Why is it that writing can be so difficult? Sometimes I find it hard to get the words out, and even avoid opening the blog page. This is more surprising since I can TALK about ANYTHING in continuous flow if I meet you face to face. In fact you will have trouble stopping me….
If I go places and am quiet, people say ‘what is the matter with Sally?’
So I will start as if we are face to face – and this time you will have to turn me off to shut me up – at least I can be sure of not offending, as I will check this post before I publish it – can’t be so easily done with talking.
I will be 64 just after Christmas. I was born in Musselburgh, outside Edinburgh. It was the middle of winter. A few days old, my father and grandfather took me in my pram for a walk, hoping to show me off to the neighbours – but it had been snowing quite hard and they were the only ones out!!! Dad is disappointed to this day…
Apparently I was a cute baby, though I don’t look so convinced here. I don’t know who the little friend was, a son of my parent’s friends I guess. I am holding a comfort item – a ‘woolly’, which was a lacy cardigan – I kept this til I was about 9 or 10, it shrank further with every wash. I was not a skinny child – look at my cute plump legs
I have always enjoyed eating – you may notice there is little on my face, it all went in my mouth!!! The same is true now, and I have the photos to prove it!
I have such a great family
Lets start with the ‘locals’ – my son, his wife and their two sons. We all live together, and have done for the last 17 years.Why? Why would I like to live with all these people, take care of 2 little kids, after my own children have grown up?
Well, circumstances brought us together, and it all worked out well!! So we kept it up.
Among the benefits, I don’t come home to an empty house, which I would if lived apart from them – after Tara left home it would have been just me. This also means that I don’t live on jam sandwiches and boiled eggs… which would be the case if I lived on my own, cause I am not that keen on cooking.
The financial aspects are also useful, as it takes just as much power to light a room for 5 people as for one, but does not cost 5 times as much – and so on.
Of course, that might be offset by the fact we run 7 computers – one each, a server and a media server…
Apparently I was a cute baby, though I don’t look so convinced here. I don’t know who the little friend was, a son of my parent’s friends I guess. I am holding a comfort item – a ‘woolly’, which was a lacy cardigan – I kept this til I was about 9 or 10, it shrank further with every wash. I was not a skinny child – look at my cute plump legs
I have always enjoyed eating – you may notice there is little on my face, it all went in my mouth!!! The same is true now, and I have the photos to prove it!
I have such a great family
Lets start with the ‘locals’ – my son, his wife and their two sons. We all live together, and have done for the last 17 years.Why? Why would I like to live with all these people, take care of 2 little kids, after my own children have grown up?
Well, circumstances brought us together, and it all worked out well!! So we kept it up.
Among the benefits, I don’t come home to an empty house, which I would if lived apart from them – after Tara left home it would have been just me. This also means that I don’t live on jam sandwiches and boiled eggs… which would be the case if I lived on my own, cause I am not that keen on cooking.
The financial aspects are also useful, as it takes just as much power to light a room for 5 people as for one, but does not cost 5 times as much – and so on.
Of course, that might be offset by the fact we run 7 computers – one each, a server and a media server…
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