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Just stepping out

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Tia’s owner’s friend came over this morning to pick up a set of keys to my place so she can take care of Tia for the 4 or 5 days I’m away. I’m driving up to Paderborn in Germany this afternoon. Organising someone to feed the cat was the last thing on a long list of stuff to get done before the trip.

Finding some storage space in the valley for the van load of stuff I’m going to be bringing back with me, and then removing the seats from my Volkswagen transporter were high on that list. The seats were a bit rusted to their mountings & needed the help of a car jack & the hydraulic spanner down at the local garage to get sorted, but I now have a van rather than a minibus.

I’m a bit sad about this trip. I’m going to meet some of my family and help to clear an old family house that was build by my Grandfather, Big Joesph, who died a decade ago. Long story, but the short of it is that it’s the last time I’ll ever see the house that I’ve known all my life. We’re selling it, and I don’t imagine that I’ll even ever return to Paderborn.

Here’s me as a baby sitting on Big Joesph’s knee

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Highland Dress

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

My sister is getting married this August. She’s the first of us siblings to tie the knot, and the whole family’s looking forward to getting together for the wedding in Germany this summer. My father, who was born and bred in Aberdeen , Scotland had the idea the other week of going in Highland Dress - kilts, sporrans, the lot. Obviously this is going to freak the Germans out a bit, going in a skirt, so I agreed to wear a kilt too as moral support. It’s all done and dusted - we’ve been measured up & hired all the kit ready for the big day already. I can’t wait to try it on myself, but this morning I asked the old boy when the last time was that he’d worn a kilt. Turns out he was about 10 years old! He even managed to dig out an old picture of him in his wee sporran. How cool is that?

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Does anyone know?

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Does anyone know if you can wash cats? My one seems to be getting a bit smelly.

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Travelling with your parents

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

My parents are currently in travelling around the South Island of New Zealand with my sister and her boyfriend in their camper van. Can you imagine that? Travelling with your own parents? I’ve done a lot of low-budget travelling myself, so has my sister, but I’m jealous of the opportunity to take my parents out there and show them what it’s all about. They love it!Apparently there has already been talk of what kind of camper van the olds are going to buy for their next trip!

The last time we travelled together as a family was probably when myself and my sisters were little kids. They are twins, 2 years younger than me. I remember endless long drives through central Europe to visit grandparents or to go on walking holidays to the alps. Stuck in the back of a redToyota Corolla estate, me sat in the middle so I could stretch my longer legs down the space in the middle of the - flanked by the twins, getting bored and tetchy. There were always the tapes - story tapes by Roald Dahl, The Empire Strikes back, and even Knight-rider and Airwolf tapes that my sisters hated.

I guess that was a long time ago now. We’re all in our 30’s now & the folks are the ones out there discovering the world. I wish I was with them!

Camper Van

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