First Steps to Solvency

alt80

Stuck in front of the computer got the reports off, couple of things to do workwise. From what I can hear on the radio everyone is out at the shops, pubs open etc sounds like it’s buzzing. Thought this was it for me 100% sort myself out stop the spending and the other stuff but really not sure it’s for me now tbh. Wished I’d got a restaurant booked for this evening, everyone out celebrating end of lockdown making history and I’m stuck inside on the !!!!!! sober Monday. Thinking it’s one night but the wife would go !!!!!! crazy. Really stupid position want to have a life but do want to keep my family etc actually enjoy being with them thinking if she chills out could be a balance maybe idk. 

RelievedSheff

Who cares what anyone else is doing?

You need to do what is right for you and your family.

Grumpelstiltskin

I won't be out celebrating this evening and I don't think Sheff will be either.

Are we both sad individuals?

alt80

@RelievedSheff years to come my son is going to ask me what I was doing end of lockdown 3, how big was it etc and I’ll be like idk I was on the cokeheads meeting fml. 😆 

amanda_p

My eldest son lives in Shanghai with his wife and 14 month old son .
Because of Covid we have yet to meet our first grandchild. It is far from ideal and very frustrating. However at the end of the day we brought both our sons up to be independent people. He left the UK in 2008 to go to China for a year!  He met his Chinese wife and is still there.
Obviously I would rather he  lived in England but his life choices and job have taken him in a different direction. He is his own person and not an extension of us, he maybe in a different country but he is happy with his life. At the end of the day as a parent as long as your children are happy wherever they live, is all you can ask for.

My youngest son is a surgeon, next year he is going to New Zealand for supposedly a year as part of his training. Hopefully he will return to the UK but who knows.

Your son as he grows up will begin to make his own choices about which direction his life will go in. As a parent you can offer advice and support but ultimately you can only guide him. As he reaches adulthood you will have little authority over where he lives etc.

Just enjoy him now, if he thinks he would like to live in Greece let him dream, because at his age that is all it is a romanticised dream nothing else.

warby68

Its only one step in a long process of opening back up. A tent in a pub car park is hardly the most momentous thing in all this.

Most of our locals do not have suitable outdoor space and have decided to wait.

Its divisive and unfair right now if you ask me.

You can tell him his mum got the first hair appointment.

alt80

@amanda_p that’d break my wife’s heart tbh. I do understand when he’s older he can go wherever tbf. 

@warby68 yeah will tell him that ha! 

Lol thanks for making me smile re tent in a pub car park - that’s probably what it is, they’re over hyping it on the radio and I’ve got the fomo because my wife’s not let me out the house. Wanted to go to comm office see it for myself ha she’s told me to stay at home for the day not get tempted idk I think she thinks I’ll be meeting people I shouldn’t be or down JL spending £10k. Was just thinking a civilised drink and couple of hundred quid max. 

Mate sent me another email he’s come to NG for the day to celebrate lol. Shouldn’t be tempted but I am 100%.

RelievedSheff

Grumpelstiltskin said:

I won't be out celebrating this evening and I don't think Sheff will be either.

Are we both sad individuals?

We are going to give it at least a month before we venture into a pub, let all the fuss calm down and wait until we can go inside and sit down.

A pint in a tent in a pub car park just doesn't do it for me!!

alt80

@RelievedSheff my first outing is 8th May I’m buzzing for it now. Don’t really like being last to do anything, def like to win.

JGB1955

We're off for a meal on Thursday night as it's our wedding anniversary.    We'll be in a marquee in a garden, with some heaters and two missing walls.  I'm not sure it's going to be the Michelin star restaurant experience it would have (otherwise) been. 

Must go and search out my ugg boots and thermal underwear....