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we all left the house nearly at the same time this morning. percy and paul in the car and me walking up to the train station.

i was at work quite happily within half an hour; trying hard not to think about percy's happiness. my day progressed relatively well. except that my boxes of belongings (reference material mostly) has been lost, i got a headache after gawking at a computer screen for hours (not used to this once standard activity) and by 2pm i was bored! oh dear.

percy, i later learnt, did spend a good amount of time crying. just the thought of her cute little face all scrunched up in tears makes my gut twist. all advice is that this does pass. doesn't do me any good!
she did get two naps of around 40 minutes and one hour. much less than she should but better than none at all. she also refused her bottle after both sleeps as well. i put this down to lack of time from the staff. i'm sure she would have taken the bottle if she was given a proper opportunity. she ate lunch and dessert but no comment on morning or afternoon tea.
i'm also wondering if we should just go to disposable nappies for the time she is in care. paul spoke to a staff person when he dropped her off asking if the cloth nappies needed to be explained. he was advised "no, we've used them before, it's fine, just put them in her locker." which was obviously bullshit because when i picked her up her nappy was half undone and she didn't have a nappy cover on at all. i think when her nappy was changed the first time the cover was not replaced. meaning the next nappy would have leaked thru to her clothes. which might explain why the trousers she was wearing this morning are nowhere to be found. (the covers are fine for a number of nappies- we generally use one a day before washing the cover.) i'm just pissed that if something wasn't understood why no-one asked to have it explained to them. i could have done it over the phone if necessary.

paul was not told that he needed to sign percy in every day when she is dropped off. i got a rather rude call around 11:30am telling me i had to come back and sign her in. paul did say to the staff that he'd never been there before and was there anything else he needed to do...? no-one said to him to be sure he signed the damn book to say the girl was on the premises.
needless to say i was sure to sign her out.

in summation i'm a bit pissed by the whole thing and wish i either was at leisure due to sufficient wealth or due to sufficient wealth i could have a nanny that i could boss about.
i've got two days to get over it before we're at it again...