still snow...

not sure what his name is...but he got another layer on top later on.

meaanwhile, the drains are cleared but the tidy up on patio cannot begin and is all frozen anyway. needs a bleach filled jet.
still, all looks lovely and white.

girls' school opened - small classes as many stayed away, but they saw friends and watched DVDs...and apparently did some maths.

Ix school closed he entertained himself with TV/computer while i remotely connected to the office in between taking girls to/from school - very slowly on the side roads.

all schools open tomorrow unless more snow overnight....not forecast but you never know. got dermatologist appt too.

snow and the working parent....

lovely white stuff...

0810 Ix bus arrives, great!

0830 - girls carer texts: is on way tho delayed... great!

0832 - school texts - is closed and driver calls - is bringing him back...

0930 drains man arrives and gets gear on to unblock drain

0945 girls carer arrives - now she will have all 3.

1000 - stand over drains man as he descends into the depths....he reckons it is rubble in the interceptor, plus wet wipes flushed down loo haven't helped...

leave him (back up on dry land) jetting out the drains.

leave kids with carer.

11.00 arrive work
catch up emails etc...

back home 3.30 to allow carer to leave to get back thru the snow...

log back onto work email from home...

text from Ix school: will tell you at 0715 tomorrow what is happening...

girls' school - who knows for tomorrow!

and they say the big freeze will continue into next week.

oh well see what happens tomorrow. no point fretting...plan to get up tomorrow as tho for school and take it from there. luckily kids can spend some time plugged into TV (all)/computer (all)/nintendo (girls) /playing together (girls) so can "work" from home to a degree....

still here...

blogs in my head, no time - or rather exhaustion.

sent Ix off today with his dad and the friend who is supervising but exP looked very ill...he has been sending extreme text msgs, about "being all together again" which is just not reality...i hope the friend stays with and tells him to get help...

but at least today we girls can go shopping :)

contact with their dad been very mixed and mostly has resulted in tension all round due to changes in pick up times from his end, need to change to an alternate weekend schedule so we not dependent every weekend as at present.

finance - joint account heavily overdrawn due to exP's spending on refurbishing joint owned flat(s). now he says he has no money to eat... only option now is to sell both flats a.s.a.p and each take share of whatever equity...in meantime demands of £2000 per flat by December for sinking fund/refurbishment fund...

schools good but girls school closed for four days due to roof collapsing! sudden need for childcare aargh made arrangements with other parents and friend's friend's au pair's friend...

hopefully now back to normal. last week was school but no after school club - shows how much L needs that structured time to get homework done without distractions of little sister, TV and other goings on...

work busy, but achieved good media event and feel positive...