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What are you getting your daughter for Christmas?
I'm a bit stumped this year over what to get my daughter for Christmas, and then also for her 5th birthday which is on Dec 29th. I was always a tom-boy so I preferred things like Lego, but she's not really interested - she has a mountain of duplo which she never played with, and I tried her with the "Lego Friends" stuff -…
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Adult 'pocket money'
Hello folks, I'm determined to get our finances in order over the next 12 months. OH and I both work full-time. I'm the person who makes sure that bills are paid as for quite a while OH wasn't working and after that we worked for ourselves (which means we had just enough to scrape by!) and I looked after the books. My OH…
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Relationship breakdown
Last night received a phone call from my now ex ripping me to shreds saying how much he hates me resents me and basically calling me all the names under the sun. We split up last week as he said he needed to sort his life out but he has been constantly ringing and texting saying he is sorry and can I come and see him and…
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Why cant i take in what i read?
ive bought 5 or 6 books over the last year on things i really want to read about, but just cant seem to concentrate for much longer than a page or 2, and even then i forget most of what ive read within a day or 2. i can read, and am pretty bright (in my opinion), i just cant seem to take in what i read anymore? Any…
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Sorry if wrong board....... not sure where to put it.
Sorry if this is the wrong board. I won't name the company, but I went to an independent gas company near me, (who supply and fit kitchens and bathrooms, and fit boilers and cookers, and they also supply a few cookers too.) We need a cooker as we haven't had one for a few weeks (ours broke down, after 10 years of use) and…
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[Emergency]Harassment : Deadline to make an appeal against the court decision
Hi all, I am new in this forum and I am not sure to be in the right category and also sorry if it is not the case. A month ago, I have made a claim/complaint for harassment against my neighbors with who my girlfriend and I are sharing the property. However, I have received today a letter from the county court with the date…
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When do your kids have their main meal?
We always have a smallish lunch (sandwich/soup etc, packed lunch for ds at school and husband) and our main meal at teatime (5pm (husband works early shifts)). We all eat together but the youngest 2 are really tired and moany and not very hungry by then, and then it is the homework/bath/bedtime rush after that! I was…
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ADHD and spouse
Forgive me for registering a new username just for this thread, but my husband knows my my normal username. Please could anyone help or advice of any websites or forums, or anyone I could chat to that are wives/husbands of ADHD sufferers please? I am in desperate need to talk to someone. Have rung the Samaritans earlier,…
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Advice on relationship breakdown/ family split
Up until Feb this year i had been in a relationship/co-habiting with now ex partner.. Unfortunately i came to probably the hardest and longest decision ive had to make to leave... and go back to my parents. We never got married.. she had a daughter (17)from previous marriage and we had a son(11) together, at the time of…
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Advice Re. American Citizenship ~ Complicated
Hi all, I didn't know where else to put this post, so I'm hoping someone will be able to advise; I'm posting on behalf of an elderly lady I work with. The lady's son moved to America after the death of his wife with his four children. He did so with the help of a friend in the US military, as his mother in law was trying…
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Dog and Christmas
Hi all, Every year for Xmas we go to my parents on Xmas day and the in laws Boxing Day. We have a two year old dog who still acts like a puppy. He gets very easily excited and is pretty non-stop, but doesn't bite or whatever. We often get told not to bring him to family gatherings as he's 'too much to cope with', which I…
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Minor Update
In light of my London trip I felt ready to be able to find a job, nothing had came up in terms of any replies back etc, but yesterday my old workplace called me to ask if I would work a couple days to a week to help a primary school, just move some things around. SO today was the first day of them couple days, it went…
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Financial Abuse, is it?
Hi there, I'm writing this not about myself but a colleague at work, not that it matters. Basically her elderly mother is in full time care and not in command of her faculties (onset of dementia) and her brother continues to live in the house he shared with mother. For a long time mother subsidised his lifestyle without…
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Bullying taken a frightening twist
My daughter has been bullied at school for the past few months. We have been in constant contact with the school but nothing seems to be getting better. we have informed the school that we are willing to 'face the wrath of the truant officers' so to speak, and take her out of school if things don't improve. Well today may…
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Noisy birds
Hello Today I met my new neighbours, they've been renovating their house before moving in and he asked me if we had a bird as at one point he thought there was one in the chimney flu and they've had it capped. I told him I have a pair of lovebirds and I was sorry if they are noisy, he said he wasn't complaining at all…
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GCSE Art so much homework
My daughter has just started year 10. She has taken separate sciences and is doing maths and stats. The least important GCSE (for what she wants to do in the future) is Art, but she took this as she is reasonably good at it and enjoys it. until now. She has so much Art homework it is taking over, and she spends more time…
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Too late to fix things?
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Am I being selfish :(
Hi, ok so my situation is this A couple of years ago a relative of my husbands died and there was some inheritance to be split between him and his sister. This money was kept hold of by his parents until we were ready to use it We had always planned to use it for fertility treatments as we desperately want children but…
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In need of encouragement...
There's a women I've been interested in for a far while now. She works at my "local" opticians which is nearly half an hour away by car, but even when I'm there for an appointment she never seems to deal with the public. Maybe her role is more behind the scenes, who knows. Anyway I suppose I'm looking for advise rather…
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neighbour problem - what would you do?
Having problem with neighbour that is escalating. Have known her for a few years (as a neighbour acquaintance not friend) She has started to ask to borrow money (& other things like wine) and her behaviour is getting more erratic/aggressive and it is getting quite stressful. She recently started knocking on my door later…
