To be secretly laughing

[BonsoirAnna]

at the fact that the DSSs' mother is begging telling them to go home to keep the new au pair company?

We did warn her that a 12 year old and a 14 year old didn't actually need an au pair...

Her mother is from Liverpool - Halle's not OP's

Oh wow, is there a Harry's Bar there? I thought that was Venice- I love that place. I've been to both cities once, and would love to go back.

paris full of interesting ole hoagies and rich Americans. love it

I love Paris too. I hope I will at least be able to manage an hour to have a wander. Need to change trains at Les Halles so might get a quick stroll in round Notre Dame, and 10 euro glass of wine.

You do seem a tad obsessed with such issues though. Let your partner fight the battles which are worth fighting - he presumably has a better understanding of his ex, as he was partnered to her and had kids with her. Don't take it all on as your issue. End of the day, she's still the mother of two of his children, however you feel about her.

I don't think this is a battle worth fighting though.... maybe it suggests she's trying, as thedolly says. Maybe she's recognising her own shortcomings and felt an au pair might help improve the situation....

Whatever the reason, I would let this one go... I'm sure there are far more difficult issues which do need to be tackled in most step families!

We had a family holiday in Paris - my mum was 50. We were waiting to get a taxi to go to the airport and my mum was nowhere to be seen. She came running out of the hotel all flustered.

It was only years later she told me the manager had propositioned her and shown her into a lace-cannopied bedroom lit by candles with champagne on ice.

She was mortified!

"Double, double toil and trouble"

Not much has changed in Scotland.

Oh, hiya, Anna's sister Rollmops.

play nice you two

I'm sorry, it's 'hubble, bubble, toil and trouble...'

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I thought so, OurLady! Roll on, pedants!

methinks you is wrong OurLady

It is 'Double, double toil and trouble'.

Only on MN: from ex wives to Halle Berry to Shakespeare.

I consider myself proven wrong.
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