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*sticks fingers in ears* 'la la la not listening la la la' :))

We seem to be accelerating the Drawing Room into a 'Fisking' paradise. Who's "we"? For those that don't know, 'Fisking' basically entails a copy & paste of a previous post accompanied by a point by point rebuttal. It was the original preserve of socially dysfunctional conservative schoolboys, but has crept into bulletin boards because they were popular with socially dysfunctional conservative schoolboys. I do it all the time. And I am neither conservative nor a schoolboy It's not only ugly and unreadable, but it defeats the object of the commentator because it renders the overall message lost in a world of annotated garbage. No it doesn't. Bet you can still read this. The only person that is satisfied by a point by point rebuttal is the person who posts it. No-one else can read it, or cares. Yes they can. And yes they do. I found LadyMuck's reply simply fascinating. To 'Fisk' is to demonstrate that you don't get it. It makes the 'Fisker' look like an idiot. And it also looks like you copy schoolyard children because you're impressed by them. Not great for adults. No it doesn't. We like rational debate and coherent arguments, not a dirty protest. There's that "we" again. And who says that dirty protest isn't valuable? Please please please can we stop this ridiculous practice on the EDF? Shan't. And you can't make me.

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol We'll do it all Everything On our own We don't need Anything Or anyone If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? I don't quite know How to say How I feel Those three words I said too much They're not enough If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? Forget what we're told Before we get too old Show me a garden that's bursting into life Let's waste time Chasing cars Around our heads I need your grace To remind me To find my own If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? Forget what we're told Before we get too old Show me a garden that's bursting into life All that I am All that I ever was Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see I don't know where Confused about how as well Just know that these things will never change for us at all If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

And watching my family play together in the sunshine.

Noosh I hope you are doing ok. What a horrible horrible experience. I know it's been said before, but well done for being brave enough to report it. That kind of courage makes it all the more likely that this person will be caught before they do anything worse. Good for you.

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The election has finally been called for 6th May, and I'm feeling distinctly underwhelmed. It feels a bit like Alien vs Predator............whoever wins, we lose.

Huguenot - I'm sorry to hear that you think I was rude to you. That wasn't my intention. As for the rest, I'll stick with agreeing to disagree.

Don't think this is your bear either, it is brown with a white face. Good luck finding him!

*gasp* I do not speak of me *Bob*! Merely my observations of others. Rest assured I have all the legal protection I need. Tis my job after all! Daizie - he didn't specify, but I suspect thinks along the same lines as your friend!

I have a friend who has been married for a long time, and he says that all relationships are inherently unreasonable. The trick is to find the kind of unreasonable behaviour from someone else that you can live with. Discuss!

More likely they've had the row and are now reduced to frosty silence. With mother in law smirking in the corner.

They are gibbering quietly in the corner, for they know we speak the truth........

And then you're right back at pensions, paternity rights and tax avoidance! ;-)

Oh Andystar, you lovely foolish boy. Of course it isn't. It's for pensions, paternity rights and tax avoidance. Mention that to the ladies next time, you'll be hitched before you can say "cynic".

Sadly the bear in Bushell's window is not Little Ted. Disaster!

You could keep the cost down by staying local but doing nice things for the day? Spend the day at Therapy on Melbourne Grove having lots of lovely treatments (they did lots of different day packages when last I checked), then go to Green & Blue for lovely champagne and nibbles, (yes I know, I would say that since it's my bar! I'll make sure all the staff are under special instructions to flirt with your friend if it helps!) Then pop into Liquorish for the inappropriate snogs at the end of the evening (I had no idea that was on offer there! Hmmmm......) Would still be a lovely girlie day but perhaps not as expensive as a hotel?

Bears can indeed be missed. Blair's can't. Not in this house anyway. Will check out Foxton's window, thanks cassidy.

Could this be my Easter miracle? I will have a peek tomorrow, thank you for replying.

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So the inevitable has finally happened. My daughter has lost Little Ted who is, she tells me, her absolutely best friend in the whole world, and she will never be happy again. Oh dear. We've done the expected patrol around Lordship Lane and places we went today (twice), and he is nowhere to be seen. In the hope of an Easter miracle, I'm posting to say if you should find a small brown teddy, sort of more person shaped than teddy shaped, with long arms and legs, brown, about 8 inches high, made by Anna plush, please PM me. We lost him somewhere between Green & Blue and Beauval Road. In the meantime I've told her he has gone on holiday, whilst I frantically trawl the internet for a replacement. She doesn't believe me.

Ruth you don't sound harsh and have my full sympathies. My second child cried every night, and woke up just about every hour, until he was over 8 months old. Given that I also had a 22 month old child, this was just not sustainable, and it nearly killed me! I know I'm going to come in for a lot of criticism for this, but I read Dr Richard Ferber's book - how to solve your childs sleep problems - and it worked a treat. I know it is controversial, but I have to say that having read the whole book, I think he comes in for a lot of very unfair criticism. His method does not suggest, for one minute, that you just let your child yell till they are exhausted. In fact he positively criticises that method. In fact his method is very gentle, and much more "humane" than you might imagine, though it is a form of controlled crying. It takes some dedication, and about 2 weeks, but it really did work for me. I know every child is different, so no guarantees, but it might be worth reading it if you are at your wits end. Good luck and don't be too hard on yourself, it's really really difficult to manage anything without sleep!

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"In that sense I've ticked every one of these petty boxes. However, you appear to have put your hands over your ears and said 'la la la not listening la la la'. I would hazard that this habit may have a more damaging effect on your career than your requirements for flexible working." Wow Huguenot, that's just rude. And it says more about you than anything else you've posted. I haven't put my hands over my ears, it's just that I think you are wrong. Sounds like you don't like being told that very often and given that kind of aggression, it's probably time you and I agreed to disagree. It's well known that if you resort to personal insults, you've lost the argument. Shame.