to be forced to marry into the house of Dracul-Palanquin?

[Hullygully]

Oh Mimi

Come on then, full details.

And what are you doing about the Kitchen?

oh, rue yourself!

Kitchen first. Have decided I need a business partner or to sell, or sublet. So there we are with that. I actually feed good about it as I was getting ill with the stress.

I think you would approve of Romantic Adventure.

Am currently in a lovely University town being treated like a princess.

He knows about Love Tap is considers that this was perfectly understandable and that the chap was a cad.

He is sweet, kind, clever and I think rather likes me. His job is looking after troubled ladies, so I am a walk in the park for him.

Is he the South American?

Yes, he is.

I briefly saw a great long thread where there were Concerns about hot-tempered Latin jealousies. No? All resolved? Is he red hot where it really counts?

I need picture I think. Like the love stories they had in Jackie.

As long as there is love and spoiling it sounds good to me

yy piccy. Who him looky like?

Love and spoiling never go amiss. Or a good firm go with Mr Roger.

Oh that was an Italian!

lots and lots of love and spoiling and appreciation of a very grounded nature.
And hot in the right places.

I can't do apicture cos his job is a bit sensitive. but very nice looking. A gentleman, ahem!

Oh so pleased him not the Concern one.

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=man+cartoons&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&tbo=d&tbm=isch&tbnid=n3sc51GwK8b46M:&imgrefurl=www.fastcharacters.com/character-design/cartoon-business-man/&docid=lyjM9QIFXu4GNM&w=376&h=577&ei=b2NfTv6SG9Cy8QOj9azQDw&zoom=1&biw=1024&bih=690" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">could you not sketch us a likeness

Oh, he's nothing extraordinary to look at, just a lovely kind face, quietly handsome in a grownup way

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=man+cartoons&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&tbo=d&tbm=isch&tbnid=xcg6n1zJAL-iIM:&imgrefurl=www.toonpool.com/cartoons/man%2520smiling_39151&docid=8lCimmC1dHpFBM&w=500&h=336&ei=EGRfToO_L9Ot8QOV4NSvAw&zoom=1&biw=1024&bih=690" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">or this?

I cannot search for funny links since I discovered that there is such a thing as cartoon porn. Who knew.

I was shocked to learn there is star wars porn.....

He is lurvvely.

"a lovely kind face, quietly handsome in a grownup way" sounds wonderful. Hope your business concerns also end up in green light land.

Ah for a billet-doux. Which does not as an acquaintance of mine once thought, mean 12 train tickets.

How are things, lovely Mistress Fids? Do you do well post-birthday distress?

Oh Hully, tis shite. Have typed and deleted and typed and deleted. Thanks for asking, may be emboldened by gin later.

Fuck. Have no gin.

oh fiddsy!

Drink oestrogin with maiden juice, tis the only tipple that really hits the spot. Can we help? Soothe? Stroke your pore furrowed brow a little?

Seems to be one crisis after another. Most recent and most upsetting is h telling ds1 (14) yesterday that he wants him to live with him.
I thought we'd agreed at the mediation on Monday that h wouldn't do that. It's not fair on ds1 or his brother and sister, h only wants to do it because he wants to hurt me.
I looked for ds1 last night to say goodnight as dd and I were snotty and sick and were going to bed early and I found him in h's room. Ds1 looked guilty and uncomfortable when I went in. H looked pleased with himself. Arse.

Ds1 stayed off school today. I know him, he wasn't sick. Keeps hugging me (does it sometimes but this is different) and is very quiet.
Arse of an h.

I don't want to mention to ds1 that I know.

I really honestly truly think that in these situations total honesty as far as possible is best. I would say, Look, I know what arse h said, don't feel bad about it, sometimes grown-ups are arses just as kids are. It's been decided that you dc are going to live here and that's that. Arse h just loves you v much and that's his clumsy way of expressing it.

So not acksherly total honesty, but an honest acknowledgement of the sit, and then a way of making it copable for ds.

By way of explanation - I grew up in a delightfully alcoholic dysfunctional way and in many ways the hardest thing to deal with was nobody talking about the elephant-gin in the room.

Deep breath.
Ds (12) has never got on with his dad. It escalated in the summer, they did talk and ds2 said he'd give his dad (who did then admit he had favoured ds1 and was sorry for it) a second chance. The next day ds2 burst into tears and said he'd only said that because he could see I wanted them to make up.

So we've been working on ds2 saying what he wants, not what others want to hear. I arranged for him to talk to the school psychologist (she's great), he talked to her for 1.5 hours, was so buoyant afterwards that he talked to his dad and said he wanted to change his name to mine. H said "No way". Now he won't talk to h.

Dd (9) is bright and chirpy and tries to make everyone feel better. Poor girl.

Where is Mr Gordon or B. Sapphire when you need them?
Apologies for pouring gloom on the Love Baton Approved Liaison.