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The mind boggles.

I have had a rapid return to looking after younger children tonight.

Daughter was playing the Gryphon in a production of 'Alice (in wonderland)' I had bought a ticket for her/and brother's best friend to come but at very short notice he couldn't. so I asked the Mum of a 6 year-old next door if her daughter would like to come. She would and was perfectly delightful, much better behaved than MY hoodlums ever were. We had an ice cream in the interval and all was going well. Then as we were leaving she turned pale, put her hand to her mouth and said she was going to be sick, we made it into a cubicle in the ladies but no further, walls,seat, floor, all covered in 1 hour old chocolate ice-cream, and not even from my own child!!

Yeeeeuch.

englishangel wrote:The mind boggles.

I have had a rapid return to looking after younger children tonight.

Daughter was playing the Gryphon in a production of 'Alice (in wonderland)' I had bought a ticket for her/and brother's best friend to come but at very short notice he couldn't. so I asked the Mum of a 6 year-old next door if her daughter would like to come. She would and was perfectly delightful, much better behaved than MY hoodlums ever were. We had an ice cream in the interval and all was going well. Then as we were leaving she turned pale, put her hand to her mouth and said she was going to be sick, we made it into a cubicle in the ladies but no further, walls,seat, floor, all covered in 1 hour old chocolate ice-cream, and not even from my own child!!

Yeeeeuch.

There's a moral there somewhere Mary !!

englishangel wrote:all covered in 1 hour old chocolate ice-cream, and not even from my own child!!
Yeeeeuch.

I can quite happily clear up anything that our kids produce without batting an eyelid,

but as soon as it's anyone else, it makes me retch awfully. Even children with snotty noses - just gross!!

I don't mind bodily messes, but not much I could do in a public toilet. Fortunately she had missed herself so I just bundled her into the car with a crrier bag and loads of tissues and took her home to her Mum.

.......... and all this from 'a date for your diary.'

Aaah, I've caught up now!

it takes a little longer these days like some other things...?

huntertitus wrote:it takes a little longer these days like some other things...?

(and I get accused of excessive use of the double entendre ?)

...like tying up shoelaces, remembering where you put the reading glasses...

HAHAHAHA I use them too.....

Reading glasses, shmeading glasses, it's when you are shortsighted like I am and you take your glasses off to read, then go and make a cup of tea and come back to watch TV and can't see it because you don't have your glasses on and can't see well enough to find them, then you are REALLY in trouble.

You made me laugh - I need that - just got a mobile bill for over RMB 5000 for a month - thats still a lot in English money

Rory wrote:You made me laugh - I need that - just got a mobile bill for over RMB 5000 for a month - thats still a lot in English money

That's about £330, isn't it? Blimey....

Thanks for reminding me.....

We have five mobiles, a landline and internet access, all for under £200 a month.

Two of the mobiles make up about £150 of that though.