Family Affairs and other matters

MISSING THE CHILDREN

I am now on the outskirts of Glasgow staying with some lovely friends of mine. We did go to the Tracey Emin restrospective yesterday – I will write about that when I’m back in London later this week. Suffice to say that I recommend a visit to anyone who is feeling a little low…you’ll feel so much better about your little lot in life (and your mental state) afterwards.

I CAN’T GET HOLD OF MY CHILDREN and it is now really beginning to bother me. They haven’t called me once yet and I’m really disappointed about that. I did finally get an itinerary of where they were going to be staying, but with no telephone numbers or times. I may have to try and leave a message at their next hotel, but I don’t want to worry them…I just want to talk to them. I sort of don’t want to have to stalk them, primarily because if I know precisely when they are going to be in a helicopter over the Grand Canyon I will worry.

I have consistently sent him texts saying can you ask them to call me when you get to the next hotel please and his reply has either been “you can call them now on your mobile” or “you texted at 2.45am suggest you call between 6pm and 11pm your time and you should be able to get hold of them”. I really had thought that he would, once they were all showered and ready for bed suggest that they call me from time to time. I think it’s really crap, but I was probably wrong to assume it would be anything else. The latest news was a text last night from my son saying “dad has lost his phone, so if you want to call us, call me”. Which of course I have. But his phone is off, or he’s got no credit and the same applies to my daughter’s phone. Of course their phones are off -it’s too expensive for them to make and recieve calls there when they are on pay as you go…I’m sure he knows that.

I always get them to call him when we’re away. I guess no news is good news and all that and I guess that maybe it’s a bloke thing rather than a control thing….trying not to let it get to me. I can’t believe that my youngest child hasn’t asked to talk to me.

Still. Not long to go. They will be back on Saturday, so less than a week.

GONE AWOL

I am now sitting in a library in Scotland. I COULDN’T BLOG IN FRANCE! The wireless router wasn’t working. I have been having major withdrawal symptoms. I had a really lovely (childfree) time with my friends in France. It was mostly very peaceful and serene except for one day when we went to St Tropez [...]

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THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

Our huge family holiday to Menorca was a big success. My brother was laughing about the fact that I wasn’t going to be able to blog about the experience because they would all read it so I couldn’t be rude and/or honest. However, the fact of the matter is that of course we all no [...]

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LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

I’m back. But only long enough to unpack, wash and repack bags. I am in the house alone and the silence is deafening. I have gone from being surrounded by 11 members of my family to none and I hate it. We live on a flight path and this morning the planes were more than [...]

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