Category Archives: family
Lyla / Layla
You may have noticed that I try and title each post with a title based on a song or album title. The title of this post is unusual because it contains two song titles, ‘Lyla’ from a song by Oasis, and ‘Layla’ from the Eric Clapton classic. A few weeks ago I thought it might […]
Continue readingLove and Affection
Today we said a very sad farewell to Gandalf, a loving and affectionate companion for over twenty years.
Continue readingThe perfect pub?
I’ve deliberately held back from posting for a while, being out of work and job-hunting makes it all too too easy to write a blog saying “there’s not much out there” or “the recruitment agencies don’t return calls“. So rather than clutter the blogosphere with such bleak ramblings I thought Id hold back until I […]
Continue readingThank you for being a friend
Today we bade a sad farewell to Merlin, one of our Burmese cats. I know he was a good old age, nearly nineteen, and I know that the time was right for hime to go. His quality of life had recently deteriorated to the point where it had become evident that the time had come. […]
Continue readingFrom Father to Son
There are days when the world changes, everybody recognises them; the day when Kennedy, John Lennon or Princess Diana died. Depending on your generation you know what you were doing or where you were on those world changing days. Then there are the days when your own personal world changes, the day you meet the […]
Continue readingFamily Ties
I had an interesting email today, from one Barry Ennever. Barry is researching the Ennever family tree; my mother was an Ennever, and hes traced her family line back to about 1650. Interestingly Mothers branch of the family tree never strayed far from Essex or the East End of London. I was aware that my Grandfather […]
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