Tuesday. Humm interesting.

Wife phoned she had a long conversation with the Childcatcher, who incidentally says she not a Social worker (quite insistently) she says she's a court helper type thing, with a law degree. Anyway, i only got some of the news but, she spoke highly of Mutual friends actions and parenting ability etc. And revealed that "they" have indeed been rubbishing the Will to her for months....... Wife told her a few of their antics, and she seemed inclined to believe her, and wife pointed out that the father isn't as he seems or as Granddad has said. She looks forwards to reading the statements. More latter when wife's home.

Humm. just conversed with wife. Yes they have been lieing for months it seems and not just about one thing but two (according to the Childcatcher anyway) She said yes they are supporting the fathers residency claim, and they have been claiming the Will is unsafe on grounds of our friend being very ill and drug addled. The exact timing she could not say as its a"private case" so she is consulting some legal person to see how much she cant tell us. However if / when the lad gets a solicitor appointed to act for him (not apparently paid for from the estate! way hay!) It becomes a "public case" and all records are open to anyone.... excuse me while i snigger. So they have been lieing to us all along, and that is demonstrable. It seems anyway. The wife said that Childcatcher said she took three pages of notes on their phone conversation and was most interested in the Father's drink problems and just why the granddad was exaggerating the fathers involvement. Seems no one has made the point of his drinking and neglect. Mutual friend is too polite to say these things. I hope the wife didn't come over as some sort of harridan, i don't think she would.

Of course all this is a tragedy of purely human devising, it casts a shadow across our friend and her little lad. Why would anyone do this? Do i believe in just plain nasty people? I think it more a case of selfishness from "them" blind "me-isum" they really cant see anyone else as important. The father, well he has some idea of "family" that he's singularly failed to live up to since the lads birth, and will fail again. He thinks he's doing the right thing.