To think of running a festival/retreat for women who have just had enough?!

[TheHuntingoftheSnark]

A weekend in the early summer, before the schools break up.
Somewhere easy to get to by train, but in the countryside somewhere beautiful, a really relaxed hotel or other retreat building.
come with a group of friends or book a blissful room to yourself - baths in all rooms.
Some lovely lounges to relax with a book, chat to other women, play board games with great tea and coffee on tap
Great food but really relaxed and easy going
Wild swimming, walks and guided runs
a gym
Very optional talks, yoga, pilates, crafts, skills you can book on to if you want.
Arrive from Friday lunchtime, leave sometime on Sunday afternoon.
Can be badged as mandatory work training if it’s hard to get away.
Who’s in? And what else would you want or need?

Should be easy enough for women who've dealt with the Cutted Up Pear Paradox.

Oh @ErrolTheDragon where do I sign up?!

Definitely no penises please. I'd like to waft around in my dressing gown with nothing on underneath, so I have no need to frighten the horses men.

Champagne all the way.

Definitely a strong wifi signal - how else would we report back to MN?!

Every recent book available to read.

I want bonfires/firepits/barbecues every night and women can build, tend and cook on the fires without worrying that they are committing some heinous social faux pas akin to publically cutting their husbands' bollocks off.

Ooooooo yes please. My DD, who struggles at school and gets meh grades, got excelling in fire-starting. Some outward bound type of shenanigans at school. Seriously, the only 'top of the class' moment and it's pyromania. Just like her mother.

I'm seeing this as a type of Venn diagram with animals, wine, meat, lakes, quiet, yurts. So we can choose meat, wine and quiet. Or swimming, vegan and yurts. You pick your 'zone'.

I can't tell you how much I'd love this!

Bit sexist.... not to allow Men? Women wouldn't like it the other way around......

What about trans women? They ok to come?

But yeah, sounds lovely. DW just stirring the pot.

The cool kids will be in the introvert lounge. Tut.

The cool kids will be in the introvert lounge. Tut.

The concept of cool kids will be left at the door.

Sounds fabulous. Id love to be part of something like that. Definitely with knitting involved.

Sounds great! Can I do it in the next 2 weeks while the father is here to mind the D.C.? Just got back from a weekend away and they complained about first day activities and then didn’t want to do anything the second day. Total waste of time and $$

yes please.
streams of clear running water. Big comfy mattresses to relax on. I'd want to wear a fluffy bathrobe all weekend, except for yoga and water aerobics in the lake. Weather please about 21/22 all weekend and just a little rain overnight to freshen everything up. I'd like to camp in a luxury tent with my own luxury bathroom with running water. Lovely cool drinks, healthy but delicious food and only kind people. No loud music. A petting area with baby animals would be lovely too. I'd like to bring my cat but she'd probably run off.
So looking forward to this!

A dedicated cat cafe in the venue which the cat haters can completely avoid. There's nothing better than eating cake and hanging out with cats.

Can I have a hot tub in my room please, one where I don't have to share it with anyone else?

I’m with the meat, wine and cats brigade

Sounds great if it’s genuinely women only! Ie actual women, not males who ‘feel’ like women.

Oh it sounds lovely. Not possible any more, sadly. Unless you can keep it completely secret, I suppose.

How about any of us attending who has an interest could do a talk or a class.

I'm a BSL user, I know how to knit, crochet, tat, sew and I can talk about all of them. I can bring some materials, maybe we could nit a wooly hug?

This!!

Knit, a hobby with nits is not something I am interested in.

Do the rooms have huge comfy armchairs to doze off in with your book from the well-stocked library?

I went on something exactly like this a few weeks ago, organised by my yoga teacher. It was wonderful, and I’ll never forget it.

Can about 30 good natured golden retrievers come round for an hour on Saturday afternoon?

When DD misbehaves I sometimes threaten to go to the Mummy Sanctuary, where you can sleep, exercise and read books uninterrupted.

No thanks, it sounds awful.

I'm packing now. Can bring spare yarn sooooo much yarn spare needles and hooks.

I can run a woo crystal corner - not for the whole time if there's a meat&wine table. In a misspent youth I took a 2 year diploma in crystal healing, but my actual job is selling pretty rocks ( without too much woo) and I have kilos of them - another 100 kilos of assorted tumble stones arriving tomorrow. Happy to loan them for a fluffy teaching session.

No meat? Aw damn, you just lost me.