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Memorabilia

11/1/2017

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Tricky, isn't it? You move into your family home, and find yourself left with two massive boxes of your parents' memories - '000s of photos, cricket-scorecards, panto programmes, entertainment and TV contracts, National Service mementoes...  Well, my sister finds it tricky, I tend to be a bit more ruthless about it: Unless it speaks to me and my memories of my parents, it's going in the bin. If it has a sliver of personal context, I'll digitise it - and then it goes in the bin. One or two choice items, I'll make something to remind me or others of them... and hang it in the house. Which was theirs, before it was ours.

​Life goes on.
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Blimey. Almost half my life gone.

3/1/2017

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I suppose it's necessary to acknowledge these Gregorian milestones, if only so we have a metric basis for assessing how much time we have left on this mortal coil. Although Pope Greg XIII failed to accommodate the extent to which perceived time accelerates as a function of age, so it's really not very useful.

​Anyway, I had a wonderful time and everyone loved me. Move along now please, nothing more to see here.
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Countdown to teenagehood almost over...

20/10/2014

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Well, that certainly filled a weekend. Eight shrieking loons dragged to Guildford Airhop on Saturday, then the usual houseful on Sunday. Much lovely food, cake consumed by the sackload and, I dare say, quite a few beer and wine bottles emptied. 

Abby is 12. I can't quite get my head round this. Her birthday gifts now include crap like Nike Airmax, hair-straighteners and hoodies. And cash (hurrah for Catholic families). On the plus-side, quite unexpectedly, she seems to have excellent taste in friends, old and new. Long may that prevail...

Where does the time go? etc etc
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Summer Hols II: Mallorca

7/9/2014

 
Two fantastic weeks away in one summer, lucky us frankly. I had no idea what to expect of Mallorca really, it was all a bit of a last minute decision - our best friends had found a super villa just North of Alcudia, we managed to find an apartment overlooking the bay about a five-minute walk away, a notional conversation one Saturday night a few weeks ago was suddenly a reality.

Well... I quickly dispelled any concerns that Mallorca might be a bit '70s-style Costa Del Sol, catering to a peculiar breed of English tourist that would rather have stayed in England on the whole.  It's one of the most beautiful places on the planet

Things I have learnt in the last eight days

3/8/2014

 
  • The rate at which time passes is proportional to the quality of the weather. 
  • The quality of the company you keep is more important than where you are and how much the sun is shining
  • There is nowhere better to be than the coast of the UK, when the weather is as perfect as this week's
  • The iPhone snaps extremely competent panoramics
  • My daughters can be be the best fun to be with, when the sun is shining and they've forgotten what the argument was about
  • Selfies aren't all the rage because 'the angle is flattering', but because they force close focus on the subjects, which is the secret of good people photos innit
  • Finally buying a decent HD TV for the van was a good move in the week of the Commonwealth Games
  • Pagham Harbour is up there with the most peaceful places in the world
  • I hope I know the Ataullahs, the Farriers and the Kitchins until I can't remember my own name
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