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We are finally on summer holiday! \o/

For years I have marked this with the words, "Dobby is free!"

This year, I just sent to Husband "DIF" with no context and he knew what it meant.

I'm currently having a great big gin and tonic and I've written on the menu today "non-optional ice cream" because you've got to celebrate. I've also written pink wine on the shopping list for tomorrow, because rose is my favourite type of wine and also the most summer-y wine I can think of.

I have also issued a challenge. It's mostly a challenge for me, but Husband can participate if he wants. He didn't sound against the idea.

The challenge is to take at least four pictures every day while we're away (one of the three weeks). It can be a picture of anything at all as long as it's mindfully chosen, so a random oh-I-can't-be-bothered-now trash selfie doesn't count. I will probably expand the challenge for myself for the other days as well, but keep it at just at least one. It's the time we're away that really counts.

I should probably try to come up with some sort of catchy name for it, but I'm blanking on that at the moment.
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Background info, my grandfather had a bit of a health scare at the start of this week. It was the first time my grandmother has been so worried that she asked my mum to come down and stay with her for the duration of his hospital stay. She has never done that before, so we really thought this was it. Turns out it wasn't and he was released the next day.

Further background info, I hate speaking on the phone. It's so awkward and uncomfortable for me. I never do it unless I can't avoid it, and if I do have to ring someone up, even family, it generally involves practising in my head what I want to say.

So it was not a small amount of stress when my grandmother rang me on Friday evening (She never rings, is this it?), and then again my dad last night (now what, is this it?).

The former turned out to be a birthday invitation and the latter a suggestion for a joint summer holiday next year (which we kind of don't want to do. Well, we would, but not there. Too wilderness-y, no larger town or city within 'day out' distance, literally nothing to do if you don't want to go fishing all day every day or even at all.)

But I cannot have these people ringing me this soon after I was asked to brace myself for a bad development! Which by the way I have been more or less braced for since Christmas as he was noticably weakened then. If it doesn't happen this year, then definitely next year, I don't think there's any way around that.

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