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I cheated, so don't know how I'd have done. I'd guess about 10 or 12. But it struck me that the questions were terribly trainable. It took me about 3 minutes just to get my head around what on earth the first question was on about, then I was off, much faster with the rest. If I'd sat a few practice papers, it would have been much easier throughout. So as with so many exams, those privy to the secrets of the system, the coached and encouraged, would have had a flying start.

Ha! That made me giggle. If Huguenot is crystalline, maxxi is a diamond geezer.

Trying very hard now not to see the future in Huguenot's crystal balls.

I have a major girl crush on Kelly. Yeeeooow! Gorgeous. And I think I rather love Gary too. Haven't watched all of 'em, but the girl with the grandma who sang Adele was good. She's going to need a bit of a makeover, but that's easily done.

I'm marginally better looking than Anne Widdecombe but uglier than Grace Kelly.

katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, here's hoping that Quids had a good > birthday! > > You're missed on here you know....mind you, > there's sadly quite a few of the old* 'edf > characters' missing in action at the moment :( > > I've been thinkng the same. No Quids, no Hona, no TedMax, no giggirl... > *in edf years.

Red Post Hill. Nice little park.

I didn't mean off... guess I was just thinking of a fringe? Help!

I don't have a girl so not sure if this is sacrilege, but could you cut it short?

Definitely food! Food, food food. But the best present that we got was this: cool travel changing mat. Maybe just a personal preference, but I found it really nice, and really useful.

Was discussing this with a friend today. We concluded that an exhaustive list of the people whose Wikipedia bios he'd changed, with individual apologies, would have been appropriate. I felt that the anonymous Wiki-changing bit was rather brief, and it was such an appalling thing to do.

I think we need to be quite careful. Those of us that have been reading the EDF for a long time have seen a lot of false posting and false recommendations, but it's dangerous always to doubt the new poster. It makes the forum come across as quite aggressive. It seems to me that recommending a business that has really impressed is exactly the sort of thing that might make someone want to post for the first time, or the first time other than buying and selling.

If you live in a Victorian terrace with a cavity underneath your floorboards make sure you leave a space so that the cavity is accessible if pipes or joists need to be checked or repaired.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Frances Gabe. Seems a bit grim though... That's her! Thank you. Agreed, most uncomfortable. But cleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaan. Not that I'm weird, or anything.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No, no - I'm not a fan of fighting at all. > > I'm just thinking that moaning about people > attacking someone for their attire is a bit wood > for trees. Sorry, it's taken me a long time to reply and meanwhile NowandHere has come back and is aggrieved that you suggested his hair "affiliated him" with far-right nutjobs. Which you can't be surprised by. So that is what I meant when I suggested you enjoy fighting, it was rather provocative. He wasn't wearing a T-shirt saying I Love The EDL, he just has short hair.

Laughter! Seems Huguenot doesn't agree with me about fighting.

I have light grey tiles with light grey grout. I also have a four-year-old and a baby at the "experimenting with food" stage. I scrub (bits of) the floor every day, cursing. But my floor looks clean enough, and the grouting is still the right colour. Not sure there's any perfect solution - although wasn't there a woman in the 50s who invented a self-cleaning house?

Communicating is always good. I do agree that fighting is a poor way to do it.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Someone buy her a rose. Aw, thanks Mick.

I remember the thread, it was the Foie Gras one. I chiefly remember it because after TedMax apologised to you for using the word ponce: "No, fair enough. If it's an offensive word then I withdraw it. I meant it to mean "fancy dan, lah-di-dah" (and not seriously, obviously), but as it has other negative connotations then I'll distance myself from it." you then responded (and only after prompting from another user) with "I think we can be quite clear what 'ponces at the Victoria' meant....and it's always the same suspects, the rubbbish you tolerate on this foum and then try to reason it out with smarmy psuedo semantics. It was meant as a dig at the owners of the Victoria, and most people that use the word pomce mean it in two ways - one as a description of something effeminate and gay - the other as someone that scrounges/ lives off others......Ted has apologised for all the right reasons...geez can we leave it that." which TedMax took exception to, with: "Sorry, no. I can't have that. I appreciate you feel under attack but I don't think that's fair. I don't know anything about the people at the vic _ I've had one glass of coke in there since it opened. I wasn't taking notes about peoples sexuality as I did so. The word was meant to mean "over-fancy" as i stated, and also not serious in any case. You alerted me to a derogatory meaning of the world so I withdrew it. I have not apologised for a slur, insult or similar because it was not one." You never responded to this post at all, nor acknowledged that you had misinterpreted him, and wrongly accused him. So if anyone behaved disgracefully in this episode, it was you. Here's the whole thread, if anyone is interested. Foie Gras thread. The "ponce" bit starts on page 6.

Strafer's just jealous, 'cos there's no fatted calf waiting at Chener's for him.

Well, I've stopped now. Yay! Boo! Weep. Cheer. I dropped each feed one at a time, but since my baby was fed on an approximate schedule I'm not sure I can give good advice on how to give up if you feed completely on demand and at lots of different times of day. I was discussing with a friend the other day how much people's experiences of breastfeeding vary. I've always found it quite hard work, just something that had to be done rather than any great pleasure on my part. So what with biting, concerns about supply and just sheer tiredness, I was perfectly ready to stop at six months but Twosling felt quite differently, so on we went. He's ten months now, and I'm about to go back to work, so it just felt like time and to my surprise he accepted it quite readily, and now enjoys extra cuddles and singing at bedtime while he scarfs down a bottle. And yet, and yet. When I said there was no great pleasure in breastfeeding for me, I didn't mean there was none. If there's anything much nicer in the world than taking a tired, crotchety, end-of-the-day baby, and settling down to feed to see him relax, go all pink and glowy and num num num himself to a happy sleep, I don't know what it is. It's only been a few days, but I really miss that. It's not that I regret stopping. It was the right decision for me. It's just... I'm a bit sad.

hellosailor, have had a very similar experience - craigy's advice is precisely what I did, took a couple of days of massaging the sore area to remove the excess milk but then it settled down.

Don't know about you, PGC, but I feel somewhat downgraded. *haughty sniff*

My pleasure. Now if you could just pop round and feed the baby I can do the same. Nighty night!