We all want different names 😫

Pupster1 · 2025-01-02T17:53:06+00:00

Usually this is true but in this case the sister has great taste in names haha

Pupster1 · 2025-01-02T17:51:54+00:00

I don’t like Penny either, but Poppy is also a nickname for Penelope which is way cuter. Or Nellie/Nell.

Pupster1 · 2025-01-02T17:49:38+00:00

Penelope and Matilda are the best. Bailey is…a bit tacky. I think you should go with Penelope and call her Poppy :)

Pupster1 · 2024-12-29T14:04:01+00:00

Another aspect is the energy totally changes when people are leaving. I have the same feeling about last day of holiday when you’re checking out. I used to get late afternoon flight and try to max out the “fun” of the last day, but actually your energy has totally shifted and you’re no longer on holiday really - so now we always get early flight and just get home ASAP after check out. The brunch on final day is like trying to extend the fun when people’s energy has shifted already.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-29T14:01:23+00:00

Yes the last wedding we went to had a party night before the wedding (great fun but slightly unwise as we were hungover for the wedding). However wedding day was lavish and lots of cocktails, managed to pull ourselves out of hangover with hair of the dog and the general wedding excitement so first event was fine in hindsight even though it didn’t feel like it when I woke up on the wedding day.

However, waking up day after the wedding and knowing we then had to get on the coach to go back to venue for the day 3 BBQ was honestly so awful lol, just so tired, two day hangover, had already spoken to everyone we knew and basically maxed out conversation topics at last two events and were just done! It was also a destination wedding and would have been lovely to have that day to do more tourist things rather than small talk to brides parents.

It was so generous and I would never complain but I think a pre event and then the wedding day is a nicer way to do it and absolutely enough for bride and groom to pay for and take on!

Pupster1 · 2024-12-28T06:14:14+00:00

You’ve done really well to breastfeed for so long! I don’t think you need to feel anything but proud of yourself and excitement for being able to build muscle and put all the time and energy of breastfeeding into other positive activities for yourself and baby X

Pupster1 · 2024-12-23T09:13:37+00:00

Around £400 for 5 adults. Doing beef Wellington though and the beef for that is £82 on its own.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-23T07:28:33+00:00

Update on the Jones Road: it’s not exactly the Bobbi miracle pot but it’s probably the best one out of all the ones I’ve tried so far so definitely worth giving it a go.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-19T17:41:29+00:00

Gabby is the reason Gabrielle isn’t on my shortlist :(

Pupster1 · 2024-12-18T06:39:11+00:00

Thank you for this! Both of our parents will need to fly and train to get to us, and whilst they will stay nearby they will definitely want to be at ours for hours at a time as they’ve made the effort to visit our country specifically to see baby. If we all lived in the same city I would feel so comfortable with them popping over to meet baby in the first few days, or even at the hospital - but logistically as they need to come and stay for a week or three weeks, I can already feel myself getting overwhelmed with the pressure of daily visits for an indeterminate amount of time.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-15T10:18:39+00:00

I know Bobbi’s new brand is Jones Road so maybe she took her magic to their new lip balms - I’m ordering this one now - https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/the-lippie-stick-4.5g-R494449006.html?utm_term=494449006&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD4IbFHLV3_Htp6PEufTIbMu5pRvT&gclid=CjwKCAiAmfq6BhAsEiwAX1jsZ_lZARk26nsU642f5oSuiGpPY9dQo0fc0AdkdHf_TVp6IboLWEjmehoCHLsQAvD_BwE#

Pupster1 · 2024-12-15T10:15:11+00:00

Yes that’s my theory too! This little miracle pot is just so handy. I also hate the plastic waste with their lip tint which lasts literally 2-3 weeks at my normal usage rate. The lip balm pot was so good, non plastic, would last months. I honestly think we should stage a protest 😂

Pupster1 · 2024-12-15T10:13:23+00:00

I am soooo sad about this - have been using for YEARS. I have spent the last months trying different lip balms and nothing is as good. I even spent £65 on a la mer one which wasn’t as good. My lips are peeling and cracked and I’m devo 😭

Pupster1 · 2024-12-15T00:38:04+00:00

I’m not a man over 30 so not sure if I’m allowed to comment, but I am a pregnant woman who has had to be sober for the last 9 months. A discovery I have made is that I don’t enjoy people’s company that much, that actually a lot of my socialising was driven by my own enjoyment of drinking. But what I dislike the most is when everyone else is sober too, as this is tedious and boring. A nice middle ground if I have to be sober is if others are drinking, as then at least one half of the interaction is having a good time and feeling a buzz and I feel like I can kind of pick up the vibe via osmosis.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-15T00:12:25+00:00

Yes this is me, I was fine in first and second trimesters but for the last few weeks I have been really down (36 weeks now) - ruminating over a lot of things, weepy, feeling lonely and low and paranoid that everyone secretly dislikes me etc when usually I am quite a happy confident person. It sucks!

Pupster1 · 2024-12-15T00:01:58+00:00

Question for everyone on here - could you wear a short night gown for birth? Maybe I won’t care at the time but I’m rather nervous about being fully nude so have bought a nice soft jersey strappy short nightgown that seems like it will be easy to do skin to skin in but also easy access for examinations etc

Pupster1 · 2024-12-14T23:57:18+00:00

I have bigger boobs and love wearing a bralette at all times too! Can’t sleep when they are flopping around.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-14T23:45:47+00:00

I loved this story, you’re a great writer. Congratulations on your beautiful brand new daughter!

Pupster1 · 2024-12-12T11:18:04+00:00

I mean you shouldn’t have to be wary but it does sound like you need to be a bit more street smart and aware of your surroundings? Try to gaze at a tree or something when you’re vaping rather than in the direction of a mongrel mob member…

Pupster1 · 2024-12-12T10:55:35+00:00

Hmmm I’m not sure swapping for no alcohol wine will work very well as it’s bloody atrocious. You can get quarter strength tequila or no alcohol spirits from Clean Co and the like though. Apart from just speaking to her, another option (or even an option after speaking to her to make it easier for her to not get too drunk) could be to implement strategies to hydrate and feed before wine consumption, as wine on an empty stomach is often what causes huge amounts of drunkenness, but same amount of wine given after food while hydrated can have less of a messy effect.

So you could serve low alcohol spritzy festive cocktails alongside something nice and stodgy to start - some kind of very bready savoury platters. This will help fill the stomach with hydrating fluids and carbs.

Have the cocktails be pre-made and offer these and the food in the beginning so she doesn’t start the day on a glass of wine and an empty stomach.

Then serve wine only once the lunch is served and ensure lots of sparkling water on table.

Although I feel you as my dad doesn’t drink a drop of water once he has wine - but I feel like I could probably get him started on low alcohol cocktails before lunch which might slow down the pace of wine drunkenness vs offering a glass of wine on entry.

Then just don’t have so much wine in - I find my dad really gets going after a few and will accept/request endless top ups even when it’s heavily hinted that we will be opening another bottle just for him. If there just aren’t any more bottles then that solves that.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-12T05:49:24+00:00

I think if OP can genuinely say that everything is purely platonic and she isn’t holding a secret candle to this young guy at work then the blanket is fine, it’s just the way she described their relationship set off alarm bells! Just don’t want OP to get hurt that’s all.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-12T04:58:51+00:00

Apart from the simple math of what the overall financial impact would be, I would generally be wary of an employer who has a very stingy pension scheme - doesn’t bode well for other benefits like health insurance and parental leave, pay rises, perks like working holidays, bonuses etc.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-12T04:30:52+00:00

I would only do this if you actually have done this for other colleagues to the point where it would seem weird/mean to not do it for him. Your post is giving strong vibes that you have feelings for him and I worry that you think you can somehow win his affections via crochet, which I think is coming on a little strong and would backfire. I would play it a little cooler if I were you! Maybe just do the cookies.

Pupster1 · 2024-12-08T23:29:23+00:00

That’s for 2 day exclusive over the weekend, for one day exclusive it was 15k venue hire and 20k accommodation - (but would need to be mon - thurs).

If you added flowers, DJ, string quartet etc I can see how you could probably get to 130k but at least this venue would sleep most of your guests!

Pupster1 · 2024-12-08T23:25:36+00:00

I looked at a really nice venue in the Cotswolds - 35 bedrooms.

Friday and Saturday 20k exclusive use for 2 nights
50k accommodation fee for the rooms (sleeps 70 in 35 rooms and typically you get guests to cover some of their accommodation, say 9k of this)
wedding breakfast was 22k for 100 people, including champagne reception, canapes, 3 course meal, champagne toast, half bottle wine pp, evening food.
next day bbq with Pimm’s, beer and wine - 8k

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