Ratherbeskiing
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babs truly is a mine of niche information! I was today years old when I learnt that nail clippers are useful if you chip a nail. i screamed. Mr Alice screamed. we all screamed! did babs INVENT nail clippers?!
also, what happened to Steve's snoring beingCURED
- a medicine so potent, he then had to wean himself off it to avoid withdrawal symptoms?! i assume the magic wore off JUST in time for their holiday, so babs can roll out the usual snoring content. interesting that she says his snoring is still an issue - despite not having mentioned it since he was miraculously cured - yet has to dig out her loop earplugs specifically for the trip. they absolutely, definitely share and bedroom AND a bed, yet - as always - his snoring only bothers her when they are forced to share a hotel room. okay babs.
and what was the bizarre logic beind her explanation as to why her and Steve "still" share a hotel room when on holiday - supposedly "because the kids are 11 and 13". why is that relevant as to why she shares a room - not a bed though, eh babs?- what age do the kids need to be to justify her and Steve having their own hotel rooms?! as your kids grow older, surely the logical solution is that THEY have their own space, not their parents?! to me, that comment wasn't about hotel rooms - she has inadvertently referenced that her and Steve are remaining in their marriage until the Es reach a certain age that babs deems "age-appropriate" for them to cope with the wobbly feelings they will experience when their parents split up - probably the gateway stage of a separation first, to test the kids' emotional maturity, before Steve is finally released from the prison that is his loveless marriage and they actually get divorced.
Me-rail
My two are the same age as hers and the difference in our approaches to holidays is bonkers. I'm also lucky enough to be able to go abroad 4 or 5 times a year. I don't brag about it on SM or sell my family's privacy to do it, though. I cringe when I see her trips as they're just so tit.
We've got a long-haul trip booked for next year. We're backpacking across one country in Asia. We've booked all of our hotels already, and for most of them we've booked two rooms so that the kids and us adults have some space and privacy. All we did was contact each hotel at the point of booking and ask that the rooms either be connected, or next door to each other. Every single one came back and said that was no issue.
Mind you, my husband and I quite like each other, which is another reason to get rid of the kids.
Oh, and each of us will be carrying our own backpack. We've trained the kids since they were small that they are responsible for their own bags, and everyone is expected to pull their weight. We've just returned from a weekend away and the kids packed their own bags without any interference from me. It did then necessitate a quick trip to Primark on day 2 when my 11 year old informed me he'd only brought the socks he was wearing when we arrived, but it's a learning lesson for him. He won't forget them again.
Babs would have loved that for content as something always seems to get forgotten despite the fact she's a packing control freak.
I knew she'd make Paris look tit. We were there in April. It's one of out favourite places in the world.
We stayed close to Moulin Rouge and it's a bloody good thing Babs didn't try to go there as that street is wall to wall sex shops on both sides of the road. And the French don't hide it. I'm no prude, but I confess to telling my 11 year old that the Eiffel Towers in the window were just decorations, like you see in tat shops. He doesn't need to know what a dildo is at 11! Babs would have exploded!
Or will she be over it before it’s even happened?
Which is how pingate happened and I became a tattler. 
