04 Nov Cruisin’ Along …
I’m a mere baby, and a late bloomer, when it comes to adopting the cruising life. I always thought it was for ‘older’ people but, in most cases and on most cruise lines, I was wrong ...
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29 Oct There’s no place like HOME
My P-i-C and I love travelling. We’ve been fortunate enough to have done quite a lot, together and separately, and hope this continues for many years to come. We already have another three trips booked, and a bucket list of others...
22 Oct It’s All Downhill From Here!
I’ve finally celebrated my 60th birthday. Well, two days ago. And it’s taken me that time to come to terms with the fact that I’ve crossed the precipice and there’s no where to go ...
15 Oct I Left My Zimmer Frame at Home!
After thirty-six hours from home to hotel, travelling east over the International Date Line, including three airports besides the one from which we left, I’m lucky to know my name, let alone where I am. And we were fortunate to have had a spare...
06 Oct I Haven’t a Thing to Wear!
Packing … the job we love to hate! And I’m procrastinating as I type. It’s six days until we leave on my 60th birthday cruise of the Caribbean, and the most I’ve done is chosen the suitcases. I wish the rest of the packing would be as easy. Choosing...
28 Sep Finding the PAWfect Dog Sitter
We leave for a three-week holiday in a fortnight, and our current dog sitter needed to cancel due to a family issue. That’s fine, but it’s left us scrambling to find a replacement. And it has made us think about the process of finding the PERFECT dog sitter...
22 Sep Seven ‘Wonders’ of the Modern World
These are in no particular order, and are just my personal observations. Though at the time of the Full Moon, the New Moon, the Waning Moon, and the Waxing Moon each month, they become more like my obsessions. My disdain is getting worse the older I get, and I...
16 Sep Celebrations
There are many reasons people gather together to celebrate: family occasions, sporting events, parties or gatherings of friends, graduations or career successes, and reunions. Though reunions can be fraught with danger if they are the twenty plus years after leaving school ...
08 Sep Metaphors of Life
A couple of weekends ago, I was helping my eldest granddaughter with her homework. Thankfully, it was English and not Maths because, at this stage, Year 5 Maths is a little beyond my comprehension with all the new ways they are doing, what should be, simple arithmetic. The homework...
01 Sep What Constitutes a Father
My loving, and much-loved, Partner-in-Crime has never been a father; well, not that he knows of! He’s been a step-father, but only came into their mother’s life when the children were adults, and most had left home. Some were even married. So, realistically, he hadn’t...