Well, that was fun.
Mar. 12th, 2013 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerYou may recall that after the last visit to the DC we stormed out never to return. Well, obviously that wasn't going to work (it never works on the internet either) so I decided to take Jan back for Mother's Day and try to mend some fences.
The plan was to go up on the Saturday, but that didn't happen for all the usual reasons, so we set off on Sunday morning, arrived around two, and by three the argument was on again. We stuck it out till about nine, went down to the guest room and collapsed into bed, and were back by lunchtime yesterday for another session, which culminated in Jan being told to get out of her mother's house, which we did, leaving the lunch I'd just made untasted on the plates. So we went and looked at another house we can't afford (very nice, beautifully decorated and cared for, but the wind and the snow were lethal and I could have done WOOF WOOF WOOF without the WOOF WOOF excitable WOOF WOOF WOOF spaniels contributing WOOF to the WOOF WOOF conversation every WOOF three seconds), and fetched up at cousin Maureen's. Maureen is nice. She rallied round and fed us, and advised us to go back and basically try to pretend it hadn't happened, but that was a non-starter, so we came home.
That was an awful lot of petrol money to waste, not to mention food and other necessities. I don't know how long this breach will last, but I think I'll wait for Jan to suggest it before we go up again.
And the kitchen light's gone phut at some point. Lovely.
The plan was to go up on the Saturday, but that didn't happen for all the usual reasons, so we set off on Sunday morning, arrived around two, and by three the argument was on again. We stuck it out till about nine, went down to the guest room and collapsed into bed, and were back by lunchtime yesterday for another session, which culminated in Jan being told to get out of her mother's house, which we did, leaving the lunch I'd just made untasted on the plates. So we went and looked at another house we can't afford (very nice, beautifully decorated and cared for, but the wind and the snow were lethal and I could have done WOOF WOOF WOOF without the WOOF WOOF excitable WOOF WOOF WOOF spaniels contributing WOOF to the WOOF WOOF conversation every WOOF three seconds), and fetched up at cousin Maureen's. Maureen is nice. She rallied round and fed us, and advised us to go back and basically try to pretend it hadn't happened, but that was a non-starter, so we came home.
That was an awful lot of petrol money to waste, not to mention food and other necessities. I don't know how long this breach will last, but I think I'll wait for Jan to suggest it before we go up again.
And the kitchen light's gone phut at some point. Lovely.