Slowlycatchymonkey

It also repeatedly shows the same limited photos over and over, meaning the bedrooms and bathrooms are shite.

Ooh let me think.. I'm just considering the last 72hrs in Blighty..

Sucks dunnit.

Dear Mr Peter Xtreme Thank-you for the delightful invitation, it was gratefully received. Unfortunately I will have to politely decline owing to currently not wishing to lose the will to live. There are no doubt many psychiatric reports from various professionals over the years which will likely reveal all you could ever want to know. Yours Sincerely SCM

Passed it's MOT faultlessly.

Boys moving into their flat today. Seems to be causing quite some stress. I’ve dipped out to take the Himalayan for MOT. It will of course pass with flying colours, it is after all a Royal Enfield and built like a gun.

Locals getting priced out of the area they were born n have lived all their lives is a very hot topic for Cornwall. Kirsty Allsop n other ‘relocation’ type programmes, Rick Stein, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and a load of Hollywood A listers haven’t helped the situation.

Is easy to see why everyone wants to move to Cornwall isn’t it, you’ll need to stop posting pretty stuff like that, you’ll drive the house prices up even further

Have you tried the same search with the other two?

Err its in the last line of the post

Fingers crossed

Funny that’s exactly what your wife said

@boboneleg I was talking to your son earlier, he said can you stop sending this.

@XTreme they heard you were coming.

I find it hard to believe if you posted on FB or the like you’re looking for your sons with as much info as you have (maybe even an old photo?) that not a single soul from your past with some knowledge wouldn’t get the message. But of course it’s your stuff to deal with however you like. Hope guilt or fear isn’t your master on this one. Good luck.

So you’re not kidding about not reading Pete’s posts?

If you’ve been looking for over a decade and turned up nothing then it’s probably time to face up to the idea that covertly isn’t working. Prepare a letter saying what you want to so it’s ready to send the second they’re located and go for it. Put your search out there on social media, contact everyone you know who has had contact with them and reach out to friends and family from the area. There’s no way they won’t have looked you up, even if it was a just a drunken google of where their dad is the curiosity will be there. The worse that can happen is your requests are denied so what have you got to lose? At least you can say you tried. Carry on with the ineffective methods you’re currently using and like you say time will run out. Sometimes being bold is the only way to go.

Just a thought.

You could try a debt collection agency. Not cos they’d necessarily have been in debt but I believe (don’t quote me) they pay to have database access to bank account details that include the persons address.

Is it possible your ex remarried and their surname changed?

Possible but very unlikely. They all use independent systems with unique identifiers like barcodes for confidentiality. The trust I worked for used three different systems that were unconnected. Our local trust also has three completely different systems. Even when you had the person in front of you, name, address, DOB sometimes you still couldn’t find them on the system. It’s why the NHS can’t move away from paper, it’s a jumbled mess. Some of the GP services are linked but the NHS spent 6 million on a connected system that was abandoned and under investigation for wasting money!! If you knew the which GP practice group they belonged to you might be able to do it that way but basically the taxman is the only person with any reliable access.

Hmm cryptic?! You need someone who works for the tax office. Or benefits depending on how life’s been for them!

About to head back to the UK. Not looking forward to it, the solar installation isn't going smoothly, both of my sons are behaving like incompetent teenagers (even though ones 21 in a couple of weeks and the others 22), I have a pile of jobs waiting for me that are all demanding and now one of the guys is quite unwell and unlikely to be fit enough to work tomoz. For some unfathomable reason I now have Annie Lennox 'Thorn In My Side' stuck in my head Run away from you Was all that I could do Run run run run

Zzzac?

You need a nice little Honda.