MOOLOO'S Muddling on into 2013

Errata

Mooloo - ask your son to get your fabrics out of the loft, brawn not brain will do the job quicker (and safer).

Toomuchdebt

Sorry Mooloo-hope you weren't too offended by my posts.I did think it would have been odd for it to have been you with a different name as I've been following your posts from the beginning.

Savvy_sewing

Toomuchdebt wrote: »

Sorry Mooloo-hope you weren't too offended by my posts.I did think it would have been odd for it to have been you with a different name as I've been following your posts from the beginning.

That's fine, I was not offended. It must be difficult if people reading don't really know me. I could be a hoax to them, but as many of the followers on here have actually met me, they know its the real McCoy.
I forgot to say that I had a call from Rosa Monkton(?) the other day and she wants to use my story in some of her work.
Got to go, time to get DGD sorted for Molly's daughter to do the sch run.
Cant get DS to look for the fabric as there is so much up there and alas it was chucked up there and currently its not in any order.my bad, as the youth would say.

floss2

Rosa Monckton is President of the charity KIDS - see here

Savvy_sewing

Well yesterday seemed to go by in a blur.
Molly's daughter came to take DGD to school for me, and I went up into the loft to get down the other fabrics to send swatches to my customer. Then I was feeling rather restless and stressed, so when I went to the post office, I went on to Middleton Cheyney, where there is a little charity shop, that doesn't charge the earth. I had a mooch in there, but Biggest of Mooloo interrupted me with a phone call to say that she was at my house. So I told her DS was in, so to just go on in and I would be back in a bit.
Then the Social Services rang me again. I stressed out. I was a bit blunt and the woman thought I was being Rude. I assured her I was not being rude, and that I was being factual. I told her again my opinions etc and she had said that she was coming to see me, I said I didn't want that. So now I have a huge black mark up against my name for being obstructive. I told her that I was out in a shop and it was really not the place to be talking to her. They have no consideration as to what we are doing or where we are when they ring us on a mobile. I wish I had never given anyone my bl00dy number!. So now I await yet another intervention into my house, and my life. I am sick to death of them. It really upset me, and I had to leave the shop, I was in tears. The stress that they put on me is immense. I no longer want to co-operate, I am just so sick of them interfering. Why cant they look after those children that really need help. Like the daughter from the family from hell.!
Anyway, I was upset, and stressed. I then had a visit from one of the foster Mums, I met last year at the First Aid course. She wants some curtains shortened. So we stood chopsing for quite a while, and I forgot that I was supposed to take the car to the garage to have the tracking done!.
It was decided that instead of Biggest taking DS to hers, she would leave DGD2 with me. So we had to go into the loft and get the travel cot down, and make space for it in my bedroom.
DS took over cooking the tea, while I was out in the garden on the trampoline with DGD's.
After tea, it was bath and bed time. I was relieved that both girls went to bed as told and didn't give me any grief.
DS went to the shop for me and bought me some wine, and I sat watching The Sewing Bee, on BBC2 and enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine, and wound down completely.
Today after I had taken DGD1 to school, (DS looked after DGD2), we all went to Biggest's house and between us we looked after DGD2, while Biggest and I made an attack on her wardrobe, and her clothes cupboards. We spent the day sorting out her things, and finding stuff to sell, and stuff to mend, and stuff that she could take to the Cash for Clothes place in town. She will get 55p a kilogramme for them. Which is a few quid that she can do with at the moment.
Then I had my back massage, that I had booked, so that was quite apt that I had something to relax me after the work.
DS collected DGD1 for me as well. She is still up in his room and they are on the Xbox at the moment. Which gives me a chance to catch up on here, and to go and cook the dinner next.
I have a lot of sewing to do, what with the alterations and the mending, but I also need to make a costume for DGD to wear on Friday at school. They sent us home a letter on Monday saying they want them dressed as Nursery Rhyme or story book characters. (Classic ones). So I have decided that she can go as Little miss Muffit, and I will make her a mop cap, possibly an apron, and I have a large Spider broach she can use, along with a bowl and a spoon!.
DS is also to dress up at the weekend in the Pub, for St Georges day, and I have two large white England flags, and will use them to make him a costume. So that's also a sewing job for tonight or tomorrow. But I think that after the wardrobe sorting etc, then I think that I will probably wait until tomorrow to sew.
I have been still trying to get to grips with this new computer, but I have now earmarked myself slots in the calander and hope that I will work methodically through the various sewing jobs that I now have.
Right its time to cook the tea.

gizmo111

What are social services after you for is this DGD or the twins?

Savvy_sewing

They don't like the fact that DGD is having a sleep over at her Mums. Dispite all the good reports from the Carer, and my risk assessments etc, it is really frustrating.
The report that they made, this time, say I was inconsistent in my facts, but I had said that DGD had stayed at her Mum's a few times, and Mum said that its every Friday. However its not been every week. I wish. Anyway, the report that she has filed, I now have a copy of. The next team are going to put a Safety Agreement on Mum, that they want me and twin1 to sign, about not having the youths around.

Sorry got to go. Biggest has hurt her self and I have to get her to the doctors. (Back).

minimoneysaver

I was under the impression that this situation had already been resolved. What a huge mess. Just trying to think of this logically...if DGD had been put into the foster care system, which would have happened if you hadn't taken her on, would she still have been able to go and stay at her mothers. I'm not that familiar with the foster care system. I know from your previous postings about the boys that they had supervised visits somewhere, but was this at a home or at a special centre?

gizmo111

would she still have been able to go and stay at her mothers

No she would most likely have been adopted - so no contact. If she had stayed in long term foster care then contact would have been about 6 times per year supervised for a couple of hours.

Was there a contact or supervsion order made when the SGO was made?
What did the report say about contact?

travelgran

The downside of having a mobile phone is that you're contactable 24/7. I don't think that in a public place is the time to have sensitive and confidential conversations. I suggest you either turn it off when you're out or answer and tell them having a public conversation is inappropriate and they can ring back when you get home or send you an email. The ball's in their court. They are the ones who want to speak to you.
Good Luck