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Moos

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  1. Growlybear, the penny has just dropped - now I get it. You know these people. You know their smoking habits, you've been a regular at the pub for 30 years, with your husband. OK - so you are offended by people referring to your friends as drunken morons. That's very understandable. And perhaps when it's people you know, a friendly wink and a comment is a fun thing. So, now we've found our ambassador. Please could you speak to your friends and tell them not to shout at girls they don't know, but stick to the ladies they do know enjoy this kind of banter? I'm sure, being normal, nice people, that they will understand.
  2. Ha ha - when I was pregnant I got a sign made with the words "Mr. Moos'* Shed" and put it up - I suspected that in among the stresses of family life he might need a bit of man space. So I'm imagining leather buttoned armchairs, a green desk lamp, perhaps some hunting pictures? Double doors, so that no-one disturbs Daddy when he's 'sporting the oak'? Or is it like most people's spare rooms, a too-large wardrobe whose door won't shut from all the too-small clothes in it, lots of slightly broken Ikea furniture, a clothes drier, lots of suitcases, an old telly, and tucked away a tiny desk with your favourite chair, and bin next to it with lots of empty beer cans? *actually, I put his name, I'm not that much of an egomaniac
  3. Read the OP, Growlybear.
  4. Your study? And what do you do there, while you sip your Stella, M. Le Quids? Is it your secret hideaway for plotting the overthrow of world government using threats from bombs constructed solely from old betting slips?
  5. So what are you watching now? Somehow our telly seems to be focused on the very shiny Shakira.
  6. My son definitely started to sleep better at night (went from waking multiple times to sleeping through to 6) once he got into sleeping regularly during the day. It was when he was about 7 months old. Best of luck - it's so hard when you're completely wiped out and looking for a solution. Hopefully some of the good advice the ladies are giving you here will help.
  7. I'm sure the majority of the Castle's regulars are perfectly normal and intelligent people - no-one is talking about them, but well done for trying to bring "namby-pamby coffee drinkers" into it - what exactly was the relevance of that? I think the point Rosie is making is that jeering and leering at strangers is not the work of intelligence.
  8. Sounds it. They do love to challenge you just as you think you've got it* sussed. *typed 'tit' there by mistake... Freudian slip!
  9. I was going ask the same question. Moosling at around 4-5 months was continually pulling away to look around and had to be persuaded to feed. I'm sure someone will be along soon with better advice than I'm able to give - just wanted to say good luck!
  10. So sorry this happened - but thank goodness for the guy that stopped. That protective anger can really take over, but it can be really hard to let go of too. Your mum sounds like a wise lady - people generally are nice around here and look out for each other.
  11. Hi josiebee, thanks for your response. I think you might be missing the point of the new legislation. As you said yourself, what you are being offered as a family is more choice. Most women take their 2nd 6 months of maternity leave unpaid, as would their husbands - so it's not necessarily a financial question. Perhaps fathers would like to spend more time with their children - and if not, a family can choose that the mother takes the primary care role, as is traditional. I suspect that for most UK families (like mine) that's the route they'd go down, but in many Scandinavian families it's quite common to share childcare. Much of the legislation I highlighted was about ensuring that a woman is equally paid for doing the job she chooses or is obliged to do, or ensuring that she is paid during her maternity leave, or is able to return to a job similar to her last. I see this legislation as protecting children and families as much as protecting women. If a woman doesn't want to work and can be supported by a partner then she has the choice to not to work. But if she is obliged to work or wants to, then she is now protected by law from being paid unfairly simply because she is a woman. Isn't that a good thing? I hear what you're saying about confusion and pressure and I appreciate that careers aren't for everyone, and that not every woman will share my view. But a life of choice is one I will always prefer.
  12. Moos

    Cash4Gold

    Agree with the principle, disagree with choice of word pikeys.
  13. I can't tell, my tiny hand is frozen to it. (Opera Joke)
  14. Ha ha! What Jeremy says. It's not the old comes-in-blue-or-black one, it's the silver one slightly larger than the palm of my medium-sized hand.
  15. I think the point is that you are legally entitled to do it, ergo your employer will have to work around your absence.
  16. Moos

    Peroni

    ...then it's a surgically enhanced rapacious Eastern European. Or a badly knitted straw wig.
  17. Well, I completely agree with you about the Castle people and also do not wish to be the cause for this thread to be lounged so will amicably agree to disagree with you in re: my post on Bajans.
  18. Moos

    Peroni

    *clink*
  19. Moos

    Peroni

    And what am I, Mockers, chopped liver? Not unright, indeed. *sulks*
  20. Moos

    Peroni

    Maybe I'm just too Pollyanna for words, but if I'm in an office anyway, I'd rather it were sunny than dripping with rain. At least one can enjoy looking at the blue sky and hope to get out into it soon.
  21. This is yet more off topic but when on holiday in Barbados (this was when I was a young thing, you understand) I came to realise that my 'ignore-comments-from-strangers' approach was regarded by the Bajans as rude and snobbish rather than just protective camoflage. A polite smile and walking on went down much better, and didn't result in any hassle. To be clear these were hello pretty lady-type comments as per sophiesofa's post rather than get-em-out-for-the-lads insult such as revolting drunken Englishmen indulge in.
  22. Didja? What was she like?
  23. Moos

    Peroni

    Peroni is delicious, this thread is hilarious (no, I haven't clicked any links), and look! D_C is back. It's Friday, it's sunny... if I didn't have a mountain of work to do, everything would be just tickety-boo.
  24. I suspect that you do want to change the world, Hona.
  25. Here are some of the qualifications I'd be including, josiebee... ;-) Key Dates
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