The pyjama party sounds great - doing a quiz with nice people whilst wearing pyjamas certainly sounds like my idea of a good time. I would probably also have succumbed to an early night, though. (And staying in hotel rooms alone is great! I got to when I went to Manchester for University Challenge, and loved it; I've barely stayed in hotels at all, let alone without my family, and it all felt very luxurious.)
Inevitably, we ended up talking about things that we remember from our younger days - the three CDs we listened to over and over again when mum first got a CD player in her car, the lyrics we got wrong as children, and how my younger brother, who hated the walking and other outdoorsy things we did in the past, will certainly subject his children to exactly the same upbringing because we just can't help ourselves.Ha, my siblings and I are like this. Much as we complained when we were younger, we now talk eagerly about how if we have children then we will be following in our parents' footsteps and taking them for long walks in the
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In which hotel did you stay in Manchester? I'll definitely be hoping to repeat the experience of staying in one alone!
I wonder whether our urge to inflict the same torments on our children (walking! how dreadful!) is just to share the pain. And I suppose it's usually the only way we know to bring up children - and if we turned out all right then the next generation will too!
The Ramada Manchester Piccadilly and (when we went up to film the same weekend as Man U were playing a match and all the city centre hotels were full) Etrop Grange hotel, near the airport.
I think it's a bit of both - definitely an urge to share the pain (if I had to suffer, so will you!), but also a feeling that it's the right way to parent.
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Inevitably, we ended up talking about things that we remember from our younger days - the three CDs we listened to over and over again when mum first got a CD player in her car, the lyrics we got wrong as children, and how my younger brother, who hated the walking and other outdoorsy things we did in the past, will certainly subject his children to exactly the same upbringing because we just can't help ourselves.Ha, my siblings and I are like this. Much as we complained when we were younger, we now talk eagerly about how if we have children then we will be following in our parents' footsteps and taking them for long walks in the ( ... )
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I wonder whether our urge to inflict the same torments on our children (walking! how dreadful!) is just to share the pain. And I suppose it's usually the only way we know to bring up children - and if we turned out all right then the next generation will too!
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I think it's a bit of both - definitely an urge to share the pain (if I had to suffer, so will you!), but also a feeling that it's the right way to parent.
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