How to justify spending entire Christmas on Moldie threads to husband

[morningpaper]

ideas please before he calls a lawyer

dh, on having the events of the last 72 hours described to him: "Women. What are you like? This is why you don't rule the world". I am forced to concede that while this is an exceptionally annoying and somewhat sexist comment, he may in fact have a point.

You see this is the advantage of being a lone parent....

I talked to dp about it. He blinked rapidly to indicate 'does not compute'. It's not the first time.

He's snoring in front of the news. He works so bloody hard that I feel genuinely crap that I have done fuck all today.

Oh I did - I went to the Apple Store in Regent St. YOu couldn't get out of Oxford Circus station, it was so busy. I was with ds and dd in buggy. I had to take dp's faulty iphone back. It was actually scary.

It was my second attempt today to get there. Earlier I'd walked to the tube - it's a 15 min walk - and discovered that dd had removed my cards from my handbag. Went back. Got them. walked back to station.

on arrival the concierge man said kindly 'when is your appointment, madam?'. When he realized that I was actually crying, he slipped me in the backdoor.

I had lots of the kindness of strangers, today, actually. It's put me in a better mood.

Thank you for listening.

cheers batty..[yawn].......

See this is another one of those times when being a lone parent is ace as I have no DP/DH curtailing my MN habits

I thought there was only me with a laptop injury, DD slammed the lid shut and it caught the skin above my belly button, had to fumble around in agony to release it.

Had a blood blister for weeks after.

ok. I'll slim it down. WTF is a mould thingy?

MP: turn your head on one side
HTH.

Oh, God, is there still more? I'm at my parents' house and can't spend entire evenings on MN like I usually do.

We need one dedicated person to read them all and summarise for us.

you went to Regent St. With children. Today. You loon.

Glad the strangers were kind though.

i now think MP is Doris Day in'By the Light of the Silvery Moon' complete with furry muff.

Tinsel, yes there is but nothing new. The hurt will take time to heal as always. Some moldies are justifying themselves, others are bemused but it is getting repetitive.

MP, doing the next round up must be a it of a nightmare. Sorry can't help on DP advice, mine has gone to bed ages ago.

She has got a furry muff - it's common knowledge.

yes how are you planning to approach the MN round-up? Do you get Christmas off? If so you've a while to work it out.

I'll help.

"There was no news this week."

I think that'll do it, don't you?

Or if you're uncomfortable with that, you could try: "There was some news, but I've forgotten it."

or would that be disingenualisticalist? If so, you could do one of those very serious 'Ofcom judgment'-type statements.

"In October 2008, it was suggested that.."

I have an excellent speaking voice, I'll read it for you.

Is this helping at all?

Or you could gloss over it like this:

"onebatmother sparkled yet again with her customary wit - what would we (awholegroupofmnerswerediscoveredtobegatheredonasecretsite) do without her?"

Or Chinese govt: "Some Moldies have freely told us how delighted they are to have had the opportunity to have been re-educated about the undesirability of elitism"

You're not with me, are you?

Well dammit - this thread has got Moldies in the title and I'm going to get it up to 1000 posts even if I Do It Alone.

i would say as its your place of work, you have an excellent 'overtime' excuse.

I'm going to the Moldi(v)es for my Christmas break, where are you going?

har har
gold onebat - gold

very disappointed MP has gone to bed and missed my furry muff joke. She must have calf ache. Night night.

off to bed. We have had a mouse die in our house. It's a very small house, which now smells entirely of dead mouse, and that's a smell I won't forget in a while. We have people coming for Christmas, and I'm hoping the smell of dead mouse will have dissipated by then. Also I'm hoping that the live mice don't run over their faces when they are asleep on the sitting-room floor.