I’ve been shaking out the piggy banks and flexing the credit cards for the past few weeks, eyes screwed up and fingers firmly in my ears. The BBC series South Pacific has become compulsory Sunday night viewing in the Guineapig household. We’re going on holiday. Had I mentioned that? A BIG holiday. The sort of holiday that consumes [...]
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Spending the inheritance
Published June 11th, 2009 in Diving, Family, Holidays and Travel. 8 CommentsThe days of Christmas
Published January 7th, 2009 in Celebrations, Chocolate, East Lothian, Family, Holidays, Out & about and Running. 8 CommentsOn the first day of Christmas my 3 boys gave to me…
…a basketful of dirty laundry.
So that would be GP1, GP2 and GPD.
It became a basketful or more after I collected 3 wet towels from one bedroom floor and 4 from another then went into the bathroom and threw a wobbly at the pile of [...]
Extreme reading
Published August 13th, 2008 in Books, Boys, Holidays and Miscellaneous stuff. 0 CommentsI’m sure you’ve all heard of extreme ironing…
What lengths we have to go to to get boys to read.
It’s officially known as Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque.
Wow!
It may not be quite finished but it’s stunning.
Third largest in the world. From Italy - the largest chandelier in the world. From Iran - the largest handmade carpet in the world. White marble from Greece. In fact, about 200 different types of marble from around [...]
Personally, I blame it all on GP2. He wanted an apple. We were heading, in the blinding afternoon sun, temperature c. 400 C, towards the fruit and vegetable market at the time, so it didn’t seem an entirely unreasonable request. However, I still think it was his fault.
But before that, let’s go back a year [...]
Four & a half sleeps, two long car journeys and one wedding to go. Oh, that’s a family wedding in there. Make it three and two half-sleeps. And then we go on holiday!
So, at the weekend, it was time to go shopping. Our travel bags have finally fallen apart. At this point you have to [...]
A half way witter
Published January 30th, 2008 in Blogging, Holidays, Swimming club, broken ankle and ovarian cancer. 9 CommentsIt’s been very quiet in this corner for some time now. I have no real excuse, just a jumble of reasons. It’s partly been a form of writer’s block - how pretentious! But I’ve had several posts in draft for some time and don’t seem to have been able to find the words to finish, [...]
In praise of…
Published January 29th, 2008 in Celebrations, Family, Holidays and In praise of. 2 Comments…Christmas. I’ve just finished the Christmas cake. Sob. I suppose I could make a Rest-of-the-Year Cake but I probably won’t get around to it. So I thought I’d jot down a few things I like about Christmas for a soppily sentimental and very unseasonal post. Just when you thought it was all over for another [...]
In praise of…
Published January 13th, 2008 in Family, Friends, Holidays, In praise of and Out & about. 2 Comments…London buses. With apologies to The Guardian. Lest I become permanently marked as a moaner and ranter, I thought it was time to write something positive. And I always enjoy the “In Praise of…” piece on the Guardian Leader page - an antidote to the ranting and complaining of so much media. I would like to write [...]
High days and Holy days
Published January 9th, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrations, Family, Holidays, Out & about, School, Standard Grades and ovarian cancer. 13 CommentsThis is going to be a very selfish, mean-spirited, churlish, curmudgeonly, whingeing and Grumpy Old Woman sort of post. There. You’ve been warned. For more enlightened, friendly, positive, cheerful reading you could try some of the links on my blogroll instead. Iota’s started posting again about life in the States and she’s always entertaining and currently much more [...]
The holiday from hell?
Published August 20th, 2007 in Diving, Family, Holidays and Islands. 2 CommentsSuperfluous to requirements on holiday:-
Shorts
Cropped trousers
Sun hats
Rounders bat
My crutches!
Would have been useful:-
More fleeces
More waterproofs
GP2’s current wetsuit (ie not the one he grew out of 2 years ago)
More warm things for under my drysuit
Wooly hats
Flask.
But I’m glad we left at home:-
The tent.
I’m sure you get the idea. On our last two holidays on Coll we experienced weather [...]
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