We should be leaving to go on holiday today

[TheoriginalLEM]

We should be packing up the van and making the journey to Scotland for a camping trip.

Instead we are waiting to see if my mother will be discharged from hospital.

I shouldn't feel like this but I am as resentful as fuck. My dd is devastated and so i am I quite frankly.

There's a long back story but i am my mother's sole "carer" and she treats me like shit, yet guilt wont allow me to say actually just stay in bloody hospital, pay someone to care for her cat, and piss off.

I get zero support from social services and she refuses to see her GP.

I work ten hour days and was soo looking forward to a break as it has been so bloody awful at work this year.

AIBU to be feeling sorry for myself. The only compensation is that we only paid a £5 deposit as we were camping.

Please come and be nice to me I just feel like crying

We are having a lovely time. To whoever asked we are on the c&cc site. Amazing walk into lynton we got the bus back!!

Thankyou so much for the collective shove in the right direction.

Its pissing down with rain but i dont care!!!

glad to hear it LEM. I bet your DD is happy!

Excellent. Enjoy your well earned break.

I follow a couple of motorhomers on YouTube, (Bob and Jenny Earnshaw) and they recently visited Lynton and Lynmouth. It looks lovely there, with the water powered cliff train, lovely walk up the gorge, and the museums showing the effects of a bad flood back in the 50s, that changed the course of the river.

I hope the weather improves for you.

OP I'm sure your DM will have some sort of crisis in the next day or two and demand that you come home. Don't entertain the idea even for a minute. If she phones you, don't take the call. If totally ignoring her is too hard, get your DP to speak to her (assuming he's more capable of being firm than you are.)

Enjoy your week!

Honestly LEM, just yessss! I’m so glad you went!

Great update, Lem

Rain be damned! Nothing can dampen that enthusiasm - and I'm delighted to see it. Keep that strength up when you go home. For now, have a great time.

Sorry but I’d be long gone and mum wouldn’t see me until my holiday is over !

You need a break too. And with no gratitude why should you keep sacrificing your life. Go on. Be selfish just once. It’s good for you

CTRL RTFT! OP went days ago.

😂 Just cancel the cheque, OP... Hope you are having a great time.

@bellabelly the whole cancel the cheque thing passed me by, what happened?

We are bracing for storms and 50mph winds perched atop a clifftop - aaahahaha

Are you in a tent, or a campervan?

Ooh - hope the storms bypass your campsite! [shocked]

The Cancel The Cheque thread was brilliant - CF wedding gift related - loads of posters piled on saying to OP to cancel the cheque, even though OP had already done so, iirc. The whole thing made very funny reading. There's a link in this excellent thread I just found about "in jokes" on Mumsnet Classics - see 7th post down. Looks like there's loads of others on there that have passed me by so that's the rest of my evening sorted! Link here

Omg cancel the cheque!! Saved my sanity last night. There was no sleep to be had due to high winds and that thread kept me entertained:)

We have packed up early due to the weather but its all good as i can get some sleep before work on Monday. Gone too quick. I'd called my mum a couple of times at the beginning of the week and she was ok. Not heard anything since and managed to switch off.

Well done for managing to get away in the end Lem. It is so important to meet your own and your families needs.

I'm so happy you got away. Start planning your next break now!

Glad you are away OP

So glad you enjoyed your holiday

Bet DD did too

Shame it had to end a bit early due to the weather