My Dad Died

This is why I haven’t been around.
He went into hospital with pneumonia and took a turn for the worse and was resucitated and taken to icu. On Monday 24th of November we agreed with doctors to turn off the medication that was keeping him alive. Even with it, it would have only been a matter [...]

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Gallbladder gone

Just a quick blog post. Had it out yesterday by keyhole surgery, I was the first one in so no waiting around, yay, and came out of hospital this afternoon. Should only take a couple of weeks to recover.

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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Bet that title has never been done before! And there actually were lions and tigers and bears!
First this morning we went to the supermarket on the air force base and picked up some things to bring back, including choccy-mint candy canes which are delish (er… one broke ) and some pumpkin spice and [...]

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Museum Visit

Today MiL and I took G for his hair trimming while FP went straight up to the hospital. After that we met him and FiL and played our regular games of dominoes (we actually play Mexican train dominoes which is much more fun than plain dominoes). Then FP, G, and I went to Durham Western [...]

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Walking across the Missouri

This morning FP went to hang out with FiL, while MiL, G and I went shopping. G got a new toy and some new shoes, which really look like school shoes, I had hoped he would choose something a bit… well… cooler but he thought they were great! And MiL got me some [...]

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Warm Day!

Can’t believe how warm it was today, in the 60’s at least!
Today we went to play dominoes again with GP, where I found out I didn’t win last time, not on points anyway, but I did win 2 games out of 3, same today! G has a thing about zombies at the moment, there was [...]

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This is Halloween… Halloween, Halloween!

Not just on Halloween, but the night before as well!
On the evening of the 30th we went to a Halloween event at Simmon’s Wildlife Safari.

We weren’t sure whether we were going to go or not as it had been mostly rainy all day and really cold, but it brightened up an hour before it [...]

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G’s First Story

So today I asked G if he wanted me to write the story he was “writing”. As he can’t yet write he was scribbling on a piece of paper and describing the goings on that had just happened when he played with his figures.
He was absolutely ecstatic about it and I’ve read it to him [...]

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Lighting a Candle

Well it was back to PE at the YMCA for G, then some of us went to the Arboretum for a picnic. After that Karen and I took our kids to the Cathedral as it was free entry for Lincolnshire Day. G went straight to the little chapel near the entrance, lit a candle, put [...]

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Butlins 2009

What I can say categorically is that the weather was much better than last year! Oh sure, there was one good day last year, and maybe one okay one, but mostly there was rain:

But this year I even got sunburnt!
I will start off with what I consider the cutest moment of the trip:

G paid £1 [...]

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