To actually decide not to go on holiday tomorrow

[Lauriefairycake]

It's going to rain heavily in the Lake District for the next 5 days (that's as far as the BBC forecast.

I don't like rain and my hair goes frizzy and curly in it.

And I especially don't like hiking or walking round lakes in the rain.

When it rains heavily at home I stay in and play on the computer mumsnet and watch tv.

Where I'm going there is no internet and the tv has only very limited freeview channels.

I'm actually seriously pissed off and not wanting to go - it is not a holiday if I have to play board games with dd/dh and my MIL and SIL.

(I have pmt)

And they have just texted me to bring BOOTS and a warm coat.

Which are all in the loft as I live in the south-east and I'm currently sitting in the garden in a t-shirt.

YABU. Get your wellies on and stop being a Southern Softy.

Just bring loads of alcoholic bevvies with you and the week will fly by.

YABU.

It always, ALWAYS rains in the Lake District. You should expect nothing less.

Why don't you fake illness and get dh to take dd. Then find out what a holiday is really all about?

I don't own wellies

And I used to live up North and I'm from Scotland and that's why I moved HERE

I hate the cold and rain. It is not my idea of a holiday.

For the last 4 years we have gone to Dorset and Cornwall.

I have never gone North for a holiday cos I bloody lived there for the first 18 years.

I don't want to go - yes I secretly want to stay here and eat choc and drink wine on my own

Blimey. That ain't a holiday in my book. Stay south, say I!

well I sympathise. In the past I have felt hacked off at the thought of paying for a summer holiday only to spend it in the cold an d rain.

So I went much further south this year .

You should make a rainy day itinerary of things you would like to do in teh pissing rain. Put lots of cafes and pubs on there. Don;t go walking every day.

take a load of really good books and curl up indoors watching the rain stream down the window [bliss]

You wuss ! Take books, ipod , dvds then feign a sore throat/cold so they can brave the weather and you stay in !

Don't be so soft! We live up here and yes it is pelting it down as I write! However DD (13mths) and I donned waterproofs and had a lovely time splashing down the lane.

Its not cold, just wet and everything takes on a lovely green fresh smell. It still all looks beautiful.

And its nice when you go in, get dry and have a nice cuppa!

PS forecasts are r

if it makes you feel any better, there are a few places in the Lakes selling the most amazing cream teas.

You can buy wellies there, there will lots of places selling wellies and if you dont have some, that gives you the excuse to go shopping one day, leaving DD to go for a walk with DH and the ILs. (Of course it will take you all day to get some, what with having to go for cream teas and into lots of lovely little shops)

If you are somewhere beautiful there is usually no such thing as bad weather.

There is always wine and crosswords as well as welly walks. And indeed Keswick Pencil Museum.

It's not the same if you live up there. If you pay money to go somewhere grey and pissy in summer, it is quite depressing.

I had a wet, wet, cold summer holiday in dorset on e year. It got me down, I can tell ya.

oh and don't forget some hot chocolate with marshmallows and oodles of cream (and tot of rum!)

And I'd begrudge spending money on wellies too. I look shit in wellies.

Buy yourself a G3 dongle on the way up so you can at least come on MN.

Put your hair up in a chic chignon, or a youthful ponytail.

TBH if my MIL and SIL were going I would send DH with the DC and enjoy the peace do a spring clean of the house. Perhaps a fictional dodgy tummy that requires running to the loo every 30 mins would excuse you from a long car journey?

But you need cheering up. SO make a rainy days plan. Is there a hotel nearby where you can go for a spa treatment? That would be nice.

at a pencil museum. Reminds me of some odd specialist museums that I've been bored into visiting when stuck somewhere.

What was that programme with teh matronl;y lady who had a dog and an aeroplane? It was sorta educational. Was it Mabel, her name? She went to the pencil museum. I was rather impressed.

Come Outside. DD loves it, well she loves the dog anyway.

oh yes! Is it still on?

It's really raining up here!!!!

Just pack your waterproof's and enjoy yourself.

Whats the Lake District without rain???

Laurie- stay at home.
Let them all go.
We are not doing Wales this summer- for the last 3 years the weather has been shite- 16 degrees is crap, and I am sick of making encouraging hopeful utterances like "there's enough blue sky over there to make a pair of sailor's trousers".
I am staying in the south east where I do not have to do wellies, waterproofs or whingy family- well, that's not strictly true as they are whingy where ever we are.
But I have my things around me.

It's all the same episodes that I watched 4 years ago with DS poncydog, I don't think they've made any new ones. One in every four episodes shown is the famous 'poo episode', at least I seem to see that episode more than I would expect to. Perhaps I'm just unlucky.

Are you feeling the first signs of a nasty bout of short-lived (but just long enough) bout of diarrhea yet Laurie?

DH has just given me some sort of Private Benjamin type pep talk

I'm making a fucking list of things to do in the rain where I walk from the car to the 'attraction' - Muncaster Castle, Beatrix Potter museum (please someone suggest more - and don't say a stupid steamer boat as I can't think of anything more shite)

At least we can safely leave the dog in the car as it's 13 degrees - oh look, I found the friggin' silver lining

I don't fit wellies (have fat calves) and I have a fat round face so can't have my hair up all artful-like.