How many of you are taking a break for the holidays?

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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:11 pm

I am

What with having both kids home for the "Summer" (what a joke!!) holidays, lads are having to take a back seat right now. I only have 3 on the go right now Just wait til the kids are back and I've got more time to devote to them though. I plan on taking it up a notch from how I was before. Wink

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:20 pm

I guess it's time for that postponed operation you need then Wink

Or that special training your boss had planned for ages Laughing

No big deal, just explain it to your lad and he'll understand it.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:30 pm

My holiday is the last week of September / first week of October. No time for baiting, mentoring, chatting etc. So you guys will get a break then Laughing

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:09 pm

^^ I'm the same Persephone, taking my annual break in the last week of September until mid October.

I go to the United Arab Emirates so it's both too hot and too expensive this time of year. Plus I don't want to miss summer in London. There is far too much sitting around in parks / on the river with my mobile Pimms chiller to be done! And of course too much baiting.

I'll definately be giving the lads a break come September though. My partner will kill me if I'm internetting from the hotel bar in Dubai!

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:24 pm

Not my annual holiday, but I'm off to Reno for a few days next week. Going for the annual "Hot August Nights"

http://www.hotaugustnights.net/

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:28 pm

It's winter here and the kids have had there 2 week holiday Crying or Very sad

But...

In December, my parents are coming over and we've rented a beautiful house in the Marlborough sounds for 2 weeks Very Happy

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:43 pm

Holidays..... oh I wish.

It's deepest darkest winter here in New Zealand. Next public holiday is at the end of October, next annual leave is after Christmas.

Wow.... isn't that depressing.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:50 pm

Josh wrote:

... deepest darkest winter here in New Zealand. ...

Hahahahahaha. Meaning it's only 23�C (= ca. 72�F) outside?

Or do you have 10ft of snow? Wink

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:11 am

Holidays? Hahahahahahahaha! In the USA? Haahahahahahahaha!

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:44 am

I don�t think I could have ever waited an entire year to take some time off. I always used my vacation/comp time in pieces. I took at least two to five days off every month. With OT as plentiful as it was everyone did this. This of course only added to the OT being plentiful Smile

I don�t know how you all do it waiting a year for time off. (This is what you mean by �holiday�, right?)

When my kid was like four he asked me to have �mommy� call in and say I was dead so I would have to work anymore Laughing

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:46 am

In OZ we had the coldest day(a few weeks ago) in I think 16 years, the coldest being when I was born Laughing

My poor mother.

Yep, 8 weeks till the next Holiday Sad

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:49 am

JoeTam wrote:

Holidays? Hahahahahahahaha! In the USA? Haahahahahahahaha!

JoeTam, I clicked on this topic to try to understand what it meant. Shocked

I understant the concept, but the reality... "Does not Compute".

Yup, I live it the USA too.

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:54 am

kleindoofy wrote:

Hahahahahaha. Meaning it's only 23�C (= ca. 72�F) outside?

Or do you have 10ft of snow? Wink

Not exactly. About 15C. Though the cold isn't the problem. Last time we had a day that it didn't rain was part way through June I think.

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:01 am

^^^^ You have just described the 2007 summer in Central Europe, north of the Alps.

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:03 am

That's very true. At least I have a summer to look forward to later in the year..... and not just another winter Wink

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:07 am

Stop complaining..

You youths are lucky, In my day it was -34C, and we had to walk 5km to school every morning in waist deep snow, barefoot, when we got to school our teacher beat us for being 3 minutes late. She then made us stay outside at lunch when there was gale force winds.

When we finished school we had to walk home again, barefoot but this time chest deep in snow and -45C, when we got home our mother beat us for being home just after sunset. Then we had cold gruel for dinner and went straight for bed. But no that was pure luxury, a few years on I had to live in a cardboard box just bigger enough to sit in!

(One of my Grandfathers "In my day" stories)

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:19 am

That's nothing. My father used to get us up, before we went to bed and make us lick 't road clean wit' tongue. We'd work 34 hrs a day, and have to pay fo' the privilage...etc...

(Said in a broad Yorkshire accent...)

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:24 pm

....am on a 2 week break in Spain now with wife and kids...
Spending most of the time in the swimming pool with cocktail by the side...
Going back home in 8 days time Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:32 pm

hmmmmm holidays i just abpout remeber that word from 21 yrs ago when i was able to legally walk upto tall women in skirts an peek an when i got caught i put on the most innercent look grin an smile u could ever see Very Happy

oh the days of being a 5yr old an getting away with murder were nothign short of grrrrrrrrrrrrreat Cool

until u grow up afterwards Shocked

lol

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