To think boarding schools are an expensive version of neglect? MARK 2

[colditz]

LeQueen "Can someone please explain to me why living apart from your DH damages your marriage...but living apart from your children doesn't damage your relationship with them in anyway?

Please ...I genuinely don't understand."

Because your children can't have an affair, LeQueen

Ok all verandah drinking cocktail swigging mums welcome, we will allow hippy dudes as well so scary your DS is more than welcome. We will build ourselves a little house on the prairie type place, having all the pets modern housing won't allow and live the socialising life that the posters on here think we already lead :)

Kungfu he will have to enlist and provide you with several packets of six man ration packs for you to take in the divorce settlement to feed us on at our campfire

YAWN YAWN..
I am seriously bored now, do whatever you want with your kids.

I am past caring.

I really cannot say anything else on the subject it has been done to death.

I would never put any child in boarding school because I think the parents should take full responsibility and my thoughts will never change.

We're not married - divorce settlement not an option. Maybe I could just go on the run with his ration packs and trust to all your borrowed military stealth skills to keep him off my trail.

Well I'm already divorced so anyone's DH got a tame, single friend I could marry for a day and then divorce to fit the military criteria? It sure sounds like heaven.

Can we have wallpaper please? I so want wallpaper - the loudest possible - absolutely no magnolia!

Works for me you are more than welcome, as you are currently not a military wife though your pimms drinking skills will have to be tested

ponders if we can get some kind of DSS loan for wallpaper?

The kids can have brightly coloured Walls in their rooms too, maybe my 4 year old can finally have the boarder round her room that she has been trying to draw on the magnolia wall for the last 4 weeks

And please, no horrid floral curtains.

Actually, on a philosophical note, why is that when one marches in, the curtains in the MQ are always differing lengths with a couple of inches between the left and right of each pair?

And if we have carpets, can they not be RAF blue/beige/mint green/gaviscon pink?

Pimms drinking not a problem. I used to be a coxswain so my pimms drinking skills have been tested at Henley Regatta. Pimms before 10am is my speciality.

[goes a little misty-eyed...]

Oh, and I did snog a lot of squaddies in my day! There was an army college in the same town as my boarding school.

Happy days....

Frantic I know several eligible majors (old farts) who you would happily wish to divorce after sitting next to them at dinner even if not married to them

Oohh maybe we could be really upmarket and have wooden floors. No stripped curtains either, or that horrible new kitchen flooring they are putting in that marks as you look at it

It's not a Pimms test we need but a gluhwien test.

I have fond memories of one particularly artic hour and half parade followed by a lunch where Gurkha-brewed gluhwein was served as the aperitif. At the bell for lunch, Brig's wife and I are in the loos wondering just why we felt so squiffy.

We'd only had one glass that the ever-efficient Gurkha wives had been refilling every five minutes or so...

If you can make decent small talk after three or four glasses of gluhwein, then you have the makings of a good Forces wife!

Thank you, please send them along. First come, first served!

army college

Wellbeck, perchance?

"Frantic I know several eligible majors (old farts) who you would happily wish to divorce after sitting next to them at dinner even if not married to them"

I think they just bus the same half a dozen BOF passed-over Majs around to attend every Ladies Dinner night going.

No gluhwein experience. But I did once go to a party sponsored by Beefeater Gin. I apparently came down one of those big sweeping staircases on my bottom before passing out in the hallway.

And I can snort whisky from a spoon.

[looks back rather worriedly at sweeping claims given said whisky snorting was about 15 years ago]

That kitchen flooring is dire - the mess the workmen left when they put it into our last MQ was horrendous!

jscot - Harrogate.

Or shriv? Gluhwine sounds good for winter, although I saw the other day you get winter pimms now anyone tried it. The curtains are different lengths so that when you are tipsy from cocktails on the verandah they look sight to you and your guests.

Can I come and join in? Please?

Shriv - when we were last there I hosted a few whisky-tasting nights (my last job before I married was to host whisky tsating nights) that were rather epic occasions resulting in some very hungover people in the lectures the following morning.

mumof2girls - are you tipsy now?! The curtains look "sight" do they?