MNHQ Thank you very much for the horsey topic but

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... does it really have to be called My little pony? I am sorry if that sounds ungrateful but I am worried we might upset people who really want to discuss what to do about Glittery Prancer's lost sequinned comb.

I think 'Mumsnet pony club' would attract the right sort.

Threadworm

oi pointydog

numnah is MY favourite word!!!!

hey runner. So glad you commented on that wonderful word. I love it too.

great minds eh?!

sort of...

Swedes, party? Burnt my arse on the Aga, froze my norks off, drank bodyweight in ageing Sloe Gin. Not bad thank you.

Snoring

The Tack Room please..........My little pony is making my teeth itch.

Besides, you may think we are all barking mad to like horses, and therefore worth a slightly mocking name like my little pony..........but in my case it's all about retaining a useful skill set for the day the petrol finally all runs out - Ha, hahahaha, hahaha, HAH! [swings opera cloak over shoulder before disappearing in a puff of chalk dust]

Good point Itsthawooluff, plus the byproducts make me very popular with my fellow allotment-holders so I'm also in training to be self-sufficent .

Hooray. Lickety Split's grooming parlour with lustrous pink walls has morphed into a lovely tack room.

When I slagged off the horse topic, swedes, I didn't know that you were actually the one who proposed it. I would have been much more dishonest constructive about it if I had known that.

It is mindmap all over again. I def have a dotted line now.

And actually it will be a useful meeting point of horse owners and mums who want to know about dc's first riding lessons, etc.

Speaking of Mindmapgate, Swedes' mind maps are really very good. I did one the other night and at the end a phrase appeared at the bottom of the page almost without my volition. It was pertinent yet gnomic - a little like Granny Murray's exhortations to the parents in Me Too! remembered at the point of crisis ("Whairr did the time goo?"). Really though I felt much clearer afterwards.

I do like it when things are pertinent yet gnomic.

I tried doing a mindmap the other day, but at the end of the process it just said 'Here be monsters'.

Threadworm - Arf.

Iorek - Was the phrase 'move to the countryside'?

Swedes, now I have been trying a mindmap for real. I have multpile radiations from self, representing the areas of my life, then a radiation from each of these representing the 'area status' (good or bad); then in the case of problem areas, a further radiation giving nature of problem and possible solution. What next? I have just fragmented myself. How can I achieve some sort of synthesis/resolution?

lol threadworm. Yes I suppose there may be some areas of the psyche that are too intractable for a flow chart. (To tell the truth I had a box on mine marked "here be monsters" or words to that effect but thought it best to ignore it and look again another decade day.)

Swedes, it was not. But perhaps it should have been.

threadworm.

Swedes, quick!

I think you may have gone too deep too quickly and are now experiencing something like "the bends".

Actually haven't gone deep. I am fragmented into the following mindmap endpoints:

temper lovely sex yay!*intellectual poverty
*impossible to attach value and therefore to allocate time
*wonderful but a worry
goodexpensive -- in money and time
timewasterprocrastination.

Threadworm - I think you are overthinking it. Get out of that tight wetsuit and the oxygen mask and put something interesting on the radio. Draw a big box in the midle of a piece of paper and then six boxes radiating out (for eg children, work, friends, husband, home, plus one other) then concentrate on listening to the radio whilst writing down words or phrases that come to mind in the relevant boxes and around the boxes etc. It should not be a consitpated exercise. And tell youself you are going to burn it immediately afterwards so you are definitely preparing it for you and not for the eyes of others.

Ah. I didn't understand there was to be a 'free association' element. Yes, I was overthinking and controlling.

Procrastination is the work of the devil. I honestly think a mistake/wrong turn is preferable. There is nothing to learn from procrastinating; it's a sort of half life.

I've left personailty fragments all over the tack room. They are getting muddled up with cheekpieces and drop nosebands. The horsey people will be furious. Trojan will end up with a sublimation for a throatlash.

Yes, I find it very hard to be decisive. Decisions are terrifying -- I know you regard that as life-draining