I think you'd be disappointed @Huia, Mother's Day and birthday are the main days for Cheery husband on domestic duties, I think you'd be disappointed if I lent him out!!
Today is New Year's Day for my daughter's in-laws. One of the lovely things about their marriage is that in my son-in-law's culture, marriage is not just a joining of two people, but a joining of two families, and so I have been messaging various members of what is now my extended family "Sal Mubarak."
My Old Dad would have been 113 today (!), but he died back in 1986. I sometimes wonder what he would have made of the bizarre alternative universe in which we now exist...
Today is also the anniversary of the dreadful Lewisham/St John's rail disaster in South London, in 1957:
I was 6 at the time, but my family knew a number of the railway staff involved, and the father of one of my school friends was converted to Christianity as a result of not being in the part of the steam train where the majority of casualties occurred. Even at that tender age, I thought it odd of God to spare him (Mr C) when so many others were killed or injured - not to mention the distress caused to their families...
Thanks, everyone. It was a great day. Three friends who didn't know each other happened to stop by for a quick hello and happy birthday, within 20 minutes of each other, so I invited them to stay and have a little tea party.
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Amen to that. As to '58', you is a spring chicken m'lad!
May the Great Pumpkin bless all of you!
Thank you, Linus!
Today is also the anniversary of the dreadful Lewisham/St John's rail disaster in South London, in 1957:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisham_rail_crash
I was 6 at the time, but my family knew a number of the railway staff involved, and the father of one of my school friends was converted to Christianity as a result of not being in the part of the steam train where the majority of casualties occurred. Even at that tender age, I thought it odd of God to spare him (Mr C) when so many others were killed or injured - not to mention the distress caused to their families...