Hello all. I've skipped through the thread briefly but that's all. So a general hello from me with the exception of ludaloo who I want to say a "Well done" to for going to the toddler group when hardly anyone spoke to her last time. Good on you, ludaloo. I don't understand why people are so cliquey. Some people feel self conscious about their English I know as they're not as fluent as a first language English speaker, but I'm sure that would only account for a couple of them at most as you're hardly in deepest darkest rural Wales where you are, I'd have thought. What often happens is that a place or group gets a reputation (and probably rightly so) for being very unfriendly to non Welsh speakers and so others don't come and the problem worsens. A balance is necessary but it doesn't always happen that way.
What was the squirrel, a grey or a red? Either way, I personally wouldn't have bothered taking it to the vet I have to admit even though I hate to see animals in pain. I know someone who tried to pick up an injured squirrel and got bitten very hard by the squirrel as a result. She had to go for a tetanus injection.
Good news, I am going to work 3 days a week in future! Yippee! I just have to work out my exact hours and e-mail them to my boss, now. I'm going to rely on these threads to help me get the house in order. I am so looking forward to it though it's only changing from 4 short days to 3 longer days but it'll mean one less trip into town a week and I'll have 2 days when the kids are in school to get a large chunk of house sorting-out done!