Swagger Inn: Thread 99 - European Wenches Unite in Filth and Debauchery

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As you were. Please wash your HBFs before entering the tavern. We have a Health and Safety inspection later this week.

This is weird. I'm sure I posted on the laptop before I left.

I am alone now for days!!! Well, sort of but it's still ace. My haYfever is awful today. Srsly bad and I'm all wheezy and it feels like my eyes and nose and throat have all got sand in them. Cunting weather/seasons.
Roll on frosty days.

Morning!

Madame wenches seem to be in agreement here. My mum had dementia and we moved her to flat where I could care for her. There was no way I would have had her living with us, I would have gone mad. Under similar circumstances, I would never move in with DD and her family. We're very close, but it would just be too intrusive. I do think however, that a Granny flat/annexe is a good idea, you can still live separately but you would be on hand if needed.

Comtess I'll give Cyrano another go this morning.

I'm hideously behind with the TavLit. I'll have to start again I think when I have more time as I've lost the plot with them all.

Morning everyone, nearly forgot about DD's orthodontic appt today - just remembered in time last night so I could write the letter to school

I see other wenches have offered wiser advice than I could manage last night madame. I would be worried that if your DM moved in with you because she was lonely, that she would rely on your family totally for company, rather than create her own social circle which would be a much better solution for her and take the pressure off you.

We're lacking some pretty this morning, so here's a little something to help us along with our days.

On your own eh norah?

From JP's twitter

madame my mum has always been adamant that if she or dad needed extra help which can't be supported in their own home, we should put them in care. She grew up with her grandparents living in the same house while suffering from dementia and she said it was awful for all unconcerned and wouldn't want to put any of us through it.

Morning all. Hope everyone is well.

Madame I'm clearly the exception to the rule but my grandparents moved in with us when I was 3 and it was one of the best bits of my childhood. They had a granny flat (big house) but they walked us to school, picked us up, my Gran taught me to bake and Grandad how to garden. We had a lovely relationship and mum and dad liked them being there for company as well as childcare. When they were older there were some difficult times that we all pitched in with, Grandad died in a hospice aged 95 and after that my Gran went into care for a year before she died (severe dementia) but the vast vast majority of the memories are happy ones, like coming home from school to home made scones with strawberries from the garden etc. I don't suppose it would be the same if you have a difficult relationship from the start but personally it worked for us, though I fully appreciate it wouldn't for other families.

Lovely new Porthos and D'Artagnan picture today.

Have a lovely day everyone.

My experience is similar to lyndie's just bar the big house!
So unless there is need for a full time medical care which I'm unable to provide, I'm assuming at some point my DM might have to live with us. I'm not saying that it should be like that but it doesn't have to be a disaster.

It seems as if the key is a granny annexe/flat then? I can see that, totally. How lovely lyndie sounds perfect.

There is no way I could live with my dad, and my mum will probably die sooner rather than later anyway. but she is married and he seems capable atm. Still, if it does all go to shit I still wouldn't have them here for Reasons. Even with an annexe. And h wouldn't allow it anyway.
Interestingly I have a feeling that despite them not liking me or even h that much, h's parents would end up trying to come to us. I don't know why, they hate me (maybe that's why arf) but h would give in like a dick and expect me to suck it up and do the looking after.
yeah. not happening.

aaannnyyyywaaaaayyyy.
yes fancy. alone. why? ooooh what a nice picture. and he looks a bit angry as well. fuck me yes.

like I left it

No way mum is living with me!
I will try and keep her at home for as long as I can...carers etc.
My pils worry me though.
They will NEVER move house and tbh it's too big and has 2 levels on the stairs.
Mil has already had a nasty fall.
The gardens will get too much for them eventually.
Sigh.
What can you do?

That sounds lovely lyndie. Growing up, one of my grandmothers stayed at ours for several nights every week and the other lived close by, my friends say their memories of my house always included a granny being there! It definitely had advantages for all of us, but I think it was crucial that both had their own friends where they lived so they weren't completely reliant on us for company, and they both had their own homes to go to which was an important pressure valve!

Well norah, I'm on my own too you see? And I have a spare 30 minutes before meeting DD Maybe we could look out for a pair of HBFs who are also at a loose end?

I don't really remember my gm.
All I do remember is a poorly lady sat in the corner in a blue dressing gown.
It must have been nice to have GPS that could you could do stuff with.

I was lucky to have had them close & been able to have that relationship with them. Both grandfathers died before I was born & I always wished I'd had the chance to know them too.

FUCKSAKE imagine the two of them advancing towards us as we sit somewhere nice drinking pimms or something, wearing our wafty floaty summer dresses?
And they sit down with a cheeky 'all right if we join you?' And you lock eyes with one of them and you both blush because you both know you'll end up shagging each other's eyeballs out.
And it won't be disappointing, it will be comtesstastic
IMAGINE IT. FUCKING DOOOOO IIIIIIT.
shit, I'm more OTH than I have any business being on a Tuesday afternoon.

Oops, that last was meant to be a

As you were.

Sounds good Norah!
I have got 2 loads out, 1 load in.
Taken mum to town for shopping.
Taken sis and bil for their diabetes eye screening.
Am now watching tennis from queens.
Very warm out! Might need to change my top!

Afternoon all.

Wise words re parents and living arrangements. I have an option of making a granny flat at my house if the needs arises however there is no way it would work if either of my parents was actually in the house - we'd all hate it. I'm also fairly resigned to the fact that as the single one who lives nearby, I'm likely to get the bulk of the elderly parent wrangling. Which is nice

I probably should have washing out, but I don't

I have a load out too. I am knackered out today. Boys were up at 5am and now they are foul tempered. Apparently, the preschool tried to get toddlermouse (the elder) to do a language task and he got annoyed.

Now I'm following the NIHRC case on Twitter and general arsing about because I can't be bothered to do much more.

I AM GIVING MYSELF TRH.

who knew the words insert and withdraw could do that? eh? wenches? eh?

I think floaty cotton or linen is quite british isn't it?

Very p&p norah

Hi Wenches :)

My parents have always made it very clear that they don't expect us to look after them, DH's Mum on the other hand was a bit put out when I said something about care homes once.
'Oh aren't you going to look after us?' says MIL
Me 'we love you dearly (true), but I wouldn't even live in the same house as my own parents, never mind anyone else's'.
We had a laugh about it, and she was fine. We've since discussed that it would be ideal if they DO need care, that they could be somewhere near to us so that we can support and they can continue to have a relationship with the boys. Fingers crossed it will be many years before we are there though.

I do think it's sensible to discuss things like that in advance though, while everyone is feeling rational and calm. My Mum's parents refused to discuss anything, and we had a fraught few years with my grandad being very vocal about feeling abandoned in a care home :(

Wenches I am fuming. Absolutely fuming.

Toddlermouse(the elder) has learnt how to undo his babygate on his bedroom door and has started silently escaping and roaming the house in the very early morning. Not coming to get us, just very silently escaping and playing around the house, getting himself snacks, putting on a DVD. That sort of thing.

I put him up for a nap as he'd been up since 5 and was cranky. The little git has escaped, found all the Christmas presents I had bought and opened them. I had basically sorted Christmas and the little sod has completely scuppered my plans.

I'm otb so more angry than usual and can't bare to look at any of the manshapes downstairs. I'm MNing in bed and have sworn off all men. They don't deserve my love or any nice things.

OFFS mouse that's shit. ooooh I'd be fuming too. ggrrrrrrr.

still. not all men surely? what about wsb? or aramis? or, erm... ooh yes, wotsisface in north and south.
and the assassins. they're ok too.

well i've done some araporn and it needs going over by an arawench to check that it's ok for posting some time in the future. some story done as well, but no-one's interested in that so I'll shut up

Ok, not all men.

Just the one I live with and the ones I gave birth too.