Posts in the "FAMILY" Category

  • My Sister is camping somewhere in Cornwall. The last I heard she was on a beach in Newquay sipping  Rosé. I said I’d put something up on her blog to keep the cobwebs at bay.
    So, if you want to read my latest post ‘We both assumed roles; Me … ‘Concerned Mother’, her ‘Stubborn Teenager’ you’ll have to bob [...]

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  • Usually when I’m feeling a bit anxious I have the spider dream.
    Due to the pre-move stress I expected to be leaping across the bedroom, in the middle of the night, to escape the spiders.
    This did not happen.  Not to me anyway.
    The night before we moved there was a disturbance.
    I woke in the night and instantly [...]

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  • Ten years ago, today, I met The Husband for the first time in Mojo Bar in Leeds.
    Before he even walked into the bar I was in love with him.
    We’d met four weeks before on the Internet.  By the time we met we knew virtually everything about each other.  He may have left out that he’ll [...]

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  • Today’s post was supposed to be about the 6 year old’s birthday party.  However, my camera has decided that it has a ‘memory card error’ and as well as refusing to work will not download any of the photos from that day.  After quite a bit of swearing I gave up and shelved that post [...]

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  • I have stolen this idea from English Mum, but it’s OK, we are currently negotiating a schedule for ‘Payment in Kind’.
    This is a selection of things the Driver’s are enjoying this month.  Some have been sent to us courtesy of the blog, some haven’t.
    Jo Thorpe Mosaic – When I met up with the lovely Kerry [...]

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  • Over to Gramps …
    For the past year I have been training to be a Driving Instructor. Like many people who are not public servants or Ministers of Parliament, my dreams of retirement are exactly that. Just dreams. So I am now, aged 60, a Trainee Driving Instructor waiting to pass the dreaded part 3 exam [...]

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  • Email from Gramps …
    Laura
    Did I read on your Sister’s blog (post entitled Slip of the Tongue) that the 5 year old had exclaimed “Oh, shit!” at your Sister’s house?
    This reminds me of a caravaning holiday in, of all places Bangor, with Rosemary and Martin. Martin and I were stood in the doorway of somewhere which must have had [...]

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