jammy was reading your post about pay and reward, do you work for the civil service perchance. sounds like my job! I get a bonus this month but it's subject to tax and NI, non-consolidated, and desite getting an above average appraisal mark is only something like £50 more than mr average gets.
so my day was up and down. didn't want to leave the house after another bad night, but went to bumps & babes. it's a nice group but if you don't get there early the way it is set out all the chairs near your friends get full and you end up miles away from them next to strangers or people you don't like, which is fine, but when you feel like shit you just want to be in your comfort zone.
so anyway today i got stuck next to a women who is ok but i just don't gel with, who is v proud that her 17 week old is on 3 meals a day and has squash in a tippy cup (i know judgy wudgy was a bear...> and who insisted i put dd on solids to make her sleep through. on my other side was a group of yummy mummies discussing their 'routines'. fine until i described my nightmare few days of no sleep. and one of them said smugly "oh i've never had any of that i sleep great". i didn't know whether to cry or lamp her and nearly walked out. she broke the CARDINAL rule of womanhood: if another woman is complaining about something you either empathise8 or sympathise*!
anyway, i then had lunch with my lovely friend from neals yard (and got a free sample) and had a lovely post natal group session with my friends who are all going through the same crappy stage. or even if they are not they say they - which makes me feel much better!
phew, sorry, that was an epic!