Family Life

Prankster

Monday, 19 March 2012

We live in quite an old house and Mrs P is convinced that we have a mischievous ghost. How else do you explain why else it is that just one of a pair of earrings that go missing from her jewellery box every time? Being rational, unimaginative and a man, I don’t believe in such [...]

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California Here I Come

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Well the die is cast. The trip to the US I mentioned last week is now on. The flight tickets tickets are booked and the credit card has taken a bruising. We’re are off to California, and one or two other states, like that other well-known communist, Lucille Ball*, pictured right. (I’m not really a [...]

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We’re Going to a Dance

Saturday, 10 March 2012

We’re hoping to visit friends who live in Las Vegas in late spring or early summer and have been exchanging emails about what we might do while we’re there. Apart from the usual Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam visits, we had been thinking about a road trip to Los Angeles, through the Mojave Desert, and [...]

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It never rains, but…

Thursday, 23 February 2012

No, this is not a diatribe about the south moaning about their ‘drought’ while it seems to have done nothing but rain here in the verdant north of England. It’s more to do with the way life’s hiccups seem to hit you all at one go. It started when I arranged to meet an old [...]

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All Right Jack

Thursday, 9 February 2012

I can’t think of a thing to write about at the moment, not that that has stopped me before, so I thought I’d simply publish this photo of our dog Jack. It’s one I took at Christmas as he chomped his way through one of his treats. The reason it has surfaced again now is [...]

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Reverse Technology

Monday, 30 January 2012

The digital camera has revolutionised photography in as much as we can now take as many photos as we want, view them instantly on screen and then completely lose them in the depths of our computer hard drive. When I was younger, my mum would occasionally the family treasure chest of photos. This was a [...]

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Missing Inaction

Monday, 16 January 2012

It isn’t like me to go without posting for so long, but we had an exhausting, sleep-deprived week last week that had me otherwise occupied. The problem was the course work that my daughter had to complete over the Christmas holiday for the first part of her TEFL degree. It was an enormous task.

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Gridding His Loins

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Our dog, Jack, is around 13 years old which means he’s getting on a bit. The trouble is, he doesn’t know it, despite his eyesight not being quite what it was. It was such a lovely day yesterday that Mrs P took him out for a walk, from Broadbottom up to Coombes Edge where you [...]

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Haberdashery

Monday, 12 December 2011

We risked the Christmas shopping crowds yesterday to take a trip into Stockport to buy a few gifts. Actually, it isn’t the queues at the tills that are the problem in our nearest town — we didn’t have to wait more than a few minutes to be served — but finding a place to park [...]

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