Yesterday was my brother’s 42nd birthday. As the years go by the fact that he’s not there to celebrate birthdays and the like really doesn’t get any easier. After the first year or so, that old chestnut about time healing is actually a lot of crap. It doesn’t, you just learn to live with it. Anyhow, […]
Take a moment, please
pic: Luckynick @ Dreamstime Kelly, aka Domesticgoddessque, has hosted a series of guest posts about Remembrance Day. They are an arresting and thoughful collection of posts. I urge you to take a few moments to visit and read them this morning. Here is mine: They shall not grow old… They shall grow not old, as […]
A DAFTS idea, but it might just work…
Brothers in harmony! Cue drums, trumpets and fireworks. I’m going to introduce the child food reprocessing system to knock your socks off. It’s called DAFTS the Dinnertime Automatic Food Transfer System. Actually it’s the brain-child of my marvellous sister and she’s a health care professional, therefore, knows stuff. Let me explain the idea behind DAFTS. […]
This weekend was father’s day too for us…
A walk at the Whangie
Is it through the Whangie, to the Whangie, round the Whangie? If you don’t know what I’m on about, or you think that, perhaps, I’ve come over all post-watershed, I will explain. The Whangie is an odd rock formation in a corner of the Kilpatrick hills. We walked there this week and the sun shone. […]