oh dear I seem to have lost Cobweb - in whatever direction I scroll, backwards and forwards through time and space, Waves, and hope you resisted their pleas for a treasurer and stood firm.
Blue is introducing Ds2 to playgroup and he loves it, and plans to make bread tomorrow, I remember - and has also swept and shone and puffed today
SC is very motivated, and determined not to write posts from under a duvet but keep flying from a proper office.
Ellie well at least he's not touchy!! I think he sounds lovely, just occasionally doesn't notice what is expected of 36 year olds.
OFM I was thinking much the same thing about functions..Why don't they stagger all these things a bit more sensibly? Lovely to see you, even if you are merely a streak of white heat on the horizon. 10 km, bloody hell 
But seriously, I'm sorry everything is so overwhelming, and as usual you are just amazingly getting on and dealing with everything. Well done for getting over the obstacle of putting statement together, that must have taken a lot of work too. Are you still covering for the emergency Maternity Leave Consultant? That's hard work for you; I hope her baby is doing alright too.
Reastie am likign thought of new laptop, even better SC cunning trick of transfering all info from old to new. This one keeps going stripey, and trying to delete everything, it obviously wants to be free of its past crimes...
Also [pines for beautiful plasterwork feature - I had a second cousin who made plaster reliefs of dog's heads you could hang up, very charming)
Whoknows has been saintly to do Road Safety. Hope your DH and dcs give you a big hug tomorrow to get rid of those lowering feelings
CHB you have to deal with a lot, thank goodness for those nattering friends. If its any consolation Dh is hard to pin down over holidays too, not just exes. Hope he gives ds the chat he needs, I'm sure he wants the best for him too, just doesn't go about it the right way 
Never I know babysteps seem boring, it reminds me a bit of Weaning: I was raring to get onto the avocado mango and cottage cheese recipe, and all Annabel Karmel would let me give my ds1 was baby rice and apple or carrot. However, worth just following them for now, because if you miss out the vital stages...OOOH, well, what happens is .....[indigestion]
no seriously...there is a reason to establish basic, simple, uninteresting, routines because a lot of the time the reason the house is untdy is because we rush around tidying frenetically one day and then give up the next [sadly this is me or do too much and then feel it's not worth the strain.
For example, I have not yet mastered the putting the washing away after I wash it, there's a babystep if any that seems very dull, but it seems to be a vital one, and I mssed it, and spend a lot of time scrounging around looking for things in an enormous pile of clean unironed laundry.
which admittedly this evening I have sorted into 5 piles, and will finish by sorting into sub piles, so that is something.
Enough of this manic typing, I'm off to bed, DH is again what I can only describe as a head tossing mood [consults Horse Whisperer] We've had manic evening as is usual on Monday, compounded by unexpected child visitor.
done
filled in at least 3 forms and written no less than five cheques for ds1's induction day, including a letter requesting he do Spanish not French, and that he be put in a different class for x....and apologising for not sending back the forms on the 30th June 