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Ideas to do with children without spending money
I was mooching around online, and came across this, which I thought might be of interest to some: http://www.grandparents.com/binary-data/Grandparents.com_100FREEThings.pdf It's an American site, but even so, some of the stuff looked interesting - I looked at some items and thought "Ooh, I wish someone had done that with…
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First Holy Communion
My oldest niece is making her first holy communion at the end of the month. It isn't a celebration I'm familiar with so I'm looking for some Catholic members to give me an idea of what is an appropriate gift. The child is almost 9, fairly devout set of Catholic parents but my sister (her mum) is a convert so isn't sure…
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I've no-one to talk to....
A bit of background, I've moved to wales with my husband and my son who's just 11. My husband isn't my sons dad although he's been in his life since my son was 4. My daughter (18) decided to stay in stafford and found herself a house share and stayed at college. We have moved to wales because my husband spent every weekend…
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School shoes
My son has yet again come home from school with ruined school shoes, he's only 5 and a size 9 which means the choice in clarks is very limited as they told me "god he's little" needless to say I didn't go back. Yes he's small but he's been very poorly . AS his feet don't grow very quickly I'm prepared to spend more on…
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Car seat for newborn
I have been told I will need a car seat for a newborn baby. My friend who is due in a few months has not got a car and I have offered to bring her back from the hospital after the baby is born. She told me to my surprise that the baby will need to be in car seat, that's the law. How do I go about it if she provides me with…
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Me and my fiancee have finally set a date
Me and my fiancee got engaged last year and we have finally set a date for April next year (26th/27th), however we are looking at doing it abroad as we want a beach wedding and nice weather, where would be nice sunny weather at this time of year? We would only be able to do Europe as we cant ask family and friends to fork…
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What would you do if.....
your brother was supposed to buy your lottery ticket, spent the money instead, and your numbers came up (not the jackpot, but five numbers which would have paid £3k+)? A lady at our gym has unfortunately found herself in this position. She has been playing the lottery for a few years and in January, while in hospital,…
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Sometimes babies can spoil a perfectly decent luncheon.
I lunched with some friends today in the City. We went to quite an expensive restaurant, not the sort of place where people take children. Unfortunately two ladies arrived with babies, and one of the babies was in a terrible mood, relentless crying. None of us knew what to say, my party looked to me for advice as I have…
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Executor's Bank Account
I was wondering if anyone had any advice on a "good" account to open as an Executor to move funds into when the accounts are unfrozen. Cheques will need to be available to use, but I was just wondering whether it was possible to open one that actually paid interest.
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Another weird dream...
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Question about inhertiance
I have NO idea where to put this! Sorry if it's in the wrong place.... Basically, my mother left my biological father when I was very young, and married another man a few years later. When I was about 5/6 he adopted both me and my sister. I heard nothing from my biological dad until I was 16, I didn't know anything about…
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Help how to deal with a difficult teacher
OK long story. We had a couple of incidents with DD1's teacher, but I thought we had put them behind us and hadn't made any kind of official complaint as we wanted to let sleeping dogs lie so to speak. DD1 cam hoem after easter to say they were starting swimming sessions the following week and someone from the leisure…
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Advice on controlling ex please!
Hi everyone I posted in the child support page earlier in the week regarding problems I am having with my ex. We seperated 2.5 years ago due to his controlling and violent ways and also money issues, I am all for saving a bit of cash but he was obsessive as to the point that our son couldnt have a night light as it used up…
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Advice please about a funeral bouquet
My dear old Nan passed away at the weekend. :( The funeral hasn't been arranged yet, as I believe my Mom is waiting for the death certificate. My question is, I want to buy a flower arrangement, but I don't know what to buy. The last funeral I went to was years ago and my Mom arranged the flowers for me, but she's got…
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Lies on court statement for child access
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I need some advice
This might take a while, so bear with me. My partner moved in last year and everything has been great - up until now. I have two teenage children and my partner has a child who we pay maintenance for. My partner said he was too ill to work, and does have a diagnosis of mild M.E and P.T.S.D, but that was ok as I worked full…
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Dream Interpretation - just for fun
Hi there Hubby and I split up about a year ago and i've been struggling on as a single mum to my two girls. Anyway, recently ive been having some quite vivid dreams which have sometimes involved him (all clean by the way). So, i'm going to explain my dream last night and see if anyone can come up with a good interpretation…
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Meal ideas for shift workers...
I have found myself back in a job that has a shift pattern, my husband also works outside of the usual 9-5 so meal planning is going to be a challenge. Ideally I'd like to fill up the fridge / freezer with individual portions of homemade nutritious meals that can then be taken to work and microwaved, or oven cooked at home…
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Couple travel insurance
I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.... I'm off on holiday shortly and have taken out travel insurance from a well known company. We have just been informed (4 days before we are due to leave) that as we are a couple that doesn't live together yet we are unable to take out travel insurance out as a couple.…
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Split up with fiance, called off wedding, now venue wants £1600 cancellation fee help
Hi everyone, last week I broke up with my fiance due to being deeply unhappy about various things. We're still on ok terms and still living together while she finds somewhere to live.. I've spoken to the venue and they've advised that based on the wedding contract we're into the bit of our notice period which is 60% of the…
