Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

Relative Ages

22/01/10

One of the events that's happening this year is my Aunt Pauline's 65th birthday party and it suddenly gave me pause for thought: ... read more ...

David Cox RIP

30/10/08

My phone rang as we sat in the restaurant tonight waiting for our main course to turn up. As I've remarked before I don't get many phone calls now ... read more ...

More Golden Wedding Pix

05/08/08

When Ruth visited yesterday she gave me some pictures she took at Mom and Dad's golden wedding anniversary party back in March. read more ...

Exhausted

04/08/08

My niece and nephew, Rachel and Jamie, came to see us today along with their mom, my sister Ruth. ... read more ...

Family Trees

15/04/08

Inspired by the celebration of my parent's 50th wedding anniversary and the photos of their wedding I've been looking around at genealogy software... read more ...

Some Family Gossip

10/04/08

Ooooh, I like some good gossip me. So I was amused to hear some from my mother today relating to the photos of their wedding which I put online on Tuesday. ... read more ...

In yesterday's posting I forgot to post a photo of my parents today. It makes a nice comparison with fifty years ago. So here's two photos, one from their wedding, one taken fifty years later ... read more ...

Half a Century Ago

08/04/08

... my parents got married, and that's what we celebrated the Saturday before last. One of the highlights at that event was a folder of colour photos of the wedding which surprised me ... read more ...

Golden Anniversary

29/03/08

Today was Mom and Dad's 50th wedding anniversary so despite me still not feeling anything like recovered from this bloody virus we dragged ourselves down to the Basingstoke Country Hotel (actually just west of Hook) for a celebration lunch. read more ...

A short run of Oldhams

07/01/08

My parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in a couple of months from now ... read more ...

Current status: (via twitter)
Paul forcecast for tomorrow's ferry crossing from Orkney: SE 6 to gale 8, sea state rough or very rough. Gurk. That could be ... "interesting"

I am currently reading:

Smoke in the Valley
by David Kynaston
Great Northern?
by Arthur Ransome
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

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