To have kicked DSs out into the street with their scooters

[SoupDragon]

... so I can have a cup of tea and an entire a slice of lemon drizzle cake in peace? With no bickering, no TV and no DS Litess in the background.

They are 10 & 8 though, not little.

yanbu

enjoy your cake

No you are not!!!
Have two slices...
i took ds and friend to Ham House this morning, mainly so I could have a coffee and a piece of coffee cake- sent them off to do "the trail" and told them to come back in an hour. Lovely- had 2 coffees and finished my book in peace.

Oh FFS! They're back! Children have NO STAMINA these days.

They are, apparently, "fed up with walking up the hill"

Lock the door and pretend you are having a lie down.

I feel your pain. I have just shut door to study so I can have 5 mins peace and DS is sitting on the floor right outside the door with the dog and keeps wanting me to come and look at something he is doing. I have a chocolate cake in the oven for DS's birthday which is today and the power went off for a 30 secs but the oven didn't come back on so had to rejig the sodding oven and because the cake wasn;t ready had to cancel an appointment with a dermatologist for this afternoon. And DS is just being a pain all day and it is his birthday and I have already made him cry. Sigh.

[nauseous]

Um... no, you can't have any.