Today in work we had our annual Christmas carol concert, except that instead of gathering around the Christmas tree in reception with a spread laid on by the directors, we all gathered around our laptops on Zoom and had to provide our own mince pies. It was nice and festive and there was a Christmas quiz afterward with prize donated by the tea club ( Read more... )

After almost three years slogging through a system that at times has seemed almost designed to thwart them at every turn, my sister and brother-in-law finally made it to their final adoption hearing this morning, which lasted all of ten minutes. It was a formality. The birth family offered no objection - in fact, the birth father submitted a letter ( Read more... )