The happiest day of my life

Anthony is listening to some very cheesy music from the ’80′s this evening. Music from 1989 to be precise (I’m not sure why that year inparticular!). In 1989 I was in my last year of primary school, we then moved house and in the September of that year I began my first year at secondary school. It [...]

Childhood Memories

I am very lucky to have many happy childhood memories of different things. Holidays, Christmas, family times, events and friendships. For me one of the best things about being a parent is having the chance to give my children the happy memories that they will grow up with. I want them to be able to smile and [...]

Farewell to the “Noughties”

This last decade has been eventful for me. It started off pretty badly if I’m honest. I wasn’t in a good place back then. I spent New Year of 1999/2000 in a pub with some friends. I can remember what I wore, I still have the top somewhere stashed away! It was a very ordinary [...]

And still the snow falls…

The snow started on Thursday evening. It is now Tuesday morning and it is still snowing! Ok, so it hasn’t been constant but it has snowed at least a little bit every day. Sunday was the heaviest day but today is looking likely to match it. The sky is absolutely full of snow. It is [...]

Autumn Days; a memory

Sorry, I can’t seem to leave Autumn alone! I just remembered a song that we used to sing at school. Anyone who has been a school child in Britain will probably know it. To me it sums up all of those things I have been talking about. I actually had a tear in my eye [...]

Let’s go fly a kite

At the weekend we decided to get away. We’re very lucky to have access to my parents lovely apartment in Morecambe. It is situated right on the seafront and being on the 4th floor (there is a lift, thank goodness!) means that the views across Morecambe Bay are amazing. We can be there in an hour [...]

A Poem

I stumbled across this poem by Mother Teresa this evening and it brought tears to my eyes. It is exactly the way that Granny Mary lived her life. At her funeral the priest spoke about how she lived for other people & how she never judged anyone. There were so many people at her requiem mass. Everyone [...]

Sports day

Sports day was one of the events in the school year that I used to dread. I have never been very sporty and unfortunatly one of my senior schools was joined onto the leisure centre. School had full use of all the facilities. Gah! I used to manage to get through a rounders match at school by ensuring [...]

A Difficult Day

It’s not very often that I let the “spiritual” side of me show… as I mentioned in the 25 things about me. Today though it has been tough and I stumbled across this prayer while I was looking for some comforting words. I’ll be reading it a lot over the coming week I think. Every day [...]

Snow Memories

We’ve had a fair bit of snow up here in Yorkshire and its just not shifting. I don’t mind the snow, I get excited when I see it falling as I know the girls will like it and also Anthony. It reminds me of when I was a child and how much fun we used [...]