Well done Soozy.  I bet you're thrilled to bits.

Wow, well done Soozy

Glad to hear that someone has been arrested over the rape of the 11 year old girl in Enfield last week.

What? I never saw that story Cinds poor girl

Well done Soozy

We have a woman at work - in her 50's - who's become and right chunky lump.

She has a real bee in her bonnet about weight - but more so ... weight loss.

She always, always asks me how my diet is going (when she knows its not going)

 . . . me thinks she's reluctant to lose weight cos it will make her chubby face shrink and emphasise her wrinkles

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...ld-girl-8351788.html

Poor thing.

Oh god that's terrible and to think my daughter will be 11 and catching the bus to secondary school next year... I'm scared to death.

Funnily I was just chatting with someone over the weekend whose son will start high school after the holidays and I was saying how I was much more worried & upset about the boy starting high school than I ever was when he started primary school.

They change so much in the first year of secondary i think Cinds, my toddler will be starting nursery the same week too! I could quite possibly get upset!

I'm 56 and wrinkle free ........honestly - I am.

my neck isn't as firm as I'd like though with the weight loss bit hey ho.

BBC Madness In The Fast Lane

have a look on youtube for the full programme

f*cking maaaaaad

i saw my first domestic christmas tree of the year this afternoon  

There have been loads up round here since the 1st of November onwards.

I've just finished watching the Twilight films.  Before starting I thought I'd get about 10 minutes into the first film and switch off.  Wrong!  I really liked them   I was surprised at how good they were.

I love your new avi, Ells.

Well done on the weight loss, Soozy.

Ta Yogi, I think I look rather sexy in it

The Tory MP Chris Skidmore who wants unemployed youngsters to get into debt for dole money claimed £145,000 in expenses last year.

So hot, you're sizzling!

Just had a lovely meal out (belated birthday) they served the steak raw on a sizzling hot stone and you cooked it to your own liking. Mr Woo and friends thought it was fantastic ...........personally I thought - 'I do this every night'

Seriously though - a good night - lovely to see our friends - they are our daughters exes parents and actually probably our best friends - glad it's not difficult between us.

It was her birthday on Saturday so we exchanged gifts and .............a really nice evening.

Fab weight loss Soozy

That wasn't Steak & Co was it? I looked at their restaurant the other day and it seemed like that's what they did, I was confused

It was a local privately owned pub/restaurant - not sire about steak & co - I'll nip off - have a look and let you know.

Awwww I've ruined my son's xmas   His friend was in here yesterday and they were chatting xmas when the friend pointed out that he knew his mum was the one buying the xmas list and because my son didn't question him and just looked at me as if he'd been caught doing something then I assumed he had just panicked because I knew he knew the secret.  SO when the friend left I asked him about what he knew, he kept giggling and asking what I was talking about so I said you know about Santa don't you?  And he answered 'that he's not real?' he said his mate had told him a few weeks earlier. So we told him the truth.  We get the presents and play santa bla bla.....but he seemed a little miffed and to me, like he was a little upset.

So off he went to bed and his Daddy and I thought he was just a bit confused as to how it was all done.  Then this morning he got up for school and asked a million questions which seemed to suggest that although his friend had told him, that he didn't quite believe him and that we had basically just dropped a bomb 

Now.....he's 10 (11 next month) so he IS too old to still believe but he's very innocent and tbh, gullible.  He's got older cousins who have all known for years but they do well to hide the truth from the younger ones so he's never even questioned whether Santa is real or not.  I just feel like I've ruined his last xmas as we were going to tell him after xmas anyway.  I'm gutted

Awwwwwwwwwww Ells - I remember so well doing that to my son when he was about 9 or 10 - he was so crestfallen that I said .............Noooooo not really I'm only joking.

When do you think is a good age to tell? - he's 31 now and I think he should know.

Aww I felt like saying we were kidding when I saw his reaction.  But I've been speaking to his mates mum on facebook today and she said the older boys in the street told her son and in not such a careful way.  They then teased him a lot about believing and he is a year younger than my son so I suppose I might have saved him from the taunting if the older boys start on him.

Still doesn't take away the guilt of destroying his last real xmas lol.

Ells i told mine this year (during the summer) Mine are 10 and 8. My son (8) said he kind of knew anyway, he told me that there was only 1 kid in his year at school that believed and everyone took the micky out of him for it, this is the first year they know the truth and it just feels different, although we have the little one so they are still playing along i see it their eyes bless them.

10 is a good age mate try not to feel too bad about it

Woooooooooooo Hoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Boiler mended -  house all warm and toasty - new carpet laid in hall and lounge. Lot of clearing up to do (and washing to tackle) but - I'm over the m00n.

I don't feel too bad now that he has told me he DID know Santa wasn't real but thought that if he told me then he wouldn't get any presents so he's happy enough now that I've told him he can come do some Santa shopping next week.

 Glad you're all toasty warm Sooz....it's getting so cold now, hopefully that's the end of the boiler problems!

I'm a bit gutted ........really, really wanted this mirror for my hall - think it's a bit too wide though. i'm waiting to hear from the seller the exact measurements.

6 pounds in one week.....????????????/ go you... i`m still going every week and lost nothing this week....... not stopping though.....soldiering on 

Do you know ............my eyes are getting so bad and I wont wear glasses. When we are driving at night (Mr woo not me) I actually see things that aren't there.

Last night I gave out a little shriek - I thought I saw a crocodile .......................it was one of those curved arrow things on the road leading up to a bend  Watching too much Jungle methinks.

Something like this

(DS)

oooooh Erin I saw that on Twitter earlier.  When does it start?  Will it be on in January?