Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

Anyone else got this bottle of wine and snuggling up weather?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

C-section is all good - when medically justified - but I'm not a big fan of risky elective procedures for vanities sake

Speaking from vicarious experience (Mrs Gen had a planned caesar due to child #1 being breech and a vaginal birth for child #2), the caesar was not the easy option.

However, from Popb!tch (a most excellent celeb news email if you don't mind strong language and people being very rude about their fellow man):

First off, the celebrity mother gets her silicone breast implants removed early in her pregnancy to prevent stretching, then when the baby is born (usually whipped out by caesarean at eight months to prevent the mother having to get too fat) new implants are put back, liposuction is done on the @rse and thighs plus a full tummy tuck to get rid of all signs of pregnancy.

The new mother keeps hidden from the public for about ten days while everything heals - which, of course, is not suspicious, as she's just given birth.

lostinrates

Gen, that just makes me envious.

michaels

Yes - July going on October.

At least we have half a roof tonight - half more than last night although I did insist on them covering over the huge hole in our bedroom ceiling which they had fallen though (2 days after they did the kids room ceiling) before they went home last night - still no upstairs lights though.

lostinrates wrote: »

Anyone else got this bottle of wine and snuggling up weather?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Yes - July going on October.

At least we have half a roof tonight - half more than last night although I did insist on them covering over the huge hole in our bedroom ceiling which they had fallen though (2 days after they did the kids room ceiling) before they went home last night - still no upstairs lights though.

How romantic! the dismal weather, the lack of lighting... ....michaels....this is one of those occasions, other than holiday, that I recommend going and making the most of romance.

Me and the cats, we're snuggling. Dog-dog and big dog are barking at some of the gusts of wind (not charicteristic for them). Big dog needs a bath. I suppose we better do that this weekend.

vivatifosi

Does anyone know anything about wild garden birds? We have a bird in our garden that I haven't seen, but it wakes me up most morning by imitating a ringing telephone. I'm curious to know what it is (though not to shoot it, tempting as it is when it acts as my very early morning wake up call).

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Does anyone know anything about wild garden birds? We have a bird in our garden that I haven't seen, but it wakes me up most morning by imitating a ringing telephone. I'm curious to know what it is (though not to shoot it, tempting as it is when it acts as my very early morning wake up call).

haha, left those telephone mimicking birds behind at the last house

Could be starlings. (we have starlings here biut they don't copy thre phone..... yet. )

vivatifosi

Interesting. Haven't seen any starlings around here, just crows, pidgeons and magpies as well as some black bird (possibly even a blackbird) so far. It would be nice to have starlings though, I like watching them play, they are more fun than the others. I watch them in my Mum's birdbath sometimes and the only thing that would give them more fun I think would be a miniature swan pedalo.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I hate the NOTW. 20 something years ago they were camping on my doorstep because my then semi-famous boyfriend did something he shouldn't have. Nothing bad, just stupid. You couldn't get rid of them and I thought he was going to have a breakdown as a result. Good riddance to the misery creating barstewards. They deserve everything they get.

I did my bit in WH Smith in Guildford today. I hid The Sun under copies of the FT and The Times under copies of the Daily Fail.

The Sun was following a story about a baby that was murdered by a babysitter in my home village more than 20 years ago. The journo was shouting offers of money through letterboxes in return for a story before rather unfortunately falling on a brickie's hand. These things happen. Terribly careless of the journalist really. If I'd have been the brickie I'd have sued for nosebutting my fist.

vivatifosi

Breaking news.... The families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq have also been hacked. I'm hard pressed to imagine how this story can sink any lower.