Sunday, August 05, 2007
Parents and anniversaries
Last weekend was my parent's 40th wedding anniversary. I was told to attend, or be disowned by the family, so I stayed in Doha. Sorry, that's my terrible sense of humour again, obviously being the dedicated daughter that I am, I flew back specially. I even gave a speech saying how great they were. Well, I gave a speech at least, I left the bit about how wonderful they were to my siblings. It didn't go so well...my sister accused them of child abuse. Anyway....
It was a really nice day: lunch for about 30 people in the New Forest Park Hotel in Brockenhurst.
It hadn't occurred to me how long it had been since I last saw some of my cousins...they'd had kids...and some of them had had more than one. My brother and his family came over from America. Little Alice is 2 and a half now, so I picked her up to say hello and she sneezed on my face.
Nice.
There was nothing I could really do after that, other than wait for my cold to develop. It turned up on Tuesday, predictably, when I was back at work. I have felt like death ever since and my voice has been 3 octaves lower than usual.
Today I am beginning to feel a little bit better, and I am very grateful that it's summer. There are no children here, they've all been taken to colder places, and even a 3 year old can't sneeze on my face all the way from Sweden.
It was a really nice day: lunch for about 30 people in the New Forest Park Hotel in Brockenhurst.
It hadn't occurred to me how long it had been since I last saw some of my cousins...they'd had kids...and some of them had had more than one. My brother and his family came over from America. Little Alice is 2 and a half now, so I picked her up to say hello and she sneezed on my face.
Nice.
There was nothing I could really do after that, other than wait for my cold to develop. It turned up on Tuesday, predictably, when I was back at work. I have felt like death ever since and my voice has been 3 octaves lower than usual.
Today I am beginning to feel a little bit better, and I am very grateful that it's summer. There are no children here, they've all been taken to colder places, and even a 3 year old can't sneeze on my face all the way from Sweden.
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They liked the glasses when they eventually turned up - so much so they took them to Portugal. Hopefully they will still have 2 glasses and not 100 shreds of glass when they return ...
Hmmmm....
It's always good to find a reliable company for delivering presents...and other than lost paperwork and no delivery, tablewhere.co.uk were VERY reliable!
Still, at least you didn't forget them on your way to Brockenhurst and have to travel all the way back to get them. How annoying would that have been?
It's always good to find a reliable company for delivering presents...and other than lost paperwork and no delivery, tablewhere.co.uk were VERY reliable!
Still, at least you didn't forget them on your way to Brockenhurst and have to travel all the way back to get them. How annoying would that have been?
Extremely. Almost worth being reminded what to remember to bring every day for a month and also reminding other people, then how could anyone possibly forget anything?
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