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Have you spoken to the university?s accommodation office as they should be able to give advice to students in this position?

Sorry to hear about this horrible incident and I hope all concerned haven't been leftvtraumatised. I'm not sure that the sexuality of the disgusting nobs is relevant. I mean, you wouldn't say by way of descriptor " I was having a drink with a cis/straight/heterosexual guy in a pub", would you?

It may seem unfair or even cruel not to let dogs off their leads when out walking, but some dogs cannot be let free in parks. We have a 6 year old beagle who despite our efforts and probably well over a thousand quid spent on training just has no recall..As with dogs of his breed, he only has to spot or scent something enticing and he's off.... I've spent to much hours chasing after or hunting for him in the past - there was one memorable summers day at Blythe Hill park when he slipped his lead and ran amok among all the picnicking families, grabbing drumsticks and hotdogs and sandwiches and whatever else he could snatch, leaving me to deal with some very angry people... There was a time when he was younger when I thought that he had got the recal thing but this was after months of training. But then he started to not answer or come back, running off out of the park etc.. So we used one of those extra long leads so he could at least enjoy a bit of a run..we have tried letting him run free in gated dog parks or empty tennis courts but he gives us the runaround come when he's called and even offers of his favourite treats aren't enough to entice him.. A lot of people do get upset seeing him on his lead while their dogs run freely and both myself and husband have been met with abuse from other dog owners, and there have been some very nasty altercations. There's nothing we'd love more than to be able to let our dog roam freely in the park but we dare not let him do so, for his safety... All this is to say that some of us do have very good reasons for keeping our dogs on the leash when out and sometimes it would seem that a good many owners ought to do same...

Hi. Try. "Big House Dreams" by someone called Susan or Carol de Chesere-Boyle authors name probably wrong but search by title will get you there. Hope this ends your search. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know it's not much to go on but I'm trying to > remember the name of this author, or her book. It > was published quite recently I think and was > written by an American woman writing about the > American south- kind of a family saga covering > several generations. I think it won a prize and > it's her first novel. Can anyone help?

mrss,just caught this thread today and I wanted to say how sorry I am to hear about your depression and the dreadful lack of care you received in the absence of your regular GP. As someone who has suffered with depression since childhood, I know just how despairing it feels when the black dog descends. Unfortunately, it's a time when you're not feeling at your strongest and it's all too easy to let yourself be pushed around or fobbed off by unsympathetic medical professionals who really should know better. I am just coming out of a three year spiral, during which I ended up accepting redundancy from work, as I did not believe that I would ever recover sufficiently to return. The day after I signed the papers was one of my bleakest days ever, and as it happened I managed to get an appointment at my GP surgery, but with a different GP instead of my usually incredibly supportive GP. The GP told me that I should pull myself together and get back into work (and this minutes after explaining to her that I had signed a redundancy agreement the day before). I was so shocked that I actually gave her a piece of my mind! I went home, and as you do when you're depressed, ran it over and over and over in my mind, and then thought, hell, no! I'm not letting her treat me like this. So, as Belle suggested that you do, I wrote to the practice and within days I had a phone call inviting me to meet with the practice manager and another senior member of the practice management team, which I duly did. I explained to them what had happened, and they presented several options of dealing with the matter, including a face-to-face meeting with the doctor concerned. I chose that option because I wanted her to know just how badly her treatment and attitude had affected me, and that had she behaved towards me in the same way just a day earlier, I might well have gone and thrown myself under a train, having been at the receiving end of disgraceful treatment from my employer and the union that was supposed to support me). Moreover, I wanted to address her face to face because in the event that I needed to make an urgent appointment in the future, and she happened to be the duty doctor and the only one available, that I could feel able to see her knowing that I would be listened to and treated accordingly. To cut a long story short, I received a very humble apology from the GP concerned, and as it happens, there has been an occasion when she was the only GP available and I had no choice but to see her. As I pointed out to her, I might be severely depressed, but I am not a doormat, and I can only wonder how other people living with depression or other debilitating mental health issues but lacking my assertiveness would have responded to that particular doctor. So, yes, when you're feeling better, it is definitely worthwhile making a complaint to the PALS - it might be too late for you, but hopefully it will mean that other patients do not have to endure the appalling lack of care offered to yourself. I applaud your willingness to seek support from others - and I hope that it won't be long before the medication kicks in, and that you can start to explore other forms of treatment such as yoga or acupuncture, as well as allowing yourself to start to enjoy these last few months of your pregnancy.

We've been travelling with our little one since he was a few months old, and never encountered any problems that couldn't be easily solved. A few people have mentioned the problems of having to wait for buggy to be unloaded etc. However, we always used a Quinny Zapp which folds up very small in its own carry bag which has a shoulder strap, and you can store it in the overhead locker, hence no hanging around waiting for it to appear on baggage rev claim carousel. Its also very light, and as a 3 wheeler, can cope with most terrain.... Good luck and enjoy your holiday...

Oh God! The damage that having children does to our sex lives...strange when you think that this is how we got the little buggers in the first place! I hate to throw a dampener on things, but it's not just young children that torpedoes our sex lives. They start growing up, and becoming more and ore curious and take up more and more of our energies. Sorry to say this, but you are unlikely to regain anything that resembles a regular sex life until they are grown and out of the house! This has been our experience. And even now with the kids gone, we still have jobs and 1001 other things that take up our time and energies, and the only people we know having regular sex lives are our as yet child-free kids. And now that their children have come along, and we are on their doorsteps, we are doing the grandparent thing throughout the week and at weekends and and that is it for us.... As for 50 Shades...took it on holiday to Morocco this year, (just hubby and myself, for once) all three volumes, and ended up wishing that I had brought along my copy of Boccaccio's Decameron instead...utter drivel, seriously badly written (and this is after the editors had done their best with it), annoying protagonist and a seriously warped man who needed some serious counselling ...and no, it didn't spice up our holiday!