I won’t!

Caledonian hotel end please! Ps its not for me it’s for my boss so needs to be somewhere a 50 year old will think is nice, but not somewhere old and boring. :D

I got a card made by my son (and childminder) – to both of us, and she had taught him to say “happy alentines”.

On my way to work I saw a car with an on-one on the roof, bloke dropping kids off at school, he was all dressed for riding.. I thought to myself that he had his valentines day sorted :lol:

talented, handsome, freelance Systems/Business Analyst with a financial services background?

they’ll do ok, but I thought it was you looking for work??

My thoughts are with you all today.

Starting at 35 – then your life would basically be over!

Tell that to my 78 year old dad! He was 40 when I was born and since he retired at 60 he’s married a woman 10 years his junior and travelled all over the world – Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Jordan, etc as well as the more “normal” destinations like Sri Lanka, Egypt, Europe etc.

The love thing. You can’t know this until he or she arrives, but trust us, you will feel different. It may be different for women than men (I don’t know, I’m not a woman) but worrying whether you will feel love towards your child is also perfectly normal and actually it shows a degree of maturity and insight that you’re thinking this. It says you recognise the importance of being able to love them and you’re worried whether you will measure up.

nope, no different for women. ours wsa very much planned and wanted, it took us a year to conceive, so we were starting to look into treatment etc (I was over 35), but my first reaction on finding out was still “oh shit what have we done”. It’s an utterly terrifying thing. We had a great life, what on earth were we thinking???????

Honestly OP, it’s great. Who else would say to me “good boy mummy” when I have been for a wee? :lol:

as long as you give your oh the equivalent “time off” I don’t see it’s an issue.

chinese food.

I also meant to say, there is a long running thread on mumsnet for parents who have lost a child which you may find support from. The current thread is here

Lewis, I am so sorry for your loss, and also in awe of the way you are dealing with it. George Spongebob Squarepants Brudenell was a beautiful boy who will always be with you all.

Please keep talking about him, one mistake my family made was not to talk about the members we had lost. It is important to keep the memories alive.

Thinking of you all.

Re the selfish act thing, for me, when I have been feeling my lowest ( and I must add a disclaimer that I have never been genuinely suicidal but the thought has been at the edge of my mind once or twice), the suicide option actually seems the opposite of selfish, as all I can see is what a burden I am to others and that their lives would be easier without me. Obviously that is completely ridiculous thinking, but that is what being depressed is like.

Simmy, sometimes pills are the right answer, they can put you in the right place to accept the other help there is out there. Without the pills, my CBT course would have been pointless.

We stayed in an apartment on this estate[/url] last year and would totally recommend it.

Mine has been going since 7m and loves it, he has never not wanted to go, he doesn’t want to leave!

completely normal, but in this house it’s the other way round, Rich is way better at playing than I am!

I thought mine was pretty good actually.

And as for playing with your phone, I’m not surprised they gave her a talking to, they make it quite clear that you have to swtich your phone off for the duration.

By the same token they have a curious hoard of baked beans and corned beef under the stairs

are they preppers?

just book it for a date you can do. It’s not that bad.

fuzzywuzzy this is why batch cooking works so well. I actually do a main shop for the month (will do tiny top ups for fresh veg only really) but when I make a meal I will do 3 meals worth, eat one and freeze two. then you have a bit of flexibility about when you eat what you have made for that month.

Ie I shopped on Sunday for this month, I have already frozen thai red curry and macaroni cheese w courgettes and bacon, and Saturday will be making beef in ale cassserole and freezing that too. you also get the bonus of a homecooked healthy meal without acutally having to cook it when you are feeling lazy. can’t go wrong.

I’ve just enquired about a food waste bin thanks to this thread, no idea they did them.

I menu plan and batch cook, ignore use by dates and anything that looks a bit iffy gets turned into soup so you can’t see how manky it looks any more.

The only thing that gets thrown away really is what that boy doesn’t finish off at meals. I used to eat it all instead because I hate waste but realised how tubby it was making me so have stopped! If it can be saved, I do so but we do end up throwing away much more than I like, because you can’t predict what a nearly 2.5yo will or won’t eat!

I’ve got a small Ribble and am based in Leeds if she wants to try before she buys? Would think about selling if she were interested too.

do we get to see a pic?

Well obviously :lol:

Which is..?

Crewe 8O

He still gets Harrogate on his birth cert which better than what I have on mine!

Same as us russianbob. Born Harrogate, registered Leeds.

PS congratulations dd.

yup, i got one for christmas and have only used a mains charger.

very happy with it.

we did, and IIRC we just had to go to the main register office rather than one of the smaller ones in town (Leeds). I can’t remember much else though, it was 2.5 years ago and I was in a post natal fug :lol:

I would go in a shot. In fact it’s my 40th in 18mish, so I might start dropping hints now.

I don’t actually know which site I will be working from in January. I may be staying here, I may be going to our head office. It doesn’t really matter, it’s the same job, possibly same boss possibly different boss. I’ve only got 3 working days left before the Christmas break, so at this rate I’ll just be guessing which site to turn up to on 2nd Jan.

And our bean to cup machine is broken. Again.

Is it a baby round robin?

yup, I help man a helpline, usually 2 x 24hr periods a month.

glad you had a good time missnotax :-)

dont worry IHN, I’l stop stalking you one day.

Itll be fine :) I’ve often turned up mtbing to meet wierdos off the internets, and always survived to tell the tale!

Lovely news, congratulations!

I found early pregnancy symptoms disappeared at about 9 weeks leaving you worrying that you didn’t feel sick any more! Completely normal :)

About 18m but it was only a month ago (26m) he started being able to ride it without one of us holding him as well. He’s not really sitting on it yet, just as above walking with a bike between his legs, but getting more and more confident.

I know it’s not quite what you’re talking about but, don’t forget if one of you is a SAHP and the other is over the threshold, the SAHP should still claim the CB so make sure they get their NI contributions kept up.