family

York from LissaT ^Pro 86 days old

[ ... ] exchanged family news. her two oldest boys have graduated from Cambridge and Newcastle respectively with 2:1s and the next two have passed their A ...

Dyslexia from LissaT ^Pro 152 days old

I have just seen on the News that the government is promising extra specialist teachers for children with dyslexia. Good for them. It just so happens ...

No longer a child from LissaT ^Pro 163 days old

Josh is eighteen today - the last of Helen's boys to become a man. He hates having his photo taken and tends to pull faces - this is him a couple of ...

Honesty is the Best Policy from LissaT ^Pro 164 days old

We have been without internet access over the weekend, but now we are back. It isn’t many years since most of us were saying “Well, I’ll try it, but ...

Remembrance from LissaT ^Pro 176 days old

Today would have been my mother's 81st birthday. I took flowers to her grave this afternoon and found that Helen had already left a bunch. She wasn't ...

Busy from LissaT ^Pro 189 days old

Today I had a lot to do, so I got up early to get it done, and everything started fine. Joe had urgently demanded to be collected at 9.30 prompt to ...

Early Birthday Present from LissaT ^Pro 230 days old

[ ... ] "bring your pet to work".) This little lady was ready to leave her mother so Jacob got his present four weeks early and Teasel joined the family.

Help! from LissaT ^Pro 242 days old

My birthday book has gone walkabout and there is a whole heap of family and godchild birthdays at the end of March, but I can't remember whose is when!!! ...

Inherited Speech Patterns from LissaT ^Pro 249 days old

My grandfather left Ireland aged 11 months in 1894, and spoke impeccable middle-class English: he died when I was a baby. Yet I am as likely to say "Will ...

50% of the population? from LissaT ^Pro 249 days old

It can't be the entire gender, so maybe it's just the ones I am related to . . .? Saturday, my uncle Steve rings up to say he's popping in to see us, ...