It is good to have Jayne back home. Ok, maybe she seemed happier to see the cats than me but then they *are* cuter than me and they didn’t go up and visit every day. Had to put on a tin helmet for her verdict on the quality of my housekeeping though…
Entries Tagged as 'Family'
TVOD
August 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
So I am dabbling in the indulgence of using a song title as a post title again but I doubt many people will remember the song TVOD (double A-side with Warm Leatherette by the Normal AKA Daniel Miller on Mute Records. I’m starting to miss my old vinyl) Chrystal is down for a few days [...]
Three cheers for the NHS
August 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I seem to have spent a lot of time in hospitals during the last few months. This week it has been because Jayne has been admitted to East Surrey hospital. On Sunday she had some headaches and I spent the night keeping an eye on her. Eventually I took her up to the hospital early [...]
Tags: Family·Medicine/Health
For all the wrong reasons
July 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I set out from home this morning (or just after noon actually) thinking to myself “I have a rare midweek day off work and I’m heading back to Essex for all the wrong reasons” and immediately decided that if I ever wrote a novel that would be the opening line. But I was heading back [...]
Tags: Family
Babysitting
July 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
We were babysitting today1 , looking after the three week-old granddaughter while her parents went off to Ikea. To say Jayne has been looking forward to this would be a something of an understatement. The other day she was going to go to Hobbycraft to get paints. Now I know that I don’t know much [...]
Coming back home
December 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Today was the traditional post-christmas trip to Essex to see the family. As is also traditional, as soon as we get anywhere near the old manor I keep saying to myself “I remember when this was all fields”. Not a bad trip at all. All the queues for Lakeside were on the other side of [...]
New ways to feel old
February 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
There was another of life’s little milestones today. It is one thing when your own children hit eighteen, that is bad enough, but when your little sister’s kids reach eighteen… A much bigger milestone for my niece Annie though. We went back to Essex for her 18th birthday party tonight. It was a good family [...]
The headache diaries
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Yesterday Jayne went into Crawley hospital to have some brain scans, basically to see if there is anything to worry about with the headaches she has been getting. She came back with something called a headache diary where you have to write down every headache you get and give it marks out of ten for [...]
Tags: Family·Medicine/Health
Best day of the year
December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Yesterday was my favourite day of the year, one that I always look forward to. It does not always fall on the same date, but is normally a few days after December 25th. The timing depends on when the Northern sister can get time off work. It is the day we go up to Essex [...]
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Essex·Family
And then there were three…
December 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Frankie and his fiancee have found a house to rent privately, and Charlie has moved in with them to help with the rent and fill the place up. Its good for them to all be independent now, but this place is starting to feel empty now with only the girl at home. Jayne isn’t taking [...]
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