I am so excited. Tonight Iâm off to London for a month for a holiday woop woop!!
Pls give recs on things to do! Currently planning on visiting:
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Cornwall
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Bath
-Oxford
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Cambridge
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Scotland / Wales
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other places in and around London
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all Premier League stadium tours in London
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hopefully Old Trafford as well
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Hereâs to the end of a pretty ordinary week. Mr P had to give bone marrow sample and has had appointment at Peter Mac. Weâre waiting to find out if he has blood cancer, leukaemia or whatever they call it now. Elder minipeeler is still having major issues with anxiety and school refusal. My MIL offered to pay for him to go to a private school she thinks would be better for him⊠wouldâve been nice to offer that last year, when I was having to enrol him in the only (really big) public school in our catchment and I was saying that I didnât have a good feeling about it, that I felt that thereâd be problems for him given the issues heâd had in the past, but had no choice financially. I was equally anxious and bummed out about it and she knew that back then. Now she wants to sweep in with her money and save the day, by uprooting him and plonking him into a new school✠I feel bad for being ungrateful. Miniest is going through a very testing rebellious and wilful stage. Iâm trying to give her as much of myself as I can and my patience, as she is jealous of Elder and her dad being home all the time, which is perfectly understandable. She is academically gifted but puts in a bare minimum of effort and is wasting her awesome potential and itâs hugely frustrating, but she doesnât give a shit. I am feeling older and more tired in my body and itâs depressing. Iâve been bingeing dystopian shows on Netflix and find them comfortingly awful. I gave up on the âcomedyâ category⊠maybe Americans just laugh at different stuff, but I found little humour there. Thankyou for reading my grumbles.
StudChud@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Girl, you have so much on your plate. Like, youâre the only one holding it all together. Your strength is admirable. Iâm sorry youâre going through all of this, itâs hard! If you ever want to, or able to, catch up for a coffee and a debrief, Iâm available. It sounds like you need some serious âme timeâ. Sending you all my love and postive energy đ
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thankyou spud đ«¶
Eagle@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
It sounds like youâve got an awful lot on your plate. Just keep swimming mama, your strength is a beacon for your family.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thankyou eagle đâ
SituationCake@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Sounds like itâs gonna be rough for a while. You can vent here anytime. We gotcha. I very much hope the tests all come back negative. But shit happens. And if it does, there are very good treatments these days and Peter Mac is world class, no better place to be. Youâre doing brilliant with the minipeelers. Other people will always have opinions, but you know their needs best. And if you decide the offer of money is helpful, take it without hesitation, do whatever you think is best for the minis. The politics can be worried about later. As for Netflix, I can recommend 3 Body Problem for the dystopian genre. For comedy thereâs heaps of older movies on there sometimes old school comedy is a good remedy to modern American humour. Although The Good Place is an exception, thats one of my favourite shows of recent years.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Older comedy, of course! Thanks for your thoughts and for the recommendation đ
melbaboutown@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâm so sorry to hear it. Please, if you can handle doing it get in touch with carers supports right now. If someone could help you with it that would be great.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâll keep it in mind thanks Melba đ
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
so many hugs to you all
use all the social workers at the hospital
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâll keep that in mind Seagoon đ
ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
That is a nightmare week đ
Wishing Mr P all the best for the test results, I canât imagine how stressful that would be đ
Youâre totally justified in being frustrated at MILâs belated benevolence. Itâs nice sheâs offering to help, but not helpful when sheâs offering!
I went through a phase like Miniest and grew out of it â mostly anyway.
Before you know it, sheâll be 40, and youâll laugh as you recount a story about a crazy thing she did when she was a teenager.
Take care đ
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš6â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thanks AJ đ«¶