truly a bombsite here too 
but I've been forced by DH to do a big monthly supermarket shop by car (he came with me to help carry it all) so that is amaaaazing, we now have food in all the cupboards for half term...
I have also taken neighbour's little dog for a long walk, so a shot of Vit D,
visited a friend whilst walking dog
and visited the shanty town at school. Most impressed; they were selling their wares,homemade all sorts: badges, bracelets, performing arts, bookmarks, and had made fantastic dwellings out of cardboard boxes. The best was the building made out of lots of small boxes, like large bricks, piled on top of each other with a sheet of cardboard as a roof. Most children thought in a less abstract way and tried to find a box big enough to use as a house, or squeeze into a small one. They were all hungry, as they are fasting till 2.30..not so long really, but for them, and eye opener about what it is not to have enough food...
Sorry about sore throat Bubbly, hope this weekend you can all lie low. All the plans with FT and counsellor sound v good. I particularily like the advice not to dwell on secondary bad behaviour like when they swear 
when you ask them to leave room etc, because as you say it all becomes a downward spiral from there with consequences neverending and aggro neverending 
Not helped of course by the bystanders watching these rows who say things like If My Child Talked to Me Like That, there'd be bread and water for a week after [mutter mutter]
Right, I am going to put some bin liners full of JUNK upstairs, and out of the landing. I went to the loft yesterday for the extra boxes, and it really is a nightmare up there in loft land. Old prams, haberdashery, handy boxes for repacking electrical equipment, chairs, castles, playmobil bits without instructions.. drums, soft toys...stables. Better just to close the hatch and forget it all for another year.