Another referee interview and no report yet

One of the people we put down as a referee got a call from Miranda on Thursday evening to arrange an interview. We are quite surprised by this as all the other referee interviews were done in early December, so we don’t know whether Miranda just forgot to do this one, or whilst putting the report together she has decided that she needs more evidence of support. We can’t decide whether this is a good thing (she is being very thorough and covering all bases) or not-so-good (she thinks we may fail panel and is doing some last-minute salvaging).

We had hoped that we’d get to see the report before we have our final interview with Miranda, but nothing arrived in the post yesterday, so we’re guessing it won’t happen and we’ll have to read it in front of her.

Yesterday we spent the whole day with two good friends of ours and their two boys. We played with the kids and had a great time, and just before we left the kids spontaneously came over, said “thank you for coming to visit us and playing with us”, and gave us a kiss. They are so sweet.