Interesting enough? Well I think so!.

Interesting enough? Well I think so!.http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/Hope you do too!en-UKhourly82000-01-01T12:00+00:00Interesting enough? Well I think so!.http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/http://data5.blog.de/design/preview/21/7ae97f1a7cddb5aa4fbc591297f3dc_160x200.jpgOn Thinking Back.http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2006/09/02/on_thinking_back~1091361/2006-09-02T17:12:35+02:00 The older I get I find myself looking back to my days as a small child, and often remember little items that I sit and chuckle over. My father was ex-RAF - cut him in half and he'd be red white and blue!! In the same way that I now buy our local daily paper and immediately turn to the deaths column to see if any one I know has popped their clogs - well my dad used to scan the daily papers for items on the royal family - and made sure we all read it and took note. On Christmas Day lunch had to be cleared away well before 3pm - and silence reigned in the house while his highlight of the year was televised - the Queens speech. Just as well there were no VCR's then - we'd have been made to watch it all year. You probably won't even believe this next bit - but whenever royalty appeared on 'the box' we'd be made to stand in front of the TV and SALUTE!! - he'd most likely be brought up for child cruelty or perversion in these days. How times have changed. I can't even bear to read about them now - and look on it all as an archaic institution that we should have dispensed with years ago - wonder how many flats we could get into Buckingham Palace?? My Dad would turn in his grave!! <a href="http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2006/09/02/on_thinking_back~1091361/#comments">Comments</a> The older I get I find myself looking back to my days as a small child, and often remember little items that I sit and chuckle over. My father was ex-RAF - cut him in half and he'd be red white and blue!! In the same way that I now buy our local daily paper and immediately turn to the deaths column to see if any one I know has popped their clogs - well my dad used to scan the daily papers for items on the royal family - and made sure we all read it and took note. On Christmas Day lunch had to be cleared away well before 3pm - and silence reigned in the house while his highlight of the year was televised - the Queens speech. Just as well there were no VCR's then - we'd have been made to watch it all year.
You probably won't even believe this next bit - but whenever royalty appeared on 'the box' we'd be made to stand in front of the TV and SALUTE!! - he'd most likely be brought up for child cruelty or perversion in these days. How times have changed. I can't even bear to read about them now - and look on it all as an archaic institution that we should have dispensed with years ago - wonder how many flats we could get into Buckingham Palace??
My Dad would turn in his grave!!

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]]>title-137635http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2005/08/23/title_20228/2005-08-23T17:10:42+02:00 <a href="http://data1.blog.de/blog/s/sandycastle/img/0008_01.JPG" title=""><img src="http://data1.blog.de/blog/s/sandycastle/img/0008_01_small.jpg" border="0" alt=""></a><a href="http://data1.blog.de/blog/s/sandycastle/img/0010_01.JPG" title=""><img src="http://data1.blog.de/blog/s/sandycastle/img/0010_01_small.jpg" border="0" alt=""></a><a href="http://data1.blog.de/blog/s/sandycastle/img/0009_01.JPG" title=""><img src="http://data1.blog.de/blog/s/sandycastle/img/0009_01_small.jpg" border="0" alt=""></a> On a slightly lighter note (understatement) I thought I'd share with you what my average Monday is all about. Since I retired I have looked after O each Monday while his mammy goes to work. It certainly takes some energy - and I always find that I sleep like a log on Monday evenings - so it's worth that alone! I usually let O decide our itinerary for the day which can be anything from a day at the seaside or swimming baths to merely feeding the ducks at the nearby lake. Yesterday was spent painting and I thought you might like to see how things ended up.I thought I was ever so organised - four plastic pots of different coloured paint and four individual paint brushes- nothing could be easier! As the photos show the end result was somewhat different. The rest of the afternoon-up until teatime and then his collection by his daddy was spent watching 'Mickey Mouses Christmas Party' (in the middle of August). It's a great DVD but after 1000 showings it tends to aggravate more than entertain. O never seems to notice - he loves it. With a new baby due at the end of the year G and I are looking forward to double the pleasure. The only problem on the horizon is that O is insisting that the new baby - whatever sex- is to be called Caroline - for reasons known only to himself!! <a href="http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2005/08/23/title_20228/#comments">Comments</a>

On a slightly lighter note (understatement) I thought I'd share with you what my average Monday is all about.
Since I retired I have looked after O each Monday while his mammy goes to work.
It certainly takes some energy - and I always find that I sleep like a log on Monday evenings - so it's worth that alone!
I usually let O decide our itinerary for the day which can be anything from a day at the seaside or swimming baths to merely feeding the ducks at the nearby lake.
Yesterday was spent painting and I thought you might like to see how things ended up.I thought I was ever so organised - four plastic pots of different coloured paint and four individual paint brushes- nothing could be easier! As the photos show the end result was somewhat different.
The rest of the afternoon-up until teatime and then his collection by his daddy was spent watching 'Mickey Mouses Christmas Party' (in the middle of August). It's a great DVD but after 1000 showings it tends to aggravate more than entertain. O never seems to notice - he loves it. With a new baby due at the end of the year G and I are looking forward to double the pleasure. The only problem on the horizon is that O is insisting that the new baby - whatever sex- is to be called Caroline - for reasons known only to himself!!

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]]>DILEMMAhttp://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2005/08/21/title_19798/2005-08-21T16:31:44+02:00 He puts poison in his vein, And I know he won't refrain, Even if I beg or plead with all my heart. I want to take him in my arms, Soothe him better - use my charms, but he's too old now to sit on mammy's knee. He has begged and he has pleaded, For the money he has needed, Which, sad to say, I've often given in the end. And if through me he ends his life, I might as well have used a knife, T'would have been a kinder gift from me. So via his hallucinations, And my futile frustrations, His end is not so much an 'if' but more a 'when'. <a href="http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2005/08/21/title_19798/#comments">Comments</a> He puts poison in his vein,
And I know he won't refrain,
Even if I beg or plead with all my heart.

I want to take him in my arms,
Soothe him better - use my charms,
but he's too old now to sit on mammy's knee.

He has begged and he has pleaded,
For the money he has needed,
Which, sad to say, I've often given in the end.

And if through me he ends his life,
I might as well have used a knife,
T'would have been a kinder gift from me.

So via his hallucinations,
And my futile frustrations,
His end is not so much an 'if' but more a 'when'.

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]]>title-131403http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2005/08/20/title_19195/2005-08-20T18:14:41+02:00 Not being a computer whizzkid is rather cramping my style-this is my third attempt at writing a 'blog'and somehow I keep losing them on my computer! I have thought about doing this for a while but on my first foray into blogs I accessed a USA based site linked to a music download channel and I immediately thought I'd linked up to 'other beings' speaking some alien language. However now that I've found blog.co.uk with ordinary down-to-earth bloggers I'll give it a go. My next quandary was whether or not my present life is interesting enough for others to read. When I sat and thought about it -well- they say life is a tapestry- mine beats the Bayeux.! Come to think of it I'm probably underselling myself with a blog -I should be writing a novel at the very least! Hope this is the first of many - looking forward to this new challenge. <a href="http://sandycastle.blog.co.uk/2005/08/20/title_19195/#comments">Comments</a> Not being a computer whizzkid is rather cramping my style-this is my third attempt at writing a 'blog'and somehow I keep losing them on my computer! I have thought about doing this for a while but on my first foray into blogs I accessed a USA based site linked to a music download channel and I immediately thought I'd linked up to 'other beings' speaking some alien language. However now that I've found blog.co.uk with ordinary down-to-earth bloggers I'll give it a go. My next quandary was whether or not my present life is interesting enough for others to read. When I sat and thought about it -well- they say life is a tapestry- mine beats the Bayeux.!
Come to think of it I'm probably underselling myself with a blog -I should be writing a novel at the very least! Hope this is the first of many - looking forward to this new challenge.

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