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I feel I should know this MI but how old are your dds now?

Is there such a thing as Too Much T'ai Chi?

Great that you have India flights sorted, MI. I agree, could you leave the DD's home alone? Or would Lalsy's DD be of use?! And I agree with CV

No idea about Bindi, but I think Windy may have been banned, though I'm not really sure why - there's a thread referring to it on FB, but I didn't see the thread

They're nearly 11 and 13, so just that annoying bit too young to leave completely to their own devices, I fear. I've prevailed Rather A Lot on DD2's friends recently.

He is quite annoyingly well-practised at it, I must say. He's done it for decades. Teaches it and all.

I must turn to another Difficult Client. They're bursting out of the woodwork today. Like, well, woodworm.

MI, what kind of bed do you need? I'm thinking of DD's (currently unused) high sleeper, which has a little couch and a desk under it, with a pull-out single under the couch for friends sleeping over. Of any interest?

Auriga, I think that is exactly what MI is looking for as that is what DD had and we sold without me remembering MI in the maelstrom at the weekend!

Things are at last moving along a little here

I feel that I am now on a par with Rudy, as I have googled "why is bird poop white", and can tell DGS next time I see him. (Tbh it never occurred to me that anyone would ever want to know the answer to this, so I feel properly edoocated).

We've been vaguely looking at beds in Ikea today (going to Ikea is my worst nightmare, I think). I want to buy two singles to replace the small double in one of our bedrooms - small double is actually my bed from when I was a teenager, and which DD also used (new mattress, of course). We wanted to get rid of it last year when we redecorated, but DD asked if she could have the bed when the moved into their new house ... and, fortunately, she is now getting closer to that dream.

Can someone tell me, though, why it is that I always come out of Ikea with things which I didn't know that I wanted until I saw them there? Today's purchases included a dozen small glasses for fruit juice at breakfast - now when did I ever have twleve people over for breakfast?

How are you doing today, Crem? Still improving?

How do the DDs get on, MI? At 11 and 13 I might just be tempted, but obviously you know how they get on together. Can't you leave them, but mention to your NDN that they are "home alone"? I might be tempted ....

Windy banned why??!

Bloody hell. What happened?

MI - can they go to the gastropub with you but sit on another table on their own and be grown up?

I think that's what I'd do... or palm them off to friends' houses for the afternoon... or let them mooch about a nearby shopping centre if there is one and go to Nandos together or similar...

Tell me about Windy!

What's Windy been up to?

I have done A Major Thing. I am not sure if it is Good or Bad. I feel a bit twitchy.

Auriga, that is EXACTLY the sort of bed, correct. NU, I am the same with Ikea - isn't everyone? - and also with many other shops. (I linger, for ages, in charity shops on what MrsS calls the Shelf of Wonderfulness - that one where there are all kinds of pointlessly delightful things like cutglass eggcups.) The Inferiorettes get on pretty well, but I think home alone might be pushing it a bit far for them for a large chunk of the day (I'm not being over-protective, honest!) so I think it may be a come-along thing. DP alleges he'll come back and pick them up.

Oh good, BTM. It sounds rough chez vous!

Oh tell Stropps

Stropps, what did you do??????

Ooh, do tell, Strops.

Spill, Stropps. Full beanage.

Stropps! Whaaaat?!

Well, things have taken a turn for the better, I think. Well, for the moment at least! Being and parenting a teen is soooooo tricky.

I think the FB thread said MNHQ didn't like her posting style on a thread that I didn't see

Er, well. I may have done a very wrong thing. But it is too late to undo now.
My exh had a very complicated family. His younger brother made a hasty marriage in his youth, had a son and then ran off with someone else to New Zealand. Never came back and never, afaik, contacted his ex or his son. My exh was his dn's godfather, but also refused to ever contact his nephew or his ex-sil again after his bro decamped, leaving no forwarding address. I came on the scene many years after this and was never told much more than the bare bones of the story, but did find out that the ex-sil, her ds and new family all lived only a few miles away from us. Was banned from ever getting in contact.
I know the runaway brother quite well because we saw him a lot when we were working in SE Asia.
Er well, today approx 20 years after I first found about about them, I got in contact with my nephew-by-marriage. Because he's the only first cousin on her dad's side that dd has in this country and I just thought I would test the waters - after all the worse he could say was fuck off. I found him on the net ages ago, but I've been umming and ahhing for years. I messaged him today and he shot a message straight back and within 3 messages had asked me if I knew where his dad is because he wants to get in contact. He's in his 30s and has his own dcs now and after 30 years now feels the need to find his dad. So I told him where his dad is. And his phone number.
I expect someone's going to be making a voodoo doll of me in the near future. Again.

And if I comment on a post of Rudy's on FB does that mean you will see me and can send me a friend request Rosebag? I'm a small black pug dog puppy.

Stropps! What? Hair dye? Piercings? Tatts? Another dog? Won the lottery? Run away? Taken up tai chi?

MI, in that case thank him graciously and LET HIM DO JUST THAT.

Sorry xposts Stropps.
I've had a very similar thing to manage Stropps. I think you've done the right and brave thing.

RISHPECK, Stropps.