I've realised afresh today the importance of having things to look forward to. This afternoon I have spent some time planning activities for our summer break. Due to my illness earlier this year, we do not have a foreign (or even uk) cottage or hotel booked. We intend to revisit the Kent hotel we so enjoyed and appreciated in Spring, and have other excursions planned as well. Today I booked the first of them, and we will be going to The Globe in London to see The Merchant of Venice. This has been greeted with great delight by elder daughter, since she has studied it this year as part of her GCSE English. Hopefully younger daughter will also appreciate it. It's a matinee performance, and there is a tour of the Globe in the morning which we intend to take in. A train trip down should make it all a fairly relaxed experience - in any case it is one I am already quite excited about. The girls would also like to visit Stratford, which is an achievable day trip from us, so we will be very cultured!
All this has made me consider other excursions I can plan in, and hopefully write onto the calendar. Visits to National Trust and English Heritage sites are good options, as we have family membership of both; sadly there are not that many of either close to us, but I am determined to hunt some out which can be reached within a day. I need to have them planned in, to look forward to, bright spots of anticipation to keep me going, and things for us to do as a family.
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7 comments:
sounds like a plan! so right about having things to look forward to - enjoy the palnning and the doing and teh sharing! sounds great :) in the meantime have a good weekend
When we were living in Gt Rissington, we had more or less no money, 3 children and a B&B business...so the way that we did holidays was by booking one "family day" per week, right through the summer hols, to do just the sorts of things you're planning. It really did work for us, so much so that we actually struggle a bit with the idea that we can now go away and do the sorts of things that "normal" families have done all along!
I haven't blogged much or read much, but have been cacthing up on yours and wondering how your return to work has gone..it seems like it is going well and you are managing things well....re the tiredness and sleeping, as my earlier comments I did that for months...felt tired all the time, would sleep on the sofa after work, or in bed...I thought it would go on for ever, but it hasn't and I am now relatively normal again! Your mind and your body heal and rest when you sleep, so go with it....when you saw Chris While or was it Julie Matthwes recently was it at Hitchin? I nearly went to that.... look after yourslef xxx
Thanks, Caroline - am hoping to do some sewing anlong with the necessities of housework and school work. Also have another folk concert tomorrow night which should be interesting!
K, that's more or less my vision for this holiday (fitted around the girls' committments to summer courses). we've done similar before so hope this will work too.
Sally, thanks for all you said, particularly the reassurance about the sleep from one who has been there. yes, we go to Hitchin and that's where Chris and Kellie While were. Chris is due back in September - if you decide to go let me know so we can say hello to each other. If you like (as you clearly do) her music, did you know that St Agnes Fountain will also be at Hitchin again just before Christmas? We went last year - I recommend it!
So did I!!!! The first and only time I have a. been to the folk club and b. seen St Agnes Fountain, I was introduced to them by my cousin..I will be there this year!! That's where I saw Chris and Julie for the first time...we were sat on the side with out backs to the door in the second row....we must meet up next time!!
We were in the second row in the middle! Lol near misses. Next time for sure...
We're going to watch "Thre generations of Folk guitarists" tomorrow - more my husband's thing than mine, but he said that Wild Willy Barratt is sure to be entertaining...
Did you know that Chris and Julie also do a one day "Rejoice the Voice" singing workshop at Hitchin for women? I went to that last year as well - it was fab!
i want to go see the Merchant of Venice at the Globe!! What a wonderful opportunity.....
i too havent done much planning for the summer for various and sundry reasons.....and must do so. One of the trips I want to do....just my son and I while my husband is working and my daughter is away at camp is to go down to St.Andrews New Brunswick (about an hour or two from here) It's a beautiful touristy town on the Bay of Fundy coast....quite historical etc. But, our plan is to go on a whale watching tour. Max and I are the only ones who want to do this......so this is the summer to make it happen.
I would also like to take the kids camping too.
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