Remember when a child’s birthday party was a simple and innocent affair?
Two mothers became embroiled in a bitter Facebook battle over an invoice handed to one of their sons for missing the other’s birthday party.
Tanya Walsh and her partner Derek Nash were appalled when their son Alex, five, arrived home from school with a £15.95 bill for missing his classmate Charlie Lawrence’s big day at a local ski centre.
After refusing to pay, Alex’s parents were threatened that they would be taken to court.
Since then Miss Walsh and Charlie’s mother Julie Lawrence have become entangled in a war of words.
‘Every time I spoke to her previously she was always very polite,’ Miss Walsh added.
‘All of this is very shocking.’
‘Julie could have tried to contact us before issuing the bill. If she had spoken to us we would have considered paying it.
I could totally understand her point. It is not about the money for us and we did not mean to let them down. It is the way she has gone about it.’
But Mrs Lawrence said in a statement: ‘All details were on the party invite. They had every detail needed to contact me.‘
Alex’s father however said he had no means of contacting the woman, resorting to trying to find her at the children’s school gates to apologise.
‘My partner looked out for [Mrs Lawrence] to apologise for Alex not showing up to the party, but didn’t see her.
‘But on January 15 she looked in Alex’s school bag and found a brown envelope. It was an invoice for £15.95 for a child’s party no-show fee.’
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