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And so we continue ....

Question for anyone who knows...

Dp sold a large expensive (rrp 350+) bit of used cycle equipment on ebay in november. Posted parcel force c£25 so all in cost buyer £150 ish. It never arrived. Ebay refunded buyer, parcel force admit to (first) losing said item, then admitting they delivered it to someone else and cannot get it back. Any idea how long this can rumble on for before they have to settle the case?

Obvs they owe dp for the item and postage. They admit this, but "are trying to recover" the item. Its huge and fecking heavy.

A nsd today. Need a small top up shop before next week, eggs, cheese etc. Also a long list of school uniform, tu is on 25% yes?

The big car is mot-ing at £444 (nice round number). That is with the abs sensors changed, but they haven't looked into the engine management light yet at least it doesn't need fuel when in the garage. We don't need it until after school on monday. Where fo I find £444 from???

Ah i luff cows. They are lovely creatures farmer family

Don't know sorry lonely.
Em yess! You have passed another parenting milestone.... Animal impressions.

laska, I got the embroidered jumper which is ££££ and will only stay if it's utterly perfect. The diamond sweat top and cropped flare jeans. I'm not counting any of these as spends as I simply don't know if it will all go back, it often does..

sunny. I'm not sure what to suggest really. A runners shop would do a gait analysis on an adult, I don't know if they would on a child. A physio would as a matter of course if the person displayed an injury, to identify what area of their body wasn't working quite correctly to cause the problem. Again, not sure if they would as for a child. I could suggest also though an athletics club with a specific junior section. They are pretty low key and focus on enjoyment over technique at age 8 but an athletics coach could give technique advice. How's your DS's fitness overall? Is he sporty and outdoorsy in general? My DS kept up because he was so fit in general. And that might be something you could help with?

That being said, DD was never the fastest and never so interested. We made sure she had a good level of general fitness by doing lots of outdoor stuff and a few clubs and activities and let her find her niche, she often chose to hang around with the quieter kids and do other types of stuff.

I guess it depends on whether your DS really wants to be speedy and join in, or whether it's better to encourage him to do other stuff. Which only you can judge particular to your DS. Some kids (like DD) were never made to be the fastest and that was just genetics sadly.

Oh crikey. Dp has had a very unsatisfactory phone call to parcel force. Apparently as the recipient of the item didn't check a "wasn't delivered" box (on what I don't know) they have closed the case. Dp is in a very bad mood now. Apparently it was up to dp to sort out the delivery how? Maybe he should have sat in the depot with it, as we all do that Clearly this is all dodging bollocks. We are emailing the invoice for the item. No idea what good this will do.

Yes!!!! I win parenting for today!! Hoorah!!

Although I may have failed just now. Ds has his bottle and quite obviously had to burp. So. After a few failed attempts I got the gripe water. Syringed it into his mouth (they seriously say on the bottle to give him a 5ml spoonful...how. How on earth does one get a wiggly needs to burp otherwise he’ll explode baby to put a spoon in his gob?) and he burped. It was huge. A proper man burp. He was so suprised he cried. And cried.

So we’ve spent he last 20 minutes watching videos on YouTube. He liked Bruno mars. And thought the “baby shark” song was hilarious. However. He’s now conked our. Absolutely sparko.

Catface has attacked the baby syringe so that needs sterilising sooner rather than later. She’s run off with his dummy. I need a wee and he’s fast asleep on my lap.

Thanks need. Long story here, too long to relate, but thanks for the thoughts.

Sunny At his age, I'm guessing 6-8?, podiatry wouldn't touch him unless there was something seriously wrong & if there was you'd have noticed by now. Young feet are best left alone to develop.

He might not be a natural runner. He was really good at swimming though wasn't he?.

Em you totally win at parenting. You just need ba sheep & oink pigs.

Lonely Pf are rubbish, email the ceo with screenshots etc. We make eBay people come to us now. If they want it they'll come for it.

fluffy we just sent a long (I wrote it) message with the ebay&paypal proofs. They have until tomorrow when we will email ceo. I can get this from google?

NSD today, due to the fact that I feel so c**p that I have not left the house

lonely

ParcelForce Worldwide Claims Department 01924 294280 Parcelforce Claims Department PO BOX 491 Wakefield WF1 9AP fax: 01924294301 email: [email protected].

Parcelforce Worldwide

Mr Gary Simpson Managing Director

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Fluffy that's good to know, thanks. The teacher says I need to teach him to deal with disappointment gracefully, but that seems a bit defeatist. I slightly admire the fact that he can still throw a tantrum 16 times in an hour over his frustration at his running, even after 4 years of continuously having this same problem at school.

Definitely teach him to deal with disappointment gracefully, mine had to go over and shake the winners hand and say well done, always admired my friends DS who just did this naturally. Mine had to be taught tbh. However, they were also taught that if they wanted to get better then they had to bloody go out and work hard at getting better. DS wasn't so interested but dd would go into the field and practice and practice with the pony. And made the A team the next season.

Age old story about David Beckham staying behind after every singe training session and practising his free kicks and turned himself from a good footballer into an outstanding one.

But you've got to want to too, and there's no problem with not wanting to as well.

Also £20 because it's our turn to pay for guitar lessons for DH and his mates. Living room is full of middle aged blokes murdering Oasis tunes at present...

Long day. Totally worn out and waiting for DD2 to fall asleep.

Appear to be in salary negotiations about the job from earlier in the week or maybe the other job available but they seem to really want me . Anyway, i’ve said I’ll go away and put my skills down on paper. But need to do it for tomorrow. Obviously it is going to take all night as I am so talented ha ha! Once they read that they’ll realise i’m worth every penny I was just going to do a bullet point of my recent job history and skills. And list my degree and work related qualifications. Do you reckon that sounds ok? I’ve never written a CV and not prepared to spend hours and hours on it as I got up at 5.20am!

Sorry i’m completely off topic at the moment!

I have no idea how to write anything not based on a ridiculous competency framework!

em sorry that came across as splainy.. it wasn't meant to. I feel your pain. We lived with my parents while we looked for a house and was not fun.

Parcel Farce are really rubbish. They deliver everyone's parcels to our door / Wheely bin ... It was like a sub office at Christmas time. I still have some sat by the door waiting to be picked up. No bike shaped ones sunny.

Love, what have they asked for?

A summary of my accounts/finance skills

Some of my good finance experience goes back some time though which was why I was going to do a job history going back that far so about 8 years

I was also going to chuck in some office skills in general, as they are a plus point in my skills set. I do a bit of everything

Can you edit your 3 year career history from cs jobs to take some of the load off (assuming you have one)

unescorted no it didn’t...

christmas it’s a chicken and egg situation. If We don’t have a buyer we won’t be taken seriously when we’re making offers so we’ve taken the risk and are at least getting attention from the agents. It’ll be there. It will.

I went to look at storage locker today. They’re a bit swish. Not at all serial killery as I imagined. The guy was super helpful too.

There was a programme on about lottery winners the other night (Irish lottery winners). I didn't see the full programme but two of them didn't do so well in the long run. One guy ended up bankrupt and another guy bought two pubs as an investment but then wasn't able to sell them. An expert said that people who already have money manage a big win better because they're already used to handling money so it's just more of the same iyswim, whereas it's very foreign to people who formerly lived on low incomes. A cautionary tale. I feel better about my lack of millions now .

Sunny it would be a physio but only if there's an actual problem rather than running not just being his thing if you see what I mean. Dd has a high gait among many other things.

Love no idea sorry I hate that sort of thing.

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50p parking.

Lonely that's shit. I would threaten small claims court. It's so easy to do.

I get it, I would plough on in your situation Em. You might have a hiccup on the way but otherwise you might never move!

Kids are in bed, this is more of a relief than usual... it’s been an excessively whiney can’t-put-dd-down sort of a day. Made less tolerable by the fact that I couldn’t drink tea or coffee because I burned the roof of my mouth on a fishcake yesterday. Blisters and all, big ouch. I am currently waiting for my dinner to go almost cold before approaching it...