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Original poster

To want to move to a one bedroomed cottage by the sea?

26 replies

Ghoulfriend · 27/10/2010 10:07

To escape the fights, tantrums etc of 3 children! To catch up on some sleep, to have a moment to myself, to have a tidy house, oh I can dream!

I love them really, honestly I do but I have to confess it's only Weds and I'm a bit fed up! The summer holidays seemed so much easier. Doesn't help that DH is away all week, back late on Friday, he has a couple of leaving parties this week too and yes I am feeling Envy Sad

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Vallhalloween · 27/10/2010 10:10

Two kids here, no car, stuck in a rural village with one (expensive) bus every 2 hours, no husband and there hasn't been one for 14 years, kids hate each other and fight day and night... YABU.

Cos I love the seaside and I want the cottage instead!

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Ghoulfriend · 27/10/2010 10:11

How about I broaden my search to two bedrooms - we could share, it would be nice to have a friend Smile

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borderslass · 27/10/2010 10:12

Can I join you

Vallhalloween · 27/10/2010 10:12

You have a deal!

Can I bring the dogs too?! :o

Hazeyjane · 27/10/2010 10:12

can i have the 1 bedroomed cottage next door please?

dd1 is bored, dd2 is poorly, ds is a 3 month old with relux. I am recovering from horrible sickness bug. Dh is at work.

I am going insane!

My cottage will have a balcony, so I can sit and have a glass of wine and watch the sea.Smile

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Ghoulfriend · 27/10/2010 10:14

We should buy a street of one bedroomed cottages by the sea - Mumsnet-ville! Grin

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hellphireblue · 27/10/2010 10:37

God no. I have been fantasising about something similar all morning! I just want to sit on the top of a cliff and watch the sea for a few weeks........completely alone.

AngelsOnHigh · 27/10/2010 10:41

My fantasy has always been a cave in the bush. I guess a cottage would be more comfortable (especially with all mod cons)

exexpat · 27/10/2010 10:53

I want one of those super-posh treehouses with hot-tubs and proper beds. I'd get in a supply of wine, a few good books and my ipod, and draw up the rope ladder for a few days....

AngelsOnHigh · 27/10/2010 11:01

great exexpat, except for the ipod. Lots of books to read in the deadly silence.

TheBountyMuncher · 27/10/2010 11:02

Oh YAsoNBU.

Half term here was last week, and I found myself on rightmove browsing through 1 bedroom cottages in seaside towns Blush
Seem to daydream about it fairly often to be honest!

It'd be clean, tidy, warm. I'd have a cat snoozing on my lovely sofa with no babybel wax on.

I'd go for long solitary walks in the evening, then I'd come back and have a bath, and a glass of wine, read a book...

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Ghoulfriend · 27/10/2010 11:03

Ohhh stop it TheBountyMuncher - sounds perfect!

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Violet5 · 27/10/2010 11:22

Thats my dream for my old age Grin

Violet5 · 27/10/2010 11:24

BountyMuncher I am a regular secret rightmove browser too....i haven't got 2 pennies to rub together but no harm in dreaming.

Hazeyjane · 27/10/2010 11:24

Oh that sounds like heaven, can I add some old films on TV, a log burner and a plentiful supply of comfort food.

Instead, dds are running around house dressed as fairies, boxes everywhere (we're moving), ds is crying in his bouncy chair, I am unpacking Tesco order (well with a teensy bit of mumsnetting thrown in to keep me sane) and trying to make an early lunch.

Rannaldini · 27/10/2010 11:26

no no no i want the cottage

can it be white
can i have white pyjamas
can it have white floorboards
fab coffee
diptyque candles
300,000 ferrero roche
a bacon sandwich
a book
the paper

i have three under 4
2 have bad colds
1 is a baby (reflux)
dh works away

please can i have it

wonderstuff · 27/10/2010 11:30

Sounds lovely - I dream of time alone, just me, just for a bit. I had a week on my own (ish) on a national trust holiday pre-dc's was in a dorm, but had no one looking to me for any sort of support - was very lovely.

A few days by the sea - would be lush.

NotActuallyAMum · 27/10/2010 11:42

Threads like this make me glad I never had kids Grin

8 weeks to go!

I'm legging it before I get lynched...

BeerTrixSixSixPotter · 27/10/2010 11:48

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bramblebooks · 27/10/2010 11:54

I have a cottage by the sea. It's a little grey stone one with a seaside garden just like Derek Jarman's. When I walk down the path, edged with cobbles, I come out into my own private cove overlooking the sea. The cove is also cobbled with pebbles and has golden sand. Seals often bask. I wander there in my wellies and locally crafted knitwear.

In my cottage is a cosy sittingroom/kitchen where I sit next to the merrily burning woodstove in a rocking chair covered with homemade patchworks. I knit using locally handspun wool dyed with natural dyes from the hedgerow. I listen to radio 4 whilst I warm my feet on my retriever dog, gently steaming on the rag rug by my feet.

In my dreams of course. But I go there a lot.

Original poster
Ghoulfriend · 27/10/2010 11:58

Aw Bramblebooks - sounds idyllic! Smile

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wonderstuff · 27/10/2010 12:03

One day.. if I keep buying those lottery tickets..

mutable · 27/10/2010 12:05

Can I live on your landing? I'd sleep in the bath... anything for more than 3 hours straight...

bramblebooks · 27/10/2010 12:54

If only it were real, Ghoulfriend.

I shared this with other friends and we decided we were going to set up a women's collective and buy a house together ....

one day, eh wonderstuff, let's have a pact

wonderstuff · 27/10/2010 13:39

I was so gutted when I didn't get that £123million - I'd worked out exactly how to spend it - a nanny was high up the list, imagine being able to pop out for an afternoon, on your own, without changebags and pushchairs and not having to rush because dd is bored..