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Post by Dougs on Jul 22, 2024 5:51:20 GMT
My youngest doesn't finish until Friday! (Leaver's assembly on Wednesday, but she's ill... hopefully she'll be ok by then). Eldest tomorrow lunchtime but is trying to claim he's not going today or tomorrow. Ha, nice try sunshine. Wife is a teacher so is off with them.
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Post by nexus6 on Jul 22, 2024 8:46:43 GMT
Instead of going on our summer holiday on Saturday my youngest decided she would rather have pneumonia and get admitted to the hospital.
So I'm taking care of the boy while her and her mum stay in and none of us go to the coast for our week holiday. Hopefully she gets her numbers looking good today and she can be discharged and we can salvage some holiday.
Not had this issue since the year before lockdown. Used to be admitted a couple times a year but Covid gave her room to grow her lungs etc. Now back to the holiday gamble!
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Post by simple on Jul 22, 2024 9:21:51 GMT
Hope she recovers fast man!
That sounds like a scary way to start the summer but if she’s in and getting treated with mum nearby that’s got to be the best version of this scenario.
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Post by nexus6 on Jul 22, 2024 9:37:20 GMT
Hope she recovers fast man! That sounds like a scary way to start the summer but if she’s in and getting treated with mum nearby that’s got to be the best version of this scenario. Cheers mate, yes this is the best way of it as otherwise you're on an actual holiday with a sick child which is even worse. The holiday is slipping away though and she has her brother here upset about that and the worry of his sister being ill. Happy days! Latest is that she is needing more oxygen and assessed over the whole day so slim chance she would be out today has gone.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jul 22, 2024 9:43:39 GMT
Is there no chance of you taking the boy on holiday until she's discharged or are the logistics too fucked up to allow that?
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Post by Dougs on Jul 22, 2024 14:00:25 GMT
Ah man. Sorry to hear that nexus. Doesn't get easier, no matter how many times they end up there. Really worrying for you all, especially your son. Bless him.
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Post by jeepers on Jul 22, 2024 18:19:26 GMT
Best wishes Nexus and hoping for a quick return home for your daughter.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jul 22, 2024 18:37:08 GMT
Just had the youngest's leavers assembly, a few teary eyes and the obligatory I must clap louder and longer than anyone else Dad.
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Post by Vortex on Jul 22, 2024 18:44:24 GMT
Our lad failed his driving theory test. Told him he should be practicing the hazard perception bit more!
Hopefully, it's a learning experience, 'cos I'm only paying for a couple of these, then it's on him. 😜
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Post by simple on Jul 22, 2024 19:01:18 GMT
My boy is climbing the walls already. Two birthday parties and a National Trust visit doesn’t seem to have worn him out any.
Cinema tomorrow with one of his cousins. That’s for Mam and Granny though, I’m going to be kicking back and relaxing in an empty office at work.
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Post by nexus6 on Jul 23, 2024 8:43:59 GMT
Thanks all!
Little beast still in hospital today. The Sats just won’t go up to the required levels to be discharged.
I’ve taken the big beast away with me and we are just about to head out to crazy golf up the coast! That’s all he wanted - crazy golf, fish and chips and to sit on the beach and smell the sea. What a boy.
Although he did wake me to say I had to tidy up the plant that he had knocked off the table after playing a game of throwing the cushions over the plant on the table….
I’ll head back down the road to collect the chicks if they manage to get out.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 23, 2024 15:14:15 GMT
Haha, the amount of daft games I'd play. Still do really. Give a ball and I'm happy as Larry.
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Post by nexus6 on Jul 23, 2024 20:27:07 GMT
That’s her home, finally. Will collect them both tomorrow for a bit of holiday.
Cheers lads
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Post by Vortex on Jul 23, 2024 20:36:48 GMT
Onwards and upwards from now on I hope!
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Post by drakesmoke on Jul 23, 2024 22:10:53 GMT
Good to hear Nexus, and can vouch for the seaside still having a magic effect on kids.
Were in the seventh circle of seaside hells today and tomorrow, did the Sandcastle , South Pier and then tonight Coral Island (shiver). When we arrived she was immediately asking to go down on the beach - and we ended up getting bollocked off a coastguard as we’d have ended up drowned in the tide five minutes later. Oops!
It’s like she’s regressed to ten but obviously has the wit and inappropriate humour she’s developing into her teens. The most conversation and smiling I’ve had off her in easily a year. Genuinely thought she was going to be weird and sh*tty being stuck with us two so hope for future hols too know which is do admit I was losing a bit.
Pleasure Beach tomorrow and she’s talking about Sealife (which suits me just fine) but we’ll see. It’s been a tiring day and we all have aching feet.
Towards the end of the three hour stint at the Sandcastle we did let her go off and do a few of the slides solo and she pushed herself to go on some she’s previously been scared by. Hoping I can translate this into going on a certain ‘coaster tomorrow which will be my third attempt. There’s fifty quid on the line.
It still has its magic Blackpool but it is grotty AF. It’s like The Wire X Shameless down at the North end of the promenade. 😂
I have to admit we’ve eaten at Wetherspoons twice. Not proud. Not a terrible pint of Guinness though either.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 23, 2024 22:11:20 GMT
Excellent news. A long weekend is better than nowt! Have a great few days, you've all earned it!
Both nexus and drake!
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Post by Reviewer on Jul 24, 2024 7:47:10 GMT
On Monday our two decided it was hair cutting day. I was in the office and just the wife to supervise. Luckily they actually did a decent job of the hair but still. Day one of the holidays.
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Post by drakesmoke on Jul 24, 2024 18:58:49 GMT
The niceness didn’t quite last until day 2. She woke up with a bag on (local term for moody af) which I think was basically sleep deprivation. Think I’ve possibly not helped with snoring and I slept like a baby 😂.
Pleasure Beach was only a partial success. She makes out like she’s a big rollercoaster enthusiast but she watches them all on YouTube over and over again and this basically psychs her out of it cometh the hour.
Then get sh*tty comments like ‘this wasn’t my idea anyway’ (lie), ‘I’ve never been that bothered by the Pleasure Beach I don’t like it - I just wanted the Sandcastle (lie). It was specifically her request to do both attractions and stay over 😂
I find it hard not to rise to this shit as I’m a bit old fashioned and see it as inappropriate lack of gratitude - the Pleasure Beach with the fast passes cost us £255 f****ing quid with the all singing all dancing fast passes, plus of course gritty food and stuff once in there.
I know it’s actually a front to save face about not going on the big rides but I’d just prefer honesty on that rather than throwing that amount of time and money in our faces - but what can you do eh. We didn’t choose to go there for the adults!
Anyway I went on the Ghost Train and some crap maze thing with her before we left and she’d cheered up again - reinforcing the above theory for me.
I’ll post in detail about the attractions on another thread I think. We ended the day going to the north side of the front (where the tower is). I didn’t eat in the Pleasure Beach so split off from mum and child and told them I was going to Greggs and Warhammer 😂. We met at Starbucks which was our last stop and here was the next bit of teen oddity.
She wanted one of their reusable cups but mum had told her that you have to buy a drink with it. ‘OK I’m old, my feet are killing me, I don’t wanna move, here is my card, go get a cup and ask for a tea’. Apparently this would be awkward and embarrassing and I’m to do it. I just don’t get them - they want to be independent and distance themselves and then they don’t 😂. Anyway I made her come so she now knows how it works at a Starbucks - she had no idea about where to find the milk, sugar etc at that little station with the bin hole.
All back now and she’s on the phone to a mate. Been a great experience overall to be fair but there was definitely more bickering today.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 24, 2024 19:57:24 GMT
That all sounds very standard teenage fayre to me mate. The moody 14 year old boy mooned around Disneyland Paris a few times, wanting to go back to the hotel because he was tired/wanted to piss about on his phone. A few rides later and pointing out how ridiculous he was being and he was back in the game. For a short while before we repeated it. Highs and lows of teenagedom I think.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 24, 2024 20:22:04 GMT
Nary a dry eye in the house at the year 6 leaver's service. Some lovely words said, songs sung and music played. Then my wife and I then had to endure the leavers party, making small talk with other largely disinterested and awkward parents.
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Post by drakesmoke on Jul 24, 2024 22:27:31 GMT
As Sartre said, ‘hell is other parents’.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jul 25, 2024 2:36:02 GMT
She makes out like she’s a big rollercoaster enthusiast but she watches them all on YouTube over and over again and this basically psychs her out of it cometh the hour. Lol. This sounds very familiar!
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 25, 2024 16:33:06 GMT
After being a pushy parent and making my eldest try all of the sports we've decided to let the youngest pick and choose what he wants to try.
This week, cricket!
A clubhouse 50 yards from where he's training? I could get used to this!
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Post by Binky on Jul 29, 2024 8:26:25 GMT
Off with the kids today. Since when did taking 2 kids swimming to a normal pool cost £23?!
Ugh.
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Post by simple on Jul 30, 2024 7:59:44 GMT
First camping trip with the boy an almost total success. Was slightly worried four nights might turn out to be over ambitious given he’s never slept in a tent or real sleeping bag before but he loved it.
Only adjustment to make for next time will be to take a couple more tent/outdoor games. We thought we’d be tighter for space than we were and could’ve done with an extra distraction while doing the cooking or dishes.
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Post by Vortex on Jul 30, 2024 8:05:03 GMT
Nice. Our lad used to love that. Even a few nights away over a summer weekend going fairly close by was popular- even more so once we got an electric cable for charging his nintendo or ipad (and powering a wee fridge to keep the beer/wine cool). Oh, and the missus had to buy a toaster too for her breakfast. Apparently, camping gaz/fire cooked toast is too much effort for her, despite my protestations that it tasted better. Even my claim that we could just have bacon or sausages every morning wasn't a winner.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jul 30, 2024 8:50:18 GMT
Just have baked beans for every meal, like proper campers.
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Post by Vortex on Jul 30, 2024 8:59:07 GMT
I have yet to see a campsite like blazing saddles, but who knows.
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Post by simple on Jul 30, 2024 9:14:34 GMT
I did fart in the tent and try to blame the sheep outside one evening and its only gone and created a core memory that he finds hilarious and has retold so many times its become the case of ‘when daddy lied and farted about it’
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jul 30, 2024 9:45:26 GMT
Not recommended for safety reasons: Put the baked bean tin in the ashes part of the fire upside down. Wait. Can of baked beans goes flying hundreds of meters, leaving a rocket trail of baked beans. Lessons of a youth well spent. *note: if this hits you in the head it'll probably decapitate you.
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