The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

Kittikins

Well done Master Dustykitten, great results

Winnie_in_Pooh

Great news on the catalogue Robsmum!

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

If I was in charge of designing people - I would use the Kangaroo method... i.e. pop out a little pink grub, and let said little grub live in nice pouch (or airing cupboard) until it was old enough to get a job!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Memory_Girl

With you on the grub thing - mind you I had two and they took only minutes not hours to deliver so think I got off pretty lightly.

Bizarre moment - I'm writing a recipe for Sticky Gingerbread - all cosy and autumn and snuggly. Last night I started designing his winter knitted hat (that's my excuse, really it was mindless knitting so that I could watch "Twilight")

DS2 is sitting here eating an ice-cream cone:p

So is summer over yet or not?

MG

Kittikins

I bought a pair of mittens and a nice snuggly poncho yesterday! I'm getting ready for winter, it's starting to feel a bit autumnal down here *shudder*

lionheartedgirl

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

If I was in charge of designing people - I would use the Kangaroo method... i.e. pop out a little pink grub, and let said little grub live in nice pouch (or airing cupboard) until it was old enough to get a job!

that made me chuckle so had to reply :rotfl:

clearly a woman after my own heart.... I always said to ex fiance that I could probably manage a baby as long as I could keep it in a drawer (like Carol on the Brittas Empire) and feed it on whatever I was eating - which was mostly red wine and coco pops at the time :eek:

I am much safer with greyhounds, their food comes out of a big bag of special food, plus it's VAT free as they count as working dogs :money:

I am in awe of those who have littlies, I love my friends' children and my niece and nephew, but am terrified of babies. Unfortunately my sister-in-law was very over protective and it completely shattered my confidence so now I hang well back.

I was listening to someone on R4 Woman's Hour yesterday and she was saying for her it was a major achievement if the baby was still alive at the end of the day in the first few weeks as she found it so hard :eek:

Looks like I am going to be single for a while now, so I'm not sure if I will get the opportunity to have children. For now this is fine, and I am reassuring myself that if I don't have kids then greyhounds will more than do

tellmeitsfriday

!!!!!! wants a Greyhound (I didn't know about the VAT-free food thing. YAY to the taxman!) Not sure I would like to leave a dawg at home alone all day though, cats are much more able to entertain themselves (or break laptops :@)

My friend said she was glad she spent the first couple of nights in hospital - because someone else was responsible for making sure the baby made it through the night alive!! Such a grown up adult thing to do really!

lionheartedgirl

my greyhound was always fine on his own, even if we were home he was just asleep ALL day and would barely lift his head as we walked past his bed. Even as a youngster (we got him when he was 5), he was very content as long as everything happened at the same time every day. The first few weeks we had him I would rush home at lunch time to let him out for a wee, but he wouldn't go, he just didn't feel the need as he was so used to hanging on for a long time in the kennels.

Not all of them are ok on their own, and sometimes they are better with company but that's just another excuse to have a second

The rescue centres recommend someone is around in the middle of the day to let them out/give them some fuss, and of course this is the ideal, but we have always just seemed to end up with the super laid back lazy ones :rotfl:

I worry about whether I will be so lucky the next time though , so that's part of the reason for holding off for a little bit

(the Vat free food had to go when he got a bit older, he had to have the more expensive stuff as his digestion slowed down and he needed more nutrients etc, but we figured we'd saved a bit over the years so could manage!)

PS just seen you have a cat, and that will require some careful management - not all greyhounds can cope with sharing their life with a smaller furry for obvious reasons! but the rescue kennels will help you choose the right one

Memory_Girl

After years of "baby-sitting" drag-queen, musicians, actors, luvvies and roadies - the babies were a doddle.

.................... no seriously ...................

Much less sick to clean up.

They had no outrageous riders.

The only drunk milk not alcohol by the bathfull

The only drugs were calpol

.............. and the only groupies were little old ladies wantng to pinch their cute cheeks.


MG

PS DS2 has progressed onto "The Sound of Music" now - very funny to watch him do the dances.

clairewop

Phoned the vets MooMoo is doing fine we can pick him up after three.

thriftyscotslass

Ooooh lots of good news on here this morning.

Yay to normal blood pressure; paying off catalogue debt; good AS results and groggy cats minus their crown jewels :j:j:j

Just back from hospital appointment with dd; her ECG is normal which is what I expected :T... but you can't help the nerves going in the hospital especially when the nurse kept going out the room to discuss the print-offs with the doctor... maybe she was a trainee.

Next step is to keep a diary to try to pinpoint the frequency / cause of the palpitations and then to wear a 24-hour lead to try to get a recording.

Laughing at the babies discussions - be warned though, the problems never go away, they just change as they get older.

@ FW and loan offers, no need to feel ashamed, remember you are always telling us, it is the learning and what you do next that is important. Fwiw my mother who is 75 thinks she is sooo superior and "up there" because of the high levels of loan / credit offers she gets. She has never, ever learnt and if her financial house of cards doesn't come crashing down around her ears before she dies it'll be a bl**dy miracle.

Hmmnn, procrastination going on here - will be back.