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ginnyknit

Hello all, not been able to get my password to work since the laptop malfunction but finally did it!

Sending much love to those who are poorly or have poorly OH's.

Keeping busy here with crafts and grand kids. ALso back on the mission to empty the house and buy a caravan. Not one of those shiny all singing all dancing ones of course, just an old one with a loo. Dgs fell in love with caravans when we went away in June.

He loves Blackpool and Dd has been taking him to a hotel as all he wanted to do was go on the rides. Last time we all went it was a nightmare. Kids who wake up at 5 am and hotels do not mix. I have issues with claustrophobia so hotels are hell for me.

However when we tried the caravan it worked perfectly and he never wanted to leave the site because there was a pool and a club with interesting pool things to do.

So have dug out all my vintage stuff collected over the years and am in the process of selling it. Well basically anything I can sell I will. I no longer need 'stuff' I need experiences. Cant you tell im 59 tomorrow, grabbing life by the danglies :rotfl:

mardatha

Happy Birthday ginny! and I'm another one who loves caravans... always wanted to live in one - used to walk around the sites looking enviously at those big spacious ones, like dolls houses for grown ups. Very very expensive dolls houses though!

Hard_Up_Hester

Lovely to see you Ginny, happy birthday and good luck with the caravan.

Nargleblast

Happy birthday ginnyknit[/B. Are you looking for a towing caravan or static? The towing kind involve a fair bit of donkey work and can be chilly in the winter. The static kind are more comfortable and spacious, no having to flip your sofa and table over every night to go to bed, and have better insulation. The downside is the annual site fees and the fact that many sites have rules about not allowing caravans over a certain age on site. I know there are people who have a static and live in it most of the year but spend winter in Spain. Good luck with your search.

Softstuff

Lovely to see you Ginnyknit! :T

Now, when you say "vintage stuff" what exactly might you mean? Because generally I go a bit weak at the knees when the word vintage is mentioned

Cheapskate

Hello again - took me ages to catch up with the chat since I "returned" the other week! :rotfl: Happy birthday, ginnyknit, have a fab day! :bdaycake:

I'm finally getting back to OS ways after what seems forever in a sort of limbo - very glad it the littlies' hols, and we free of clock-watching, and can please ourselves a lot more! Took them to the pictures yesterday - what an expensive shock, as we had drinks/sweets, etc. and don't normally buy all that! :eek::eek: Next time, it will be a couple of bags of sweets sneaked into my bag, and a bottle of water each.

DH and I have always hankered after an old VW bus to go tootling around the UK, complete with some of the vintage crockery of my mum's that I saved, and the tablecloths my great aunt and her mother embroidered - it will happen one day! :rotfl:

We're also doing a massive house de-clutter - it's a slow process, as I have some quite bad days mentally, and struggle to do stuff, but crack on when I'm ok. There's still things of mum's to go through, which is SO hard, but has to be done - that I do on a good day, it would kill me on a wobbly day!!


Sorry, I'm rambling, best get more tea...

A xo

VJsmum

Happy Birthday Ginny

We had a caravan from when DD was born until last year - it was a tourer but we sold it as we hadn't used it for a couple of years and it was beginning to deteriorate. But the children had such freedom in it when they were small. Being able to trot off on their own - to the playground or the shop - which, living alongside a busy road, they just couldn't do at home. we never had TV in it either so it was fantastic for family time, reading, playing games, being outside. we loved it.

When OH retires next year, we will think about having one again for just the two of us, but we shall see.

MiL is about to leave. DS is driving her home. She hasn't been too bad this time. Then I need to catch up with house stuff as it's had everyone else in it whilst i haven't been - never a good combination.

monnagran

Morning all. Just lost a post, so this will be short and not necessarily sweet.

Love caravans. Like camping only less stressful.

softstuff, don't know about camo boiler suits but I had a friend who had a camo onesie. Believe me, it didn't camouflage a thing.

Hi, ginnyknit and happy birthday.

Cheapskate, well done on the de-cluttering. I've discovered that on the days when you don't think that you can do anything, if you can do just one thing, no matter how tiny, you can go to bed at ease with the thought that you have done something.
The other day, just before I went to bed, I made all the stuff strewn about my bedroom into a neat pile, nothing was sorted or put away but it took me about 3 minutes and I felt better. Sometimes just getting to the end of the day is enough.

Today I have the long walk to the chemist to collect my prescription. Hope it doesn't rain on me, but if it does so be it. I won't melt.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Today is a fresh start. We are done with yesterday - it's over. Today we begin again. There are no mistakes, nothing has happened, nobody has goofed it up - we've got today. We've got another chance.

ivyleaf

Happy birthday ginnyknit :beer:

Lovely to see you and Cheapskate back on the thread :T

I went to Switzerland on a school trip when I was 15. I remember it cost £48 for 10 days! But I suppose that was a lot then. I was very homesick the first night, but fine after that, and made a new friend who wasn't in any of my classes at school. She is still my dearest friend 50 years later, even though we don't see each other very often as she lives in Scotland and I'm in Greater London. We text each other most days We don't Skype, we both hate that idea <shudder>

Looby_Lou

Fairy Princessk - I have a man's boiler suit that I use for decorating etc. I got mine from Toolstation (Screwfix also sell them) the only problem is that I'm not very tall and mine doesn't fit my bust very well. You can at least take it home and return it if it doesnt fit. They do now make boiler suits for women and have them in both Screwfix and Toolstation