Today went as the rest of the week has really, I still feel like I am battling against a tide of back logged jobs but actually I'm not really anymore. I am almost completely caught up on all the website stuff that needed doing, the filing and accounts are all up to date too. I think it is the number of back orders I have waiting that is the real problem. I have been waiting since July for one of my suppliers to send out the back ordered stock to me and about 80% of the customers are waiting for the same toy from this supplier. Very frustrating! I am still not convinced that allowing customers to buy out of stock stuff is the way to go.

After moving the rooms around a bit in order to enable packing,weighing and sacking to be done downstairs, the house is now nearly all sorted and those jobs caught up on. Still need curtains for my room and to get the pro's in to clean the hall and stairs carpet and paint the walls,skirting and handrail going up the stairs too. Charlie's room looks so much better with his new desk in there. I will get him the matching wardrobe soon so I can finally throw out his temporary one. Must also get someone to put up some small shelves for all his ornaments etc as they are taking over all the surfaces in his room.

Charlie did his usual maths, verbal reasoning, non verbal reasoning, times table, english, science and GP History today and once I reminded him he also did DWN. He says that he prefers the SL history as it's more informative and there is more reading so it might be that we use both once I have bought the next core.

He cooked dinner tonight, only a simple pasta with homemade cheese and tomatoe sauce but he did it all himself and got it all served up, cleared away and loaded dishwasher. We listened to a WDW podcast during dinner and are listening to the next one now, nice not to have the tv on sometimes. He also hoovered the entire house minus the stairs just now and did a great job.

I'm having a slight panic as maintenance is now 8 days late causing one direct debit to bounce, leaving rent and council tax unpaid and my bank account overdrawn when there is no overdraft facility on the account. I could swing for my ex husband sometimes. If the payment doesn't arrive tomorrow I will be forced to take some cash out of the business account so we can go food shopping. For a start I shouldn't have to do that, I am lucky that I can, but it's not the point. After 16 months now of the payment being late all the time I am getting to the end of my tether and am going to have do something now i.e go to Court. It astounds me that an intelligent grown man can blatantly flout a Court Order all the time. I am sick to death of getting the payment the month after its due! Grrrrr.