"Mr Honey's Day Out" wrote:

"SAINT GEORGE ZHUKOV" wrote:

"Don Karnage" wrote:

"SAINT GEORGE ZHUKOV" wrote:

all men are equal....

some are more equal than others.........

It's never as simple as a quip...

its no quip....

its the truth....

its a comment on society....

i hold that truth to be self evident......

Quite. That would be why you support a Russian oligarch over your eponymous Red Army.

[/lighthearted joke]

indeed old boy! capital quip!

i see comrade roman as the spititual heir of zhukov....

but if he sacks jose we might have to get revolutionary on his ass and dispose of him as an enemy of the people...

we'd nationalise his wealth naturally...

:twisted:

congrats to dave and the missus!!

may God bless ur family...

Congrats Dave!

u sure americans invented neighbourhood watch, the asian community have been doing this since yester years. Shuffling their curtains and nets, running out to see what shopping the neighbours are bringing in. Knocking on doors before dusk for a gossip and tea, uninvited of course. Looking out for the neighbours all in the line of duty.

Oops sorry Dave I haven't congradulated you...

CONGRATS DAVE & ANNETTE... again... may you have lovely and healthy children... the apple of your eye... the hole in your pocket (lol...joke).

Keep it up and you'll have a cricket team.

lol.... congrats again.

congratulations Dave to you and yours - i bet the babies are so cute, keep focussing on this when you're tired

"laila" wrote:

congratulations Dave to you and yours - i bet the babies are so cute, keep focussing on this when you're tired

lol they are very good little girls, especially on their mother and nannies - they go to sleep at normal times and only wake up two or three times at night then go right back to bed! Usually when I come home they are as tired as me, but we all perk up after dinner so I get to play with them.

pardon me sir wot was i thinking being english i blanked out you had such a thing as a nanny ney 2 nannies - i'm still finding it hard to imagine

"laila" wrote:

pardon me sir wot was i thinking being english i blanked out you had such a thing as a nanny ney 2 nannies - i'm still finding it hard to imagine

Yup! Despite Annette's initial objections she's come around to my way of thinking. She's too young and too active to handle two babies all on her own with no help while I'm working or at School. With Margaret and Julia she's able to take a break from the girls' needs when she needs it, the girls get 24/7 attention so nothing bad can happen, and Annette gets to be the boss and decide for herself what is a comfortable level (for her) of interaction from the nannies.

I didn't want our marriage to demote her from aristocrat to domestic slave, so I brought in help for her. She likes to plan lessons and activities for the girls and take them on adventures. I don't think she would have the time to do this if her life was a constant whirl of preparing meals, cleaning homes et cetera. And I doubt she would have the energy for very much [i]at all[/i] if she was [i]constantly[/i] attending every need of two babies.

She's a wonderful mother, extra help frees up her life enough to do all the things she wants to do for them and they are very lucky babies because of it.

I'm kind of the slouch - I get back usually and just crash because I'm so drained, so I rarely have time to do the kinds of things that she does with them like aquarium visits and things like that. After spending my day being bored into submission by my lecturers I have to spend about 2-3 hours doing some military work (I'm in a different situation than most JAG JD candidates) and by the time I get back my brain is Jello. Annette waits for me to come back and we have dinner together, sometimes we watch a movie or I'll just put my head on her lap and she'll sing me to sleep. The only real time I get to spend with them is on the weekends so I try to think of family activities for the weekend while I'm working out at lunch.