We have a holiday cottage on the farm which is closed for lambing. When we tell people that this is because we work a 14 hour day, seven days a week, during lambing (that includes taking turns to get up and check the shed every 2 hours through the night) their reaction is probably the same as we'd get if we said we were planning a holiday in the salt mines! On the other hand, when they ask where we go for our holidays (!) and I say "We'd go somewhere beautiful, where we could spend a lot of time outdoors and not have to look at the clock all the time ...oh, hang on, we already live here," they still don't seem to get it, even though they're the ones who don't want to go home at the end of the week. So I guess they never will Get It.
