Hello all. Thanks for the sympathy re: dd. I came back at about 5.30pm to find her lying sullenly in bed. Dh said she was previously lying sullenly on the sofa. Has not gone to school, has not done anything. I cannot actually manage to speak to her just now, so angry am I. I cooked a quick supper and ate with dh and ds. She didn't stir from her room, so I'm not going to attempt to approach her. Really, I do feel there are limits and they have, in fact, been reached. I could give you a very, very long list of things that I have gone out of my way to do for her just in the last few days (not least dragging myself to Brum and back after she said she didn't want to go and then changed her mine at the last minute) and in fact I am relentlessly optimistic and put in so much work on her behalf, but there comes a point..
Anyway, I thought the interview went very well but I've no idea whether they will offer me the job. I think they maybe have other candidates but they weren't there today, but I don't really know. I found some of the questions quite amusing and the whole experience nothing like a state school interview at all. I enjoyed myself 
and, well, despite the commuting probs it will engender, and the fact that it will be a huge challenge for me after 17 years of being a freelance translator and lurking in my loft office, I would really like the job. If I don't get it, I must make sure not to lie sullenly on the sofa snarfing cakes. Please feel free to remind me of this if necessary.