Ok really sorry if this is long but I am so angry! Last week we sent out Xmas cards to family, and my husband rang his mum to ask for a couple of addresses where relatives have moved, we also obviously sent a card to her! Today He gets a text from her saying "have you given up sending Xmas cards I never received one". She knows we were doing cards, and she is in Scotland where post has probably been delayed because of the weather.
Background is probably that she is spending Xmas with BIL and expected us ( without actually inviting us) to travel to his flat ( over an hours drive) with 2 ds's and dog to spend boxing day there. We have done this before and the ds's have gong on an amusement park and we went out for pizza, all v nice but this year the dog is new and clearly can't go in the park or cafe. We invited her to us ( and bIL has only visited us once in 7 years, he is single we have visited him lots), and apparently it is too difficult for them, and I got an email although her conversations were with dh, saying the dog would have loved it! ( loved what exactly? The car?). Anyway dh says ihbu to tell her exactly what he thinks ie she is a cow! Thanks for reading sorry so long!