Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

yeah, went out, it rained, came back in.

GDB2222

My tune for doing exercise to. Subtle, it ain't! Reminds me of Pinky and Perky, but it certainly gets you jumping about.

http://!!!!!!!.com/3fs3lh7

:o:o

tomterm8

I think the forum may have censored your link, GDB.

neverdespairgirl

Isaac is 6 today! I was up quite late on Thursday icing the two chocolate cakes he "needed" to take to school on Friday. I was going to do my normal vanilla-and-strawberry sponge cake, but Isaac announced last night that "white cakes are for babies", so I had to send OH out for cocoa.....

Schools don't half put pressure on parents. It had to be made at home, not shop-bought, and then white cakes are so Upper Nursery, darling, and one's son is in Reception.....

The cakes seem to have gone down a treat, although Isaac himself declined to eat any.

We gave Isaac a lego fire station for his birthday, and this morning OH and I got to drink tea in peace and listen to the radio for an hour, without a single yell. It was great!

GDB2222

Grrrr. Even when I use !!!!!!! the link gets buggahed up by the overzealous forums.

Try this linky and choose the 3rd one down - Sugar and Spice.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dougal+and+hixxy&aq=0&oq=dougal+and+h

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

my mother says ''sod'' affectionately too. and ''!!!!!!''. In fact I think I might too.

sheesh.for exclamation marks read word like insect then ''er''

That's why I always spell it bugg4h

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Schools don't half put pressure on parents.

It's subject to what I call the "Add On Effect". The Add On effect means that, over time, things are improved/added on - and nothing is removed.

I noticed it first when I started buying lunch at a garage. Week 1 it was a baguette and crisps. By week 8 it was a baguette, crisps, hot pasty, small bar of chocolate and a drink. I'd been adding on things over time.

We never used to have cakes at school/whatever. But I guess it's the add on effect there... over time parents and teachers have all wanted to do "something a little bit more" ... and the Add On Effect came into play.

I bet Isaac's posting in a forum in 20 years time "grr... and now we have to buy and wrap presents for all the kids in the class - and that's on TOP of a cake and having compiled a CD of his favourite songs to be played during the 1 hour PARTEH"

tomterm8

Think yourself lucky. In America, they have clowns at kids school parteh's.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Think yourself lucky. In America, they have clowns at kids school parteh's.

On the marriage/family boards here I read that some people have limos at their primary school leaving dos. I think we might have watched a film in the afternoon (having spent the morning helping to pack upthe room and clean it) and eaten a piece of cake and been overwhelmed with the excitement of that. A party and a limo would probably have made us explode with excitement.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

On the marriage/family boards here I read that some people have limos at their primary school leaving dos. I think we might have watched a film in the afternoon (having spent the morning helping to pack upthe room and clean it) and eaten a piece of cake and been overwhelmed with the excitement of that. A party and a limo would probably have made us explode with excitement.

I remember exactly leaving Junior School. It was July 1972 and we were let out - and the school was on the village green, so we ran straight over to the swings... and we were singing "School's Out" by Alice Cooper.