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Nutty Stepmum's Club (NSC) - Who Wants To Join Us?

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SadSam · 29/03/2005 11:53

Howdy!!!! Squirrel 3 and I have decided that as we are a bit nutty, we'd like to set up the Nutty Stepmum's Club or NSC. If anyone would like to join us, please add to this post and prove that we are not the only nutters out there!

We would like to add a little bit more nuttyness to our already insane lives!!!!

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NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 12:08

That looks nice Squirrel - should ease the pain from my broken toe

No sympathy tho - I was ever so slightly drunk when I did it

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 12:10

Do tell all!!!!

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 12:25

Sorry but it's not very interesting really!

It was last week whilst DP and I were away on holiday. We'd been out all day drinking (like you do ) and we were just walking back to the caravan. I was wearing open sandals and I staggered into him, kicking his ankle! It bloody hurt - and that's putting it mildly but I think it would have hurt even more if I'd been sober

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 12:38

So when you get drunk you kick your dp....

Think I know why he does the washing, hoovering and cooking now.....

Come to think of it Tarantula does seem to like her axe too........

Lol {grin]

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 12:41

Going to get myself a good axe (can you recommend a good one Tarantula?) and a pair of steel-toe-capped boots!

tarantula · 14/09/2005 12:45

pmsl thats true squirrel I do ahve a fondness for my axe tho dp quite likes his too and is more than capable of defending himself.

the recipe looks good but with raisins in we call it spotty dick (at least my granny did). My mums version is made with brown flour and great with saveory stuff like salmon or even just jam. mmmmmmm

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 12:48

I need some steel toe-caps too , I threw my open toe sandals away in disgust tee hee

DP didn't even feel it when I staggered into him and kicked him (damn ) but I think he would have if he'd been sober!!

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 13:14

BTW folks, I'm always intrigued as to how people think up their MN names - mine is rather obvious , where did yours come from??

Just being nosy.....no other reason for asking

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 13:29

My DGS calls me Squirrel sometimes so it was an obvious name for me to choose for this.

Don't know why he calls me it, maybe he just thinks I'm nuts!!!!!

tarantula · 14/09/2005 13:43

mine is cos Ive got one at home .Well its dp's really cos I bougth it for his birthday. Its a salmo pink nad very cute (well I think so anyway )

tarantula · 14/09/2005 13:44

salmon not salmo... Its this wine I think thats causing the bad typing

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 13:46

LOL squirrel

Can't wait to hear where tarantula came from....

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 13:47

Crossed posts tarantula

Interesting choice of pet that

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 13:49

I used to keep snakes and the odd lizard but I never kept tarantulas.

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 14:01

Just a few of them were Florida King snake

Califorian King Snake

corn snakes

tarantula · 14/09/2005 14:05

like like snakes and lizards too but they are much harder work to keep. With ruari we just bung her a few crickets every couple of months or so and shes as happy as Larry

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 14:14

They're not that hard to keep once you have got the vivariam (sp? set up properly.

I used to keep a breeding pair of rats so that I always had food for them (yes I know, I'm cruel), but I used to er.... do away with them very quickly before feeding them to the snakes, they knew nothing about it as too quick.

Bet your all shocked now!!!!

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 14:51

Flippen 'eck, I'm the only one who doesn't keep unusual pets! We have 3 rabbits, 2 hamsters and some fish in the pond - and I acquired all those along with DP and dsd! I've never had animals for the simple reason I don't have the time to look after them properly. I love animals tho - my sister has 2 bulldogs and they are gorgeous!!

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 14:56

3 rabbits? Hope it stays at only 3!!!

tarantula · 14/09/2005 14:58

lol not shocked in the least squirrel. Dp keeps saying about giving Ruari a pinkie but they have to be alive to give to spiders and I aint having that. I liek the fact that we can go away for Christmas/holdays etc for weeks on end and leave the spider with no worries.

Getting the vivarium set up was my main worry as they seemed to need quite a bit of stuf fnad it was quite expensive so we took the simple option . Spider, tank, stuff for the bottom and small red lightbulb. How lazy are we .

going away is also the main reason we havent got a rabbit too. Id love one.

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 15:03

The lizards ate crickets but don't you just hate it when you get the odd escapee, blooming 'chirp, chirp blooming chirp' all night!

tarantula · 14/09/2005 15:07

Gods yes. we ahd one that escaped into our kitchen at the last place we lived in nd drove us mad for the best part of a month. we jsut could catch the little bugger. and he was one of those black really noisy ones too!!!!

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 15:28

There's a story behind the 3 rabbits......

When I first met DP there was one, then my niece's rabbit had babies so dsd persuaded DP to let her have a baby rabbit, but we didn't know if they were the same sex or not - so a couple of months later along came 6 babies. Unfortunately the mum killed them which, we're told, isn't unusual so we separated them

Then a few weeks later dsd came in saying her rabbit was having babies again. I tried as best I could to explain that for that to happen the rabbits have to be together but she insisted she could feel the babies. So out I went to the hutch and I thought she had a point. Then DP comes out into the garden and says "I only put them together for 5 minutes once a fortnight while I clean them out".......so then of course he let her keep one of the babies but only on condition that when her and her mum move house she takes it with her, so 3 will soon become 2

Only a man could do that.......

Squirrel3 · 14/09/2005 16:15

That reminds me of a story I've got about a mouse I had once...

When my children were small I was shopping with my friend and I was looking for a bin for the kitchen when my friend said "OMG, there's a mouse". I told him not to be silly and picked up a bin and I don't know why but I looked inside and there was a pet box from a pet shop, somebodies idea of a joke. so we started to look for this mouse. We found it and decided that we should tell someone.

So there was my friend walking through the supermarket with a mouse in is hand trying to be discreet when an old lady shouted "EEEEEEK! they've found a mouse"!!!!

My friend not really sure what to do went up to a male supermarket worker and told him that he had found something that they should know about, when he was shown the mouse he nearly fainted. The worker then called over his manager (a woman) and we showed her, she screamed and ran away!!!!!!

I just looked at my friend and said "shall I take it home?"

I called it Sainsbury and 28 days later... yes, you guessed it, it had babies, so she wasn't the only mouse that had been dumped in sainsbury's that day!!!!!!!!!!!!

NotActuallyAMum · 14/09/2005 16:38

LOL at both the story and the reaction from the staff! They could have at least tried to be discreet!

Perhaps that's why it was dumped in the first place - cos they knew it was having babies

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