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Are you all nursing hangovers or just clearing up the post Christmas mess?

KEEP THAT DOOR SHUT

OMG, were any of you watching "How to be a Good Mother" on Channel 4? Extraordinary......

Dp pulled a late one, so ds slept with me and dp went in his bed. 'It's smelly and could do with the sheets being changed' he said. And?!
Meanwhile my boss is not stepping down, he has resigned so we are all and . I can't get my head round it, and no doubt they will take months to replace him, and guess who will bear the brunt in the meantime?
CV tell us more, what are we all doing wrong?

Huffy I hope they arrange counselling, etc for the children / staff.

Great news Dukes, fingers crossed for you too!

CV, I caught the bit about the potty-training (though obiously they don't call it that!) I actually used to work with someone who subsequently had a baby and did it from birth

MrsS, sounds like an average night in our house, except we don't have any pets

BTM, they had a vicar in school yesterday and counselling available for those that wanted it (counselling not just available from the vicar, as I understood it). I assume the provision remains in place for at least this week. dd brought a letter home yesterday about it. They have an absolutely massive sixth form (I think around 1000), so obviously only a small percentage will have known this girl well, but her death comes just about a year after the death of a boy in the same year group, which is harsh. I feel so sorry for the parents. Apparently her mother went in on Tues morning and found her dead in bed. If nothing else, hearing about something like that just makes you stop a while and do a quiet "reassessment" of a few things, doesn't it..?

Oh God Huffy that is grim, grim, grim.

Oh gosh, Huffy . How unbearable for the parents.

Oh Huffy, how awful that must have been

Huffy, that's so sad. A defining moment of my little brother's teenage life was his best friend being found in very similar circumstances. He was the clever, clean-living, popular one, but inexplicably decided to try a little private solvent abuse, and was found dead in his bed the next morning. If there was one thing I could teach my kids it would be that the tiniest stupid decision can have devastating consequences.

Anyway, onto How to Be a Good Mother.....it really was quite an eye-opener, featuring several "extreme" mothers; one had six kids, all home-birthed and home-schooled (my worst nightmare), one did strange things to placentas, one "didn't believe in nappies".....you get the idea. I came to the conclusion I was a perfectly Good Mother, thank you very much, but it was an entertaining hour, because the presenter, Sharon Horgan, didn't judge much, just joined in the.....fun.

Dp had to deal with the death of one of his undergrads last year (her friends found her in bed - no reason for it, didn't drink etc, etc), dp was questioned as her tutor. But the really weird thing was my brother works with her mother and phoned to tell me, dp didn't know at the time. He said it was horrendous - the whole department was in shock and then the Uni made a mega boob and put out her name plate etc for end of year exams (which weren't that long after) - luckily dp spotted it and whisked it away before any of the students noticed and then wrote a scathing email to University administration. As you say, brings you up short.....

Come on lads (wither Kerrymumbles?) Let's turn away from sadness. It's too sad.

I watched that Sharon Horgan thing on 4OD CV. It was great fun. Love La Shaz's house and garden office. They were missing a food obsessive methinks. Should have swapped for placenta lady. Saw a doc once about a woman who let her children eat FRUIT as a very, very special treat. It was all roots and sprouts.

Now, anyone who wants to get in touch with their inner 14 year old boy...

Feast your eyes on this baby:

www.zzounds.com/item--PEAFZH725C

I am going to look at it tomorrow. I have wanted to play the drums, like, forever. It's my Mulberry Handbag/ferrari moment only prettier/noisier.

You likey?

Me likey! How fabulous, Dukes, and you'll never be able to hear the kids whinge again.

Dukes, how fab and cool, you will be our crepey drummer

Yes Wilbur, therapy has never been so potentially deafening

Dukes, I am

I have started watching that Mad Mothers thing and will finish later when I have done me circuits class. Turned off just before the placenta thing as I'm still waiting for my supper to go down. :)

Placenta sandwich, anyone?

I have a v. nice email back from the Pixi shop that Dukes linked to (I asked them some searching qs about the ingredients in their products) and so I am going to pay them a visit on the 20th to investigate further...

I have just watched the mad mothers. It made me feel relatively normal. Quite liked the Wicked Step Mother, but a bit about no helmets on bikes. We are quite lax parents, I think. but that is largely due to DH's inability to remember to collect them from the school bus

I am all set for London. I have rescheduled Hot Date for the 19th and drunken and debauched night at the Groucho on the 18th, so should have recovered sufficiently for the 20th. Particularly as really cannot drink that volume/size of bill again due to the state of my bank account.

And my liver. Of course, how could I forget my liver.

I liked the Wicked Stepmother too, maybe because she was the least weird (and most refreshingly honest) of the lot. I must confess, I am a bit rubbish when it comes to insisting on helmets , possibly because such things didn't exist "in my day". Not a good reason I know.....but having said that my DCs don't tend to cycle in traffic.

I will probably be driving on the 20th too. MrsS can have my alcohol quota.

I will join the not drinking much brigade because I am still feeling crap with cold (actually starting to wonder if I need to go to drs - I never go to the drs), and anything more than a couple makes me feel seriously weird. Also I need a clear head to get on with the packing, which at the minute consists of me standing in the middle of rooms going 'where the hell do I start'. Tomorrow, for my birthday, I am going to fill a skip.....