Be Excellent To Each Other

She's counting the kicks, or something.

Mother-in-law is visiting for two months and is currently on 'the FaceTime' with father-in-law, who is still in the Uk.

He's holding the phone up to the telly so she can see what's on the breakfast show. This is troubling me.

I skim read that as MIL and FIL are having 'sitting-on-face time'.

Which was odd.

Been up since 4 with a lively toddler. Didn't go to bed till 1am.

I too went to bed at 1am but woke up at 4.55am by a lively toddler. I feel your pain.

Go to bed earlier?

I was going to but then I thought "Just one more episode of Breaking Bad.. It won't hurt"

Get that every day. my son is bed at 7pm then he is up at 5-5.30am for a feed, if his teeth are at him then he will wake up at 2am as well

We tend to be in bed for 10pm most nights!

On weekends he somehow knows I'm not at work so tends to want to be up and doing something around 6am, so I tend to get up and we play cars whilst my wife has a lie in

Love it thought its the best part of my week, despite it usually meaning weekends now are without any sort of lie in for me!

Just had it confirmed the In-laws will be here 20th-27th December.

Only issue is the Mother-in-law hates the sort of films I like, my wife has the same tastes as her mother so I can forget Guardians of the Galaxy etc over Christmas

I've already been given a list of movies to download.

The last time they were here for Christmas I was pissed and "put my foot down" and made them all watch the Planet of the Apes movie (the new one)

My wife has reminded me of this several times in the last month already

Seconds before the ladder slipped I thought "this doesn't feel right". Then I fell off the garage roof, scraping my hands down the wall. Oops.

Ow! Nice bit of semi-futile self-slowing wall action, there.

Sounds like permission to do it again to me.

Well if I do it will have to be Dawn of the Planet of the Apes I guess!

Yeah. Followed by the "best grasp the near horizontal ladder so as not to bash my face". Luckily, my shoulder and knee seem to take most if the impact, although I might have a huge bruise on my palm later.

Was this fixing the leak?

The garage has lots of leaks in the roof.

The house roof seems to be ok but I put a bucket in the rafters just in case. I need a stretch of clear weather and my mate to foot the ladder for that one.

The garage needs to be re roofed so I might do it in January. As it is asbestos everyone is going to get excited about how much it will cost to get rid of (not a lot as council will take it if wrapped).

Really? I've got an asbestos lined garage roof and I'd be interested to know how much something like this costs.

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/recycli ... tos_advice
sorr on phone so won't shorten link. Just damp it down, wear a disposable suit and bag it up.

Balls that is cement only bit it seems that is my corregated roof is that. Dunno about yours.

Bizarrely I reckon I've got the same roof. I'll take a photo tomorrow. Y'know, just cause.

I had an asbestos roof just like that and it was taken away by a man in a disposable suit. He didn't wear a mask but it was raining so the sheets were already dampened down.

It took him 30 mins and he said there's no danger from them as long as they're in one piece. The majority of the sheet is cement apparently.

Picture of a garage roof. Avert your gaze.

Not really surprising he fell off if it was like that.

Was that taken as he fell off?

So Mrs Grim... was in a state when I got home last night. Apparently the Grimlet had been learning about pocket money at school, and he wanted to do jobs around the house so we would pay him pocket money. Sounds legit.

"And then I can use my money to buy medicine and make you better, Mummy."

Jesus.

Aw bloody hell. He's alright, that kid.

Awwwww

Making me tear up at work is just not on dude.

aww heart wrenching

Aww.

Wonderful but very sad, and humbling.

While I agree with his sentiment, we didn't realise he'd quite grasped how ill she is

Fucking Astana. No major surprise though.

My Father in Law died today. He was estranged from his wife since my wife was about 11, but it's still got to have an impact on her however she is in denial and has gone to work tonight as normal.

I don't know what to do for the best and it's troubling me

Malc

Whatever you decide to do is probably the best thing to do as you're a good sort.

I'm not sure you need to do anything Malc. If your wife wants you to comfort her or talk about how she feels about it she'll let you know, and I'm sure you'll be there for her to do whatever she needs or just listen.

Fuck sticks. The possible, maybe, sort of, might be, future Mrs B is coming up to Glasgow tonight with the intention we'd get up early tomorrow and go climb Ben Chonzie. Hill walking is her utter passion in life and I was looking forward to bonding further with her through that. However my health has been pretty shit for the last few months and this week has seen a serious decline that has me home from work right now and very little chance of managing up a mountain tomorrow. She's still coming up so hopefully we'll have a nice evening but then she's going to meet some other mates tomorrow and go somewhere with them instead. I don't blame her for taking the opportunity to get some Scottish winter climbing in, it's just really really shite that I don't feel up to it. The situation isn't helped by the fact I've got painters in doing my whole flat at the moment so I'm sort of camping out in my bedroom, the one room that's completely fine, while the rest of the place is a complete shit tip.

The actual health issue is random and massively variable tiredness/dizziness which in the last two weeks has gone from a sometimes depressing nuisance to near debilitating. It saw me sitting at my desk in work this morning feeling utterly awful and unable to do much, whereas in the past I've been able to grit my teeth and power through it. The variability and general symptoms make me wonder if it's somehow blood sugar related which then has the spectre of diabetes hovering over me. I've tried to eat better stuff in the last two days to see if that would make a difference but it doesn't seem to have helped at all so fuck knows. I've got an appointment with the doctor on Monday so we'll see what happens but this has been going on for so long and has now got so bad that I'm really rather worried. Not so much whether it it is diabetes or whatever as I can deal with that but more just how long it takes to get a diagnosis and how long I'll feel like this for because it's really, really miserable if I'm honest.

Sorry for the terrible emoing, I didn't actually intend to brain dump all that when I started typing.

Get your health sorted first. If she likes you then she'll stick around for some walking when you're better.

What Myp said.

Also:
Isn't she meant to be the one that says that?

Oh, yeah, I mean she's not running away or anything and this won't at all affect our relationship I was more bemoaning the terrible timing that whatever's wrong has picked this period to go to town on me.

You're doing it on purpose now.

If you've been unwell for months then I guess it was bound to happen at some point. Get it sorted!

GWS, mate

I didn't have a period last month... It had better be the menopause or stress.

I hope you feel better soon, Bamba, and that it's nothing lifestyle changing. Shit that you can't hang out with future Mrs. B as much as you'd like, too.

Thanks for the kind words folks. And the period jokes as well obviously.