If I was given more than two hours notice I might have been able to scramble a get out but Fridays are a busy day for me and I'd planned a good session of uninterrupted work for this afternoon
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Tell them then. Make it clear Friday is a working day for you and your wife but they are welcome to come and help by keeping the boys entertained.
I have friends here who expect to have their grandchildren for all of July as soon as the school term ends and before their parents get their annual holiday in August. All of those ladies are in their 60s and 70s. The children they take in range from 7 or 8 to their teens this year but when I first met them 5 years ago some of those children were just toddlers.
Some of the ladies de-camp to Paris and other big towns to look after the youngsters so they can keep up with their local friends and activities.
As the saying goes, I suspect your in-laws don't know they're born.  They're certainly not considerate of real lives.
After an ill-considered attempt to stop brambles and ferns taking over I have had a nasty dose of tick-itis. Over the last 2 days I have extracted 26 tiny ticks from my long suffering carcass, this year's total is now 35. They are only about 1mm in size and thankfully don't seem to carry Lyme disease. The itching doesn't make it any easier to get a decent sleep in this hot weather. Fresh supplies of DEET have been bought as well as new garden trousers which will be steeped in repellent.
Then dear @wildedges .., you stick your head around the door and sag âHiâ and âHow are you?â etc and then you go back to your work.   They wouldnât go to a family memberâs place of work and interrupt them. Same thing goes .., youâre working ⊠they should respect that. Just because you work from home it doesnât mean you can be interrupted.Â
I wouldnât dream of going to @WonkyWomble âs husbands place of work and interrupt him and expect him to stop what heâs going and entertain me.  My parents wouldnât have gone to my husbands place of work and call him down from the scaffolding for a chat ⊠itâs not on! đÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
After an ill-considered attempt to stop brambles and ferns taking over I have had a nasty dose of tick-itis. Over the last 2 days I have extracted 26 tiny ticks from my long suffering carcass, this year's total is now 35. They are only about 1mm in size and thankfully don't seem to carry Lyme disease. The itching doesn't make it any easier to get a decent sleep in this hot weather. Fresh supplies of DEET have been bought as well as new garden trousers which will be steeped in repellent.
Do you use an antihistamine cream such as Anthisan steephill? It stops midge bites from itching for me and tick bites come to that.Â
Not had the Tick problem but keeping an Aloe vera plant to hand ( especially in kitchen and bathroom ) is more than handy. Cut, scratch, bite ? Break off a leaf, split it and rub over the affected area. You may need to do it more than once but I've always found it pretty effective. Not quite so happy with Blackfly so worth a Curmudgeon - both Beans ( various types ) and Courgettes badly affected this year. Not had such a problem with them previously.
I haven't had a tick bite since taking @steephill's advice and spraying my gardening clothes with a permethrin spray (specially designed for the purpose). I also spray all exposed skin with DEET. The last tick I picked up (before the permethrin) bit me on the shoulder blade, probably because my back was the only part of me I hadn't sprayed with DEET. Â
I'm very curmudgeonly that ticks in the garden means I can't let my grandsons play in the long grass...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Cut the long privet hedge this morning but there's always some sticky-up bits on the far side I can't quite reach (I'm vertically challenged!). The ground the other side is at least 2ft lower and on a slope than our side so no hope there either and I can't manage the weight of our long reach hedgecutter.
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I have friends here who expect to have their grandchildren for all of July as soon as the school term ends and before their parents get their annual holiday in August. All of those ladies are in their 60s and 70s. The children they take in range from 7 or 8 to their teens this year but when I first met them 5 years ago some of those children were just toddlers.
Some of the ladies de-camp to Paris and other big towns to look after the youngsters so they can keep up with their local friends and activities.
As the saying goes, I suspect your in-laws don't know they're born.  They're certainly not considerate of real lives.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not quite so happy with Blackfly so worth a Curmudgeon - both Beans ( various types ) and Courgettes badly affected this year. Not had such a problem with them previously.
I'm very curmudgeonly that ticks in the garden means I can't let my grandsons play in the long grass...