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The Step Parents Refurbished Wine Bar

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BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 20/12/2011 22:46

The refurbished SP Wine Bar is once again open, as while you don't have to drink to be a Step Parent, it helps.

Contact changed at no notice?

Disney Dad and sulky Skids?

Damned if you do and damned if you don't???

Ahhh, thats better!

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NatashaBee · 21/12/2011 21:36

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prettyfly1 · 21/12/2011 21:48

MJ that is really nice. Natasha you dont have to have a shite relationship with the ex wife to be welcome at the bar - just a step parent, or former step parent and a deep desire to partake in the consumption of beverages of the alchoholic kind - welcome ! ;)

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prettyfly1 · 21/12/2011 22:02

In that case pull up a pew Grin bar is busy tonight - best relaunch ever - well done BOMS.

MJinSparklyStockings · 21/12/2011 22:05

Or a SP sympathiser or a SC or anyone who isn't just popping in to shit stir really.

:) I'm probably the jinx but bollox to it.

MJinSparklyStockings · 21/12/2011 22:07

Barf sing us song Barf.

Just one more song barf.

It doesn't even have to be a new one.

All we are singing - is give us a song.

EverybodyKnows · 21/12/2011 22:10

I'm now having a Brew in bed and trying to write my food shop list Xmas Confused

It's good to have the bar back.

MrsPinotGrigio · 21/12/2011 22:10

Ladies
It has been a pleasure but my glass is empty & I need to go to ASDA at 8am to do my shopping before DP plays golf (means I don't have to take DS with me) so I shall say goodnight.

MrsPinotGrigio · 21/12/2011 22:11

I have (for some unknown reason) assumed that you are all ladies but if there are any gents I apologise!

EverybodyKnows · 21/12/2011 22:11

yes BH, pretty please!

EverybodyKnows · 21/12/2011 22:12

Nice meeting you MrsPG, good luck with the shop.

Grin
BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 21/12/2011 22:30

Evening again, sorry for not bobbing in later, but some sleuthing, present wrapping and an over excited child have got in the way.

My sleuthing has been pretty successful though. Advocaat anyone?

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BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 21/12/2011 22:31

A song?

I will give you a song tomorrow. I have one up my sleeve, but think the moment has passed for tonight xx

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BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 22/12/2011 10:36

Good morning! How is everyone's head this morning?

Paracetamol anyone?

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EverybodyKnows · 22/12/2011 10:47

Morning BH !

I was good last night- Only had 2 Cuba Libre and a Limoncello. Well, one has to clean her palate after a very lovely pasta dish Xmas Grin

BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 22/12/2011 10:52

I am curious as to how you make Limoncello.

Isn't that vodka and lemonade Xmas Grin

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EverybodyKnows · 22/12/2011 11:56

BH it's easy

Peel the rind of 6-7 Unwaxed lemon. Leave said rinds in Vodka
for 10 to 14 days. When that is done, filter the vodka , keep rinds and make a simple syrup (water + sugar) which you pour on the rinds when it has boiled. Once the syrup has cooled down, mix with vodka. Filter once or twice and bottle !

Simples.

MJinSparklyStockings · 22/12/2011 12:33

Everyoneknows lies!!! It's far too complicated for me - now smashing Choccy limes - thats easy!

chelen · 22/12/2011 13:23

Been meaning to make limoncello for last three xmases, as yet undone. Maybe next year...

My spiced vodka from 2009 is the stuff of legend, for all the wrong reasons. No-one has yet found a way to make it drinkable. I just poured ours down the sink!

BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 22/12/2011 13:28

That sounds interesting :) You will have to bring samples next time we meet.

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MJinSparklyStockings · 22/12/2011 13:57

Is this our real life? Are we just nasty
Caught in a thread row, No escape from reality
Open your mins, Look i to our lives and see,
We're just poor step mums, we need some sympathy
Because It's she will come, he will go, contact high, contact low
Whatever the ex says goes, doesn't really matter to me, I just want to know

MJ just killed a thread, Put SP upon the thread.
Mentioned ex wife, now it's dead
MJs thread had just begun
But now It's gone and rowed it's way away
MJ ooh, Didn't mean to make you sigh
She will be back tomorrow
Battling on, battling on because understanding doesn't matter.

Too late, the spies have come.
Fingers typing on our thread, minds racing all the time
Goodbye, ev'rybody, threads got to go
Been outed in real life, ex can't face the truth
MJ ooh, Your thread has died
Some posters wish SPs had never been born at all.

I see a little glimmer of a light
Rush away, rush away, will you do the SP dance
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning SPs
SPs SPs SPs SPs you've got to go
Magnifico. We're just poor SPs and nobody loves u's
He's just a poor boy from a split family
He doesn't need time with you, your just a blended family
She will come, he will go, will you let me know
Step monster - No, we will not let him go
Step monster - No, we will not you know
I will not let you know
Let me know, step monster, We will not let you go
(Let me know) Will not let you know
(Let me know, Will not let you know, (Let me know) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
(Oh Mumsnet, Mumsnet,, Mumsnet.) Mumsnet, let me know
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for SPs, for SPs, for SPs.

So you think you can post here and we'll leave you to cry
So you think you can post here and we'll leave you to sigh
Oh, SP, can't do this for you SP
You gotta stop posting, just gotta stop posting, posting here

You don't really matter
Anyone can see
Your feelings don't matter
No-one really loves you - SPs!!!!!

Only other SPs know

EverybodyKnows · 22/12/2011 15:44
Xmas Grin

Is it Wine o'clock yet ?

samwellsbutt · 22/12/2011 15:54

its mulled wine o clock for me.........boiling it gets rid of all the booze right.

BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 22/12/2011 16:01

Xmas Grin @ MJ, vair good.

I would love to be drinking right now, but yet again I find myself with child - i.e. two small ones that need supervising.

Soooo, I schlepped all the way into town today to the Soft Play to entertain the kids for a couple of hours only to find that "due to circumstances outside our control" its shut.

That was £4 in bus fairs and two grumpy fed up childrens worth of entertainment. Dammit, I deserve a large Wine but instead all I can do is have a Brew and be grateful for it. Sigh.

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WinterLover · 22/12/2011 16:35

Argh how many posts!!!!!

Well I'm going to have a small tipple tonight as Christmas is all sorted Grin all presents have been bought/made and wrapped and in relevant piles/bags Grin

God to think this time last year I'd just been discharged from hospital after being told I probably wouldn't make the new year with the pregnancy and here I am with DS asleep on me Grin