Moos

CitEd, I reckon Father's Day is a bit like Valentine's Day - it's nice to celebrate it if you can, but really it's the rest of the year that matters. Your boys are lovely all year!

Oh, and meant to say Happy Father's Day to all the forumite dads - hope you are being reminded today of how special you are.

Lie-in followed by homemade cards and breakfast in bed. Elder son almost caused chaos by smashing his temple onto the corner of the breakfast tray, but we got over that.

Oh yeah, yeah. I have seen it - good film but can't say it stirred the hairs on the back of my neck. I think my favourite action movie ... um ... argh, can't think of one. Can think of lots of great thrillers, or heist movies... but not action movies per se.

Which one dat, Otta? I watched Taken last night 'cos it was on. Never a good reason to watch a movie, and by Jingo was it pants. Apparently you can buzz round Paris bumping people off to your heart's content, and then just stroll back to LAX. Who knew?

Hi Strawberryfields - maybe not for a smart Father's Day lunch, but the Blue Brick Cafe just off Northcross Rd is vegetarian only, and does really good, thoughtfully-cooked, better-than-cafe food.

Perennial theme of Ben Goldacre of "Bad Science". Quite worrying. Even on this forum people will often include a link to a scientific-sounding article to prove a point that quite often when one actually takes the trouble to read it and the greater trouble of following up the research basis, turns out to be questionable or even nonsense. But most people don't have the time, so it's a good way of winning an argument. A good recent example was a homeopathic medicine salesperson with a link to an article that supposedly proved the efficacy of homeopathy but when you actually read it admitted that testers had to abandon best practice standards in order to do so. The power of the written word...!

So great to read this - I've always sung the praises of the staff at Kings who delivered and looked after me and my babies - and doubly great that they are now not obliged to take every woman in labour who turns up. Although selfishly I am a bit jealous that it didn't happen earlier... didn't enjoy my 3 hours in established labour on a couch in triage. Ho hum. *looks at healthy baby going loopy in bouncer & puts into perspective*

Best dog?

I think what we need is 2009 all over again. Oh no, wait..

To be clear, my ranting isn't aimed at any particular poster and I think I might be preaching to the converted anyway. I'm just astonished that these questions are being asked in the 21st century. Sorry if this is a major sense of humour bypass and I need to take a Valium or something.

I just find some of this a bit bizarre. So, if a woman is a SAHM her role in life is to be glued to her children and/or the kitchen floor? Who gets to dictate to a SAHM how she raises her children or run her household? Who gets to judge her if she chooses to sacrifice some other expenditure so that she can save a few hours a week from having to hoover and dust? Is she an unacceptable SAHM if she wants to have a few hours to herself by using part-time childcare? Is it OK to use childcare as long as she does the cleaning in her child-free time? is it OK to use a cleaner as long as she spends the saved time playing with the kids? What if she uses some of that time to read a newspaper or practice the cello? Is that unacceptably selfish? I think I need to go and lie down.

Moos's is dangerously close to That Animal, which is not affiliated with me. I vote for Moos', as in Moos' excellent taste in shoes, or Moos' charming comment the other day.

Oh dear. Seems I'm going to need those reasonably-priced classes. The theory is both clear and rather beautifully simple, but I have so far found the damn' onion to fall apart at the second slicing. Zounds!

?700k sounds extraordinarily high, though. Maybe it's the 'decent garden' bit, most houses here are on small plots and those with big gardens can perhaps attract a premium.

I don't think it's a discussion point, any more than why buy coffee at a coffee shop than make it at home. Don't think it makes for much of an interesting discussion, the thread is simply asking people to justify how they spend their own money. Why should anyone need to?

That's a bit rude, Lady Deliah. Admin was responding to a suggestion.

Huguenot, if you can tell me I will locate my ex from wherever he's buggered off to and let him know!

maxxi, really excellent post. Alan Medic, you need to read up a bit more on rape and its causes. Rapists do not rape for sexual gratification, but for a sense of power and control. It is a crime of violence. Hence blaming the victims' clothing is both misdirection of blame and simply inaccurate.

*freezingly* There is no apostrophe in Moos, Mr. Jack

Yes, you click on the photo attachment and copy the URL shown and then edit your post by using 'Insert image URL' button (the one with the mountains and the sun), pasting in the URL you copied. Does that make sense?

My ex's grandma used to say 'Shining like a shitty back door on a frosty morning'. No-one had a clue what she meant.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Talisker whisky and I met when I was a fluffy > beared 18 year old climbing on Skye - still a > close and loving relationship. But how is your relationship with the fluffy bear?

My father used to say that if you clink your wine glass and let it ring out (instead of stopping the ring with your finger on the rim), a sailor will die at sea. My mothr says it made him rather a nuisance at cocktail parties. Marmora Man, have you heard that one? Apparently it was a Navy superstition.

Muley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good God Moos, it seems like only yesterday you > were offering your home made organic runner bean > marmalade to all and sundry in the Quiet Room. And > now you admit to being unable to cook? > > Oh cruel deception. Ha ha, I'd forgotten the marmelade! I can do lots of things in the Quiet Room that I can't do in real life. *Opens door to Quiet Room and flies in*