While busy consigning one family member to the English Channel, it was lax of me to fail to mention the replacement who arrived all worm and cosy in August.
While focusing on the loss of one family member who was very elegantly deposited in the English Channel, I failed to record the arrival of our seventh grandchild, to take her place.n She popped into the World in the middle of August all fairly easily it seemed to me, although her mum might disagree.
Thea Collins is our seventh grandchild, and the first born to Kieran and Hannah. She is now about three months old and came round for her first swimming lesson this week. I wonder when she will start playing golf!!
Its becoming quite a recreational time for the family at the moment. Maxine, Emma, Ava and Nell have just completed 'the couch to 5k' programme at Birkenhead Park running club, Emilie is winning prizes at her local swimming club, and Nell is the first name on the team sheet for her school year swimming team.
Her first outing resulted in a narrow defeat to a boy in the match against Kings School, Chester. No disgrace there.
The activities have, however, come at a cost. Currently we have Archie and Emma on crutches. Archie fell out of his tree house when one of his swinging ropes snapped. He had just had a boot put on to a lightweight plaster and hopes his foot will be repaired in a few weeks so he can start games again next year. Emma broke the bottom of her Tibia when she jarred her foot while on said 5k run. She is a couple of weeks behind Archie but hopes to get a boot too.
Her disappointment and frustration were tempered however, when Nick asked her to marry him!! She said yes, while at York Minster, the exact same place as Kieran popped the question to Hannah. Small world eh!
My golf is awful at the moment, and Tim is training as a personal trainer in Geneva, so the amount of athletic exertions seems to keep on coming. It will soon be Christmas and I can replenish my supply of sports socks and golf balls.
Ho ho ho!
