It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

seasalt_2

Thanks for the nice welcome - I should also have said that our broadband connection is a bit intermittent! DD2(14) and I are just going to clean the holiday house next door and collect the laundry so will look back in this evening nd post properly then.

kidcat

Thats good news ginny knit, a house nearby will be a good start,

smileyt_2

ginnyknit wrote: »

Kidcat, congrats on your ds's success, I know how amazing it is when they acheive a milestone.

Its piddling down complete with thunder and lightening in Manchester. Even the chickens are fed up. its cold too! Escaped to Mr T on my own, like a big girl, had an hours wandering before they came and took me home rang my Mum to see if she wanted anything and she asked if I had dug a tunnel or used a rope ladder to escape. Finished 3 jars of marmalade made with peel and an odd orange - cost about 75p as the orange was reduced.

Big big news DD has been offered a house in the next street :T:T:T:T its a bit rough but its a start and no deposit. I am going with her Monday to have a look and hopefully we will have peace and quiet very soon. And she won't be far away :j:j:j

That's good news, ginnyknit.

It's finally stopped raining (the road at the top of the street was flooded - I've lived here 15 years and it's never done that before!) so I am going to take the dogs out for a long-awaited walk. Hopefully we will not get drenched!

greent

Great news for both kidcat & ginnyknit

mardatha

yaaay ginny, I hope it suits and is ok for them. Glad to see I'm not the only one with thunder and downpours..

EstherH

Congrats to ginnyknit and daughter and kidcat and son. Great news for you both.

Been pouring down on and off here today and thunder and lightening - the works. The washing from Monday has been in and out all week including it's second re-wash when it came in tonight.

M.E.

Mustbemad68

I must be similar to you... but older! Bus pass holder..yeah
My daughters are now 26 and 23 (in the Navy and at Uni).
They now both run Guide Units, like I did.
They loved the camping and so did their friends.
The best party was in the back garden, they cooked a proper meal on an altar fire (made from scaffolding and iron tray).
They then had marsh mallows over the embers and warm mulled wine.. (juice with rum flavouring!).
The parents stayed and we had proper mulled wine! They couldn't believe that their daughters had made a three course meal on a camp fire.

ceridwen

ginnyknit wrote: »

Big big news DD has been offered a house in the next street :T:T:T:T its a bit rough but its a start and no deposit. I am going with her Monday to have a look and hopefully we will have peace and quiet very soon. And she won't be far away :j:j:j

Now that IS good news - yay!:T:D

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

yaaay ginny, I hope it suits and is ok for them. Glad to see I'm not the only one with thunder and downpours..

Any chance of swopping some of your awful weather for some of our urban overcrowding? What say you?:rotfl::rotfl:

Tell ya' what - I'll throw in an added incentive - Council-funded fireworks at any possible excuse as well.....:D. Go on...you know you'd like to see (hear:cool:) a Council "jolly" at regular intervals wouldnt you?......errrr...please say you do....:D

Nargleblast

Hello everyone!

Commiserations to all those who have grotty teenage children. I think there are two stages in life when children should be put away in a deep freeze and brought out again when they are more civilised - the time between 1 and 4, and the time between 12 and 18. My daughter (now 21) wasn't too bad but she had a big bust up with my husband (her stepdad) which led to her leaving home just before her 16th birthday and which is still not resolved. Fortunately she has survived the experience, and I, my son and my father attended her wedding last month. She is a thoroughly nice person and very content with life. My son is just turned 12 and has the signs of stroppiness already, but is a very caring, loving lad at heart.

Re decluttering - I am pleased to see that I am not the only one who craves a clutter-free home but whose OH sabotages that ambition. I am married to the world's fattest squirrel.