Tuesday 9 November 2010

Blog reading and difficult relationships

This is just a quick post while I'm running my sons bath (that's bath pronounced 'barth' not 'bath' even if I am up north).
As I'm back at work now I can catch up on the blog reading that I have been so remiss on. One of my favourites is Well Done Fillet written by Manuel The Waiter (someone who, even though he's a dirty red :-) I still consider a friend). If you've not checked out his blog before I highly recommend it. But there's others too like Stephen Fry's blog (which I actually read using his snazzy iPad app.) and my lovely girlfriends Thoughts
I would say mine too, but as you're here you already know how awesome it is.
It's been a difficult couple of days. Jakes mum and I had a conversation about Christmas and it got a little heated. I won't go into details but it is hard for me... No, I'll be fair, it's hard for us to remain civil for Jakes sake. There are still so many emotions involved that they can come to the surface very easily and last night was one of those times.
I think after a further text conversation today we have regained our equilibrium and we're back to being polite and factual. It helps if we don't actually talk to each other and keep all communication to email or text - it keeps us at one remove from each other and saves the rawness of the emotion. No real point to this little ramble, just thought I'd share a little of the difficulties separated parents go through. Have a nice evening. More soon.


5 comments:

Miss.Firth said...

Yes Jo its definitely BATH

Simon said...

You're both Northern... you don't know any better, bless you.

Niv said...

Curios, how is lather pronounced up norf? I'll be doing it later btw....

Colin said...

don't listen to those bloody Norfen Monkeys!

it is Bath as in path...

Simon said...

Thank you Colin, but I would like to add my new LGF is in fact a 'Northern Monkey' - so I'd be careful throwing that adjective around!
Niv - yes, I don't know how they pronounce lather, as I've not had the need to discuss 'lathering' with Jo yet... but I know they pronounce lager the same way we do...