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  1. Oh and the view from the glorified shed is this.... Edit: This was before we'd turfed and cleared a fair few shrubs and bushes.
  2. Half way through the top garden, plants and decking still to go, along with finishing off the glorified shed. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk
  3. Your wifi punishments will kick in with effect when she gets a little older, it was about half way through year 7 that child number 3 reacted like we'd cut of a limb. I've had 3 girls, the eldest is 20 the youngest is 12, you'd think the youngest would have learnt by the older girls mistakes, nope. She does the same ones and then some. The only thing I can say is the irrational twattyness they display lessens from 24 hours a day, and over time until we only get twatty daughters when they're on the blob. I reckon I'm still about 2 years off that with the youngest, but I'm threatening to throw her in the river a few times a month.
  4. It's amazing how long you can sit and type out a repsonse, it's still a shit response, so you delete and start again. There is nothing I can say thats really of any worth. Wishing your mum all the best Rotoq, x
  5. Ever slept with a prostitute? What constitutes the perfect cooked breakfast?
  6. Just remembered, we had 3 tables set out for kids, instead of a table runner on those tables we had rolls of lining paper, felt tip pens and pencils for the kids to doodle and draw on, gutted i never kept these as there were some epic art works from both the adults and the kids. Also had a slush puppie machine, that thing was ace. Other than if you had too much you spent a fair bit of time in the loo.
  7. Look on something alternative for the kids, it doesn't have to be mega expensive, my bubble guys were £175 which was steep for 2 hours, but it was bloody worth it for how entertained the kids (and adults) were. I also had a fair few games layered about. The thing is, the only things that really got played with were the space hoppers and a giant kerplunk! The kerplunk cost about £6 to make with chicken wire, some wood and a bag of ball pit balls from tesco and the space hoppers were around £7 each, we did get about 6 though. Kids get wild on a bouncy castle, so if you don't want all hell breaking loose I'd avoid that one, unless you've only a handful of kids and they'd all fit on it? If there is a chance of it raining, raid charity shops for board games and have them hidden under some tables as a back up. We had rain and totally forgot to pull these out.
  8. What Champ said, I reckon the free bar would go down much better than a 3 course meal!
  9. I've had a nose on face ache this morning and the fawning over some fathers is nauseating. If you've still got a dad that you love and adore, you're a jammy bastard. You should appreciate this every day, not just throw a load of shite on facebook that he's probably not even on. I'd never met my biological father, and as many children these days are exposed too, he was what I was told a waster and I wasn't missing out on anything. Well, yes, I was. I was missing out on the chance to decide that for myself. He died in 2001, I still to this day have no idea what he looked like, other than being told I'm the 'image' of him. I hate fathers day for reminding me of what I didn't and don't have. Like many others my grandad was my dad, he set the bar on what expectations I had for my childrens father, I fucked up a bit on the biological bit, but the step dad is pretty shit hot. So, to you dads, step dads, grandads, and to those of you fighting hard to be a dad, have a lovely day and make some memories. x
  10. Unless your heart is set on the venue, look at alternatives, the guests will never expect you to have spent £50 a head and they'll gripe about the food anyway, in years to come they won't remember how good the food was, they'll remember laughs and the pleasure of the day. I can't believe you've got to hire the crockery to eat it off on top of that. They're taking the piss. I chose Remmies suggestion of just having an ipod playing on speakers and spent money on this lot instead of having music. http://www.doctorzigs.com/ Seriously the best entertainment I've ever used for a party and given I've 4 kids, there have been a lot of parties!
  11. Welsh, not as great as I used to be but I'm in the deepest depths of Bala now so I've been using it fair bit more. You don't live here and not speak the language fluently.
  12. Some of you are still saying Ice lolly? Heathens.
  13. The blow up tents are amazing, and would be a piece of pee for a virgin camper I'd have thought. You need to look at a 6 man, minimum, though. What age are the kids? boys, girls? one of each? That tent had an offer on the other week that you got the porch for free when buying the tent, so at that price without the porch they're taking the mick now. If you're new to it, I wouldn't be spending too much because if the family don't like it, it's an expensive fail. Do you know anyone you can borrow the kit (or indeed any kit) from for your first outing? If you really must buy one, I'd recommend a tunnel tent, it's simple enough to pop up, I used to put the gelert Lokon up on my own on a regular basis, all poles were the same length so little room for mistakes. The gelert horizon is pretty easy, just different size poles, the same with the higear Kalahari. Both are fiberglass poles, avoid steel poles as they're bloody heavy and its much harder to put the tent up if there's not enough adults. This is the closest to the Lokon I could find. http://www.amazon.co.uk/SunnCamp-Invader-800-Blue-Grey/dp/B007DWESYC I'd look around on ebay, gumtree, preloved and the like. Like I said, I really wouldn't be spending the kind of money you're going to need to to buy new if it's a new family adventure.
  14. The first is paper, just hand over a £20 note and you'll have it covered.
  15. Lelo by any chance? Money well spent.
  16. Sorry my post probably came across quite rash. Apologies. I don't think it is a deterrent, maybe a hint at telling people to 'fuck off home' or we'll take your wages anyway. I do think it'll be used, but in the wrong places, or only where it's overwhelmingly in their favour. We're a country allegedly strapped for cash and we're happily taking money from the sick, the disabled, people already in poverty, why not migrants who don't have a hope of getting their funds back. They will go for the bog standard person who only came over for a year to work and may have let their visa expire. They won't go for that doctor they poached from Nigeria, or that nurse over from china, they'll just be reminded to renew their visa. They won't go for the girl living in the basement of a rich middle eastern oil tycoon either, she will be carrying on living and working like a slave with the constant threat of being shopped to the authorities and being deported, because for some extreme reason, that life is actually better than the one she came from. I hate this country sometimes.
  17. Ha, he was the first person I thought of when I heard her spout that bull shit. What an utter cretin she is. Will it shit. How are they going to confiscate these wages? The only illegal immigrants they're going to 'catch' are the ones that came here legally and outstayed their visa. So those vital service providers and people in high position jobs, they're really going to confiscate their wages? Bollocks are they. We probably need them more than they need us. It's all a bit of lip service for the ignorant slightly racist middle englanders.
  18. Head fuck indeed. Was this a routine scan and she isn't symptomatic?
  19. I'm losing the will to live more and more with each venture into the top garden, we should have the summer shed up on Sunday, I honestly didn't ever in a million years think it would take this long to only get this far. The amount of earth we've had to shift to just provide a level base for something 10ftx12ft is daft. It'll be a few years before I contemplate sorting out the bottom garden, if ever.
  20. You bastards. My eyes have sprung a leak. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
  21. Don't bother with granite work tops, I'm sick to death of trying to be gentle, that and not being able to make a mess when baking, they don't like food dye too much. We've got half depth units on one wall, makes the kitchen seem bigger than it is and provides enough of the extra storage needed. Oh and underfloor heating. I love this stuff in the kitchen, it's not ideal if you tend to leave shopping on the floor and get back to putting it away an hour later, but it doesn't half make the veg peeling a bit more bearable.
  22. You were expecting that neg, weren't you?
  23. I did mention reference to steve's very close brush with knob rot when chatting to Cath last week. looks great so far!
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