Anyone Else Up Yet ......... Vol. 2

Just waved my 4 year old grandsons off after minding them for 5 hours. They were good as gold the majority of the time (that's not always guaranteed).

Mummy - 'what do you say to nana for looking after you and giving you your lunch?'

Boys (in stereo) - 'sorry nana, we be good next time!'

Mummy (trying to stifle her giggles) - 'no, I meant say 'thank you.'

Ha Ha! Typical mischievous boys

We were too exhausted to tell you, jeni.....

Why did no one warn me that grandchildren are so exhausting?
How can a 14 month old have so much energy?

And now she has sent me a long pm and will ring me tomorrow after she has had a long sleep. Hooray!

That is good !

My daughter has just posted on Facebook that they had a wonderful welcome home and have just woken up. She knows I will see the post.

Always when we visit our DD text her and her sister who lives in same town as us , that we are back safe and sound Ialways get texts from them in same vein . It just nice to know and also good manners .

No problem, Bags - perhaps I do expect a bit too much from my very busy family.
Grannybug - you know what you have to do! You will enjoy that coffee so much more once the jobs are off your mind. (Well, that is the way I operate, I do unpleasant jobs straight away because thinking about them is often worse than doing them. Mind you, I love cleaning out sheds and attics and cupboards and drawers and I am a bit limited in this tiny flat with so few possessions. I did all my sisters instead.)

I hope you do get plenty of news, gn. Just me being a bit incisive as usual

Oh well have enjoyed reading the posts on GN but cannot put off clearing the loft and stacking the logs in the wood shed any longer . Just don't seem to havecthe va va voom to get started. Would making a coffee be useful or just putting of the inevitable?

I didn't expect the travellers to ring or send a message - one gd and her fiance had stayed at home. I think I am very patient normally, perhaps too patient sometimes and of course I knew I would have heard if anything had gone wrong. No doubt I will get plenty of news in a couple of days.

yes I am up and running.just been Aldi to get compost for Mr biker (will keep him occupied potting his plants up) then I can escape lol.. off to pick my bike up and going for a little run out with my Biker friend........have a good day Sue

Contact is so easy now. In the 60s, when I worked in Kenya, it was an airmail letter once a week.

It is nice to receive one, isn't it, but I've decided not to worry if one doesn't arrive. I'm remembering what it was like to arrive home after a holiday and a long journey. Sending messages to people who are not shattered and having to cope with this, that and the next thing while wanting only to fall asleep is not high up on the priorities list. I feel the onus is on me to be patient. Saves a good deal of stress too.

Oh , I don't expect daily phone calls, just a quick word to say they had arrived!

My parents always assumed no news was good news. I do too.

A friend of mine whose father died when he was fifteen and whose mother wanted to 'encourage' him to be independent, gave him a ticket to Hong Kong for his eighteenth birthday and told him to work his own way back. Old style gap year? He sent her postcards from each new place. When he was going to be out of touch for a while in remote China, he rang her to tell her that. Sge wanted to know why he was doing a long distance call when nothing was wrong

Is he independent?

Yes.

Watching the owls must be fascinating - I am always amazed at how silently they fly.

I just leave my mobile on and the family send me a text when they arrive.
Amazing barn owl activity yesterday evening. There were about seven or eight of them calling and we think the young were learning to hunt in the field next to the house.

Well done, Ariadne - it will all be worth the anxious weeks once you get settled in.
I have been a bit anxious myself,waiting to hear that my daughter and her family had got back safely to NZ from England. The gd who stayed at home promised to let me know as soon as they got back, but of course she didn't . I have just telephoned to hear they have been home for some hours and are all sleeping. I suppose she didn't want to telephone me yet because of the the time difference (10 hours ahead of us) but I would have have liked a message on Facebook.
I don't think our adult children or gc realise how much we worry about them. I was a bit different, though - I rang my mother every day from wherever I happened to be in the world until she got too confused to take my calls. My sister did the same - were we unusual?

Good morning everyone! Busy, busy day yesterday, and I woke about 5.00 with my mind buzzing. (Happily, though) lots to do but a quiet weekend ahead, which makes a change.
We have been decluttering for about a year, and I am so glad we did, but there is still a lot of "stuff" to deal with. Where does it come from?

jeni North Devon!

Brilliant Ariadne

Where to? As we sain the SW?

Ariadne

Cheers! , Ariadne

Ariadne Hoorah!