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@wordsworth60 wrote:
Already the picture widens and deepens.
According to the interview in Terry’s link, the children were in an emergency placement, so the children would have been removed from the couple sooner rather than later anyway.
Long term placement might well have involved splitting up the children. It is common for children to form very strong links with emergency foster parents and the removal to long term care is often very traumatic. The emergency foster carers know this is part of what they signed up for.The council had already been criticised by a judge for not giving children’s ethnic and cultural background enough regard. We have to believe the judge was being even more serious than Rusty Trawler when making the criticism. They are bound to act on a judge’s comments.
Even bearing these two points in mind, Mrs Thacker herself might agree with Terry, but her own views would be irrelevant and she would be speaking in an official capacity. Bound by legal and professional conditions. That might have explained the expression on her face which the UKIP chappy found so unappealing.
Social Services will tend to act on anonymous complaints even when the issues raised are thin, this is one of many cases that usually go unreported. The reasons for that are unfortunately, not Simple as.
My mum was an emergency foster carer … and we had one little boy from 9 days old until he was two and a half (together, eventually, with his three older siblings) … so ’emergency’ is not always such a short-term option.
I know my opinions on this particular case … and they are a mix of both professional and personal. However, I do not wish to share them on here. I would be happy to discuss them at length with anyone who cares to contact me personally.
That said: I do agree with the lose:lose situation. If nothing had been done, there would be an outcry … yet something being done has provoked an outcry.
We are never happy.
Heartache
@rusty trawler wrote:
@terry wrote:
@rusty trawler wrote:
FYI Jen-Jen I no longer drive the Lotus Esprit.
What about wearing the medallion?
Lol Terry. It may be a mere medallion to you but along with my Barry White music collection and Hi Karate aftershave I would consider them to be life’s essentials.
From all those choices, you abandoned the Esprit?
@rusty trawler wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@simplysu wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
They’re all lurking anyway, waiting to see what else gets disclosed that might give them an insight into how the female mind works…as if we would give such secrets away that easily! :wink: :lol:
and pinching our best interior design concepts for their smelly club … pfft
woe betide the intruders we capture … that’s all I’m saying.
Its ok… tinks has a gun 8)
She may have a gun indeed, but we have the perfect cunning foil to counter your security arrangements. We never enter your purdy little place unarmed. As tinks menacingly points her gun in my direction I wave a pair of Louboutin shoes in one hand and a family-size Toblerone in the other. Let’s see if she can coo and shoot straight at the same time.
I dislike toblerone … I prefer to be barefoot … and I am the one on security detail today. Try harder. Would take (much) more than that to distract me.
@jen_jen wrote:
They’re all lurking anyway, waiting to see what else gets disclosed that might give them an insight into how the female mind works…as if we would give such secrets away that easily! :wink: :lol:
and pinching our best interior design concepts for their smelly club … pfft
woe betide the intruders we capture … that’s all I’m saying.
@momentaryloss wrote:
@rusty trawler wrote:
Doesn’t sound too appealing now, does it? Now let’s add a little bit more drama and think what would happen, heaven forbid, should someone drop the bar of soap.
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You have experience of these things?
:shock:
personally I’ve never dropped the soap :lol:
Eek … I’m such a butterfingers!
@momentaryloss wrote:
Sorry said I wouldn’t post on this thread but I was promoting strong women and female comedy.
:D
haHA! Gotcha!
We will lure you all across, in the end.
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@simplysu wrote:
@a certain sadness wrote:
Sounds like you spend half your day receiving gifts from customers Jen, can i work there?
Im cheap and willing to learn.
I’m cheaper … and willinger :D
Number, postcode and availability for coffee between now and Yuletide s’il vous plait . . . . . .
I don’t know certy’s details
I love ballet.
@rusty trawler wrote:
@simplysu wrote:
<~~ too timid to venture into the veritable lions' den … however, would just like to send a missive stating:
Men who wear hats are adorable.
* dons a balaclava (best i could do at short notice), grips a rose betwixt me teeth, fills one of the new half pint glass with lady beer (i.e. 1 part timothy taylors to two parts Robinson’s Lemon Cordial), hands it to simply su, conjure up my best Leslie Phillips imitation and says…. Ding Dong!*
You’re adorable enough without the hat!
Switch the lady beer for a glass of full-bodied red … and lose the rose (hate them!)
