JohnBoy25

According to Sky News, the reward is for information leading to her return. Some Scottish businessman has put it on the table. I hope the family aren’t involved somehow but it does look likely. The father checks on her – fine (well, perhaps fine isnt the right term considering). The mother checks on her – gone.

And as I said previously, the…[Read more]

I suppose uber was right in a way PB – I was kinda thinking ‘It never did me any harm’ but I WASN’T thinking ‘Where’s the harm? You should relax a bit’ which from the point of view of me and my friends at the time may be true enough to say but then others weren’t and still aren’t so fortunate. It was a bit naive to suggest and I can see that now.…[Read more]

Believe me PATS, if I didn’t try to put a lid on it I’d still be fighting my corner into the next decade!! It’s best if we agree to disagree cos it’s two very different opinions – I’m looking at it from the point of my childhood while others have the views of concerned parents who will have a better understanding of emotions that I can’t fully comprehend.

Yes, I know we are talking about a three year old. But then it became almost like the rights and wrongs of parenting and how to look after a child of any age. I gave my opinion based on my experience as a child as some of the things being said were very different to the way things happen round here and I merely stated that fact (which Uber threw a…[Read more]

So Uber, you think kids shouldn’t be allowed their lives? They shouldn’t be allowed to do this and that cos there’s dangers everywhere? So what should they do? Do you recommend that they should be prisoners in their own home? The point was that not every kid gets hurt, not every kid gets killed etc.

I don’t know how you read that and assumed it…[Read more]

Uber, we have sex offenders in this town. A wee girl was even snatched off the street recently and locked in a perverts’ bedroom. We have drug dealers who would happily steal a child’s pocket money and have done so. Are there still kids roaming the streets on their own? Yes. Are there still kids out playing on their own without supervision? Yes.…[Read more]

Uber, you’re taking my comments out of context. I was talking about letting kids be kids, allowing them that time to mess around and have fun. You’ve taken that and somehow linked it – though god knows how – to child prostitution and coal mines. How does your mind work? I think you’ll find that I also mentioned that common sense should be shown,…[Read more]

So, uber, you think kids shouldn’t be allowed to live their own lives? I agree with the common sense part, it’s the part about wrapping kids up in cotton wool to the extent of not letting them out of your sight or allowing them to do things that they should be doing at that age. You can’t shield people forever and before you start saying ‘Well,…[Read more]

Sorry, but again some of these posts are alien to me cos of the freedom I and all my friends enjoyed. I don’t think any of us ever walked to school with our parents from the ages of seven onwards (infact, probably even younger) and our wandering off acts were regular before that.

That’s my memories of childhood. And it’ll be the same for all my…[Read more]

I don’t agree with watching over kids 24/7, not being critical or anything, just offering my opinion. When I was a kid, I was always wandering off to places my parents weren’t happy with me going to or doing things I wasn’t supposed to. But if they stopped me I’d have done it without their knowledge (which I often did anyway)

To me, that’s what…[Read more]

Off the blame game topic – I watched an interview with her uncle, who had just returned home, on the Scottish news which seemed a little odd. For one thing, he couldn’t stop smiling while he spoke about how upbeat her parents are. After, what, six days is it now?

It just seemed so bizarre. And the implication in one of the questions was basically…[Read more]

It bothers me too, especially when you think about all those people who would give their right arm to have a child and would gladly make all the sacrafices that have to be made.

I know and work with a lot of new parents, especially dads, and they all hold the belief that having a child changes your outlook on everything. It has to be said as well…[Read more]

I read in the paper today that a British holidaymaker noticed someone acting very strangely while she was there – looking in windows, trying to walk off with pushchairs etc – but did not report it until she heard of Maddie’s dissapearance three weeks after she returned home. My neighbours have a lot of grandkids and there’s always someone keeping…[Read more]

I just saw on Sky Sports News that John Terry and I think it was Carvalhio (the Portugeese bloke) making an appeal, albeit I only caught the tail end of it. While I applaud such a gesture, I am baffled by it as I always am by these celeb appeals.

If someone does have information, do you honestly think they were sitting waiting for someone with a…[Read more]

I have to agree. While it probably looks as if it’s the most insensitive suggestion in the world to say that perhaps the parents should have been more responsible, it is also a painful truth whether people like it or not. Especially children of a certain age.

I also feel for the parents, but I know a lot people who have young kids who wouldn’t…[Read more]

I had actually started writing a different one, my personal favourite, but thought that under the circumstances (the wee girl going missing) it would be in extremely poor taste and you have to draw the line somewhere.

@sweetasbaileez wrote:

@JohnBoy25 wrote:

A suit I got for my birthday….

I like birthday suits.can i see you in it :?: :!: :wink:

Just so long as you remember that turn about is fair play :!: And I shan’t forget my manners either, so ladies first….

:shock: :P :shock: :P

@R.O.T.T wrote:

@JohnBoy25 wrote:

Breaking news on Sky Sports says that sources close to Allardyce claim he will be the next Newcastle manager. So what if he was criticized for making Bolton play ‘ugly’ football? It was effective and that’s what counts.

And if he can continue this trend he has of getting the best out of players, it would be a good…

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Breaking news on Sky Sports says that sources close to Allardyce claim he will be the next Newcastle manager. So what if he was criticized for making Bolton play ‘ugly’ football? It was effective and that’s what counts.

And if he can continue this trend he has of getting the best out of players, it would be a good appointment.

A suit I got for my birthday….