Awwwww Arte, that would have been awful to see that. I was shattered when we had to put Marvin down back in January. It was just too cruel to let her keep going the way she was. LOL at you having a potentially fabulous Christmas now BIL isn't coming. We feel like that with DH's brother and his wife, which is awful, but I cannot stand all the palaver and snobbery that goes on when they are there. BIL thinks he's some wonderful wine buff and carries on about the wine he's chosen to go with lunch, but he talks out of his bum! I reckon you could bottle horse piddle and he would think it was great. So we are all rather glad when they spend christmas with her family, which is this year!

MD, it's a huge thing to deal with when your children finish primary school. I'm dreading it already and we have a whole year left. I said to him the other day that I can't believe he will be in year 6 next year, he seems too small kwim? But I am just so happy that H has found some truly special friends to spend her last year at primary school with give her the confidence to start highschool.