Keeping up with the family records for posterity; Fran did Level 4 in gymnastics for the first time the other week. She did really well, a clean enough round bar two muppetty falls on beam. One was hilarious (she’s never going to forget it) and cost her 2nd overall and if she hadn’t fallen the […]
Going up North.
As previously mentioned, Fran recently got selected to play Touch Rugby for the Northern Stars, the north of England Under 18 squad. This has meant some training days and given where we live is really not-very-northern-at-all, the cost implication of this is pretty high. Having just had a week where the car cost us £600 […]
Busy times.
The summer holidays are nearly over and before you know it, they’ll all be back at school again. It feels like it has been a packed holiday. Last week in particular was crammed with ‘stuff’. We went to visit my sister for the day because (aside from wanting to see them!) Fran had to go […]
The results are in.
I have so much to write about, big and small. And so I’m hardly writing at all. But today was a big day. A very big day indeed, the first full public exam results day. Fran and I drove in to town first thing and got there at 9. There followed one of the trickiest […]
The end of (this year's school) days.
We made it. Only just and not without some pain, but we made it. It’s the end of our first full year of schooling all of them. I’m pretty disgruntled about it, as I said before, but there are positives too. None of them want to leave so I suppose that is a positive. They […]
Prom Day
The very essence of Fran. Beautiful from the inside out with that very fact etched across her face. We spent the day making her ready for prom, thanks to a couple of great friends who did the hair and nail bits I’m no good at. I hope her evening has gone as she hoped and […]
Little Girl.
She’s been my baby for so long. She’s been a closed book for so long. She’s been chubby and silent and suddenly she is lithe, determined, quietly confident, elegant and clever and clearly, most remarkably, beautiful. She captures another side of my family entirely; she alone looks almost exactly like my youngest girl cousin, from […]
A Pox on the House.
Poor old Bene has been suffering from Chicken Pox this week. I say suffering, but in fact he’s been remarkably well with it really; we thought we were going to get it a few weeks ago when my nephew was here for a day the day before he went dotty but he missed it then, […]
To our eldest girl on her 16th birthday.
You are 16. Old enough to marry. Sensible enough not to. I shopped for you yesterday, finding time for trinkets on the London streets. I breathed down tears once or twice as I bought the odd mixture of toy and tinsel that befits you. Grown up. Still a girl. Young woman. Our baby. If I […]
A good day.
It’s not often that a trip to Milton Keynes and an ill prepared exam equal a good day. Today they did. Today I met up with a friend and the woman she will marry soon to pick my best woman dress. And I fitted into dresses without whimpering and picked from two that looked lovely […]
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