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Happy Easter, everybody!
The consequences of offering to buy your child a ticket home for the weekend - a budget-busting Easter egg hunt after church with All The Offspring! Photographic evidence obtained and included!
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Another Teenager to add to the collection
Happy thirteenth birthday Miriam. You are the reason this journal, Marshmallow Days, exists.
You have pretty much outlived LJ and old-school blogging.
I love you, little one!
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The loss of the LJ habit
Amid accusations of not remembering M's first word, I checked my LJ and found so many little gems (though not her "proper " first word, in that space of time), that my older daughters had a good giggle and a bit of embarrassment as their two boy-friends were present. We discovered the date when Orla actually cut her own fringe, a fact which she ( Read more... ) -
Oil price dance
We live in Aberdeen, where the vast majority of people are employed because the oil industry exists here. Even the public sector jobs are only so numerous because of the many people from elsewhere who live & work here. We are not locals, but our children were born & brought up here ( Read more... ) -
Advent-ures in Fifona-land
You should have been with me for the past two weeks! It has been busy! And cultural! And it made November swish past so quickly that I have only just realised it is nearly Advent. Advent in November seems early, early, especially as the day after, November the 30th, is St Andrews Day. We will be having some haggis in commemoration of the patron ( Read more... ) -
Autumn into winter
It's a REALLY long time since I've updated here. This weekend we had a visit to The Grandparents' to see them in their show ,White Christmas. It was all good fun. We saw the Saturday night, final performance after meeting up with them and a bunch of family-and-friends for a meal at a nearby restaurant. It's become a tradition, and it's great as we ( Read more... )
