My mother clearly coming to

[AnguaVonUberwald]

I used to live in Bracknell for 5 years and my parents never visted me there. Now I live in central london, the vists have become more regular!! Shock!
My mother is arriving on Saturday morning at 10am, and leaving on Sunday evening at 6pm.
She started off saying "lets go visit the posh second hand shops together" which is great, and something I will really enjoy but then it was:
Have you been to this exhibition, you would really enjoy it.... I know, why don't we go when I am down there. ( never go to that kind of exhibition)
Then it turns out her plan is:
Sat AM: Second hand shops
Sat PM: Somthing else
Sat ev: Dinner Out
Sun AM: Market
Sun PM: Exhibition
Sun eve: Leave
Now I get that if you only have a weekend in London, you might keep yourself that busy, but she is meant to be coming to see us, not to "Do London", plus she doesn't work and we do, so we will be completely exhausted by Sunday evening.
How do I handle this? Current idea is to suggest something for Sunday afternoon that she "should" want to do with us (i.e. we are cooking sunday lunch)- which means she has to say yes or admit that she wants to go to the exibition irrespective of what we want. The problem is I think she will just roll straight over it and do what she wants.

Just want to mess with her head a little bit about the whole thing so she can't have it all her own way and pretend she is doing it for us! [slightly evil grin]

Sorry title should have been "Do london" rather than visit us. - Not sure why it didn't appear!

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Sounds like she's killing two birds with one stone. I'd probably do the same if I were her. In fact, when my parents come here, we organise days and meals out and all try and enjoy it. BTW , your name is fab! Big TP fan myself.

Pruni, NZ! that seems a bit extreme, even for a holiday. Does he realise he won't see you at all the rest of the time?

Belgo, I have told my parents before that they are welcome to come down, spend a couple of days with me over the weekend, and stay for some time in the week doing stuff on their own (which they have done before and worked quite well).

And I am really happy to do some of the stuff, its just ALL of it!! and no time set aside to relax!

Maybe I have to say "Happy to do these things, if you want to do the others, here's a tube map"! Not sure I actually could say that in RL though!

Oh, and thanks Belgo on the name thing.