dh has been a useless twunt. how he holds down a respectable job I'll never know.
we have a big family party next week. In Germany. really looking forward to it - they are the onyl relations of dh's (just about) that are nice, andlooking forward to catching up.
duly applied for ds' passport. faffed about getting the photos right, and used POst Office check & send. all fine.
this was 3 weeks ago, so today I phoned to see when we could expect the passport, as getting a bit twitchy.
they sent dh a letter 2 weeks ago apparently, which has lain unopened, along with all his other post, in the hallway. there is a problem with ds' form. they can't tell me what the problem was, jsut that we have to submit a new form.
we are never going to get a new form done, submitted, and a passport back by next Thursday, are we? 
I was really looking forward to the break, too. now I'll have to stay behind with ds and dd1 (not going to send her off with dh, his grown up children and dd2 - half her routines will get forgotten, dh will get caught up in the party and dd1 will be overlooked) while he trots off and has a lovely long weekend in Germany.
bollocks.
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silverfrog · 22/11/2012 18:32
Update:
dh has spoken to the office today. we still need to fill in a new form - apparently the first one was not signed at section 10 which everyone concerned is 
about, and how the post office missed that is beyond me.
anyway, he can take it to Peterborough in person on monday and they'll do their best, but no guarantees.
so dh is taking the day off on monday, and has to go via the colleague who countersigned's house (he is on paternity leave) to get the new form signed.
I am far from convinced it'll all come good, but he is doing his best to sort it out.
Oh - butter wouldn't melt. Mother nature knew what she was doing when she made them this cute didn't she!! Wise woman 
I could make do with 11-8 if you want to share :)
Has DH been sucessful if not where is he sleeping tonight??
well, as I said earlier - do not be fooled
he is a cheerful, always smiling baby. I am a haggard old wreck, in serious need of some matchsticks for my eyes
he is currently sleeping like a baby 
That little angel couldn't possibly be giving mum a hard time at night
what a smile that can win many hearts and his own way lol x
Chipping - just for you, there are a couple of updated photos of ds.
Do not be fooled - the boy is a non-sleeping demon
I have the perfect solution - leave that absolutely gorgeous bundle of joy with ME, of course you wont get him back again I can't get over how lovely he is.
As for DH I wouldn't have stopped shouting yet... and crying - then shouting and telling him his fortune. Anyone able to hold down his job can open his own fucking mail and DEAL with it ...Grrrr.
What time shall I pick DS up?
Make DH ring the passport office first thing tomorrow and GROVEL GROVEL GROVEL - tell him to cry if he has to, but not to get off the phone until he's fixed this. They can do a passport quicker than that. One woman on MN even managed to get some other paperwork to take her baby on a flight in less than 48 hrs. Can't find the thread though, think it was in chat.
no, seriously, I have spent shedloads (relatively) on stuff for me over the last couple of months, as have bought up some personal mementoes from my youth/school days.
hey ho. local shopping weekend it is
to be fair to dh, he would be perfectly happy for me to have a shopping weekend, but we really should be spending it on the house at the moment.
Just tell him to justify it or.............................does he want to be reminded of this BIG hic cup for the rest of his living days
I am definitely owed a shopping trip
sady not saved any money on the airfares, as they are already booked. and ds will need a passport regardless, so no money saved there - although will claim back my paltry £8.50 or whatever it is from the post office for their check&send service that clearly went awry
am contemplating visiting old friends next weekend, but will have dd1 with me too, and can't really justify the expense - hotel, travel etc.
tempting though.
So would I be as it is absolute pants..
ok ummm so he goes but he owes you and DS a shopping trip! after all there is now no cost for a passport and no cost as to airfare LOL
express and freeze ? start now lol and you will have stocked up! buy the special teats and way you go.
Cant you go? and leave DH at home? It would be a good break for you at his expense >>>>>
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but he's a Grown up!
fair play if he was not capable, couldn't do forms, or whatever.
but he's a bloody respectable, senior City worker. he lives, nay dreams forms. not to mention the fact that he insisted on signing it/being the contactable one because due to his family name we regularly have issues with the passport office, and so he was ready to have the debate (again!) to get ds' name on the passport correctly.
so he really shoudl have been looking out for the letter. which was in a pile, with all the other uninteresting post like bills
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