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By: moobs

moobs — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:55:14 +0000

P and I tried this. Our first cat had feline leukaemia, crawled under our bed and died. The second was a rescue cat and had some kind of psychosis. She would hide until we went to bed and then creep into the living room and crap on the sofa. Then it was back to hiding and scratching anyone that went near. She was taken into care.

We don’t have kids.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:11:51 +0000

Graham, although he laughs at me when I get clucky (which is often) is quite often the one to actually bring up the whole ‘children’ issue. Last night’s offering started off with how much of a sucker I am for puppy dog eyes and mutated into how I’m not going to be able to resist loving a puppy and won’t a puppy go well with children? Then there was suggestion of tampering with my pills…I think I should hide them somewhere safe!

You’ll be a fantastic mother, how could you be anything else?

By: ph

ph — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:13:40 +0000

At one point I had 3 young children and 5 new-born kittens - The kittems were worse I can tell you. But then you can sell kittens at 12 weeks, children you can’t - can you!!!!

By: mel

mel — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:48:13 +0000

welcome home sweetheart (have just received and completed yet another reference request by the way…..fortunately you now have your very own file on the computer and i just top and tail, add a bit more pazzazz and churn them out, tee hee).

so. i fear we may have contributed to your kiddy concerns with our overexuberant and excessively noisy offspring!!

i kind of understand the kitten thing (actually i don’t. cats terrify me - my ageing piano teacher had hundreds of them, all mangy, miaowing and tiptoeing across the keyboard whilst i tried my best with fur elise..). i also know full well that kids can sometimes be exhausting/exasperating/bewildering/ relentless in their noise etc. etc.

HOWEVER.. and this is a big HOWEVER. i feel compelled to say (don’t know why, none of my bloody business really) that having m and j is the most amazing/surprising/love-inspiring/comedic rollercoaster of an experience and i wouldn’t change any of it for the world. you’d be a great mum rach, don’t ‘at some stage’ it for too long, eh?? mxxxxxx

ps that being said, i did once say i’d pay thousands of pounds for a lazy sunday afternoon with coffee and cake and the observer, possibly jules et jim in the background, bit of stevie and a boogie, some quiet, a glass of vino tinto, a long bath………

instead, it’ll be 6am roll call, lining up of all the cars with lengthy explanation of their brand (j’s latest obsession) a spot of colouring in of ballerinas, lots of toast all with different things on top (’can i have a blue/pink/green like shrek plate), read winnie the witch, perhaps singing along to high school musical.. by now it’ll be about 6.37am, the start of another long, long day..

pps hhmmmm…kitten, you say….

By: Mamatha

Mamatha — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:57 +0000

After watching you and Gordon with Nikhil during Christmas time, I know you two will make fabulous parents! If we lived closer together, I would have left the baby in your care so you could have first hand experience.

By: Uncle Did

Uncle Did — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:14:13 +0000

With a cat instead of a kid, you might become a grandmother much quicker than you imagined.

Granny Rachie, that sounds lovely.

By: Rachie

Rachie — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:26:15 +0000

Hi ph - thanks for your concern. It’s ok - believe it or not, we have discussed children, and we both want them at some stage. The above is meant to be a little tongue in cheek.

By: ph

ph — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:11:18 +0000

You need to get this child thing sorted before you get marrried. If You want a child and he (implacably) does not then do not get married. However my guess is that like most men and many women he is not sure that he wants a child, but When the child does arrive he and you will make good parents. I wonder how many people are denied the priviledge of parenthood just becuase they “weren’t sure”, particularly when their decision is made on no evidence at all. - very few people make ‘bad’ parents.
Do not be fobbed off by the kitten, it is the oldest trick in the book. “Get her a kitten - it will fulfill her maternal instincts” - it won’t