'supporting each other through really tough times'

Im ignoring all the scare mongering about DLA and crossing that bridge when I get to it!

Stiltwalker:- Have a wonderful day, it will fly past and yes, there are bound to be tears. Take it all in and bask in being the star for a day. Enjoy yourself! :happylove

Oh crumbs, I missed that stiltwalker was getting married today. Have a fabulous day! Marriage is good, even when you've lived together and already got little ones, marriage changed something in us. Everything just seemed to flow, connect. It's probably contentment

Have a lovely, lovely day

Molly you absolutely do the correct thing in ignoring what if's. There's what if's for all of us in many a different form. I despair at what our 'news' is turning into... people's opinions. Nobody really knows what is going to happen but so many people are experts. So many people know. They don't they just express an opinion and other people pick it up as gospel.

I have an awful lot of houseworky things to do today as I have my mam coming over to stay as she wants to spend time with the girls (just what I need eh? Think I'll go into shut down and knit this evening... I bet she drinks all my home brew) But I am determined to bake today, or make something crafty.

This is what we're staying in when we go to France. Tiny but quite nice - it'll do me!


My mam told her friends that we were visiting Paris instead of the South of France and she was embarrassed to tell them we had to get the coach right down to the South of France. I must be such an embarrassment to my mam - good :rotfl:

We're not going to Provence, but Provencial region and booking onto a trip to visit Provence.

I won't go on about it, promise. Just wanted to show you my lil caravan-chalet thing.

Going to the chapel and we're gonna get married .......


Sorry just getting slightly carried away there, happy wedding day stiltwalker

Fuddle it looks beautiful.

pooky - hope you are all better now

have got a review meeting at school about DS14 today which I am dreading, he announced yesterday that he doesnt want to return to the group as there is now too many people and that he wants to return to school as he is worried what people are saying - yet when I asked if he was happy to go back if school had made no changes he said no! So I have no idea what to do next.

pinkieminkie wrote: »

Been lurking on the old thread for ages and as a new thread has now been started then I think that it is time that I join in and say 'hello'! Everyone seems so friendly and supportive, I'm looking forward to getting to know you all a little better

thriftyniftyme wrote: »

Hello! Another noob taking advantage of the new thread here! :hello:

Sadly I'm another one here with an OH recently been made redundant. I am poorly with a recurrent illness at the moment as well, that doesn't help But so many people are in worse positions, I shouldn't complain really. I'm a compulsive stockpiler so if nothing else at least we won't go hungry.

:j Great! New thread and newly-delurked posters, what could be better? Welcome aboard.

Thinking of Stiltwalker and family and wishing them a fantastic day and that the weather be kind.

I'm a happy bunny as had a lovely evening catching up with my pal tho I can't really understand how the two of us drank 2 bottles of wine in 4 hours. And no hangover. :whistle:

Truly miraculous. Going to see him again after work (this guy lives in the north of Scotland but used to live down here) so we don't see each other very often but it's great to catch up.

I'd like a scone, pretty-please, if there's one going.

Fuddle, you holiday acccomodation looks lovely. I've gone from Scotland to Paris by coach before now and it's fine; you just drowse a lot of the time. We also did long coach trips as a family when we were about the age of your girls. No other choice; parents didn't have a car and flying was something Other People did. Treat it as part of the holiday, not an inconvenient interlude at each end, and make the fun start immediately.

As another poster said, the great thing is that you load your luggage on the coach and then you don't have to fret about it for the rest of the journey. Even if your holiday budget stretched to a flight, you'd spend hours hanging around the airport before boarding and slightly-less time hanging around at the other end x 4 per journey and that really eats into the time saved over other travel methods.

I had've had it up to here (imagine hand parallel to top of head but well above) with blinking airports and being in the grip of RyanAir and SleazyJet and emergency landings and so on and so forth. So have decided to holiday in the UK for a while. I can hire a car to get over the inconvenience and expense of public transport.

Scottish pal (Aberdeenshire) even said I should come and stay with them, which I may well do for a couple of nights, as part of a wider trip, if we can fix something next year.

Righty, first pint of tea down the hatch, time for the next pint and bringing my brain up to operational temperature. It's a sunny dry day outside, the first for some time. I do adore autumn when it's crisp and dry and all the colours are in the leaves.

Have a good day (esp Clan Stiltwalker) GQ xx