JaZaH, sounds like you had a great day! It is nice when you just forget the housework and spend uninterupted time with them

Clare, did you grow up with just your mum or did you get a step dad along the way? It was always me and my mum, and my bro too. Mum had a few partners over the years but I never thought of them as father figures (I was probably more mature than most of them lol). She has a great husband now though, I really like him. I know it always made people shy away when I said I didn't know my father, especially DH's family - if it came up in conversation they would quickly change the topic like it was some dirty little secret, when really it was just normal to me and didn't bother me at all. I guess it is a bit out of the norm not knowing your father, but if you don't know anything else then that is just how it is.

MD, did BSG arrive? It should have been there by tuesday, but I swore at the post lady a bit so maybe she dumped it in the bin instead of the post box lmao! I am not normally so rude but she diddled around for ages trying to find me in the 'system' (was trying to re-register my dog) and W was running around the library quacking and pulling stuff of the shelves. Then she just let me pay and she would sort it out later, but when I went back to post your disc she growled at me for not telling her my dog was in the system (well deh, I was re-registering her!) and the rego was overdue and she tried to give me a $50 fine that I refused to pay because I didn't even know the rego had lapsed. Then W slammed the front door so I went to get him and she growled 'open the front door!' so I snapped back for her to 'give me half a f*****n second'. He wouldn't have been getting into everything if she could actually manage to use the computer and didn't leave us standing there for half an hour. Grumpy old bag, I refuse to go back to that post shop/council office/library!

Well I am full of useless banter today.

PAP, bummer about your FDC lady avoiding you. Does she have to be there? Could you talk to the organiser people without her?

Sorry, was that Kate or Trill with the older sister? I am sure I read the post from Kate but now when I look back it was actually Trill.