Issue 21 - Spring 2016
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NEWS<br />
Desperate Dad<br />
Without wanting to horrendously jinx<br />
things – I’ve a sneaking feeling that<br />
summer might be on its way.<br />
Don’t panic! I’ve seen the signs and know<br />
them very well.<br />
Grass stained polo shirts and muddied short<br />
trousers in the washing basket tell me two<br />
little boys have been enjoying after school<br />
park sessions with mummy again.<br />
And the merest hint of a blue sky sends them<br />
charging out the back door and onto the<br />
trampoline quicker than you can yell ‘don’t<br />
bounce on your brother!’<br />
It’s so refreshing to finally turn them loose and<br />
let them make the most of the sun on their<br />
faces again after another long, drawn-out, and<br />
seemingly endless winter.<br />
The Great Outdoors...<br />
They’ve been dying to get out there.<br />
Particularly my footie mad eldest, who’s been<br />
champing at the bit for me to cut the grass and<br />
prepare his own mini football pitch.<br />
But this year, my youngest is having just as much<br />
fun too. He’s holding his own and now more<br />
capable to keep up with his energy draining big<br />
brother, giving as good as he gets and relishing<br />
the fresh air in his lungs.<br />
When not at school they’re lathered up with sun<br />
cream by 9:30am - called in for bath time at<br />
4:30pm - a full shift complete, with a picnic lunch<br />
and snacks on the lawn to boot.<br />
They fall in to bed, tanned and exhausted<br />
just after 7pm, with the promise of a repeat<br />
performance tomorrow ringing in their ears.<br />
This is the way all British summers should be, is it<br />
not? And certainly how I remember most of mine<br />
growing up in the 80s and into the early 90s.<br />
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<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2016</strong>
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