Notes

My brother-in-law bought my sister a VW for Christmas a couple of years ago. Last week it happened to cross my mind that they must have got rid of it; I hadn’t seen it for a while.

Two days later they visited my Dad, turning up in this shiny red beauty.

What a lick of paint [...]

Our eldest son has just started Grammar school.

He’s got his new school tie and scientific calculator, and came home first day with his new school timetable.

This brought back happy memories for me: how some lessons were awful but the teachers were funny, how some lessons were great, how I should have tried harder but [...]

A few days ago we climbed up Moel Famau in North Wales. It was hot and tiring, but we pressed on.

Almost at the top, one of our children had had enough: Could we turn back? I walked a bit more to the top, saw it was great, and went back to get them.

Once [...]