Mother!

[davidgillon]

I'm back to feeling pretty worn out by whatever this chest bug is, I was better on Monday and Tuesday, but I seem to have slipped back to having no energy again.

This was something of an issue as my sister was talking about visiting over her school's half term, possiblty with her husband, which I thought was next week, with the place needing some significant tidying before it's fit for visitors, and I've just not been up to it. Further complicating things, my sister's mother-in-law just died - not unexpectedly, it's been on the card for years and got more likely at the end of August, so they've been organising the funeral etc, which meant I couldn't really pin her down as to whether she is actually coming or not - this wouldn't be the first time she's said she'll visit and then not done it because of pressure of schoolwork etc.

So I mentioned it to my mother when we talked on Wednesday, asking her to give me a ring as soon as Sister-Dearest decides if she is in fact coming. Mam pointed out that my sister and her husband do actually have a weekend away booked at the start of the half-term, so the earliest she could get to me would be Tuesday, not Saturday. So I could legitimately put spring-cleaning off til the weekend. Which was a relief.

And then my mother rang again last night - prompting 'Oh, hell, she is coming' thoughts as I went for the phone. "I've interrogated your sister," says she, "and if she does come it'll just be her, but I've told her she's got too much work to do here." And more significantly, I realised from what she was saying that half-term isn't next week, it's the week after.

So the good news is I've got at least a week to recover without needing to fret about house cleaning. The bad news is I owe my sister an apology for setting Mother on her, and do need to emphasise she is welcome to visit if she wants.

Comments

[rmc28]

My aunt tells me some schools have half-term the week after that, first week of November. (My children are off week after next.)

[davidgillon]

It does seem to vary a week either way depending on where in the country you are, and if you don't have kids to tell you when local half-term is then 'I might be down at half-term' gets very confusing!