Exhilarated. That’s the best word I can find to describe the boys when I collected them from Largs last Friday. There I’d been, worrying all week that they might be hating it. I should have known better.
We waved the others off in the minibus and then retired to Nardini’s - or the sad imitation of Nardini’s, all that [...]
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Don’t be fooled by texts
Published April 23rd, 2008 in Boys, Clyde and Ocean Youth Trust. 4 CommentsThe art of communication
Published April 17th, 2008 in Boys, Clyde and Ocean Youth Trust. 2 CommentsText messages
Me:- “How’s it going?”
GP1:- “awrite”
Me:- “Any wind for sails?”
GP1:- “some”
Me:- “Celtic 2 Rangers 1″
Silence.
I’d read between the lines if there were any to read between. I just hope they won’t have been put off sailing for life!
Mum, paranoid, needs text from boys, teenagers (gmt & vyt), afloat somewhere in the Clyde. Maybe they’re too seasick to text. Or too cold, wet and miserable. More likely they’re having a great time and we’ll hear all about it at the weekend. After they’ve had 24 hours sleep, that is. I do wonder, though, if [...]
The best laid plans…
Published April 10th, 2008 in Boys, Ocean Youth Trust and Swimming club. 4 CommentsWouldn’t it be nice if once, just once, life was boring and everything went according to schedule? I could happily do boring for a while.
Whizzo scheme No. 1
The Plan
An Ocean Youth Trust trip for the boys. What a great idea! Time off school was negotiated, forms completed, money paid. The boat is due to leave [...]
Ocean Youth Trust
Published March 19th, 2008 in Boys, Ocean Youth Trust, Out & about and School. 2 CommentsI’m not a great believer in the children missing school for any reason. They really have to be close to death before they can stay home sick and it takes a family wedding to get them the last day of term off. But they’re both taking a week out in April to go with the [...]
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