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Is this normal behaviour?
Since my dd started nursery 6 months ago she has been behaving a bit strangely and I am not sure whether her behaviour is related to nursery or not. She is not an affectionate child anyway, has never wanted cuddles or kisses, from me in particular, and now she won't hold my hand or let me stroke her hair. Sometimes she…
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Shoes for child with skinny feet!! advice required....
Am at my wits end with D/D 1`s feet I can`t buy non fitted shoes as they all too wide. They are so narrow, she is a 8D. I brought her less than 4 weeks ago new school shoes from Clarks, they even had to order 3 pairs for her to try on especially. She complained they were hurting her last week, i took her to be checked and…
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Will advice - who are the executors...
Hi all, Before I discuss this with the solicitors I wonder if someone can dissect this wording:4_ I APPOINT as my executors and trustees the partners at my death in the firm of SOLICITORS NAME & ADDRESS or the firm which at that date has succeeded to and carries on its practice, my son XXX XXX and my son YYY YYY to be the…
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Cost of running a house...
Not really sure which forum this goes into. I just need some advice. First of all a little background. me and my boyfriend have been together for 5 years now and really want to take the next 'step' and live together. There are two hurdles to overcome first; we live 150 miles apart and I have £15k debt to pay off. My debt…
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Gifting Money to family business
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help me my sister and I are planning to give our mother £30,000 over a 6month period to keep her (soletrader) business going until the cash flow starts coming about September/ October time. We will each be taking 15k on unsecured high street loans to do this. Aside from the fact if…
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Husband has "thrown me out" and has children
Hi, I hope people will be able to offer me some advice, - I've been using this site for a long time, but this is the first time I've posted! Things haven't been going well between me and my husband for some time - it's been no-ones fault, we just seem to have grown apart since our youngest dd was born 3 years ago.…
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School catchment area
Someone with a 3yr old daughter wants to rent my garden flat off me but not until Sep. She wants to apply for the local school now and put my garden flat address down now to try and get her little girl on the list early. Trouble is we have another tenant in there until Sep, and the parent of the 3 year old is obviously…
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advice needed on asking husband to leave
Hi, Im posting under a different user than normal incase my husband sees this. We have been married for 3.5 years and have 2 beautiful children the youngest just 6months old. Since the birth of our second child things have been different, more difficult. I feel mostly to blame as I seem to have lost my sex drive which I…
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Considering Surrogacy
Hiya, My name is Sue, Im a long time viewer of the forum , first time poster :) I am 32 years old and have 4 beautiful kids of my own ! , Its a bit of a hard question and something I have been considering for a while now, I dont want anymore children of my own and I feel I have the right personality and feelings to be a…
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Your garden, your rules or am i too polite?
Today my two came home from nursery and into the garden around 3.30pm. A good friend of mine by arrangement came around shortly after with her daughter, same age as my two. However after a while my children wanted to do water play, squirting, getting wet, chasing with water pistols, which is what we've been doing at the…
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Need some new ideas?
Hi all, Im starting to run out of cheap/free ideas of things i can do with my boyfriend when i get to see him on weekends. We have done alot of bike riding, walks, carboots and group boardgames with mates. But i am looking to see if anyone has any new ideas that we could try? sorry if i am the millionth person to ask this,…
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Hubby just gone to the cinema with £10....
and I feel so guilty. We are currently trying to scrape ourselves out of debt, as well as trying to get our garden finished by the end of summer. I said to him last week, if we save really hard this month we can get the rest of the fence replaced and our garden will finally be secure on all sides. Fast forward to tonight,…
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Oooh it's been lovely
Playstation network has been down and I've actually spent some quality time with my husband :beer: He's still playing it but nowhere near as much (can't play c.o.d. online so now just playing gran turismo) and I think this may well have shown him just how much time he was spending on that blooming thing! Part one of…
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Aaaaahhhhhhhhh
Tell me to bog off!!!! I am addicted to this site and can't stop checking out posts but I really am supposed to be catching up on the homework I haven't done for my photography course.
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Questions about jury service
After reading everything I can find I'm still confused about the whole thing. Firstly, what am I expected to wear? The only clothes I have are jeans and t-shirts, they aren't particularly smart looking either. This is what I wear to work so I have no need for more formal wear. I can't afford to buy anything new and I think…
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should i charge my partner rent?
hi all .. i need some help ... I'm in some credit card debt, not very much just sitting around 11,000. My goal this year to have it paid off as my girlfriend and i are recently engaged. i've been doing some lump sum settlements with collection agents, which has worked out on my part, paying off half amounts .. anyhow, my…
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The dreaded smear test.
Are things any different now to the way they did them 5 years ago. Ive been going religiously, every time I've been called and i still dread them. Last time it was quite painful but Im due again so like I say, not looking forward to it.
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Rules on children walking home from school
Hi does anyone have any experience of this? My DS2 is in year 5, he is at the youngest end of the school year and is so still 9. I have just finished work on maternity leave (baby due in 3 wks) and have taken him out of the after school club - not very MSE to pay for childcare I don't need! I wrote the school a letter…
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Coroners Inquest - writing statement
My partner recently passed away and I have now been informed there is to be an inquest. I was telephoned by a police officer who performed the indentification part of the process for the Coroner then explained he would come round and take my statement. He was very polite and very kind. He told me he would wait a couple of…
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money, relationships, families
This may be quite a long post, so I will apologise in advance if you do read it all. Really I think my purpose of posting is to ask several questions to which I think you may have the answers (or at least will help me to unlock the answers in my own mind). Why is it so difficult to get your significant other to understand…
