Lol. Me and my big foot.

[debih]

My friend, whose girls are also in it and feels the same as me but is too cowardly to say it, saw my comment and has been sending me sarcastic FB messages for the last hour.

[Lozzles]

[Kaz]

I think you hit the nail on the head there Debih, when you said she is so into it she expects everyone else to be!

The thing is you really don't want to be giving up your precious weekends to support someone else's dreams - so hopefully the girls will get bored soon! It would be different if they were really into it, but not otherwise

[debih]

They never practice from one month to the next - I am amazed that they have actually learned their songs!

They decided back in August that they would stay until the concert was over - what we didn't know until late September that their 3 songs are part of the big Dale Diva concert. Good way of them selling tickets for that!!!

I don't think they would have bothered staying if they had known. Neither of them are particularly excited about it - in fact L is moaning about what a waste of a day it is. They have to be there for 11.40am, which means leaving here at 10.30am at the latest, they have to rehearse again and then the show starts at 2pm, finishing it at 5pm so we won't get home until at least 6pm.

Then back to school tomorrow.

[Kaz]

Hmmm yes I can see they are getting fed up

[miasmum]

and to think if it hadn't been for that you could've spent a extra day on holiday. Just saying like...............

[JoM]

Rather you than me Debbie!

She sounds a lot like the scout leader at the sea scouts that our boys used to go to. She took over when no one else would do it, and it was a very small group and I think that her motivation for doing it was to give herself a social life but she expected everyone else to give up as much time as she did. She had one child and didn't work and being leader became, and still is, her life. The more involved she became, the more she expected from others and she was rather pushy and a number of people who'd volunteered for years left. We went along to a meeting once and by the time it was over John had been voted in as Treasurer and I was Group Secretary - but then we were the only parents who turned up so there wasn't any competition

She turned up at our house one day with t shirts for the boys, cheap and nasty embroidered polo shirts to be worn at meetings. They never wore them because the stitching was scratchy but she gave me a bill for £20 for them and we'd never asked her to get them for us. Tom was due to leave scouts anyway shortly after that and Joe had just gone from cubs to scouts. Joe was going to have Tom's hat rather than us buy a new one as the sea scout hats are expensive and Joe was losing interest by that time so it seemed silly to buy a hat and then have him leave and he didn't need one for events before Tom left anyway. However, she took it onto herself to buy one and passed it onto us with a bill for £45 (and we still owed for the unworn t shirts). She said he'd need it for the St George's Day parade in April - this was late November! That was the final straw and the hat and t shirts were returned to her and the boys stopped going.

[debih]

It was painful.

Dale Diva are brilliant at what they do but it does nothing for me at all.

Then there was a quartet doing their debut - they were terrible. Then it was the senior youth choir who were good but struggled with their songs. Then after interval it was the junior youth choir. They were fantastic. Then a barber shop quarter - good singers but barber shop quartet fgs!!!! The more dale diva then the finale with everyone.

The theatre was about 3/4 full - I'd love to know how many were only there because of the children. I reckon at least half.

They are playing again this evening, minus children and my mum had been told that the local community transport group had been given 100 free tickets .

S quite enjoyed it but L hated it. She said all the waiting around and sitting quietly for hours on end was far too boring.

Neither have decided if they are continuing - they are waiting to see what their friends are doing.

[tonicha]

Have a large glass of wine Debih - you deserve it after sitting through all of that

[meriad]

it's posts like these that make me think that maybe never having had kids isn't so bad after all

Debih, chances are though that your two are waiting for the others to say if they are continuing, and the others are doing the same... So you run the risk that all it will take is one of the group who is a bit more eager to say yes and then all will tag along and not enjoy it. But if your two aren't that keen then what's the bet if they say 'no more' then the others will breathe a sigh of relief that someone has made a decision that they possibly didn't quite have the courage to make themselves