Further to some discussion with people last week and some chatting with Ady on the way home from Melrose we were thinking of doing a Youth Hostel version of last year’s Halloween Party.
Half term in Devon (to accomodate our school attending friends ๐ ) is 23-27th October which ties in about right for Halloween so that would be the planned week. The location will be somewhere in the North Wales area, partially cos we like it up there and partially cos that makes it do-able for most of us, particularly Joyce!
At this stage I am after possible numbers only so that I can judge what size of hostel we’d need to be looking at and then get some availabilty and prices.
*sigh* ANOTHER holiday?
Oh go on then ๐
Comment by Merry — 20 February 2006 @ 6:59 pm
We’re in as long as it’s that week – just me and the kids I expect.
Comment by Sarah — 20 February 2006 @ 7:12 pm
I’m in!
Excellent idea!
Comment by Ali — 20 February 2006 @ 7:18 pm
Sarah I’m staggered! You mean Steve would really miss a Halloween party week after the blast he had last year? ๐ ๐ฟ
Comment by Nic — 20 February 2006 @ 7:22 pm
rofl, um, yes! But I definitely wouldn’t miss it for the world, my dress *deserves* another outing ๐
Comment by Sarah — 20 February 2006 @ 7:28 pm
Oh god, you can’t wear it twice in a row, have you *no* sense of style?????
Yeah, 5 or 6 of us ๐
Comment by Alison — 20 February 2006 @ 7:34 pm
I might get some different tights ๐
Comment by Sarah — 20 February 2006 @ 7:35 pm
New bra maybe!
Comment by Alison — 20 February 2006 @ 8:02 pm
Well, I just know Kennie would kill me if I didnt ๐ make that 4 of us too x
Comment by Leandra — 20 February 2006 @ 8:06 pm
Well, *obviously* ๐ In princess style though, would require my own room ๐
Comment by Joyce — 20 February 2006 @ 8:26 pm
Dunno about Bob yet – won’t get his holidays for the second half of the year for a while yet. But at the moment, we seem to be in agreement that I’m not safe to be allowed out by myself.
Comment by Joyce — 20 February 2006 @ 8:33 pm
c says that’s a crap week for him, so I gues we’ll be 5. If I could *not* sleep with my kids, that’d be great … ๐
Comment by Alison — 20 February 2006 @ 8:38 pm
4 of us please
Comment by Roslyn — 20 February 2006 @ 8:51 pm
Alison, is there any way at all you and i could have one room and put all 8 of THEM in another?
Or if that fails, just set up an I.T. room?
Comment by Merry — 20 February 2006 @ 9:41 pm
us!! 4 of us no doubt!
Comment by Kirsty — 20 February 2006 @ 9:48 pm
ooh and that would be Alex’s birthday ๐
Comment by Kirsty — 20 February 2006 @ 9:53 pm
tentatively yes ๐
Comment by layla — 20 February 2006 @ 10:14 pm
Nah Merry, my children need to share with other children who don’t sleep but prefer to watch scary films all night ๐
Comment by Alison — 20 February 2006 @ 10:21 pm
Hey we could always put Tony and Robyn in with them then….he does fall into the BiG kid category ๐
Comment by Leandra — 20 February 2006 @ 10:39 pm
True, true…
Hey Nic, if you are taking over halloween on a permanent basis, you can be an official Mrs MonsterTeeny – it goes perfectly ๐
I still think an IT room is becoming essential.
Comment by Merry — 20 February 2006 @ 10:46 pm
Hmm, if you mean a gaming/film room for the kids, I’m afraid I wouldn’t put my stuff anywhere communal. I’d be too pissed off if anything happened. Anyone’s allowed to come and play/watch with my lot as long as there’s someone (older than Lulah!) from my family there, and thus it stays our responsibility, but that’s as far as I go. Lol, I guess I’ve just argued myself back into a bedroom for me and mine ๐
Comment by Alison — 20 February 2006 @ 11:28 pm
I’d be too pissed off if anything like that got broken as well, Alison. Can barely deal with the stress when the geomags get tipped out, never mind anything else. Actually though, I really like the fact that these are low tech events. So individual kids doing their own thing with their own equipment is one, but I would actually be a bit dissapointed if they sat en masse in a gaming room.
Comment by Joyce — 21 February 2006 @ 7:08 am
Lol – yeah. I certainly wouldn’t do it at Melrose, but things seemed to be somewhat calmer and more responsible at Okehampton anyway.
But no, i was thinking more along the lines of a lottery grant for a roving IT room of gamecubes, leapsters and laptops…. *wanders off muttering to self* ๐
Comment by Merry — 21 February 2006 @ 8:27 am
lol – given my (no so) secret aversion to game cubes, game boys and other such things only known by their initials you wouldn’t find me encouraging them! It’s been a hard won departure for me to let D spend time on the pc playing games with very heavy educational bias! I think a film room works well (although of course for Halloween it would need to be thrillers and horrors ๐ ).
And yeah, I think the fab bit of these camps is that in the main the kids run around making up their own games with very little resources and a lot of imagination.
Comment by Nic — 21 February 2006 @ 8:47 am
I think perhaps my slightly tongue in cheek emphasis has lost something in translation? I’m not planning on actually applying for a lottery grant, or indeed organising an IT room – i have a feeling it would be another of those thankless tasks ๐
Comment by Merry — 21 February 2006 @ 9:07 am
My girls are still smarting over the fact that someone (who shall remain nameless, lol) deleted *all* their nintendogs at Okehampton!
rofl, we need to make sure they have plenty of ghoulish face paint available instead, then?
Comment by Sarah — 21 February 2006 @ 9:43 am
Oh well we lost our stylus (twice) at melrose – i’ve got to go and see if you can buy replacements today. i presume you can.
I dread to think how many times i wrestled that DS back into Mddy control but i think i earned my spurs by entertaining a ridiculously large number of children with a maths curriculum cd-rom ๐
Comment by Merry — 21 February 2006 @ 10:07 am
Oh no Sarah ๐ I have to confess I don’t have an inkling what a nintendog is so hopefully my children don’t either and it wasn’t them!
Lottery grants are not such a bad idea y’know….
Comment by Nic — 21 February 2006 @ 10:22 am
Nic – welcome to prefectship. Consider it your job ๐
Comment by Merry — 21 February 2006 @ 10:32 am
Nic, I thought I was the only Luddite around, glad to know i am in *such* good company ๐ I’ve only very recently encourag* to polite to say very much about it, I did get the feeling that Gwenny was slightly startled by our deficits in this area.
Comment by Joyce — 21 February 2006 @ 11:47 am
Er – what happened to that comment then? It was perfectly coherent when I pressed submit.
Comment by Joyce — 21 February 2006 @ 11:49 am
Sarah, Violet’s still smarting over that on their behalf too!
And Joyce, we know you’ve got a gamecube up there … ๐ Can’t imagine Gwenny being bothered about games, but she does like surfing the web.
Comment by Alison — 21 February 2006 @ 1:27 pm
….very soon nintendo are bring out a card that plugs into the DS which will allow *it* to surf the web etc through any wifi point. The card will have Opera on it and cost about รยฃ20….coool.
Comment by Paul McCartney — 21 February 2006 @ 4:20 pm
*Way* cool ๐
Comment by Alison — 21 February 2006 @ 4:23 pm