Travelling On

[Deleted User]

beanielou wrote: »

I was a Quueen's Guide!

Wow, beanie, I'm very impressed:A:beer:

[Deleted User]

themadvix wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Free holiday? You were definitely there in a special capacity! I'd never describe Brownie holiday or Guide camp as a holiday or focus on the free bit (perhaps with the exception of our Brownie's upcoming Disney trip - but that's a bit special and still *exhausting*)!!

It seemed like a holiday because it was the first time in my life I'd slept in a tent and lots of the activities that they did were totally new to me and great fun:j. I was really there to help with communication so I had to stay close to the girl I was helping but at the same time I didn't want to 'crowd' her as an important aspect of her being there was integrating into the group. I was like a big kid myself as I did everything that the guides did. I'm only 5 foot one, it was easy to get lost in the crowd;).

Karmacat

I'm impressed too, beanie! I think guiding, and any kind of organisation like that, is absolutely wonderful! I did a tiny bit of that sort of thing in later teenage years when I did the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. I was just a stroppy ten year old, thats all ...

beanielou

Thanks

badmemory

The problem comes when the power cut goes over 24 hours. A 4 day one (the weight of the snow broke the power lines) when you have retired removes a few options. I think if this happened now though I'd just move out to a hotel. It would just be the worry of the frozen pipes. A stand up wash in the bathroom at work, working late/starting early. Sitting in the car for an hour in the evening with the engine running.


The ones we have round here which only seem to last a couple of hours if that are a doddle. They just make me wish I had bought that laptop!

Karmacat

badmemory wrote: »

The problem comes when the power cut goes over 24 hours. A 4 day one (the weight of the snow broke the power lines) when you have retired removes a few options.

Even now, badmemory, when I haven't finished doing what I plan to do, I have about a fortnight of bought fuel, and I have endless fuel for the rocket stove because that takes twigs which sounds adorably Famous Five to me so I reckon I'll be fine for a four-dayer.

I'm downloading library books, and my computer objects to Marcus Wareing :rotfl: though it was fine with Marge Piercy and a couple of books on modern smallholding :rotfl:

Right, today I **will**:
- gather all the new bank notifications in one place. Started yesterday, but lost the will to live.
- open the post, I'll *have* to do this, as there may be more bank notifications lurking, though I doubt it. Online saves the banks postage money, after all.

- plant the rest of the garlic. I got waylaid by uprooting brambles yesterday, but I've realised I have an old drawer near the compost bin that I always meant to use for planting, and never have. Got new soil out there too, so it won't actually take that long.
- check trains for a trip to see a British Museum exhibition.
- get out for a walk, not just working in the garden. Stand upright! Let the sun see your face!
:j

That'll do. I'd like to do more (I *am* tidyiing the kitchen, actually, and that continues to go well) but I doubt I'll do much :T

themadvix

carbootcrazy wrote: »

It seemed like a holiday because it was the first time in my life I'd slept in a tent and lots of the activities that they did were totally new to me and great fun:j. I was really there to help with communication so I had to stay close to the girl I was helping but at the same time I didn't want to 'crowd' her as an important aspect of her being there was integrating into the group. I was like a big kid myself as I did everything that the guides did. I'm only 5 foot one, it was easy to get lost in the crowd;).

It sounds like you had a great time! (I'm a Queen's Guide too Beanie - note the present tense - you're still one! A la 'once a King or Queen in Narnia.....' )

Karmacat

Oh wow! My rebellion took many forms this was only one of them. I left my ballet classes for a couple of years, before going back when I was 13 or so; underage drinking may also have been involved, which at the time I thought was terribly :cool: it coloured things for years, eg my graduation photo is ridiculously bad, because I felt like such a fraud. Though to be fair, I was the first in the family to have anything like that, and we didn't know what was "done".




ETA. Narnia. Wonderful.

[Deleted User]

Karmacat wrote: »

Oh wow! My rebellion took many forms this was only one of them. I left my ballet classes for a couple of years, before going back when I was 13 or so; underage drinking may also have been involved, which at the time I thought was terribly :cool: it coloured things for years, eg my graduation photo is ridiculously bad, because I felt like such a fraud. Though to be fair, I was the first in the family to have anything like that, and we didn't know what was "done".

I don't think there can be many of us who haven't something in our past that makes our grown up selves cringe. KC. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and many people's lives are littered with 'if only'. I'm very sceptical to be honest about goody-goodies who never put a foot wrong from cradle to grave. I admire those who have made mistakes but have the character to move on from them and do well despite them. As for underage drinking, KC, it was a rite of passage in my day and incredibly cool;).

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: exactly!


I'm not bothered about having done it, its just a funny story now, though I appreciate that things can go very, very wrong if you start on that route, so I'd never recommend it.

Talking of routes ... the tfl website has gone mad. I have a setting on there that says I'll walk up to 40 minutes. I won't, but it gives me options. Except it doesn't, a particular bus I like doesn't count as going to the British Museum any more because it stops one block away. Bah humbug :rotfl: found it. It just takes forever, thats all!