Words fail me lou, there are quite a few useless ex's on this thread (I appreciate that mine is pretty good in the grand scheme of things), but yours has obviously written the manual on 'How to be the World's Biggest Arsehole'. I am so sorry that your kids have to suffer him and I really do hope he fucks off to Thailand and hopefully dies there, very painfully. Some people really are a waste of Oxygen. 
Hello bee, I was thinking that a year was a fairly long time... 
Congratulations to everyone who is managing to successfully date and to lou and dp for your anniversary.
I have finally just about shaken off the tonsilitis, but am having to rest a lot, because as soon as I try to do, what I'd normally do in a day, my throat starts to get sore and my voice starts to go. Argh!