Comments on: High days and Holy days

By: guineapigmum

guineapigmum — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:58:49 +0000

Flights are now booked, insurance waiting for another day. We’ll dash down the motorway & back - it’s too complicated/expensive to fly from Bristol or Heathrow when there are cheap flights from Edinburgh, which is where we’d like to be at the end of the holiday.

Pig - they only met in September and are in the throes of high passion where there is no world outside oneself. I think I distantly remember that feeling (21 years this summer).

Hi Pat - I gather Batlady & partner have been in touch. Batproofing the cottage may be a fair exchange for a week’s rent.

By: Sister Pat

Sister Pat — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:48:47 +0000

Glad your spirits are back to normal. As the writer above says the schools in London get good Friday and Easter Monday off, then we return for another two weeks. It probably means you get the worst of both worlds! Can’t you get a flight from Heathrow or Bristol on friday evening? I’m very interested in Batlady.

By: Pig in the kitchen

Pig in the kitchen — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:37 +0000

It was indeed a well thought out, reasoned and reasonable rant. I very much enjoyed reading it, and I think you would have been within your rights to point out that you had a holiday booked.
Doesn’t the bible say, ‘it’s better to marry than to burn’…but presumably their passion has already been assuaged and they could hang on a bit longer?! Until everyone has finished holidaying?!
Pigx

By: guineapigmum

guineapigmum — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:41:07 +0000

GF definitely counts as Lent, methinks. I very much hope there’s no hastening to repent!

By: Mother at Large

Mother at Large — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:52:56 +0000

Thanks for the namecheck, very kind of you, and I enjoyed the rant. Does Good Friday count as Lent? Or is it over by then? What’s that saying - Marry in Lent, hasten to repent, or something.

By: guineapigmum

guineapigmum — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:53:02 +0000

Hi Jackie - I see you’re still American. Both events will be joyful and enjoyed by all, including me. If I can get travel insurance that doesn’t bankrupt us, that is.

Iota & Jen - Rant is over, done, system is cleansed, no more drama, and I’m just hoping brother-in-law, SHW, doesn’t chance upon this site! There might well be updates if that happens! Reluctant Memsahib has described it as “spiritual exfoliation” on her site; rather a grand term for a GOW post but I do feel suitably exfoliated.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:14:10 +0000

Oh, I so love a good rant. I will be waiting for updates as the drama unfolds!

By: Iota

Iota — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:07:11 +0000

You are so kind to give me a namecheck.

Ranting about family is good for the soul, and will counteract any negative effects of the wedding being on Good Friday (although that does feel a bit odd to me too…)

You make a marvellous GOW (grumpy old woman, of course). You could start a group for GOWs NHW.

By: Jackie Cameorn

Jackie Cameorn — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:22:01 +0000

Jings GPM - what a guddle. And the wedding and holidays should both be joyful occasions ( though you know something - arrangements for either rarely run smoothly!)

I am keenly awaiting your posts after both events!

Hope you are keeping well and doing the resting bit between chemo that is required whilst enjoying the times when you feel “at your best” ( it’s all relative of course).

Jackie

By: guineapigmum

guineapigmum — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:56 +0000

Hello Bill - Yes, I feel much better for that, thank you, and quite happy about life, holidays and weddings. The Guardian article set me wondering how we get Vit D during the winter, when we go out with only the tiniest bit of our face exposed to daylight. In fact, I pulled my ungloved hands out of my pockets and crossed the road to the sunny patch yesterday in the hopes of a vitamin supplement! Not much chance of that today, though - even my solar powered watch has gone on strike.

Fish, PM, why didn’t I think of that! And gluten-free fish, even better. Hadn’t twigged about the london schools. Tha Scottish schools probably welcome an early Easter to avoid a ridiculously short summer term. The cooking tips was a bit of literary licence, wasn’t it - but I’m sure we all pick up lots of tips from Pig’s blog.