Lunchtime exercise - who does it?

[Maz]

Just wait till the kids get older, then they won't go to bed at a reasonable time, and they won't get up in the morning - that's my 12 year old. Ended up late as I had to supervise him getting ready this morning. Gets up, you think he's getting ready, nope, back in bed.

This is me with my 13 year old, to a tee.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Now I like the idea of two, despite all logic, but then logic doesn't really enter into the decision to have kids does it!

my mother (had 4), grannie (had 3) and an ex-aunt (had 5 last time I saw her +15 years ago) all said the same thing, adding a 3rd on makes not that much difference, adding a 4th makes even less difference (and in the case of my aunt a 5th, devote catholic who still thinks contraceptives are against his will before anyone asks and for all I know if has probably already got more...) My husband is 1 of 4 as well which probably goes a long way to explain why I hate family get togethers...

I understand the organisation required after 2 does not increase anywhere near as much - however getting them all into 1 vehicle does limit your car options somewhat (whilst I have no kids, I did bring my brother & sister up (17 & 14 years between us) so have done the have work, heart ache & joy without actually having had the kids...) it's rather like dog sitting you can have the dog for a day/week or two and then send it home again when you are tired of it!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

my mother (had 4), grannie (had 3) and an ex-aunt (had 5 last time I saw her +15 years ago) all said the same thing, adding a 3rd on makes not that much difference, adding a 4th makes even less difference (and in the case of my aunt a 5th, devote catholic who still thinks contraceptives are against his will before anyone asks and for all I know if has probably already got more...) My husband is 1 of 4 as well which probably goes a long way to explain why I hate family get togethers...

I understand the organisation required after 2 does not increase anywhere near as much - however getting them all into 1 vehicle does limit your car options somewhat (whilst I have no kids, I did bring my brother & sister up (17 & 14 years between us) so have done the have work, heart ache & joy without actually having had the kids...) it's rather like dog sitting you can have the dog for a day/week or two and then send it home again when you are tired of it!

With a family that large I'm surprised there was anywhere to sit down at family gatherings!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

With a family that large I'm surprised there was anywhere to sit down at family gatherings!

large house - my parent's purchased a wreck (think you could stand on earth in the kitchen and look all the way up to exposed slates 3 floors up) and the cellar was under water. no electricty, and only a 'stand pipe' for running water - now you know why I used to camp so much instead!

Edit: parents as in mum & ex-step father.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

large house - my parent's purchased a wreck (think you could stand on earth in the kitchen and look all the way up to exposed slates 3 floors up) and the cellar was under water. no electricty, and only a 'stand pipe' for running water - now you know why I used to camp so much instead!

Edit: parents as in mum & ex-step father.

Sounds like there's a huge and fascinating story here!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Sounds like there's a huge and fascinating story here!

depends how many cars are meant to be buried under your lawn! also how many dead animals - we used to joke it was only time before we dug up a human skull... not to mention the concrete mixer that sank into the lawn and had to be dug & pulled out - it was meant to be delivering the cement (?) to lay the kitchen floor after the floor had been made legal. Then there was the heating system which by the time hot air had made it to the 2nd floor it was cold, and in winter we had ice on the inside of the bedroom window and the easiest and quickest way to get warm in the morning was to take your life in your own hands and open the bedroom (sash) window as wide as possible and let the warmer air in from outside. - suspect it is the main reason I sleep without heating and with a window always open no matter what the time of the year. My landlady jokes that the bedroom windows have not been shut since we moved it - she is correct!

 

[BrumJim]

Today, this:
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/117953202

 

[Leaway2]

My husband is 1 of 4

1 of 4 husbands, or did I read this incorrectly?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

1 of 4 husbands, or did I read this incorrectly?

I thought it was hard enough tidying up and servicing all our bikes with 1 husband - the idea of 4 frightens the living daylights out of me, but he is away from home 3 days a week... the idea of this happening 4 times more often does not appeal.

 

[Leaway2]

I thought it was hard enough tidying up and servicing all our bikes with 1 husband - the idea of 4 frightens the living daylights out of me, but he is away from home 3 days a week... the idea of this happening 4 times more often does not appeal.

That's a bit naughty.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

That's a bit naughty.

4 husbands, away 3 days a week, or knicking my wheels when he as a flat?

 

[hennbell]

In the summer I enjoy a 10K blast around a farmers field on my road bike or 8.7K route on gravel road if I bring my cyclocross or MTB. Not much excercise but it does get the heart rate up. In the winter I would spend more time getting my kit on and off than riding, just not worth it.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Today, this:
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/117953202

Good stuff! I managed this http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/117961014

Interested to see somewhere called 'Alum Rock' on your map; it sounds like a Wylie Coyote album title.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

depends how many cars are meant to be buried under your lawn! also how many dead animals - we used to joke it was only time before we dug up a human skull... not to mention the concrete mixer that sank into the lawn and had to be dug & pulled out - it was meant to be delivering the cement (?) to lay the kitchen floor after the floor had been made legal. Then there was the heating system which by the time hot air had made it to the 2nd floor it was cold, and in winter we had ice on the inside of the bedroom window and the easiest and quickest way to get warm in the morning was to take your life in your own hands and open the bedroom (sash) window as wide as possible and let the warmer air in from outside. - suspect it is the main reason I sleep without heating and with a window always open no matter what the time of the year. My landlady jokes that the bedroom windows have not been shut since we moved it - she is correct!

I've had the window in my office open all day today, I can't abide being too hot.

As for cars buried in the garden, that seems reasonably common, there was a house near me owned by Shaken Steven's manager and I remember he found quite an expensive sports car buried in the garden.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I've had the window in my office open all day today, I can't abide being too hot...

its the bedroom windows open, heating off and -10C outside that seems to defeat rather a lot of the world... I only pull then to within an inch of being closed when it gets colder than -10C... Can't stand being warm let along hot unless it is in bed where its a warm toes, cold nose policy!