I have not been well either physically or in the mind department. I have become a bit of a drip really so we have decided on various holidays as husband says I need to have things to look forward to, nice thought but it sure it is quite going to work but we will see (I am nit ungrateful by the way).
1) Thursday we are off to Cyprus for five nights, we have an apartment in a resort quite far out but we only plan to lie by the pool and read etc. No serious sight seeing as we did that last year
2) October we are going to do a long weekend in Bath, it was where my last family home was and my brother and his family still live there. Husband has never been a tourist in Bath and I have not been there for 12 or so years so I expect everything will have changed
3) November we are going to my beloved Barbados for two weeks. It was husbands turn to choose this year and I fully expected something like shark cage diving but bless him he chose Barbados just for me. We have a one bedroomed garden cottage next to the pool and we have been told by the resort that there are few children that that time of year (I was concerned about early morning screeching playing in the pool, misery guts aren't I?)
4) Booked some time off in March but haven't decided where to go, prob. Tenerife or somewhere.
5) have vouchers for murder mystery weekend which we need to organise before August next year
when we are in Cyprus we are going to meet up with a cousin of mine who is also on holiday there. I haven't seen her since she was a child and she is grandmother of two now!! As you know we have friends in Barbados although unfortunately the husband is quite poorly having been suffering with a brain tumour. He is in hospital at the moment. He is insisting on our usual weekend meal with him and all the family despite us saying that we would rather take them all out. We know a place where we can use a pool and pay per head for a BBQ and with four children that would be good. I am talking with his wife over messenger and we will see what happens. The guy is as strong as an ox usually so everyone thinks he will beat it! He hasn't been right since he got struck down with that mozzie Zika virus about three years ago.
My sister and her family are in Florida. Virgin couldn't get them out. They are inland at an apartment hotel with an internal kitchen and the hotel and security have been around and boarded windows etc. They have been told that if it hits they have to go into the kitchen which did not previously have a door but has now and has a mattress behind it. Sister is all blasé about it but I am not sure. Neither am I sure that she and her husband were quite sensible to go outside in the rain and wind albeit not hurricane force in plastic ponchos to take pictures! They wee due back on Tuesday but say they don't think they will be now. I have heir car on my drive and their keys so will have to sort something out if they are not back on Wednesday or they will be stranded here!
Some friends in Barbuda which has been wiped out with the hurricane are on their way to Barbados by what they are referring to as a "refugee boat" our other friends have found them a holiday let that has been donated and clothes, toiletries etc. We have transferred some money to them, it is not a lot only £150 but every little helps as they say.
So other than that I am hoping by October to be taking 2 x four day weekends which could give us scope, his shifts permitting, to do other juants. I am sure the company will agree to the reduction in working hours as I have my line manager backing but they move so slowly so it may not happen in October. LM says if it doesn't happen officially we can discuss an unofficial solution.
so that is me - in a chatty mood today..... xxxx
1) Thursday we are off to Cyprus for five nights, we have an apartment in a resort quite far out but we only plan to lie by the pool and read etc. No serious sight seeing as we did that last year
2) October we are going to do a long weekend in Bath, it was where my last family home was and my brother and his family still live there. Husband has never been a tourist in Bath and I have not been there for 12 or so years so I expect everything will have changed
3) November we are going to my beloved Barbados for two weeks. It was husbands turn to choose this year and I fully expected something like shark cage diving but bless him he chose Barbados just for me. We have a one bedroomed garden cottage next to the pool and we have been told by the resort that there are few children that that time of year (I was concerned about early morning screeching playing in the pool, misery guts aren't I?)
4) Booked some time off in March but haven't decided where to go, prob. Tenerife or somewhere.
5) have vouchers for murder mystery weekend which we need to organise before August next year
when we are in Cyprus we are going to meet up with a cousin of mine who is also on holiday there. I haven't seen her since she was a child and she is grandmother of two now!! As you know we have friends in Barbados although unfortunately the husband is quite poorly having been suffering with a brain tumour. He is in hospital at the moment. He is insisting on our usual weekend meal with him and all the family despite us saying that we would rather take them all out. We know a place where we can use a pool and pay per head for a BBQ and with four children that would be good. I am talking with his wife over messenger and we will see what happens. The guy is as strong as an ox usually so everyone thinks he will beat it! He hasn't been right since he got struck down with that mozzie Zika virus about three years ago.
My sister and her family are in Florida. Virgin couldn't get them out. They are inland at an apartment hotel with an internal kitchen and the hotel and security have been around and boarded windows etc. They have been told that if it hits they have to go into the kitchen which did not previously have a door but has now and has a mattress behind it. Sister is all blasé about it but I am not sure. Neither am I sure that she and her husband were quite sensible to go outside in the rain and wind albeit not hurricane force in plastic ponchos to take pictures! They wee due back on Tuesday but say they don't think they will be now. I have heir car on my drive and their keys so will have to sort something out if they are not back on Wednesday or they will be stranded here!
Some friends in Barbuda which has been wiped out with the hurricane are on their way to Barbados by what they are referring to as a "refugee boat" our other friends have found them a holiday let that has been donated and clothes, toiletries etc. We have transferred some money to them, it is not a lot only £150 but every little helps as they say.
So other than that I am hoping by October to be taking 2 x four day weekends which could give us scope, his shifts permitting, to do other juants. I am sure the company will agree to the reduction in working hours as I have my line manager backing but they move so slowly so it may not happen in October. LM says if it doesn't happen officially we can discuss an unofficial solution.
so that is me - in a chatty mood today..... xxxx
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