Seems we have stumbled to the end of Week Two of the summer holidays. Everyone is very tired and grumpy today for some reason - especially Tx who is finding the whole thing about as difficult as she feared it would be.
With Baggins literally only a matter of days from walking (and taking the title of youngest walker away from her oldest sister!!) she is quite literally into everything at the moment and becoming quite a challenge.
She has real temper on her, screaming at the others until either a) her head explodes or b) she gets her own way.
It makes every day laborious and long - she still wakes up singing and happy happy around 5.30 every morning.
The oldest two - 11 and 8 - are stroppy with each other most of the time, and Boy has developed an irritating habit of contradicting everyone for the sake of it.
To deal withthis, we are going along with whatever he suggests in one of his grumps. "I don't want to go" etc is becoming a pain because he always does, and is just wondering what the effect is of saying cantankerous things!

Battle of the emails over at church now. My co-warden and our acting treasurer is on holiday for the SAME three week's as the vicar. This means I am in charge, trying to work alongside a very stubborn, but misunderstood administrator. He told me Wednesday that he is leaving as soon as possible. Now from nowhere comes a message to me demanding that he gets the wages that are overdue to him. I knew nothing of this, and he didn't mention it on Wendesday night, but I have learned that he is very clumsy with email and never 'says' things in a very subtle way.
Its a difficult medium for this kind of personal relationship, which is why I always prefer dealing with people face to face. Unf, he is very awkward like this and prefers to hide behind more remote methods of communication.
My answer is to give him cash for the weeks that he is owed.
Which will be mis-understood as well and probably sets the wrong kind of precedent.
Do I care?

I just want it sorted. How can 'we' not have manged to pay him?
Why have we had no chequebook for weeks and weeks. Why can't anyone but him do internet banking.

Be with me now Lord, guide me through these rocks.