Haven't succumbed to the need for varifocals yet but I have no doubt that day is coming. There is just my vanity to deal with... 
The DS's both had lively lice infestations round about year 3 which were a complete bugger to get rid of. Anyone who has seen DD's hair knows I have the same problem as MrsS and the thought of dealing with lice in her hair was too much to bear. In fact, I don't think she ever did get them obviously. After all the little feckers want to get to the scalp to suck blood and DD's hair has always been a veritable birds nest and the lice must have just given up.... and died of starvation. 
I am still shaking after today's meeting with the development team and annoying trustee. I stood firm and did have quite a lot of support from other members. Annoying trustee tried every trick in the book to get me to roll over and give in, but I didn't. No Sir.
She dangled the carrot of other, better paid workshops in the future, (heard it before, they never materialised ); wailed about how the organisation is going under (like it lives or dies by a measly tutor's fee for a few hours...); told me that a senior trustee was meant to have called me to help me "understand the situation" (coercion, and no one has called me...) plus (and this is the piece de resistance) how she does approximately four (4, iv) months of unpaid work for the organisation every year (bolleaux). AND finally....how I could be paid, but she'd then do her contribution for nothing (I refused to go ahead on that basis either).
So it's going back to the trustees which would never have been necessary if she hadn't misrepresented me in the first place. The whole thing still makes me very anxious and I am wondering whether to resign any way. After all you can't lose something your never really had, can you? 
