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Six weeks to go
We have now got to the stage that the holiday looms large. On Friday it was at this time in six weeks we will be.... Saturday was worse! I spent the day thinking in six weeks we will, hopefully be waking up in the hotel in Southampton and looking out the window at OUR cruise ship. Then it was breakfast, walk along to the ship and checking in. Finally it was we should be doing lifeboat drill about now. Even this morning when I woke, at home needless to say, I was thinking I wonder ...
Beside the sea
... Laine is an old-English word for "fields" or a tract of farmland at the base of the Downs.) I attended a good concert by the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. Brighton and adjacent town Hove amalgamated a few years ago, and it’s an easy walk between them.
Hove has some lovely wide avenues and boulevards bracketed by rows of Regency and Victorian homes. The Hove Museum has artwork and, among other things, ...
2 Days to Go...
I'm sitting at my desk at work (on my lunch hour in case you're wondering!) not able to believe that we've got two days before our trip of a lifetime.
We spent last night cramming as much into our rucksacks as possible, knowing that there's only so much that we can take and also that we'll need, but 'don't forget that pack of card's and 'what did you do with ...
My thoughts exactly
Sitting at home, watching my mother work, drinking in some of the last moments with her. Now with only a week left until we embark on a journey that will mould us and change us, and undoubtably shape our futures.
I am filled with sadness for all that I leave behind, but overwhelmed with excitement ...
And this one's for Logan, and my niece Dianne.
... lets on the
south coast in November, so I have spent the last two weeks in a holiday
cottage in Fairlight, near Hastings. I haven’t coped particularly well with the
unexpected ‘holiday’ (although I am thankful that I had the money to be able to
afford to do it) and have actually felt rather lonely. I guess this ...