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naijababe:
The theme park itself was great, we went during Scottish half-term so it was quiet and not crowded as theme parks are wont to be. The only issue is food, you are confined to food in the hotel or nearby restaurant and mehn the menus were the unhealthiest combos I have ever seen. Both kiddos loved it though, they've been asking to go back in fact

I guess august is not the best time then .As for unhealthy menus, cant we take a few stuff with us so maybe only lunch will be unhealthy and we improvise in the evening?

will be a 2/3 day trip at the most though so should not be that bad.

SAMBARRY:
if it will not do do it in front of your house in the compound. Just monitor the children very well. If you feel like spending more sef you can add caprisone 25 naira to the list and put it inside souvenir. 25 naira x9=225naira. Then buy small pieces of gizzard tell them to mix it with meat everything 300 naira. When you get home dice it Into small pieces like tinko and soak it inside oily stew and put it inside foil and then inside the souvenir That's fair enough it will make the souvenir richer and full
tell the parents to drop their kids and go as it is STRICTLY FOR KIDS so you won't be spending extra entertaining adults. Tell them by 4pm they should come and pick up their children. Party starts by 10 am and closes by 4pm
I'm giving you options. If you don't want it this way you can do it that way. The koko is that the kids are happy. Remove all breakable plates and cups before they break it and the reason I said yo should give them plastic bottles is so that they won't break bottle or a child won't step on broken bottle. As much as possible you have to minimise every form of hazard they can be prone to

You have gotten the reason why kids parties tend to go over the top esp for Africans.. THE ADULTS!!!! the kids don't even want jollof rice or ayamase or all the other stuff that adults add to it. ordinary chicken wings and they are ok..

I have seen Dom Perignon at a 1st birthday party .. if you have the money sha.

OP if your house is small you could probably do it at an eatery/play centre or something and limit the no of children so say they charge N2,000 per child you can have a maximum of say 10 to 12 children that you can handle with one or two extra adults and use the rest for Cake.


Even saves you cleaning at the end of it all.As I said earlier pictures are the most important

But knowing Naija stuff like play centers will most likely be elitist and overly expensive.

Day 16 done.. I think I prefer doing it in the morning.

tearoses:
Did we work in the same company?
Suicide after a breakup happend before

Ive never heard of the madison site until yesterday morning
A whole one 1 million oyibo sighed up
Wish everyone is like me
Me im too lazy for the stress of an affiar
Na to come home from work, cook, spend time on my craft and watch nollywood/documentrys and play with my kids and husband
To even get back in the car to go to gym after ive gone through the front door is a struggle.
Affairs mean that I have to scheme, falsify, manufacture time out of no time and be an expert in lies . .. .I no get that powa at all.

Exactly why I cant have an affair as well. walahi I need a cure for this ' I just want to go home' syndrome. Once I step in the afternoon

Its too much work.

Ordinary to spend 1 hour on gele and make up to go to owambe dey tire me sef.I have been known to decide that I will rather stay home than go to a party as I cant manage more than 2 weekends of back to back partying. By the 3rd weekend, I am drained.

naijababe:
Divorce sef na two a penny. These are well educated folks o, all that divorce fear na for premiership footballers. It is so bad now that Aberdeen City Council offer free marriage counselling too. Stiff upper lip wo, dem pretend die.............all na boju boju


My son a huge Thomas the Tank Engine dan, we went to Thomasland last year and some of the rides na die! Today, I will not be going on some of them and would fear to let any of my clan go on them too

Thomas Land at Drayton Manor abi? Is it any good?I was going to book it for i.e the whole package and stay at the hotel with the Thomas themed room but I read some bad reviews on Trip advisor( dated rides, service not that great) and decided against it and went for LEGOLAND ( even though my daughter has been) as we have done Chessignton

My son and your son must be related. Gosh that boy and Thomas ehn If you like let there be a storm if he is watching Thomas he is as silent as a mouse. I wont lie Lazy me tends to use it as a baby sitter when I have stuff to do for like 2 hours just plonk him in front of it you wont hear pim till that 2 hours is over. To get hom to wear another pyjamas that is not the Thomas one na war so I have had to order 2 more sets.

Thomas Land will be heaven for him is it good?

SAMBARRY:
I've broken it down before let me down again


parlour Parry means small party. The child doesn't have to invite all his classmates in school and Sunday school class. Tell him to just invite 3 of his close friends in class
3of his close friends in the neighbourhood and 3of his close friends in church making 9 children


there are affordable low price cakes. Find one struggling caterer you can tell to bake you better cake of not more than 5k.at most 7k



rice of 8 derica is ok . One derica is 200 naira, so making it 200naira x 8 cups is1600 naira.


tomato 400 naira, pepper 200 naira is ok then 100 naira onions, 50naira Maggi, thyme of 80 naira making it 830naira then buy 2kilo of turkey. A kilo is 800 naira so 2 will be 1600 naira




photographs shouldn't be more than 2k

A pack of plastic coke is 2k.mix it with fanta another 2k making it 4k.no need for dj.na parlour party. Just make the environment children friendly and put children music on


those that want to play video game should go to another section of the sitting room

No need to buy water. Water is in the dispenser near the dinning table. Any child that wants water should indicate


then pack of sweet is 400 naira

Big bowl of ice cream is 1500 just pour some inside small plastic cups for them


decorate the sitting room with balloons. Just buy 150 naira balloons


calculate all that money and tell me if e reach 10k talk more of 40k


.you people just believe that if you've not done a big party for kids you've not done anything


souvenirs too shouldn't be too expensive. Inside the souvenir will be exercise book of 100 naira. Put 3sweet and 3chewing gum. Buy sweet of 3 ten naira and chewing gum 10 naira making it 20 naira. Put eraser 5m 30 naira and pencil 10 naira inside the souvenir small nylon as take away for 9 kids lobatan

Sambarry there is def some ijebu genes lurking in there

Very well broken down

I personally (that's my belief ) don't believe in going OTT for 1st year birthday parties as 1 yr olds tend to get cranky with large crowds. I also think a childs party is for the child , how will a one year old experience or enjoy lavish parties? I guess all the pictures of my 1st birthday party with me crying or my mum trying to get me to look at the camera (plus countless others of cranky 1 yr olds at others i attended esp those that change them like 4 times ) put me off all that stress.We had just us and her cousins when my daughter was one and maybe 4 more peooke when my son was one. Dont think I spent more than £300 on either celebrations.

From 5 they can get a say and actually have friends that they will enjoy it with. The most important thing is pictures so you can show them 'this was your first birthday'.

Phema:
Damiso, i sight you

Kimoni:
Damiso, chillis - so I had a healthy lunch today but this pic below was my undoing
Remember I promised baby steps...I just couldn't resist it that's the problem with this their meal deals

Small small you will get there

Kimoni:

Damiso come and hear Kulyie oooo
I don't even know how you respond to her
Kulyie, who like party reash you for this NL

Abi o and she is abusing us

Sotey she started dashing people lace

Kimoni:

This eebu reminds me of how my siblings and I used to yab ourselves while growing up
I see you and Damiso remember all these eebu a lot
I love big families sha but I no fit try am

My own na cousins and uncles and aunties I be first born so dem no born my siblings well


other choice ones include 'omo ounje' 'jejere'

Maybe you should start doing meal prep , the night or maybe from sun night( its annoying I know) but it saves you from putting the next available thing in your mouth when you are really hungry.

Even take in my own snacks to work so I don't have to urge 'visit' the vending machine.

Today sef ( maybe cos I did my WO in the morning and also about 4km walking to work) the hunger wey waya me mid afternoon ehn if if did not have an apple and some nuts in my drawer na biscuits for get me o ( my colleague even has assorted biscuit tins that she brings in every week to share with whoever wants it ).


The healthy eating stuff na real war I agree and makes one seem a bit odd but its needed not just for a buff body but generally to help ones health. Just take it lil by lil sha and make lil changes and you will get there. if anyone could tell me I could live without Coke or fizzy drinks or take oats without sugar I would have argued with them.

Even my digestive system is thanking me. I used to be one those people who could 3 days without visiting the toilet for No2 now I go everyday.

Kimoni:
don't mind me jare
Problem is I hardly even make it at home
I eat it during lunch hours when I feel like having a heavy meal
Unfortunately, I have that feeling most days

Could be one of the reasons . but another reason could be to break down language barriers within the commiunities they are policing. people tend to relax more around people who look, act and talk like them.

tolustx:
You think this is good news? They are asking that police recruits understand yoruba language. Don't u think that is a means to combat offenders that speak dos languages?

In my opinion, those languages are languages of d top foreign offenders in Britain that the police force wants more efficiency in tracking down and investigating.


It's not something to rejoice over.

I have a 3 year old that is soo cheeky as well and cant begin to imagine the pain.

May his soul rest in peace

goes both ways these days I am beginning to know and notice more women of Nigerian descent with men from other nationalities.


Its all down to choice.

and na wa for the level of stereotyping on this thread.

Like the woman who went after her now rich husband for child support for a 32 year old child/man was a Nigerian.

Sambarry I have ijebu and Lagos island blood mixed together, the two worst 'so called owambe culprits 'and sometimes going to owambe is like torture for me.

So see your assertion is not always true and I would rather give to charity than buy lace.

The ones in my wardrobe sef how many times do I wear them ?

you ehn . I love your candour sha.

You can still have 'healthy' shikin and ships naa

grill or roast instead of fried chicken then swap irish potato for sweet potato either air fried or roasted or grilled and voila you have shkin and ships,healthier and almost close to the real thing

Shikin and ships is easy sef it is we jollof rice people that are trying, quinoa and cous cous dey try small small but it cant be the same as jollof rice.

Kimoni:
Day 15....
My before and after weight - 68.4Kg down to 66.1 I can also see my waist shrinking in my trousers and of course my 4 packs
But my belly fat is not there yet...I know why sha...shicken en ships

;

Day 15 finally done.. its the school holidays so less manic mornings will be working out in the mornings ..really nice feeling 1st thing but my arms are still tingling as I increased my weights to 2.5 I almost gave up at the 2nd set of side lunges.


I am getting bored a bit sha so maybe il mix it up a bit and try Efe's dance work outs in between days..

r231:
Alaroro.....go pay £30 and get the thing done jare

Emi lekesi yen

TooNoisy:
Dami, even whatsoever mentality, it should not get to extended family. The woman may have brothers, sisters or even a father. Should the man now shoulder all their responsibilities because he married one of them?

C in C even in the extreme is applicable to the nuclear family. Very soon if the wife gives money to a friend or a beggar on the street she will collect it back. May be she also collects her church offering back too.

By the way she is working o!

It's a mindset one I don't get but one that some women have . There are women who expect their husband to pay their siblings school fees as part of his responsibility.(not saying an inlaw can't help out I believe in helping people I don't even know sef not to talk of inlaw )but to be vexing when he is unable to afford is what I don't get.

Oh well different strokes

This is a bit extreme as the bills in question is the wife mother's medical bills.. But there are loads of women who believe that any money they spend in the household is a 'loan' to their husbands. Some will not cook a certain type of food that THEY feel like eating even if they have the money because the feeding money hubby dropped is not enough for it (don't get it sha in this one short life that we have if I was not married won't I feed myself ni ) . Countless who will stay in darkness and not buy diesel till the husband gets back even if they have the money (again who is in the darkness )

That said some men encourage that 'almighty alpha behaviour I must provide everything behaviour'(we had one on another thread today ) they feel that's the only way they can get 'respect' . I know I would be super irritated by it as a man especially if I know you have the money.its like leech behaviour to me.


I don't get it sha and never will but we are all different. I was brought not to feel entitled to anything and if my hubby does things for my parents I don't take it for granted as his 'responsibility'

I even know working women whose husbands pay ALL or most of the big ticket bills that still get upset that they don't get an allowance. Now I am not saying you can't get each other gifts ( my husband puts money in my acct sometimes and says buy yourself something nice) but to actually resent the man for not doing it when you have your own money to do as you wish is something I can't get.

Maybe am too proud sha

edwife:
https://36.media.tumblr.com/da291b2a4aae0cebdabd48c926fd498f/tumblr_mwuytbNZq71rr2p1uo1_400.jpg

See edwife has shown you ..of course there are 'mammy water' with cropped hair, braids and team natural . They are the posh ones

I get you though according to nollywood all mammy water have like 32" Brazilian hair and their outfits must always be colour blocked (yellow and pink)

You are soo right.. na so small person go dun turn to recluse ..

It can be addictive ..my brain is constantly calculating calorie content and my shopping now takes forever cos of the time I use to read food labels

all things in moderation.

I do have a goal and as soon as I reach I will maintain try to maintain the healthy and active lifetstyle while still enjoying life pleasesures once in a while

Chillis:
Nice.
Pls also have a target o, this journey can be addictive too. Once you see the weight coming off you don't wanna stop. Know when to stop and maintain your target.
Make you no start rejecting all the food you see

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Chillis:
My dear, participate with them. What you have to do is, if you know of any social gathering before hand, eat and drink some healthy stuff like fruits or vegetable before you go so when you grab a cake or bacon it will take you ages to finish while chatting and having fun.
On social gathering I don't go rejecting food.
I pick from the healthiest ones and by then I had already eaten some banana or avocado bellyfull
Always remember to eat healthy before you step out to that owambe with shiken and chips .

Great tips chilli sooooo many pitfalls for me this week, team lunches and owambes back to back.

With owambes its a bit hard as I never eat salad or moi moi at parties( I have had horrible dates with the toilets after eating those two made dodgy caterers) besides the 'salad' is already like 700 calories with all the egg,baked beans,mayonaisse etc etc. Even ayamase I dey fear cos the last one I ate at a party I visited the toilet immediately .My stomach is soooooo sensitive so I tend to eat jollof rice(not even fried rice) as its the food that withstand a little bit of unhygienic handling.

what I will do is eat little by little and drink loads of water to fill me up.

These days I drink green tea/water to fill me up with all those 'bird' portions but I sha cant carry green tea to owambe before they start looking at me like I have finally lost it.

naijababe:
It is worse than that in my office. If I didn't know better, I'd say this set of Oyibos are Nigerians. They go on holiday, they bring goodies, it is someone's birthday, they bring goodies, we already have team Friday cake, bacon roll mornings and not to mention, bake sales for charity not to mention the ones who will tell you that they made something over the weekend and made too much
One member of my team says he starts retirement on Wednesday and he's brought in a horde of chocolates Dem dey truly vex me proper. I am turning to anti-social NB as I never go to cake Friday or bacon roll morning.

I thought I was the only one. What I do at those charity bake sales is to put in money take one cake and quickly wrap it in tissue. My son's face will just light up when I pick him from nursery

edwife:
abi?
Combing my brazillian weave....

this is discrimination against we Brazilian wearing chics

Brazilian weave wearing mammy waters

mammy water no dey do braids or be 'team naturalista' ni ?

I no wan spoil naa; i will just make use of 'premium services'.

Based on what i now know even in the UK people who don't have the luxury of time are willing to pay extra to get things move along quicker.So why cant we just adopt that? I remember a while ago when i was getting my ILR i think i paid about £600 more than people who went through the postal process. I got mine on the same day but i paid for it.

But naija you will pay premium 'codedly' and maybe even still get crap service.why cant we just make it upfront? if you want it free be prepared to queue from here to Kutuwenji but if you don't mind paying extra the time could be shortened.


even ordinary Tesco grocery charge more for 1 hour delivery slots as opposed to 4 hour delivery slots.

That's the beauty of capitalism.

With all their alakoba team Krispy Cremes, lunch meeting,pizzas to 'compensate' for working through Lunch etc etc

Speaking of which i have two this week one on Wednesday and on Thursday. The upside is 'extended lunches/meetings are code words for doing nothing that afternoon and also getting to go home early.

TeHN:
Dear All,

We've now had time to deliberate on this case and here goes our official response. After having considered the complexity of the case in line with TeHN’s current limitations, we are happy to announce that we would like to provide some sort of defined support for the boy in question.

In considering the case, we specifically looked at the information at disposal and the extent at which TeHN’s intervention can be measured going forward. We do feel the family needs a two pronged approach (empowerment and rehabilitation and/or medical intervention of the boy) in order to alleviate them from their current predicament but our involvement will be restricted to the little boy for the following reasons:

1) We don’t have enough resources to empower a potential young family of 7

2) TeHN has stopped accepting medical cases as we don’t have confidence in the healthcare system in Nigeria

In light of the above, our proposed intervention will be restricted to either of the following:

1) A one off donation to meet the cost of any corrective surgery if possible – We will only make the donation if and when any respectable volunteer has helped manage the process to a logical conclusion (We will expect them to do the facilitation of getting appointment and receiving a definite diagnosis and cost from any reputable hospital)

2) If option 1 is not feasible either by lack of a respectable volunteer or we receive feedback that corrective surgery is impossible, we will instruct our field workers to investigate the possibility of having the little boy admitted into a specialist school and work out a budget that we will be willing to make one-off donation towards.

Regards

Good to hear will follow the thread for future updates.

Kimoni:
lol...try Naija first...things might just be different

Ok i will do that ..

I am an optimist about Naija ..i remember my husband used to get Visa to go to Nigeria cos he used to dread all the stories about stress to get a passport at Nigeria House.I could not get over getting visa to go to your own country.

I told him its not that bad and he actually admitted it when he went to get his passport recently.

So let me keep up that optimism and fingers crossed,besides man know man makes stuff easier in Naija sometimes.

Kimoni:
Damiso, not sure when you are traveling but if you are traveling late October when it's very close to the deadline, hmnnn trust Naija now, they all won't come out till quarter to deadline and you will have to join them to queue up from Zungeru to Abuja to register.

You saw what happened in June before the deadline was shifted?

going after the 20th( that's when my AL starts)

Going for a wedding and they are already vexing with my flying visit but you know how UK is now .All annual leave is planned around school holidays and half terms so I cant spare more than that no of days.

I don't have the luxury of spending one whole day at any bank .maybe i should just jejely do it in the UK and book half day off work.

naijababe:
Damiso, you are the queen of determination You actually made jollof rice and made a separate meal for yourself. I doff my hat o. Emi ke? Lai lai!!!

which determination? You did not see where i said i ate the jollof rice yesterday ni esp as hubby kept saying 'jollof rice yen dun gan o try ' its almost finished though so don't think will have anymore of it as hubby has taken some to share with his mate at work.

The remaining quinoa is my lunch today sha.