Tag Archives: Sister 1
A bit of honesty
Dear people in my computer, I think I might have fallen into that social media trap a bit. You know, the one where you make life look a bit more smiley than it is. It’s tricky, because nobody wants to … Continue reading
The trying to fit too much in Tuesday
I was going to tell you how this week Mum wasn’t feeling well when I arrived so I persuaded her to take some tablets, rushed off to Tesco and said I’d be back to wash her and her hair before … Continue reading
The New Wheels Tuesday
Mum has new wheels! Mum has been getting more wobbly and much faster to tire in the last few weeks so Sister 2 took the initiative and ordered a wheelchair. Which got lost in transit so she ordered another. And … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Daddy W
Yesterday was Dads 78th birthday 😁 As Dad has all the ‘things’ a 78 year old who only leaves the house occasionally to get new library books could possibly need, so my sisters and I decided to cook and eat … Continue reading
Hello again, Ithaca
If you scroll waaaay back on this blog you’ll find posts from holidays in Ithaca. Mum and Dad have been going for 17 years. Sometimes I tagged along, sometimes we all did. We are lucky in some ways that the … Continue reading
The chaotic cooking Tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Mostly successful, although someone with a very full trolley beat us to the ‘nice’ cashier so we ended up with a man. Luckily Mum approved of him. Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: Belgium bun (did … Continue reading
40 years ago…
…I was sitting – age five, nearly six – in a school music lesson when I saw my Dad run up the school drive. I must have caught his attention somehow and he burst into the lesson to tell me … Continue reading
Princess Pog and the (magical) tiara
The other day I mentioned in this post that Sister 1 had progressed the ‘lets embarrass our sister with weirdly addressed post’ competition, by sending me a parcel addressed to ‘Princess Pog’. We currently have a lovely decorator man here … Continue reading
A weekend of weirdness
What’s the weirdest birthday you’ve ever had? I think mine was this one just gone – Friday in fact. While I got to spend quite a bit of it with my family, that was because we were at my uncle’s … Continue reading
A weekend of many boys
The weekend was due to be the weekend of many boys….but snow, freezing rain and multiple accidents on motorways meant I couldn’t get to Little Pea on Friday. The weather wasn’t going to completely beat us though and I left … Continue reading
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