Resolution: take responsibility towards goddaughter more seriously.  Can be achieved if I can only get in contact with her!  At least, let her know she can communicate with me if she wishes.  According to elder daughter, people like the above, possibly including the above, take drugs at discos.  

For once!  A whole day without having to cook a meal for someone, or collect someone, or deliver someone somewhere!!  Heaven knows how many years it's been since that last happened!  I spent the whole day in front of the computer, doing my things at my pace - it was blissful!
The evening course went well so I'm getting back into the swing of things.  The students were good, and they now realise there's serious learning to be done.  I need to give them lots of homework.

Various thoughts:   number one, stay away and don't get involved in the affairs of ex-spouses.  One only gets one's fingers burnt.  Much better accept  the money and then keep one's own counsel, do one's own thing and consequently live in peace.  Second, is it possible that some people don't need to be in love to have a successful marriage and could basically be a spouse to any number of other halves?  I imagine this mindset must allow lots of people who have arranged marriages to make a success of their relationship. Our current western culture assumes everyone has to be in love romantically in order to have the prerequisite  type of love for marriage.  And another thing, that some people have a more successful relationship with a partner who isn't nice to them all the time, or that makes life difficult, or has a difficult temperament etc etc. and conversely end up bored with and desirous of escaping from the relationship with someone who is invariably decent, kind, loving and generally problem-free.