<t>Thanks for your replies everyone.<br/> Irene, believe me I know she's not perfect! She is a manipulator, who uses emotional blackmail to the extreme, but the thing is she does love her Daughter, if it came to it she would lay down her life and die for her, but she doesn't have a clue how to look ...

<t>Survived the court.... just about!Had a three hour wait as my Daughter's solicitor or barrister (not sure who he was)got stuck in snow somewhere on his journey. The Judge wasn't there either so we sat in the court looking at a phone which was on loudspeaker from which he spoke.<br/> I saw my Daug...

<t>I cannot thank you enough for your support, it feels so isolating sometimes to be in this situation and as I lost my best friend to cancer this summer there is nobody I can turn to who knows my Daughter and how hard the last nine years have been for me.<br/> Irene, my other G.D is still at home b...

Thank you so much, both of you. x

rosie

<t>Hi just an update since last post really and also a way of writing down my fear and frustrations as I have nobody else to talk to.<br/> My Daughter's benefits ended and after 8 weeks of hardly any contact with my G.D she suddenly started to phone her and to cut a long story short informed me she ...

Thanks help, I have learned more on here than from anyone I have spoken to during all this.

rosie

<t>Sorry, one last thing! Does anyone have any idea what S.S from my area should be doing? The S.W from my G.D area was horrified that they had not been to see us as they had been made fully aware of the case and apparently because my G.D is on the Child Protection Register they should have been vis...

Oops, must have lost a day somewhere, will be phoning S.W Monday not tomorrow!

rosie

<t>Thanks so much to everyone who answered, its good to feel less alone and isolated. We got back from the hospital at midnight last night due to a technical fault on one of the trains, we were frozen by the time we got in as the heating on the train had packed in!<br/> I know all this is totally wo...

<t>I will try to keep this as short as possible.<br/> Following a heartbreaking text from my nine year old Grandddaughter eight weeks ago, at the end of my tether I drove two hours to their house where she was already outside waiting for me,she got in the car, we drove round the block and I texted h...