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Wanders by.....Waves to everyone and calls over the Green faerie.....just worked 18 hours straight, not to mention the rest of the week.....gimme something very very strong please. Drinks are on me....hope you are all doing well, keeping safe and happy *hugs*

Love Letter --- Nick Cave

awww thanks everyone! :hugs Ike, kids are getting ditched at the weekend Kat hehe I love those little singers hehe ahh thanks everyone....drinkies are on me

Hope I'm not too late to say Happy Birthday Yar :cha (18): :cha (18):

Cheers Kat for sorting the pics...he may well get a mouse force fed Grrrr didn't eat again even after I did the thyang with the chick ugh LOL hehe Putrescine, he's really a softie and can be quite shy, no worries of him escaping as I have a lock on his Viv though I am sure if he could escape he would, sneaky buggars they are. I recently read on another forum I frequent of someones snake escaping and hiding in a hole n the wall ...now they are playing the waiting game for him to come back out. The tricks they have tried to entice it out are mind boggling.lol and the swine is still in there, popped it's head out once and then went back to hiding.

Blue Tofu....Limestone Chilled on mi day off

Lil update on Johnny....... Well, he seems to have settled in well, loved by all, my middle one sits in front of his viv first thing he wakes up and last thing at night to say 'Morning....Night night' lol but.....oh here comes the but....the buggar had one feed and has been fasting since ......despite many offers of food he's just not taken the bait so to speak! Everything has been checked, his temps, added new substrate of Aspen nice and thick so he can hide, added a new hide at each end of his viv, cold n warm, what hasn't been checked lol After loads of chats with his old owner and a great bloke at a reptile place I've now just beheaded a frozen chick....yeah made me shudder too! and it's defrosting with yet another mouse. I am told chicks are highly addictive to snakes but not nutricious so I am scenting the mouse. Wish me luck I hope he'll eat it later! He's shed, poo'd (like a donkey) I almost died of shock! bathes in his water bowl and is otherwise fit and well......I think he's a super model snake.....1 mouse a year LOL but I am worried as he has lost a little weight If this doesn't work he'll be off to the guy at the reptile place for a check up and some more ideas on feeding. I know there's a fair few of you on here who have experience of snakes so any ideas would be gratefully received! Here's a few really recent pics.....within the last few days Bath Time Who moved my house? Johnny's Pad Ugh can't get all the pics to show LOL....having one of those night's...could a kind mod/admin help pretty please

Really sorry to hear this Ari, keep safe and strong. You and your Mom sound like you have a wonderfully supportive group of people around you. Genenut's advice with the diary and support group is spot on.

LOL Ari! Great to see you back again in zee space ships, got some wicked memories of our giggles when you were crushing and raiding....Good Luck Sis xxxxxxxxxx

Happy BIrthday Schot

mmm Ankhu it sounds delicious deffo got to try that one

hehe I thought I was the same for many years....things change and we never know what will happen Life can hard when we have kids, we end up making choices we would never imagine we would in our days of being principled and childless....hell everything changes LOL..heh that sounded wrong but I am hoping you know what I mean....we will consider crappy jobs just because it will pay for all the things our off spring need. That I can also relate too all to painfully, for years with my ex we ran our own business and in the end it just killed us, emotionally,financially and in the end as a family. the reality hit, the pay (or lack of it and resulting stress) was causing too much real hardship. And Total I can also now finally relate to how you feel once again and it's been a bloody long time in coming about loving your work! I am sooo happy for you and long long may that be the case for you! I recently went back to work and I absolutely love it, often work over and enjoy being there, thinking again, finally. Though I also know how damn lucky I am, I have 3 mouths not including mine to feed so it could have been a job I hated, more than hated just to provide the basics. Good on you and I hope it lasts and lasts and lasts

I just did a search on google for the average national income in the UK and I know that as a single parent even with the tax breaks/help we have here I am in the bottom percent... so I won't give an average as what I saw differed quite a lot, you can google yourselves I think. I am though too painfully aware of how it is to live on a very tight budget. Genenut I am with you on the child care costs, mine this half term are astronomical in comparison to what I am earning per week. Thank god for the help I can get toward paying for them. I am digressing from the original topic I know but I am curious as to if you get any tax breaks/benefits there Genenut?..Here I can claim back up to 75% maximum of them depending on my earnings, believe me I could do with it. This week alone (half term) it will have cost me a total over only four days over 200GBP....cheap I hear you think, which I think when I entrust my kids to day care it is....but I work part time and as part time I don't earn that a week. The child care providers have it sown up though....half day doesn't cover the hours I need ( I have to travel a fair way to work) so I am left to pay for full days. How is it in other countries? Or is it dependant on your employers? Do they provide a subsidy/Creche etc? If this has digressed to far from the original topic please feel free to split it off ....cheers Claire

Ahh my pet hate/rant...the impression that it's cheaper to stuff kids full of crap rather than take time to buy 'good' healthy food. Maybe I am just lucky but my kids will eat pretty much anything I serve them and for 3 kids 10 and under they have pretty good taste in food. Also I made sure to instil in them that fast food is bad and doesn't come in my house except for very very rarely. I am happy to say they won't eat a Mac D's and on the rare occasion the ex takes them to the drive thru he ends up with them playing with the toys and tossing the food away! I don't always think it's the fact people are on tight budgets (gawd I have been on stupidly tight budgets myself) but also down to being clued up on food and basic nutrition. I can't see that over processed salt laden gunk is cheaper than something fresh and home cooked. For example if I went to KFC *shudders* or worse Mac D's it would cost I think around 10gbp for burgers and chips etc. Now I can go to the butcher and buy a couple of juicy fat chicken breasts, cut them into strips and make home made nuggets using up some old bread for the crumbs with a few nice herbs and spices. A couple of big tatties done in the oven as fries and some nice fresh veggies and I am more than confident I can do this for the same price or a tad cheaper. So how come people think that the fast food crap is cheaper:) Something's are expensive to buy and getting increasingly so but I think sometimes it's just worth those few pennies more to make sure you and yours eat well. TRD...wow all that space to grow food and fresh free fish!...That's fantastic and your kids must love it ....but what is tri-tip:)

oh Tomi he's adorable! Big Gratz you, looking forward to seeing lots more pics as he grows

It's not just rice over here for us, the cost of food is becoming astronomical! I adore rice and could happily live on it. Luckily for me it's still not overly expensive.....yet....compared to other foods. I don't have a great garden Sil, well it's more of a jungle but I do grow plenty of herbs etc in pots in the kitchen, they are costly in the shops for some whilted sprig so much nicer if you grow your own eh I think I'm going to have a go at growing some spuds in a bag and some other bag growing bits and bobs. Am I remembering right Funki that a while ago there were lots of unhappy people in Italy as the cost of pasta had trebled or some such? Makes me mad to think of all the food stores we in the west create then still have to pay through the nose for staples whilst half the world is starving

hehe Total sounds like you are enjoying your new job....hope the piffed ninja kicker didn't aim his foot at you....then again you could always Taser him *G* Ahh life's been so busy but in a great way so I'll be having a super strong coffee please and whatever else anyone wants Hope you are all well and happy

Hey gogo, I wish I still drink the same but I do have a huuuge supply of onic water at work too. My bosses bought an evil little coffee machine which sits in our office so we have non stop fresh coffee, though for every coffee I guzzle I do try to have a can or two of Tonic ....lol my fluid intake must be huuuuge. I do leave a lot of half drunk coffee's on my desk throughout the day though! I tried cutting down my coffee intake but I am just hopelessly addicted....can't help it...I just love the stuff

Downloaded and sent back to you...GL with getting the amount you need filled in Timo

Sadly around 4 - 5 during the week, though I can nap mid evening for an hour whilst watching tv with my eyes shut, though that doesn't count, I'll go to bed but don't usually sleep before 12 and 1am then up again around 5.30 - 6 am latest to start the day. Weekends depend greatly...if I have the kids home maybe till 8am if I am lucky....if they aren't here haha I have been known to wake up around 6am grab a coffee and a smoke and go back to bed until 2pm.....wooo hoooo but it makes me feel crap! too much sleep! I'd love to average around 6 - 7 a night but I am used to the little sleep I get I guess.

Aww Timo, nasty saw the pic too, ouch! I did something like that a couple of years ago at a party...involved a bouncy castle, too much booze and a very solid table. Resulted in a couple of cracked ribs and some pretty colourful bruising. Hope you'll soon be feeling better, have a nice cuppa tea and a rest in a comfy chair! I'll be having an evil coffee please and could someone make me a machine to alter time.....I don't have anywhere near enough of it Hope you are all keeping well....coffee's and drinkies are on me hehe great ad Undone....now I really could go a can of Iron Bru and a bacon butty LOL