Posting on this Board

[hels9]

I'd be interested to know what anyone else thinks, but I do find it frustrating and a real shame when people whose children blatantly do have special needs in the literal interpretation of the phrase feel that posting on this board might be inappropriate. Special needs are, so far as I'm concerned, special needs of any kind - whether related to health, physical needs, behavioural or general-developmental. And that is why I look to this board for advice and support from understanding parents. Plenty of parents have children with special needs in several or all of those categories in any event, and it really would be tiresome to have to post the same message on several different boards to get to speak to everyone you want to.

I will rue the day we ever get separate boards for different categories of special need. (Anyway, the whole argument about dividing special needs up into more specific sub-categories reminds me a bit of the witterings on the Gifted and Talented board by disgruntled mothers who feel that there are too many merely clever children's parents posting on there, so the board really ought to be renamed, or the offending parents chased off with their tails between their legs - albeit that the reasons behind fearing this is the wrong board to post on are far more noble and sensitive to others' feelings than those behind the G&T comments).

i have frog spawn in my water butt

awww I thought you were just joining in Bullet

I was with the first post I did. Then you replied and rather than being sensible and realising that of course you were joking (the pah alone should have made that clear) I just took it at face value and thought "I've inadvertently upset them."
You may point and laugh now .

ROLF oif

awww bullet123

bullet are you a bullet fan?

Aww, more extending chocolate than pointing and laughing!

I am unsure what a bullet fan is I'm afraid.
No, my poster name comes from a nickname that DH and I gave our cat. She used to like to race up and down the stairs, so we said she was like a bullet.

Accepts chocolate and offers toffee yoghurt in return .

bullet for my valentine the group.

(I'm a bullet fan if that helps... well, not sure I would say fan but I like em )

pipinjo
because you turn up and try to talk sense gosh darnit.

well beyond the capeabilities of most of us this pm. Butthen we are all somewhat afflicted in various ways

flame do have a look at my thread in culture vultures it is a good one ds keeps asking me what people think and no one has looked.

I realised I have a whole handful of hangnails

(also realise I have been doing far too much today)

Will go see

Getting back to the important stuff..... I had a verruca YEARS ago when I was at school. I idly (doing my homework ha ha) stuck the pointy bit of my compass into it, pulled back the covering skin and just removed the black bit, it was sort of separate. There was a nice, clean skinnish hole left. Nice eh? Recommend it.

I remember doing that too!! (Not necessarily with a compass... mine were all really blunt)

Thanks, PipinJo. I confess to feeling secretly proud to have spawned such a monster post. A shame it's the ill judged one that was such a success!

I'm glad no-one bears me ill feelings for the foot-in-mouth moment when I decided to send it (thank God, no verrucas on MY feet - although I have had thrush, so does that mean I can join the poater clique, too? Or does my being ultimately responsible for its birth mean I'm a member already???).

It was/is a great thread, Hels. Quiche, poaters, verrucas, fungal infections, a troll, a hint of velcro cow..... What more could anyone ask of a thread?

You are indeed worthy of the title "Esteemed Poater".

Or should that be a steamed poater?

i have had 3 glasses of wine. i am steamed. i am also a lightweight

How many letters can your mumsnet nickname have in it? hels9 is just so boring - I fancy changing it to asteamedpoater.

That'll be fine hels - it's shorter than mine