Family Affairs and other matters

My 17 year old has gone on holiday with six other boys. Wearing ridiculous tour T-shirts and mexican hats and HOW worrying to let them go and even as he walked out the door I was still doing my “don’t die, don’t overdo it, don’t drink to much, don’t drown, speak to strangers, be rude, don’t forget to say thank you, don’t let your drink get spiked, don’t get anyone pregnant, don’t wander off with strangers, don’t get ill, don’t catch crabs AND SO ON…..” until his ears had virtually melted. Although, obviously they hadn’t melted because he wasn’t listening to me anyway.

It’s so difficult as a mother to let go – I wouldn’t let him go last year away just with mates, but I am a firm believer that they have to go and do stuff on their own, work it out for themselves, be part of the big bad exciting world – no cotton wool kids for me. Might even let him cycle on the pavement without a helmet when he gets back. I left home when I was 17.

BUT you can see why I wanted Spain to win the world cup. Because he’s there and I texted him after the game and he replied “mum, it’s AMAZING” and I can only imagine just how wonderful it would have been to be in Spain yesterday. All that joy and love and our boys would all have been caught up in all that wonderful emotion. Just lovely.

I’m away from my desk briefly. With friends and kids and it is fab. I’ll put some pictures up soon – see if you can guess where I am.

I had a panic yesterday because I couldn’t access my blog at all and because I am useless I had to email my WGM (web god man) and he could tell from the tone that he needed to look straight away and then he called me on a Sunday and said he thought that I’d been HACKED!!! Mad panic, but secretly a little bit pleased because although I don’t understand what it means, I thought it all sounded quite important and a bit sad for the hacker when he/she found that they hadn’t accessed top secret information about the bank of England, but, well, precisely nothing worth breaking into at all…..

All seems to be back to normal but if you come across any strange (shitf*ckbollocks) sort of strange behaviour – you know, rude comments or swear words, please let me know.