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James Blunt

Sounds like a good idea. If the child's starting School could be used for uniform? We only have one I'm not sure what to do about it. No-one knows why the child gets it- and mum felt a bit insulted to be honest. We think it was claimed with his previous pre-school without consulting parents! (she left there as she wasn't happy with his care there). We have been using it for an extra lunch sessions, as the child wants for nothing, stable family life, (both parents) meeting and above goals etc. Not sure how this works if we're closed- but I guess I could argue that we may have to reopen anytime?

I just want to thank the FSF team again for these wonderful resources - they have been a life saver for me

Deliveroo doesn't do my area .... yes I went away and actually looked it up. I'm thinking putting a shout-out for kitkats on the village Facebook page is a bit off ? I was given a bar of dairy milk today though

Well I should get a good quick drive , as I think the bridge crossing is quite quiet at the mo

To be honest the constant cleaning throughout out the day worries me a little. One mentioned on facebook that the setting was beginning to smell like a swimming pool Surely that can't be good with little ones around?. Have a good week-end everyone, I have chocolate and wine, so I will enjoy I will not read anything early year related until Monday. (except on here of course ) xx

....and I really want a kit-kat now...

That's fantastic. Put's my lemon drizzle and blueberry muffins to shame.

And it is Friday... so watch out around 7ish tonight!

Me too re; phone calls! We seem to do a mix of text, email and Facebook - and everyone seems happy with that.

Same here, and I totally agree re funding.

Just seen you're in Hertfordshire - if I sneezed my covid germs (if I had any) could almost land in Hertfordshire

I can't get any sound on zigzags video but it looks so sweet. It reminded me of once when were in America and a man got on a train with a small baby. He looked a bit distracted and not interested in the baby, promptly sat down and got out his iPod (long time ago) put the headphone on and started fiddling about. Typical I thought!..... however he then picked up baby and gently popped one earpiece in the baby and they spent the rest of the journey snuggled up and extracting beautifully . It reminded me not to be so judgmental one what I first see.

Can't believe it's Friday again already. To be honest apart from the whole 'will you/won't you.. reopen/stay closed' stresses for the last few weeks, I'm actually settling rather well into this new routine. I'm now feeling a lot less stressed. We had a (social distanced) meeting with my daughter and granddaughter - we have had a lot of the baby's bits stored here from when they moved to a 'doer-upper'. They were hoping to get quite a lot done before needing the bits, well the building work didn't happen and poor baby is developing so fast she really needed some of the stuff we had here. (not to mention the clothes- we had most of the 3-6 myths, and she's 4mths today ) We dropped off stuff, had a quick chat from a distance, I really couldn't stay long as all I wanted to hug both of them , so made it short and sharp just encase I cracked and got upset. That was Wednesday, it's the first time I actually been 'out' since 20th March- and was surprised by the amount of traffic on road - seemed like a normal day! Although that even it was announced that there had been a jump int traffic! (I felt a bit bad them about my trip ) I was finally able to get the replacement food processor so have been playing with that a bit. Was told by LA we had to phone EVERY parent AT LEAST once a week.... mulled that one over and decided I would do what I needed to do, and not what they thought I needed to do! I'm get a bit sick of being told what to do with my own business, I know my needy and vulnerable families - and it's certainly not ALL of them only one, possibly two, the rest will have the constant informal communication that they all seem to enjoy and respond well to. Oh and I made some masks I didn't want any payment and she gave me a bottle of wine and some chocolate - that made me very happy

Same here. I still interested what will happen is they force us to open and we can't re: the hall being used by emergency services. Who get top priority?...because I know who I think does! I asked my advisor this very question - which funnily enough she didn't answer! If fact she totally ignored it and just told me I had to keep in all of my parents weekly, with no mention of my issues.

Me too. Just started second book.

I'm trying to look on the positive side. I think this might be a worst case scenario - like during the war when they requenished reared....... when they took over larges house to help run the war effort.

Yep.... that pretty much sums me up!

'We own you, and we WILL control you ' comes to mind

That made me chuckle. My dear late mother-in-law had a stroke. She had all her faculties but was left with dysphasia - her answer to all question was 'thirty-one-tie' I got a bag of flour this week (I'm now waiting the for long awaited new food processor to come)

Casualty

Yes, like you say we all know our families and the ones we need to make the extra effort with.

It's definitely the will we/won't we that I find the most draining too. We've heard from our LA today they expect us to keep in contact with parents 'at least' once a week. I can't decide whether or not to buy all my staff 'burner phones' so we can spread the load..... but then if we're back soon it's a waste of money . To be honest my parents all seem quite fine and happy, we encourage the use of our Facebook page which we add to most days, and we do get feedback from them. I feel that I'm nagging them if I keep phoning - we know our parents well, and know which like the phone calls etc.