My DGCs have been with us three weeks. We are taking them back to their other grandparents next week and they are spending two weeks with them on a beach holiday. They arrived with trainers . One had a pair of flip flops(too small) the other flat black shoes I had bought her last august from M&S . I know she was bought winter boots in December. I know it will be mainly bare feet on the beach and I know the other grandparents do not buy them clothes so I thought I would buy flip flops for each child. This is on top of two dresses ,one skirt ,pyjamas, t shirt and a dozen socks and pants and new jeans which I either had already bought or have had to buy. Cue an email from SIL . " I've ordered a pair of shoes to go to your house. Can you bring them with you when you bring the children? "He sent a copy of the order saying the shoes would fit as he already had the same pair in a different colour. The order showed that the shoes were just under £100 with next day postage. It's not that I object to him spending that much money on himself but that he can do it when his children look like raggle taggle gypsies . I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Being quizzed by chemist's assistant in Boots.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic