That Maternity Leave Didn't Last Long, But Then When There Comes A Chance To Show Oneself Off, There Is No Business Like Show Business They Say.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7118665/Will-new-mum-Meghan-attend-Queens-birthday-parade-Royal-fans-hope-Duchess-Sussex-will.html

[dannyk13]

Anne, a job doesn't have to be important to miss it.I think most retired members of the force miss it.

[retrocop]

//Continually question qualifications and job history//

Well I didn't question you asking about low fat veggie high protein diet for yourself yesterday but was surprised you asked as you are a trained professinal chef.
As for 'Law Enforcement Officer' I suppose,at a stretch a tax inspector or investigator could with an iota of imagination stretch to that title.
Trained in'Fast Pursuit Driving'? Surely not working as a Tax investigator. Not many days ago you stated that there were only few cars that you could find comfortable enough to drive or get into.
Do HMRC give their operatives a choice?
Would a law enforcement officer panic like a chicken with its head cut off when she passed an apparently abandoned suspect vehicle at the end of her drive You went to work and asked AB for advice about what to do!! Surely you should have informed PSNI who are real Law officers and obviously more experienced than yourself.
Yes some of what you claim is incredible.

[anneasquith]

Danny, I think some people who had ‘ important ‘ jobs, miss being important ,.

[retrocop]

Speak for yourself asquith. I didn't feel important. I certainly felt priveleged and yes I do miss the experiences I had and enjoyed as well as the challenges and responsibility, not to mention the cameraderie and real banter. I was a cog in a larger machine though and I don't profess to be anything else.

[Rockrose]

For someone who doesn’t pay attention to me you pay enough to get things and twist them!!
I am not explaining my history of qualifications and jobs to you again.
As for the van it was left on my driveway and I was already at work!!

[retrocop]

//For someone who doesn’t pay attention to me you pay enough to get things and twist them!!
I am not explaining my history of qualifications and jobs to you again//

Oh believe me I pay attention to most of what you say and I find it incredible. It changes all the time. For the record you have never explained your job history and if you return to your post you told us you passed the car at the end of your drive on way to court.

[retrocop]

Any how this is off topic and I am not about to debate any longer with you. It is time to go out.

[bednobs]

How much is too much/too little/just right maternity leave?
Most women have their mat leave plus ten keeping in touch days where they can go back to work for a day without without breaking their mat leave. I even got the kit days when i claimed maternity allowance this when i wasnt entitled to maternity psy. This does not seem any different to me going back for 1 day then resuming leave. What normal person wouldn't avoid the less favourable thing if they could get away with it?

[tamborine]

Disgraceful to ignore POTUS, First Lady & fam but unforgivable to disrespect USA veterans & men who shed blood for her freedom. As the only USA Brit royal her behaviour is churlish.

[pixie374]

She didn't need to ignore potus, tambo. She wasn't expected in the first place, which worked out well for everybody.

[tamborine]

She was expected to at all the functions but cried off. My last child was ceasored but I was up within 24hrs to attend my sons school concert. Meghan has her mother over to help. She is unworthy of her position!

[pixie374]

Fair enough, Tambo. I breastfed all mine, none of them would ever take a bottle and the earliest I ever left them was 12 or 18 months old. There is no way on earth I would have gone out when they were 4 weeks old. If she is taking it slowly and not being bullied, I am pleased.

[tamborine]

Pixie would you not leave your babe with your OH or sis if your gdad needed you?

[tamborine]

All 3 of my babes were left with my OH on Saturdays for him to bond & me to myself.

[pixie374]

I couldn't. I would have taken them with me, or sent my sister.
The point is really... she is a brand new mother of her first baby. Nothing and nobody will be more important to her, and neither should they be.
Mothers have exceptionally strong instincts for their babies and I think we should be well past the time of telling them that "professionalism" is more important than their baby. Women should be allowed to "be" women. There is nothing to prove.

[Peter Pedant]

Trained in'Fast Pursuit Driving'?
but taxing in .... other ways ( see above)

I dunnot
if you had to meet and be groped by Trump and look as tho you enjoyed it
wouldnt you have a baby ?

[Rockrose]

Really Peter?

[gness]

Given the needed nine months notice, Peter...you bet I would.... :-)

[pixie374]

Well, I would :-). Trump is a renowned misogynist and can't criticise her for her decision, or it just proves her right.