Mothers’ Day was spent sitting at the side of a swimming pool, watching one son win a well-earned bronze medal in backstroke, just reward for recent enthusiasm and hard work, whilst his younger brother swam a valiant 400m with his goggles in his mouth. You’ll probably realise that the mouth is not the ideal location for a [...]
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Boys: a miscellany
Published January 28th, 2009 in Boys, Children, Family, Highers, SQA, School, Scotland, Standard Grades and Swimming club. 4 CommentsOne hitherto unforeseen advantage of trundling round the house with the vacuum cleaner is that it gives you space to compose blog posts in your head. One disadvantage is that the instant you switch the machine off, those wonderfully crafted words disappear, sucked up as far as I can tell into the Dyson.
Anyway, there I [...]
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 [...]
It was the Swimming Club AGM on Monday. And yes, I’ve finally managed to get myself off the committee. We bludgeoned and battered and locked the door. There was no escape. We have a new, EU-style committee. No one wanted to be big chief - no one ever does - so they’re going to take turns, [...]
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, [...]
“We want a disco” said the older swimmers.
“Come up with a plan and we’ll think about it” replied those of us who could see yet another thing to organise looming. “A proper business plan” said our very sensible coach.
So huddles formed in the cafe for the next week or so - is there a word for a [...]
One of those days
Published June 11th, 2007 in Boys, School, Swimming club, Teachers, Triathlon and broken ankle. 4 CommentsAnd it’s not even midday yet. GP2 was crowing at breakfast that he was going to have his last biology lesson ever today. His Biology teacher this year (not you Fearghal!) seems to have single-handedly killed all interest in the subject in the entire class, as only one of their number has picked biology for next [...]
Last Saturday saw the swimming club championships, an annual event when our own swimmers race each other for medals and glory. It’s always a very full on day, and this year was no exception. It was non-stop from first thing in the morning when I was melting chocolate over food for the evening do to sometime during [...]
The top’s just over the next hill
Published November 16th, 2006 in Boys, SQA, School, Standard Grades and Swimming club. 1 CommentIt was S3 parents’ evening last week. We got there early and fully expected to whizz round and be out in time for swimming club. Wrong again! I eventually sent the boys to help out on poolside, OH went to a squash match and I queued for 1/2 hour for the last teacher. Finally arrived at the pool [...]
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