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AIBU to be fed up with my niece and nephews each holiday?

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SockYarn · 15/08/2020 16:32

Every holiday my two teenage nephews and their 10 year old sister descend on my quiet home. We live in the country in Dorset, there's just me, my DH who is an academic and works in the study, teenage DD (who appears to be experimenting with being genderfluid) and the dog.

I really don't mind having the extra children in the house. But they keep getting into adventures and the Police have been involved in the past. And they get through a LOT of ginger beer.

AIBU to say I've had enough of their scrapes and mysteries?

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Magicbabywaves · 15/08/2020 16:34

Send them off to your family island.

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SockYarn · 15/08/2020 16:36

The island is an option. But even there they manage to get entangled with something or other involving smugglers or the Police. And it doesn't cut my ginger beer and cake bill.

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BruceAndNosh · 15/08/2020 16:36

Stuff them full of corned beef sandwiches and cake so they feel sick and have to stay indoors.

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SummerTimeSunshine · 15/08/2020 16:37

YABU

You can't really complain when their antics saved you from financial ruin.

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Magicbabywaves · 15/08/2020 16:37

Hopefully they’ll find some ingots!

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BruceAndNosh · 15/08/2020 16:39

I've got bad news for you, they're going to keep coming for 20 years and never get any older or more responsible

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Nonotthisagain · 15/08/2020 16:39

Maybe pack them off to the Moors to camp for a few nights - probably won't need sleeping mats with all that springy heather

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SkaraBrae · 15/08/2020 16:40

Isn't there a lighthouse they could go off to?
Bonus if it happens to be a smuggler's hideout.

If not I would suggest you get the 10 year-old to be fulltime carer for them- she could cook and clean up after them.
Hell, she might even do it for your daughter too.

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mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork · 15/08/2020 16:41

Why don't you send them off on a camping trip? I hear there is an oddly shaped hill (like a hat) that is a good place to go.

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FizzyGreenWater · 15/08/2020 16:43

Could you arrange for another tree to fall on the house, and make sure they're all in the 'direct hit' bedroom this time?

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HavelockVetinari · 15/08/2020 16:45

Pack them off in a couple of caravans, I'm sure nothing dangerous could come of that.

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julybaby32 · 15/08/2020 16:45

Try sending them to a remote farmhouse where mysterious things have been seen at the nearby ruins.

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HollyHocks13 · 15/08/2020 16:49

Just an idea but perhaps you and your husband could take off for the entire summer alone? You could leave those meddlesome kids in the care of a sour faced local housekeeper and her equally grumpy husband?

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Bibijayne · 15/08/2020 16:54

Famous Five?

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ThaGugaBlasta · 15/08/2020 16:59

Think yourself lucky. My Barbara got in with a bad lot at school - they insisted they were called the Secret Seven, but that's not what the local bobby thought when he found all their SS badges and what-have-you.

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Butchyrestingface · 15/08/2020 17:03

Your daughter is usually the instigator, if memory serves.

First cast the beam from thine own eye, as they say roon ma bit.

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CoatTails · 15/08/2020 17:05

As long as they have a tin of biscuits, they’ll be fine.

Can I ask you a question though?
Do many people like me snigger at your name, Fanny?

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katy1213 · 15/08/2020 17:06

I'd send my twins to join you but they've been kept in by Mam'zelle.

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Babdoc · 15/08/2020 17:10

Suggest they climb the Faraway Tree and stay up there overnight....!

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refusetobeasheep · 15/08/2020 17:10

Can Darryl pop over and join this year?

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 15/08/2020 17:10

To be fair, your niece does a LOT of cleaning and cooking while she's there.
And the two boys are jolly helpful too

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Bobbybobbins · 15/08/2020 17:10

Definitely time to pack them off to a nearby lake overrun with escaped convicts to go diving for treasure in the dead of night! What could possibly go wrong?!

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sleepyhead · 15/08/2020 17:10

Yep, send them off on their bikes and let them bother the local farmers' wives for eggs and slabs of fruit cake.

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Aesopfable · 15/08/2020 17:11

They haven’t been to you every holiday! What about the trip to Cornwall? The cycling holiday? Staying with a school friend? Have you ever thought of actually taking your daughter on holiday with you rather than going off by yourselves all the time?

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SynchroSwimmer · 15/08/2020 17:12

Send them out on their bikes for entire days, with a picnic, (without mobile phones) and lashings of that ginger beer...

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