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

T"he curtains are different lengths so that when you are tipsy from cocktails on the verandah they look sight to you and your guests."

Ahhh. Now it all makes sense. Where did I leave my Pimms, now?

kungfupannda My DD1 was there for three years and had similar experiences in her final year there. We moved her for 6th form!

I would love a posting to shriv my DH is the only person we know not to have ever gone their am sue it is as my parents live 5 miles away

If we get enough wives in the commune, we can start our own boarding school.

We were only there for nine months while the husband did ICSC(L).

[buttons lips tightly and refuses to drop frantic's DD in it any further than she already has]

Was she at HLC?

Sorry sight was due to iPad spelling correction. We could open the school to all the kids out there who wish to leave their awful parents for caring about them so much

HLC Yes.

Winter pimms is lovely....MrsChips, if you don't change you die, that's how evolution works.

You can't feed me gin ladies, it makes me ill.

Gin and I don't mix either scary so we will be on the pimms winter or summer together

Must grow borage for the summer pimms.

Ooooh can I come? Will bring peach bellinis and dips, in my 4x4 whilst children running along behind.....don't want to spoil them now!!!!!!! And make them feel loved after all the abandoning I have done lol

Summer Pimms with strawberry and mint.

I'll provide the croquet set (although the hoops might be a leetle bent from the time we pegged someone out on the lawn).

scary Doesn't Waitrose sell Borage?

Who now has a craving for winter Pimms? It's rather nippy in my neck of the woods and a glass of gluhwein or winter pimm sounds like a fab idea.

Sorry guys but it will have to be after I've spent the weekend with my neglected kids who have just arrived home with my soon to be divorced DH. Nice chatting :)

Frantic - I left there 17 years ago. Nice to see the squaddie-snogging continues unabated.

I can't do gin either since the aformentioned gin party - think I have peach schnapps in the cupboard.

Actually, I now have to Skype my (also soon to be ex) husband to tell him I intend to take the kids and form a commune somewhere and that I'll be expecting enough maintainence to keep me in Pimms for the rest of my life.

I'd hate to send either of mine away to school unless there was no other option. And we're all entitled to home ed.. but I suppose that's a side issue. Eldest asked me about what boarding schools involve the other day, and was horrified at the answer, said she thought it sounded awful.

Having said all that, DH is still resentful of the fact he couldn't go to the (boarding) school he wanted to at age 12 (he's now 38). But his dad was/is a nasty piece of work, and his mum's the enabler, so you can see what he wanted to get away from... I'm sure it's not like that for everyone, though.

I have to admit, I've never 'got' the idea of the benefits of boarding school. I can see it might be great to get away from parents or siblings you don't like, but if the relationships are good then childhood is the ONLY time of your life for the parent/child relationship to be full-time. Why waste it by handing it over to strangers?

Oh don't worry he has opinions now, he is 9.

Sorry if my social life involves my son..

Sorry I don't send my son away to school...

Sorry if I love my son.

Sorry.

Eh??