Thanks for all your messages yesterday.
We had a brilliant night last night, even though I think we were all a bit tired.
Nic, Ingenious Rose and I had our butts whipped at Trivial Pursuit. We usually win, honest, but we had a night of surreal questions.
The chilli went down well, as did the beer and wine, and the Key Lime Pie made by Dez and Jay was soooo nice, and quite healthy too which is an added bonus I suppose…
Several moments stick in my mind,
Firstly the following piece of appalling parenting as witnessed by my mates…
Picture the scene.
Miss M has just done a wee on her potty and I’m helping her on with her pants and trousers.
(She’d have quite happily wandered round naked but we try to discourage this in company. )
I set her down on the floor, then get up to sort out my guests.
So I’m finding out who wants what to drink, when suddenly there are hysterical giggles and I look down to see Miss M crawling out of the door like a large, slightly confused, caterpillar.
And I’m thinking, ‘Hmmm, what’s wrong with this picture??”
Me: “M, what are you doing?”
Miss M looks at me as if to say, ‘Well you should know, you did it you crazy woman.’
And I realise both of her feet are sticking out of the same trouser leg.
Instead of saying,
“Mummy, you seem to have created an interesting pencil skirt affair but it is most uncomfortable and I would like you to remove it from my person immediately.”
She seems to have decided just to make a quiet exit and find her daddy to sort it out.
But, as we all know, mermaids can’t walk, so she goes for the ‘just left the primordial soup’ style of crawling.
I know I shouldn’t laugh but it is sooo funny.
She isn’t upset, just kind of a bit bemused and enjoying the reaction of her audience.
Me: “Oh M, I’m sorry, silly mummy, you look like a little wiggley worm.”
(I wasn’t even drunk at this stage. Worrying isn’t it..?)
When Miss M and E are safely tucked up in bed, and, wait for it, asleep by 9.00pm, we get out the Trivial Pursuit to have a quick game before we all get too drunk.
Here are some of the questions…
(All taken from Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition.)
1. What had more than 30 competitors in the 2000 Berlin Marathon taken that resulted in their disqualification?
2. Why did scientists flood the Colorado River Valley in 1996?
3. What boosts Harry Potter’s popularity with the girls that is eleven inches long and pliable?
(Yes this is a real question…)
I used Miss E’s magnifying glass on these so sorry for the wobbly pics but it’s the best I can do. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it mysef so I thought I should share.
And finally,
4. Which Whoopi Goldberg movie was adapted from the funereal play Dearly Departed?
I picked the first 3 as either the question or the answer made everyone go,”WHAT???”
And the 4th as it led to this…
Jay: “Whoopi Goldberg’s marrying Gerard Depardieu isn’t she?
Me: (and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.)
“Ahh, that’s lovely, they both seem dead nice.”
Jay: “Yeah, she’ll be called Whoopi Doopy Doooo.”
Oh how we laughed.
No we did, really, I nearly wet myself.
I was the question reader on our team and it took me about 5 minutes to calm down as each time I did, ‘whoopi doop doo’ kept coming back into my head and tickling me.
The rest of the night is a blurrr of laughter and chatting and although we finished early for us at midnight, it was really good.
I love my mates.
But now for a more serious bit…
We went to bed and slept well until Miss M woke with earache at 2.00pm.
She’s fine, this isn’t the serious bit of the serious bit.
She took over an hour to settle again and of course wanted mummy though Mr B did get up to help.
Well, he staggered in and out a couple of times and yawned loudly.
Every time I snuck (is that a word) back to bed, Miss M woke up and cried for me again.
At around 2.50 I’m sat curled up on the end of her bed, wrapped in a fluffy multi-coloured blanket, trying not to nod off while Miss M contemplates the ceiling, but does not sleep, when suddenly loud rock music blasts from Miss E’s room.
I rush in, and turn off the radio.
Miss E is asleep.
She went to sleep with her McFly CD on.
Somehow the stereo has flipped itself from CD to radio and turned itself up.
I am sooooo spooked.
Today I am still spooked.
There is no timer on it.
Miss E didn’t have it on radio.
And it wasn’t on when we came to bed.
I turn it off at the wall and look round Miss E’s room for any clues. I even check the tent under her bed praying that I don’t have a ‘Sixth Sense’ moment.
Then I return to an alarmed Miss M and tell her,
“It’s just E’s music sweetie. Don’t worry. Back to sleep.”
Finally M’s Medised kicks in and she drops off, while I lie in bed and ponder the spookiness a little longer.
Any ideas as to how this happened would be gratefully received, as would the answers to the above questions.
A prize of a small piece of Ostrich dung is available to anyone who really wants it.
And tomorrow I promise I will catch up with everyone and read all your fantastic posts and leave lots of interesting and insightful comments, and do that meme 21st Century Mummy, and add a little something from Cami at the same time.
Ohh and thank you so much to the gorgeous, witty and hilarious Absolutely Bananas for my ‘Bananas Approved’ Award.
I need to check if I can pass it on or not.
Night night.
I’m off to knock back a paracetamol.
Honest.
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September 16th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I can’t believe Question 3!! Or is it just my dirty mind? I hope it wasn’t the answer which 1st springs to mind. What was it then?
September 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I can’t believe it either Picklesmum.
I bet there were some very drunk very giggley question writers at Trivia Central who never thought they’d get it past the editor.
I’m so glad they did.
And the answer is his wand of course.
What were you thinking young lady??
September 16th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! noooo spoooookies!
I hope there is some sort of crossed wire in that stereo
September 16th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
And there I was thinking it was one of those long chewy refreshers bars that you can get these days. Oh Picklesmum, in the words of Dick Emery….ooooh you are awful.
Sounds like a fun night Jo apart from the night-time antics that is. Night-time radio…that is spooky. We have one awind-up radio and never turn if off when it’s unwound. One day I came home to find it on and was really spooked. Eventually I worked out that it also had a solar panel and the sunshine had been beaming in through the kitchen window. Phew…how relieved was I ;-D
September 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
oh my……spooky stuff! I have no idea how that could have happened. hmmmmmmmm……..
Glad you had a fun evening though. Picturing your daughter crawling into the room like a catepillar really gave me a much needed smile! Thank you!
September 16th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Cami I know. If it comes on tonight I will cry.
21st CM, mmmm, chewy refresher bars.
I thought it might be one of those bendy rulers.
Sadly there is no solar pane on E’s stereo.
It was very weird.
Corey, I’m sending more hugs. Glad Miss M made me laugh.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Isn’t the Whoopi movie Ghost?
No relation to your stereo misadventures.
Is there any kind of weird alarm on it? My iPod comes on by itself because there’s an alarm set that we can’t figure out how to turn off.
It’s a thought anyway…
September 16th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
The Whoopi joke was the funniest moment of the evening Jo! I too thought the answer was Ghost although I was wrong – again. Seems like an appropriate answer given what happened later with the radio!!
I’ve just written my last ever blog post. But do not worry, it means I have more time to read yours now and post really long comments.
I know the time on your blog isn’t accurate so I must tell you that I am typing this at 4.15am. Why?!!
September 16th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
wait a minute… what about me? Did I say something ghastly and forget. Am I tagging people when I sleep… I am intrigued that I have no idea what I may have to do with the end of your blog…
Maybe it is the exhaustion.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:50 am
RC, no, that’s the one we guessed, but it’s a film called Kingdom Come??
And no there is no secret timer. But it didn’t come on last night so I’m feeling a little better.
Ingenious, I will miss your bog but i would rather have the real you than the electronic version…and now I can nick your daft moments for blog fodder, cackle.
Cami do not panic. I got your postcard.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:50 am
A dinner party – kids in bed and asleep by 9pm? Now that’s the spookiest thing I ever heard!
September 17th, 2007 at 3:05 am
What a fun evening! Me? I went to bed at 8:30. Excitement, huh? No idea about the radio. Snags has some battery powered toys that have weird switches inside that will turn the toys on when they are unbalanced. A radio though… You’ve got me freaked out and I’m all the way across the ocean!
p.s. I love key lime pie!
September 17th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I think you have a poltergeist, Jo.
Do you want to borrow some garlic paste?
September 17th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Ok, I fold. How do you get healthy Key Lime Pie? Mine is made with sweetened condensed milk, lime juice and cream cheese (definitely not healthy–more like a heart attack with a side of whipped cream
September 17th, 2007 at 7:49 am
English mum, they went to bed so well.
We did let them stay up till then so it was a late night for both of them and that might be why they went to sleep so quick. I was so pleased though.
Belle I don’t know what happened with the radio, but the Key Lime Pie was yummy.
Napoleon, will garlic paste get rid of poltergeists?
I’m really quite spooked.
Leendaluu, I just peeked at the recipe and I now think my mate Dez may have been tricking when she said it’s quite healthy.
Especially as she drizzled dark chocolate over it too.
This is the link, http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/key-lime-pie,1389,RC.html
It was lovely though so ah well.
Ooo we had it with Creme Fraiche though, so that’s probably a little better than whipped cream.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Mmmmm. Key Lime Pie!!!
As for the radio— that has happened to me once— and a friend explained that occasionally, if there is a power surge in the neighborhood, electronic devices on a certain frequency can start up or switch off, seemingly by themselves. It seems that numerous electronics can be on a same frequency within an area and sometimes they can be triggered by either one another or by the nearby power generator plant if conditions are right. I would not worry unless it starts happening with any regularity.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Oh what a party! I’ve played scrabble whilst drunk – that’s hilarious. About the ghostly music – have you noticed any cold spots in the house???
September 17th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Susan I feel so much better now.
Akelamalu, we haven’t noticed any cold spots particularly but we were told the house was haunted after we’d moved in.
We’ve had a few spooky moments but nothing nasty, so the jury’s still out on it.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Yes that’s one strange T.P. set – I have it too. The answer is wand! Sounds like you had a great time, I hope you don’t have too much of a hangover!
September 17th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
am I early??????
September 17th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Great post! You are so clever, and funny, and that Miss M of yours sounds delightful. Cute story!
September 17th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Despina it is weird isn’t it.
Hangover wasn’t too bad though.
Cami, you were not early, I was late.
Sorry.
Hi Jenna, thanks.
You’re making me blush now.:D
September 19th, 2007 at 11:07 am
What a great time! I loved reading about your little mermaid! That was so cute to picture!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Thanks Lori.
