Thanks again me dears for all your helpful comments. Sorry about the dummy being replaced by constant thumbsucking, Hons. Would she respond to bribes?
Rubes, DP would definitely, definitely do some of those legal reports if there are any your DH can send his way. Thank you v much. Gosh, the first part of his exam is so soon. He is under the cosh at the moment, all right. And poor old pooch, imprisoned in the bedroom. She is so goodnatured.
Likewise, RT, if you do go away in March a firm yes please for the housesitting! Would be very gratefully received. Actually, he realised about two or three years ago that the writing was on the wall and has been trying to switch over to employment (his masters is in Employment and Family law, not crime) but when you are very experienced in one area it?s virtually impossible to switch. Also RT ? you need to eat to keep going at the mo. When the nausea goes you can pull it back ? plus you have proved you can low carb, it works for you and will work again later. Try not to fret though I KNOW how demoralising the weight malarkey can be, massive sympathy there. Forget weight for now ? it?s not the time. Health and wellbeing are what you need to focus on, truly. Also, you were so beautifully slim when you got pregnant, you are never going to get that big from that point.
Sybs, you know exactly how it is, I know you do. Sigh. Thanks for the sympathy. I am not staying in Trieste itself, but nearish by. I think I will spend Sat there. Oh, and I am going solo so much easier to have a subsistence existence!
Beans ? DP will smile when I tell him it?s ?criminal pay?. Too right. His chambers is on the point of breaking up and I think he may have to take a job as in house counsel somewhere eventually (if a job somes along). He doesn?t want to but it can?t come quickly enough for me ? if he was employed, he would get a monthly salary and we wouldn?t have to cope with the tax and VAT bills?.I do take his point though that having to go to the police station in the middle of the night over and over is a young man?s game and not compatible with family life.
I don?t actually know where it will all end. We calculated that between us we are paying about £1,500 PER MONTH just on servicing debts ? credit cards, overdrafts and the like. Most of those are just minimum pyts. I could borrow enough to pay off all our debts plus a bit for cash flow on a 20 yr mortgage and it would cost about £400 a month. But I suspect no lender will touch me with a bargepole in the current climate. Oh well ? I suppose we will just keep going and then years down the line it will all get sorted out. Ever the optimist!
Actually, Spot, I do get down about things sometimes (sometimes quite silly things as well) but in the final analysis, it?s only illness of loved ones and stuff like that that matters. The rest is just flim flam and we may as well make the best of it! Any happiness or joy that?s out there, however minor or fleeting ? grab it with both hands.
Indith, I am v glad you have no debts to speak of. Keep it that way, my love. They are a financial and psychic drain, the latter being the worst. I expect your DS legs it around at school and wears himself out, I have seen the boys in the playground at our local school and they are like dervishes.
That?s another thing that will help your DS, probably, DB ? when he starts school he can let off steam outside. Feeling better today?
Jam, I wish I had a bonkbuster in me. Given that I had an erotic dream about Neil Morrissey last night, I fear that avenue is closed to me 
He had very soft feet in the dream and I kept stroking them. I don?t even like feet especially! The other week I had a sexy dream about the tall comedian who plays the headmaster in The Inbetweeners. Oh dear.
Beans, your pre-school teach sounds lovely. I am envious. Ours are a bunch of squawky biddies. What?s up with your DS1?s teacher, Jam?
Eeek, more chores beckon?.