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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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 Posted - 11/11/2007 : 23:22:25
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Here am I all elated at the prospect of ten days off work (a week Annual Leave plus days off)and I`ve been making such great Holiday Plans....
BEING HERE, being at home, and making a nice log fire for when folks come home, rather than them putting the heating on for when I get home.
SEWING (I`ve got quite a `pending pile`, mostly for my grand-daughter - new bedroom curtains and a few new trouser shortenings, etc.)
COOKING, but not the rush jobbies, the stuff that takes all day and you can enjoy each stage of preparation and it makes the house smell good...and home-made bread with it, too.
RE-ORGANIZING (yet again) my little kitchen.
PLANNING Christmas shopping for the grandchildren - halfway there now, been shopping online
MY ANIMALS, and O Boy,they need it - a concentrated ongoing effort grooming and coaxing the dags off my old Benny-dog, and a bath for my Holly-dog, and the Puss is booked in for her booster shots.
OK, it doesn`t sound exiting. A colleague who`s off the same time is going to Lanzarotti , but I wouldn`t trade places with her for the world. That would be a chore, honestly.
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6330 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2007 : 01:01:20
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| My idea of bliss is to be at home doing all the things at a leisurely pace. Taking the time out to fuss that sourpuss, Mitch, and coax her out of her self imposed exile to the top of the bookcase. Setting up the sewing machine and the knitting machine (I used to knit by hand but thanks to the vascular disease now having a firm grip on my right arm as well ...) and just pottering about. Nothing is more relaxing and invigorating. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Borninhove
Discworld
1033 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2007 : 10:33:49
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For ex-pats in the Gulf this is the subject of one of the email lists that occasionally do the rounds here:
You know you've been in the Middle East too long when ...
... a holiday is 'anywhere without a mosque'!
Others include ... a rainy day makes you smile. ... the sight of a goat in the passenger seat no longer registers as surprising. |
 Valhalla, I am coming! |
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Tombstone Blues
Earthsea
2260 Posts |
Posted - 13/11/2007 : 10:44:51
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A holiday is going to country that has:
Beautiful architecture, unsullied by being surrounded by ugly modern buildings
Historic sites to look at
good food and drink
And, since the introduction of the health nazi law, a civilised country where one can smoke in bars or eating places.
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
1228 Posts |
Posted - 13/11/2007 : 19:14:10
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Tombstone, I used to think the same, but add to your first 3 items a bunch of Greek Aunts who dotingly wondered at how their beloved niece could so obviously survive and thrive in the British climate! The Aunts are gone now, and I hate flying, but those are negative reasons.
In a very positive way, I find my delight now is in Staying, rather than Going, and if I do get the urge to go somewhere, I need the knowledge that it`s not for long, and not too far!
Do you think the smoking ban will stop folks coming here from Europe? |
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What do you call a Holiday?