
Something amazing happened to me this weekend...About a week ago I was complaining about parental responsibility and mentioned some of the personal circumstances in which the UK's proposed changes to the child benefit system might make to me... well, amazingly I walked into the local pub near where I live, in Leith, Edinburgh and there was a Karoke competition on (no hoochy did not partake, he did not want to blow the competition away). A girl stands up and starts singing a Shania Twain song, and I'm standing at the bar thinking 'I know her'. In any case it turns out that she's the sister of the mother of my son (lewis) whom I haven't seen since he was a little baby.
After a bit of a fall out (she was understandably upset), we got talking and I managed to get lewis's mums telephone number. I called, set up a meeting for Saturday with mum, in which we cleared the air (actually I had a nice talk with her), and on Sunday I got to spend two and a half hours with my son, who is very clever. I had a whale of a time, after I got over the initial nerves!!
I know I have missed a big an important chunk of his life already, but there is still alot of time for us. I now intend to make full use of the opportunity I have been given, and fully intend to be as active as I possibly can as a his dad. It might turn out that I end up being hit with a bill for thousands of pounds from the CSA that I was slating the other week, but I don't care. I regretted this situation for to long, and if I have to step away from my study to meet financial obligations, then that's how it will have to be. I'm not a boy anymore!!
Apart from that I'm extremely busy with university work right now, so excuse the non (or late) appearance of posts over the next week or two. Gotta prioritise!!
Just goes to show, that even in the darkest of times, a little light can come from the most unexpected of places. What was that I was saying about hope...

Hoochy I am soooooo chuffed for you!!! Way to go M8!! That must have been like becoming a Dad for the first time again!!! Absolutely Brilliant!! Yaayy!!!!!