We eat fruit. It is nice. 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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agree avi re car seat cover - I have had a lot of quite surprising things survive accidental 60° washes.

Vinegar is also an extremely efficient natural disinfectant.

I think my very worst nightmare may just have happened. I think I am about to be shipped back to the UK without DS. Permanently. Shit.

What? UR?

What's happened UR?

UR?

Thanks Franny and 100x. Am cautiously dipping my toe into the water, in a v confused fashion, obv.

FK we are going to try to wash my one, but I think it will not survive tbh, so will let you know
how come you might be coming near? could you drop in? that's exciting...

Bero thanks, a friend has lent me a beany one and tbh it befuddles me

dp swears the clothes are all ok
we are going to wash them all anyway
we have sorted things out between the 2 of us and are not upsetting each other any more I don't think

yes we do always take shoes off btw! well I do and I try to get the boys to
I read something about the vast proportion of household contaminants (eg considering all the nasty shit you have in your house like pesticides on veg, chemicals in cleaning products and so on) being brought in on shoes, things like DDT and so on which have been banned for years and years, are still in dirt on the streets and are brought into our houses every day on shoes

yes will wash at 60 deg
even if man from council says 40 dp has great faith in man from council
the same man who went up in our loft put some poison down in completely the wrong part and said well that has fixed it

oh fuck UR sorry I was halfway through that immense post when you posted

god what can we do
can someone do something?

Sorry, my computer keeps crashing. I must be jinxed. Nothing anyone can do. But thank you

Where have you gone UR, is there anything we can do?

UR why do they want to ship you back?

UR when will you find out if this IS happening
you said you think it may be

I can't type much on here (legal reasons) - I don't have a visa to stay more than a few weeks. But they are saying DS will have to stay here with his Dad.

I have a big meeting tomorrow but unless a miracle happpens I will have to leave.

Please keep talking about mice and council men. I'm sorry for butting in.

Oh fuck UR for you!

at butting in
shhh that kind of talk

is there a way to get a visa? any way at all
I know NOTHING about this kind of thing
have you got a decent solicitor

But why can't you take him with you?

I am sorry you probably can't explain it as you have said, for legal reasons
it beggars belief that things like this can happen
what kind of miracle could there be? is there something specific that could happen? or do you just mean there is no other way things can work out

UR can they really, really do this? Is your ds British?

UR, who has custody? You or exp?

He's a US citizen - his Dad will stay here, where DS is settled. I can't.

I have lawyers. And $10,000s debt because of it. And I won't even have my baby to show for it.

is his dad amicable towards you?
surely he can't want this to happen to his son? or does that make no difference?