Spent 4 years pretending it's all OK

NoOneAround

Back from the mountains in SA to navigate through mountains of washing in my house :eek: Raining outside, so heating will need to go on:o It would be a health hazard to delay processing the stuff that came out of DS's luggage #teenage #rugby:rotfl:

Hope everyone is well:)
NOA
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NoOneAround

brizzledfw wrote: »

Have a wonderful trip..so deserved...lots of newsy posts when you're back please...

Thanks Brizzle -will do a bit later x

NoOneAround

Igamogam wrote: »

Woah.......hadnt realised you were off to SA - have a great time. Spent a lot of my childhood in Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London...........until my nomadic parents decided I needed to go to school in Pretoria for a bit before returning to the UK.:)

Hi Igamogam,
Thank you, it was amazing we managed to quite a lot in a limited time, its been on my bucket list for a very long while. Funny, we were in your neck of the woods in our rief holiday last year too! Have you been back since then? it must have changed so much during the last 2-3 decades. Wish we could have had a few days longer, but I'm also glad to be home.

Hope all is well with you, noticed you have recently, will catch up tomorrow

NOA
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Verbatim

Glad you had a super holiday.

brizzledfw

Weyhey!! She's back and had a great time

Draw breath, (get that washing on :eek:) make a cuppa and then tell us all about it

Igamogam

NoOneAround wrote: »

Hi Igamogam,
Thank you, it was amazing we managed to quite a lot in a limited time, its been on my bucket list for a very long while. Funny, we were in your neck of the woods in our rief holiday last year too! Have you been back since then? it must have changed so much during the last 2-3 decades. Wish we could have had a few days longer, but I'm also glad to be home.

I have no desire to got back NOA! Its not the place I remember as a child - my memories are based on rosy childhood spectacles of course as we where there during the height of apartheid. I have no memory of all that and only learnt about it as an adult - couldn't believe I was in the same place at that time . All I can remember is endless days on the beach surfing. Travelling around in a battered old van with my hippy parents. Running round barefoot and having a collection of 'exotic' pets........oh and not going to school for 3 years:D I dont think I would enjoy it now. My DDs have both been on school trips and both said the same - beautiful country but not a place they could live.

Yep I have popped up again on MSE after a brief period of getting on RL.......nothing bad in RL just getting on with it! Biggest thing has been the change in managing a health issue - now I am managing it myself I actually feel like, not a new person, but the person I once was before things started imploding - and its great to be back in that sense.:)

NoOneAround

Thank You Verbatim and Brizzle
Understand totally Igamogam. All the time I was there I couldn't help but think about what the country has been through. Glad to hear that you are feeling good and in control healthwise.
Sorry didn't get on much today - back to RL with a thud this weekend, just surfacing for air from 11 loads of washing since Friday night - 4 dried out on the line today
Trip into town with DD today to get her laptop sorted, in time for start of her MA. DS has a nasty cold/cough so has spent much of the time in bed /watching tv. I have to have an earlier night as have a full week of part time work, plus loads of backlog now for ongoing SE projects, its going to be a hard week
I think I'll type a post to update in word first, then post as keep having a deja vu feeling that i'll lose it:(

NOA
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Cherryfudge

Good to have you back and sounding chipper! What an amazing childhood you must have had.

All that laundry... hope the rain holds off for you.

jvr

Can't wait to hear all about your trip NOA

PinotGrigio41

Glad you had an amazing time NOA.

Looking forward to hearing all about it. xx