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We have turned down two free family holidays this year, it just wouldn't be relaxing. Instead we're leaving sproglet with the grinners and fucking off to France.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:34, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Surely the point of having kids is actually having these holiday experiences with your child?
I say this of course as someone without kids so feel free to point out how "everything changes" and "I wouldn't understand".
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:36, Reply)

EVERYTHING CHANGES, AL, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:37, Reply)

I knew it.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:39, Reply)

Actually I would like to take her
but we are going to a wedding which would be difficult especially as I'm an usher. Also she won't remember it anyway.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:38, Reply)

Tattoo your best memories on her leg
then she'll never forget.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:39, Reply)

I need to find a way of declining that doesn't make me look like a snob.
"A week in one of those dreadful mobile homes in some ghastly holiday village? Oh, I'm not sure if I can make it that week."
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:36, Reply)

Why not? everyone has different standards? I'd rather stay at home than go to a caravan park

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:39, Reply)

My brother in law has a rule about not spending more than a week with anyone's parents, including his own.
If it is short with a definite ending you can grit your teeth and tolerate it for 7 days.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:38, Reply)

Good tule, though I'd make it 3 days max where my family are involved.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:43, Reply)

If you count two of those days as travelling
and arrange to do something separately on one day, that only leaves four days to slowly drive each other mad.
In my family it helps that my dad usually spends two days not speaking to anyone.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:46, Reply)

I want to go on a family holiday, just not there.
I was thinking maybe a nice cottage in Devon or something near to a beach perhaps, with a little cafe where they serve cream teas. Yes, I'm old and middle class and incredibly boring.
*goes back to growing vegetables*

If I'm going to go to France I want to stay the hell away from English people and very close to unlimited wine.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:39, Reply)

You grow vegetables?
You must be an awesome person.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:40, Reply)

esome personful bore
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:41, Reply)

I bet you've never even seen a vegetable unless it comes out of a packet with "Iceland" written on it.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:43, Reply)

Not true
I saw one wheeling down the road just the other day with a little bobble hat on
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:43, Reply)

You saw Monty?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:44, Reply)

yeah, I threw some change at him as I felt sorry for him
but then he started ranting about "owing me a suck job" so i pushed him into traffic
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:46, Reply)

I'm a marathoner too.
And I hope someday to construct a fence.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:41, Reply)

It's so fucking cold,
I was getting stomach cramps from drinking my squash while doing my 4 miles on Tuesday.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:44, Reply)

I did my four miles last night and they hurt.
I was trying to keep up with the much younger and fitter person ahead of me who was running home from work with a rucksack on.

Actually, that's another reason I don't want to go somewhere unknown at Easter - I'm going to have to be doing an 18 mile run that week.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:46, Reply)

I'm think I'm getting quite good at running in "a low state of arousal"
I'm taking that to mean that I'm not thinking about how long I'm running in total that day as I've already planned my route so I know how far I will be going, and when I'm running I'm concentrating on my breathing and my pace but not worrying about how fast I'm going overall or getting cross and struggling up hills.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:49, Reply)

Yep, I think going by distance rather than time is a huge mental bonus.
In fact, I'm going to go and do my three miles right now.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:51, Reply)

I'm gonna see how cold it is tonigh and I might do mine in the gym
and then do some weights.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 8:52, Reply)