubby thinks you're right about the hair though . I forgot to mention my suggestion for lots of mushrooms - Mushroom rissotto - is blooming gorgeous! Oh and ages ago (days) you mentioned getting a piano. Well I've just got rid of mine after it languishing in a garage for 10 years while I tried to find somewhere to put it. In the end it got wrecked by the damp and we finally agreed that it is too big a thing for our house. Also I was bought an electronic keyboard that is super in that it has good keyboard action, can be put in a cupboard when not used and has volume control and headphone socket.

iris good luck moving. I don't envy you at all but can completely sympathise as I've lived in 20 houses so far.

jw yuck to the heartburn express. Gaviscon digstif anyone?

Oh and the baby is officially a brat! Health visitor came today and agreed with me that he is an unusually fussy baby. She stayed for an hour and a half and watched him feed and faff about and suggested loads of things - including visiting the Doctor with him. She suspects gastric reflux as he vommed over her notes in a copious manner. And also thinks a lot of it is wind but not classic colic. Oh plus his belly button is yuck and he has spots!
Anyway the Dr said she thinks he has an umbilical hernia, and it is grot looking and needs antibiotic cream, that he has eczma (more cream), that she doesn't yet think he has reflux but that I should take him back if he keeps vomming. 2nd Health visitor will call tomorrow. I think they've assigned me as a special case as I made it clear I am not coping with him.

adding coz of crossed posts ...

MrsB with you on the massively long Guardian recipes ... we made the mushroom lasagne from the Guardian for our friends one night - took my DH three hours !!!!! Was bludy gorgeous though .

Weird gmail thingie ... wonder who's broken in

oh and Dawntigga if you ever fancy a cake coffee then let me know and we could meet and yack I'm sure we're not too far apart.

bonzo if you're up this end this week I'll give you a pack of infant gaviscon to try. K's reflux has gone now she's a big girlie. If it's not working then just throw it.

I'll FB my mobile to you.

Poor little lad. No wonder he's fussing. He's got about a million things going on that must be very uncomfortable.

As for the eczema, don't put cream on him. After much faffing with extra thick lard type stuff from the doc, I now bathe K in junior Oilatum (from GP), use Dr Bronner's baby soap and Weleda shampoo/body wash. She's not scratched since I get mine from Winton Health Foods. I've just ordered some of the Solgar ABC for the LO's too.

jw no nappies aren't in English - what's an AIO or whatever you people call them???

StillConfooseledByNappiesTiggaxx

bonzo mail me blossom and it's a date:

dawn_bevan at hotmail.co.uk

NeverTrustADogWithOrangeEyebrowsTiggaxx

ummm Boogiepig this could be our own cbeebies childrens DIY prog in the making MrsB .

I feel sick I have just been scoffing too much choccie. I really must loose some weight, Floria how is the slimming world diet going?

Duchess fab news, not too long until you get to sleep in your own bed.

AIO is all in one nappy. Like a bumgenius.

Dawn dunnit

jw was thinking of hitting the Trafford Centre next week (i.e. when the schools are back - in the hope it's no longer a living hell) so could say how do and maybe grab the Gaviscon ... (don't you live near Slattery's??) been drooling over that shop since you mentioned it!!! At the mo I don't use anything except water to wash baby G and when I do it's be the organic stuff - but if those things help ... oooh that soap sounds gorgeous with that list of ingredients! The eczma cream is Oilatum stuff. I was going to experiment on my baby and put organic bottom butter on one half of him and the oilatum on the other side and see which looks better quicker. Although I don't really fancy the liquid parafin or other ingredients of the oilatum on my little sprog.

hedgepig I still have your (now well thumbed but sadly not used) VBAC books here. Shall I post them back? Love the name Boogiepig!

Eeh, you north-western ladies can do meet-ups and swap eczema creams and everything .

JW We are really boring and normal so there's nothing major about my ILs that you would remember or that anyone would care diddlysquat about. It's just that I have made my lack of affection for them clear in various posts in a way which I wouldn't do if I'd put my name to them (coward!). But all it would take is a Booker Prize and the headlines would be 'Literary Prize Winner Slags of In Laws on Interweb.' Actually, I'd swallow that for the Booker .

Bonzo poor wee chap, they do get spotty at this stage, just when you want to show them off. Arthur still gets breakouts on his face like a teenager.

mrsb that pie sounds divine. I had DS1's friend round so once I'd fed them fishfingers, taken friend home, collected DD's friend and dropped them at football training I realised I'd forgotten to eat so had cheese and crackers on the hoof.

Knackered now. Hope y'all get some zeds.

Evenin' All!
Its taken me an hour just to read 2 days posts but well worth it JJ I wish I just wish!!!! lol..sadly the Bubbles character costume was modelled on me
Tigga If it is Pratchett witch nom de plumes we are using I bagsy Agnes Nit aka Perdita X Dream...another character modelled on me methinks
Bonzo Sorry you a having such a rough time. Love the idea of the half 'n half baby Funnily enough I was going to suggest a mini Northern meet up at the TC! I'm going there next Monday, you up for it? ...JW? ..Tigga?? Hedgepig Thanks for asking ..I've lost 7.5 lb in total (4lb,2.5lb, and 1lb this week)...1 more and I can have the eyelashses and brows tinted.

Well it has been another fun packed weekend for us; Saturday was full of family birthdays so we did a lot of socialising, Sunday I had a fab time at the Bouvier rally in Newark... really must go for the whole weekend next year (lots of sausage and cider races...it gets better after the 4th or 5th round). Then Dh spent the whole of yesterday (9-5!)cutting down the three trees that have been damaged by the new land drains (a case of cut 'em down now or they'll fall on some one next year), loading them into the car and ferrying them down to the tip and then shovelling 4tons of top soil dumped on our driveway (we did order it, just expected it to be bagged)into the wheelbarrow and ferrying that round to the back garden but the ground is still too wet to get level and with the forecast being for yet more rain we have had to cancel the turf order (and Dhs three days hols to lay it)...It is so depressing, all that work and we are still no further forward ... even if when it is finished it will only be a big square of grass from fence to fence, no shrubs/trees/flowers ... all this money, time and hard slog just to have a surface Alex can play on... I should have just planted bog garden plants and taught Alex to walk on stilts.

Floria am available in the afternoon - we have rhyme time at 10:30 for about an hour.

Sam would be v upset if he didn't get his dingle dangle scarecrow Still think the scarecrow deserves an ASBO!

LookingForwardToSingingBadlyOnMondayTiggaxx

Morning all!

Well well well, slept from 9 to 3:30! However, he wouldn't settle back down until about 445 and then insisted on getting back up at 6. DH got up with him. Rotten child ate 30 mls and feel back to sleep! He's still asleep at 805!!

bonzo sorry to hear about your rough time. Hopefully GPs and HVs can sort you out.

floria at stilt walking.

erm I'm also jealous of all these meet ups. Really, everyone should just come to Belfast!

Nothing much planned around here for today. Some grocery shopping is about it. Wee, how exciting my life is!

morning all I got a 6hr sleep last night (yay) N clearly prefers to have all the bed with me (looks good for when DH goes away then )

Bonzo - poor chap (and you!) DS1 reacted to dairy in my diet when bf and has chronic eczema still (there's a well known link between dairy intolerance and eczema). He's still only bathed in water as he reacts to oilatum (and anything else with petroleum/lanolin based products - we can only use calendula cream on him to moisturise) Maybe worth investigating? Earth Friendly Baby stuff is good too (from thebabycatalogue) as it's paraban free.

I'm laughing at this so hard, I'm crying:

Childbirth Song

And now I'm off to go shopping.

PMSL Tee - just had to add that on FB too

Morning ladies.

bonzo Slattery's is indeed within spitting distance of where I am. If you've never been then you're in for a treat. Let me know what day...I've a few things on next week but we can compare diaries. I'm sure that floria will be up for it although I'll feel guilty inviting her knowing all that temptation awaits her I won't bring K though as she's still on house arrest

DSS went back to school this morning in a right old panic about doing his shoelaces. First shoes he's had with laces (don't ask), can tie them but this morning it all went Pete Tong - after such wonderful and impressive dress rehearsals too.

I've been to the GP about the lump on my face and he's referred me to a cosmetic surgeon. Great, as I can now cancel the private appointment I had already made and save myself £££££'s. DH hasn't stopped saying 'phew' over and over since I got back

Love the childbirth song. Excellent!

Tee that was just magic! pmsl! and then caught sight of another of hers

PMS

my word but she is brilliant!