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July Shed II

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FlyMeToDunoon · 16/07/2010 18:30

Hello and welcome.

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nicolamumof3 · 20/07/2010 17:17

oh how you getting on with superlite generally dunoon?

grrr just opened sale order from next..linen roll legs in navy, ordered age 4-5yr they have del 18-24m! grrr. anyone want them before i return. they were only £3.50 gorgeous would want £5 posted.

maxybrown · 20/07/2010 17:22

Ooh Dunoon - sounds like me!

To be fair thinking about it - it all started when we started getting classic vehicles but they are all gone now - for that very reason, so he will have no excuse! At the minute I do pretty much everything - all cooking all cleaning all washing up grass cutting clothes washing ironing shopping. So I might only have 1 child but still never ever stop. I have told him though - and when I do go back to work full time, watch out!

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FlyMeToDunoon · 20/07/2010 17:23

Superlite is good. Faults are:
it's heavier and bulkier to carry and put on bus folded.
The seat cover is coming apart very slightly at a seam and around the fixings at front. Will have to keep an eye on that.
Can't chuck masses of stuff on and in it as easily as a mac.
Raincover is a bit of a faff.

Plus points:
Easier to push than the quest.
Goes well over different surfaces.
I like the hood.

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basl · 20/07/2010 17:55

Well back from day out and had a fantastic time apart from a few dramas. One of the little girls wondered while we where all looking at the animals so big search and she was fine. My sister on the other hand looked like she was going to have heart failure. Then same wee lass stumbled and wacked her eye so now has a swollen over eye and cut. Apart from that the place was fantastic with loads for all ages to do. Feel a little bit less stressed now only a little bit but glad to hear iykwm that you girls feel like this sometime too. I always think i am a crackpot when i feel like this.

Anyhooo i would like the trousers nicola if possible are they light weight for summer? If they are heavy then i won't bother. Do you have a pic please.

Oh Flyme seen your pushchair today and it looks lovely in the fless my fav colour as well khaki green. Very narrow at the top but it was a big kid in it and she looked very comfy.

basl · 20/07/2010 17:59

Well i am a bit to say my dh does loads in this house. I am more the husband equivalent. He loves cooking and does me batches of food for the freezer like homemade soup, spag bol, chilly, curry. He cleans the bathroom sometimes. Makes the beds like in the army and washes irons and as you can imagine gets really nipped with me as i am not so fussy as him. He has tendancy of ocd.

basl · 20/07/2010 18:04

That is not all the time incase you may think i am a lazy moo. I may add he on the other hand is not too hands on with our children. Yes he can play with them and take them out but i am the one left with everything regarding them most of the time from night time wakes to everything regarding shcool, doctors, next stages of things and he really has very little patience for them at times. So can't have it all really and we are all better at one thing or another and i think housework is not my thing.

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FlyMeToDunoon · 20/07/2010 18:07

I wish I knew what my 'thing' was

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GeekOfTheWeek · 20/07/2010 18:19

My dh doesn't cook much, mainly because I like to do it plus i have time now i'm on mat leave. He is a whizz at the pizza shop or chinese though

I really can't complain though as he does his fair share re housework.

basl · 20/07/2010 18:22

Your 'thing' Flyme will be there and sure looking after the girls is fairly fool on and i must say you do have a thing for bargain hunting and designing your home oh and you do make me when i could really do with a oh and then there is your creative thing that's a good one. See you have loads of thingys. xx

maxybrown · 20/07/2010 19:47

Well!!! We ate out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fancy that eh? And we bought some nice food and DH is cooking on Friday. Very exciting yum. Only to Morrisons cafe but hey ho, it was eating out.

Got busy two days ahead of us, TWO lots of speech therapy reviews, so goodness knows what will be said this time

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FlyMeToDunoon · 20/07/2010 19:59

Thanks basl. you make me too.
Yay maxy.
DP and I are having the very seasonal [not!] haggis, neeps and tatties tonight. Yummmeeeee

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maxybrown · 20/07/2010 19:59

Oh and Basl you are not a crackpot and glad you had a nice day

maxybrown · 20/07/2010 20:08

ooh very dunoon, lovely!

Glad you are here, thought I had scared everyone off. My no sleep son is actually in bed too, bliss

sal1309 · 20/07/2010 20:14

evening all

basl glad you had a nice day.

well earlky night for me i think im shattered but thought id say hi

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FlyMeToDunoon · 20/07/2010 20:15

I have to go as DD1 wants on the laptop.

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nicolamumof3 · 20/07/2010 20:33

hiya Sal!

Evening all took boys to park not long back they are bathed and in bed listening to toy story cd!

5inthebed · 20/07/2010 21:17

Evening everyone.

Well no keys for me until next week now . Bloody builders aren't finished yet. Not mused. DH is off next week luckily but it's not the point! I'm in such a foul mood bcause of it.

I wish my Dh was hands on, h is very nnoying at times, doesn't do much to help around here, might wash the dishes every now and again and occasionlly changes Ds3's nppy but that bout it. I hate it, hate him for the way he goes on and sometimes wonder why we are together . I think h has lost all respect for m when I got made redundant and now just sees me as a general dogs body for the housework. He complains when he coems in fro work and I've not done much. Ho hum, your life is what you chose I suppose.

It is really hot and humid here tonight. Chucking it down with rain but I can't open my windows as the rain comes right through them and into the living room. Wouldn't have this problem if I was in my house, different windows.

Divatheshopaholic · 20/07/2010 22:17

Phew, i just finished the cakes, i feel knackered. I dont know why i have just an idea
Ds is coughing so much, i ran upstairs dozen times.
Cant believe its passed 10o`clock

maxybrown · 20/07/2010 22:24

look yum Diva Just replied to email by the way

basl · 21/07/2010 07:18

new house new start 5in? I don't think the penny drops exactly how much work is required to look after our children full time and do the house work. My dh is extremely critical when he comes home from work about the amount of house work or lack of it i have done. Yeah it does drag you down. I do all the usual stuff in a day like washing. hoovering all the kids meals but maybe don't do all the finer detail but i get it in the neck too and it is so annoying.

Do you miss your work 5in? I thought i would but i have to say it has been so nice not going in at 7pm till midnight but i will start back next week.

Hope your ok 5in and get this move you have been waiting so long for

basl · 21/07/2010 08:10

Maxy i hope you enjoyed your meal out!!! thats you hooked then. I love eating out when we go food shopping together. It is so nice when no clearing up to do after

nicolamumof3 · 21/07/2010 08:27

oh 5in you sound so down about the house and its no surprise. You are very right in your life is what you make it. As i said last night we are all working full time raising these kids, running a home, organising our dh's etc. So any dh who doesn't appreciate that needs a day doing it then they will! Terry is excellent would never say 'what you been doing all day' or why isn't the bathroom cleaned etc?

So nearly end of term here. We have toms leavers service tonight. A very emotional week for me, tates last proper session at nursery today, he has leavers service too on friday..my baby

maxybrown · 21/07/2010 08:40

Yes 5in, I understand too. If Matthew has him for a day he is like whoa!!! But in fairness he would never say what have you been doing all day as he knows what it's like - plus I do do everything so he has to be very very careful though last night he blitzed the kitchen, took the cooker apart (not the oven mind } and it all looked lovely - yay! Give him a swift kick. Better you get your house all finished and ready than them give you keys and it be shitty, but moving is so bloody stressful. We were so twitchy last year, then we realised it was the first year we hadn't moved, bliss! Even though I hate where we live

Well off for first speech therapy review anyway, then Teddy bears Picnic at toddlers this afternoon. Have nice days all

basl · 21/07/2010 08:48

Good luck James!!! and enjoy teddy bears picnic. Hope it goes well maxy will be thinking of you today.

Nicola your Terry sounds like a wee gem and i hope this week is not too emotional for you although and awful lot at the one time eh. I feel odd about Olivia going to school. I don't think it has clicked with me yet. I see her so grown up now i tend to forget about her being my first baby. She has grown in confidence so much but still a timid little thing out of the house. I will no doubt be in floods of tears when she goes for the first day with her uniform on and looking all scared. Well you see i have talked myself into being all emotional now silly moo.

maxybrown · 21/07/2010 08:52

Thanks basl and you do make me smile hope you are ok too.

Nic - tis only natural - two big changes at once. At the minute I can't imagine me being like that at all, but who knows! Dealt with lots of crying parents over the years - some who drive you nuts and others that you really really feel for. Have a sniff and a box of tissues