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Post 1

Coniraya

So this is where you are! I was wondering where you had got to.

I hope life is treating you well and the new job is enjoyable.

After looking at the fertility image, I'm now sitting with my legs crossed!


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Post 2

I'm not really here

Yep, here I am. That's the trouble with changing my name, no-one can find me!

The new job is much fun, hard work due to a bit of staff shortage, but I am enjoying it. I get more people thanking me for doing it, for a start! smiley - biggrin

I like that fertility image - but I'm not sure it goes with the shackles. smiley - laugh

How are you these days? I think we all need to get together for another girls night out. smiley - biggrin


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Post 3

Coniraya

I'm glad the job is going well and it's nice to be appreciated smiley - smiley

I'm fine, thanks, trying to get things organised for Xmas but I've no idea yet who is going to be around! But there's plenty of time to worry about that.

Another girls' night out would be smiley - cool, especially as it looks increasingly less likely that I will get to the London meet smiley - sadface


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Post 4

coelacanth

Hi ladies! I was thinking about that too. I'm not sure I can make the London meet due to being in Bristol on the day.

Since the last Surrey/Kent girls night out was in Surrey can I propose Kent for the next? Some of us were locals last time and some travelled. A Kent meet would mean a swap on that. smiley - smiley
smiley - bluefish


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Post 5

Coniraya

Somewhere like Westerham or Sevenoaks?


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Post 6

coelacanth

Sounds good. We might be able to persuade Abi to come too. I was thinking of Maidstone which is very easy to get to.
smiley - bluefish


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Post 7

I'm not really here

I don't know what to do over Christmas. Now my brother and his wife live with my parents (my usual haunt), there are going to be more rows. Also Mrs Brother is desperate to help prepare xmas dinner, even though she'll have had her baby by then, and I hate cooking and preparing food, so they'll all be smiley - steam with me as I sit around doing sod all, while she rushes around after a tiny baby and peels brussels sprouts. smiley - blue Yes, I am lazy when it comes to cooking. It just doesn't sound appealing with them living there - much as I love them of course. My mum is always telling Mrs Brother what she should be saying and what she should be doing, and Brother gets annoyed with the interference, and then Dad gets smiley - cross with the rows and my brother never doing anything to help around the house. Mmm, pleasant.

Anyway, girls night out. smiley - ok Jacob's half-tem is 16-20 Feb so I'll be able to make one of those mid-week nights, so I'll go and see what people think of that week. Apart from that I'll just keep quiet until a time and place is fixed and then see if I can make it.


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Post 8

Coniraya

I wonder if half term week is the same round here, it is often earlier or later than London schools. If it is the same then I doubt we would go away then.

Yep, nothing like Crimble for uniting families and spreading Harmony smiley - winkeye. I hate cooking, but have to do it day in and day out anyway, although H will be smiley - chef at the weekends if he hasn't too much w*rk to do.

I have one sis in law who is lovely and the other seems very mindful of being the wife of the older brother and is always right! But we don't all get together on Xmas Day, we used to when my mother was still alive and I would go over and stay a couple of nights when I was on my own with the sons. Since my mother's death, Dad has spent the day either with us or no2 brother, where he is going this year.

The big headache is that he likes us all to meet up at some point over the holiday, which is becoming increasingly difficult with in laws to consider and so far this year we haven't been able to agree on a date.


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Post 9

NICEGUY4

open sesame xxxx


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Post 10

I'm not really here

Hello again NICEGUY4 *waves*

Caerwynn, it certainly gets more complicated as family grows! Especially as I'm divorced from J's dad, and one of my brothers is living with a lovely young woman divorced from her first child's father, so that's in effect two extra people that we all have to consider when sorting out arrangements. For years I've been threatening to just take J off to a hotel somewhere for a couple of nights and have Christmas dinner with no need to worry about the cooking, *or* washing up. This might be the year that I at least go for the meal!


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Post 11

Coniraya

My ex used to choose to w*rk over Christmas, which made life a little less complicated at the time.

Now that the sons are adult, they are quite within their rights to do whatever they choose, but if they don't appear at the family gathering, No1 sister in law always wants to know exactly why they aren't there. I now tell her that as they are adult, they don't have to tell me what they are up to.

However I do ask them to be around when my Dad comes to see us if possible, as he does enjoy seeing them and hearing about their latest exploits.

Now that girlfriends have to be considered too, it is becoming almost a nightmare to arrange the get together, another reason not to include the sons if they have other things to do.

I quite agree, it would be wonderful to go somewhere warm, or really Christmassy with snow, and be waited on hand and foot. smiley - sigh


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Post 12

NICEGUY4

give crimbo a break & talk to me xx


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