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AA? Is your Mum with the AA? If you can manage to get two or three miles up the road, you could **ahem** be relayed to your **ahem** destination.
Glad your car got going again 
actually garage is not in Dorset, it is in Somerset, is nice to live near borders. only 45 mins away from Somerset & also Wiltshire.
Is nightmare week for me this week getting in & out my village as the 'Great Dorset Steam Fayre' is on & I am only down the road from it, is quite nice to listen to the steam whistles, i can hear them now & then at night I can hear all the hustle & the music playing & if i stand on the hill, see all the lights. I have free tickets too. Always win them at village show in raffle, they give out quite a few to near bye villages as thanks for putting up with all the traffic.
Alisoncam Swanage is a beach i go to often, i took S there a few weeks back, is lovely place, but there are MANY lovely beaches here & I am spoilt for choice. Am very lucky to live in such a beautiful place.
Pansy x
Pansy, I so envy you, having easy access to the beaches. Am guessing you know Sandybeach? (think that's the right name). I do believe there is a nudist part too, though I'm sure you'd never visit that, hehe 
(rummages in bag for imaginary glasses, but then realises it would be better NOT to wear them on that beach!)
Agrees with Louise.
Its horrid when you can't sleep, especially when the rest of the world appears to be snoring on, regardless. Do you try to do anything particular in wakeful times, sadsy? I had a lengthy diary at the time in my life when I was sleeping three hours per night(during divorce). Or you could do some relaxation execises? I always told myself it was Ok not to sleep if I could do something relaxing instead
yes forgot to say the same thing. 'thank God he was concieved' i wouldn't change it for the world! He is very special.
Pansy x
I used to go to Studland when I was younger and yes we did used to giggle at the nudists!!! My Uncle had a very old clapped out motor boat! We thought it was magnificent tho!
Studland and Brownsea and all around there is so beautiful, last time we went it was a beautiful day but still there was lots of beach to enjoy that wasn't crowded. We went in said motor boat, its last journey and there were loads of sunseekers everywhere, now they ARE snazzy, put our little boat to shame!
Pansy, thats it, Studland, hehehe.
Had hectic day today. Arranged surprise party for my son 8 tomorrow. read all in day chat, don't see many of you there!!! Anyhow, am totally exhausted, and another early start tomorrow, OMG, hehe. It's like xmas, got to get presents out of hiding now he's asleep, then am off to bed.
x
Well I do hope you have a positive reply from your dad, sadsy, and not just for financial reasons!
Hello alisoncam, hope you are Ok, look forward to hearing about the party in the Chit chat section!
Good luck with your Dad Sy.
Helen, I too had an Espace. Including buying it, putting a new engine in and various attempts at repair, I spent £12500 on it. The repairs more or less all on a credit card or two, that will take a life time to pay off.
I sold it for £500 earlier this year. The garage figured it needed new jets, and if that didn't work a new fuel pump, which would have cost somewhere in the region of £4500.
I now have a car which is on HP, with the garage clearly stating they'll take it back off me if I can't cope with payments. Being unable to walk now, the car is my lifeline.
My heart goes out to people who have car problems. One of my neighbour's - a lone-parent - had her car towed home the other day (NOT a renault!) with a ceased engine. She was sobbing on my shoulder, as I happened to arrive home as the tow truck drove off.
Yes, my last car was a Renault Megane. Never again! I had all that trouble with smoke coming out and danger of explosion 
How are you this morning, sadsy?
Well I hope for L and A's sake that they stay in the same school and get settled in.
Quite apart from anything else, consistency in their schooling will enable teachers to spot any problemns more easily and they are less likely to be allowed to do all the late coming that you heard about last term.
Good luck with car plan...
Yes, your annoyance does come over in the letter just a tad. Anna suggested to you that keeping emotion out of the correspondence would perhaps be a effective way to proceed, and sticking to the facts. I know this is hard: what more emotional subject could you write about? but I do agree with Anna. This letter has lots more facts in it and certainly the stuff about the school is particularly relevant!
It's good you were able to get that sorted.
It is??????
Learn something new every day!
Gosh that was something I didn't know either.
Ah....
Well, I'm about to open wine.
I probably shouldn't as really, this week has possibly been the most significant in our family.
Hello Sparkling,
I would love some wine, however it knocks my anti-depressants out and I'll end-up crying myself to sleep like that fateful wedding I went to.
Has Git gone now then? Worth celebrating...
What wine do you like? Not accompanied by Caramacs I hope *
Have tried to sand the bathroom walls (bare and broken) with sander my dead step-father lent me and I can hardly hold it. It scoots off across the wall with my eyeballs rattling in their sockets. Then when vision returns all I can see is a cloud or dust. All I seem to have accomplished is making a mess in another room.
As you are an Espace victim, I can share with you that the hydraulic unit removed and was replaced with yet another revised replacement unit from Renault. That's at least 3 revised design hydraulic units just on my car. And yes, it is still made of plastic, all other manufacturers use metal. It is basically like a doctors syringe. It has to withstand being pumped thousands of times. It's made of plastic! Don't think that's going to happen somehow.
Internet rumour suggests that most of the car's production budget was blown on the hideously expensive to produce aero-chassis and everlasting fibreglass body. There was hardly any budget left for other components.
I am looking forward to what has to be the most powerful heater I have ever come across this winter.
As a special treat, I may have a sleeping tablet tonight. Love that relaxing feeling after 15 mins. No wonder the doctor only gives me a handful.
Am fighting with Cafcass at the moment. Hehe, what is there to lose? I already don't see the children. My hopes are with the children, that they will miss me enough to pressure L to allow them to see me. Or will they just shrug and get on with their lives?
Spoke with Lk's year head today. I was quite impressed, he was very disciplined and knew Lk already. I asked for safeguards to be in place regarding Lk's homelife, drugs and being hit. He said Lk was very eloquent and had got lost in the school, poor thing. I have agreed to have a telephone update once a month with year head. L won't like him, he seems a very integrity-based person and won't respond well to lots of gibbering. I asked that if he saw Lk to say hi from me and that I was thinking of him. Stinging eyes again.
No success with A's headmistress. She did not email me a meeting date as she promised. She will need chasing.
* What is a Caramac anyway?
Definitely an Espace victim...
alisoncam, aren't BBQ sausages supposed to be burnt??
Catch up with you on the other topics, if I get time!!!
sparklinglime, eeeuuuggghhh, ex's can be soo frustrating, you would think they could 'give' a little and i don't mean money, I mean respect, consideration, understanding or at least info on their whereabouts.
sadsy, glad you got your riding in, great news about the car, it is always such a relief when things get fixed huh, especially when it seems that nothing around you is fixable at certain points in our lives.