CRAP!!!

Have just been told today that one of the kids is leaving! Apparently her Mum is going to college at the end of September and so we are under our month's contractual termination notice. I have a feeling it's mainly to do with the fact that I won't (well I don't see why I should really) pick the girl up from school... she's starting secondary school, has free bus travel under the oyster scheme here in London, yet her mother expects me to pick her up everyday (yet isn't prepared to pay the cost of fuel for the car!)... I don't think so!

We also have a three year old starting nursery, and a five year old to collect, both in different schools. So who would get priority? Mum can collect one child, I can collect another, so who do I get? I would have thought it was fairly obvious that you collect the ones that can't bring themselves home... no?! Kids of three and five have to be collected, or there is the 11 year old that can get herself back on the bus (for free, I might add). Not exactly brain surgery, eh?

I think the thing that annoyed me the most is that the 11 year old's mother had tried to blackmail us before giving the notice to leave... collect my daughter or else she's leaving! That made me want to call her bluff and tell her to go, right there!

We can cope... just! We are going to have to cut back on things, again, but hopefully we'll be ok (I can't believe that we haven't had many phone calls about work, and the ones that do come round to see us never get back to us, which really ticks me off, no end... surely common curtesy would dictate that if you're not interested that you call and say thanks, but no thanks?!)

I'm doing all I can not to worry, and am distracting myself with stuff online... I found a site that has loads of MST3K episodes (some I've never seen) available to watch for free (my favourite price, lol) so that's helping. Other than that I listen to music, read or cook, all of which calm me down somewhat.

**Sigh** Sometimes I'd just like people to stop being arseholes, it would be so bloody nice!!!!!