Posts Tagged "Gramps"

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    Tara’s Gallery theme this week is ‘a photo you are proud of.  Well, here is mine.
    This picture was taken last month at a family gathering.
    I am very proud of the relationship my Dad has with my children.  
    When the 6 year old was two weeks old my Dad told me that he’d been keeping a secret [...]

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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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  • Gramps arrived last week with the children fresh from their swimming lesson. He was clutching a box and strode past me, at the front door through the house, into the back garden followed by the children.  He was on a mission.  He had just bought an ant world.
    Our garden is an ant paradise.  The 4 year [...]

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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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  • Over to Gramps …
    A few weeks ago, during our regular visit to the swimming baths, my granddaughter and I discussed the plans for the day that my wife and I were to look after her and the 4 year old during the school holidays.
    We decided on a gruelling schedule, a school holiday decathlon; dog walking, [...]

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  • Everything is feeling a little bit crazy again in the world of the Driver’s.
    The Husband is so bloody busy that he doesn’t know his arse from his elbow. He’s stacked out with design work for at least the next six months.  He may be bloody busy but he’s got a twinkle in his eye again.
    Someone [...]

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