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Never watched Downtown. I know, I KNOW. I haven't been able to understand most of the references to it in Heat/real life.

Homeland, now. THERES a Telly Totty can of worms...

oimissus, for the purpose of this thread I think you should refer to yourself as OohMatron.

LOVE Pam. SOOKEH IS NOT SEXY. Come ON people, it's all about that flame haired beauty, Jessica. GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU LOT?!

Don't like Alcide.

Robb Stark. Obviously.

And Eric Northam forevah. A pox upon annoying Vampire Bill. And wet and wimpy 'Sookeh', which, incidentally, is the most ridicolous name, ever.

I can't really talk, my taste in TV crushes is pretty abysmal. This is coming from someone who watched every episode of Broadwalk Empire I could get my hands on and fancied...Nucky Thompson. Not Jimmy. Not, er, that Irish one (Owen, I think?). Even had a bit of a glad eye for Meyer Lansky. I am sick.

Baby 1: Yes, dreamfeed worked like a, er, dream. He dropped it around 13mo, which was bottle, by then, was pregnant with....

Baby 2: Doesn't make a blind bit of difference.

ellie, I have an ergo you can borrow! PM if interested (disclaimer; it needs a wash....)

Lovely breakfast and florals sorted by infants (and their Dad, I suspect, as they're 3 and 1...). Baby then sat on my pillow and her nappy leaked. Poo. Everywhere. Now I am at work, but plan to duck out early to go home and go to sleep.

I left the 4 loads of washing to my husband, he'll be SO PLEASED.

midivydale Wrote:

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> This brought back memories of when I first turned

> up in the UK from Sweden to start university. I

> had saved for two years and was so excited for my

> future.

> At the welcome session our faculty dean started

> with.

> "in front of me today are some of tomorrows most

> wellpaid bankers, and some of the prettiest wives

> to be"....

>

> I was crushed!!

WHAT!? That is OUTRAGEOUS.

I disagree, Pickle. Kate didn't luck out. I would MUCH rather be married to Harry, because he is fit, than 'Good Ol' Wills. He seems boring. This is clearly very important. So glad we can have this kind of political/royalist debate on here.

BellendenBear Wrote:

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> Surely it's still worth investing in your

> daughters' education so that they go to the best

> schools and universities and increase their

> chances of meeting the most successful potential

> husbands?

>

> That's supposed to be a joke.

There were a few girls on my course at Uni who freely admitted that they were at Uni for that exact reason! We did an education based degree. 45 girls, 3 boys. Not exactly a sausage fest.

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> today, my daughter told me friend had said that

> when a baby comes out it makes you cut and bleed

> !

> susyp

True though, no? My son knows he came out of 'that big cut in you tummy'. And that 'you sewn togetger, like a jumper'.

Can I be feminist and a stay at home mum?

Ah, the million dollar question, and one that I have felt conflicted over since I was pregnant with my first! I haven't come up with an answer yet (for me).

The main breadwinner thing is a weird one in my house. My husband works full time, me part time. However, if I worked full time (40 hours a week), I would earn about three times a much as him.

However PTA Mum's attitude reeks.

TBH I didn't even know the NHS funded fertility tings, I assumed everyone had to go private, so I have learnt something new today.

:O the pipe comment was tongue in cheek! Jeez, maybe I have been spending too much time on mumsnet? *ponders*

LondonMix: I had my first at 24, became pregnant at 23. On purpose (we tried for a bit, nowt happened, so gave up and then found out I was pregant). Had my second at 25. All on purpose. I was married when I was 24 too (also on purpose ;)).

Everyone, from MWs to SHO on the labour ward, assumed that I was an accidental teenage mother until they cast their eyes over my notes. Everyone also makes assumptions about my 'social' class when they hear this.

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it. HTH.

My now three year old went through this aged 20mo-25mo iirc. Tired but WOULD NOT sleep. We eventually got round it because his baby sister started having a long nap at 1ish, and I'd lie down on my bed with him and he would fall asleep. Job done. I ended up having to cut his naps out when he was about 2.5 because he would sleep easily in the day but then be awake till 10pm in the evening.

Sainsurys 2-3 fit my tiny boy when he was 22mo... *helpful face*

Gill&Joe, I am the first out of my group of friends to have children and they just didn't/don't get it. I think they thought childcare was free because when I said I couldn't afford to go back to work (initially) I got loads of 'huh?!' faces. Also they thought child benefit was about 8x as much as it is. Some of them are now pregnant, and have lofty ideas such as 'Well, of course, me and Partner are quite adaptable so I reckon we'll be fine on only six or seven hours of sleep...' (Someone actually said this to me...I asked if they meant six or seven hours over the course of three days. Reality, they are about to get a dose of it.)

Tell her to sod off.

OR. Get carpets, mention her noisy parties whenever she mentions your toddler's noise and call Southwark's environmental health team re: HER noise pollution.

ALSO. Me and Mr Bishop have been invited to loads of weddings over the past two years or so that have stated No Children. Fine for our toddler who we were able (for the most part...) to leave with grandparents for the day, but not so easy with our breastfed baby. And yes, the no children rule did often extend to her. Poor baby. Therefore, I have a special kind of hate directed to couples who state no babes in arms at weddings...or expect breastfed babies and Mothers to go into a special room/cuboard to feed so as not to offend guests ( I may be projecting...)

Throwing my hat into the Ruckus Ring:

All nannies want to overcharge you and steal your husband. Discuss*

*Tongue is firmly lodged in my cheek.

:/ Well, I envy you! I am learning to drive in Beckenham/W Wickham/Etc and (in between almost crashing) I always think 'Oh it is LOVELY here. Wish I lived here!'

There is a lot of mumsnet users living around there, I saw someone posting on the 'chat' asking the same question as you (pretty much) quite recently.

I think there are a few forum members who moved out that way too, Orpington iirc.

I asked for a recommendation for a driving instructor on here back in December, and was contacted by Silvano. I have had around 7 x 2 hour lessons since then, and in that time I have also taken and passed my theory test and have booked my practical test. I have been learning off and on for over a decade but Silvano is the only instructor I have had who has been truely patient and hasn't lost his rag over my incessant swearing when passing buses, etc.

I cannot recommend Silvano highly enough, and have only great things to say about him, his contact information and further reviews can be found: http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile%28bsm%29_270165.htm

How often does she feed in the day? My youngest, also 19 months, was still breastfed up until very recently. She woke up 6-9 times from 7pm-7am. She fed on demand during the day, and pretty much was filling herself up with milk and not eating anything much or drinking any water, so was awake constantly at night from hunger etc. The moment I cut down/out her bf intake during the day, she got a lot better- still waking once or twice but nowher near what she was up to previously.

1st place in Burgess Park, iirc....