to expect to be able to at least get in the house before the local children decend to play with the kids.....

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....I just wish they'd leave it a few minutes and not be stalking us, waiting for us to get home. They keep ringing the doorbell every few minutes when we are at home too to get the kids to go out (which they do, but when I want them to come in, they don't get the message to say that they really need to go home!). I had our two plus 4 others all yesterday afternoon and it gets a little wearing. There just seems no let up. Ah, I hear them yet again.......

Guess I should get over it really.

oooh I have this as well, it can feel stifling, can't it. but on the other hand it is beneficial to our kids to socialise like this. swings and roundabouts....

Sooo true theprofiterolethief, I guess I keep forgetting my place in life! I think I really do feel stiffled, at least it's the end of the holidays and back to some sort of normality next week.....

Ah, sadly not - back to work - at their school! I must be a total glutton for punishment

Ooooh, playing out politics are causing strife in this household too.

Been having my dd plus 4 or 5 others in the garden during the day. In the evenings they decamp to the living room and I am relegated to the kitchen.

DD had a falling out with one of her friends this week, so didn't want her to come in the house to play. Her rather irrate Mother came round, hammering on the bloody door and demanding to know why her dd wasn't allowed in my house with the others

This is a woman who doesn't allow the children in her garden, never mind inside the house I'm starting to think she has the right idea.

oh i know exactly how you feel , ds friends ringing on doorbell from 8.30am , if we go out they hang around waiting & racing our car up to our house on their bikes , aaaggghhhh , this is the last week of summer holidays here thankfully , dc's have been off school since 30th of June .