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Title: Holiday!
Post by: Bar Wench on March 23, 2009, 07:58:42 PM
This time next week I shall be chilling on the terrace in Spain with a glass of something chilled.  cloud9:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 23, 2009, 08:02:22 PM
Water  lol:

You lucky thing though.

How long are you going for ?
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 23, 2009, 08:03:28 PM
Where is it the rain in Spain mainly falls?  noooo:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Bar Wench on March 23, 2009, 08:04:24 PM
Fly out on Saturday and fly back the following Sunday. Can't wait!!!

It falls mainly on the plain DS, but Mother Wench lives on the coast so it isn't a problem.  ;)
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 23, 2009, 08:12:55 PM
Is it a week of relaxing planned or has your mother planned your itinerary for you    noooo:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: The Moan Ranger on March 23, 2009, 08:17:07 PM
Fly out on Saturday and fly back the following Sunday. Can't wait!!!

It falls mainly on the plain DS, but Mother Wench lives on the coast so it isn't a problem.  ;)

The same coasts that were cooler than parts of England yesterday?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Bar Wench on March 24, 2009, 12:14:48 PM
Is it a week of relaxing planned or has your mother planned your itinerary for you    noooo:

RELAXING!!!

She doesn't do itineraries. Think the most I am required to do is make her tea.  cloud9:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Snoopy on March 24, 2009, 12:18:20 PM
We are going away over the Easter week ~ Essex Coast (Maldon) for the whole week. 

Only 18 days to go cloud9:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Nick on March 24, 2009, 12:21:00 PM
There was a big battle there
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Bar Wench on March 24, 2009, 12:22:23 PM
Over salt?
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Snoopy on March 24, 2009, 12:26:28 PM
I know ~ another reason for choosing the location.  ::)

See other locations of Educational Nature on the plan
Waltham Abbey (Henry VIII had a gunpowder factory there)
Dedham Mill (Constable ~ Haywain etc)
The Whole of London (Just down the road)
Etc Etc Etc.
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Nick on March 24, 2009, 12:28:23 PM
http://www.battleofmaldon.org.uk/ (http://www.battleofmaldon.org.uk/)
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Bar Wench on March 24, 2009, 12:34:55 PM
I know ~ another reason for choosing the location.  ::)

See other locations of Educational Nature on the plan
Waltham Abbey (Henry VIII had a gunpowder factory there)
Dedham Mill (Constable ~ Haywain etc)
The Whole of London (Just down the road)
Etc Etc Etc.

But it's a holiday! Not an educational field trip!!
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 24, 2009, 12:40:37 PM
I know ~ another reason for choosing the location.  ::)

See other locations of Educational Nature on the plan
Waltham Abbey (Henry VIII had a gunpowder factory there)
Dedham Mill (Constable ~ Haywain etc)
The Whole of London (Just down the road)
Etc Etc Etc.

That's 1 hell of a week you've got planned  eeek:
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Snoopy on March 24, 2009, 12:41:55 PM
It is an opportunity for Mrs S#2 to visit her home County and for the children to learn. No opportunity remains unexplored. Life is all about new experiences and anyway no-one in their right mind goes to the East Coast of England in search of sun and sangria in fecking April.

The children will be taken out every day to see something new. Rowing a skiff along the river to Dedham Mill is a real joy. Tell me of a little boy who doesn't want to watch the Changing of the Guard. and then see how gunpowder is made. Show me a THW who doesn't want to go shopping in Oxford Street with her mother.

Of course it is a holiday ~ just not one that will be spent lazing on a beach ~ we have miles of those right here at home ~ which is why we do not go away during the summer.
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Snoopy on March 24, 2009, 12:45:58 PM
I know ~ another reason for choosing the location.  ::)

See other locations of Educational Nature on the plan
Waltham Abbey (Henry VIII had a gunpowder factory there)
Dedham Mill (Constable ~ Haywain etc)
The Whole of London (Just down the road)
Etc Etc Etc.

That's 1 hell of a week you've got planned  eeek:

Of course it is. Children need to be occupied every waking moment or they get bored.
Those who live in and work around London miss so much because they see it every day. My boys have not yet seen any of it.
Mrs S#2 and I lived there too and we want to share some of the joys with the children.
At home they have mountains (halfway up one of which we live) Miles of sandy beaches less than three miles away by car and visible from their bedroom windows. Snowdonia is 20 minutes drive away. We don't need a once a year dose of the seaside ~ we live on holiday.
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 24, 2009, 06:28:16 PM
Children need to be occupied every waking moment . . .

The same goes for France and Poland.
Title: Re: Holiday!
Post by: Snoopy on March 24, 2009, 06:30:39 PM
GOS is taking care of that as we speak.