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Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

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  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    What I often thought about, as I always do when holidaying alone, is how much more enjoyable it would be to share, so all I need is to find a girlfriend who prefers holidays spent walking (20,000 to 30,000 steps each day according to the health app on my phone :eek:) around cities visiting museums, galleries, archeological remains, cafes and restaurants, rather than roasting on a beach.
    .

    Sorry, but I'm taken ;) Seriously though, I can't think of anything worse than just sitting roasting on a beach, or indeed just sitting around anywhere tbh. I need to be kept going and to be doing things.

    Sound like you had a lovely time and you have got some lovely photos too. :)

    Yay about your work, and hope you are feeling better soon. :)
  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 35,997 Forumite
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    What I often thought about, as I always do when holidaying alone, is how much more enjoyable it would be to share, so all I need is to find a girlfriend who prefers holidays spent walking (20,000 to 30,000 steps each day according to the health app on my phone :eek:) around cities visiting museums, galleries, archeological remains, cafes and restaurants, rather than roasting on a beach.
    .

    If I could just take the opportunity to offer my services at this point. :D

    Glad that works looking a bit more promising at the moment. You obviously need to go on holiday a bit more often.
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • Waves_and_Smiles
    Waves_and_Smiles Posts: 5,263 Forumite
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    The photo's are amazing Ono! So beautiful!

    I am just brimming with good news! Monty didn't reappear and WaSp has blocked the hole with gloop and wire mesh so that it can't be chewed through. So that drama is over, no more little visitors. I am really pleased that I fed Monty now, at least I did something nice for him. I still feel sad that I won't see him again and I know that is silly, He was a very cute young rat.

    My friend emailed me back! It was nothing to do with me at all. She has an awful lot of guilt about her own mentally unwell daughter's upbringing and feels that she failed her, talking to me about my mental health brought a lot of that back. She also has a lot of guilt that she didn't come after me when I disappeared years also and felt she had also let me down and the more I told her about how ill I was the worse she felt. She emailed one long apology.

    It is all water under the bridge to me but she still feels guilty about things I had forgotten about, especially now she knows so much of the fear in BPD is based in feelings of abandonment, I sent an email back telling her she has always done the best she could and to give herself a break, it didn't even occur to me that she had any reason to feel guilty about our friendship. I am not asking her to support me which she was worried about failing at, just to be my friend and talk about gardening or something! Also, to be fair to her her daughters BPD is very bad right now, it's where mine was straight after diagnosis and she presumed I was similar because she has never seen anyone who has it who is stable so she thought I was far more obviously unwell than I am.

    So it was a big misunderstanding complicated by guilty feelings and now she is going to sew me something pretty as a gift and promises not to disappear again!
    Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France

    If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant apple trees today - Martin Luther King
  • Wellyboots6
    Wellyboots6 Posts: 2,735 Forumite
    That made me smile WaS, I'm pleased for you :)
  • mellymoo74
    mellymoo74 Posts: 6,529 Forumite
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    That great WaS!
  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    That's brilliant news WaS! :)
  • calleyw
    calleyw Posts: 9,896 Forumite
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    edited 3 May 2016 at 9:58PM
    WaS, I thought it was she felt guilty and had let you down. How nice she got back in contact.

    Here is my husbands piggy bank

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    a very cool jelly baby listening to some cool tasty beats. My husband was very cruel. As he cut a hole in its head to put the money in :rotfl:

    Yours

    Calley
    Hope for everything and expect nothing!!!

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    If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try -Seth Godin
  • onomatopoeia99
    onomatopoeia99 Posts: 7,159 Forumite
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    Really pleased for you WaS :)
    Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 2023
  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    I've got the same jelly baby Calley! My plan was to turn it into a money box too, but I've got so many money boxes that I never did. I put it in the back of my car to take to recycling, but I can't bring myself to throw it out, and it's still there! :rotfl:
  • jobbingmusician
    jobbingmusician Posts: 20,347 Forumite
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    Woooooooooooooooo WaS! How very excellent! xxxxxx

    Feeling quite bouncy this evening, although tired :) squishes to all xxxxxxx~~~~~~~~~~~~
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