The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: families
Toads And Bones #tunbridgewells #highrocks
One lesson from my preteens was a realisation that Dad was a bit of a wimp. He’d been in the elite Parachute Regiment at the end of the war and was extremely proud that he’d passed all the physical and … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany, walking
Tagged families, high rocks, Toad stone, tunbridge wells, walking
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Wordle, Smurdle
Yet another friend drives me batty with a pic of their daily wordle success. Like I care. Still, I’m not one to chirp; I hate to miss my daily sudoku fix, my preference being the killer version, the trickier the … Continue reading
Parenting: Hiding In Plain Sight
I’m a parent of two married adults. It wasn’t always this hard. These days they don’t need changing, and their need for change has grown exponentially. But one thing remains constant. It’s a constant learning process on both sides. If … Continue reading
Whatever Next
I was rummaging around my blog, looking for something I’d written a while back and came across this, written for my first anniversary of blogging in April 2015. I offer it up for… well you decide. The Le Pard family, … Continue reading
K is for Knights #atozchallenge
For the last two years I’ve joined in the #atozchallenge, namely to post every weekday in April using each letter of the alphabet in turn. In 2015 it was places I’d been to, in 2016 it was London themed. This … Continue reading
Posted in A to Z blogging challenge, miscellany
Tagged A to Z blogging challenge, chess, families, grandmother, halma, monopoly
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Learning the cryptic way
By the time you are fifteen there is nothing your father can teach you. The old has-been. Mark Twain had it right when he said: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly … Continue reading
Still crazy after all these years
Lisa Reiter has gone trekkin’ crazy this week and has asked us for our bite sized memoires on the subject crazy! Her crazy was exam induced and I think, in the absence of real madness in my world (or at … Continue reading
Lifting life’s stones
Lisa Reiter is, once more, capturing our imaginations with her latest Bite Sized memoire prompt. So, the prompt for this time’s Bite Size Memoir is: “Discovery” Her post makes good use of the hungry caterpillar story. This triggered many childhood reminiscences involving the … Continue reading
Posted in butterflies and moths, families, flash fiction, memoires, miscellany, writing
Tagged bite sized memoire, butterflies and moths, discovery, families, lepidoptera
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Dickhead tours
Back in the mid 1990s, when the Lawyer and the Vet were small we regularly holidayed in Devon. Soon enough this became a tradition – the early start, the Little Chef breakfast and the difficult choice of Butterfly farm/Otter sanctuary/model railway … Continue reading
Posted in children, families, memoires, miscellany
Tagged Buckfast, dad, Devon, families, holidays, mum, timeshares
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