Now I am in my late sixties, I believe I need to rant a bit more often – so here goes!
UK motorists are being converted from the old paper driving licence that slowly disintegrates over a driver’s lifetime. This conversion has been going on for the last ten years or so. When we returned [...]
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When the man in your life retires, you both talk about it and plan it. How you both look forward to retirement, hoping you will have time to travel, read, cross-stitch, walk, spend more time with the grand-children and enjoying the garden. He can start on that list of jobs he said he would [...]
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My grandfather was a soldier in WWI and my father and uncles were all in the British army in WWII. So why did my brother and I join the Navy? There are family ties with the sea. Grandfather was a fisherman sailing from the Durham fishing ports for a while. There were other ancestors from [...]
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Using the Internet to stay close to family and friends at home and abroad
How do you raise your children and grandchildren to enjoy the full benefits of the extended family, if grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends are scattered around the world? This is a problem I have lived with first hand!
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I recently submitted this [...]
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Like 1,356,728 other grandmas, this one is into card making!
Pity it wasn’t Texas holdem or Black jack or something. However, she spends a few pounds (or twice as many bucks) on supplies each month and disappears into the card room for longer periods than grandpa spends on the PC (I swear).
The end result is [...]
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