To leave the room

Thank you, Anne - I once went to the Caribbean with them.

Greatnan we went with Travelsphere uk company gone in with Page and Moy now that is who we are going to India with and who we went to China with.

We thoroughly enjoyed trip and then went on to Thailand with that particular holiday.

Looking round at my group of friends, I think it is normal for a couple in these days, when we are all living longer, to sit in seperate rooms even sleep in seperate bedrooms.
The aristocracy have always done it. The plebs have to share a bed till death parts them.

I'm glad that DH doesn't like daytime TV, but then he can still go on long hikes and we even have seperate holidays sometimes. It works fine!
If you don't like TV then make the spare bedroom into YOUR room. Put a computer in and an easy chair and shut the door.

Me too Mishap although it was my choice to leave OH to it and come play some games on my 'puter there was nothing that grabbed my attention this evening..

You have missed Mastermind!

At this moment I am sitting upstairs in the office at my computer because the noisy sci-fi film that is filling my living room is totally ghastly! I have indeed left the room!

Anneand graham - did you arrange your tour with a UK travel agent? I am really interested in seeing China, but not the big cities.

we visited China for my 50th greatnan that was about 8 years ago was very interesting visit, saw Terracotta warriors, and the GReat wall, Tinamen square etc was very educational and good time.

It is the way with forums, just like spoken conversations between friends! By the way, I obviously can't watch TV when I am out on my long walks or off on my travels - I am strictly a bad weather viewer! (But I do record Countdown).

Sounds like a plan* greatnan*. Just thinking how far this thread has travelled from one older person who is happy watching daytime TV ad nauseum to the travels, past, present and future of another.

I am in no hurry - I love my life in the French Alps. My daughter wants me safely installed in a cottage in her garden in NZ whilst I am still fit and active. I don't think the NZ authorities are as welcoming to sponsored parents if they are likely to prove a big drain on resources. I have just turned 72, and hope to be scrambling up steep mountain paths for another five years or so. In the meantime, I spend about six weeks a year in NZ and next Spring I am planning to take a week to explore the deep South - I want to see Fjiordland and Mt. Cook. Last trip,I added on a week in Phuket, and next time I will take a snorkeling trip to one of the South Pacific islands, possibly New Caledonia.
Another Gransnetter will be there before me - actually in the next village and I am looking forward to meeting her.
I love NZ and the friendly Kiwis but I want to see even more of Europe - I have visited all the countries of Western Europe and I am busy exploring Switzerland and Italy as it is quite easy to reach them from my home. I want to see some countries of Eastern Europe before I leave - Croatia and Bulgaria look interesting.
Once I emigrate, I hope to be able to visit Cambodia and Laos. I would love to visit China, but it would have to be with a guided tour. I already know Malaysia quite well because another daughter lived there for three years - that was where I discovered the wonders of snorkeling on coral, on The Pehrentian Islands.

When is it you go greatnan?

You are all quite right - but I get a bit sensitive because my daughter sneers at my TV viewing ! She hardly ever watches TV, but neither will I when I live in NZ - their TV is rubbish. (Ha ha - she doesn't know yet that iportal works all over the world - but I will be living in separate accommodation so I won't be disturbing her peace).

That's ok then, so glad you cleared up that point.

It would, Nanadogs but when I chucked out the French maid's outfit I kept the fishnet stockings

Wow! SEXY merlot but doesn't it get a bit chilly between the bottom of the jacket and the top of the boots?

Didn't you know, Nanadogs, a padded jacket and lumberjack boots is the new french maid's outfit?

merlot do tell? My imagination is running wild!

Sorry to go cross gartered thread anno but don't you have tin hips? (Trying hard not to laugh.....honest)

Exactly ana

tanith, How do you think I keep my DH occupied??

I do wish that lighthearted questions didn't turn into something else all the time... it was a light and fluffy question ladies , I'm not about divorce my happy chappy.
I'd love to have our gas flame effect fire on all the time but I'm frightened about how much gas it'll use... maybe we should swop it for a wood burner then I could send him out to chop down trees...

I agree, Nanad, that was the point I was making too. It's fine if you live alone, but two or more have to work out how to live together without getting on each other's nerves. I have every sympathy with you, tanith.

I must admit that I find it all too easy to get hooked on daytime TV if I have nothing better to do. That's why I have joined a gym. Don't laugh.

Wow! Where did dictating come from? When there are two or more people sharing one living area then there has to be compromise. Why should tanith have to take herself off like a refugee in her own house so the poor wee man can get his own way all the time?
It would be a completely different matter if they both enjoyed daytime TV, but that's not the case.

Don't worry about downsizing, johanna. Plenty of small homes have woodburners.