Family Affairs

BIRTHDAYS AND DIVORCE

It's my birthday tomorrow (YAY) and this is the most grown-up I've ever been about my birthday in that I haven't gone into a huge decline about how a lack of partner = rubbish presents. I have bought myself two presents on the basis that I am not expecting presents from anybody else - this divorce thing is a real bummer when it comes to gifts. Almost worse than any other aspect- it's very depressing not having anybody to drop major hints at for a whole year who then buys you something entirely different that you don't want and you can't quite believe that they can have got it SO WRONG. I have learnt over the last few years that it is quite satisfactory to cut out the middle man and buy yourself something you really want. It leaves no room for disappointment.

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HELP REQUIRED

When I was in Lusaka I met the father of a blog friend of mine who runs a hospice for Aids victims – they are heavily involved in helping out the local people in any way they can and at the dinner I met a journalist who works for the BBC in Zambia, in charge [...]

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FOOTBALL TROPHIES

Well, as predicted my 7 year old didn’t get a special player of the year award, but he did get a trophy along with all the other players: He wasn’t too disappointed which was good. The manager of his team is the father of one of the other boys in the team. This is [...]

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"PLAYER OF THE YEAR" AWARD

I have had one of those busy sort of parenting days – children needed bags of kit this morning for virtually every sport known to man: football, cricket, tennis, gym, and swimming, my daughter needed spare clothes because she is staying late at school to show prospective parents around and then there is of course [...]

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