A bit more fucking notice would have been nice…

So, here’s the thing folks. For the last six months the plan has been for my mum and dad to go to Gateshead to see in the New Year with my brother and sister in law. She’s due to give birth in February, so it was their last chance to spend some time together before that.

Now this was quite convenient for me as I was going to be getting a lift to Newcastle train station and going back to Boro from there. No muss, no fuss, no spending £50 – 110 on a second train ticket. We were going to be leaving tomorrow morning. Me, mum, dad, the dog.

6 months planning.

Today, my brother and sister in law decide to tell mum and dad that the dog can’t come to Gateshead.

No idea why. It’s not that dogs aren’t allowed in the house because they have a dog. It’s not that the two dogs might not get on, because they’ve met before.

They may have given mum a reason, I’m not sure.

But, no dog.

My sister and brother in law can’t take her in (nor, at such short notice, should they be expected to) nor can they come round every day to feed and walk her (again, why should they be expected to). I could have stayed to look after her, but I’m back at work on Friday so, in order for that to work, mum and dad would have to come back up the road on New Tears Day, thus negating the reason for the trip. And it’s far too much short notice to put her in a kennel, considering all the shots and stuff they needed to get for her before putting her in when they went on holiday in January.

So the trips been cancelled. I’ve booked my train ticket, which my mum is insisting on paying for (I think she should make them do so), my mums in bits and I am fucking fuming. My dad wonders why I don’t have much time for the two of them. It’s shit like this. (They rarely come up to Aberdeen simply because she doesn’t like it. From what I can gather, when they do they spend most of their time with my nephew or my brothers friends.)

I think she simply changed her mind about the whole thing and the dog was an excuse. I think that if mum phoned them back and said that they had found a dog sitter and the trip was back on there would be another excuse.

Will