The ramblings of a discombobulated mind
So it looks like there is a possibility I will be in England for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my folks. It goes without saying that I will do my damndest to get to see the kids at the same time, and I am sure I will manage to achieve it. That said, it [...]
Tags: dad, Family, food, mumWell, I am back from blighty (Britain to you non-natives out there) and I had a wonderful time. I still managed to put almost 1000 miles on the hire car…seems to be my lot in life I guess. What I did have though was an amazing weekend with my 4 (count ‘em) amazing kids.
Not a [...]
We have a tradition in our family…created I think by a series of drunken bets on behalf of my parents and their friends. The tradition is that we will barbequeue on New Years Day…regardless of location and weather conditions. It is something that I have tried to maintain over the years….it just seems like a [...]
Tags: Family, foodBeing the eldest of three boys is not always fun….it can be, but not always. Especially when your brothers get to the age where your Mum starts asking you to take them with you wherever you go.
I have to say that the age gap helped, so I wasn’t forced into that too often. That said, [...]
So I am still recovering from all the travel that I have done recently, but wanted to post about what a great time I had with Sarah and the kids last weekend.
I left home at 02:00 on Friday morning to catch the 02:30 bus to Hahn Airport (yep, I am a cheapskate when it comes [...]
A worried wife calls her husband who is driving home, to warn him about a news report of a lunatic driving on the wrong side of the road. “A lunatic??!?!?!!” He says “There are bloody hundreds of ‘em”
One of the problems with coming from England is that we drive on the left, in right hand [...]
I have never really been a pet person, I like animals, but they always seem like too much hassle. Currently I have 2 cats that I essentially looking after until I can get them their required jabs and get them to Sarah and the kids. I have experienced dogs and cats over the years, along [...]
Tags: Family, pets, randomI am starting to detect a theme here, a lot of the stories I want to tell seem to revolve around alcohol. Now I wouldn’t mind, but I don’t generally drink that often and neither do my family. It’s just that, drunk stories seem to be funnier….at least to me.
Picture the scene. Family friend and [...]
I was talking to Sarah last night and the subject came up of Zak and Brandon about to start doing Karate and Judo respectively.
Nothing particularly strange there, until Sarah mentions that it is ok, until both of them end up in competition on the same day in different places. How will she be in [...]
I’ve been thinking about my Nan and Grandad a lot just recently. I miss them, they had such a huge impact on my life. So much in fact, that I turned down jobs abroad to make sure I stayed in the area so I could be there if they needed me. Don’t get [...]
Tags: Family, germany, grandad, love, nan, therapy… I wasn’t always the upstanding IT professional that you find today. No no no, I was quite the tearaway says I…says my mum…my dad…and pretty much anyone that knew me back then.
I can’t remember exactly how old I was, I think I was around 14 or 15. Much too old to go on a [...]
Well, I am back home and should be back online around the 16th of this month, a little while after they originally said, but not too bad I guess. It will give me the opportunity to get my apartment in order I suppose.
I had a hell of a week, but it was very enjoyable…I [...]
…. ok, maybe not - But it could have been.
A couple of years ago, a few weeks into a new job, I started getting a real nasty pain across my back. This got worse as the day went on, culminating in me having to stop driving on the way home until it eased off.
That [...]
A few years ago, the elder of my two younger brothers got married.
It was a fantastic day and everything that it should have been for the married couple. Everything went superbly from the “Mad Professor” organist to me spinning my Nan around in her wheelchair because “she would love to dance with everyone, but can’t [...]
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