We may be about to put in an offer on a house in Dunbar. Not sure how likely we are to get this (in fact, it’s very unlikely) but we’ll have a go and there’s an outside chance. The biggest problem though may turn out to be schools. With our eldest doing his Standard Grades [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Poor Tabby. After whatever adventures she had the other weekend, she hopped around for a few days and cleaned up her injured paw. Only it seems that she cleaned up too well as, early Friday afternoon, there was a shout from the bedroom. “Mum! Tabby’s toe’s dropped off!” And sure enough, she was minus a [...]
I’m not in Wales, my husband isn’t in Libya, so I went along to the open meeting this afternoon. It was interesting to put faces to a number of blogs and to find that I didn’t need to say much more than “I’m guineapigmum”. David Gilmour explained how Edubuzz was evolving and described some of the planned [...]
Girls’ weekends
Published February 27th, 2007 in Family, Friends, Girls' weekends and Lake District. 1 CommentI’ve just had two girls’ weekends away. Yes, that’s right, two. The first was a trip to Birmingham when I met up with my three sisters. It was our first ever weekend with just us (our mother died a couple of years ago and we’d mostly relied on family gatherings to get together), but certainly not [...]
Two boys, two English essays to be typed and printed, only one of them on Shakespeare.
One boy:- “Have you read it? Is it all right? Are there any spelling mistakes?”
Other boy:- “What do you mean that’s spelt wrong? The computer said it was right.” Me:- “Well it’s wrong. You haven’t checked this. You haven’t [...]
And I still don’t know if my husband is going to Libya on Monday. If he doesn’t go to Libya, he is going to Ireland on Tuesday. Meanwhile, I’m away for the weekend on my annual outing to the Lake District and was expecting to go to the rescheduled Wales survey straight from there. But [...]
Yesterday was probably the sort of day that most people consider normal. First of all, my original plans were hijacked by having to take the cat to the vet; she’s recovering nicely, since you asked. I’ve decided that having a cat is rather like having another child in the house. When she first arrived, it [...]
I came in from swimming tonight to find our youngest in floods of tears. We hadn’t seen our cat, Tabby, for a few days - this is not particularly unusual as she often goes walkabouts. Anyhow, she’d arrived home this evening with an injured paw, starving hungry and looking very sorry for herself. A call to a [...]
Have you ever been stopped by the police and bitten your tongue hard rather than say “Why don’t you go catch a real criminal”? Well, our half term trip to a corner of these wonderful islands of ours was cancelled due to bad weather and I wrote a little post about it. It was spotted, [...]
It’s snowing this evening. Tomorrow, it’s forecast to snow lots in Wales and England. On Friday after school I have to drive to Pembroke with the boys, a 10 hour drive at the best of times. Mid Wales in the snow? I think not. And to compound the matter, we’ve all come back coughing from Somerset, courtesy [...]
We arrived back from the tropics of Somerset on Sunday evening after an emotional few days. The village church was full for the funeral, OH held it all together well to deliver a very fine eulogy and the service ended with a bugler playing the Last Post and Reveille. Now comes the hard part for [...]
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