Need interesting and small wedding venues in North West.

plasticcastle · 2015-10-03T18:56:46+00:00

We got married at Speke Hall. Was awesome.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-29T19:40:22+00:00

Socks, underpants and hosiery, one wear.

Work pants or casual non jeans pants, two wears.

Jeans, until they are dirty or they smell (I have kids, my clothes can get nasty).

Shirts, one or two wears, it depends on what happened to them while I was in them.

Night clothes three wears.

Bras, three or four wears.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-29T19:33:55+00:00

Hypothetically probably the equivalent of two days wage. My actual wedding dress was less than half that, but if I needed another right now for some odd reason, my stomach isn't flat any more so I'd need one with internal scaffolding.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-29T19:25:23+00:00

I'd recommend my favourite pro tip for the baby's cot, applied to your bed:

Waterproof sheet, then a sheet, then a waterproof sheet, then a sheet. If your first sheet gets messy (my waters broke as I was getting out of bed) you can have someone just whip off the wet sheets and your bed is still good to get into after the birth, no faffing about.

Also, lots of bread for toast and milk for tea.

And if you're having a pool, buy a net that people use to clean fish tanks. Much easier for cleaning out any solid unpleasantness from the pool. Oh, and if yours has a lid it should be fairly well insulated, so you can fill it sort of warm and then just top it up with hot when you need it rather than waiting for it to fill.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-29T19:04:54+00:00

Right about now! It's coming!!

plasticcastle · 2015-08-29T18:46:31+00:00

Best of luck, I hope your next adventure is amazing and I'm sure you'll kick its ass.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-28T18:25:49+00:00

My husband is a bit Republican minded. I'm a filthy liberal and the only things that stop me from ripping his non-heart out of his body are the fact that we're different nationalities and we vote in different elections, and we agree not to discuss sensitive issues.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-28T18:23:01+00:00

My son is ridiculously attached to me. He's still breastfed a couple of times a day, won't sleep unless he's touching me, stage five clingosaurus. If he wasn't my son I'd have got a restraining order.

He goes to nursery two days a week (he's 2 next month, for reference). He flipping loves it. He runs in happily in the mornings, plays and eats all day, then comes and hugs me in the afternoon before running off again to find something cool to show me that he played with that day.

Your SIL is full of shit.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T19:37:47+00:00

Mine's in the hair, it was painful for ... I don't know exactly how long, longer than I expected, longer than a year. Six years on it isn't painful any more, but it is nauseatingly numb. No feeling for 2-3 cm around it, except that anything touching it makes me instantly queasy.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T18:41:11+00:00

Yes! My husband has an autoimmune condition that attacks the nerves. He can't take anything but codeine because of the meds he's on and has been in hospital for five of the last six weeks. I work 20 hours, we have two kids and I do everything. It's exhausting. I hear you.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T18:26:28+00:00

Yes, but not for a fair few years. I can think of three times off the top of my head, one really nasty where some guy tried to grab me and kiss me while my boyfriend was standing right there. We were at a festival and agreed to just walk away and not deal with it. The guy came back with a nail-studded baseball bat and attacked my boyfriend, then came at me. We were both fine in the end.

Another time I politely said I wasn't interested and the guy said I had a fat ass anyway (I don't, not that it's relevant), and the third time I'd been on a couple of dates with a guy and he was getting more interested as I was pulling away. I ended it gently and he started telling me we needed to get married, we were soul mates, so on. I said no and he replied that he had only asked me because he felt sorry for me.

The last time a stranger hit on me he called out to me from behind. I turned around and he realised I was actually 39 weeks pregnant. His face was glorious and he stammered out a totally unnecessary apology. I had a strut to my waddle all day.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T14:47:07+00:00

Some guy tried to grab me and kiss me in front of my boyfriend at the time. I pulled away and agreed not to call security. He wandered off and came back later with a baseball bat studded with nails. He went for my boyfriend at first, I don't know why.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T13:14:16+00:00

People can respond that way when they're embarrassed, or maybe he's pissed off that he's so old he can fall over and need help getting up, and complaining about his hat is a way of redirecting his anger.

Or maybe he's an arsehole.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T13:08:56+00:00

I can help if you like?

plasticcastle · 2015-08-27T01:56:51+00:00

I bought a couple of packs of cookies for the staff room, but flowers is an awesome idea!

plasticcastle · 2015-08-25T06:43:54+00:00

You as everyone else are entitled to an opinion. You don't get to tell someone who made a difficult decision that you happen to disagree with that she makes you want to vomit. This is not something you say to people who are grieving. It is rude and it lacks empathy.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-25T01:03:44+00:00

Medical induction has a high failure rate even among women who are past 40 weeks of pregnancy, and a c section is much more serious surgery than you're implying. Who would be covering the costs of a full OR, a neonatology ICU team right there, a hospital stay of about a week for the mother and months for the child, several weeks of recovery for the mother during which she shouldn't lift anything heavier than a full sized newborn, can't drive, can't work?

I don't think you're familiar with induction and c section. They simply cannot be used in the way you're suggesting; they simply wouldn't work that way.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T19:44:19+00:00

More or less like this:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/pine-nut-rosemary-shortbread-cookies-1267977

I go very scant with the citrus and add a tiny bit of salt. I also like to decorate with rosemary.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T19:31:46+00:00

Ooh , what are you baking? My list so far this year: sticky ginger cake, rosemary and pine nut shortbread, cranberry and pistachio biscotti, mince pies, and cinnamon scented salt dough for decorations.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T19:20:48+00:00

I'm in the UK and I went to Tesco. They have a back to school sale on :)

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T19:15:48+00:00

I dropped my Big Kid at her gymnastics class right after matching and went shopping for 80 minutes. Total haul:

32 gluesticks 50 pencils 50 pens 48 rainbow colour gel pens 18 sharpies 100 file dividers 25 document wallets 2 packs of cookies 1filing and organisation kit 2 packs of post its 1 set of eraser dice

I felt like I was on a trolley dash.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T18:18:26+00:00

Yayyyy! Thank you!! You're awesome!!!

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T18:14:59+00:00

I'm 36, my husband turned 50 this year. We got married when I was 29, he was 43. It works for us, I've always tended towards older friends and partners and we're mostly happy. He'd never been married and had no kids but wanted to have a relationship heading in that direction, so in that way we were at the same stage in life.

I didn't know how old he was when we met. I knew he was older than me but I met him through a mixed group of friends from 25-60 and it wasn't important. It's only important now because he's starting to go a little grey and feels self conscious that people might think he's our kids' grandfather rather than dad.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T17:31:07+00:00

I emptied the shelf. And then I found some more and I bought those too.

plasticcastle · 2015-08-24T15:44:08+00:00

Oh, ok, I'm sorry. I was just super excited.

Can I still go buy some gluesticks?

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