Comments on: death by stapler

By: petite

petite — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:26:58 +0000

suziboo – marvellous. it brings back fond memories of being referred by the maternity hospital to a dietician. I changed hospitals. And managed to put on 20kg. And lose them again. So there.

By: suziboo

suziboo — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:13:26 +0000

:grin:The worst prezzie I got from my MIL was for my birthday which happened to fall during my first pregnancy. I should explain at this point that my MIL is as skinny a French female as you’re ever likely to come across, as she puts it, as soon as she puts on a kilo or two extra, she is “incapable de manger-c’est physiologique”. Hmm.
So I clearly don’t have the same reaction and being 4 months pregnant doesn’t help any, so MIL got me a lovely set of bathroom scales (might I add that up to that day I had never owned scales, having other things to do with my time) which she said would help me to make sure things didn’t get out of hand.:wink:

By: kjr

kjr — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:03:30 +0000

It all sounds hideous. Trust England made up for it. Spent Christmas in England this year and so am now on a desperate countdown to next Christmas when in theory I should spend it in France. However I did say recently to my Frog that he needn’t think it will be 1 BritXmas for 1 French one. The ratio will be at least 2 to 1 or even 3 to 1. I was (half) joking but I might try to subtly wear him down through the year…

My dad was/is a terrible gift giver to my mum. When I was too young to realise and re-direct him, he got her kitchen scales. A few years later when I was old enough to know better (and should have boycotted it) he got her one of those electric blankets where each person can control their side. She, in her pre-menopause days liked it good and hot – he didn’t. That way they could both be happy. Except my mum wasn’t – she was devastated.

By: David K

David K — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:03:42 +0000

Yes, yes, but what chateaux and vintage was the Paullac?

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:06:36 +0000

I’m guessing a ‘cocotte minute’ is a kind of pressure cooker? Always trying to increase my (French) word power, as the Reader’s Digest used to have it. Thanks for your hilarious recent posts…

By: Elin

Elin — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:49:27 +0000

Love my In-Laws, but feel sorry for my husband who is stuck with my highly dysfunctiuonal craziness for family.
Four years ago they, and they being My Mother, My Stepdad and my three teen-aged siblings all got together and got him a soap dish. That’s right. A soap dish.

By: Silence

Silence — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:37:21 +0000

I love your description of your Xmas dinner, the food and your inlaws’ conversation. So such caricatures do exist ? not only in films and novels ? And the electric stapler is “la cerise sur le gâteau”!

By: nardac

nardac — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:49:15 +0000

Jeepers! They do sound EViL. And what a BAD MENU!!!
…My man has one of those wretched man-bags too, except he bought his from a sale, in a woman’s shop. In my own way, I really love his daft style, and I couldn’t bear to tear apart his sartorial idiocies. But a man bag IS a MAN BAG!
t film.

As for my presents, I am now the proud owner of a thermometer, shampoo and coloured crayons??!! All the same, my evils are a funny raucous bunch, and that makes up for it all.

Have fun at your mummy’s!

By: ViVi

ViVi — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:42:51 +0000

I probably sound like a total dork, but we asked for and got a vacuum cleaner and “a big pot” which ended up being a pressure cooker. Hey, we’re newlyweds and poor, what can I tell ya? :wink:

By: petite

petite — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:18:58 +0000

Probably a cocotte minute if you don't possess one already. My MIL cooks EVERYTHING in hers. And thinks my microwave is pure evil.