poppy, that's an excellent website, thank you. Think we will try this as it seems the best option. spider, thank you for your help on my thread - cats are a PITA sometimes!
Neenz, yes, M is a very determined little thing - and utterly fearless with it. Four days ago he couldn't climb one step, now he manages the whole flight . Scary.
I'm sat in the bedroom doing CC with M at the moment, weaning him off his evening feed cos of the "suck to sleep" association he has now . This is courtesy of my sleep consultant (aka spider ) who I spoke to last night. I do remember we had to go through this with A too - it's horrendous. He's screaming his head off at the mo and it's breaking my heart, but we can't go on .
As for Scotland, I think you would be mad to move there spider - it's a bloody awful place, rains constantly and the people are awful . Friends of ours moved to Dunblane last year and they absolutely love it - have no problem with being English at all. They say the quality of life they are able to offer their two children there in comprison to the south east of England is just incredible - and they've been extremely impressed with the education system so far too.
However, I do have a Scottish friend who lives down here and is married to an English guy who moved up to Scotland when he was 8 and he was bullied badly - but we're talking twenty five years ago and kids bully for all sorts of reasons don't they?
Personally I think Edinburgh is an absolutely gorgeous city - we contempleted moving there at one time but already felt very cut off from our southern friends when living in York so didn't want to move even further away. Although it doesn't seem far, when you have kids it can be quite a hassle to do the journey - as we're now finding!
We'd miss you though so don't move .
And don't forget when Scotland eventually runs out of oil and England cut them off without a penny their taxes will rocket .
M still crying - it's going to be a long evening .