This time next week, I should be in North Devon. Woolacombe Bay to be precise.
My daughter and her husband have asked me to share their family holiday with them.

They don't ask me along so that I can be an unpaid babysitter, because in the evenings we sit around and talk and maybe have a glass of wine before retiring to bed.
The children are three and a half and two years old.......so an extra adult is helpful during the day and at mealtimes.
Invariably the children...

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I suppose all the parents will be looking forward to the end of the long summer holidays.....and the children will probably be looking forward to going back to school too......I am sure that there is a frenzy of activity in many households as new uniforms are made ready.....badges sewn on.....name tapes ironed into kit.....school books assembled.

In a few short weeks my own daughter is off to University...she is half looking forward to it and half dreading it.
It isn't like she...

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This year seems to have flown by. Someone mentioned to me last week that it is only something like 17 weeks to Christmas....aaaargh!
The days are really drawing in now...and I face the darker nights with trepidation.

I think that in a previous life I was either a bear or a swallow.......I either hibernated the winter away or flew south to sunnier climes.
I really do dread the short days when it never seems to get light.....it puts years on me.......and these days the summers...

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Wow..... a blog! How I have missed not having a blog.
You are never alone with a blog......and you don't need blog paper either (terrible pun).
With a blog you can have a moan, a gripe can be aired and you can tell your friends about a celebration, or just the mundane things in your life.
You can give yourself a pep talk....and often you will find that others(who read your stuff) will give you a bit more pep too.

I could have done with this facility yesterday....

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