This thread has wandered a long way from home ![noooo:](https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/Smileys/default/no.gif)
We have just been filling in time WAITING for someone to tell us what happened. Last we heard Mrs Nick was racing, in a cloud of tyre smoke, toward Ellesmere Port ~ since when nothing about the plight of the abandoned little girl, Mrs Nick's explanation, your excuses ..... NOTHING! ![evil:](https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/Smileys/default/icon_evil.gif)
The tennis coach had waited and done some more tennising with the mite. Mrs Nick had to pacify the coach, but apart from that all was, I think, well.
I did cop it slightly but asserted myself
![scared2:](https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/Smileys/default/scared.gif)
and pointed out that since I had recently recharged her phone and stuck £25 credit on it she really OUGHT to turn it on to facilitate communication. I took her failure to respond to this as a sort of victory.