Well, I am certainly hoping that the slight bullying thing doesn't escalate. It's really just one girl, an old friend of DD1's, and she is (although one shouldn't actually say such things) "not very nice ". My heart sank when I heard they were going to be in the same tutor group. It is fine at the moment, and the school have their eye firmly on the situation because she has already bullied another girl to the point that they had to move her out of the tutor group. DD1 has her number, that's for sure, and has some good mates around her, so fingers crossed it will pass.
I have spent the afternoon phoning various companies to amend all my direct debits so they come out of my new bank account. The new bank (who shall not be named; suffice it to say that it starts with SAN, ends in DER, and has the letters IINCOMPETENTFOOLSWHOSHOULDN'TBEINBUSINESS in the middle), had sold me a "seamless" transfer system that will painlessly move all my direct debits across "within 10 working days", and yet, after SIX WEEKS nothing whatsoever had been transferred. Our pay is in the new account, bills are being paid from the (now overdrawn) old; it's not going to work, is it?
So I phoned up for a therapeutic shout at a hapless customer service operative, and, do you know what the reason was for the failure? Apparently it was down to the fact that my old account was with Cahoot, which is part of Santander Yes, the reason they couldn't transfer the account details is because it is the same chuffing bank. It is apparently dealt with "by a different department" (and that has to be one of the most risible get-out clauses ever invented). Honestly, you couldn't make it up. And at no point did they notify me of the problem. Rant rant rant.
Anyhoo, my shouting resulted in £55 compensation to cover the cost of phone calls. Quite right too.