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Riverside campsite - riversidecamping.co.uk 5 miles from Penrhyn Castle, 5 miles or so from Llanberis, about 10 miles from Aber falls, 8 minutes from Menai bridge. Site is amazing, staff there are superb, and it's incredibly clean with an amazing bistro on site.

I am so so sorry for your loss, Col. My heart goes out to you and your loved ones. x x x

She had a long standing run in with this boot. It'll be interesting to see what this bitch comes out with. Tosser. Postnatal depression was my first thought. Incredibly sad for her and her loved ones no matter how you look at it.

Give Camp Bestival a try, its perfect for introducing the kids to the festival scene. You're not doing the Greenman? I'd love to find the time to make it to another this year I just can't see my fitting one in. Its obvious there's not enough weekends in the summer.

If this doesn't happen, I'm blaming you. I shall also neg you at every opportunity. Congratulations LGB! Don't worry about the lack of excitement, it's over rated. Just make an effort to get all animated when she mentions the word baby and you'll be right. That is she won't hit you with a frying pan and blame the hormones.

Thats enough to give someone suicidal thoughts. Not enough though, the price of postage just went up again.

Nowt wrong with a bit of bum fun so long as mine isn't involved. It was however to someone taking the piss out of a car accident i'd had. Smiler907 used to do this to me on a regular basis just after we separated, i'm sure it was to mess with my head and not so much accidentally. Fortunately anyone else that's done it to me has never been anything malicious, just a random, what time are you calling over or what do you want for tea. Dead boring.

Best wishes to your mum RR, x

Once threatening to 'kick' someones arse i threatened to 'lick' their arse. Predictive text. Sent a rather explicit MMS to my mum that was meant for a friend with benefits. Still cringe about that an it was 3 or 4 years ago.

I'll be waking up an hour earlier to the sound of smoke alarms and the smell of burnt toast. Love mothers day, me.

Bart had a much easier time selling his soul... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/broken-hearted-male-for-sale-/171281180554?pt=UK_CDsDVDs_CDs_CDs_GL&hash=item27e127678a

Colin, i do believe that that time is the best gift any of us could have ever give. Enjoy as best you can. Love, Sherry.

Lots of love Col, there really is nothing more I can say. x x x

There was a reason Mr Melons barely left after that first weekend. *winks* Almost spat me tea out. Brilliant. Cunt doesn't have the same level of negative connotation anymore, it used to be such a vile word, now i use it almost every day when i see the news i'm almost desensitised.

Families and loved ones, sets people in good stead. ;)

Ok, I should have really checked first, act in haste ect.. Stronts are you really insinuating that because they fucked it up it's a victory for students; they're still getting that free education?

Eh? You really are a wanker, aren't you? I've been giving you too much credit. I won't be in the same situation, I'll be married and hopefully we won't be paying rent for my house and a huge mortgage on Mr Melons' place. Speaking of which, anyone want a cottage up a mountain near Bala? My nan's place should have finally sold and we might, might be in a position to pay a decent deposit on a shit house to offset my lack of full time employment in the child care and mortgage. If i get an ace job in the mean time, bonus, if i'm looking at working for what i do now and having to keep on doing it, i might just go put my head in the oven. Or go back and do an RMN. Massive wanker.

A few kids i know of went to uni last year with no intention of paying the debt, it was an "I'm going to do the degree, masters, try and get on a PHD course then pay the minimum back, i've got no chance of repaying it as there aren't the jobs out there". I graduate this summer, i've applied to do an RMN, I may even do a PGCE after that, I won't start paying my loan for another three - four years at least. In that time it should have accrued interest. I'll be on a pay that will see me paying off around a tenner a year for 20 years, paying back less than the loan before they leave me be due to age and it's wiped out.

Thats exactly what i'm saying. Lovely system we have, isn't it? *awaits dog with the labour bollocks* The thing is, i'll be about £60 worse off and that would be on the assumption i'm in receipt of housing benefit. I'm not. Those that get something towards their housing as most housing benefit recipients are also in some kind of employment are likely to be more than £60 worse off as they'd be losing their housing benefit, it will be calculated into the universal credit system from what I can make out. I'm lucky, I graduate and i'm getting married this year so unless I'm left at the alter I won't be a recipient of Universal Credit / Payment whatever it's called. It bloody well stinks to those that are going to be on it though. But hey ho, we're all in this together.

This is supposed to be a reason for universal payment, your benefit will be based on what you earn. Part time employment for a single parent needs to be 16 hours a week to be classed as working, for a couple it needs to be at least 24 hours for one of them, not both combined, then they're classed as working. You have higher "allowances" if you're working full time, but full time is depending on other benefit anything from 32 to 37 hours. It's not one advisor, its the benefit. More than likely not even in the same office. Mine field. Most of my single parent uni mates had housing benefit. I didn't, I argued back and forth for about a year then gave up and just paid the rent. The kids did qualify for free school meals though. Then summer came, you're bounced onto income support or get a job then, that means they have to recalculate everything, you're without income for a while again, same again in September. It's easier to just work part time alongside your degree and have a steady income, found this one out about 2 years ago. Massively fucks with your standard of life though. Single mum, full time degree, 4 kids and working doesn't go down to well. As it stands i reckon if I hadn't met Mr Melons last year and was to remain a single parent, universal payment would see me around £60 a week worse off than i am with Tax Credits.

That was legendary. I reckon I'll still be laughing about that one when i'm wetting myself in a nursing home.

It was one of those double takes, "she didn't just say that did she??" Proper laughed out loud moment. Welcome to posting on the GF, your life as you knew it is over.

Oh dear, If you want to be pedantic, yes i did post a .gov link for the DWP, but surely the .gov give the info to the DWP, you know being one and the same. But on your secondly bit - i was right then? Full time is more than your stated 16 hours? Would you like some gentle soap to help get that sand out of your vagina? HMRC used to have it as over 31 hours in regard to tax credits. They shuffled the goal post a couple of years ago. Shit me, someone line up the virgins! When it comes to other benefits, such as housing benefit, tax credits ect, it does. I could earn £500 a week doing 10 hours and the kids would qualify for free school dinners. Sadly I get about £180 for 20 hours and have to pay those school dinners. Well, i don't they have lunch boxes but you get the idea.

Nice to see you about Mrs I Spy. I just put it down as another fad until the donations thing started, I've no objections with the donations, but put them to a charity that doesn't pay it's CEO's and senior level managers 6 figure salaries! If a charity can afford that for it's CEO's and not consider a few extra scientists then clearly they need to look at their priorities. The selfie thing came onto my news feed the same day Sophie Jones did (the young woman from Eastham) and i was a little raw. It was a bit of a reality check to how lucky i was, twenty years ago it was normal to have smears before you turned 24 and for me that meant they picked up abnormal cells. Had her case been 20 years ago, she's have likely been given the smear and stood a chance. We are supposed to have progressed. In December I was delivered a speech by a young (mid 20's) charity canvasser that they'd cured cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, the abomination had the biggest earful of his life. He worked for Cancer Research UK - the main beneficiary of this campaign. We're currently sitting on a time bomb for cervical cancer sufferers, these kids believe that they're currently being vaccinated against cervical cancer, they're told they don't need smears until they're 24 but not to worry your pretty little heads, you've been vaccinated. No, they haven't, they've been vaccinated against 4 fucking strains of HPV you utter moronic twats. Needless to say, i have little to no time for Cancer Research UK.

Errm, yeah, I reckon my DWP link trumps your employability Scotland link.