Category: Family

Remembrance Sunday

When you go home, tell them of us and say For their tomorrow, we gave our today

Getting away from it all

The schools in England are on half-term holiday at the end of October.  My girls were so ready for a break, and the last week before they finished seemed to drag endlessly. We had...

Normal service has been resumed

Both the girls are back at school and college and life is returning to it’s normal routine.  It usually takes me about a week to re-adjust after the holidays but it’s nice to make...

School summer holidays: nearly over

I can’t quite believe that in just over a week and a half, the summer holidays will be over and my girls will be heading back to school and college.  And although there’s a...

Picnic tea

One of our favourite types of dinner is what small daughter calls “picnic tea”.  I suppose it’s a buffet, a help-yourself dinner, but small daughter has always thought of it as a picnic, something...

Beside the seaside

It’s been lovely looking at all the seaside photos in Blogland recently, especially as we hadn’t planned to have a holiday this year after our big adventure last year, but it had got to the...