We're going to stay in and watch it too and make a night of it with eats and drinks. All are welcome!

ps.I'm not supprting any country (although I like the look of the French opera-ish guy) but am wondering if Ireland entered Jedward on purpose so as NOT to win and it's possibly backfired on them.

Still got the bunting for the Royal Wedding up. I'm certainly getting good use out of it. Last weekend it was #1 Slavettes birthday and this week it's Eurovision!

Maybe I am just looking for reasons to have a party.

We've just been handed a scorecard by the organiser of tonight's Eurovision partay.... Now I just need to figure out how to fill it in...

Have downloaded the card to take to the party I'm off to. I hate Eurovision so will just sit in the corner and get tipsy.

How are the piggies? And Merlin?

We've decided to record it, to wizz through the boring bits, of which I'm sure there will be many.

Oh, God - Eurovision!
I need a vomit smilie....

Thank God for a hard drive recorder and Dr Who, that's wot I sez.

Today we have been Out And About - farmer's market (apple juice), Open Day at the local nursery which is run as a profit-making project by and for people with disabilites (sage plant advice, ice-cream, fantastic cake), Soft Play (Big Slide, soss and mash) and Sainsbury's (shopping)

All knackered!

/////stagger/////

Excellent beer festival at the Palace.

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Sorry Sad, no witty comeback about the debollocking forthcoming. It's a miracle I can type innit.

____lies down_____

*puts a pillow under KJ's head and leaves a bucket in the appropriate place*.

Dr Who. Sheer. Bloody. Genius.

Merlin is such a clever little corgi (sly little git). He's worked out how to get his lamp shade off. He walks under a dining room chair then reverses at just the right angle and off comes the lampshade. his collar is now looped through the lampshade so he can't get it off to have a fly lick and slurp where his balls once were.

I'm made of hard stuff... I'm managing (just) to ignore the big puppy dog eyes I;m getting.

All that practice on the Slavettes, Pixie!

Where did the weekend go?
Spent this morning washing-up and hanging clothes up, went out for the bits that I left off the shopping list yesterday and treated us all to Maccy D's, went to the park while Mr M did some tidying, came home and iced some biscuits with Melony, and bam - that's it!

Happy Birthday KJ

Yeah ... I've had years of practice with The Slavettes. I never make a fuss over the small things but when it's a BIG THING. Boy do they take heed.

Rant Alert .

I am the only person in a household with 6 adults who is capable of washing pots and filling, switching on and emptying the dishwasher.

Himself made a roast chicken dinner the other day and used 3 roasting tins. I washed them
The steamer with 3 sections. I washed them
4 pots. I washed them.
3 frying pans. I washed them.

Cutlery is vanishing from our house at an alarming rate. No knives or teaspoons again.

Himself broke one of our few dinner plates so we went and bought more. No bloody dinner plates to be found when I made myself something to eat earlier. I'm the only one in so no need for traditional dinner today.

I just went a dishes and cutlery hunt around the house and even entered the Slavetes bedrooms.

Dishwasher is whiring and splashing away and I spent ages washing pots and bloody pans again!

I really had to open that bottle of white wine in the fridge just to help me recover from the trauma of entering The Slavettes bedrooms.

Ohhh, how did he manage to keep that a secret!

Happy birthday comrade, hope you had a wonderful day after you got up from lying down like this

_______ KJ _______

Mwah, mwah and mwah

I don't know if at 19 I am old enough to be a grumpy old woman, but I'm married, so I think I get a special pass?

Why do kids feel the need to kick balls - in a no ball area I might add and it's part of their tennancy not to do so AT my windows/door/wall... it really upsets me, I am scared really easily as often i'm at home on my own, and I'm really not the type of person to shout at someone...what do I do if they try to get in my house or something...

:'( Also, what toy is your young crying child fighting with their siblings over at 3 AM, or 12 at night? No, something is not right there, i'm sorry.

Lexy, that sounds awful..welcome

Ha, thanks Snowy Ghost. It is horrible, my only consolation - and it isn't much of one - is that I'm renting, so I don't have to pay for it if it gets broken, but i'd still rather it didn't. If they break the kitchen window, my hammies will be cold all night

Edit: Do you guys have kids? If so, is it normal for one to cry most of the day and randomly at night .... I'm not a mummy yet, so I'm not 100% sure whats normal.. I get worried, poor bubbah! xx

Lexy .. have a good grump. Grumpy old women does not discriminate about age or grammar or spelling. All grumps from Women are welcome.

The balls stoating off a wall may seem trivial to some but as a person who had to endure it... I sympathise.

"what harm are the kids doing kicking a ball off a wall?" .. I tell you it can drive you to distraction. Go bounce that bastard ball off your parents or grandparents house for hours on end. They will soon be wanting to maim you for life.

I'm going to sound very patronising and I apologize .

Welcome to "Being Grown Up" where you worry about refuse uplifts and if you can pay the utility bills never mind anything else.

Lexy I think you can come grump anytime you want.

Knackered.

Happy Birthday KJ!!!

((((((((((((batty)))))))))))))

Happy B-Day, KJ! *huggles*
Hope you got spoilded rotten, cos you deserve it!

Hello, Lexy!
We've got GOWs of all ages - GOW is a state of mind

As for the crying... how old is the baby/child, roughly?
I ask cos mine is three and a bit but HATES going to bed, so about three nights out of seven you'd hear her screaming the walls off if you were my neighbour Sounds terrible, but we don't lay a finger on her, honest!
A tiny one who cries all the time might just be a very cry-y baby, as some of them are; if said child is two-ish it may well be tantrums!

FWIW, based on the training I did for adoption, neglected/britalised children often *don't* cry much - they've learned that they get no attention for doing it so they give up. If the child you can hear is hollering, chances are it's basically OK; maybe not incredibly well-parented, but not in any grave danger.

As for the ball - catch it, stick a knife through it, throw it back...

HandyMelon..

You echo what my Sister said to me many years ago ... Her and her husband fostered kids. I swear the pair of them are saints.... The kids who are very quiet are the kids bad stuff happened to/bad stuff they experienced. She also said that fancier the name the more deprived the wee soul the wean was.

I had the joy of having a screaming crying child.... sweet jaysus Colic anyone? It didn't matter what I tried or did she still screamed. I used to put her in the cot and then leave radios on and as I went down the house (it was over 4 floors) more radios on to try drown out the screams. Himself at the time couldn't cope or deal with her so he would pop round his mums( his mum realised we were moving for work when she was 2 weeks old so distanced herself - reason being I don't want to get too close) or go out. A neighnbour across the road came to tell me that baby was crying. I told her "I know. Do you want to take over"

I'm going to sound like some sort of martyr here but I'm not. I done what loads of parents do... I tried my best to get on with it. It ripped my heart to bits when she was "colic" and it was dead hard to get on with stuff. I still had a toddler to see to and care for as well as her.

The colic Slavette has turned out against all odd just like her siblings due to the fact me and Himself are the parents as bloody marvelous .

Oh my, don't even get me started. It's exactly the point, I say if you wouldn't want kids doing it to you, then don't blooming well let 'em do it to other people. What on Earth makes you think they enjoy it or are more tolerant of it than you. It's the exact same thickness of wall, its just as loud... lol. I tell you what though they wont be so unbothered by their kids behaviour when I send them the bill for the damage they did to my door the other day, knocked it out of the door frame a little. If they continue to be so badly behaved and inconsiderate then I might just have to *looks grumpy and evil* No, I wouldn't really.. not unless they did some serious damage I couldn't fix lol!

I was never allowed to do cr@p like that! It's honestly amazing how kids are allowed to run riot. One of the kids on my street asked me if they could come into my house... never seen them before in my life... I could have been a rapiest into little black boys (which they were) but they had no inhibitions about it at all!

In other grumpy news, why did my husband have to leave the heating on all night after I fell asleep??????????????? LOL It's like a blooming sauna in here *sobs* and the amount of money it's wasted

oh oh I have more lol I really am grumpy!
So my next door neighbours complained to the council about my garden instead of talking about it like civalised people with me. *smiles* nice thanks for that to start with.

Now the council wrote me a really nice letter, saying it was unacceptable and attracting rats. (where these rats were I don't know, because I own pet rats so I'm not afraid of them but I have seen no rats lol) Fine whatever, So, I look up what days what bins are going out on, wed green bin, wed black bin, wed green bin. That is the two week period that the council left me with....ONE BLACK BIN COLLECTION are you kidding me. I've got to clear 6 black bags of waste, from my garden, in two weeks, with that bin collection :/ (and no car) ARGH. I'm so lucky, my mother is a saint sent from heaven, came in her super duper car and took most of it to the dump! But for goodness sake, do they not think about these things before they send letters out? I think the term is common sense, and it's obviously something that as soon as you get a job with the council or become elected, you almost forget you had! (No offence to anyone who is a civil servant, if you can explain it please feel free, I'd love to have a better understanding!)


hope you are all well <3 lexy xx

Need a good catch up on the thread - but Happy Birthday KJ - drink lots of wine or whatever and eat rubbish food.

That's what birthdays are for.

Although I didn't watch - shamefully I recorded it and just watched the results and a few snippets (the French fella on the above recommendation).

He'd have got my vote but not many more apparently - Jedward did surprisingly well didn't they?

They got a few 12's and finished higher than the UK - I suppose they were made for Europe.

I know, it just worries me I worry lots LOL I'm going to be one of those mums who thinks her kids got flu when its' a runny nose :/

as for the ball, it'd more than likely hit me in the face :/ LOL xx