General Chat

RR, you slipped in there -- see, a woman after my own mind, a year to tidy up!

About this caravan idea, I should have thought, No.1 is 6'3" and can't stand in most of them, so I'd be facing a week or two with a sulker. Some holiday.

Lindsey, I very much like ponds. We don't have many around here. They have them in Florida, although they tend to call them "lakes", even when they're the size of a good-sized house lot. And they also tend to have resident alligators.

I do like locations that don't have carnivorous wildlife, I must admit.

Argh, SM, 7 weeks?

How about when we retire we swap for 6 months of the year??

Your summer / my winter, of course.

You could take up skiing! Not that I've ever felt the urge myself.

Skiing? No thank you. OH would not tolerate a winter in snow - having left the UK as a 16 y.o. he well remembers snow, ice and freezing cold. He isn't inclined to spend more time in such weather :-(

Sue

I could do you August, how's that? Schools out so no work,and your work may have dried up for Recess!

Now August -- 2012, that is -- sounds like an excellent plan.

July is usually my driest month, work-wise, but August is no hot shakes either, and actually I've acquired a sort of partner recently I could shift anything over to. An Australian, in fact!

Speaking of which ... I've offered him part of a big job I hve that was due three weeks ago, and if I don't get some of it done, he can't do his part, and then nobody gets paid. So I should be off.

I'll let No.1 know he has over a year to clean the house. ;)

Not that having had 10 years has got it done so far ...

Just to add -- nobody else should feel jilted! I might think that a serial house-swap was a good idea. One week each at my house, and I get one week at each of your houses. It could just go on and on.

Oh, the cats, yes. Ms P is lying on my desk swiping at my left arm. Now she's crossing the keyboard to lie on my right hand. This from the scaredy feral kitten, now becoming a very large cat. She and her sister ... half-sister, cousin, aunt ... are part of the deal, remember.

pocking my nose in now with the paper work side of things
a safe should do the trick nicely

and i wished i could do a house swop i have a 5 bed in a run down area use of a car and on top off all public transpolt close to city of london for site seeing and 30 min walk to the olympics park

not for geting research of many of churchies and libruy pluss regirstry office for them BMD certs

Hmmm,nice 2 bed with sleepable loft area(no windows or standing room) bungalow made of asbestos in the Wild West of Wales one field away from the local slaughter house to swap?
All paper work of a "delicate"matter will be removed to Bezzies for the duration,but she does sleep over one night a week on average to get away from her shrewish sister that she shares with so make that a 1 bed and sleepable loft 1 night a week...She cant cook though..Rubbish at it,but good with the microwave and kettle.
Oh,4 canines indoors and a couple or more outside to see to, as in feed,groom and poop scoop twice a day,but I would swap for a week or two in Canada with a couple of kittys that dont use litter trays and have their own front door.....
But only if they have charity shops nearby and its a short drive to Thunder Bay so I can go visit my nans half sisters (who was a British Home Kid in 1910) granddaughter that I have yet to meet...Oh yea..and you send me the right amount of sedatives to get me on the plane and see me through to landing and the the same back...I HATE flying...

We do have a very good Bakery in the village(open 8am to 12 noon) and 2 shops..Which charge the usual remote village shop prices,3 animal feeds stores, an estate Agents and a lovely Church,so I am told,never been through the gates myself but it looks pretty from outside them, plus 3 pubs and a long walk to the local bus stop and an even longer walk to the nearest petrol station 5 miles away if you run out of petrol at all...

I will even wash the bedlinen ready ,but make your own beds,I hate doing that and I will ask HID to tell you where he hides the hoover and Mop if you require it as I dont know... :-D

Darn it! Thought we'd got next year's holiday sorted out :-0

I've even been going through the phone book looking for someone to install a filing cabinet size safe for the 'sensitive' stuff as per Shelley's suggestion!!!!!

JC - how about a 3 week holiday for you, 10 days in a remote area and 10 days closer to the Capital? No pets here, although we are au fait with cat care having had that responsibility in the past. But you would be asked to water the potted plants in the garden if is doesn't rain. ;-)

Bakeries a definite plus.

Extended holiday sounds just fine -- serial swap, as I was on about. One week at DET's, one week at FBG's, one week by Lindsey's pond, one week at RR's friend's, etc. etc. -- it actually sounds absolutely perfect. Since I have ancestors all over the place there, I could do the tour for the cost of my lunches!

Thing is, you will all be responsible for cleaning up after yourselves while you're here, before the next one arrives.

:-P