Evening - good to see you back CD, you picked a good week to be in lovely sunny Cornwall. We go down there next week, so fingers crossed the sun stays shining.
SOL - the passport office are crap, good job you have an honest neighbour.
Oooggs - you must persevere with the bedtime routine. DD1 has always been in a good BT routine and goes to bed with no dramas at all. She gets into bed and stays there, even if she's wide awake - we have not had to lie with her/rock her etc. since she was a tiny baby. DD2 (all of 3 months now) similarly now goes to bed with no problems, OK we might have to go and shove a dummy in if she's struggling to fall asleep, but that's it. Hurrah. Good for you for now getting DS1 sorted, good luck .
Oh yes, nursery fees. Don't even get me started . The fees at the nursery Em went to (and S will be going to) are ridiculous, even more expensive than lots of London nurseries. But don't really have a lot of choice sadly, so have to pay the costs and be skint. Luckily DH and I get vouchers from our companies, so some of the fees are tax-free.
Right, dh just got in, got to try to cook something from the pitiful contents of our fridge.