The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

ivyleaf

Aw mar, so sorry to hear that May everything calm down very soon xx

nursemaggie

sorry Mar hope things calm down soon.

mardatha

Oh it will settle, things always do. I just thought somebody could load a pigeon with enough Pernod to float a battleship, and a crate of JBs- and that would make me feel much much better... lol

westcoastscot

*** sticks jelly baby on end of pointy stick and points it up the hill *****

Softstuff

If theres planes flying low overhead Mard, look out for jelly baby bombs.

I had to get a surprisingly strong tiny masseuse in a shopping centre yesterday to give my neck and shoulders a going over (if she ever tires of that job she has a future in sheet metal work, and she won't need tools). Turns out working full time (especially when understaffed with non working computers) and plastering by night can cause a little muscular tension. Whoda thunk it.

Hard_Up_Hester

Poor little DGD isn't well, she has earache, we picked her up from school today and brought her back to our house, after a couple of hours she asked if she could go home instead of staying the night.
I dropped her home with a bottle of Calpol in case DD doesn't have any.
It's half term now so she can come over one day in the week if she wants to as can the rest of the DGC's.
I'm going to have an early night, we have an early start tomorrow to go to a viewing.

camelot1001

Hope the viewing goes well HH and DGD gets well soon, earache is horrid.

How did the 'dead guy' thing go burtha, I've been to a couple with a friend and just wanted to laugh all the way through.

Hope you're ok mar, do you have much snow? None here, it's raining at the minute.

I went to see friend's family (the one who sadly passed away), he has asked if I can go to their house in the mornings to get the children ready for school so he can go to work early and be home for them. Although I feel honoured to be asked (friend didn't like anyone looking after her children), I'm also not sure how it would work. I start work at 8.15 which isn't a problem with the children as they can go to breakfast club - they are at the school I work in, it's just committing myself to getting up at 5 every morning to be there at 6. Any thoughts? I do feel I should do it for them to help out.

Anyway, I'm having a lazy Saturday, still not showered or dressed, must get moving!

ivyleaf

Oh dear Camelot, that's a tricky one! Yes, it would be a lovely thing to do for your friend. but are you a morning person? i did this just for a week once, but my friend lived only just along the road so was able to bring her child to me so I didn't have to get up even earlier to get to their house.
Much more recently OH and I had to get up at 5.50 to get to DD2's so that she and her DH could both go to work - usually she would go in later if he had to go early, but on this occasion she had to get there for a meeting. We both felt dreadful all day, but we are older than you and not in very good health.
I would say "go with your gut" and only do it if you feel you'll be able to do it as long as needed. Would it work better for you if you had them after school instead, perhaps?

nannywindow

Hi Camelot
Hope you don't mind me putting in my 5 penneth worth as I "have been there" as they say. Things can go well until perhaps you are ill or need to make appointments for doctor/dentist etc. and you feel like you have to put them first, when you should be putting you and yours first. If it's only temp and it suits you then perhaps that's ok but beware temp can turn into permanent so easily.
Hope this helps

nan

silvasava

Camelot - these things have a tendency to become permanent. Maybe you could offer to do it just until the end of term to give him time to get himself organised - is there anyone else who could share? What happens if one of the children are ill? What happens in school holidays/inset days etc?? Dont mean to pour cold water on it but you do need to think very carefully before you make any sort of commitment.