"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

I wish :rotfl: anyway, shutting down now - there's actual, y'know, paid work to be done :eek: I'm sure I'll log on sneakily over the next 36 hours - for one thing, she'll be exhausted after *her* last 36 hours - but thank you all for putting up with this :o

redsquirrel80

Have a good time with your mum!

se999

Enjoy your mothers visit and relax

taxi73

have a great time with your mum x

MrsMoo2U

Enjoy some family time.

Karmacat

Thanks all! I've been explaining the wonders of facebook and youtube to her, and I'm just sneaking on here while she's on the phone to her sister .... ah, the wonders of technology. We needed Nobel prizewinners of 2006 for her contribution to a quilt her quilting group is doing .... who says the internet is a force for bad?

taxi73

hope you're enjoying your visit...it's amazing how many older people go on the internet to keep up with family

Karmacat

It is, isn't it! We had a good time in the end - I showed her the piccies from Norfolk, and what facebook and youtube are really like (she liked the foxes on the trampoline ) we had a half hour in the garden - my potentilla has been pruned, and cleared of grass debris so that it can breathe and wave its arms around

Safely on the train this morning (tho I nearly got a free ride to Gatwick, taking her case onto the train, oops) and safely home now. I've started work again, and am determined not to let this place slide so much that I need to blitz the way I did this last fortnight

taxi73

glad you had a good time...
re the housework now that you're on top of it with a little bit of routine you'll be able to keep on top of it...that's how I'm aiming to get mine

MrsMoo2U

routine, and a sense of purpose that, as the Dalai Llama says (but in a more round about way), is the route to happiness.