Hi Lou

None of the places we've lived in since have been as nice as that Railway cottage. We were there 4 years and I wished we'd never left. I got married whilst living in that house, and brought my first two babies home there. We had two first birthdays there, H's 21st and dd1's Name Day, so ithas loads of fond memories associated with it.

If I'm on a train I often go passed it and say to dd4
'Look, look, that's mummy's house!'

It's true in the UK most houses have stairs (I noticed in Florida you'd be hard pushed to find a house with an upstairs).

After H left, I had a baby and I can't carry babies, which made the stairs dangerous so I moved to a bungalow. It's designed for elderly people with a life-line in it (I am wired up to the emergency services, LOL).

I have burnt my toast a few times at breakfast and the smoke sets off the smoke alarm which sets off the life-line alarm and then this woman comes on the intercom and shouts
'Mrs Jones, shall I call the fire brigade?'
and I'm like
'No thank you, I just burnt my toast'

Sometimes they bother me even when I don't call them. I had them shouting Mrs Jones at me for 2 days once and every time I went to the intercom, it turned off. After 2 days of that, I just shouted
'WHAT DO YOU WANT!?'
Turns out they only wanted to send an engineer round to check the gas fire. I thought, haven't they ever heard of using a phone?
It's like the 'big brother' house in here

It's also completely tiny. The garden is bigger than the house, there's no storage space for dd's toys and only 1 power point in each room.

If the girls come over, I put 1 in my bed, 1 in this chair-bed in my room, 1 on a camp bed and dd4 in her bed.
Then I sleep on the sofa.
When H used to say, we'd open the sofa out into a bed and sleep on that. We feel like sardines in a can here, but the council would only let me have a 2 bed place as they said in housing law I only have 1 child.
They don't count my other children because I'm non-custodial It infuriates me.

Anyway, I'm rambling again. I just want H to hurry up and marry me and buy me a 4 bedroom house, lol.

Jo.