Did you watch it?
We did.
Friday, 14 June 2013
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
All Change
After ages and ages of things just sedately ticking along, suddenly it seems that a quantum leap is taking place
No.1 son (DO, the dark one) and wife are buying a new house, there is no chain so they hope to be in sometime in August.
No.2 son (FO, the fair one) and his partner are new parents, to my one month old granddaughter, and are slowly getting used to parenthood.
No.3 son (GO, ginger one) has just moved from a batchelor room in a shared house to a flat which he is sharing with his girlfriend's brother and partner, and, eventually, his girlfriend.
No.4 son (GT, ginger two) is just waiting for CRB check to be completed before embarking on a whole new career.
Exciting times. Good luck to all my sons.
No.1 son (DO, the dark one) and wife are buying a new house, there is no chain so they hope to be in sometime in August.
No.2 son (FO, the fair one) and his partner are new parents, to my one month old granddaughter, and are slowly getting used to parenthood.
No.3 son (GO, ginger one) has just moved from a batchelor room in a shared house to a flat which he is sharing with his girlfriend's brother and partner, and, eventually, his girlfriend.
No.4 son (GT, ginger two) is just waiting for CRB check to be completed before embarking on a whole new career.
Exciting times. Good luck to all my sons.
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Another Scavenger Hunt
I do love a good Scavenger Hunt, so I was delighted when I came across Rinda's Summer Scavenger Hunt (here). The added incentive to join this one is that there will be a couple of prizes at the end!
There are 21 subjects to find between now and 21st September, they can be posted at any time and in any order (or, if you prefer collect them all and post at the end). Anyhow, having made a start, here are my first three.
No 2. A Theatre for Performing Arts
No 3. A Civic Building
No 10. An outside bench
I usually attempt to take all my scavenger photos within easy walking distance of home, and these three fit the bill nicely. The Athenaeum is at the far end of the High Street, the Civic Centre is just the other side of Morrisons' car park, and the bench is in the park at the end of my street. Some of the subjects will, I suspect, require me to go a little further afield, but heyho, its summer, so why not?
There are 21 subjects to find between now and 21st September, they can be posted at any time and in any order (or, if you prefer collect them all and post at the end). Anyhow, having made a start, here are my first three.
No 2. A Theatre for Performing Arts
No 3. A Civic Building
No 10. An outside bench
I usually attempt to take all my scavenger photos within easy walking distance of home, and these three fit the bill nicely. The Athenaeum is at the far end of the High Street, the Civic Centre is just the other side of Morrisons' car park, and the bench is in the park at the end of my street. Some of the subjects will, I suspect, require me to go a little further afield, but heyho, its summer, so why not?
Friday, 7 June 2013
Silence
Having recently celebrated our Silver Wedding Anniversary, I would say that 99.9% of the time, the Green Man and I have a great relationship, based on love, trust and communication. But every now and again something happens (and believe me I have absolutely no clue as to what it is) to make him go all quiet on me. I've tried, in the past, to wheedle out of him what the problem is, but to no avail, and his only response is to stomp off to his "cave" and be alone until he recovers his ?? whatever it is that he's lost!
This happened a few days ago, and even after all this time it really upsets me when he blanks me - I know it shouldn't, because he always works his way through it and if I can just be patient everything returns to normal. But for some reason, this particular morning I found it difficult to handle, and I was really upset, not knowing if I had inadvertently upset him, or if it was something completely nothing to do with me what-so-ever, his silence cut me to the bone.
I decided to spend some time blog-hopping to try to lift my mood. I couldn't tell you how it happened, I just read a couple of blogs, followed a couple of links, and suddenly I found myself reading a blog written by a young mum, with 4 young children and a husband who had been brain-damaged in a surfing accident. She was left with a blind husband who was completely unable to communicate and who spent most of the day crying. She had fought hard to be allowed to have him living at home with her and the children, only to find that instead of helping him, it seemed to make him worse, and she was seriously contemplating sending him back into full-time care so that she could raise her children without them having to witness his despair, and without the constant worry of also having to cope with his complete and utter lack of communication.
Boy, was I humbled.
From now on, whenever GM feels the need to cut off and hide in his cave I shall let him go without question, leave him in peace until he is ready to emerge, and thank my lucky stars that his non-communication is only a very short temporary glitch, and that when he is ready to return, everything is back to normal.
This happened a few days ago, and even after all this time it really upsets me when he blanks me - I know it shouldn't, because he always works his way through it and if I can just be patient everything returns to normal. But for some reason, this particular morning I found it difficult to handle, and I was really upset, not knowing if I had inadvertently upset him, or if it was something completely nothing to do with me what-so-ever, his silence cut me to the bone.
I decided to spend some time blog-hopping to try to lift my mood. I couldn't tell you how it happened, I just read a couple of blogs, followed a couple of links, and suddenly I found myself reading a blog written by a young mum, with 4 young children and a husband who had been brain-damaged in a surfing accident. She was left with a blind husband who was completely unable to communicate and who spent most of the day crying. She had fought hard to be allowed to have him living at home with her and the children, only to find that instead of helping him, it seemed to make him worse, and she was seriously contemplating sending him back into full-time care so that she could raise her children without them having to witness his despair, and without the constant worry of also having to cope with his complete and utter lack of communication.
Boy, was I humbled.
From now on, whenever GM feels the need to cut off and hide in his cave I shall let him go without question, leave him in peace until he is ready to emerge, and thank my lucky stars that his non-communication is only a very short temporary glitch, and that when he is ready to return, everything is back to normal.