Be Excellent To Each Other

Metal and glass can be replaced, glad she is ok

Hire car arrives today and tow truck Monday,

Also had small result, I had scraped the bumper a few times reversing out of the drive. Always wanted to sort it out, but just figured it would be £500 so never got around to it

Now it will be replaced due to the impact, so car will come back looking a bit better

For any insurance people reading, he is totally joking.

There is no question the bumper has to be replaced, I suppose if they can get them pre scratched I can live with that!

I have let the relevant authorities know.

heh.

Sorry to hear about the car, I'm happy your wife is ok. Make sure she's not got whiplash, mind you, it can take a while to develop.

Well I'm in the dog house

We have a Gazebo up in the garden at the moment, behind that is the washing line. My wife put 2 loads out to dry.

Then my automatic watering kicked in and the sprinkler comes on. The Gazebo blocks the view of the line from the house

So an hour later she goes out to check her washing and found it had benefited from an hour of watering

The opening Viber message went " I could f**king kill you" !

Why don't you go to the gazebo? Probably more room than the dog house?

Biggest laugh I've had all day. I now have beer on my Ipod!

Me, too. Why are you drinking at work?

Left at 4. I'm a dedicated public servant, remember.

She has calmed down a bit now, I've left her alone to watch rubbish on the TV like One Born Every Minute

Why somebody who had a baby 13 months ago wants to watch other people do on TV is beyond me

It stops you from making her do it again in nine months, I guess.

Yeah, because that works.

Right?

My son goes to a really good child minder on a Tuesday and Friday and my sister in law has him Wednesday and Thursday

For the third Friday in a row he has just gone mental the minute my wife drops him off. Each time she has to go and get him and now the minder is saying she can't have him as she has never had a kid like this is 25 years.

I don't understand what the problem is, he behaves ok when he is there on a Tuesday and he is such a good kid, always happy, sleeps well seldom cries longer that a bit of moaning etc.

Find her attitude a bit shit to be honest, she appears to expect that all the kids sit there all day and read a paper

Problem we have is that we need her more that she needs us

Can just do without it on top of everything else I have going on at work

EDIT great she won't take him anymore, 1 year old and expelled!

Is there another child there that attends on a Friday but that isn't there on a Tuesday that your boy has perhaps had a bad experience with? If so, is he perhaps seeing that other child and freaking out?

Started my day with a £105+VAT windscreen replacement bill

There is a mix of kids there, my wife said he won't settle and is upset even if the minder holds him, also he didn't like the other kids coming near him but I figured that was part of the general upset.

I guess maybe he understands that if he goes mental long enough mum comes for him, as this has gone for 3 Fridays then I suppose its a sort of (bad) routine.

He always was OK when there on a Tuesday, but that was his first day after 3 days with us (my wide doesn't work on a Monday)

My wife said when she went to get him he was really upset and pointing at the door, so he is not going back, even if the child minder would have him there is no way I will have him in a place that's upsetting him this much.

Its very out of character he has only got this upset when he was younger and in pain with trapped wind etc

So looking at a Nanny long term to care for him at home, also a good chance my wife will be leaving work soon so maybe she will stay at home, we loose a salary but I don't care about that in the mid term as his happiness is the most important thing.

Sellers of the house that I'm buying (and days away from completing on in theory, once a query with my mortgage lender is resolved) are threatening to withdraw from the transaction if it's not sorted by the end of today.

Alright, this has taken significantly longer than I anticipated, but why would you pull out days before it's all over?

did this come from the estate agent? If so, it is likely bluster.

I think so yes, from my solicitor, via the estate agent.

I hope so - I'm going to be fucking furious with my mortgage advisor if this all falls through at the last minute, because this last query with the mortgage lender is as a direct result of some advice he gave me which has ended up being absolutely boners.

I am losing the will to live with my mortgage company.

I'm not sure moving in with a whole company of people is a great idea anyway.

Bravo!

Not only is it raining on a bank holiday at the start of my week off work, but I've gone down with something that's left me feeling very dizzy and light headed. Just got up to go to the loo and it feels like being really badly drunk.

I get that sometimes; I just ignore it and goes away after a few hours. It's probably brain cancer or something.

That was plan A, but as it started yesterday and seems to be getting worse I'm contemplating ruining the GPs day as well and trying to get a home visit.

Having to work on a bank holiday. Not only that having to get up at 4am to get to Germany.

Whenever I fly for work I have holiday beers at the airport, just on principle.

No beers for me, also beer at 5 am is not a good thing

Whilst I had something of a Yay weekend, it was not so for others I know

One of the girls from our NCT lost her father to a heart attack, horrible as he broke his neck falling as a result so they don't know what the cause of death is. So now the last summer bank holiday of the year will always be sad for her.

Also over the weekend an old school friend lost his son, I was expecting it to be a car accident, but he died in not to clear circumstances in Thailand involving drugs and him "running" into a glass door. He was 25 and had done 2 years for pot dealing, so maybe some shady business going on. Still its still a father who has lost a son.

Hmmm, as of 2pm this afternoon, Christmas was cancelled.

Bugger.

Oh, are you OK Morte? What happened at 2pm?

Project slippage Mimi, the new date for the start of user testing is now...drum roll please...the 25th of December.

I'm really starting to understand the US Government's reluctance to use certain Chinese telecom suppliers.

Is it very likely that they will actually begin testing on that day, or is that just the resulting calculated result date of the creep? Either way, with two months to go is it likely to creep just past Christmas, which no good thing for project deadlines will at least mean that you still get to enjoy your life outside work as you should be able.

Look how I tried to match the Dimlie to your avatar and then show support with a kiss.

But instead it looks like you are a giant and I am kissing your tummybelly.

It's a win win situation Mimi Thanks for the thought.

Honestly, I've done it before (spent Christmas away from home) but at least this time it's not just only me. I am just dreading the phone call home to the folks.

Oh, so you work away from home at a distance that even if you are not working Christmas day you will not be able to see your family? Oh, that's a sad prospect to have to break to loved ones, so I really do hope that it doesn't come to that. Remember, though, that you can spend that day with family, even if you have to delay it for a little while. We live in a day of Dr Who, Christmas can be any week or month you wish

Are you still in Azerbaijan, Morte?

Thanks for the message Mimi

Cras, yep, still here, may be here for the long haul or told to sling my hook at the end of Feb. Things are "variable" at the moment. It makes for an interesting working environment.

I get that you are having to work, (although its pretty crap that you have to)

How are you going to get "users" to help you test on Christmas day?

Muslim country mate...the real issue is that if the project slips further then it may impact Novruz (Persian New Year) and then we would have a real issue with users (and everyone really).

Are you hiring?

Will you at least get extra pay for it? Even my place pays very well for Christmas day work, never seen an instance where anyone has come in though so maybe that's why!

Nope, no extra pay (and to be honest as an Ex-pat I shouldn't be getting anything like that anyway)...just the luck? of the draw. It's the stuff that you know is a risk when you sign up for these kind of assignments...it's just a bummer when it comes to pass.

Went to see my brother yesterday and we ended up at the local remembrance service on his high-street.

When the various priests were reading out the names of the fallen my son was laughing or making a noise with almost perfect timing.

He is 16 months old so doesn't understand what is going on.

In the end I had to leave with him, people were staring and I guess rightfully getting a bit pissed off.

I ended up a respectfully distance away with 3 other fathers who had the same issue with their kids.

First time I have been to one for years as well.

Seems pretty stupid for people to be angry at a baby in those circumstances. The whole point of remembrance is celebrating the legacy of sacrifice, and I think a happy giggling baby does that rather well.

I'd have done the same Asfish. I'm sure people understand but I don't like to make a fuss with the kids especially when it's easy to get them out the way.

I did the same at a wedding last week but to be fair, I don't mind. I'd much rather play with the kids then watch a dull wedding.