Things we have been doing

In the last two weeks, we have been:

• to the hospital, for Daddy to have some tests (unsuccessful - more tests required)
• to the estate agent, to try to get Mummy and Daddy's old house sold (unsuccessful, because Mummy hasn't signed the estate agents' contract that she's had for months)
• to the police in Crewe to report Daddy's red car stolen (police think it's unlikely to be recovered - probably already been scrapped illegally and turned into razor blades)
• to Coventry, to pick up a new engine for the little red car, because its own engine is not sounding at all healthy (success - we actually left with an engine, and we have found someone to fit it later this month)
• to Court in Derby (waste of time - no closer to getting anything sorted, and the next hearing is now going to be in Bristol)
• to the police in Derby to report being assaulted outside the court when Daddy asked Mummy when she would let him see you.

and this morning at 7 o'clock we met another bailiff bearing more court orders -(not about you, they are all about Mummy).

In all that time, not one word about how you are, and how you are getting on.  Sadly, your maternal grandfather appears to think he's won a very noble victory by wrenching you away from your entire paternal family for three months, and shows every sign of being willing to "bury" (in his own words) Daddy and me if we keep trying to restore those relationships.

Daddy and I are struggling to know where or how we draw the line and say "enough is enough".  Neither of us wants to give up on you - but just asking when you can see you Daddy got us both assaulted, and got Daddy served with an injunction this morning.

Faced with that Mummy's sustained, malevolent campaigning to keep you apart, with the full support of legally aided solicitors, where are we supposed to go next?  We can't make the court battles stop, for as long as Mummy keeps bringing them.  Daddy and I have long since run out of money to pay solicitors to help you.  £45,000 disappeared that way, directly or indirectly, last year - far more than Daddy actually earned last year.

We are at the limits of endurance.  There is no help to be had anywhere.


So, has nothing good happened?  Well, Daddy ordered a model of 70013 Oliver Cromwell for you a long time ago, and it arrived this morning, about 2 hours after the bailiffs.  It should have been a happy event, with Daddy excited about your next visit and playing with it together on the model railway.  Instead, Daddy is heartbroken that you are not here to see it and play with it.  Your model railway is very quiet these days.

We miss you, and it appears that there isn't a thing we can do about it.