Morning all up bright and early as OH got work. LO slept well last night and I had a better nights sleep too

Have a good weekend all x

Morning all.

Freddi was good last night, he went off about 730 then woke at 1230 and again at 430 then laid chatting to himself at 630. When he did wake he went back off quickly.

Got work today, and tomorrow, both late shifts. I had some texts last night asking if I could do New Year's Eve night. I said no, but said yes to a late shift on Christmas Eve.

He's 7 months today, he's no trouble at night wakes, he's back asleep within 10/15 mins.

Congratulations Kel! Also Dorothy is adorable!

I had a rubbish sleep, and when I was finally in a deep sleep OH woke me up to say bye before he went to work. Which I don't mind cos I'd be upset if he didn't, but couldn't get back to sleep after that. Currently having my morning coffee and an e@st3nders catch up.

Wow looks great Flossie, no wonder you are pleased with it. Once you get going on jobs like that they tend to flow nicely.

Morning. Home now and is good to see OH again X off to knitting in about an hour then go to see if I can get contact lenses. Not sure if I will be able to drive in them yet and so if it's worth having them but need to try to find out X

Looks great Flossie!

Just watching the news and another plane has crashed.. Not good

Gf did you get your wages sorted in the end?

Emily not seen the news yet- that's awful about plane crash

Morning all!

Some of you have been up super early!!

Hope everyone's ok haven't really had chance to scan through the threads.
Bed bound in lanzarote on my holidays thanks to some absolute brats this morning whilst we were having breakfast on our balcony area who felt it appropriate to good a ball full belt that hit me square in the back so I'm in agony and haven't got my tramadol with me because doctors couldn't give me a note to travel with them in time.

Sick to death of the three brats all holiday they've been terrorising the apartments and the parents have never said a word to them to make them behave... ridiculous. They didn't even apologise when it hit me!

Becci that's awful. Is it a hotel, could you complain to the manager? If they're affecting the experience of the customers the staff can speak to the parents. Is there a local doctor you could go to for some temporary pain relief?

Awww no poor you becci- here's you thinking a bit of relaxation and sun would do your back some good- hope that your ok? Been quiet on here without you too xx

Their parents seem very laid back EC so I don't think making them aware of the incident would mean anything to them - theyd probably just laugh!

There's no signs around the apartments saying no ball games either so technically they weren't doing anything wrong - just socially disrespectful to have no regard for other people. If my back didn't hurt so much I'd get the ball and put a knife through it in front of their faces and see how amusing they found that! And my mum can't understand why we chose to take our honeymoon at an adult only resort!

I was starting to warm to children until today.

It's such a shame when one family gives children on holiday a bad name. We had our honeymoon on a cruise where I was surprised at the number of children around, I wouldn't have considered the destinations particularly obvious for kids. However there was a kids club on board, and none of the children around were any trouble. I suspect some of the parents wanted to be on the cruise and took the children with them rather than leaving them with friends or family, but didn't take them ashore. Seems like a bit of a waste though, to take your children all that way to leave them in a floating hotel. It may also be that they just took them to the beaches.

That's a pain GF, they shouldn't mess around with people's pay. If there was a change to the pay deal they should have given you plenty of warning. We get paid overtime effectively a month behind, but that's always been the case and I knew that when I started (not that I do much). Basically payday is the 24th, and overtime has to be submitted by the end of each month to be paid on the next payday. Effectively if I did overtime through August, I would submit the form by the end of August and it would be paid on September 24th. Any overtime from September would be paid on October 24th. One of my colleagues did a lot over the summer vacation, as she is normally only term-time but her other income is university teaching which obviously wasn't there. When my line manager who needed to sign off the claim forms was ill she got a bit panicky that they wouldn't get submitted in time and it would be another month late. Fortunately when we made finance aware they accepted them without signature on condition that the line manager, who could still access her email at home, approved them via email. It wasn't ideal though, if she'd been too ill to go to the computer I'm not sure what would have happened. Potentially her line manager would have had to sign them, but he wouldn't have had access to her records of what we had done so he would have had to take our word for it (which I think he would have done), and then if we'd over-claimed presumably we would have had it taken off the next month. In actual fact I think most of us under-claimed if anything.

The m1rr0r says at least 5 of the children on board are dead and there's bodies still strapped into seats. Initially they feared all dead until they heard voices.

Not pleasant!

It's so tragic. There seem to be so many crashes, and you have to remember how many flights there are daily in the world to see what a small proportion it actually is. Every time it happens it's disastrous though. Hopefully they can learn lessons so that at least that particular cause can be prevented in future.

I think I'm too young to know anything about him I don't recognise the name.

I think the press just report more about them now; people only make such a big deal of aircraft going down because it's still fairly rare but when it does happen it tends to be tragic with hundreds killed at once. Surprising that it's the safest form of travel still

It's only recently I've been more aware of him. There was a big push to get him out which was in the news, as he was the last U.K. citizen kept in Guantanamo Bay. I do remember the prison being opened in George W. Bush's time, and a lot of people being uneasy then about the lack of systems for getting prisoners tried and convicted. They were just locked up and left there and forgotten about. There were an awful lot of assumptions made, and a lot of young muslim men who happened to be in Afghanistan at the wrong time got locked up. There were allegations of torture as well, and I'm pretty sure water boarding (where they recreate the sensation of drowning) was caught on video. Shaker was cleared for release by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and still they didn't let him out. I think there are a lot of cases now where the men left there are stuck there because countries won't take responsibility for them. The U.K. on the other hand pushed hard to get its citizens out of there. There are investigations though about U.K. complicity in torture in the early stages.

I had met someone that was on the French one. My choir did an exchange with a German choir, and their director was on the flight with her daughter, her sister and her child, and her parents (and I think a few other relatives). I think only one of the family was found. The choir visited us recently again with their new director, and the new director seems to have been fully accepted, but it can't have been easy for them to move on. I know that our director went to a memorial service for the family where the choir sang with one of the members that had previously been stand-in director conducting, and apparently it was heart-breaking. They got through it but they couldn't watch the conductor because he was in tears. I'm so glad they've got someone who can take them forward, as they're a brilliant choir.

It's a p@n@son1c GF.

Just having a catch up on c0rr13 now before I start getting ready to leave for Bristol. Next door having a massive argument again, I can deal with having to listen to arguing but she screeches, squeals and screams which is highly annoying!!!

Although women in an argument can be scary, the way they can scream and yell. Men aren't nearly so intimidating most of the time as an angry women is.

You can never really hear the guy, can just hear the girl screaming and screeching at him and throwing a paddy lol. They seem quite immature.

Toddlers are great on journeys most of the time, provided they've got things to keep them occupied. It's all so fascinating for them, particularly if they're next to a window and can look out. The funniest one I had though was a lad of about 18, when I was flying to Switzerland and was on my own (I was about 25). He and his friend were flying off for a year out somewhere, and were first time flyers. His reaction when we took off was just like a young child (in a good way). It was so sweet.

Floor looks lovely Flossie

Just had to drive 45 mins to pick a parcel up for OH as he was meant to go when he finished work but the machine broke so he had to fix that

OH has got it on him so just asked what's up with him and he's stormed off. He said he hasn't to which I said why has your mum and sister asked what's up with you then as they think the same. Men!!

I did the 3 day military diet this week and weighed myself this morning. Lost 6lb