Escape!

I arrange to meet friends or family in the near future. Go for a long walk in the fresh air. Do some yoga.
Guess I'm quite a boring person really. I worked 2020 during covid, retired Xmas day. We were all still restricted with what we could do and I realised I was, mainly, happy with it..I talked, video called friends and family and that still carries on. I keep an eye on my elderly step mum & phone my even more elderly mum every day (she lives 200m away) guess I'm pretty content most of the time.

HI ' Loopy Loo' I've been ill the last three weeks with the latest bug going round and feel desperate to escape.
Apart from holidays I've been looking at day trips from my local coach companies and am going to book a couple.
Something to look forward to escape to somewhere different for a day.
Good luck

Mt61. You have all my sympathy.
Do your parents live with you? Or close by.?
All I can say is get as much help as possible.

Occasionally I get on the first train out of my town, very early, and buy a Ranger ticket which gives me unlimited travel anywhere in my county for one day. I jump out at whichever station takes my fancy and catch the next train in the opposite direction. I take a book and a flask of tea and come home feeling I've had an adventure. (This is only until I can discard my crutches though. After that the world will be my oyster.)

If only I could escape, dad with Alzheimer’s, mum on the brink.. it takes its toll….

What a wonderful idea ! I must try that myself. What an adventure! 🤣

I do the same as lixy and as my bus station is a hub for Citylink and National Express it's quite exciting!

I like a train trip to somewhere I’ve never been, with one night in a B&B! My next escape will be to Ludlow.

I cook, bake and knit or generally keep myself busy.

Let's all resolve to do something nice for ourselves (and maybe a chum) out and about now that Spring is beckoning
Now when was the last time I fed the ducks?

Being on my own now, I would go on a longer cycle ride, I am only 5 minutes from somerset countryside. I would love to re-create a similar ride to last year, I put my lightest bike into my boot, then parked up and rode through the levels. The magic happened because a lone deer ran alongside me, me on the lane, him in the grass. Mile after mile of pure magic

I also get that uplifting feeling when I take a longish bus ride to Wells, I always get chatting to someone or other and I get to walk around cathedral grounds, seeing the swans in the moat. I buy myself a treat and take the bus back home

I phoned a friend for a last minute outing. Actually I phoned four friends. The first 3 had other plans. The last one was delighted and it has cheered her up. Win win.

Not everyone has a happy marriage 🥲🥲🥲

Just do it, life's too short.

Hi everyone! Tx for replying.
Yes I do have a DH and at the age of 80 and after major surgery he has just gone back to work full time.
So I think I am reevaluating things and making new plans.
Peeps. That came from a comedy show years ago.
My escape yesterday was to get on the bus and go to local hospital for a scan. To be told the lump on my sternum was perfectly normal. So came back and had a lovely lunch at new local cafe.
Saw lots of beautiful swans on the pond.
While DH was ill and recovering, my social life suffered so need to rebuild it.
Tx so much to you all.

What I do miss is the sea which is odd as I live in the middle of the country and couldn't be further away. When I escape there, not very often, I can just sit and can look at it, walk along side it and go for a paddle, content with my own company, I often feel lonely at home on my own but not by the sea.
Those content to just be alone at home for long periods and are content I admire because after a while I have to escape.

Peeps?

Same here, fancythat. The sea beckons me often.

I go to the seaside.

Loopy did you manage to escape for a bit? I know exactly what you meant this morning so hope you feel better

Georgesgran So if you do have a DH , you go off on your own ? Not a word.? Not a good way to live.
Obviously if you are on your own you can consider only yourself. But DH and I consider each other.

Is it me, I don’t think being contented with your life has anything to do with waking up one morning with a touch of spring fever and a desire to spend your day differently to your routine?

I agree. I am very content with my everyday life but still have the occasional urge to zip off somewhere, even if just for the day. The beginning of Spring when the sun starts shining usually gets me. It just be might be that it's been so wet that we've not been out walking as much as we like.

Serendipity22

Germanshepherdsmum

Since retiring I have never had the desire to escape. When I was working I could happily have walked out and disappeared. It’s called contentment.

Yes I agree 100%.... the word is contentment. My mum used to say she was content just sitting in the house and now I am here ( live here ) I am as content as contended can be.

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Is it me, I don’t think being contented with your life has anything to do with waking up one morning with a touch of spring fever and a desire to spend your day differently to your routine?

Germanshepherdsmum

Since retiring I have never had the desire to escape. When I was working I could happily have walked out and disappeared. It’s called contentment.

Yes I agree 100%.... the word is contentment. My mum used to say she was content just sitting in the house and now I am here ( live here ) I am as content as contended can be.

😃

I go to the bus station, get on the first bus leaving and stay on it to the end of its journey. Found myself in all sorts of places!

I used to do that when I was a teenager 😃 There's a shortage of buses around here though, there are only two directions to go. If we wanted to change buses and go somewhere else it would probably take a couple of hours or more to get anywhere then a couple of hours back. I do sometimes take the bus to the end of the line just so I can sit and look around or read my book for a couple of hours - I often have the bus to myself most of the way.