Unsecure chicken perches

[bluekarin]

Last week I really fancied a biccy to go with a rare evening cup of coffee. I went to the kitchen to get our shiny new christmas pressie biccy tin and couldn't see it anywhere. Thought I may have been 'Man Looking'. I ask the kids to help me look for it and DS comes and looks with me and neither of us can see it. I ask them all now if anyone has taken the tin upstairs for some reason and DS has a look upstairs and comes back down with it. He found it under YD's bed. I open the tin, expecting to see at least half a tin of gorgeously chocolaty christmas pressie M&S biccys, and all that is left is 4 broken digestives and not one choccy biccy to be found

 

Not one of the kids will own up to taking the tin let alone eating all the biccys. I saw my best friend at the weekend and she suggested I do a biscuit amnesty. They have all been told that I will not be buying or baking any biscuits until whoever it was comes to me and owns up. I won't tell the others about who told, I will just start buying biscuits again.

 

This was Sunday. Now its Thurdsay and still nothing. They are starting to say I really fancy a biscuit, especially when I am eating a gingerbread one mwahahahaevilmum, but I keep saying, well whoever it is knows what they need to do.

 

The thing that makes me most sad is that they have all said to my face that it wasn't them

Edited January 31, 2010 by Guest

[clootie]

hmmmmm OH scoffed the lot and planted the tin under YD's bed. Now that would be evil

[Olly]

Gosh, I like your tactics - a biscuit amnesty! Wonder how long they will hold out.

 

Although Clootie's suggestion that OH is responsible does sound plausible ....

[Valkyrie]

Well I'm glad you aren't holding your breath. Been there done that and after several years I'm still waiting. Who'll break first? We have the missing coke cans here. I know where they end up and I hate not being asked first.

[bluekarin]

hmmmmm OH scoffed the lot and planted the tin under YD's bed. Now that would be evil

 

My friend and I did mull that possibility over, but in his defence he's never slept walked, and he's not really a biccy fan.

 

I think I will break first, in the biscuit buying stakes. Well, I do love a biccy with my coffee

 

It might be me?!?!?! Might explain why I have 'maintained' my weight for the past 5 or so years

[chickencam]

We have this problem from time to time. I don't with hold treats to my brood but I do expect them to ask first. I get really uspet when they will not own up to wrong doing. My yougest is the worst. She once stole a pen from ED and would not admit to it even when we found it in her bed under her pillow and she was holding her pillow down because she knew it was there. She is better than she used to be but has a frighteningly stubborn pride.

 

Good luck with this, stand by your guns. The only thing is will someone get so desperate that they will own up just to get biscuits even if it wasn't them?

[clootie]

Just make sure you savour every mouthful IN FRONT of said children. The culprit will cave eventually. Especially with you slow dunking.

[The Dogmother]

During the christmas break, Rosie and her friend ate their way through a tin of biscuits I'd been given I wouldn't have minded if they'd asked first.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I think you need to hold out . (Surely you've got a stash of nice biccies for you .)

[bluekarin]

We are an evil lot hahaha! I do eat them nice and slowly, picking off the chocolate or icing coating and making mmm noises

 

I have just had an idea. I might make a small batch of the hollow ginger biccys that one of them loves (as I think its YD personally). Maybe that would be the final straw.

 

 

Chickencam - my YD is really bad for lying. She does it automatically. We ask her, for example, if she has brushed her teeth. 'Yes mum!'. Shall I check your toothbrush then? 'Err, I forgot'. It just goes on and on and we have told her its to the point we can't believe anything that she says. The other two were never like that. We keep telling her its the lying and not the forgotten thing that really makes us upset and cross.

[The Dogmother]

Find an empty biscuit tin and fil it with something nasty, then position it in the kitchen

[clootie]

@ Claret

[bluekarin]

Find an empty biscuit tin and fil it with something nasty, then position it in the kitchen

 

hahaha like one of those spring up snakes! DS keeps creeping up on all of us and making us jump, so I think that would work really well. Last night he and YD were in the bathroom. YD pretending to be going to the loo but was in fact reading a book. ED wanted to use the loo so YD flushed it and came out of the room. ED went in, locked the door and was about to use the loo and DS leaps up out of the bath shouting raaar I was wetting myself laughing when she told me. I said to ED that I wasn't too sure who would have been most suprised if DS had left it a little bit late before springing up and ED was already on the loo

[Chucky Mama]

The only problem with using a tactic like that in our house is that YS will always take the rap and own up even though I know it is never him. I usually know who it is though and manage to get a confession (without thumb screws too!)

[majorbloodnock]

Find an empty biscuit tin and fil it with something nasty, then position it in the kitchen

 

hahaha like one of those spring up snakes!

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like Scotch Bonnet chillies. If you've got a recipe for some hollow biscuits, you've got a world of possibilities open to you, and I'm not talking in jest either.

 

However, in this particular case, there really is no choice, is there. If you've made the stand, backing down just isn't an option - at least it wouldn't be in our house.

[craftyhunnypie]

Oh this has really tickled me - midnight munchies. If they were that desperate for bikkies - they'd bake some themselves wouldn't they? Oh this is funny!

 

Emma.x

[bluekarin]

Find an empty biscuit tin and fil it with something nasty, then position it in the kitchen

 

hahaha like one of those spring up snakes!

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like Scotch Bonnet chillies. If you've got a recipe for some hollow biscuits, you've got a world of possibilities open to you, and I'm not talking in jest either.

 

However, in this particular case, there really is no choice, is there. If you've made the stand, backing down just isn't an option - at least it wouldn't be in our house.

 

I have a great recipe for Mayan chocolate sparklers (biscuits with chilli in). I could just make them very hot hehehe.

 

There is no worries about backing down. I have told them, and that's it. No biscuits for them until the culprit owns up.

[Valkyrie]

I like the evilness of this thread - it sounds soooo er, homely and disturbingly comforting to me.

[Egluntyne]

Is there a sleepwalker in the house?

[clootie]

Mice with crowbars?

[majorbloodnock]

Mice with crowbars?

 

Nope. The tin was empty, so it'd be mice with chocolate bars

[clootie]

MBN you little tinker you!

[Valkyrie]

[bluekarin]

Is there a sleepwalker in the house?

 

Funnily enough, ED is a sleepwalker, but she tends to come downstairs, have a chat with me, I tell her to go back to bed and she does. And has no recollection of it in the morning.

[BarbaraJ]

Lol loving this i would not give in either. I always told my kids they would always get in more trouble if i found out about them lying than about what they had done. They were small and what they did wasn't anything major so it usually worked.

The best one was when My oldest 5 at the time with a brother 2 1/2 and sis 1 wrote her name on my ironing board in pencil and denied she had done it