Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Pippilongstocking

Just done the money - scary as lack of it but it's not over the od
Did look at jobs page yesterday for a p/t something but no luck yet.
Egg money alone won't keep us in trinkets.....

troglodyte

Morning!

Yes I am still here in good health! :rotfl::rotfl:

Bit windy here but nothing like up there!

Got friends staying so off to see the sights shortly.

DD had a school friend round for a couple of hours after school yesterday - OMG - sometimes you think your own child is badly behaved but this one put it all into perspective. Her Mum said 'Oh I'm quite easygoing and she likes to be in charge so I let her' - well that really showed I can tell you :eek: At the end she was lying on the ground outside the door screaming her head off with her Mum trying to drag her bodily away, while DD had her hands over the hamster's ears and was saying 'Shut the door Mum!' Not sure we will do that again - maybe suggest a trip to the park next time?

Pippilongstocking

Oh troglodyte - poor you and DD!! Xx

Rain currently washing the windows clean here never a dull moment

Kitchen sparkly a la LT - nowtmuch exciting in the fridge though

Kittikins

I've got lots in the fridge Pippi, come and make my kitchen sparkly and I'll make soup for all How's your Stripeyshop? Hope there's lots of goodies in there to keep the troops happy.

Raining and windy here, no motivation to do anything much, but have done 2x washing, cleaned the bathroom, washed and braided DD's hair, baked a couple of cakes to use up eggs and squishy bananas (shame they've turned out dreadfully so will be composted soon ) and we're now watching Kung Fu Panda and I'm looking for garden furniture online, as you do on one of the wintriest days

Karmacat

Lots to catch up - can thoroughly empathise with all the choo choos in jim jams, I *so* want to do that The Orkneys, Madrid, Switzerland, Oslo, I don't mind, I'll take a sleeper train anywhere. Ooh, you can get to Berlin and Moscow too, can't you ....

Hope the chooks are okay, Pippi - I'm just going to find Cheery's thread so I can congratulate her properly.

Lemon_Tree

KK, hope you don't mind me sharing this but i still remember the first time i met my dad (officially my step dad). I was 7 my sister was 5. He took us, my mum and my sort of cousin to Lullworth Cove (would have been feb time so not a hot day) and we played, he even helped us collect white pebbles which looked like eggs so we could put them in the fridge to fool my mum. My father (bio one) was a 'seen and not heard' type of parent so this was quite new to us, which is probably why we remember it so vividly. My mum never told us what to call him, we decided pretty quickly on our own, after a little discussion between the two of us to call him dad. I'm guessing that my mum had decided he was a keeper before she introduced us but i don't know for sure but i do know they were married 6 mths to the day after their first date and he moved in pretty rapidly after that first date. I think if he's the right person and good with kids then it will go well when he first meets your DD. I think my mum expected us to like him therefore we didn't have the thought in our heads that me might not like him. Good luck i hope it all works out well.

I'm having a lazy morning this morning whilst OH is at work, i've got some things to do for my friend for her wedding this weekend so i need to get started on them but i have checked my bank accounts. Good job i did, as with all the changes around my new current account a couple of entries were on the wrong account and i could have gone overdrawn. It would have been the Halifax account which is the one account i DO NOT want to go overdrawn on it due to their charges.

Lemon_Tree

hangs head in shame as my kitchen is not very sparkly at the moment. I have fed the dishwasher and turned it on. Does that count?

Lula-Hula

* also want to do jimjams on train adventures* My workplace near a station & we all get excited when the Orient Express choofs by - proper clouds of steam

Settling for jimjams around the home instead.

My DD is 11 & has made it very clear that after the last idiot ( took almost 2 years to get rid of him entirely) I should stay single for quite some time . . . .

Need to dig 2 large holes, seeking inspiration & motivation please.

ZTD

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Need to dig 2 large holes, seeking inspiration & motivation please.

Inspiration? You have a spade?

Kittikins

Thanks LT, it's great to hear people's experiences of how they deal with new partners meeting with children and to hear it from your side is also very useful. Your dad sounds fab, and like he got stuck in straight away to being dad without any hesitations. Did your mum try and crack one of those eggs?

Wow! Marriage after 6 months, that's a whirlwind romance, hope they're still blissfully happy however many years later