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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 14, 2008 9:10:16 GMT
I will be taking my first "summer holiday" since 2003 next week. I'm frightened.
I will have the dog, a beach, a sharp northerly wind and a substantial amount of tennis balls which will likely not be retrieved.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 14, 2008 9:50:49 GMT
Lucky swine. I have a stag do this weekend and am flying out tomorrow so I have to entrust Susie to my gran for a few days. Needless to say I feel guilty already.
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 14, 2008 9:59:34 GMT
I don't know if I could leave Coben to go on a holiday without him. Besides he loves the beach/swimming so much!
It will be difficult returning to my, now sadly empty, grandfather's house.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 14, 2008 10:07:39 GMT
My last summer holiday was in 1994.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2008 10:47:52 GMT
I can do better than that Ralph. My last holiday was in 1991.
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 17, 2008 3:42:32 GMT
Our last was our honeymoon in 2005. We're gunna take Piglet to the beach this year. No way I'd take Piglet on a plane. That could be a film staring Samuel L Jackson.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 17, 2008 15:01:36 GMT
Im 27 this september and Ive only ever worked through 4 summers. 2002-2005 and only 2005 was full time. Every other year Ive had the traditional school/university length summer holiday. This and the last through injury and 2006 unemployment.
Andy
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Post by legios on Aug 17, 2008 19:33:13 GMT
Hope you enjoy/are enjoying your holiday Graham. It is well-deserved if you haven't had the time off for a while.
I shall be having my first proper holiday in two and a half years myself in due course. Quite looking forward to it. I seem to have covered a fair amount of ground travelwise, but haven't really had a "holiday" holiday so to speak.
Karl
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 18, 2008 7:48:44 GMT
Thank you, Karl!
I have a few things to sort out around the home, make sure the dog's got enough food and toys for the time away and enough "travel" water for the 8-hour drive.
Also, I need to get myself to the bookshop and get some novels to read as well.
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 25, 2008 20:29:49 GMT
Well we lost three tennis balls to the selfish tides of the Moray Firth, but other than that it was a much needed and enjoyable break.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 25, 2008 21:56:10 GMT
Glad it was fun, points off for dumping things in the Moray Firth though! Tsk, tsk, tsk!
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Post by legios on Aug 26, 2008 7:49:03 GMT
Glad it was fun, points off for dumping things in the Moray Firth though! Tsk, tsk, tsk! Andy Not sure if it was dumping per se. Sounds more like they were stolen by the waters. (And if something was in the Moray Firth and out of arms reach I'm not sure I'd go after it. Even this time of year it can be cold enough to render you like Captain America - frozen until someone need you as a supporting character. Karl |
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 26, 2008 9:24:55 GMT
It was my own fault for throwing the ball(s) just a little too far out of Coben's swimming endurance.
We also saw dolphins but they seemed quite put out and didn't return the tennis balls either.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 26, 2008 9:31:16 GMT
As intelligent as man and just as selfish it would appear.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 26, 2008 10:30:51 GMT
Damn those dolphins!
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2008 15:28:01 GMT
According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy dolphins are more intelligent than man. Maybe it was them and not the waters that took the tennis balls. Maybe they used some kind of trans-warp device to send them to another planet.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 26, 2008 17:28:16 GMT
Damn those dolphins!
-Ralph
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Post by Cullen on Aug 26, 2008 22:05:13 GMT
I couldn't live without holidays! So much so I've already had 5 trips abroad this year, mainly due to weddings and accompanying stag do's. 2003 was the last year we didn't have a holiday and it was shit.
I think I need to have some more British based holidays next year as I feel a wee bit guilty about the old carbon footprint, but I've got another wedding in Taiwan(!) in March. Damn my friends and their foreign girlfriends!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 26, 2008 22:12:53 GMT
Heh! Good for you!
I've learned to live without holidays, in all honesty. Just never had enough spare cash and the time off to go anywhere and I've never seen the point in going anywhere by myself (which is more expensive). I had, with much scrimping, put some cash away for my First Proper Adult Holiday this summer but I couldn't get a job in time so it had to go on rent, food and bills instead.
I have decided, however, that a priority for when I'm earning again is to put money aside from the first pay packet and get something sorted out for next summer. Anywhere. I don't care. I'd just like the novelty of being somewhere else for a week. That would be a nice treat!
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Aug 27, 2008 9:18:22 GMT
After years of 'busmans holidays' I've really enjoyed being able to take proper holidays, Edinburgh a year ago and Amsterdam in January. That said, I'm looking forward to a week of slouching around the house like a complete waster.
Mx
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Aug 27, 2008 10:24:10 GMT
I haven't had a holiday since 1995 and like Ralph I have also learned to live without it. Also like Mark, I prefer to slouch around the house when I have time off work. I don't think I'll have another holiday until after I've bought a house because spending money on a holiday isn't a priority compared to spending that money on a house. I'm very picky about where I'd like to go on holiday and also if I were to go on a plane, I don't want to go in cramped class as I have long legs so I'd probably spend the money to be upgraded to have more leg room.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2008 15:52:39 GMT
Same goes for me too. I consider myself too old to go on holiday with my family and with nobody else to go with the thought of a solo holiday just doesn't hold the same kind of interest as going with someone. The last time I went on Holiday was to Blackpool in 1991 with my family and that was so long ago the Funhouse in Blackpool Pleasure Beach was still standing. It burnt down about a couple of years later!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 27, 2008 16:50:12 GMT
I consider myself too old to go on holiday with my family How does that work then? I consider it more important to go on holiday with my folks for at least one week in the year now that I'm no longer living with them or seeing them regularly. We appreciate each other's company more nowadays. When I lived with my parents, it was less special going away with people I saw every day anyway. I also feel differently from Ralph who has Going on your own is the purest form of holiday, because you are really getting away from it all (and them all). I'll be popping over to Paris for a few days break next month, and speaking no English for the duration, which I can only do if I don't bring any English speakers along with me. An excellent way to switch off from everything, and then switch the ol' life back on when I return. Plus, no flying involved so carbon conscience clear. Martin |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2008 18:12:12 GMT
There are some people who believe that a grown man going on holiday with his parents is considered a 'mummy's boy' or something like it. I'm one such person who thinks like that. As for going on holiday alone to me that makes me feel like a 'billy-no-mates' kind of person who has no friends to go on holiday with so he has to go alone.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 28, 2008 5:36:04 GMT
There are some people who believe that a grown man going on holiday with his parents is considered a 'mummy's boy' or something like it. I'm one such person who thinks like that. As for going on holiday alone to me that makes me feel like a 'billy-no-mates' kind of person who has no friends to go on holiday with so he has to go alone. Blimey, well I hope your lifestyle preferences are genuinely your own and not just based on other people's perceptions/expectations/prejudices (or what you imagine them to be). I'm sure many people whose parents are dead or who are married with kids wish they'd taken the opportunity to spend quality time in the company of those who brought them up, or by themselves, while they still had the option. What it should come down to is, do I enjoy my parents' company? Do I enjoy my own company? Or am I only happy/confident with my mates around me? And when I go for a break, do I want a change from the people I normally have around me? Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2008 10:56:52 GMT
I'm quite happy going off on day trips, but for me to go on longer holiday by myself has no appeal. I live alone so spend enough time by myself as it is.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 28, 2008 17:37:44 GMT
Variety suits me - mates, family, self - they all have their merits.
I imagine some people grow back into their parents after both parties have got over the initial years of relief following the great moving out. I stopped living with my parents 15 years ago, but (I expect in common with most people who move out when they go to university) at no time before I moved out did I ever have as much in common with them as I do now - which is logical, since students generally have yet to establish their grown-up priorities and interests.
I am reminded of Henry Jones Sr.'s response when Indy expressed a regret that they had never talked: "You left just when you were getting interesting."
While I am very glad not to be living with them on a regular basis any more, there were certainly some advantages to the more traditional closer-knit families of the past (and other cultures today). Not least when it comes to the prospect of a cheerier retirement.
Though I admit this has gone somewhat off the topic of summer holidays.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2008 17:57:37 GMT
I still live with my father, sister and brother as I have no money to get a place of my own but we have no intenion of going on a family holiday again. My father and brother arn't really interested in holidays anymore while my sister will only go on holiday with her mates these days. To me a family holiday doesn't mean the same thing it did when I was younger. Back then a family holiday was something exciting that we did during the school holidays. I guess my parents enjoyed it because their own kids enjoyed it but nowadays its different. Because me and my siblings are all grown up we would see a holiday in a different light to what we used to and that also takes some of the joy out of the trip for the parents as well.
Maybe if I was married with kids and went on holiday it would be something special again as I would be happy that my kids would be enjoying themselves.
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 29, 2008 7:48:00 GMT
I was happy to leave home when I was 18 but have since developed a more grown up and "equal" relationship with my mother.
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Post by legios on Sept 2, 2008 20:22:16 GMT
I would have to say that I am in much the same boat as you there Graham. My relationship with my parents in my teenage years, and into my early twenties was a little bit rocky at times. I would have to say that I got on much better with my mother after I left home than I did previously. My mother and sister often go away on holiday together, sometimes I will join them and sometimes not. Even when we are on holiday together we have no qualms about splitting up for the day and doing different things separately if we want to do different things, or doing things together if we want to do the same thing. I see nothing wrong with spending time with my family - and considering that we are now spread almost the length and breadth of the UK it is often a very good opportunity to see each other.
At the same times I certainly have no hang-ups about going on holiday by myself. When I am travelling alone I am free to switch of a bit and not have to worry about other people for a bit. There is something quite refreshing about being able to just "drop out" for a bit. I certainly don't see it as any particular reflection on my self or my lifestyle that I might want to travel alone. But, as they say, everyones mileage may vary. The important thing is for folk to make these decisions on the basis of what feels right for them, rather than being pressured into not doing things that they would actually quite like to (or vice versa)
For me every holiday or trip is different. Some I want to take with my family around me, some with my friends and some are just an opportunity for me to be on my own. They each have their pros and cons, and it is in keeping a good mix that I find I get the most benefit.
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