some carb addict kid has just lost his sight and hearing - it's very sad but a part of me is saying not 'serves you right' but I can't bear kids who like their food a certain shape or facing a certain way and never touch anything that isn't comfort food, a diet of crisps chips and smarties that sort of thing, I don't go into the starving kids in Africa routine but the lack of respect and understanding of food which is indulged by parents can be bordering on criminal - as this case proves. Had a friend's daughter round who kept turning her nose up at anything remotely fresh I offered her (cinnamon toast it was - a tinned half apricot or two is a very nice accompaniment but not for this little princess). Personally I'd starve her until she had to eat some green beans or a strawberry - I can't do that so I'll just turn up on her doorstep and laugh when she's got rickets and scurvy.

. . . OR last nights dinner was on you breakfast bowl, because you wouldn't eat it & then it was still there when you came in from school for tea.

Happy days, didn't do any of us(oldies) any harm

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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Thought this was going to be another sex thread

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