I opened the windows today.

[Jimjams]

For the firsat time since school broke up in July.

Phew- been desperate to do that for ages.

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oh god I walked upstairs and there was a breeze. Our bedroom window opens onto a balcony - ah that open is heaven. Almost forgot to shut them at 3.40 though!

Fabulous, Jimjams.

jimjams, i hope i am not being rude, but why couldnt youopen the windows in the summer?

LOL jimjams, bet that was lovely!

stich- ds1 likes to look at buildings from funny angles so open windows are like a magnet to him. Now he's 6 he can climb up to any of them, and open any that aren't locked. I think windows and doors that open easily are our main problem in other people's houses (can't leave him unsupervised for a moment).

it was the first thing I did after waving bye bye to him on the bus.

Lovely!!!!

Graces room is always stuffy as she has the only room with a big opening window

No way would we leave it open!!!

Open windows are a constant worry for me as well with my ds. Fortunately I live in a bungalow so if he falls out he's not likely to come to any real harm, but whenever I go to a friends house and he wanders upstairs, I go into panic mode. Must have been lovely having a breeze wafting through your rooms after such a long time.

Thnak you macwoozy

You have made me think

I keep our big window shut but never think about it at other peoples houses.

So now it will be "is your bathroom door shut? your bedroom door? Kitchen? any steps in the garden? and....have you any big windows!!!

Lol, we won't be invited out much!!!!!!

anniebear- I go around people's houses and shut their windows and then come down and tell them I've shut them (!!). I do follow ds1 upstairs though as a lot of windows are very easy to open. Missed one at a friend's house the other day and we boith had a heart in mouth moment when I'd mislaid ds1 (gathering up stuff to leave) and we spotted the open window upstairs. I still go cold thinking about it. Last timewe visited that friend I almost lost him to a main road (he escaped from the garden - in front of me - when I was sitting there- and was so fast I couldn't catch him). That friend is now as paranoid as me. (I was chasing him holding ds3- she was chasing me screaming at me to give her the baby- I said I couldn't stop there wasn't time so she told me to put him on the ground for her to pick up -whichc I did) luckily ds1 stopped to peer through someone's window,

The amount of things that a lot of us do on a day to day basis with having a SN child....people wouldn't believe!!!!!

anniebear - You're right. I wouldn't have been able to imagine needing to do the things that Jimjams has posted.

Jimjams - Shivers went up and down my body reading about your experience. When I read the bit about going around people's houses I thought "But my house is such a tip! I'd be so embarassed if someone saw my spare bedroom!" Then I read the next bit and I thought "Who cares? What does it matter? Not a jot. Children's safety comes first, of course." It's not the first time I've been grateful to MN for opening my eyes.

Ivor- if you'd seen my house you wouldn't worry what yours looked like

I have considered going on 'how clean is your house'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too be honest, my house is V V V V bad, but not that bad!!

It's the only programme I can watch and think "mine isn't too bad then"!!!! (not far off sometimes!!)

oo macwoozy - I've just read that you live in a bungalow- somewhere in about the 2nd week of August I started to dream of bungalows (with big secure gardens) and open windows.

my friend didn't follow her 8 year old dd upstairs at someone house (as she was with a couple of other girls aged 7 and 6 and thought she would be OK) and she climbed on the conservatory roof!!

Jimjams and anniebear - Me, too!

I am so bad at getting rid of stuff that the whole place seems to be permanently cluttered. Yesterday we had a sort out of glasses (wine, juice, etc) and because I'm big on recycling, I washed the ones that we didn't want to keep and put them in the box the new glasses came in. Then I put them on one side and had a guilt complex about giving not matching but 100% fine glasses to a charity shop and would they want them? No wonder I take ages to do anything. Right. Decision time. When I'm next in town (which should be tomorrow if my bad foot is okay) I'll pop into the charity shop and ask them if they'd want them and if not I'll recycle them as glass. Sorry. I've gone completely off topic. One of my vices.

Jimjams - I dream of a bungalow, too. When I had ME I thought I was going to have to get a stair lift and I wished we still lived in a bungalow. We had one when the kids were little. I said then that our next house will be a bungalow and I think I'm going to stick with that even though I'm now (touch wood) better.

Oh, yes, and at the conservatory roof incident! It doesn't bear thinking about. We have one, but I'm sure that you've got to do something to ds' window with a key to get it to open that way. I'm sure that ds and dd wouldn't do anything, but what about friends and visitors? I must check incase I'm wrong and you don't need the key.

we could not survive summer here without the windows open - although dd1 can't climb out them ( although she is turning into a climber) We have screens on our windows and I am thinking of security screens - so she won't be able to just slide them across.

SO the breeze would have been fab...

I do the door thing to as dd1 loves checking out other people's houses and has a thing about shutting dorrs so I go around as soon as we get anywhere and shut the doors. I did have one friend get all funny about it - so I told her I would leave the doors open but would not be responsible nor would I clean up whatever dd1 had done...... so much easier just to shut the bloomin doors. As dd1 went to check out every cd in her collection and pull it from the CD rack said friend suddenly found some sense.

Enjoy the wind through your hair

why did your friend get funny eidsvold- how bizarre! but ha ha at the cd collection

My friend with the open window/escaping ds1 is such a good friend. DS1 managed to chuck loads of stuff in her stream - AGAIN (mobile phone before- eek) this week- when I was there standing with him!!!

Bungalows certainly have advantages, I can always keep a close eye on my ds without having to run up the stairs every 5 minutes, but this one is so small, all my junk is piling up in every corner.

I'm dead jealous, I'd love to move back to sunny ole Plymouth. Oh the joy of watching Gus Honeybun winking at me on my birthday, my life has never been the same again.

Poor old gus honeybun has been consigned to the dustbin!

No he's still working, he rides the little train on Plymoth Hoe, but strangly there are about 4 of them.

does he? I never noticed!

she felt it was more of a discipline issue and that I just needed to tell dd1 NO and to not go into the rooms etc... despite the fact that there is very interesting stuff in the rooms... like mirrors to have conversations with oneself, computers to pretend to be typing.. and so on.