happy4

[QUOTE=emmahafryn;5580264]Come on folks, I need some ideas.
Hi Em,

I would drop my little ones to their Grandma's and Grandpa's house, go shopping on my own, see my friends in the evening at our local Mexican restaurant, just catching up, talking abt our kids and laugh till my eyes watered, finish the evening with a few drinks at the pub. Fantastic.

king kong

go for a nice drive over the purbeck hills [dorset]and park up and take a nice long walk along the clifftops and stare acrosss the water to france thinking how lucky i am not to live there [france that is ],then find the nearest pub and have a few beers and a ploughmans lunch .

arnie2oz

Desperately arrange to get back to Brissie ASAP

Cookie

Our family would probably like to spend a day with all our friends and family enjoying a good old natter and having a laugh, then fly back to Canada cos we love it here

katesbackagain

When I go back next year, the first thing I'll do is get a decent meal of fish and chips from the chippy near mum's.

manc1

Sounds like an exciting place to live.

BEVS

I'd phone my old Dad and say I was coming round for a cup of tea

Then I'd take him for a nice drive from Bournemouth, over to Corfe Castle then up and over the Purbeck hills . We'd have a little stroll along the clifftops, looking out to France and maybe see the cross channel ferry.
Then I'd go to one of the pubs. Square and Compass or the like and buy my Dad a pint and something to eat.

kez81

The only time ive ever seen 5.30am is when ive been up all night drinking( b4 kids) my 12 week old sleeps till 7.00am,

i wish that things were open longer here the fish and chip shop near us shuts at 8.30 on a saturday night and you be hard pushed to get a restaurant after 8.30/9.00pm its a bit early for me but horses for courses i suppose.

loz

Visit my 2 daughters and the grandchildren (who are the only ones I miss desperately)then get on the first flight out of Manchester to come home

Loz x

SarahJane2007

Yeah I know...telly isnt very good and we've got Foxtel...just full of repeats anyway!
I love getting up early!...no chance of a layin where we are as as soon as the sun comes up the birds...lorekeets, magpies and cookaburras start! that in turn sets of the whole neighbourhoods dogs and thats it I'm awake...but its a lovely time in the day.

Sunny_Glesga

there is always one every year at some point!! you even get it from 7.30am to 10pm so thats eh.............14 1/2 hours

moneypenny20

I'd scream very loudly and rush to the airport. On my way I would hope to god it was all a dream. I am no way ready to go visit any time soon. If and when I do go for a visit I would rather visit my mother than go shopping.

Good that people have different wants and needs

Dorothy

Um, I bartended in Toronto for years. We sold Guiness. We also sold packets of crisps. They're called potato chips.

pommybird

Hey that's almost exactly what we did one Sunday a few weeks ago - me, OH and 2 kids - drove out to the purbecks - we had a swift half at the Square and Compass and then on down the hill for lunch at the 'Scott Arms' - do you know it? - although it was the end of October it was a beautiful sunny day and it was still warm enough to sit outside - the beer garden at the back is stuck in the Purbeck hills and as you sit there you overlook the village of Corfe and the Castle - so peaceful and just magical.

After that we drove back to Studland and took the footpath out to Old Harry Rocks then a walk down to south beach - kids had a play and then onto the Bankes Arms (beautiful old stone built pub with beer garden overlooking the beach, roaring fire inside) for a coffee!

I'm sorry but anyone who slags the UK off simply has not been going to the right places!

Elaine B.

Funny I was also a bartender in Toronto for 3 years in an Irish bar, so I do realise you can buy Guiness and crisps here too.