In this life

I spend a lot of time visiting Mum in hospital at the moment, so snatch every chance of a visit to Grandson. He has become less inter...

I was walking with Daughter 1 and Grandson in the Queen's Park this morning. The hill was looking very atmospheric: the mist swir...

Goodness me, who would have guessed that my mild-mannered bloggy friends - quilters and knitters and gardeners - would have been quite so....

Apart from the various really quite serious things wrong in my relatives' lives at the moment (though there are lots of good things to...

My brother came up from down south last night and we went together to see Mum in hospital both last night and this afternoon. Then he went...

Well, to cheer us all up, here's another picture of Grandson wearing his stripey trousers and his customary big smile. How I love him!...

Daughters - I know some people don't have them and I'm not suggesting that they're essential for happiness. But Daughter ...

Oh, Grandson is such a joy in this sad stage in my life. He beams his way through his days. And one so seldom sees stripey trousers wor...

Twelve scripts to go. I think I've decided that if you can't spell "sentence" ("sentance" is the most popular ...

Cats are such a help... ... to the marker of exam papers... ... and do not stint... ... in their efforts to assist. Howev...

This is a completely irrelevant picture from a few weeks ago of Son and Nearly-Daughter-in-Law doing press-ups in the garden. I like it fo...

Yesterday: Cassie sits on a plant while watching an insect. Well, she wouldn't want to sit on the chilly concrete slab, would she...

Last weekend, Mr Life, Daughter 2 and I went to the flower show and saw these extremely enviable creamy paeonies, among many other delights...

Disappointingly, there haven't been many howlers in the exam marking so far. However, the passage is about drug cheats in sport and th...

Thank you for your kind sympathy about my busyness, but actually most of it was socialising. For example, a friend came over with her daugh...

... and others of us do not. I never would have believed it before I retired, but life has been too busy to find time to blog. I haven...

We have learnt to crawl. And we're off. Life is a trifle rubbish in other areas. But he's such a sweetheart. I wish I ...

Like the rest of Britain, we're having a heat wave after a very cold spring. Of course one should be pleased, but actually it makes it ...