OK, when did Valentines day change?!
When I was growing up, it was all about romantic love. the love between couples, or the unrequited love of a secret admirer. I never considered sending a card to my parents. I watched my school friends waving their coloured envelopes around at school, and I desperately wanted a card to drop through the door to reassure me that someone found me attractive.
Now I find my kids making me cards each year…
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Every year our town has a large, professional fireworks display for Bonfire Night. It happens in our town park, and whilst you can see the fireworks for miles around, the best views are from inside the park. Last year we took both kids to the park, armed with ear defenders, and they both loved it. The geekson reclined in his pushchair and gazed in awe at the lights and colours, and the geekdaughter sat on her father’s shoulders and watched everything. Sadly, our experience this year was not the same…
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It seems ironic that the best family outings that we had over the long Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend last month were not at all Jubilee-related. I’ve already told you about my trip to the ballet with the geekdaughter, and whilst it’s taken me a little while to get around to writing this one, today I want to tell you about how much fun we had at what seemed at first a very unlikely destination. When some friends of ours who have a son a couple of months older than the geekson invited us to go to the Manchester Airport visitor park I really wasn’t sure what to expect, but we agreed to go along any way.
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