Year:2010

On the morning of Paige’s 13th birthday I got up to be greeted with a view from my bedroom window of a winter wonderland at least 4inches of snow, my first thought was I hope I get down to Salisbury to spend the day with Paige. My poor brother who lives in the North East …
Continue reading Paige Reaches 13, Happy Birthday

The snow arrived early this year I have been telling my brother he can keep it in North Yorkshire but I am afraid it found it’s way to Wiltshire, along with sub zero temperatures. This also happened to be the weekend we had chose to go out with our friends, but we braved the temperatures …
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Our annual trip tp Center Parcs is behind us now but it has left us all with lots more wonderful memories, nights sat beside the log fire drinking red wine and eating cheese, followed by a session in our own sauna, oh how I could live that way. The weather this year was not as …
Continue reading Holidays Over & Back To Reality

Halloween was a lot of fun this year, we found the children really looked forward to the party that always happens here, also Paige took part in things this year, other years she has just sat and watched but this time she wanted to join in. Along with Halloween it was also Owen’s birthday weekend so …
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I have had a really nice weekend which is so nice to say, nothing that out of the ordinary but just different enough to be special. We had 3 of the children on Friday evening for their sleepover which was fun for all, they went home Saturday evening and then on Sunday we met up …
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How do you all feel about the headlines at the moment? I feel very uneasy about the future, every-time I am talking to friends they seem to be telling me about more people laid off or businesses closing, then when you read the paper it just echo’s what I have been told. As I drove to …
Continue reading Scary Times For Us All

Last weekend was a lot better than many in the past few weeks, Joanne and Graham went to Bristol for an overnight shopping trip and we had the 2 boys and Paige. John had great fun showing the boys the new games which came with the PlayStation move pack, while Paige and I had some …
Continue reading A Fun Filled Weekend

Well that is how life feels at the moment. sometimes up, then down, next spinning round, so many things going on. Still life is like this at times and I am longing for the calm to come, but we still have had some fun times, last weekend we had all the family up for Sunday …
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