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On Thursday I received a panicky email from my ex stating that his estate agent has advised them that water was running down the inside wall of their house. He asked if I would go and check the damage and report back to them. Like the mug that I am I

This week I was asked, without much notice, to assist with exams. Last year it was quite fraught but I said Yes anyway because that’s what I do. Last year we had tears, not mine, and so many problems that an extra ‘body’ is no bad thing. The morning

The fact that I haven’t heard from my ex has been making me a bit cross, so I sent a rather terse (never rude) email asking if he’d read my email and seen the photos of the damp, and just hadn’t bothered to reply, and that I did think that he might have

As mentioned on Summer’s page, I didn’t realise that Oz has a different date for Father’s Day. To be honest, it didn’t even occur to me, so I posted off a card from my son to his Dad a little while ago; no idea how long the mail takes. Anyway, my ex

This is an expression that my son has recently been using to denote someone who is a bit up themselves. I love it! A colleague of mine is a Special Snowflake; everyone else has to use a centralised printer, sometimes on a different floor, but they’re

You’ll probably gather from the title that we’ve had some rain at last. It’s been very sunny here with an average temperature of 24C which is low compared to some I know, but pretty hot for us in Wales. On Sunday it topped out at 26C and I actually felt a