Soop's Kindly Kitcheners

Do you realise 100 posts in just 2 days. You had better get the builders on a permanent and exclusive contract soop

whitewave, the cake here is gluten and calorie free which is a good job as I need some NOW!

Sorry, didn't mean to shout but I've had a frustrating day! I took a fractious baby to the out of town shopping area, put her in the pushchair and did loads of shopping while she slept. We got back to the car and she started wailing, I put her in the car (still wailing) then couldn't collapse the flipping pushchair! So, I drove home with a howling baby in the back and an uncollapsed pushchair in the passenger seat while I sang 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' and 'The Wheels on the Bus' at full volume! I think I need Bucks Fizz too!!

Bit short on time, but all the best to your daughter and the imminent new arrival Absent.
Oh, can anyone tell me if we have to put up sign saying that we have security cameras up on the back and front of our house?

Pompa, how good to see you in the kitchen. I hope that your daughter is feeling a bit more the thing by now.

Bucks Fizz is an excellent idea, though I seem to have come down with a bug. I returned early from yoga this morning, crawled back into bed and slept for 2 hours. I will stay just outside the kitchen door so I can enjoy the company whilst avoiding sharing the unpleasant bug with anyone.
Thanks so much for all your lovely comments about my daughter's mid May baby

Iam64, as everyone knows, Buck's Fizz cures many bugs and I recommend a good glug of it right now!

Enjoying the (virtual) bucks fizz. It is still morning here. I have been dancing with 2yo DGD to the Tim Hart nursery rhymes CD and eating lots of pretend cookies.
for Pompas DD and everyone else with worries.

Many thanks for the anniversary congratulations, kindly kitcheners. It was a treat to read them on this sunny evening. to you all, and especially to those with concerns.

It's a well known medical fact as attested by Aescalaepius, Harvey, Apollo the healer and the famous Galen, that Buck's Fizz is panacea!

Even St Paul said ' take a little wine for your stomach's sake!'.
And of course Hippocrates himself was all for it!

Right cake and bucks fizz for me please. I wish I could say that is is calorie free for everything I eat , I might get to a reasonable size, although I am convinced that fresh air make me put weight on.

numberplease I have also fitted CCTV front and back, 2 cameras at each. I have not advertised the fact and I am sure that the electrician who fitted them would have advised me because he has multiple cameras around his house.

I feel that if I advertised the fact, the local delinquent would try to remove the one which is looking down at my front door. He could not reach it but a stick in the hand could do untold damage.

I have been enjoying 22C here and maybe 25C tomorrow. Cannot wait. The fly in the ointment will be taking a howling Tara to the vet but only for nail clipping and worming and flea products. If you do hear her, she is not being murdered.

Daughter is on Skype atm, she is much better. I think she has got stressed about sending her son to nursery when she returns to work next week.
He went all day today and was fine. Older son was picked up from school by the after school club and loved it. I suspect DD was expecting the worst.

That's good then pompa! It's often the way that things turn out better than expected and we wonder why we worried!

DD and I are too similar, we worry about things that might happen.

Me too! I was born to worry!

I was born to shop too!

My problem is that when DD has a blip she bounces back much quicker than me, I am definitely a worrier, usually over trivia, and I mull over things again probably too much.
Don't think I'm likely to change habits of a lifetime

LL, exactly the same for me, I put my anxiety down to the depression that afflicts me, one can easily lead to the other.

I find that my Much Beloved DCs offload and I worry about them constantly, lose sleep, weight and marbles, find a solution, contact them and the problem is no longer of such importance... at which point I want to kill Less Beloved DCs.

I totally agree pompa and janer especially!
I guess it comes with the territory of parenthood
I've lost count of the number of times, no wonder I'm grey and haggard!

Grey perhaps, but I'm sure you are not haggard.

whitewave better to be allergic to gluten than wine I should think . Can't cope without my evening tipple!

Hello Pompa nice to see you in the kitchen. Things could get a little lively with you and Galen in the same room . Hope your DD is feeling more upbeat soon.

Agus . Reminds me of the time an elderly lady asked my baby boy his name and he smiled at her and said "little horror!"
absent and lona big ((huggs)) for you both. I'll join you in a group hug annsixty but don't spill your Bucks Fizz.

I've gone beyond grey! I'm white!
I'm a 'what if?' Person.
I I'm not worrying about something, I'm worried about what I've missed that I should be worrying about? If you see what I mean?

I know exactly what you mean Galen. DH is the same in that when there is nothing to worry about, that worries him! I'm sure it must be exhausting for anyone who lives with this mindset. I really do wish he could relax more for his own sake.

Janerowena your description of how our DCs offload their worries is exactly my experience. With an over-active imagination I too lie awake fretting over their "problems" only to find it was either temporary/not all that bad/ solved in the meantime. I also suspect being retired means we have more time to overthink issues, loopylou
DD 1 starts a new career today having (re) qualified as a Secondary Maths teacher last year. She has been lucky to find a good school who were prepared to offer her part time (3 children under 5) and she will have help with the 2 who are not yet school age (3 1/2 and 8 months) on her working days, but while I admire her determination, I still "worry" that she is biting off too much!

It seems that many of us fret over our GC's problems. Our DD will skype, crying etc over a problem. 24 hours later when we contact her to see how she is, having worried all nigh, she says OK, all sorted, WHY doesn't she tell us it's sorted. GRRRRR.
Our son has learn't to tell us stuff after the event, when it is sorted. As he did earlier this week when he phone to say that he had bought a new house, one that was under 6ft of water 16 months ago -- WHAT!!!!!, but it's too late for us to worry.