Greetings beautiful readers. Today is a day of utter sadness that so far exceeds my ability to express it that the excession itself is beyond my comprehension.

When last I spoke to you it was in tiny posts simply celebrating the happiness of being alive and having a birthday. At that celebration were members of family and friends. My little boy was there as well (his mother did a bunk with another guy years ago). Things seemed great.

What happens next beggars belief. The very next day my mother and sister came to visit again, a rare enough occasion with their busy lives at the best of times, and they carried with them some very bad news.

My four year old son's mother has done a midnight-flit and vanished completely.

It soon transpired that she had left with a guy she had known for (by all sources) at most two weeks (or at least been with for that time). She (it seems) had bundled the kids into a van and driven for seven hours to a point two thirds of the county away.

To you American readers this is the equivalent of dashing to the far side of a state... perhaps even crossing the state line... it doesn't scale well (sorry).

The Family Law in the UK is much like the Family Law in the US except we have more effective Family Rights activists at the moment. (Other links, full version) (fuller low-down of protests)

To put it shortly - I'm devastated and I dread to think what kind of impact this will have on my little boy.

¶ 8:09 am