not waving but drowning

  • yes, everything's fine, thanks

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Back to school today (I'm a teaching assisitant working with primary age children). Usually I would be complaining about the end of the holidays but reading blogs & comments on here I'm VERY aware that I'm lucky, lucky, lucky to be healthy and able to go to work. Hideous cancer puts everything else into perspective.

    J had a day off from caring for his dad yesterday (Sunday) so he relaxed by working like…

  • jolly holidays

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    This is the first time I've blogged: I've hummed & hawed about it for days and hope it will be useful to me or even better to somebody else...

    My (absolutely gorgeous) 3rd husband retired in 2008 and started voluntary work with the National Trust as well as doing masses of long-distance walking, a favourite hobby. He and I had been together since 2005, both veterans of 2 failed marriages each, both with 3…