bad days

I had a meeting with a client in Bradford this morning and unfortunately couldn’t get back in time to collect Zoë from School. I rang Suzanne and asked if she could collect her for me, which she did. Not long after, I got a call from a stressed Suzanne saying that Nino had phoned wanting to speak to Zoë. She complained that as she was working in Delph today Zoë should be with her not with Suzanne, typically Zoë wouldn’t speak to mummy on the phone. Suzanne said she’d told Nino that I was due back soon and she’d ask me to take Zoë to see Nino at work before we had to be back at school. However, just as I came off the motorway at Jct 22 the car decided to break down so I called Suzanne and asked if she could take Zoe back to school form me.

I really hate having to put Suzanne in this position, she’s a good friend, and of course my business partner, but Nino seems determined to try to damage our working relationship and the relationship Suzanne has with Zoë, all she’s tried to do is be a good friend to all of us and offer support and friendship through the difficulties. It wasn’t that long ago that Nino used to think of her as her ‘sister’ – how things have changed!

I had to abandon the car after trying various fuses which just kept blowing. Suzanne didn’t have her car today as Simon had gone out climbing so she managed to draft in her brother to come and pick me up.

I anticipated difficulties when my wife asked me to help her diet now she's no longer breast feeding. And difficulties we had yesterday.

Arguments and more arguments - and so upsetting for Zoë. It's difficult to know what impact an argument has on a 14 month old girl. Whatever it is though I'm sure it can only be negative.