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beckham boots and boy bands
Time slips by and once again I haven’t been on here for a while. The Problem is, well, life does tend to get in the way a bit. My oldest daughter has managed to break her ankle … or rather rip the...
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Dad (again)
It’s Fathers Day in the UK a week on Sunday. Another commercial time when my store displays cards and unwanted paraphernalia. This time we’re just going with cards as the cups and whatnot didn’t go...
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Punctuations
Time flies when you’re having fun and our largish family presents us with all sorts of milestones at different times of the year. As the English school year come to a close our eldest has already...
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Mobile heads-up
It was Ashley’s school sports day yesterday so I walked to work and back again. It’s only a mile and a half and I enjoy it, though most of it is beside busy roads. Something which disheartened me a...
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Update required
A (probable) letter from my teen daughters…… Dear sirs, We wish to complain about our two Parent 1997 XLs. Despite all of our efforts there seems to be no way to update these old-fashioned models. For...
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Happy Blogaversary to me
It’s my Blogaversary. Virtual cakes and bubbly are on that virtual trestle table over there. 11 years and counting!!! ====================== It’s been a busy few weeks. Heather’s finished school now...
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Mobility
As my son Ashley has grown, so have the challenges presented by his mobility. When he was a tot I could easily lift him, take him upstairs, pop him in the bath and seat him in the car. However, my back...
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Hospitals
I detest the things. My earliest memories were of strict Ward Sisters putting a stop to our fun (she called noise) and having to sit for hours waiting til Mum could visit. My youth was spent visiting...
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Inclusion
I’ll probably annoy some folk with this post… If you are involved with disability in any way, be it as a friend or a parent, inclusion does come up a lot in conversation. I do believe that every member...
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Daily Gripe
There are a few things which really press my buttons, they rankle, they tick me off: Lists in adverts is one. Stabbed out at us until our ears throb and that little vein starts pulsing in my temple....
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A Bigot
Disclaimer: I am an Englishman, born and bred and as such choose to use the English spellings and meanings of words. I an fully aware of the American language and the differences that have evolved over...
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Wednesday Hodge Podge
I don’t do many memes but reading back on my last few posts they do seem to be getting a bit intense. I don’t apologise for this as my posts reflect my life and wysiwyg. So, ruthlessly pinched from...
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Life, don’t talk to me about life.
Ah, life. Currently enjoying a few days off. Oldest daughter has just completed the first week of her NCS Challenge. It’s for 15 to 17 year olds and involves “Outward Bound”, “College Life” and...
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Long Time Update
It’s 25 days since the youngest keeled over. Seems it was just a faint but worrying nonetheless. We’ve told just to monitor it but will pop into school to let them know what happened. The eldest has...
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K12
I’ve been reading up a bit on Education around the world and am struck by its diversity. The K term in the title is one I hit pretty early and apparently refers to the twelve years after Kindergarten....
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Sometimes it’s the little things ….
A couple of things helped wake me up a little this week. First it was the passing of a little boy who lives near us. He’d been ill in February: hallucinating and vomiting. The doctor sent him home with...
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BTS and a bit of “how’s your father”
Infidelity and Back To School have dominated the week. The former was amongst neighbours and, as ever, I find this sort of behaviour baffling. It seems like having a loving partner and beautiful kids...
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Cheers!
Some decisions are easy to make. A neighbour has had some huge problems recently which have resulted in a husband being booted out and a wife leaning heavily on friends for support. Unfortunately she...
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Moles
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw said that. It’s never been so true now that we are in an age where Social Media plays a daily part in so many...
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Uni Essentials
Chuckled to myself when I received an email this morning from Ama.zon which highlighted their Off to Uni Essentials. It made me laugh because of the vast chasm that has grown between today’s student...
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