What is hacking you off today?

[Mad Cyril]

C2C like a furnace tonight.

*******s.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Euston Road, full of empty buses, empty mini cabs and empty black cabs (that's coloured cabs to Barna) clogging the sodding lot up from Edgware Road right along to Old Street roundabout.

 

[RHB]

Woke up this morning with what I thought was neuralgia. Got much worse as day went on so fearing an abscess I got an emergency appointment with my dentist. She told me there wasn't an abscess but a hole in the side of the tooth exposing part of the nerve, which , it turns out, needs root canal treatment and crowning...........superb, £220 for a crown on the NHS.:angry:

 

[OldBlueLady]

Must really hack you off that your daughters choice for her 21st is more important than your desires. Is Pubey going too?

No, you're misunderstanding. I have tried to arrange what she asked for, which was a social gathering for about 50 people, combining the various families, family friends and some of her closest friends. She then decided she wanted more people and an actual DJ and music rather than just background music. With a month to go, there isn't a lot of choice and then I got told it was "too stressful" to organise so she had asked her dad.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Euston Road, full of empty buses, empty mini cabs and empty black cabs (that's coloured cabs to Barna) clogging the sodding lot up from Edgware Road right along to Old Street roundabout.

Ahem.That should be black or ethnic minority (BME) cabs if you want to be 100% pc.:smiles:

 

[rigsby]

Ahem.That should be black or ethnic minority (BME) cabs if you want to be 100% pc.:smiles:

Or BEM if you want to be 100% correct :smiles:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Or BEM if you want to be 100% correct :smiles:

Actually, BAME according to this:-:smiles:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31970841

or, BME according to Greg Dyke:-

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32345119

 

[Ricey]

Nope. I wonder if Ricey is?

Why, you jealous?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Too much crap about Star Wars on SZ.:thumbdown:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Too much crap about Star Wars on SZ.:thumbdown:

Saves up the neg rep.... :whistling:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Record Store Day at South was good, got 2 out of my top 3 choices so not bad. Found out later though, that 2 of my mates both bought that 3rd record about half an hour before I got there. They are now dead to me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Record Store Day at South was good, got 2 out of my top 3 choices so not bad. Found out later though, that 2 of my mates both bought that 3rd record about half an hour before I got there. They are now dead to me.

Tape it onto a C90 like it's 1988.

 

[Ricey]

When someone adds you on Facebook and you recognise the name but can't think what they look like, so you have a look at all their pics and they are all of kids, cars and 'funny' pics. How am I supposed to know who you are if you don't have a picture of you?

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

When someone adds you on Facebook and you recognise the name but can't think what they look like, so you have a look at all their pics and they are all of kids, cars and 'funny' pics. How am I supposed to know who you are if you don't have a picture of you?

Sounds to me like you have friended yourself.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Back to the birthday thing again, totally hacked off because Daddy bountiful is providing the wherewithal for daughter's 21st. I've organised every party she's ever had, and she's always had a great time, but suddenly, this time she doubts me and goes to him. I am out of the loop and out of control, and I do not like it. Struggling with this.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Back to the birthday thing again, totally hacked off because Daddy bountiful is providing the wherewithal for daughter's 21st. I've organised every party she's ever had, and she's always had a great time, but suddenly, this time she doubts me and goes to him. I am out of the loop and out of control, and I do not like it. Struggling with this.

'The grass is always greener'?. Can understand your disappointment and frustration. Maybe she's going through a phase?. I've no doubt when she needs advice or guidance for whatever, you will be the one she asks.
Kids, they break your heart at times without meaning to, no consolation but wait until she gets married and has a Baby, and you'll be her lifeline.

 

[Pubey]

Back to the birthday thing again, totally hacked off because Daddy bountiful is providing the wherewithal for daughter's 21st. I've organised every party she's ever had, and she's always had a great time, but suddenly, this time she doubts me and goes to him. I am out of the loop and out of control, and I do not like it. Struggling with this.

#nottrolling

Seeing as she's had 20 birthdays organised by you. Maybe she wants one organised by her dad, just for a change?

I've got absolutely not experience with divorce, my parents are together. However my guess is that it isn't easy for your children. From your posts it sounds like your ex made/makes things difficult, and it's understandable that things are tough between you and him, but perhaps its unwise to let those feelings (no matter how justified they are) cloud your daughters decisions.

She's 21, so maybe she can do what she wants when it comes to celebrating her birthday, and maybe she just wants your blessing/support for that decision?

 

[londonblue]

#nottrolling

Seeing as she's had 20 birthdays organised by you. Maybe she wants one organised by her dad, just for a change?

I've got absolutely not experience with divorce, my parents are together. However my guess is that it isn't easy for your children. From your posts it sounds like your ex made/makes things difficult, and it's understandable that things are tough between you and him, but perhaps its unwise to let those feelings (no matter how justified they are) cloud your daughters decisions.

She's 21, so maybe she can do what she wants when it comes to celebrating her birthday, and maybe she just wants your blessing/support for that decision?

I know you and OBL have a bit of "history" and don't usually (ever) see eye to eye, but I actually think that is a very sound bit of advice.

It's always far more difficult to see the wood for the trees when you're emotionally involved in something. Sometimes it needs a more dispassionate perspective.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Seeing as she's had 20 birthdays organised by you. Maybe she wants one organised by her dad, just for a change?

I've got absolutely not experience with divorce, my parents are together. However my guess is that it isn't easy for your children. From your posts it sounds like your ex made/makes things difficult, and it's understandable that things are tough between you and him, but perhaps its unwise to let those feelings (no matter how justified they are) cloud your daughters decisions.

She's 21, so maybe she can do what she wants when it comes to celebrating her birthday, and maybe she just wants your blessing/support for that decision?

My last opportunity to give her a birthday party and it's taken away from me. He's never had anything to do with them, invariably never went to any of them. That may sound selfish, probably is but do I really want to a) be in a confined room with my ex b) be in a confined room with my estranged sister or c) be at a poxy casino with him when it was his gambling there that put paid to our marriage?

My intention was to have a gathering in a neutral place, to be able to invite those already mentioned without having to spend any actual time with them, some of the wider family, to invite her God-parents, close family friends and some of her own friends - about 70 people. We've spent ages over the last few months viewing possible venues. She wouldn't commit to any of the choices we gave her, then decided she wanted La Quinta when we were there last weekend for my sister-in-law's 50th. The next thing I knew she'd gone to her dad. Not sure my 75 year old parents are going to want to come to a casino, whereas his are, they often go anyway.

Like our forthcoming Center Parcs family weekend, it's going to be something to be endured rather than enjoyed.

 

[Uncle Leo]

My last opportunity to give her a birthday party and it's taken away from me.

Don't think of it as your last opportunity. I organised it, but my Mum was a big part of my 30th birthday bash. Or as much of a 'big' part as someone who is five foot tall can be :smile:

Appreciate this whole situation isn't ideal in general though...