(This post was written last week when we were at Butlins last week – I’m feeling a lot calmer now ;-))
Dear Parents Everywhere,
As I write this post, I’m sat on a settee in our apartment at Butlins relaxing while the kids have gone to play in the pool for a few hours with Mr Frugal.
Swimming isn’t really my thing so I opted to stay in the apartment with the idea of a lovely relax on the settee. I pictured myself sat with the patio doors open letting the cool breeze in while I read my Kindle and ate my way through the pack of chocolate chip cookies that I keep hidden in the suitcase for occasions like this.
So, why am I writing this post instead of relaxing?
I’ll tell you why shall I? It’s because some silly parent has bought their child a whistle, an actual whistle that makes whistling noises! Very loud and irritating whistling noises!
The child of the silly parents is currently running up and down right outside our apartment whistling away and seeing as she’s already been doing it for 20 minutes, I have no reason to believe that she’s going to stop anytime soon.
I don’t have the room key as you have to show that to get into the Swimming pool so I’m trapped – a prisoner in my own apartment being tortured by a five year old whistle blower.
I can’t concentrate on my Kindle and even the cookies have lost their appeal which is why I’ve cracked open the Surface Pro instead to ask you all, while I’m sat here not relaxing, to please stop buying whistles for your children. In fact, anything that makes a noise should be strictly off limits unless you are in your own home far, far away from where I am trying to relax,
Regards,
The woman who just wants to read her Kindle and eat cookies.
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Dear Family,
Please come home and rescue me.
Your demented wife and mother
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Dear whistle-blowing child,
Stop it, just stop it.
It isn’t funny and it isn’t clever.
Thank you,
The very grumpy woman who is tearing her hair out in the apartment you are currently sat outside of.
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Dear whistle makers,
Have you ever thought about developing a silent whistle – maybe one that blows bubbles instead of making that irritating whistley noise?
Just a thought.
Yours hopefully,
Not a whistle fan
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