OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

CRANKY40

I'm never going back to Haven anyway. It's horrible. The swimming pool had 20 changing rooms, about 40 lockers and about 80 people trying to get changed at once without anywhere to put their stuff away. The first time I went with my sister the caravan was full of ants and we had to be moved. The second time I just hated it (went with a friend). I'm sticking to center parcs which is lovely. I would do without a holiday rather than go back to Haven.

LavenderBees

ellie99 wrote: »

If it makes you feel any better LB...all us scots (ie. me ) who work for companies with their head office in England don't get the extra holiday in January, back to work on the 2nd like the rest of you

Quite right, too :rotfl:



That article is interesting, Greenbee, although it's (rather ironically) ultimately trying to sell a dating site .

I must admit, though, there is something very nice about being able to make your own plans, not wait for others to decide if they agree or not, be quiet if you want, go out and be sociable if that suits etc.

The first question the fostering panel asked me was how I felt I would cope with losing my "lovely freedom and lifestyle"...they saw my life and life style and how I cope with everything life throws at me as aspirational rather than lonely. Quite illuminating really.

LB xx

Byatt

Maybe we should all email Haven?

Byatt

Just looked at the thread, apparently you cannot go to Legoland if you don't have children!

3forholidays

ellie99 wrote: »

I'd never heard about parts of the country getting a Monday off in September until just a few years ago, is it quite a central Scotland thing?

It does appear to be a central Scotland thing - certainly within local authorities but it has been in existence a long time as I got the 'September holiday' when I was at school and that wasn't yesterday! :rotfl:

3forholidays

It's very quiet on here! Hope everyone is ok and enjoying themselves this weekend.

mcculloch29

I am, since my DS, known as Dr C on here, moved out, life has been a steady stream of rediscovering small pleasures that had been pushed aside by him. Buying a multi pack of spearmint chewing gum was one.
The chewing gum I bought went into the cupboard to be accessed by both of us in theory, but usually Dr C had five out of six packs. He doesn't like spearmint so I never bought spearmint.
Now I can buy it and it's all mine.

mothernerd

Relocation of DS3's gf and her chinchillas has been put on hold but they are both worried about one of their friends - his mother went to A & E, they have found a large lump in her stomach and are operating today. So lots of supportive bookface conversations.

Earlier I went to the 'for sale' house and have brought back the two small kitchen wall cupboards (an odd size, they were taken down and put in the shed when Mr and Mrs Builder and I did the kitchen). They are going under the stairs here (brought the double back already) to house tools and craft stuff (I want to move into the small bedroom and don't want all the extra stuff in there with me). I have the 4 x 40l tubs (with soil and plants) lined up on the edge of the drive to bring back (2 were in the vestibule and 2 had only made it to the kitchen) but not yet feeling like going back - I could barely lift my feet off the ground, long slow shuffle, not difficult but hard to keep going.

I had room on the dolly for a sack full of weeds and prunings and some rubbish to go in the bin + the five bunches of lavender I cut 2 weeks ago (cut another bunch today but still lots to do without depriving the bees).

Yesterday was mainly carrots (2kg peeled, chopped blanched and frozen in portions, nearly 1 kg cut and peeled for grating - planning a quadruple batch of carrot cake for freezing - and the rest cut and peeled in the fridge for eating raw). However I finally finished the yard. Parts of it are raised beds made with cobbles and there is a square, a path from door to the gate and bits near the house which are slabbed.

When DS2 was renting this house from me, he let everything get overgrown (I was coming to do it regularly but was told that I was 'interfering'). It was covered in moss, soil and plants and weeds had self-seeded (plus a good sprinkling of cig ends, packets and cellophane wrap and the odd bottle top). I scraped a pathway before my operation (knew it would be too dangerous to get the bins out in Winter) and have since worked on cutting back the ivy 'tree' and clearing the remaining soil.

The last bit used to be a raised bed but was taken down some years ago and the space was inlaid with some of the cobbles. Difficult to get to as the 'picnic table' was covering it. It's 6' x 4' with metal edges and legs so was too heavy to move or drag and the glass top had acted as a mini-greenhouse so the plants were butting the underside. Well I am finally down to the cobbles (had to cut, sweep and then sit for a bit and still went dizzy twice when I stood up). I have three bags growing potatoes and another two (about 18" round) that did have beans (were looking good but something has eaten them this week) from the soil I have scraped from the surface + have potted on some plants I was given as presents. Next year I can start putting in what I want - will put together my modular raised beds and fill some of the large veg bags I have (1m x 0.5m x 0.5m heavy duty but fold down flat).

So although I have not done as much as I would like, I am making progress and I can see what I have done. Not going to talk about visiting my mother - much getting hold of the wrong end of the stick, mishearing (not wearing her hearing aid, again), asserting that I was wrong about my sick pay (because niece said) what I could and could not do (was physically able to do) and that I had had 'hundreds of thousands of pounds' and where had it all gone.

Gave up trying to explain after the sick pay one and I would dearly love to know about the money (why do I have next to no clothes, often been close to not having enough money for food after paying the bills and a ten year passport which is about to expire having been used once if I have this vast sack of cash hidden away somewhere).:rotfl:

mum2one

Hope everyone ok, been away in Wales for 2 weeks, family break, up down and inbetween is one discription, the car groaned on the way back, I'd been shopping....

DD had her ups and downs, I think the last 12 months has been hard on all of us, but touch wood we're on the right track.
x

elona

Oldest dd and sil moved up north from Oxford today :j

They are only 30 minutes drive away now and have rented a nice semi.
Panicked as could not find their cat before they arrived around six tonight but once they were here they managed to find her hiding place , phew!We all went to see the new house and help unpacking and I took a bottle of champagne and a tray of home made healthy lasagne to heat up.

DDs helped move boxes around and make up the bed while I tried to work out their oven. By the time we left it was looking less cluttered and overwhelming.

Hoping for a nice day tomorrow as I have several urgent washloads to do,

Hugs to all