Special moments in your life?...

Thanks Sue, and thanks Peter.

By the way, that's a lovely new avatar Sue - You look great!

Thank you POE. And seeing you have met the real me, you have probably guessed the picture is a couple of years old.

(I'll get back there, I WILL!)

My heartfelt congratulations to Jamie and Emily, and to the proud parents and grandparents!

Maybe POE can post a picture of their two stars so that we can see them?

Thanks all for your comments, really appreciate them.

But you know Diana, Jamie had an unbelievable time, far too much to go into now but suffice to say because Sarah had just given birth - I took up the reigns! I involved the teachers, the Headteacher, the Board of Governors, the Police, the Schools Police Liason Officer, the local council pushing for an ASBO, the education Department in Oxford, Television, National and local newspapers, the local MP (Boris Johnson - now Lord Mayor of London), the Crown Prosecution Service, the Home Office, Tony Blair.....I kid you not!!! How much further could I go? It was impossible, and I can tell you the kids have got one hell of a fight on their hands just to cope with it all. In the end I convinced Jamie to release his inner thoughts and write about them. He sat at the PC and wrote about bullying for the past nine years!! In the end a little bit of advice from grandad helped him through it. I convinced him to face these whimps, to look them in the face and even if he couldn't look them in the face, look at their nose because they wouldn't know the difference. In other words 'he was staring them out' but they didn't realise it and they looked away. Bingo! Jamie had beaten them. With the support of a loving family Jamie came through it all and has part written the book titled Bullying, what bullying? I just hope he wants to finish it, if for no other reason than to help other kids. Well done Jamie!!

YEA!!!!!! You go Jamie! Congrats to Jamie and Emily. My daughter was bullied too and suffered. She had the Crohn's in her mouth as well as her entire digestive tract. Her mouth looked like she had the mumps. Her cheeks were swollen as well as her lips and inside her mouth. Her mouth was also full of ulcers. The kids made fun of her lips. The school was no help. Fortunately we had to pull her out anyway so have not had to deal with the bullying anymore. Shame on the school for allowing such behavior.

My youngest is about to go back to school with severely swollen lips, cracked and bleeding, a side effect of the strong medication he is on. He is a senior in High School, so I am hoping that the bullies have grown up by now and will leave him alone.

He's a strong (personally) lad, but still, nobody likes a bully.