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Popperwell

mcculloch29 Its been snowing?:eek:I've missed that but it is cold...and that's indoors. CH will go on a for a short time later...think I need the electric blanket.

I planned to go to church for Mothering Sunday but slept in...where I wanted to go(the chuch Mum's funeral took place)the service started at 9.30am but the bus service starts quite late which means I would've been late anyhow and its a bit far to attempt to walk it.

Its a bit strange being without Mum but better than feared. Glad that you are having a good one.

Sending my thoughts to all who are Mum's, have Mum's(d take the time to tell them how much they mean)and those who no longer have a Mum in their lives and are missing them(but they never leave us)I never needed a special day to think of Mum but it does pull you up short and makes you realise what you missing in your life.

I accept that some do not have such a close relationship sadly.

Abi

just spoke to my mum and the flowers were on the door step!!!!! dont know how long they were there for

7_week_wonder

Hurrah Abi! Alas - I got my mum to check her doorstep about half an hour agi and there was nothing there. 16 minutes to go and M&S will be getting a phone call......... If they could have heard my poor old mum's voice saying "I knew you hadn't forgotten me" when I explained what had happened:mad:

kidcat

7ww I would be furious, you will have paid a premium for a Sunday Mothers Day service too. Last time M&S messed up a floral order we managed to get £50 M&S vouchers as compensation - I wanted to press for cash but the group involved took the vouchers

Its been my usual mothers day from hell today, thankfully when my parents came after the party last night I had remembered to get her present from kids ready and gave it to her - she was not impressed.

But good job because I would never have got there otehrwise, even had I been willing. DS8 has been up all night again poorly, so I took him to the walk in centre, waited ages and was finally seen, nurse says she thinks he has strep throat and that he needs to give her a urine sample?? He refused, he has never had to give a sample and was totally thrown by it all.
So then she said you need to see the out of hours doctor as we cant prescribe without the sample!

NOw our out of hours doctor is in the same building but they wouldnt speak to me while I was there, I had to go home and call them, wait for a nurse to call me back who then said I needed to take him in, so back to the walk in.

Doctor then says his throat is red but that it is viral as DS was not unwell in himself - err he was sat calmly in the chair not racing about touching everything, he is definitely ill.

Its a good job no-one had planned anything at all for me for mothers day (not even a card) as I wouldnt have been here to enjoy it.

nuttyp

ABI glad your mum got her flowers, 7 week wonder you go girl. M n S should be held accountable of they havent sent out the flowers. definatley hold out for some compensation.

OH is in bed already, this is the 8th day so he's pooped. He is in at 4am to do the secure parcel sort at work - it involves a lorry with champagne, expensive wine and electrical items like mobiles.

DD popped round earlier, seems she got very drunk last nite. Had major row infront of younger sister with her fiance. A few heated words were exchanged. She was sick in the car, and then fell out the car while trying to get out. Youngest is very quiet, she said she is ashamed of her sister. Her fiance was really quiet here, he said he is annoyed and worried as if she wants to go out drinking he will leave her. I know he will too, so i hope she is gonna sort herself out and quickly too.

Tuesday will be the 2 year anniverasy of my dads passing. I have the day off work, and they wont ring even if there is no one else to work. Its the one day i refuse to do anything. I am taking my mum out for lunch, time to raise a glass and hope my dad can see us thinking of him.

Right off to put da kettle on, need abrew n a biccy.

Keep warm, snow is fluttering down outside bbbbrrrrrrr. x

JellyBox

kidcat wrote: »

Doctor then says his throat is red but that it is viral as DS was not unwell in himself - err he was sat calmly in the chair not racing about touching everything, he is definitely ill.

This sort of thing makes me so angry - it's not the Dr's place to determine what behaviour is "normal" and thus well. :mad:

Fairly dull day here, worked from 7-4, so nothing fun. Didn't really say enough nice stuff to my mum either, but she did get both a card and phonecall, I so I hope she recognises the sentiment behind it (I'm not good at telling my family I care, never have been, years of shutting myself away).

Hope everyone else is well and keeping warm

savingqueen

Oh kidcat sorry you've had a stressful day in more ways than one. Can I say Happy Mother's Day from me to you. You are a brilliant mum and a wonderful friend. We all love you on here. I raise a glass (well a cuppa of Earl Grey) to you today.

Pops - glad you got through today and it wasn't as bad as you'd feared. Sorry you missed the service - could you pop into church one day in the week instead and have a little time to remember your mum then if you would like to. What were her favourite flowers? Maybe you could treat yourself to a small bunch to remember her and enjoy?

Mixed day here - not as bad as I thought re Mother's Day. I am expecting a backlash but that's another day to come. Boys made lovely homemade cards and bought me one of those hot drink flask cups (sorry not sure what they are called). Its a big snazzy purple one and I an going to use it as much as possible when I'm out and about. I did have to hint strongly. DS8 has been a bit of a wotsit at times today, not sure what is going on with him but DS6 was a little angel.

waiting for DH to heat up our supermarche curry, followed by my fav pud tiramisu - all ready meal stuff but the joy of being waited on, no cooking or washing up then it's call the midwife on the box

sq:)

Pooky

Hope he's on the mend soon Kidkat, so many nasty bugs doing the rounds.

We buy my Mum and MIL a card but we don't do pressies on specific days, the odd surprise, thoughtful gift during the year is much more appreciated. Similarly DDs don't buy me anything, they both made an effort to get up fairly early, one put the washing away, the other made me a cup of tea whilst we had a good chat and catch up and I that means far more to me than a shop brought card.

Finally finished my dresser (pics in the normal place) and I'm very, very pleased with it. Can't wait to get the kitchen finished now. Boiler being ripped out tomorrow if the plumber can get here, we've got a lot of snow forecast.

7_week_wonder

Me again! Well I obviously wasn't the only one let down - when I phoned M&S I got "We are experiencing an large volume of calls...."

Eventually I got through and they said that the site was showing "mis-sorted" whatever that means. Anyway, they have completely refunded everything and have promised the flowers will be delivered tomorrow.

Hugs to everyone who has anniversaries of love ones coming up. On my dad's first anniversary last year my OH and I went out for a meal: we toasted dad with a glass of prosecco and both had ice cream for pud in his honour (in his eulogy of dad OH said that the thing he admired most in his father-in-law was the ability always to get ice cream for pudding in a restaurant even when it wasn't on the menu!)

Hope everyone survived Mother's day: onwards and upwards

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Well done 7WW it is so wrong that the situation happened in the first place, but 11 out of 10 for getting a result and a refund promise, brilliant job, Cheers Lyn xxx.