Category: family
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Calm kids
Both kids were at home today. Benj needed to stay off nursery to fully recover and H has an inservice day from school. Amazingly I did three hours of live chat without much of an interuption. That needs noted down, so proud of the kids
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Sick boy
I left the house to get one child, ended up getting the other. He always smiles for a photo… four minutes later, was napping. I lifted him off the bus like I did when he was tiny. But weighing a lot more. The boy is a weight these days. Running a small furnace, he’s now…
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10th November
…2010. It had been about 16 months since my Papa passed, Gran was in an old folk home not far from us and we knew her health was going downhill. She passed about 3.30pm, then 3 hours we heard that my step gran’s husband had passed as well. Double whammy, eh? The next week or…
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Here comes the rain
Suddenly, we felt that slightly unfamiliar experience. Yes, there it was. It was raining! Anyone in the UK will know that the past few weeks, probably just over a month, has been almost solid sunshine. We’ve easily been hitting mid-twenties a lot. As someone who doesn’t deal well with heat, it was a welcome break.…
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Exploring Reekie Linn
Today we went with our friend Ian up to Reekie Linn for an afternoon to enjoy the extended sunshine we’ve been experiencing recently. Through the countryside and up past Alyth on the B954, you turn off the road just over the bridge find a grassy area at the Reekie Linn car park. There are picnic…
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Got a lock
After another “three year old has clearly been in my office” situation today, Kevin brought this when he came for dinner.I’m deadly serious. My office is getting locked.
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