BigMoFos Week 38

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New thread for a new week

Congratulations on your crown, Littlefish. Here's to a productive week.

I need to get shifting again. Been coasting along for too long now, need a kick up the backside, I think.

I'm great at giving everyone else a shove; absolutely no use at motivating myself at all!

WWB - me too. Am really trying hard, but people keep bringing cakes into work, plus leftovers from flashy meeting buffets - I have however just passed up a chocolate eclair in favour of a huge skewer of fresh fruit from one of said meetings.

On a brighter note - just checked out your profile (you're far too hard on yourself, but anyway) - DH is a huge Numan fan. I've been to a couple of concerts with him, including one when I was pregnant with DD.

(Just had to walk past the last eclair twice - on the way to and from the kitchen to dispose of the skewer from my healthy fruit thingy and my apple core - see - I really am trying)

Oh, I was a huge, huge Numan fan when I was a teenager - having never really been into pop music when I was young, I heard Down In The Park and a light went on! I haven't seen him live for years, used to go whenever he toured when I was young. I have a signed copy of his autobiography that is one of my real treasures. I still like his stuff now, although he's a lot more rocky now than he was before - still writes a corking tune.

I am completely honest on my profile It was just an excuse to wheel out pictures of my lovely daughter really ... I don't know where she gets the gorgeous gene from, but she got it from somewhere. Are you going to put some pictures up on yours, maybe just for a short time? Would love to have a nose

Your DD looks absolutely fab WWB - I haven't seen any pics of her before, I don't think, or no very recent ones, anyway. And you in Calendar Girls. Wow! You're amazing.

To my embarrassment, I haven't yet worked out how to put pics up, plus I'm a bit wary of the whole 'anyone can see them' thing - have they sorted the copying issue yet, do you know? I really need to get to grips with it all, and maybe set up one of those picture trail thingies . Because DH works in IT, I rarely have to work these things out for myself, but I really should try harder....

When you go onto your registration pages, there's a link to click along the top, something like Photographs or Pictures, can't quite remember. You can load them there.

I don't know if they've sorted out the copying thing, but you can make them private at any point just by going back into them and changing your settings. Seems that you can have a public profile but still keep the pictures private as well, if you want.

I have to say I'm never entirely sure that I want the pictures there all the time - but it's lovely to show her off.

That's the same child who my mother-in-law told me I shouldn't bother getting professional photos of because "She's not exactly attractive, dear". Speaks volumes, doesn't it.

[shock} at your MIL - what grandparent doesn't think their grandchildren are gorgeous! She's a strange one alright.

Your DD's curls are lovely - you look as though you've got straight hair in the pic of you though - has she got the curls from DH or is yours normally curly too?

Might try doing some pics later.

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My hair is dead straight, although my mother and all her brothers have curly hair. I got my dad's thin, fine, can't-do-a-thing-with-it hair. I think dd must get it more from dh's side; he had curls when he was a little boy - still would have, if he had enough hair left to keep it a bit longer! His sister has very long, Pre-Raphaelite curls.

Dd hates her curls; she's desperate for long hair that she can do pretty things with, and hers doesn't get any longer - it just curls up more! It's an improvement though, she didn't have any at all until she was two and a half.

It's obviously in the genes then. Maybe she needs to grow it really long - there's someone at work who had quite short, very curly hair when I first knew her, about 10 years ago, and when she first started to grow it it just seemed to grow horizontally for ages. It suited her, but must have been very frustrating. She now has it almost waist length, and it's lovely: pre-raphaelite curls, like your SIL.

What she has now is three years of hair growth - she only ever has 2mm taken off just to neaten it up, and that only every six months or so. It's just so slow, and she gets ever so impatient with it. When it's wet it's half way down her back, but of course the minute it dries it all springs back up again.

She wants my hair ... which I find completely incomprehensible, because mine just hangs there, and looks like rat's tails within ten minutes of being styled. I can brush it, make it look really neat ... and ten minutes later I look as if I've been dragged through a hedge.

We always want what we can't have (or at least, can't easily have), I guess.

I keep telling her that ... she doesn't believe me!

WWB - your hair sounds like mine! I once paid a hairdresser a ridiculous amount of money to Do Something With It - the style lasted ½ hour instead of the usual 10 mins so worth every penny!

You are right JackieNo, you always want what you don't have. My Mum has a head of lovely curly thick hair and so does dh. Dd's is curly but fine and only started growing when she was 2.

Oh God busy busy busy this/last week, sorry I haven't joined in! I stayed the same this week which is obviously better than putting on, but grrrr... I've lurked a wee bit though, so I join everyone else (although I'm new to you) in welcoming back Sue and Daniel - what a cutie! And Daniel too

I'm so chuffed with dd's hair - she's got my curls and dh's gorgeous strawberry blonde colour. She was a baldy coot as well until fairly recently though. She was walking before her first birthday - it looked so strange for her to be walking around with no hair, not sure why!

I was quite grateful for dd's lack of hair in a way. She is tall, walked early and was also holding full conversations very early, so has always seemed much older than she is. The lack of hair made her look more babylike, and acted as a bit of a reminder to people that she was still only little.

Just received my parcel you are all so lovely, I was so excited, haven't had a proper parcel (ie not ordered by myself) in years. The presents were all really lovely and the cards will make a lovely keepsake for Daniels memory box. He particularly liked the key fob with all the lovely noises (though I have to admit that the wrapping paper came a very close second). Myself I though the boots were lovely and I thought the Liz Earle was a particularly nice touch - well remembered (Jackie?).

I wasn't on the verge of tears opening it, no siree cos I've stopped all that nonsense now...

WWB tell your DD that her card was so pretty (as is she) Daniel will look after it especially well.

And why have you been coasting WWB? No excuses now that I'm back (thought perhaps you were coasting in honour of my absence...). I'm giving myself a week to eat everything I've missed then Im back on the wagon quickly.

I have been eating pretty simply while away and strangely some of the things I thought I would come back and crave I'm not that interested in - eg Chinese and Indian. Everything seems very ostentatious and affluent at the moment - it a hard adjustment to make.

Kazakh women (at least the younger ones) are almost without exception tiny and beautiful - I felt like their bodyguard!

Yay - WWB did a fab job of sorting out all the stuff for the parcel - she's a real star. And yes, I remembered bumping into you on some Liz Earle threads.

People have been so kind - it's just like having a baby the normal way! (apart from the three month labour)

Owww - three month labour .

Oh, I'm so glad it got there OK ... have been chewing my fingers down to the bone in case it got lost

So glad you liked it ... I think we can allow you a few tears, under the circumstances! Dd was very proud of her card, she was very keen on adding one to the pile and it's all her own work.

The Liz Earle was Jackie's suggestion; we wanted to put in something just for you because you are as lovely as Daniel is and you deserve a little treat!

I have no excuse for coasting apart from my complete lack of willpower. I can kick bottom when needed for everyone else but I need some size 8s applying myself sometimes.

It must be very strange to adjust to eating differently again ... although maybe that will help with fighting those food cravings. Perhaps now you've broken the habit, it will be easier to keep it broken.