Bye. I'm off to the States tomorrow on a ticket bought by my daughter and her new, much more likeable than the last one, husband, so I can attend THE christening (although he calls it baptism) of my second grandson. Paul Joseph, named after dearly beloved Grandad who died on Easter Saturday this year, aged 98. I went out to help her after the ( Read more... )

Please, please, please, don't let me be disappointed - I don't care about happy endings or who dies, I just want to be enthralled, surprised, amazed and delighted, like I was at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban. I want that experience again, which is why I've hung around in the fandom for the last five or so years ( Read more... )

And another thing that has happened in the last few months: my ex-husband married again in May and although I didn't go, my entire family attended. And there were two people there who had, apparently, been trying desperately to get in touch with me for the last fourteen years. Old friends from before I met him, one of whom actually introduced us ( Read more... )

There have been big changes in my family. Especially in the States. My eldest daughter has split from her husband after ten years and one child and a very unhappy time, and has met and married a lovely American Professor of Psychology. This seemed to happen very quickly, to me, but I haven't been living near her for five years now, and although ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know it's been a while, but I've been busy . . . . but this I could not resist ( Read more... )

In York Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, one hundred years ago today, was born a little girl - Eileen Bridget Morrissey ( Read more... )

My daughter's wedding is a mere two days away and chaos is well and truly reigning here! Just finished the Order of Service (why does everyone always leave that until the last minute?) and the seating plan and all the place names. Hopefully tomorrow will be a day of calm before the storm ( Read more... )

I have just staggered downstairs to admire the results of last night's hard decorating slog in daylight! I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I have cut in round the coving and edges of the ceiling with what now appears to have been a white vinyl silk emulsion, but opened a new tin of vinyl MATT to roller the ceiling with ( Read more... )

Sorry for no posting for so long. Hardly had time to lurk around the flist, either. Number of things all happened at once ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a while since I updated, though I have been lurking around my f-list every now and again. Always like to know what's going on with you guys ( Read more... )