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Latest post on 21 October 2012 - 21:10

When my DD was one month old my MIL came to stay. The first time she saw me breastfeeding she decided to 'help' me by holding my breast for the entire feed and lightly caressing it. I had already been bfeeding my daughter for a month so knew what I was doing by then. I was so uncomfortable and she just didn't get it. Ahhh, makes my skin crawl just thinking about it again! Maybe she thought it was the babies head she was stroking :D

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Latest post on 21 October 2012 - 20:19

Interesting and nice package? I look forward to your threads which will be about I cant believe this woman, I gave her a lovely package and its all gone wrong. I cant believe she's doing the things she is. But seriously - dont make too much out of the fact you're employing a maid, try and be more matter of fact about it. Start off with a fair salary for a fair days work and when you think she deserves extras then you can provide them. But even them I wouldnt be providing phone cards. My lot have a room and ensuite each, a satellite package, a day off every week thats compensated for if they every have to work it, nice work clothes that are provided, they can eat what they want and cook what they want and I buy them filipino things every month as well. I go by the rule of thumb that if I've ever done the job in the house thats needind doing, or my daughters have - then the maids do it also. For that reason they dont do things like wash the cars. In fact thats one of my pet hates - seeing women out on the street at 5.30am washing cars. Last but not least - Dont leave yourself without any room for manouvere and I think thats what you'll be doing if you dont think past offeirng a nice and interesting package. Its enough to be offering the job - to start with.

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Latest post on 18 October 2012 - 19:10

BTW, what makes the family 'dysfunctional'. is it any of our business?

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Latest post on 18 October 2012 - 19:08

I think your role in this is over apart from telling the parents or the police. It is done. Well done. :)

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Latest post on 18 October 2012 - 13:45

I dont understand why you have to proceed in a way that prevents the bloke from knowing that he's been sussed. The girl has a family as dysfunctional as it may be, and I think its time now for you to go to the family and let what will be, be. I would be very peed off indeed if someone knew this about my child and they were going about trying to sort things themself - and you never know, this may just be a situation that the family will manage to handle despite their dysfunction. I think your role in this is over apart from telling the parents or the police. <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 18/10/2012</em>

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Latest post on 17 October 2012 - 22:33

I think it sounds more like a toddler group you're looking for. You know, the kind of place where the mums have a blether whilst the children play either supervised or unsupervised I dont know of any kind of nursery where you'd be alllowed to say because it kind of defeats the purpose of sending the wee one to nursery, and of course in other countries you wouldnt be allowed to stay unless you had an enhanced CRB certificate. <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 17/10/2012</em>

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Latest post on 17 October 2012 - 22:26

My maids could run my house in my abscence but it doesnt mean to say they run it day in and day out because they dont. However if any of them turned round and said to me - I dont want to cook, I'd say well there's the door. I cook, so they cook. Basically what I'm saying is that - if its a job in the house you or you children have done - then they also do it. Send her back to the agency and remember that as stay at home mums we spend most of the time at home doing all that has to be done - your maid is being paid to do that, she has her time and day off - so why think about taking her out. This is what being a housewife is about and thats what your maid is - a paid housewife.

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Latest post on 17 October 2012 - 21:45

I dont give the Eid holidays to my Christian staff, instead they get paid extra for the day or they can have a day added to their leave allocation. My right hand man who's Muslim and who'se been with us for 25 years takes one day because he reckons that after lunchtime prayers on the first day of Eid - Eid is over At Christmas my Christian staff have Christmas day off but they always ask to go to midnight mass and it would seem they're rather do this and be at home with us on Christmas day. So even though they've had all of Christmas day up to now, this year they'll go to midnight mass. They'll be taken to, and brought home from Church, and they'll muck in with the rest of us to do what has to be done on Christmas day, And that will be a lot because I have a very very full house this year - my daughter has her Islamic wedding ceremony on the 26th and on the 27th she's having the Mr and Mrs that the young ones seems to like nowadays, at home. Just do what suits you, I do for the most part and staff stay with me for years. Even the European expats we employ to help care for our son. My husband spent his life in the military and we were on duty all of the timem, and all my children except one are in jobs where they have to do shifts and work holidays. Its life.

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Latest post on 17 October 2012 - 19:48

I have sent a letter to 7days asking them to investigate the disappearance of American turkey products from our shelves. We are at least owed a proper explanation. My kids have turkey sandwiches every day and this is a real pain not having turkey. Have also sent a letter to Butterball asking what is going on and when they are going to return. I understand about the kids and their sandwiches and if these products dont come back on the shelves then it will be a problem in this house as well - my son who's severly autistic has had turkey bacon for his breakfast for years now and goodness knows what will happen when what I have in the freezer runs out. The reality is that this kind of thing happens all over the world - I'm thinking of Asda stopping production of their teddy bear chicken nuggets overnight. Its life. Do I think we're owed and explanation - no. edited by DesertRose1958 on 17/10/2012 <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 17/10/2012</em>

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Latest post on 17 October 2012 - 19:44

Did anyone notice a shortage of sliced turkey, especially the American brands? We cant get it for love nor money here in Oman either. And its not just Turkey, its any of the prepared stuff like turkey bacon and good hotdogs.

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Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 17:58

So she says she was drugged to make her sleep and people I know who say the tea has a bit of a taste about it, insist its medicine to curb a persons 'appetite' so to speak. I think the reality is that its a herb along the lines of zatar thats used in some regions of Oman when making tea. Whatever it is the woman is a disgrace and she should consider herself lucky that she was able to sleep in the afternoon - better that than moving a huge pile of sand from one side of the excercise courtyard to the other as a form of excercise. But seriously - there would have been no ac's in the morning and I think anyone would sleep when the ac's go on for a couple of hours after lunch. eta - I've just remembered that a few of the women here had a SN child in this school. :( <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 15/10/2012</em>

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Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 08:22

We're going very soon and the government website says no yellow fever vaccination certificate is required. What does that mean? Does it mean you dont need the jab or just that you dont have to prove that you've had it. Oman Air - fantastic connections/direct flights to Zanzibar but its only the current schedule on the website just now, but after the 27th October it will change.

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Latest post on 06 October 2012 - 10:06

I was thinking of staying on Mahe, I will have a look at Trip Advisor Forum, thank you. I think you may be going to the wrong place on holday if its bars and restaurants within a few minutes walk of a hotel your looking for. Its not that kind of place and nightlife is within the hotel.

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Latest post on 05 October 2012 - 12:13

Thanks! My DD has had Lyme Disease so I'm a little freaked out by ticks and very wary of them. My cats used to get them in the UK all the time but I haven't see any on them here or on my dog. I'll keep an eye on them though. Is there a particular tick "season"? TIA Very similar to a dog tick is common here, they live in the sand and catch onto dogs pads as they walk - they're indestructible little critters - not interested in cats or people though. There has been a tick explosion of these kinds in some years, usually around spring time. My dogs are near the end of their life and this year for the first time ever they had ticks. Loads and loads and loads of them. It was horrific. Eventually to get rid of them we had to remove all of our grass and clear the entire garden of soil to the depth of about 2ft then replace it with new stuff. Our dogs are now tick free and happy but at a cost of about 50,000 dhms to us. A big part of that tho was the new artificial grass we put down because I dont want to go through the tick thing again and I'm hoping this will help. The vet told me that one day she had a dog in her clinic and the ticks were actually falling off it as it walked through to her room. I wonder what it is that has caused this increase in infestations.

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Latest post on 02 October 2012 - 23:22

Tell her that you can only assist on the days that the schedules match... And I would ask her to chip in for a driver's salary, petrol and car maintenance as well. You never know, it might put her off Why would it? Its more than likely she'd then think well I'm paying half the cost of the driver so you, the op, can have him when I dont need them. As for the OP. I honestly dont know how I'd handle it.

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Latest post on 01 October 2012 - 21:36

I blether away to my gigglers all the time and if we're in the kitchen together and a good song comes on we sing away to it and have a dance if its a really good song. I keep staff for years but I'm no soft touch. I think its all about striking a balance. I couldnt do the professional thing. Are you a chatty person in general DR? I'm not particularly chatty so I think not chatting to my maid is part of that. It's just not in my nature to blether away to anyone! No, not especially. I just couldnt share a home with people and not be involved with them, even if its just blethering away whilst doing our bits and pieces. I dont know how things work out for me the way they do with staff, the longest has worked with me for 24 years and he now has his family here as well - I look upon them as family tho if thats any help because they are all someones daughters. Dont get me wrong - I am absolutely no soft touch but I just couldnt not have anything going on with people working for me.

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Latest post on 01 October 2012 - 12:17

I blether away to my gigglers all the time and if we're in the kitchen together and a good song comes on we sing away to it and have a dance if its a really good song. I keep staff for years but I'm no soft touch. I think its all about striking a balance. I couldnt do the professional thing.

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Latest post on 01 October 2012 - 10:03

We went to the Seychelles and stayed at the Banyan Tree in one of the Bungalows. It was nice but par for the course. We wouldnt go back because the sea in the bay is too rough to swim in most of the year round, and the food was not what it should have been though if you like corked wine you'll be happy at mealtimes. There is another beach thats supposed to be one of the most beautuful in the world, and it was nice, but its patrolled by police who tell you to leave one person minding the bags whilst the other swims. Also,you seem to have to walk very far out to sea to get water thats up past your knees. The island can be got around in less than an hour and I was glad we were only there for 4days because I would have gone bonkers if we'd been there longer - and thats coming from someone who stayed in a nissan hut on Masirah Island for over a year. :D

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Latest post on 30 September 2012 - 15:33

I have a big ad running down the sidde of the page and cant type or read much. So all I'll say is - that animals may have to bed fed greens but what is practiced and what is preached are probably two very different things in todays world. I suspect that much is gotten round by the 'no animail or animal bye products'. I dont for a minute believe that chickens we see in the shops from far flung countires havent been mickey finned so to speak.

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Latest post on 30 September 2012 - 15:22

Well according to Islamic rites meat needs to be pure and clean, so hormones are a no-no. if companies won't comply, they will lose their certificate. Had some people from USA tell me the meat here at McD tastes much better than back in the States. The pure and clean generally means not to have been fed on other animals or animal by products. The HFA of the UK makes not mention of no hormones etc allowed and this is their conclusion of what makes Halal Meat etc Apart from slaughtering methods we have to ensure that the animals for the Islamic ritual slaughter are raised and procured from farms which do not feed them any thing that might contain animal derivatives. For regurgitating animal there is a laid down Qur`anic rule that says, "eat and pastures your cattle therein" Ta Ha 20:54 This is a lucid and transparent axiom. There would have been no BSE or vCJD, millions of pounds and dozens of lives could have been saved, if only proper care was taken for animal feed and, this consideration had been implemented.

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Latest post on 30 September 2012 - 15:20

Well according to Islamic rites meat needs to be pure and clean, so hormones are a no-no. if companies won't comply, they will lose their certificate. Had some people from USA tell me the meat here at McD tastes much better than back in the States. The pure and clean generally means not to have been fed on other animals or animal by products. The HFA of the UK makes not mention of no hormones etc allowed and this is their conclusion of what makes Halal Meat etc Apart from slaughtering methods we have to ensure that the animals for the Islamic ritual slaughter are raised and procured from farms which do not feed them any thing that might contain animal derivatives. For regurgitating animal there is a laid down Qur`anic rule that says, "eat and pastures your cattle therein" Ta Ha 20:54 This is a lucid and transparent axiom. There would have been no BSE or vCJD, millions of pounds and dozens of lives could have been saved, if only proper care was taken for animal feed and, this consideration had been implemented.

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Latest post on 30 September 2012 - 12:57

I thought Halal referred to a method of slaughter and not how an animal was reared or fed on. I dont think it follows that Halal meat will not have been given any kind of hormones. I think the only way an animal wouldnt have received hormones or antibiotics or the likes would be for it to have been raised organically perhaps.

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Latest post on 27 September 2012 - 01:47

Not just any price!!! A high price! Would you be happy if your dad sold you off cheap? I wouldn't be happy if my father 'sold me off' for any price, low or high. The way I read the story, the father is saying that he places more value on how someone who will treat his daughter than value on how much they can afford to pay for her. There is a reason for these dowries ... he will come to regret his "no dowry" policy when his daughter has to live on 2 riyals ... Quite frankly you come across as knowing next to nothing about the practice of Dowry or Mahar and I suspect you're just here to see what you can stir up. Better luck time. <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 27/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 27 September 2012 - 01:42

forget to metion done 230km on my Infinity ,before being mom ;) 195km of 207 dangerous !! edited by aline_jlt on 26/09/2012 Er you're actually saying, [b'>with a smiley face[/b'>, that you did 230 kph in your car? It doesn't natter it was 'before being mom', in an infinity or flipping landcruiser, what if you'd lost control and gone into another car? Where there were children, or a whole family or hey, just even someone else driving home to his/her family? I am appalled at this bragging honestly. I think people who do irresponsible things like the above, let alone childishly think its cool to admit it, dont actually think there will ever be a consequence of it.

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Latest post on 22 September 2012 - 09:11

Thanks ladies, the older maid I am interviewing wants 1,400dhs salary plus 600dhs for her accommodation and then transport costs. Does that seem right? Total would be about 2,500dhs plus extra for toiletries and mobile etc. I obviously need to have a face to face interview properly but that's what she told me on the phone. She is here already - would I have to pay for her to fly back to the Philippines before she joins us? Also - do maids qualify for end of service? So many questions, aaargh! Haha she's having a laugh. Extra for toiletries and mobile???? Oh and just as a wee extra - you tell the would be employees what the salary is and to be quite frank if they dont like it they can lump it. Just be careful its not you that end up getting interviewed.

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Latest post on 21 September 2012 - 07:54

I have been in Dubai for a fair no of years and used many many taxis but the absolute worst experience was a Filipina in a Pink taxi from the airport to home and she was just so full of anger and venom at seven in the am that I just asked her to drop me off halfway and preferred flagging another one with my luggage. Never felt happier to get into a stinky male driven one after that I can assure you. :) Completely disrespectful, unsafe and I can't imagine how foul her mood may have been on some poor unsuspecting customer by the time her shift ended. Avoid pink taxis!! It sounds like I'm better off avoiding the pink taxis then... :-/ I used the pink taxis 4 times last week with abosolutely no problems at all. The women were good drivers, polite and really nice.

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Latest post on 21 September 2012 - 06:59

Lady sydelle, a person called you and asked how much you charged and you are doing nothing about it. So, when repeating this story to others please dont say the police didnt do anything about it. Just always keep in mind that its you who isnt doing anything about it other than post on a forum asking for advice on how to handle it.

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Latest post on 16 September 2012 - 15:30

I think providing the onward connecting flight is standard, its what I always do, in fact I dont know anyone who doesnt. I couldnt put a person on a bus after a journey of any length. Getting to and from the airport - again we cover that, but excess baggage is the persons responsibility. So is any cargo sent during the year. Salaries in advance - also standard I think. Well it is in this house but because my maids are wrung dry be their families so we work things out so their families dont know what they are going with etc. They always have a wee nest egg of salary to come back to that their families dont know about. I think I would have tried to get more information about the tv going on board the connecting flight. It wouldnt have been enough for me that I was told the maid could 'try' and check it in. I'd have made sure she knew exactly what a palaver the tv could be on the journey and I'd have made it clear - if you take it dont call me if things go wrong. I wouldnt be surprised if the person dealing with her in Manila was deliberately being awkward just so she'd grease his hand with something. Sadly its all dog eat dog in that part of the world.

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Latest post on 13 September 2012 - 09:24

I always insist the vacation is taken but only because everyone needs a holiday to recharge their batteries.

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Latest post on 12 September 2012 - 10:26

But still, it is getting a bit ugly in here. It is indeed DesertRose. I have to admit that I've been guilty of throwing the most awful tantrums when people haven't really deserved them. I wish I could always keep my cool but sometimes I fail. Me too, especially when there are other things going on as well and I'm at the end of my tether with them. We probably all are; but most of us realise that we have been out of line and are a bit sheepish about the whole incident rather than post on an open forum about what awful customer service we got and how rude the manager was.... or if we do post it's more on the line of "oops can't believe i did that" Nah, I dont believe we're always so upfront even with ourselves about how we can be at times.

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Latest post on 12 September 2012 - 10:24

I had my bag pickpocketed in C4 Oman during Ramadam, everything in my wallet including 6000Dhms in cash went, along with all cards and official ID's etc. To add insult to injury when I was in the security managers office, giving it laldy, a fly flew into my mouth. Well not just into my mouth, it then proceeded to partly fly down my gullet. I did the only thing I could do and swallowed. :D OP, I think flies are par for the course out here and if you'd been sold the water with the fly in it then you could have complained but to be honest the water was yours when the fly took a dunk in it and to have expected the water to be replaced was a bit much. Two people ended up with their knickers in twist and its just so ridiculous really. At least you didn't expect C4 to replace the AED 6000 ;) No Sandy I didnt, but I did expect the police to send a team of detectives to C4 and start an international woman hunt for the blighters who robbed me. Instead all I got was :- A fly for dinner An ac leaking over my head instead of the drink that I needed A telling off from the police sargeant for not checking my bag after I had told a woman the price of some fruit ( her pal robbed me whilst I spoke to the first woman) A telling off for carrying so much money in my wallet. A telling off for trusting people - the world has changed didnt I know. A telling off for making the Sgt angry because 6000 dhms is a lot of money didnt I know. Still, and this really isnt very nice - 2 weeks later 3 very dangerous criminals escaped out of a bathroom window of the very same police station. I just hope the Sgt wasnt too upset about it and that his wallet was still in his pocket when it was realised the very dangerous criminals werent coming out the loo anytime soon. Well not through the door they went in by. :D <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 12/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 12 September 2012 - 10:08

But still, it is getting a bit ugly in here. It is indeed DesertRose. I have to admit that I've been guilty of throwing the most awful tantrums when people haven't really deserved them. I wish I could always keep my cool but sometimes I fail. Me too, especially when there are other things going on as well and I'm at the end of my tether with them.

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Latest post on 12 September 2012 - 09:17

Desert rose I always love your posts. You have just made me laugh, when I so badly needed to. Taking my mum back to hospital tomorrow for what wont be good news. Please God it wont be as bad a I fear. She dosent want to saty in although the doctors are expecting her to. Had a ***** of a weekend with adult DD. Really trying to keep body & soul together for my Dad who expects bad news also. If it comes we then have to relay it to the rest of my brothers & sisters in another country. LSH long suffering husbands birthday today & Im not with him. Dont even know whe I will return to ME. Sorry didnt mean to get in to a full on violin job here. Im sorry you lost your wallet. But thank you for your posts & especialy for making me laugh. Yes not much difference in those two languages ..... :cool: I just confused you with the OP :D Thank goodness someone pointed it out or you'd be wondering what the blazes I was going on about. But seriously, I hope things are as ok as you are hoping for, and that your family is back on an even keel sooner rather than later. I'll keep your mum in my thoughts today, you also, because I know first hand how hard it can be being the one who is the support for everyone else through very hard times. xxxxxxxx ps - your husband will get over being on his own for his birthday, he might even forget he has one - well that is if how often a husband forgets his wifes birthday is anything to go by. ;: <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 12/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 12 September 2012 - 09:11

Blimey, a woman tells us about her mum and how things are very hard right now and still people give her a kicking. Cant yesterday just be put down to the straw that broke the camels back? Cant what is fast becoming ugliness stop? I think you are mixing up Neamhai with OP. I had to go back and look myself...similar usernames but not same poster... So I am. :D But still, it is getting a bit ugly in here. I shall edit. <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 12/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 11 September 2012 - 23:09

I had my bag pickpocketed in C4 Oman during Ramadam, everything in my wallet including 6000Dhms in cash went, along with all cards and official ID's etc. To add insult to injury when I was in the security managers office, giving it laldy, a fly flew into my mouth. Well not just into my mouth, it then proceeded to partly fly down my gullet. I did the only thing I could do and swallowed. :D . As dreadful as that must have been, you literally just made me burst out laughing! LOL definitely one of those incidents that you have to laugh at when you look at it later...you lived to tell the tale! It got worse - I then went to the poice station to report the theft and the ac I sat under leaked all over my head. I was in such a daze I said to my daughter - am I getting wet??? !!!! I wasnt just wet I was soaking :D Oh and there was when we went in and the police didnt realise my daughter spoke fluent arabic, and the Sgt said to a constable - you take the statement and the constable said that he didnt speak Englsih. No problem said the Sgt, you speak Zanzibari and its a bit the same, its has the same letters. Sometimes you just have to laugh :D

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Latest post on 11 September 2012 - 22:51

Malimis, I think you're right to be concerned because this kind of situation is quite often brushed off as being not much of a problem. I dont think its always the case, it wasnt in our situation, some of my children picked up the foreign language automatically, but one didnt and his early school years were not that great to be honest. It also spilled over into his out of school life and he was very unhappy for a long time. I think all that can be said is - just watch your DD and if it looks like she's not coping then accept that this situation can often be portrayed to be more difficult that people generally make it out to be. Trust your instincts as a mum and if you think your wee girl is not coping then she probably isnt. Than again she will more than likely be blethering away in English 6 months from now and you'll wonder why you were worried.

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Latest post on 11 September 2012 - 22:16

I had my bag pickpocketed in C4 Oman during Ramadam, everything in my wallet including 6000Dhms in cash went, along with all cards and official ID's etc. To add insult to injury when I was in the security managers office, giving it laldy, a fly flew into my mouth. Well not just into my mouth, it then proceeded to partly fly down my gullet. I did the only thing I could do and swallowed. :D OP, I think flies are par for the course out here and if you'd been sold the water with the fly in it then you could have complained but to be honest the water was yours when the fly took a dunk in it and to have expected the water to be replaced was a bit much. Two people ended up with their knickers in twist and its just so ridiculous really.

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Latest post on 08 September 2012 - 20:02

We have paid 70 pounds an hour for a sensory integrationist ( an OT who has done extra qualifications in sensory integration) to come from the UK and work with our son. A UK based behavioural therapist such as someone doing ABA would be about 40 pounds an hour depending on how experienced the therapist is, or about 10 pounds and hour if they are a trainee who can run a home based program under supervision The family would also have to decide if they were accomodating the person and paying for flights, or if the person was having to do this from what they are paid. One thing I would say is this - anyone bringing a therapist would be advised to work out a package rate and not pay hourly. They should also find out what the person would expect to earn before tax in their home country and work out their rate based on that. It doesnt necessarily follow that a person is paid Dubai rates because they would be working in Dubai on a short term contract. Or that a SA based therapist would earn what a UK or USA based therapist would earn. hth :) <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 08/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 08 September 2012 - 15:55

Dxb, I've just noticed you little one is 5 so I've googled body odour and 5 years old and its not an uncommon occurence. It can occur from about the age of 3. However, there was also plenty on how milk/lactose can also cause the problem and when parents have switched their child to organic milk the problem disapeared. Maybe the school unform is just a co-incidence ? Its just a thought :) <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 08/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 08 September 2012 - 14:32

I think if your little one is getting BO, then its maybe because she's at an age where her perspiration is becoming that of a bigger girl rather than a wee girl. I wouldnt stop her eating the type of things you've mentioned, instead I'd investigate anti perspirants for her. I know its horrible to think of these things but children develop so much earlier these days - my just 7 year old grandaughter already complains of a sore 'chest' so to speak and there are other signs that she's now more of a big girl physically than her age would indicate. hth :) <em>edited by DesertRose1958 on 08/09/2012</em>

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Latest post on 08 September 2012 - 14:26

Seriously, I think this is an opportunity you'd be better to pass up. It will only bring problems and not necessarily ones that come wrapped in a shawl. :)

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Latest post on 06 September 2012 - 21:01

This thread reminds me of the time we were at Eurodisney when my son was about 12 and he was making his usual autistic noises, he was also stimming. He was happy. Anyway this German bloke started booing and hissing and just generally being really nasty about my son and I cant describe how I felt, I just felt so awful. Anyway he had been sitting on a wall beside the Dumbo ride that we were waiting to go on and the next thing he just vanished from site. He was literally sitting there like humpty dumpty one minure and in the blink of an eyelid he was gone over wall - the roar that then went up had to be heard to be believed and I know someone passing him had heard him and tipped him off the wall. lololol He came back into view and though I dont speak German It was obvious he was asking - who did that. I still laugh about it and if I ever met the person who did it they could have anything they wanted from me. But back to the OP - I think at times people can forget that just because they are out for a coffee and quiet chat that its not guaranteed you'll get one just because you want one - especially in chain type places.

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Latest post on 06 September 2012 - 20:51

Blimey, the OP's hubbie has taken a bit of a battering from a few people when they dont knows what he does for a living and just how much time he has left in the day to be a housewife when he gets home. Its all well and good saying - oh my husband managed, but so what? Not everyones day can allow that.

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Latest post on 06 September 2012 - 20:18

Oh and dont go through an agent here to make the booking, do it on the uk website and give a uk address because once you mention a middle east adress via the phone the price will increase by 800 omani rials, well it did for what we were booking. I did it online, on the uk site, I gave a uk address and paid with my husbands uae credit card.

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 06 September 2012 - 20:15

We've been countless times due to my son and we're due to go again at the end of the month. First time we went we stayed in the Hotel Cheyanne?, it was basic but did the job. After that we've always stayed at the Disney Hotel, and that includes last year when I went with my grandchildren for 5 days. However this time round we're doing the Hotel New York because there was a difference of 1000 omani rials in price and my son at 21 (special needs) is past the characters to quite and extent. If I was going again with small children I would stay at the Disney hotel because its just so handy, and you do get fast track passes for some of the rides as well as early entry to the park each day. You can also get a room service breakfast which may not seem like much but a few days with people who attack a buffet like a heard of elephants and who let their kids run loose can be too much - well it is for me. Also, you are kind of guaranteed wall to wall characters at dinner etc but at two years old Im not sure you're little one would bother that much with them. I think on the basis of it all I'd go for the hotel new york given the ages of your children. my youngest grandchild was 7 months when we were there but the big ones were 4 and 6, old enough to enjoy it all and recognise the characters etc. We've also done a trip where we stayed in Paris and that wasnt so great, it was doable but I wouldnt do it again. I'm even thinking that somewhere like the hotel cheyanne? would be ok for you, you get the bus to the gate and it only takes a few minutes, but check what the breakfasts are as it could just be a continental whereas you might like your toddler to have somthing more substantial. hth

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 01 September 2012 - 22:55

I may be coming up on Thursday but just in case my plans change I dont mind sending the items to you before then. Would that help you out :) ps - I sent you a message via your website with regards to the wedding cake I mentioned to you before.

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 03 August 2012 - 23:30

If you wanted to take a bottle of something you could get the non-alcoholic date or pomegranate (my favourite) sparkling juice from Bateel. We often take some when visiting muslim friends and it is generally much appreciated. Judging by the way my inlaws gulp this stuff down at Christmas - if they were allowed the real stuff they'd all be in rehab. My sister in law in particular loves it and when I took her home from her first bout of chemo and I asked if she wanted a cuppa, she said no, I want champagne ;););)

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 03 August 2012 - 09:18

I"m not sure if you're a stay at home mum but if you are then I think I would start keeping 'office hours' in that I'd care for the house and what it entails but once my husband got home I'd down tools. Have dinner and get your daughter to see to the dishes, but once hubby is home - thats it, no more house related work. If your daughter wont do the dishes then stop doing something for her, or cut her allowance a bit. Your age - age can impact on how we perceive things and I think before I made my mind up about a divorce I'd be making changes in my day to day life. Sit your family down and tell them about the changes you want to make because thats the only way they'll be aware of whats going on. If you work outside of the home then you may just have to stop doing things in order to get some rest. And if its possible to get some time away alone I'd go on a wee holiday. It will give you time to think and look at things from a distance. It will also give you time to rest and recover to some extent.

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 02 August 2012 - 21:42

I was just saying to my daughter today that I want to bring my mum on holiday for a wee while and how would I get her on the plane. Does anyone know the answer to the original question?

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EW OLDHAND

Latest post on 13 July 2012 - 23:50

For anyone with a child experiencing communication delays these websites below are excellent http://www.afasicengland.org.uk/ http://www.talkingpoint.org.uk/en/EY-worker/EY%20Directory/Free%20Resources%20for%20Parents.aspx

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