I am on GN right now because:

Nellie you remind me of a friend I rang when, going out after work in the dark to feed the rabbit, I realised he had been got at by a fox, and only his sad front end remained, face down in the rhubarb patch. In tears, I rang a friend who chided me for being such a wet and arrived 10 minutes later, armed with big gloves, bin bags etc. 'I know you're right' I sobbed as we made our way down the garden with a torch. On seeing the remains she exclaimed 'Oh no, the poor bunny!' and slumped to the ground, weeping uncontrollably.

judthepud2 did you want your lives back?

Vegas That could probably be me.

A friend's daughter's gerbil died while we were looking after it. She had warned me it was a very old gerbil.

My kids were about 9 & 7 then. I put rubber gloves on to take it out for burial. My kids both said something like Oh Mum don't be silly! They stroked it and carefully carried it out to it's grave. That really did put me in my place. It wasn't mangled though.

I need some light relief after NatWest refused to authenticate my card to pay for some trousers I wanted to buy online. I don't know why! It is the online equivalent of chip and pin, and my card works in chip and pin machines. I will have to ring NatWest in the morning and find out what is going on. Nice trousers too, and half price in the sale. Bet they'll all be gone when I get the card sorted out. That would put the tin hat on it!

Over the summer holidays we had no time to ourselves Jingle but now the boys are back at school it would have been 2 afternoons a week supervising home works and catching up with school news. We'll miss them, but there is bound to be some babysitting. Just we have done the childcare for so long. I think DD feels we need to get a life. She may be right. But we will have to rethink our way of going.

I get up very early (5ish summer, 6ish winter) and potter for the first hour.It's a peaceful time when I have nothing which needs doing. Sometimes I read or sew. Lots of black coffee, no breakfast. Then I take out the dogs.
I never turn on my computer until evening.

It is a lot preferable to looking for PE bags. (grr)

(and I am a mumsnet refugee and I am too old for nethuns, and the tickers give me headache.)

I am waiting for the kettle to boil for my last cup of tea of the day and I will poodle about on here to drink it before going to bed.

Cheers Ladies ��

The question marks supposed to be flowers!!