It really is a beautiful summer day, where I live, Southern Turkey. And *Le Weekend*!! In France/specially Paris a lot of folks escape the city, out out along *Le Periferique*, the circular highway around the lovely city (into *le provence*, ie *the country)
Note: As a Dutch person, having travelled down south: to LA PROVENCE, ie the county on the Mediterranean: one has to PASS P.A.R.I.S. at some stage, on that awful circuit, with Parisians POURING in. If your TIMING is WRONG!! 😀😀
Every traveller by car from up North knows that! So a smart experienced traveller from the Northern EU countries: yes: has to PLAN the best time leaving home. Often: we LEAVE ?? around midnight, 6 hours PARIS, still hoping, praying, that all Parisians sleep till 7am. 😀 which they usually do.
Point here is: you have to KNOW that! You need to be FAMILIAR with people’s habits.
Anyway: I know it! Absolute HELL if you get stuck there! But: if you are really really smart: you DRIVE THROUGH THE NETHERLANDS, still leaving, say AMSTERDAM around midnight down south, cross into Belgium near MAASTRICHT, then travel through EAST Belgium into LUXEMBOURG, and then: along LA ROUTE NAPOLEON, the ancient route to the FRENCH Mediterranee.
Note: I was mentioning THE WEEKEND, and then remembered: travelling down south past Paris. HELL, if your TIMING is sloppy. As an ordinary *slob*.
Contrary to: If the FRENCH PRESIDENT would travel south in his own country: *merde* ie F**K, I know how he would do it! Do you? Well exactly similar to the USA president: from his residence: in a chopper, etc etc, whether it is SERIOUS business and/or *serious* FUN/PLEASURE. And literally EVERYTHING seriously planned to the very last detail.
Anyway: above: true. The good, the bad, the uglies.
So: wrt myself: as an ordinary *slob*: I always ❤️❤️❤️ my weekends!! Always did too throughout my entire life: as a married woman with a hectic business life – Mondays/Fridays, IN the CITY AMSTERDAM, every day, every day and really *my weekends* AT HOME: living IN THE COUNTRY were HEAVEN.
YES 🥰.
Note: ON PURPOSE, ie by mutual agreement, the husband, the wife (me) felt it would be BETTER for our kids to GROW up somewhere rurally, with TREES, grass, cows, water, a sailingboat, chickens, dogs, ++. We bought 2 acres of land ON the river, a priceless location, built a beautiful 🏠 house, referred to by the locals & the DUTCH, even some UK PRESS as *THE HOLMES MANSION*. Hahaha! Ie reading that made both Mister and Mistress Holmes LAUGH.
Note: The reason WHY we got into the SENSATIONAL press was NOT SO FUNNY though: ie we helped our dear STEPDAUGHTER Susan GET BACK *her* precious TWO young kids, from Scotland, who had been TAKEN there from CANADA by DREW BORLAND, her NASTY ex-husband!! Ie Sue had the custody, the 2 boys spent a weekend with Daddy DREW, who had it all planned to disappear from Canada to Scotland/UK, where his parents lived.
Bottomline: it all happened TOO over a weekend, nearly 50 years ago!
A TRUE!! crime/passion/horror event, worthy indeed to turn into a spell binding 90 minutes movie!! It really did happen. Hence of course the PRESS!! A great FRONT PAGE story in: of course the INFAMOUS UK paper NEWS OF THE WORLD. (that infamous UK paper is no longer in existence 😭). Reading it on a Sunday WAS interesting, I have to admit that. Even OUR front page SENSATIONAL story, and amazing: it was pretty accurate! Except of course: that we lived in THE HOLMES MANSION. Ie for us: it was our nice home, on a plot of land..
Truth was: we did have an eventful *nail-biting* weekend! However: SUSIE and the 2 young kids made it, across all borders, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
Sue and her sons are still living in Canada, as far as I know, the boys: now in their mid 50’s. I have lost contact, as it goes when one moves on, but hope they are all well, happy, and healthy.
And I am very happy that HER NEARS AND DEARS, ie her STEPFATHER Holmes, and I, her step-step mother were able to HELP her getting her kids back. Ie MONEY: no object, you HELP your kid in definitely one of HER most ghastly moments in her life! ❤️💪💰and 🥳😭😇! Her agony & desperation, what she was going through broke my heart. Terrible & to this day: what a sneaky awful miserable skunk and rat that Drew BORLAND was.
However: On MY following MONDAY: my contracted normal business: kids to school, drive to my City office, walking in, hello hi hello, greeting my staff, +++. NO WAY was I about to discuss my PRIVATE weekend!! It was NOT MY HABIT!! NO! My workplace & my co-workers were *business* and my PRIVATE life: was and stays: my OWN private life! AND: that also EXCLUDED: my own parents and 3 siblings, and their spouses!!
Wrt the latter: for instance during that weekend: it NEVER entered my head to even phone my parents! 🤷 And why not? Well: it was not a secret, but it was a nerve-wracking weekend that HAD TO END WELL, and SENSATIONALISM I despise, always did, always shall. Adding others, explaining what was going on would NOT have helped! Would in fact have added more STRESS (for me).
BACK TO: I 💓💓💓 my peaceful weekends!! In fact: I INSIST on my peaceful weekends, always did, always will. 52 lovely weekends per annum! And then: back to the *grindstone* MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 10.00 am to 17.00 pm.
And: I 💓🙏💓 🙏 my MO/FR week/working days as well. YES, truly.
Yesterday, Friday: I wrote some posts, also updated some, until I and my Samsung mobile *ran out of steam*. Very irritating, specially when (suddenly) you are full of ideas/issues/topics you want to write about.
It forced me to *stop*. Grr, although: YES I really have to ….. DO …. this, that … domestically. (no domestic servants to wait upon me hand/feet). 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 and more cats, walking to and fro got me on my feet….. *demanding* albeit nicely: FOOD FOOD FOOD
Okay okay . . sorry … and off I went, filling their bowls, food and separately FRESH water.
Then I had in mind: to *have a nice shower*, rather refreshing after working & sweating for about 6 hours *serious* intensive online typing & getting that right + OUT (published), bearing in mind: all that did not go as fast/smoothly as one would ❤️❤️ to have it. AND: to my *chagrin* the WATER system in my house was a dribble! Grr. So: NO nice luxurious shower to release some stress & FEEL CLEAN.😩👹
Anyway: after having survived yesterday, TODAY: a new day, simple.
Note: I sometimes joke: at least that one knows, can rely on: to-morrow always comes. Mind: if one dies in one’s sleep: THAT IS IT!! (Never again a tomorrow)
Okay: got out of bed (with one swing, feet on the floor, and to my kitchen!) That in itself is REALLY a great way to start one’s day!! YES.
Above said: true is it not? Bearing in mind that often someone feels NOT like that!
That said: wrt myself (= with regard to), I joined FB in 2010, did not want to, however with me living abroad and still LOTS of relatives elsewhere: a good way to *stay in touch*, (birthdays specially): but I HAVE MATURED 😇😇
Yes!! And I am not alone wrt being *on FACEBOOK*. I know that for a fact, often reading someone saying: I am no longer using FB, or my mobile, or my tv +++!!
Anyway: I am ONLY talking about MY OWN *maturing* wrt FB. Separate story why I hardly ever FEEL THE URGES to *first* check that.
And: wrt other social media: *hell*…. I still am a *valued* 😀member. But when I see a flash on my mobile screen that *so and so* posted something. The heading already tells me: what that is about. Which usually is enough.
Saturday, 1st July, 2023: 14.41 Turkish Time, ie E.E.T. And typing writing this IS FUN, typically therefore something you like to do, during a moment in time: when you feel like it, and HAVE the time (to spend a few hours doing it)
Okay: I have done enough. At least I feel like that. Did it, re-read it, corrected a few typo’s, in fact *edited* the story here and there.
MARVELLOUS such is possible! Just typing away, and then: publish it! BLESS MODERN technologies & WORDPRESS too!
1st July 2023, Willy Holmes-Spoelder, enjoying her weekend, and home life.🙏
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