If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

[LittleDonkeyCarrieMaryMumsnet]

Well hopefully the title says it all. There's been a suggestion, and we agree, that as we did with Baby P and the Mc Canns we just have one thread where anyone who feels they still have anything to add on this subject can post and those who'd rather move on can hide it away.

It feels strange to put this thread in site stuff as we are definitely not wanting to encourage further discussion of Moldies (we have presents to wrap too you know ) but we weren't sure where else to put it.

We will delete any new Moldies threads that are started, so please feel free to report them in case we miss any (what with wrapping the presents and all...)

And if you do want to carry on the discussion please remember that Mumsnet's here to make everyone's lives easier and not the reverse, and that Christmas is a time of goodwill to all mumsnetters past, present and future

Thanks,
MNHQ

my children will hate me

it is tradition they have selection boxes for breakfast on xmas morning (anything to let me sleep past 7 am)

rustybear you are a farkin lazy mare genius for getting FC to deliver breakfast.

I bought DD's Playmobil advent calendar on october time! I was so suprised to see it sat there int he shop I felt a need to buy quick. My parents got the chocolate one.

love the breakfast idea!

you do know what i mean by smelly rubber, right?

we had those posh pocket advent thing (poundland)
I manged to fill 3 ockets

so not only did they not have it they saw they didnt have it

ah well

my excuse is that I've found it really hard to get any Christmas spirit going at all, and the last thing I could think of doing until about mid-December was start getting decorations up, and doing anything about it.

Also had DS1's 5th birthday on the 27th November, his party on the 29th, and DS3's Christening on the 30th - so the last week or so of November was totally manic........

Still not feeling very Chrismtassy now

ruty: think you'll find it's a scented eraser

arf @ ruty

Love FC bring breakfast. DD doesn;t have milk either .

AW FAQ - I've been feeling so unchristmassy this year but this thread had cheered me right up!

DD and ds have the playmobil ones. Didn't realise some sel=assembly required. 20mins my arse.

Those tiny fiddly flowers. And the boxes!

Oh dear. You should have come round here. (Long way to carry 30 bags of shopping though I suppose.)

You know what you need, don't you. You need a spare key. You could leave it with a neighbour, or in a safe place in the garden.

faq, my ds1 was 10 on the 27th nov too

also i have dd2 turning 12 on the 29th of this month

Yes, 20 minutes is very unrealstic! DD has the pink palace thing this year - lots of fiddly flowers. Thin the winter wonderland last year was slightly easier perhaps??

i always wanted smelly rubbers ( i know what you mean) my mothers considered it a frivolity. The mean girls at school used to steal them from WHsmiths, i just looked, adoringly at strawbery icecream rubbers

well I'm trying to get Christmassy - just not happening at all.

Maybe when the DS's get to pick something (quicky and easy that I can just chuck in the oven for 1/2hr and forget about) for their lunch on Christmas day I'll start feeling it...........

FC could also bring a toothbrush etc for the really slatternly parent. I'm loving this idea.

bloody hell breakfast in a stocking is fab! Like soap on a rope!

We have pork pie for breakfast. NO idea hwy.

hula, I would have thought you'd be a candidate for a nice needlepoint stocking. Not the big red fleecy stockings though, they're 'orrible.

My mother's birthday is on boxing day. My brother's is 2 days after that. My father's is at the beginning of january.

Is a pain in the arse - and have just realised that forgot to get birthday card for my mother. COuld just cross out "Happy Christmas" couldn't I? Have got her a present. THanks god.

I know Lou - I started a thread on the 27th to wish you DS and my DS a happy birthday - bumped it a few times but think you missed it

i dont feel xmassy either, i think not watching telly has really helped me not get into it this year

What goes inside stockings?

This year:

Strange reedy pipe things that we will regret buying on Christmas morning but liked the seller's dreads patter
Bracelet
Sweets
Tangerine (always ignored)
Stange german wooden puzzle things
Harry potter things
A couple of books
CD
Toy car
Make up thing
An eggcup with their names on

All vv small

Pink palace here too! DS's calendar seemed much easier to assemble, but perhaps that was because DH did it and it didn't have tiny flowers.