MSE Parents Club Part 10

csh_2

Nicki wrote: »

I've been burgled! They broke in during the night, and amongst other things have taken mine and OH's cameras and my mobile phone, so all the pictures I have ever taken of Edward have gone. The rest of it is all petty annoying stuff, like my blackberry with all my contacts, and appointments on it, and OH's laptop with his work stuff, together with all our cards and cash, which will make paying for DS's birthday party tomorrow challenging.

:mad::mad::mad:

OMG THATS AWFUL

Were you home? Are you all OK?

jillie1974

Nicki wrote: »

I've been burgled! They broke in during the night, and amongst other things have taken mine and OH's cameras and my mobile phone, so all the pictures I have ever taken of Edward have gone. The rest of it is all petty annoying stuff, like my blackberry with all my contacts, and appointments on it, and OH's laptop with his work stuff, together with all our cards and cash, which will make paying for DS's birthday party tomorrow challenging.

:mad::mad::mad:

oh no. thats awful.

((((hugs))))
had you managed to upload any of the photos???

Millie's_Mum

Susan, do you collect stamps? I keep being sent first day covers from the postal survey if you are interested? I could get the fairies to take them away.

Keep forgetting to say this SM what about the mums at Zoes school? are they friendly? I know for some people the school gate is like running a gauntlet but I have some very good friends amongst the mums of millies class and we often have nights out and meet for coffee etc

Glad to hear Icklebeans is OK I was thinking of her the other day when I went to where she lives, I was keeping an eye out for double buggies.

EDIT oh Nicki, thats awful, poor you.

weezl74

hugs Nicki, how awful

Aless, that's interesting about the fruit. I wonder if that's better to concentrate on then. I had thought it was lack of meat for people's OH's that was more of an issue over on old-style, perhaps wrongly.

People seemed to be saying they were feeling dreadful, huge amounts of debt, but their DH needed meat with every meal.

Maybe I'll be able to do different versions.

Not that I'm saying you should follow one of the plans aless, in case it sounds that way! They're only really meant to try and help the people who really need to make the savings but feel they can't because they've heard/think it can't be done healthily, IYSWIM? It's something I feel really strongly about and suspect I will quietly plod away trying to make a difference to all my life :)

Nicki

csh wrote: »

Were you home? Are you all OK?

Yes, but didn't hear a thing! It must have been in the early hours of the morning when we were all asleep. I haven't saved any of the photos on my computer, except the set which my avvy comes from, which were the professional ones we had done a week after he was born. The worst thing is I took some lovely ones yesterday of my DD who is on the autistic spectrum cuddling him for the first time, and she probably won't do that again for another 4 months, so those ones are completely irreplaceable.

csh_2

Nicki wrote: »

Yes, but didn't hear a thing! It must have been in the early hours of the morning when we were all asleep. I haven't saved any of the photos on my computer, except the set which my avvy comes from, which were the professional ones we had done a week after he was born. The worst thing is I took some lovely ones yesterday of my DD who is on the autistic spectrum cuddling him for the first time, and she probably won't do that again for another 4 months, so those ones are completely irreplaceable.

Thats awful about the photos They must have had a good rifle through to get so much. I suppose its better in a way that you didn't disturb them, dread to think what could've happened if your DH had challenged them

Tigsteroonie

That's horrible news Nicki, and a lesson for us all - save your photos off to the computer regularly, and even consider backing-up to a tinternet site (such as Google's Picasa), so you don't lose vital memories.

(there endeth the lesson for today)

Question: has anyone's LO ever cried/paddied so much that they've burst a blood vessel in their eye? Andrew's got a weird bloody spot just outside the iris. The HV reckons its a burst blood vessel and not to fret unless it grows or he gets more. Opinions?

SusanC_2

Nicki wrote: »

I've been burgled! They broke in during the night, and amongst other things have taken mine and OH's cameras and my mobile phone, so all the pictures I have ever taken of Edward have gone. The rest of it is all petty annoying stuff, like my blackberry with all my contacts, and appointments on it, and OH's laptop with his work stuff, together with all our cards and cash, which will make paying for DS's birthday party tomorrow challenging.

:mad::mad::mad:

:grouphug: Do you have any friends/family who have seen him and taken photos? I know it wouldn't make up for the loss but at least you would have soemthing.

csh wrote: »

Wow! I'm impressed! Do you like to accquire your own things or do people give you bits for your collection IYKWIM?

They're a combination - my mum has given me most of her collections (all except UK coins I think), a friend gave me her match book/box collection when she heard I collected, some people save things for me (like free bookmarks/postcards, sugar wrappers, stamps off the post and interesting coins) and I also keep an eye out. I also get back most postcards I send as my family give them to me for my collection. The main thing I've actually spent money on is stamps and Bobbsey Twins books but I have been known to buy coins on occasion. I also give lists of stamp numbers to some relatives as present ideas because they're cheap/easy to post, they live near stamp shops and it's hard to go wrong.

jillie1974 wrote: »

i used to love them!!
i did have some hardback ones at home in Ireland. i;ll see when i go in march if they are still there. were quite old IIRC
i used to collect ornamental mice

You're the first non-American person who's ever known what I was talking about - I got into them because my mum kept hers from when she was a child.

Millie's_Mum wrote: »

Susan, do you collect stamps? I keep being sent first day covers from the postal survey if you are interested? I could get the fairies to take them away.

Yes please if you're sure? I'll ask the fairies to give you directions by PM.

weezl74 wrote: »

Aless, that's interesting about the fruit. I wonder if that's better to concentrate on then. I had thought it was lack of meat for people's OH's that was more of an issue over on old-style, perhaps wrongly.

People seemed to be saying they were feeling dreadful, huge amounts of debt, but their DH needed meat with every meal.

I think fruit is probably a significant cost in our food budget. I find it useful as a healthy snack or meal top up. Fruit is also particularly handy for snacks when out and about.

Sami_Bee

oh Nicki how pants! so scary too!
I'm obsessed about losing photos so I copy mine periodically to mum's and MIL's computers

cazscoob

NICKI *hugs* thats awful i cant believe that someone can do that?? i hope they get the robbing barstewards and cut their bits off

weezl i can feed 7 of us for £150 a fortnight and think that i do well, meat from the butchers veg from the local shop and the rest between asda/morrisons and farmfoods