Trill, we haven't had those, but I do freeze the go-gurt tubes, cut them in half and give them to E like an icey pole. I will look out for those other ones, I'm starting to need more shopping distractions now, I reckon they would work a treat.

Clare - woohoo hunny I'm so pleased it's not a blood clot, The sore leg sounds ouchy though. Are they going to look at taking your tonsies out? Surely you could just get hysterical and scream until someone agrees to do it....or better still just CRY. Drs don't deal with that very well, IME LOL. BTW I lol'd at your dark chocolate demon-unleashing moment!!

Ange - oh, that woman just needs to get real! She just needed to make herself feel superior for a moment to get over the rejection over a job that she has invested far too much of herself in, probably because she doesn't have a sense of meaning or purpose anywhere else in her life!! ie she is a sad cow. I think what you have described is perfectly normal toddler behaviour, I'd be worried TBH is any of our kidlets weren't showing signs of being "spirited" at this age and stage!!

BTW - I will *not* be starting a new career as a FDCer- not my thaing. I firmly believe it takes a special breed of woman to do it well - and I ain't her. TRill, you are absolutely right, a lot of the carers up here are the older women, they have lots of limitations - like - only doing 3 days a week, OR no-one under the age of 2 OR not during school pickup time because godforbid that means I would have to put another child-seat in my car (and that's just waaaaay to inconvenient ). When did society and having a job and whatever become all about convenience? Used to be a time when you did what you did and enjoyed it (or not) and if it was hard work then that was part of the satisfaction?!

SupaB - darlink I will give you hand massage when we meet for coffee - I'm sure you must be cramping still after that mega-texting effort LOL!

Arte - does that mean you have a volcano action-plan in case Mt Doom fires up? LOL

Rainy, I hope you have recovered from your earth-quake fright. I am trying to not watch the news for a bit, so you'll have to tell me what happened. xxx How are those bbs holding up?

Well DH has taken my girls out with him on his errands this morning (collecting ebay purchases LOL) so I'd best go and get some study done!! First I might have a bath though, with my himalayan ionizing crystal salt. PMSL.

ETA - BTW - anyone else humming the wedding march this morning?? I'm sure MM will be having a goooooorgeous day!!