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on holiday - as usual - am in The Big City havin a ball, shoppin, sightseein, and catching up wi friends and relatives.


I have come to Edinburgh to see if son no 2 is alive - he is - and he has no reason not to text, phone, or e-mail me.

Son no 1 is doing well too and we have had a wonderful couple of days all together, wandering the streets and visiting pizza hut (son no 3), chain stores, (me), and various cafes and restaurants. (all of us)

top marks to M&S for exchanging faulty goods, worn once and holes discovered where they shouldn't be, even if they huffily muttered 'goodwill gesture'

bottom marks to pizza hut for having no seat on the toilet pan....



off tomorrow - Saturday - to do my own shopping - bliss...

Ooohh.. its halloween! so exciting!

Having a 9 year old in the house makes it special, we have decorated the house, complete with cobwebs and candles. For the very first time EVER I have bought a pumpkin - how American is that - and have managed to ignore the 5 acres or so of neeps outside...

its so easy to gouge out a pumpkin. a neep is an ordeal.

We even have halloween confetti - extravagant I know. but soon the children will be grown up, and I'll be glad I was silly when I'm older and greyer. Talking of greyer - I have just had my hair dyed a lovely halloween shade of brown/red, wi blonde streaks, I'm really pleased with it.

This is son no 1's 21st birthday - all that agony, 21 years ago! And what a pleasure it was, (most of the time).

A strange thing happened today - when I got into the car to come home today the locks went a bit berserk - its central locking - but it started to lock and unlock all by itself. all the way home click, unclick. Is that weird or what?

Any other strange Halloween stories?


off to watch 'Deal or no Deal' before the guests arrive...