The Creped Crusaders - new thread!

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New thread for chatting. Oh and swapping S&B tips.

Having a manic day here - INSET day at school and I have 7 kids (inc my 3) over for lunch. While also trying to "work from home" and talk to removal people.

CV - Oh ye of little faith. I'm watching the weather forecast for Saturday like a hawk, and it has gone from 'heavy rain', via 'thundery showers' to 'light rain', and said rain is moving later into the afternoon. As long as there's a bit of dry weather during which to send the kids into the garden to find my hidden 'treasure', I don't mind.

My cossie is from Sainsburys, where else. There was only one size 14, so I got that. It's purple, gathered around the boobage, and has 'tummy control' and 'removable padded cups'. Oh god. But it will do for taking DS 'swimming' - ie chucking him up and down, and towing him around in 1m of water, in a peculiar crouch.

Potty training news: he is now pretty much sorted. Has gone from refusing to poo at all, to it being his favourite new hobby (nearly wrote 'jobby'). Yesterday in the park he sat on the potty right by the path for about 15 minutes, doing the foulest shit, which I then had to scoop into a carrier bag and dispose of in the dog mess bin. A new low.

Herbs, hope you took a picture to embarrass him with in later life....

I did, yes! I'm storing it with the one of him in a pink Barbie costume to get out and show to his first girlfriend.

Herbs - you took a potty to the park?? It's a loooong time since I needed one, but can't you get those portable pottys, which have a collapsible frame and a liner a bit like a giant nappy? Fits in your handbag, and no scooping required.

Actually, I hated pottys with a passion, and got mine onto trainer loo-seats at the earliest opportunity (in fact, I think DD1 never used a potty at all). I had a lovely fold-up loo-seat in a little pack to take out-and-about. Aah, memories....

Zara blazer update - I tried it on in front of DH, who looked distinctly and said it looked like something my mother would wear (not all bad tbh; my mother was wearing Zara floral skinnies last time I saw her), but he wasn't being complimentary. Not the reaction I was after.

You can get portable potties, but they seem a right faff, and I'd be constantly putting it up and down. The one I have is small enough to fit in the rucksack I use anyway. Most of the time he uses it in the toilets of wherever we are, so I can just put his 'product' straight into the loo.

I'm hoping to move him to the lav at the earliest opportunity. (Another reason I haven't bought a port-a-potty). At the moment, however, he's having none of it.

I bought a portable potty. It collapsed the first time ds sat on it (should have known better than to even try, really), with predictably unpleasant results. Lugging his giant, reinforced throne around was no picnic, so it was an enormous blessing that he v. quickly became reasonably continent (in comparison with dd, anyway). OK, ruby: exactly how does one cope with all this with twins?? What if they both want to go at once?

Never had a porta-potty nor took a potty out - don't know how it magically happened, but they went straight from nappies to loos! Or maybe they just never needed a number two when we were out. I do remember loads of wees by a tree - both DD and DS

at your DH's reaction CV - dissing both your mother's and your taste like that!

No porta potties here either....ds only used a potty for a wee a couple of times - headed straight for the loo....

Crepeys I am having a wibble - house move (well sale anyway) looks like it will happen. Solicitors appointed, money in place, seemingly no survey I am having serious cold feet about the whole thing - my lovely house :( Someone tell me this is normal.

BD - it's normal :)

(does that help?)

errr....no? ;)

Mine went straight to loo too, but DD2 and I did get v good at a double-act involving her pooing straight into a nappy bag held around her bottom when out. It was a deft and brilliant and actually v hygienic exercise which is now LONG AGO

BD, yep, normal

Am now going to practise about four hours of music in hope tonight's concert not too catastrophic. Mucho going on, most of it weird and a bit crappy, will update you anon.

Hello Hags, I am now back from divine holiday in Normandy, where I ate lots (but fairly healthily), drank lots (not so healthy, particularly as we made lots of bright blue cocktails to drink by the pool), slept lots, read lots and swam lots (in the same swimsuit as BD - I have the purple one, as does my cousin).
We had such a great time doing nothing that we are going to try and go back next year. Weather could have been better but we swam regardless, on the grounds that if you are going to get wet, you might as well get properly wet. The beach was fantastically empty, apart from two men having a "special cuddle" in the dunes as we walked past. The couple who own the holiday house were lovely and we had them over for lunch one day, and went to theirs for drinks. I am now home to one very clingy cat and one who is strutting round the flat saying "fuck you, you think I'm going to let you stroke me, after you abandoned us for two weeks?"

Oh link MrsS I could do with some of that!

Dp and I were assessing the toll this house business has had on us and it's not good. Dp thinks he's probably increased his likelihood of a heart attack by a factor of 10. We need some serious down time...
I am going to start low Carbing -CV don't you do that-any tips? - in an attempt to kick start some weight loss and need to chill a bit more (and drink a bit less!) having said that have seen some fab theatre in the last three days and also been drinking blue cocktails!!

MrsS, the hol sounds vair relaxing. Especially the bright blue cocktails What was in them? Same as yours BD?

ruby, you've managed to get them all to agree?!

And hats off to you BD if you manage to low-carb... I am not at all motivated to attempt to lose my winter warmer. Normally I stop feeling so hungry and carb-cravey in the summer, but what summer?

Concert not too awful but I stayed out too late drinking afterwards and feel a touch fragile today .

Our blue cocktail varied wildly, depending on who made them:

Blue curacao
Triple Sec
Gin
Napoleon Mandarine
Pineapple juice/orange juice
Lemonade

Or sometimes vodka instead, and varying quantities of the spirits. I am now out of gin...

You should have one, MI, you know, hair of the dog and all that...

Sounds similar MrsS except ours had vodka and grapefruit juice. They were a special at the theatre festival, and the organisers got so much donated per glass so we felt we had to drink them :)

Ds's stagecoach end of term show was excruciating...please do not ask children to do shakespeare when they have no idea what they are saying...

Cocktails soud like rocket fuel

BD, DS's end of year production is a 50's take on a Shakespeare classic - can't wait

Well, it looks like wet parties for Herbs and I - who said a summer-born baby was best for parties in the garden?!

More information needed!

Methinks Ruby has got an iPhone...

Welcome back from your hols, MrsS. Sounds like you got just what you needed

The weather here was astonishingly bad yesterday and the floods are impressive today. But today has been shorts weather. Verrrry strange. Not that I am complaining about actually seeing the sun, oh no.

My state of mind is still about as strange as the weather. I think my high anxiety levels may have fried the few functional synapses I had left. Damn. Dh is also not all there.