I’ve started treating the snapshot series of blogposts as a way of recording things now, not just to give others an insight into my life but to help remember things myself too. Here’s a snapshot of things right now: Listening to silence in the house since the kids have gone…
Ever hear a song and get transported to a time and a place? It doesn’t mean you love the song, but every time you hear it a flood of memories come to you? Here’s mine, in a sort of timeline of my life. ( I reiterate, these are not songs…
“That is so YOU”. “I saw this and thought of you instantly”. “That always reminds me of you”. Sometimes we form associations with things and they forevermore remind us of that place, or that time, or a person. Maud at Awfully Chipper wrote a lovely post recently about remembering her mother’s watch…
Today, I turn thirty nine. (Happy Birthday to meeee) I was born at midday on a Friday, thirty nine years ago. I arrived by c-section, my parents’ first baby. Nearly forty years ago. (Happy Mammyversary Mam, Happy Daddyversary Dad) From today, I’ll be “forty next birthday”, “in my fortieth year”.…
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