"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

redsquirrel80

The Festival is amazing (except when you live and work in Edinburgh and it takes you three times as long to get home on the bus :rotfl:) - definitely worth planning to go well in advance as accommodation books up fast. It's great just spending days wandering around when it's on, even if you don't go to something specific everyday.

MrsMoo2U

Loving the sound of the ideal year, I have never really thought of it in that way. Tend to just slot things in like Cheery. I just got an invite to a weekend in Blackpool in February and Mr C was saying that I should just accept it now and stick to it. I was humming and Hahing about what if something else is happening and he said if its already in the diary then I work around that. Then I go and read your post. There is no such thing as coincidence just an awakening to opportunities. So off to work and putting that in my diary. Plus going to buy a big A4 diary for personal stuff. Thanks

Karmacat

Excellent, MrsMoo! We take opportunities as and when .... for instance, there was a jet engine noise just now, and I looked out of my windo on the offchance, and a flight of training aircraft just flew past! Never seen that before!

And tomorrow, I'm off to Worthing for Egyptology, and I want to stock up on Asda pesto, but don't like making a special trip .... turns out there's a store right by Lancing station, so if I allow for the time properly, I can go stock up for no extra charge

It all works out

redsquirrel80

It's such a good idea really - plan life round the things you love....

I've just bought a diary for the first time in years, so nice having things in there for next summer already

Karmacat

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

It's such a good idea really - plan life round the things you love....

I feel a signature update coming on. I really like that.

've just bought a diary for the first time in years, so nice having things in there for next summer already

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Kittikins

Love that "plan life round the things you love" mantra, and like to think that I live to it as much as I can, most of the time. My diary, since having DD and becoming a single mummy, is always pencilled in with fun events/places to go to that DD will enjoy - and of course I only put in the events that I know I'll enjoy too, I'm not a masochist!

Recently, since meeting my beloved OH, I've started looking more to things the 3 of us will enjoy on the weekends we share as I don't think he'd be a big fan of a fairy festival (even though we would lend him a fabulous set of wings for the occasion!), and enjoy my DD-only weekends in a different way.

Luckily I hugely enjoy my guiding stuff and PTA events, so whilst they go in the diary as soon as they're talked about and of course, life as we know it has to stop in the run up to the school fetes, but work aside, I think I have a great balance these days.

Gosh, hope that doesn't sound super-smug - but I really advocate looking at newspapers and websites to find out what's going on in the area, and popping it in the diary, so that you have a "social life" and lots to look forward to, even if you feel like you don't as you can choose on the day which event to go to (or not, if you fancy a snuggle day at home ).

Cheery_Daff

Absolutely KK! (and no you don't sound smug!) I also advocate keeping your eyes open, looking at local newspaper, post office window etcand writing stuff in the diary even if you don't end up doing it Excellent fun

MrsMoo2U

KC. Living in Mid Wales means that the fighter pilots train around me almost every day. Not so much fun when you are tootling along in the car in perfectly quiet countryside when one appears just over the hedge and makes you duck but great when they fly past the bedroom window at full pelt.

Triciaxx

Another voting for KCs idea of plan life round the things you love.

I got my filofax inserts the other day so I'll follow your excellent example.

taxi73

Am definitely up for this one...especially plan life round the things you love