. If I then said 'I am going to spend my pension pot on a boat in Southampton and we can sail around there for the next 10 years' the divorce papers would be on the table before I had finished the sentence. Besides which, she is a Manchester City fan and she's suffered enough for one lifetime.
Well darling its because I want my boat where I can actually use it,where I can just go and sit on it when I want to get away from you and Mummy.
Also I do not want to spends hours and hours at some godforsaken smelly airport once a month at 1AM waiting for the airplane taking me and you home to actually leave Gatwick/Stanstead/enter your choice and then spend a few hours with a lot of stroppy drunks and stag weekend revellers.Then have to buy back the car from the car park,then finally get home at 5am before needing to be at work by 9.
It also means that having spent weeks anticipating our trip,we do not arrive to find
A. the captianarie has not bothered to get any of the jobs that needed doing done (all at inflated owner 2000 miles away pricing ).
B It is blowing a howling gale and most of the week will be spent walking down to the breakwater to see if the waves have subsided at all.
C. It also means not having placate overheated stroppy kids being eaten alive by just about anything that flys and bites and only 8 hours before the sun goes down and sanity returns.
