wooohooo

The sun is shining and I feel good

I had a lovely evening last night with a friend (ok he did spoil it a bit at the end by telling me he he really wants me always has). He knows I will only ever be his friend, someone he can talk to. He is one of these people who everyone else turns to with their problems, I am the one he can turn to ocassionally when there is nobody else.

I am in a good mood, things with the butterfly man have been put to rest. We can be friends, we both know there is a spark there but it isn't going to be lit. Instead we will work together to do more business, it makes more sense, the more business he gives me the better prices I can give him, both businesses benefit.

DC arrived home from his travels yesterday. He has lots of tales to tell, he says his trip was amazing. After being away for 28 days we will just about get used to him being back when he will be gone again. I can't believe that this time next week I will be taking him to Uni.

All this is good but the icing on the cake has to be the letter I just got from my MP. He enclosed a letter from Rt Hon Stephen Timm MP.

"In this case HMRC failed their responsibilities and LIR has at all times provided the correct information regarding her income and circumstances. She therefore met her responsibilities and I am pleased to say that HMRC have reviewed this case and have written off the overpayments. all her acounts are now balanced with no overpayments. .................They have therefore now repaid the incorrectly recovered amount of ****** . HMRC confirm that no further recoveries are being made from LIR's award."

They have also apologised for sending me both incorrect and confusing information and apologise for any worry and distress their mistakes have caused.

I am so glad that they had made me so angry that I wrote to my MP about this. If I had just accepted that I owed them money and must pay it back, I would still be paying them a lot of money I can't afford to lose. .............................Go me ..................I got something right for once in my life

News

This time last week I was out with Harvey. We had gone to the dating site social evening which remnds me that I need to go see if the photos have been put up yet. I don't think I am in any of them but you never know. Once I have checked them out I intend to delete my profile just like Romeo has.

It has been a couple of days since I last heard from Romeo until this evening. We exchanged a few emails, he says he is hoping to return soon and he feels good now that he has heard from me........awww.

Whilst my dinner was cooking Harvey came online. He asked if he could phone me, he always wants to call my landline (not a great idea as it is always noisy as its close to the tv in the living room). I volunteered to phone him from my mobile.

It seems he has been busy in the last week. since I helped him with his job application he has been to stay with his sister in London. He told the company he had applied to that he would be there on Monday so they called him in for an interview. He got the job and starts on Tuesday.

So Harvey is moving to London, he is looking forward to this new start.

We have promised to keep in touch. I expect the reality is that we will speak a few times to begin with but that after a while we shall cease to talk. A case of being there as a friend for a season. I have shown him how to use the files on his computer. He now has a CV written up on his computer and knows where to find it.

Harvey was very grateful to me for helping him get this job but the reality is that he got it on his own merits. He had been offered the job before his application form arrived. He knows now that he can do it.

I hope that I have taught Harvey to have more self belief than he had when we first met.

Some of you will be aware that today was GCSE results day. This meant that it was the turn of ET to troop off to school this morning to join his mates in the queue to receive that sheet of paper that will begin to shape the rest of his life. He didn't get quite get the results he had hoped for, he confided in me last night that he hadn't done as much revision as he should have done. He did get 10 GCSE passes, he got more than enough to take the A'levels he wants. This afternoon he enrolled at the same college OJ goes to. It is interesting that out of all the many colleges in the area they both chose the same one, plus they have both chosen to study Law!! Where OJ is taking Pure Maths, Further Maths and ICT. But ET will now be doing Computing, Media Studies and Music.

It goes without saying that I am proud of him. He knows what he wants to do and hes going for it.