"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

redsquirrel80

£23 is a real bargain. Hmm my mum does that too, gets huffy if I arrange to see local friends when I'm visiting them. But yes, telling her well in advance does seem to help!

Water butt day - hooray! :T

gilligansyle

You can't send her to Coventry - she'll definitely miss the marathon!

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:at sending me to Coventry!

gilligansyle wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:Was that the childhood visit one? Oops!

'fraid so ... I said nowt at t'time, but I got a very shocked, silent disapproval. She got over it, and after all, it wasn't like I was out on a drunken binge :eek:. No appropriate smilies here.

Marathon's not too far away now. And there a few people running it - definitely FW, and I think NortherLas is too.
It goes from one side of the river to the other and I think it ends at the Pier Head, so you could always just 'pop' into town.

The prospect of the disapproval is a little offputting, thats all, but I *will* show up! See "drunken binge" comment above

P.S due to changed work circumsances I am now looking at going to CR early next year, rather than late this year, and can go by train as far as Granada now. So will be doing some checking up on that too.

Ooh .... if I finally get my act together with the trading, can I come along on the same week as you? **wistful look**

Double_Trouble wrote: »

But if you don't come certain friends will send you to Coventry :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

seriously I know it is difficult trying to manage everyone's expectations just remember you can't please everyone all the time so you might as well please yourself I would just tell her your plans in advance so she has time to get used to it

DTxx

Thanks DT! Yep, she'll have to learn that I have a life too - she still goes out more in the evenings than I do because of all the dratted patchwork society connections she has nowadays :rotfl::eek: considering what a boon mse has been to my life, she'll have to accept it.

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

£23 is a real bargain. Hmm my mum does that too, gets huffy if I arrange to see local friends when I'm visiting them. But yes, telling her well in advance does seem to help!

I've mentioned it to her already, but I think I'll really have to push it come September - she doesn't actually listen to what I say when I phone her unless I say, stop a minute, I've got to tell you something, truly she doesn't. And I have to confess, I've never had any friends up there to go to when I've been back on visits that may have contributed to her shock :eek:

Water butt day - hooray! :T

Oh yes :j:j:j

MrsMoo2U

Yay to waiting in for butts and cleaning for builders (does he have a butt worth cleaning for? If so it wont be such an onerous task )

Funny how parents think that your life should revolve around them but it doesnt work the other way. Mr C senior is currently upset because he has been told that Mr C is not visiting for a few weeks. When he does go up there he never gets chance to catch up with friends because he arrives to a list of things to do and places to go to.

I might try to be in Liverpool for the marathon weekend to try to catch up with you all if that is ok?

Where is CR and the train to Granada sounds really exciting.

Karmacat

cherisong wrote: »

Yay to waiting in for butts and cleaning for builders (does he have a butt worth cleaning for? If so it wont be such an onerous task )

Erm .... I'm not *looking* at him like that :rotfl:

Funny how parents think that your life should revolve around them but it doesnt work the other way. Mr C senior is currently upset because he has been told that Mr C is not visiting for a few weeks. When he does go up there he never gets chance to catch up with friends because he arrives to a list of things to do and places to go to.

I can relate to that! She's very good on the jobs thing, actually, to be fair, but the revolving around is definitely one sided :A

I might try to be in Liverpool for the marathon weekend to try to catch up with you all if that is ok?

Fantastic! It would be lovely to meet you :kisses3:

Where is CR and the train to Granada sounds really exciting.

CR is Cortijo Romero - it was the 2nd or 3rd big bonding thing between Gill and myself, because we've both been there previously. Its a kind of retreat centre in the wilds of Andalusia - themed weeks, or free weeks. Yoga class on the roof at 6am, watching the dawn over the mountains, walking through the olive groves to the local town for fresh ice cream, a trip out to the local Buddhist monastery and then scrambling over a mountain to meet up with the coach at an Arab village... its wonderful. Apart from the fact that they had a washing up rota when I was there, its perfect :j:j:j

MrsMoo2U

Karmacat wrote: »

CR is Cortijo Romero - it was the 2nd or 3rd big bonding thing between Gill and myself, because we've both been there previously. Its a kind of retreat centre in the wilds of Andalusia - themed weeks, or free weeks. Yoga class on the roof at 6am, watching the dawn over the mountains, walking through the olive groves to the local town for fresh ice cream, a trip out to the local Buddhist monastery and then scrambling over a mountain to meet up with the coach at an Arab village... its wonderful. Apart from the fact that they had a washing up rota when I was there, its perfect :j:j:j

Oh my heart stopped and then fluttered when I read that. It sounds like a perfect holiday to me. I have been very interested in Buddhism over the years. Not that I would become a Buddhist but I do think if I were to believe in any religion then this would fit me best.
Hope you get to go.

Karmacat

Oh Cheri! You might think about going yourself, this is the website:

http://www.cortijo-romero.co.uk/

I know you're focussing on Austria, but what you're trying to set up there isn't all that dissimilar from what they do - they've been doing it for a long time now, so they're bigger, thats all.


ETA - if you pm me your email address, Cheri, I'll send you some photos I took then - it was back in 1996 but there we go

MrsMoo2U

Oh wow, that looks amazing. I particularly like the sound of the writing courses and the tai chi (not done that in so long - note to self must get back into that).

Not sure that the house I am moving to will be suitable for that kind of thing but who knows longer term.

redsquirrel80

Sigh... that sounds lovely

Karmacat

Its on a larger scale, of course, and its southern Spain, but you never know!