Hi everyone,
cor, i don't pop in for a while and i miss all the excitement! I'm so pleased for Nic that she has her happy healthy little boy with her now. Hope Flowerchild and Imogen get stronger quickly - how far along was FC? I knew she was pg but can't remember how long and Imogen is tiny, sounds great with the apgars and not being intubated though.

Mel - Happy anniversary - sounds like you had a nice day. Have you heard the name for your friends little girl yet? hope all went well for her.

Jess - how annoying that only one person turned up for you - i'd be fuming. Sorry to hear about your friend. Ouchy for Pat's top lip/nose space!

Bath - lol re triangle family!

Ali - Hope you got everything you wanted too done and that you can slow down soon. Happy nesting!

Jaspen - hugs - read your vent and know exactly where you're coming from. My DH is fab most of the time but there are a few issues that i get knarked at time and time again with and he just doesn't get it. Have been tempted to post myself but just stopped myself, not that you should have, it's better to get it off your chest than just go round and round in pointless arguments and some of the replies were really good so might give you an idea maybe.

Tail - hope those 'friends' aren't just using you for your pool either!

Never got round to finishing my first post off - how slack! I kept meaning to come back and ended up having a quick lurkbut not the time to do a meaningful post! Had a nice week, off to walking group tomorrow - hope i won't scare them this week! Last week i got so peed off with Oscar as he just wouldn't leave the bowl that was put out for dogs alone that was in the cafe that we were at.. i'd been asking him for about 5 minutes nicely to please move away, please don't touch, yukky etc when he bent his head down to drink from it and i ended up shouting NOOOOO so loudly the whole cafe stopped and stared - have to admit it surprised me too as it was so loud and growly it sounded what i would imagine the devil to sound like! Poor Osc stopped pretty sharpish and went back to the play area and i stared into my hot choccy red faced! Had a nice day the next day as one of the walking group girls rang up and asked if i wanted to meet up with her and her two in a park so i couldn't have frightened her! Will had a break from being grumpy after having 3 molars come through for about 3 days and now a 'fang' has started - grrrr! although he's not as bad as with the molars, just a bit sensitive! His words are just amazing, for saying he wasn't saying anything before we went to the UK (Aug 7th) he must have about 30 words and will repeat virtually anything i say to him (better watch myself!) and he was touching eyes, nose, mouth, arms, feet etc when i was asking him where things were last night!
He did the grimmest thing yesterday - he ate a snail!!!! yuk i was nearly sick - i found him with these bright green hands and he was crunching and i managed to get it out of his mouth but not much left! fowl fowl fowl! I got james to clean him up as i was just retching!
Have had a productive cleaning week and am feeling the house and garden are in a good state (hence the guilt-free bb!). A friend /work colleague of James is over in Perth for a few months to work with James and she came over and stayed on saturday night for a bbq and some wine. it was great to see her as i hadn't seen her for 6 years and we always got on well so that was fun. Had quite a bit of wine (for me, now a shandy-light-weight!) so felt a little wooley Sunday morning.
Will stop rambling now, hope alls good with everyone and hello to Rory, Maya (hope you're getting there with your assignments) and Amanda
Julie x